I don't think it took the total ammount of the group's MF, but rather the MF of whoever got the killing blow. It's why you'd want your Merc to have the killing blow if he had some MF items as well (since it'd add your own MF to the merc's). Total ammount of the group would be silly. 8 Sorcs MF'ed to the teeth (450%+ each) would harvest uniques like crazy in that case, provided they could kill anything xD
So I am not sure why PvE players care so much that PvP people want Blizzard to back one of the biggest, if not the biggest thing about Diablo 2's endgame. PvP.
Did read most of it, but there's a line in your first paragraph that sums up my argument nicely. Note, I'm not against PvP really, but I would want Blizzard to at least keep the two separated. I know the whole comparing to WoW is getting tiresome, but there's something to take note of in the constant struggle for rebalancing skills to match both PvE and PvP that marks its lengthy history of patch notes. Lately we've seen some improvement in this with skills being split into PvP and PvE components, and consequently with PvP being enclosed in instances separate from the PvE world, making this split technically possible. I reckon this won't be much different in D3, since PvP is in a closed off arena as well, but my biggest concern, and one I guess many share with me, is that PvE's skills and character balance will be (negatively) affected by Blizzard's attempt to balance them for PvP.
Fortunately for me, and probably less so for you, Blizzard disagrees with your perspective that PvP is the biggest thing in endgame Diablo. And with them, a lot of players do.
To me, PvP is something I just loathe to do. I don't mind the functionality, but it's just a terrible terrible experience for me. To copy your math: Trading items and killing PvE stuff would ammount to 2/2 for me. PvP may be an aspect of the game to play, but it's one I just plain don't like and never have. Again, this doesn't mean it shouldn't be in the game, but your claim that the game's experience is incomplete without it, and that it's the only logical endpoint of the game's progression, is entirely subjective.
I run Diablo3 with vsync cause of screen tearing (only game I've had to vsync) so my FPS is capped at 60, but I never drop below 60 except in 1 scenario.
I run with max all settings (even sound), with a Geforce GTX570 (latest drivers as of today).
I have the same, never have to use Vsync except in D3 beta. Funny xD
Tbh I don't know which I'll like best. Depends on class also.
For Barb, I'll probably go with something dark, with shots of blue or red. Nothing bright. Also, perhaps vanishing dye on either Helm (as in the brute commander look), or Chest/Legs (as in a more gladiator-ish look).
Wizard will have a more regal look, navy blue-ish or a dark red-ish, or purple. With gold. Possibly CE Bottled Cloud dye or more of a baby-blue color.
Monk, probably beige/sand mixed with dark red or blue. Vanishing dye on the shoulders if they all end up looking like random scrap metal ductaped to the upper arm.
Nothing special. Am unemployed atm so if I still am by then I'll be able to play quite a bit. Otherwise 9 to 5 work ^.^ No rush for me, and any RL thing > gaming, I took that choice a long time ago and it's been refreshing. :-)
Dashing Strike can take you to any enemy you can click on. Yes that also means that one pixel of a skeleton at the edge of your screen (from my own monk in beta). Leap doesn't take you all that far.
*edit* damn youSnaks42, so quick!
Maybe you and Snaks are right, but probably that's due to the fact that Leap is a 3d movement, that needed to be nerfed in some way. But i'm obiouvsly ot.
There's no maybe here. Dashing strike DOES take you as far away as it is possible to click on an enemy. If you hold your cursor at the edge of the screen and then use leap, you will only go about half that distance.
Weird. Whenever I use Dashing strike on an enemy that's all the way at the edge, I get dashed only to the edge of that group of enemies, cutting just short :< Can't say that it's in all cases, but I specifically remember this as it annoyed me a bit the couple times I tried to hit .
Please don't let this be nerfed... Yes, they're annoying packs. Yes, you could die from them if they were your level. Hey, that's gaming for you. There's a chance you might not survive!
