Diablo III

[rei]

The way I heard is that there are separate lvl 60 keys and lvl 70 keys. You can still craft the lvl 60 version of the ring with the old stuff but need the new ones for the lvl 70 version.

According to beta testers Act 5 should be better written than 1-4. At least, it shouldn’t have villains who tweet you their every plan like attention seeking idiots.

Metzen sucks.

[Zuwadza]

IIRC Marvel Heroes you have to either finish the story or reach a minimum level (25 maybe?) before you can change difficulty. I remember Normal being laughably easy in MH.

I’m torn now on starting a Crusader ASAP or taking one of my 60s through Act V. Probably the latter. How is adventure mode gated? Does the character you’re playing have to have finished Act V?

[aeneas]

IIRC Marvel Heroes you have to either finish the story or reach a minimum level (25 maybe?) before you can change difficulty. I remember Normal being laughably easy in MH.

I’m torn now on starting a Crusader ASAP or taking one of my 60s through Act V. Probably the latter. How is adventure mode gated? Does the character you’re playing have to have finished Act V?

When you defeat the final boss in campaign mode Adventure mode becomes available.

[ReptileHouse]

Gulp. How many folks do this in Hardcore? I get scared just reading this description.

Not sure what the statistics are. It’s probably pretty low on SC, too. It’s a heck of a grind to actually get a ring.

[TheWombat]

The hardcore people, I guess? Hardcore is a way of life, you want to get through all the content for bragging purposes, right?

I mean, only play hardcore, but my highest character is 60/6 or something. I am nowhere near that level of toughness and other stats for sure.

[ShivaX]

According to beta testers Act 5 should be better written than 1-4. At least, it shouldn’t have villains who tweet you their every plan like attention seeking idiots.

“He’s the greatest general in all of hell!”
/tells you everything he plans to do before he does it

I remember how Rommel told Monty all his moves ahead of time, you know, just to be fair.

[Murbella]

One of my friends (who does not live in usa obviously) has been playing this expansion all day long. I on the other hand am left in limbo for a few hours for no good reason. I suppose this is an amusing about face for some people where usa is the one getting fucked over by localized release dates.

[malkav11]

IIRC Marvel Heroes you have to either finish the story or reach a minimum level (25 maybe?) before you can change difficulty. I remember Normal being laughably easy in MH.

Specifically, that holds for story mode, which even though it gets noticeably harder in subsequent difficulties, is still pretty easy throughout. X-Defense, the Shield Holo-Sim, Midtown Manhattan and terminals do not pay any attention to the difficulty you’re in and scale based on other criteria (mostly level).

[Ephraim]

One of my friends (who does not live in usa obviously) has been playing this expansion all day long. I on the other hand am left in limbo for a few hours for no good reason. I suppose this is an amusing about face for some people where usa is the one getting fucked over by localized release dates.

What really sucks is that the start time in North America is midnight Eastern time, which is a bit late in my “I’ve got kids” life. If I were in the Pacific timezone, it would be 9:00PM, which would be wonderful. Oh well, the lag will probably be disastrous in any case.

[Zuwadza]

Oh well, the lag will probably be disastrous in any case.

Not if all you East-Coasters go to bed and leave the expansion to us West-Coasters ;)

[Spect]

What really sucks is that the start time in North America is midnight Eastern time, which is a bit late in my “I’ve got kids” life. If I were in the Pacific timezone, it would be 9:00PM, which would be wonderful. Oh well, the lag will probably be disastrous in any case.

I feel ya on this, but it’s still better than the alternative of bringing servers down for maintenance and launching sometime after that Tues afternoon.

[Murbella]

I am PST so i will probably get an hour or two before i need to sleep, assuming the servers are playable, but would have been nicer if i could just play now obviously…

[aeneas]

Its a rather nice 5pm my time. Get the kids off to bed then im good to go!

[lordkosc]

Amazon shipped my CE, should be here by tomorrow 5pm, can’t wait to roll a crusader.

[Spect]

Heh getting errors trying to create a Crusader. Guess the servers are slammed

[Matthew_Bramblet]

So the expansion is out, and the devs are already talking up new features coming in the first content patch. There will be seasons/ladders in there, as well as their take on an “endless dungeon” – both with leaderboards to rank characters. Should be fun!

[JMR]

What are ladders?

[MrPerson]

Very early crusader thoughts:

It’s quite powerful at low levels. I’m having no trouble in Torment 1.
Resource regen is really low. I spend too much time building instead of spending. It’s a little dull in that regard.
I don’t really know about using a movement speed penalty to “balance” using a two hander. It seems wonky all around.
The armor looks great.

[Ephraim]

2 hours in, Torment 1 with a friend in Act V and I didn’t get a single Legendary. Yuck. He did get a cool Legendary Potion, Bottomless something or another. 60% healing and gives life for damage for 5 secs. And it’s endless, so no more potion buying for him. Nice.

[Becoming]

What are ladders?

Ladder

Very interested to see how they work it for D3.