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The writing for Diablo III was pathetic, but if the black soulstone just "happened to go overlooked as it was kicked through the gutters of heaven by many a sandal-clad foot," that would be the biggest load of horseshit known to writing. That's like a preemptive deus ex machina coupled with a spell of multi-dimensional global amnesia.

At least one of the expansions should center around Imperius going rogue and waging a war of extermination on anyone with the slightest hint of Nephilim blood. Your character could travel to the origin places of all the characters from D2 and D3, both protecting and avenging those who would fall within harm's way. Imperius could use his powers to summon other creatures of heaven, but twisted to his own ends. It would be like starting the game series over with heaven as the enemy and no convoluted and implausible retconning.

That is, quite literally, one of the worst builds I've ever seen. I can't even sugar coat it after how whiny you were. Just shit skill choices, kid.

Why use breath of heaven at all if you're not going to get the 15% dps buff? It heals like half as much as a potion, so if you have 850+ loh and anywhere near 2 attacks/second, you should be fine without healing much at all. That was just the first and most obvious error. The rest were at least kind of thought out, though still poor in practice.

Theorycrafting is fine. No one faults you for that. Acting like a twat when people tell you it's not viable, on the other hand, is childish and makes you look like a miserable baby. Don't do that. Moving on...

That's pretty rad, dude

Vanishing dye is the best item in the game.

I think there should be sapphires and diamonds. They should do the following -

Sapphire - [weapons] chance to freeze on hit, [helm] skill cooldown reduction, [armor] crowd control reduction

Diamond - [weapons] block chance/parry, [helm] damage reduction (melee/ranged?), [armor] all resist (up to 60)

Sapphires focus on strategic decisions that would naturally arise from a gem that mirrors "cold" attributes.

Diamonds have the best, most global kinds of buff bonuses because they're the most precious gems. Diamonds are defense gems.

I have no idea what maximums to put to these, but I think they could all be balanced so they were neither game breaking nor preferred over existing gems for "obvious build" choices.

200 all resist? I guess that works if you never get hit ever.

Allowing gold to be used on character customization would be nice. Hair styles, skin tone, facial features, etc.

Shit, they could even introduce NPCs like "the seamstress" who is capable of designing new banner patterns for gold or an "alchemist" who can take gold and salvage mats and turn them into potions that temporarily give you stat boosts or buffs.

The point is, the play experience can benefit from gold sinks that don't directly make players better or more efficient. A game can be fun for people even if they aren't "winning" as long as they have choices and can spend time in the game world doing SOMETHING that they enjoy, even if that's screwing around with the hair style and makeup of their female barbarian

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M10 does not increase monster level to affect affix, as per their interview with pc gamer. Monsters are still lvl 63 in act 3. It only means that act 3 item of lvl 58-63 will only roll affix from previous lvl 63 items, loot from act 2 of ilvl 58-62 will all roll ilvl 62 previous affix and act 1 58-61 to ilvl 61 affix, not changing their loot. So all you get is indeed magic find as it currently stands for m10. Running low monster level will net you the same affix as M10, just no magic and gold find bonuses.

This is true. Blizzard's fundamental change to how loot drops are handled in this upcoming patch will have more to do with the quality of loot found than the Mlvl addition. Having nothing below ilvl58 in Inferno will be incredible as far as rolling things that people actually want. This will drop auction house prices precipitously within a week or two of release because all that trash you picked up and threw away will be much more likely to be an upgrade for a new level 60 character somewhere

Or people could stop complaining. If you want to be able to farm with all your characters without MF gear, you need to level them all in the paragon system. It's not like you could open Diablo 2 and expect that your warcry barb was going to get the same MF bonuses as your farming sorceress just because you put more time into her and her gear.

If you play a character, under the paragon system, they get better. If you don't, you can still gear them out with the magic gear you find with your main. There is 100% ABSOLUTELY NO REASON THAT BLIZZARD SHOULD MAKE PARAGON BONUSES ACCOUNT WIDE.

If you feel like it's too time consuming, then stop playing. It's a game, not a job.

Some of you guys really need to learn how to selectively use vanishing dye

So your $320 outlay was for three copies of the game, including the collector's edition, t-shirts, guides, etc. Okay. That makes sense, but that still means (basically) that you paid $60 to play the game and then decided to piss a bunch of money into the wind in the ridiculous hopes that your wife would want to play it at all or that your son would play it with you (which he doesn't seem inclined to do).