Have you ever done a D2 Hell difficulty Immune-pack with Lightning Enchant, extra fast and Fanaticism (to name a random pita combo)? That takes you quite some time to kill at a high risk of dying if you don't have the right element to counter the immunity or a good merc. Suck it up and live with it. 8-)
meh, you only have yourself s to blame for you frustrations. stop getting your hopes up. look forward to the game, hope it comes out soon. but dont be all upset when it doesnt come out when you think it should. regardless of what any of you say, the game will sell MILLIONS of copies. and very fast, and will most likely have a lot of people playing it for a long time. in 5 years people would read a thread like this and laugh at us.
calm down, go have a smoke or whatever you choose to do to relax, and stop flaming Blizzard corp or employees for your inability to separate fantasy (when you think it comes out) from reality (when it will actually come out).
but meh, nobody is going to actually listen to any suggestions anyone posts here. thats the nature of the internet i guess....
sooo... rant on my web brothers, rant on.
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Also, it's not even being mad about the game coming out later, just the release date announcement coming later xD
It's not really Blizzard's fault people stalk everybody's twitter and thinks a tweet about baking banana bread on Thursday means they are going to announce the date on Thursday. This weeks press event and March 19th have absolutely nothing to do with Diablo and these dates were announced back in January. They are specifically to talk about Mists of Pandaria. Maybe we will get a surprise? Who knows? But to EXPECT one is setting yourself up for disappointment.
I'm just as angry there is no release date yet but at this point I'm not going to get my hopes up on every Monday and get pissed off when the office closes. There's no way the game is coming out in April and May is looking pretty grim at this point.
This! Although.. yes I was hoping for one today, but if there's not one today it might be tomorrow, or the day after (or whatever, some monday, I don't care). People feeling somehow 'entitled' to a release date simply because the company said they're 'counting down the days'... God.. It's just an expression, stop taking every god dang comma these folks spit out so literally. I'd not want to be in Blizzard's shoes right now, with the development stress of the game on one hand and a bunch of spoilt brats whining that their precious game's been delayed by a few days on the other...
I get tired of people coming on this forum (A diablo 3 Fan site forum) and going back to that same old silly line about us acting like we "are entitled" to a release date. No.. we are not entitled to anything, its not like we own anything that gives us a right to anything here at all.. but to come on here.. to a fan site.. and try to say "stop being excited, your not entitled" is just silly. This is a FAN site for a game that IS NOT EVEN OUT YET. Those of us on here are going to be and get excited over stuff like days coming around that have a very high likely hood of a release date announcement.
Does Blizzard "owe" me a release date? No.. of course not. But I dang well will get excited about stuff like this.. thats why I hang out here (Nad have been since back in July).
Nothing wrong with excitement. As you say it's a fan site, it's only natural, and heck I'm part of it as much as you or the next guy. But this douche a few posts up saying he'll stop his WoW payment, bombing Blizzard, and so on if he doesn't get a release date announced this week, those are the peeps grinding my gears. =\
And fact still remains that Blizzard has said nothing that indicates a release this week, next week or even the week after. "On a scale of 1-10, it's a 9", how does that even say it should be this week. All this theory of press releases usually coming on mondays, the whole MoP thing next week etc., while sounding very logical, is not confirmed by anything Blizz has stated, as far as I can see. It's only interpreted as such by the vast majority of people. Of course, that gets people excited. That's not bad per se, that's just hype. But people going mad when their specific interpretations prove false is just rediculous.
It's not really Blizzard's fault people stalk everybody's twitter and thinks a tweet about baking banana bread on Thursday means they are going to announce the date on Thursday. This weeks press event and March 19th have absolutely nothing to do with Diablo and these dates were announced back in January. They are specifically to talk about Mists of Pandaria. Maybe we will get a surprise? Who knows? But to EXPECT one is setting yourself up for disappointment.
I'm just as angry there is no release date yet but at this point I'm not going to get my hopes up on every Monday and get pissed off when the office closes. There's no way the game is coming out in April and May is looking pretty grim at this point.
This! Although.. yes I was hoping for one today, but if there's not one today it might be tomorrow, or the day after (or whatever, some monday, I don't care). People feeling somehow 'entitled' to a release date simply because the company said they're 'counting down the days'... God.. It's just an expression, stop taking every god dang comma these folks spit out so literally. I'd not want to be in Blizzard's shoes right now, with the development stress of the game on one hand and a bunch of spoilt brats whining that their precious game's been delayed by a few days on the other...
