All good demons go to... um... sequel? - Diablo 3 Announced

Ninyu · 2012-03-08T14:08:39.000Z

Patch 14 is being deployed. No patch notes yet. Servers will be back up at 7pm Pacific. A Blizzard dev Twittered that he was really looking forward to this patch going live. We shall see why … soon.

Shellfishguy · 2012-03-08T14:35:42.000Z

Just a little something that caught me as interesting. I logged into my battle.net account and where the Diablo 3 section under my games wasn’t accessible before, you can now click in to the D3 account options area.

MikeJ · 2012-03-08T17:05:00.000Z

Patch Notes

I guess the melee classes were taking it on the chin a little too hard at higher difficulties. Might be a little rough on melee wizards though…

Lazy_Shiftless_Basta · 2012-03-09T01:14:14.000Z

Whoa, that’s a kind of massive balance change. Barbarians and Monks now get an innate 30% damage reduction? I wonder why they didn’t just revert some of the defensive skills for those classes back to the old versions they used to have online (when they had twice the currently listed stats or lifesteal and such).

John_Reynolds · 2012-03-09T04:47:18.000Z

Yeah, no doubt, I’d also prefer damage avoidance require player intervention during heated fights.

KevinC · 2012-03-09T05:18:08.000Z

If I had to guess I’d say they’re up against the wall and it’s much easier to balance a straight 30% damage reduction than tweaking and balancing various skills.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2012-03-09T05:21:46.000Z

Also they have stated they don’t want you to feel like you MUST use certain skills, and if the only way to stay alive was with certain skills…

DeepT · 2012-03-09T05:29:55.000Z

I saw a note about public games being limited to 4 people. Is that the max, even with friends now?

Scotch_Lufkin · 2012-03-09T05:36:08.000Z

Wasn’t that always the max with Diablo III? It’s designed to be 4-player co-op, I don’t think you would WANT to be playing solo in a game with 4 other people off doing their own thing, but that might just be me. It could also be that having more than 4 people in a game was a technical nightmare, but I’m just speculating.

DeepT · 2012-03-09T05:40:43.000Z

I am pretty sure you could have 8 people in a group. It did not happen often, but I do recall that parties of 5 and 6 people were somewhat common. I am just concerned a bit because there are a bunch of people who want to play together at work. A 4 party person limit would not work.

peacedog · 2012-03-09T05:59:26.000Z

BleedTheFreak:

Wasn’t that always the max with Diablo III? It’s designed to be 4-player co-op, I don’t think you would WANT to be playing solo in a game with 4 other people off doing their own thing, but that might just be me. It could also be that having more than 4 people in a game was a technical nightmare, but I’m just speculating.

And it happened in the clan I was in all the time - 2-3 groups, 8 total people in the game, each off in different areas. It’s nice to have a safety net if there are higher levels on, though me and mine tended to avoid using them.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2012-03-09T06:27:06.000Z

I asked about the max in Diablo III - it was 8 before? That’s odd. I never tried the co-op in the beta until recently so if it was more brefore I missed it. I can’t figure out how more than 4 would work - where would the banners go? There seems to only be room around the town portal in town for 4 banners.

KevinC · 2012-03-09T07:23:37.000Z

Ouch, I didn’t know that. If I did decide to pick this up I’m not sure if the 4p limit will work for me. For some reason I thought it’d be 8 like Diablo 2.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2012-03-09T07:25:26.000Z

I think you mean the 4 player limit will not work for the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th favorite friends of yours you game with.

Rock8man · 2012-03-09T07:30:43.000Z

That does suck. There’s 5 of us that used to play Diablo 2 together. I guess this means that one person will always be left out, or we could divide up into 2 in one group and 3 in the other.

peacedog · 2012-03-09T07:59:04.000Z

BleedTheFreak:

I asked about the max in Diablo III - it was 8 before? That’s odd. I never tried the co-op in the beta until recently so if it was more brefore I missed it. I can’t figure out how more than 4 would work - where would the banners go? There seems to only be room around the town portal in town for 4 banners.

Nope, I misread, sorry. Always 4 as far as I know. Which isn’t very far.

KevinC · 2012-03-09T08:26:02.000Z

BleedTheFreak:

I think you mean the 4 player limit will not work for the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th favorite friends of yours you game with.

Yes. I do tend to game with a group, and that group tends to exceed 4. I’m not slashing my wrists or anything but it’s too bad it’s not 8 anymore!

idrisz · 2012-03-09T10:51:57.000Z

Rock8man:

That does suck. There’s 5 of us that used to play Diablo 2 together. I guess this means that one person will always be left out, or we could divide up into 2 in one group and 3 in the other.

time to make 3 more friends…

Telefrog · 2012-03-09T21:11:36.000Z

PvP is being removed for now to not delay the launch. I don’t mind, but the usual suspects are going nuts over this announcement.

Mark_L · 2012-03-09T21:18:55.000Z

…and nothing of value was lost.