The shirts and guides (who buys a guide when the internet exists? That's an honest question.) are completely and totally irrelevant to the purchase price/enjoyment breakdown, so, in reality, you bought diablo 3 three times and bought a bunch of extra shit on top of it that had nothing to do with the play experience (especially since, if you bought a guide, it would tell you how to play better than you are) and are now complaining that you spent so much money and aren't enjoying it.

I'm sorry, dude, I'm just not buying it. Did you throw a fit when Final Fantasy moved from Espers to Materia? Did you soil yourself in pants-shitting rage when Warcraft went from 2d to dynamic 3d? Did the jump from SC1, in all its functionally broken glory, to SC2 make you mad because you had to learn new ways to use units that were named the same as your legacy units?

Probably not. Diablo3 is not Diablo2 and it's not Diablo1. If you want to play Diablo2 with a twist, there are game mods out there that allow you to do JUST THAT! Unfortunately for you, they are harder than D3, so your play experience will be just as disappointing.

After rereading all of your posts and seeing how you reacted to others' criticisms, you just sound like a fossil who's too old to be playing games. Just like someone's granddad talking about the "good old days" when you could pour vodka and paint thinner in your BelAir and drag race up and down main street drunk and with no seat belt, you are making yourself an anachronism and a martyr for those who feel dispossessed by the progression of the world away from your comfort zone.

100 years ago, you could be prescribed leeches if you had a disease. Times change, dude. You should too.

I think the OP's idea is lovely.

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OK, all said, it's just a game... that I waited 10 years for and spent $320 bucks on... so this is my one soapbox whine. Now if someone has an wanga doll of Jay Wilson, I would love to put a few pins in that thing so he gets the point

Hmm. I'm concerned that you spent $320 on this game, for starters. How did you manage that? Buy 5 and 1/3 copies? Or are you rolling a high-end graphics card - which the game absolutely does NOT need - into that figure? Dual core processors with a sub-$100 card can play the game on high settings. I know because I have friends who do just that.

Secondly, I'm going to be 30 in a month, have a wife, an eleven year old and a four year old. I have a home, a job, two greyhounds and likely more responsibilities than you do (baseless assumption, but you didn't mention children, so...). That said, it takes five minutes to google a good build for any character and significantly less than 10,000 gold per item to gear yourself well for HELL MODE DIFFICULTY. Shit, you can get 1000+ dps bows ALL DAY for under 10,000 gold. If you have time and effort to be complaining on a message board, you absolutely have time to look up a build and learn the rudiments of the auction house.

The auction house isn't some occult temple meant to destroy the foundation of what you remember Diablo to be all about. If it's scary or, for some reason, ideologically foul to you, you can absolutely drop-find your way through act1 Inferno. I'm not great at this game and I didn't play with my brother or friends until I got stuck in Inferno. I didn't use the auction house very much at all because, like you, something in me was irritated that there was a separate function involved in finding the best loot.

Then I remembered how "awesome" it was having to wait for trade games in D2; having to not get fucked by scammers; having to beat out richer players or faster players in games where people farmed with no care for drops; how many Baal runs you'd have to do between level 8x and 8x+1.

We romanticize D2 because we find certain parts of D3 lacking. That doesn't, however, necessarily reflect on the game at hand.

And, honestly, you're quite terrible at this game, at least with the Demon Hunter. You seem oblivious to fundamental concepts of the class and are geared with things that would barely take a person through Normal Leoric (gloves, bro. Gloves), much less nightmare.

If fun is all your interested in, kick around normal some more, but if you're going to play like THAT, don't you dare suggest that Blizzard has done something wrong with a difficulty curve that, quite honestly, lacked a lot until act3 Hell.

/soapbox

Hellcat wrap with reasonable stats from a random in Act3 Inferno. I have no MF bonus beyond the 2 paragon levels I have 0:-)

Well let's see here -

1.) Adria's still alive and kicking and a servant of Diablo.

2.) a member of the Angiris council went batshit crazy and has been wandering the world for years. No one knows his whereabouts.

3.) Duriel and Andariel have yet to have their soulstones smashed (as far as we know).

4.) Covetous Shen is constantly talking about some great demon housed in this wondrous gem he's seeking.

5.) Covetous Shen may or may not be a god or godlike being, depending on how seriously one takes his ramblings.

6.) The Templar, Scoundrel and Enchantress all tell stories that could be expanded upon in quests in an expansion (Templar's order, Scoundrel's brother and the thieves' guild, Enchantress' angelic meeting, etc.)

7.) Imperius still wants to get down with human extermination.

So, as you can see, there are myriad directions things could go, with Adria OBVIOUSLY being part of the first expansion.