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Also, if they really did ditch Pico over people's comments... Harsh!
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Did read most of it, but there's a line in your first paragraph that sums up my argument nicely. Note, I'm not against PvP really, but I would want Blizzard to at least keep the two separated. I know the whole comparing to WoW is getting tiresome, but there's something to take note of in the constant struggle for rebalancing skills to match both PvE and PvP that marks its lengthy history of patch notes. Lately we've seen some improvement in this with skills being split into PvP and PvE components, and consequently with PvP being enclosed in instances separate from the PvE world, making this split technically possible. I reckon this won't be much different in D3, since PvP is in a closed off arena as well, but my biggest concern, and one I guess many share with me, is that PvE's skills and character balance will be (negatively) affected by Blizzard's attempt to balance them for PvP.
Fortunately for me, and probably less so for you, Blizzard disagrees with your perspective that PvP is the biggest thing in endgame Diablo. And with them, a lot of players do.
To me, PvP is something I just loathe to do. I don't mind the functionality, but it's just a terrible terrible experience for me. To copy your math: Trading items and killing PvE stuff would ammount to 2/2 for me. PvP may be an aspect of the game to play, but it's one I just plain don't like and never have. Again, this doesn't mean it shouldn't be in the game, but your claim that the game's experience is incomplete without it, and that it's the only logical endpoint of the game's progression, is entirely subjective.
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I have the same, never have to use Vsync except in D3 beta. Funny xD
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Tbh I don't know which I'll like best. Depends on class also.
For Barb, I'll probably go with something dark, with shots of blue or red. Nothing bright. Also, perhaps vanishing dye on either Helm (as in the brute commander look), or Chest/Legs (as in a more gladiator-ish look).
Wizard will have a more regal look, navy blue-ish or a dark red-ish, or purple. With gold. Possibly CE Bottled Cloud dye or more of a baby-blue color.
Monk, probably beige/sand mixed with dark red or blue. Vanishing dye on the shoulders if they all end up looking like random scrap metal ductaped to the upper arm.
DH black with dark greens or dark red.
Witch Doctor, I have no idea tbh.
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Weird. Whenever I use Dashing strike on an enemy that's all the way at the edge, I get dashed only to the edge of that group of enemies, cutting just short :< Can't say that it's in all cases, but I specifically remember this as it annoyed me a bit the couple times I tried to hit .
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Have you ever done a D2 Hell difficulty Immune-pack with Lightning Enchant, extra fast and Fanaticism (to name a random pita combo)? That takes you quite some time to kill at a high risk of dying if you don't have the right element to counter the immunity or a good merc. Suck it up and live with it. 8-)
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Also, it's not even being mad about the game coming out later, just the release date announcement coming later xD
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Nothing wrong with excitement. As you say it's a fan site, it's only natural, and heck I'm part of it as much as you or the next guy. But this douche a few posts up saying he'll stop his WoW payment, bombing Blizzard, and so on if he doesn't get a release date announced this week, those are the peeps grinding my gears. =\
And fact still remains that Blizzard has said nothing that indicates a release this week, next week or even the week after. "On a scale of 1-10, it's a 9", how does that even say it should be this week. All this theory of press releases usually coming on mondays, the whole MoP thing next week etc., while sounding very logical, is not confirmed by anything Blizz has stated, as far as I can see. It's only interpreted as such by the vast majority of people. Of course, that gets people excited. That's not bad per se, that's just hype. But people going mad when their specific interpretations prove false is just rediculous.
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This! Although.. yes I was hoping for one today, but if there's not one today it might be tomorrow, or the day after (or whatever, some monday, I don't care). People feeling somehow 'entitled' to a release date simply because the company said they're 'counting down the days'... God.. It's just an expression, stop taking every god dang comma these folks spit out so literally. I'd not want to be in Blizzard's shoes right now, with the development stress of the game on one hand and a bunch of spoilt brats whining that their precious game's been delayed by a few days on the other...