diablo 2 had PvP

oh shit you're right. the PvP is just mindless shit though rofl

I just logged in after around a year and the gold prices are so cheap, so is everything else. And my gear is pure shit now

Barely.

Maybe I missed out on something, but to me PVP in D2 always appeared to be something tacked on in the form of a simple button to be able to attack each other outside of town, and the way to win was to go Hammerdin with Enigma (and that flail runeword I forgot the name of) and an inventory full of charms.

In Diablo 1 all you did was dupe items all day because it was so easy :D

And on the note of PVP, it seems more imbalanced in D3 than D2. Whoever gets the first stun/etc off wins, because damage is just more ridiculous than it was in D2.

So true, I remember that when I first got the game, I 56K to my cousin and duped all the good items like godly of the whale something

my experience with d3 is this:

grind normal and nightmare
buy shit off auction house
go through hell

because thats what everyone did

Actually, I spent a few hours today playing the AH game while watching the Browns finally win, and I can say with only 50 million gold I was able to solo with ease now. BTW, 50 mil is only about 1.90$ now. For me, the game went from way too hard to way too easy.

yeah its a faceroll farming sim now, >mp8 or its not worth it

thats no surprise, im still glad they're getting rid of the AH but honestly it was the same thing in diablo2:lod once you get the right gear and you're pretty stacked baal runs were cake...but still fun. its all about the replay value, maybe act 5 will be good maybe it will be shit...or the pally wont be completely awful who knows. but since you're able to edit stats + no AH im definitely leaning towards the expansion, it's a toss up if ill play it nearly as much as i did d2 but ill give it another try

same in torchlight2 you can play NG+4 on elite no problem if you got the right gear, torchlight2 definitely has a great end game though compared to d3 and most rpg's

Is it just me or that people will not play in public game for more than 2 seconds anymore

Actually, I've been playing a little more now and just found out that you can change the level of creatures to play whatever difficultly that you want. It actually makes the game ALOT better. It allows you to find the best point for your armor (Between MP0-MP10) and make it difficult, but not fucking impossible for you. Don't get me wrong, I have always hated the little amount of spells, but the added of that really helps the game.

If anyone is still playing, or wants to play again, add me at Fzero124#1935

The funny part is that my entire FL was all TF2 players and they all quit about the same time, about a year ago

I played for a little bit again a while back on my cmww wizard, I can solo mp10 (still die sometimes though) but who knows if they're gonna nerf that build to shit in the expansion

What's your clear speed though? Like cmmw is the best utility in the game in terms of builds and it can clear almost everything in the game with good life and high enough CC and apoc but you probably won't be doing a lot of damage and you clear speeds will be really slow which is why people run archon or party up with barbs and monks

I only had like 200k dps unbuffed and 320k? I think ehp, so it wasn't really that fast. I never put much time into the game though and stopped playing once I was at a point where I could do mp10 stuff in a reasonable amount of time

Did you use to farm with archon or just cmww

just cmww, I never even tried archon because I was under the impression you needed different gear for it or w/e

I would def try it out you can pretty much run it with the same gear, you can drop a lot of res and armour for more dps seeing as you should be at the mp where you can melt shit before it touches you.

hi a friend and I are going to be dipping into this game and were wondering what a good combo would be class wise, and what the farming map is right now. last I played it was some crypt one where you ran around with a snow-storm around your wizard breaking the vases and resetting after 30 seconds.

i like monk, is monk viable?

Monk is great with a lot of duos...I'd say monk/wd or monk/wiz

I think people do decaying crypt runs in act 1. And maybe VotA runs in act 2. Game will be a lot different when xpansion comes out but that's not for awhile.

I personally Cant wait for the expansion to come out. and i just reached paragon 100 on my barb :D

man this game exemplifies the 1% vs 99%

act1 farming when the invite Illuminati here was act3/act4 farming a week into the game

how can the poor rise up its just a constant class struggle

Beta is making it look like a top down adventure game

been watching some twitch streams of the ROS beta all the stuff they're adding looks so good. too bad they could've implemented some of them before but blizzard needs to save everything for an expansion otherwise nobody would buy it.

Hammerdin is back. Time to play again.

poe over diablo3

Kripparrian hit ~19k users streaming the expansion. Got DDoS'd once or twice I think in addition to crashes, but he's planned enough to have 3 internet lines. Blizzard name 2 stronk.

Also I remember me and turts farming desert goblins for hours. I eventually broke though.

No AH means I can't make my money back too. Damn decisions. Also D2 ladder reset soon. PoE still best, but not new.

Yeah I'm pretty sure that's the most he's had since the inferno clear.

The gear progression looks pretty crazy in a bad way, I don't think he ran into dps or survive ability problems the whole time but then again it's just beta. Some of the skills he was using seemed like they will end up being like crit as many mobs as you can skills just like every dps skill in the game

Those crypt gold runs got nerfed hard.

From what I've been reading/seeing, in terms of effectiveness (both skill-wise and how much it costs to gear) the classes go barb > monk > wizard > WD > DH.
I'd go with a combo of the top 3, though I'd get one wizard if you're planning on running that perma-freeze build. DH is viable if you either get extremely lucky with drops you can sell on the AH, or spend real money on the AH to gear your DH. I just dropped $5 on 50mil or however much it was to gear my DH. She's around 230k DPS now with about 22 mil left to spend, and I can farm MP5 easily. (Just finished an MP7 keywarden run with a freeze wizard.)

In my opinion, they should add some kind of ranking system for the number of Nephalem Rifts completed or a ranked floor system to see whose made it the farthest solo/co-op, with the increase in difficulty per level of course.

...and has anyone here tried the beta? I've heard that they completely nerfed the whirlwind barb and critical mass wizard builds.

rip cm wiz: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Paragon-1807/hero/34911626

Cm/ww wizard is gone in expansion
I think perma wrath is also gone for barbs
And there's no more life steal at all....

Basically most the viable builds will be gone which is nice...excited to see some gear-related builds and some damn diversity