Diablo3 class thread

patch right now it seems.

I've yet to reach Hell difficulty, but currently on Nightmare I'm almost considering dropping one of my defensive skills in favor of more offense. Pomegranate can barely damage me enough to beat my 120hp/s, I often find myself just standing face to face with an elite pack or champ and just spamming electrocute on their faces. Ice Armors +45% armor and freezing of attackers coupled with a quite high physical resist and the -20% melee damage from Blur gets me to about 70% damage reduction in total. I'm not even using a shield O.o

I'm using those exact skills in inferno. It gets a lot rougher. I also use diamond skin with double absorption, which in some cases can only take 1 hit. Some champ/elites with fast/molten/plague, etc hurt a LOT and you can't get away from them; Especially if they're using any of teleport/vortex/jailer/waller. I also use detonating mirror images to distract and damage while i run around like a chicken. Some packs just aren't doable for me, and others just require a couple deaths to down, and some i can even tank face to face. Still messing around in act 1. Just yesterday i ran into my first dampening field bosses. That crap is annoying on a wizard since it slows all your ranged attacks (except for piercing orb?) down to nothing.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/6018173/..._2012#blog
This addresses several of the issues I've been hearing since the game's release. They sure are aware of things.

Bleh, I open the game and try logging in and it tells me there's a patch that it'll apply automatically, reopens launcher and nothing happens. Can't seem to patch the game.

I'm usually patient but all the downtime and Error 37 is starting to piss me off... especially now that I'm done with all 4 acts and am kind of disappointed.
It also bothers me, after playing a Wizard for a couple of hours last night, how hard it was with Barb to get past some elites/champions when the game just started...
Not to mention, last night, the moronic champion that wouldn't even let me change skills to more defensive ones and even after changing skills I couldn't kite him either because it was blocking the way. It's also retarded how there's only 1 monster that's "hard" in each act, while every other mob (be it normal, champion or elite) is a joke but then again I'm still on nightmare.

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I don't really care about dying it just bothered me that it was so retarded last night...

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/6018173/..._2012#blog
This addresses several of the issues I've been hearing since the game's release. They sure are aware of things.

This is Blizzard we're talking about. They really keep close tabs on their games. When a glaring in-game problem is mentioned, it'll get fixed in the next patch. When a glaring exploit is mentioned, expect it to be fixed within the week. If an exploit is VIDEOED, they'll fix it even FASTER (as soon as hours within the video) since they know exactly what the problem is. The only thing that can hinder them is any unpleaseable whiners on the forums. Although they put minor issues in the backburner a lot of times, it's only because there are bigger issues to take care of; they do get taken care of, eventually. Still way better than NexonNA's track record though.

and reduce the cost of combining gems so that it only requires two gems instead of three (up to Flawless Square)

Nooooo, you imbeciles! It's not the number of gems, its the gold cost to combine. It's cheaper to just buy gems in the AH because of this! In fact, combining gems up to flawless square should be completely free of gold. Why would i pay money to combine my squares, when i can just loot flawless squares off the ground????

Nooooo, you imbeciles! It's not the number of gems, its the gold cost to combine. It's cheaper to just buy gems in the AH because of this! In fact, combining gems up to flawless square should be completely free of gold. Why would i pay money to combine my squares, when i can just loot flawless squares off the ground????

Shhh, gold sink.

Shhh, gold sink.

Which ends up breaking game functionality/balance when bringing the AH into the picture. Reality? The jeweler's price to upgrade 3 gems to the next tier should be the realtime selling price of that gem in the AH. Boom, balance solved.

Shhh, gold sink.

Pointless "Gold Sink" due to the AH existing lol.
That's like saying the BS is a "Gold Sink" when he's useless at 50+.

I tried. The only "real" way to fix it is to somehow balance the price to upgrade a gem with the price people are selling in the AH, which is just a whole lot of busywork for Blizzard.

Gotta re-install this game because files got corrupt JAJAJAJAJA 1mb/s, 8gb to go!

anyone have an extra guest pass i could use?

God, Finally beat Belial. Fucker likes to trap me with those exploding floor bombs but i got lucky i guess.

Belial is so much more fun on a Wizard. My RL friend and I are running dual Wizard and it's crazy as hell when the AoE explosions do 500-600 damage.

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I'm enjoying Wizard. I want to get to Inferno on my Monk already to see if I have enough survivability though, but I'm waiting for my friend to co-op there with me... =[

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I'm enjoying Wizard. I want to get to Inferno on my Monk already to see if I have enough survivability though, but I'm waiting for my friend to co-op there with me... =[

Dat feel when you have no defensive skills on your Wizard and about 6 times more DPS O.o
But well, you do have 2m gold there and it's not your first character.

Blizzard and Hydra do work, that's all that needs to be said lol.

I use 3 defensive skills cause I keep running into melee range too many times by mistake

Blizzard and Hydra do work, that's all that needs to be said lol.

I use 3 defensive skills cause I keep running into melee range too many times by mistake

I recently changed my set-up so now I don't even have a signature spell. Only offensive skills are Hydra and Arcane Orb, the slowing Blizzard seems nice but it's too little DPS, I prefer having my slow coming from Temporal Flux.
Recently started using a shield too, maybe I'm gearing/skilling for defense a bit early but whatever.

I normally have Frost Nova and Blizzard for the freeze, but Disintegrate Chaos Nexus usually kills everything even in a 2-man game before it can hurt me. I had those two on because I was clearing some Act 2 for some achievements. I have more than enough HP, and I'm using Glass Cannon. When I use Hydra for DPS, it's Venom, but a different kind would be better if I'm kiting since I can't guarantee Blizzard's freeze. I'm really disappointed in the DPS Blizzard does. It was by far the strongest Sorcerer spell in D2, though at least it has reliable hits here.

I believe the current gear (literally everything minus weapon) cost less than 100k to put together, but the weapon was self found which is the biggest thing. It's 224DPS 127INT with 114 Life on Hit at 46, requirement -8. Similar ones on the market at that level seem to be around ~50k, though you can get close to 300DPS if you go up to 100k, but none have nowhere near as much INT as mine does.

Managed to bring it up to 9600 with another ~10k and added some more delicious gold find. I think I'm around 60% with this now.