Free Diablo 3 open beta this weekend.

[shinakuma9]

Holy crap are you joking? Okay let me go play some RPGs like Fallout or Skyrim on the easiest difficulty and call them mind numbingly easy and boring as hell. Profound logic right there. Hey guess what, I found the Diablo 3 beta stupidly easy as well. Tell you what. There's a Diablo 2 ladder reset happening soon, in like a week or so. Why don't you guys go play that because it gives you a chance to start fresh with everyone else. Come back and tell me how hard it is when you play through half of act 1 of normal please. Thanks.

[KernalPanic]

Shina, have you ever played D2?
Most of us who have played have done this so many times we lost count.

If you haven't there is no need to worry about ladder... play a single player game on normal an level 1-13. Pick a sorceress or barbarian as those two are directly translated to D3. Don't cheat, just play the game as intended.

Play levels 1-13 in D2 and compare them to 1-13 in D3.

Honestly, you don't find D3 even easier than D2?

A D2 sorceress must manage mana, and if you are a fire sorc, even 1-13 you will face immune mobs. Trying to forge through with only the newbie staff isn't easy and really isn't very practical. If you add in no potions, no tactics and just running up to everything and clicking you will likely die mutiple times.

A D2 Barb is plenty easy, but you cannot spam an aoe skill without worrying about mana in early levels! You CAN fight without worrying about skills, but it is usually fastest to use skills. Now try just charging ahead without using potions... I bet you don't die... but you DO have to run or use a potion from time to time.

Note, assuming someone who has played D2 before, they start with knowledge of D2 that really none of us has with D3.

The only way you could possibly believe D3 isn't insultingly easier than D2 is if you never played D2 or never played D2 without cheating.

[shinakuma9]

Seriously do levels 1-13 even matter? I could level that in an hour or two in D2. You're basically arguing as if you will be stuck playing from level 1-13 the entire game. Okay so maybe D3 has an easier level 1-13 than D2. So what? Have you tried any of the other difficulties in D3? I haven't, and neither has anyone else who has played the beta just like you and me. Have you tried hell difficulty on a high level character in D2? I have. It's a complete and utter joke difficulty wise.

What you are saying is akin to reading the first chapter of a book and calling it crap, or watching the first 10 minutes of a movie and saying its terrible or boring. Do you want to try to even play the rest of the game before calling judgement? I can't believe you are more concerned about how hard the first 12 levels are going to be rather than the later difficulties. Makes no sense whatsoever.

Here let me lay it out in foolproof terms for you. Fill in the blank. If a game has difficulties easy normal hard and hardest. I am playing on the easy difficulty. Therefore I would expect the game to be ____?

[MexicanSnake]

Guys guys guys come on! The "normal" difficulty is ALWAYS to catch up the story! after that I don't think it will be as easy as you think .

Can't wait! One of the main reasons for getting a new laptop is Diablo 3! .

[shinakuma9]

I think I'll be going to Barb as a first class and then most likely Monk. Man I want to see Call to Ancients in action so badly. I wonder how strong it is. Seeing as they give you a passive skill to reduce the CD by 30 seconds and the rune to increase the duration by 5 seconds you get a 50 second cooldown skill. Also apparently a lot of D2 uniques are making a return. Yay.

[Mechanized Menace]

Well I just decided to pre-order! Anyone know if I can use a Retail key to get the digital download?


Had to buy the retail version from Amazon because they didn't have the digital download and I had a gift card + 25% off any purchase.

[Simon]

Well I just decided to pre-order! Anyone know if I can use a Retail key to get the digital download?


Had to buy the retail version from Amazon because they didn't have the digital download and I had a gift card + 25% off any purchase.

Yay! Let's play together! I'll be making a monk for softcore and hardcore. Hardcore for enjoying the story with my housemate and softcore for rushing through to experience the difficulties so that I can be prepared in hardcore.

[Wolf Tohsaka]

Did someone play it using an eGpu ? I'd like to play it using GT440@x1.Opt & i5

[key001]

Holy crap are you joking? Okay let me go play some RPGs like Fallout or Skyrim on the easiest difficulty and call them mind numbingly easy and boring as hell.

Playing Skyrim on master difficulty with a 4x difficulty mod is boring and too easy. What's your point?

[Mechanized Menace]

Yay! Let's play together! I'll be making a monk for softcore and hardcore. Hardcore for enjoying the story with my housemate and softcore for rushing through to experience the difficulties so that I can be prepared in hardcore.

For sure! I will probably make a Wizard or a Witch Doctor. Ya I am looking forward to Inferno mode. I will msg you my name when I get it.