Might find what you need here:

Negative.

They do some kind of smart targeting. Usually they will target someone in the direction you’re facing. If there’s a whole bunch of people, I notice they tend to target the most powerful enemy. You can keep changing the direction you’re facing to change who you’re targeting and once you have the creature you need, you can lock on using the left trigger so that it doesn’t change again.

Generally I’ve never felt the need to lock on though. Their smart about targeting. I generally do want to go after the most powerful creature in the bunch.

Do you mean public games? On PC Just open your game to public, or start a new game open to public. The game will start straight away and if you don’t join an existing game, then over a (hopefully) short period of time, folk will join your game.

Options menu while in game:

Game settings menu when starting a game:

I imagine console is fairly similar.

He means powerlevelling groups.

Ah, in that case, if you are in the QT3 guild, hit up anyone that is online. If not, join a public rifts group and just ask if someone with a 70 will power level you. It is so trivial it will be easy to find someone who won’t mind towing someone to 70. It takes no more than 5-7 TX rifts - 30 minutes tops for anyone that is already speedrunning for gear/GR keys.

At this point, are more QT3 people on PC or Console?

Is that a rollcall?

Xbox One here. I own the base game on PC, but haven’t touched it since 2012. Same with the 360 version.

PC, because anything else is just wrong.

And my wife hogs the telly.

I’m on the PS4. My gamer tag is BrammyH.

I’m still undecided on buying Reaper and Necro on the PC, or getting Necro and a few months of PS Plus.

You need RoS. Absolutely have to have it.

Wait, do you have RoS on PS?

On PS4, it only comes as the Ultimate Evil edition, which has Reaper of Souls. It was only on PS3/360 that the base game came out. On the PS4/XB1 releases, it’s with the expansion built in.

Coolio. See, us PC players are better 'cause we get to buy more than one sku! We own more Diablo that you console people!

To briefly interrupt the roll call, I just want to report that if I’d been playing Hardcore, like I used to on the PC version, last night my Witch Doctor would have died and I would have had to start over. This was the first death with my WD, obviously. It wasn’t even to Azmodan, who was really easy to beat. But it was in that area, in the area leading up to him, in the final chamber. One of the blue champion sets took me down so fast I didn’t even realize I’d died until I got the onscreen message asking me where I wanted to respawn.

@TheWombat, I don’t know how you play this game on Hardcore. In Diablo 2, I would play no other way. It was a brilliant game on Hardcore. But in Diablo 3, having to start over and basically go through the exact same motions again, getting the exact same abilities at every level, it’s just so boring an experience on Hardcore. As an immortal character, I only have to experience that whole first phase with each character once, and that’s what this game seems to be designed around. If I were to guess, I would think that once a hardcore character dies, you probably take a long break from playing that type of character, don’t you? So if this had been your first Witch Doctor, and he had just died at the end of Act 3 at level 59, you wouldn’t have just jumped back into the game with a level 1 Witch Doctor. You would either play some other game for a while, or you would jump in as something other than a Witch Doctor.

I’m starting to come around to the idea that the only true solution is to buy them on all platforms.

I’ve only ever played hardcore in d3, but I may have to change my ways on account of an increasingly flaky internet connection. Unless I’m playing a new season day 1, I’ve never leveled a character since ROS. I’ve always just found someone to power level me. Once I’m 70 it’s usually just a few hours till I have a 5 piece set plus the rrog as long as you have another character with whom you can farm bloodshards.

I’ve actually tried to make the switch to softcore several times, but I just couldn’t do it. However, It might be nice to try more daring builds.

I’ve lost a fair number of characters to the Hall of Heroes, for sure. For a while though I had two 70s in each class, due to seasons causing me to duplicate. When I lose someone, I usually just start another one of that class, if it’s a class I like, or move on to another class if it isn’t. For instance, if a Crusader croaks, I am not going to start a new one right then and there, but I would start a new Wizard probably. Leveling is pretty quick, even without power leveling; just run rifts from level 1. If you have Paragon levels and gear already, it’s even easier.

But ultimately, the key to liking Hardcore is accepting that you will lose high level, well-equipped characters, and just take that for granted. I find D3 normal mode less interesting, because I’m not really into the whole min/maxing for ultimate high end GR runs and stuff. So I don’t play as extensively as a lot of people, but I do enjoy it when I play partly because of the risk factor.

Interesting. This stuff wasn’t there back in the day that I was losing hardcore characters. In those days you played through the game on Normal, then Elite, then Hell. And I hadn’t made it alive through Normal yet. But just going through Normal with the same character again, getting the same ability at level 1, then the same ability at level 2, then the same abilities at level 3, it was just not fun. And it was all about getting money so you could buy all the equipment you needed from the auction house.

It sounds like the adventure mode and Paragon levels and ā€œrunning riftsā€ (whatever that is) has changed the calculus quite a bit, and playing Hardcore characters isn’t as repetitive and slow as it used to be.

Usually start a hardcore seasonal on Expert(?) or Master(?) and level it through bounties to 70 + paragon ranks, as soon as I get some nice gear I’ll go torment 1. Around 100+ Paragon I can usually level my alts on Torment 1 with some extra gear. before I go back to the monk to hit 300+.

Think Season 5 or 6 I did level 1-70 with a full group on Expert(?), was pretty quick but not very often you find a group in your level range if you start season a bit late.

I guess I should finally finish the game once so that I can unlock all this stuff and I’ll know what you guys are talking about.