My Diablo III first impressions

[Ail]

Mummelmann said:

Ail said:

Working my way through Inferno Act 2 solo and this is no piece of cake.
It actually wasn't so bad until I hit the Cave of Betrayer and then I was stucked there forever.
There's just no way i can beat a spider Broodling champion or rare in those tight corridors when even without the fast mod they already move faster than me...
I think I reloaded that dungeon like 15 times and ended up parking the bosses of the first level in a corner and skipping them...( and weirdly enough after that I moved to the Vault of the Assassin where I killed like a dozen champion and rare packs and skipped nothing)

I'm in the Archives now and I should get past it toonight..
The last part hasn't been good for my cash though, I was dying so much the gold I was making was just covering for repairs...
Thankfully I found a WD offhand early in Act 2 I was able to sell for 1 million so that allowed me to do a few upgrades...

I'm sitting at 20.4k dps, 32k hp, 6300 armor and 400 or so resists with buffs...
Nothing one shots me but it's still no piece of cake...

One change I'm going to have to make soon is probably get away from Diamond Skin and switch to teleport as there are way too many situations where the skin can't save me where a teleport actually would..

Now that I have spent more time in D3 with my wiz and my barb I really wish we had one more skill button. It would make the game better giving us more choices but still woudn't imbalance things too much...

I hope the expansion brings this. 1 more skill and 1 more passive would be perfect...

Cave of the Betrayer... I was lucky, only restarted it 7 times!

Act II gets incredibly hard about halfway through, the first half wasn't so bad. I can't imagine how I'm going to beat Belial on Inferno, he's probably the hardest Act boss of them all on this difficulty, no room to move and every attack one-shots you. I expect Azmodan to be ridiculous and simple as usual though, I only need to get there first to confirm...

 

Agree about the skill slots too, one more Passive would be great. As it is, you have to choose between DPS and living longer. Problem is; if you sacrifice DPS for longevity, you end up dying anyway since you need a lot longer to take down the mobs. Full DPS rush has worked for me so far on Act II and I still have pathetic armor and resists on my DH.

6 skills button is just way too few.

As a wizard I run 3 offensive skills ( seeker magic massile, celestial orb and venom hydra), 2 buffs ( energy armor and magic weapon) and 1 OMG skills ( diamond skin). I wish i had room for 1 more defensive skill  as there are plenty of good ones I would like to use ( teleport, mirror image, wave of force, frost nova,...).

The only half feasible way around this would be to drop seeker magic missile but that would create some serious problem as both my offensive spells would be heavy arcane  users and I already only have 80 arcane points...

 

Belial shoudn't one shot me ( if I have to I will use force armor and then he really should not 1 shot me...).