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Mummelmann on 22 May 2012
Ail said:

Well I might as well give my impressions too

So far I am enjoying the game but I have a few issues with it.

1) Skills damage based on weapon damage. it removes the need for +skill mods and that was a nice part of D2, looking for the set that would maximise your char through + skills. Now your damage mainly depends on your weapon and with the worrying report of inferno blue being better than legendary that is not good.

I would rather they sticked with a system like D2.

2) high level itemization and blue weapons being better than legendary, see first point.

3) Gems are going to be an issue down the road as there is no gem sink. So right now it looks like it will take forever to make the high level gems but when people finally get them it will look like a waste because there will a lot of them on the market with always more coming in...

Personally I have no issue with the DRM as I actually had issues with the way D2 worked. You played Single player in D2 and then realized that the rune drops, runeswords and events were better on bnet so ended restarted the same char on bnet and from that point you were always connected anyway ( 99% of my D2 playtime was on Battlenet). So I actually like better that they make you play online from the start and it comes with perks that were not in D2 ( AH).

The Legendary items on the auction house from Inferno mode (I presume) are mostly pitiful compared to blue and yellow items, this truly is a shame.

Another problem with the gems; they seem to increase in tiny increments as far bonuses go, for some it just won't be worth even trying. Getting two-to four extra points in one single stat on a single item for a gem that can cost several thousand to make and requires Tomes from Hell just seems overly stupid. The difference they'll make on high-end gear will be laughable, you'll need three sockets or more to get much from it and since a socket is effectively a feature that takes up the space of other features and enhancements, its just a waste allround.



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lestatdark on 22 May 2012

Anything up from Square gems seems to be such a waste of gold for so little return in increments of value. The biggest problem with that is how AH devalues everything when it comes to Jewelcrafting and Blacksmithing, because people will always get better gear off the AH than in-game.

Blizzard should implement at least a reduction of gem prices or re-forging in the Blacksmith to avoid these kinds of devaluation of items.



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Ail on 22 May 2012
lestatdark said:
Anything up from Square gems seems to be such a waste of gold for so little return in increments of value. The biggest problem with that is how AH devalues everything when it comes to Jewelcrafting and Blacksmithing, because people will always get better gear off the AH than in-game.

Blizzard should implement at least a reduction of gem prices or re-forging in the Blacksmith to avoid these kinds of devaluation of items.


My biggest beef is we will spend months getting high level gems and by the time we get them they will be worth very little as everyone will have them and will be trying to sell them as the supply of high level gems can only increase as they never disappear...

I'm not so worried about cost right now as I figure over time there will be inflation and gold will be easier to come by,,,,



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lestatdark on 22 May 2012
Ail said:
lestatdark said:
Anything up from Square gems seems to be such a waste of gold for so little return in increments of value. The biggest problem with that is how AH devalues everything when it comes to Jewelcrafting and Blacksmithing, because people will always get better gear off the AH than in-game.

Blizzard should implement at least a reduction of gem prices or re-forging in the Blacksmith to avoid these kinds of devaluation of items.


My biggest beef is we will spend months getting high level gems and by the time we get them they will be worth very little as everyone will have them and will be trying to sell them as the supply of high level gems can only increase as they never disappear...

I'm not so worried about cost right now as I figure over time there will be inflation and gold will be easier to come by,,,,

Yeah, but these pricing problems could easily be set by giving them a baseline value. For example, putting the lower baseline price for any Square gem at 4 or 5K gold, which is still lower than crafting them, but not absurdely so. 

I mean, Perfect Square Gems being sold for 30K every 10 piece? That's ridiculous.



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blkfish92 on 22 May 2012

So when you guys have it working is it the shiz?



           

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Ail on 23 May 2012
blkfish92 said:
So when you guys have it working is it the shiz?


It's not like it's down all the time...

Since release there has been one time when I coudn't play for a period of 2 hours ( on release day evening.). That's all

Otherwise the game has always been up and worked smoothly for me..

 

Most of the noise around the servers being down all the time come from nerds that got mad because the game had a lot of problem on release day..



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

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Ail on 23 May 2012

Just finished normal mode and I can't help but think that I liked Act 4 in D2 better than Act 4 in D3.
I don't feel so crowded by enemies in D3 like I did back in D2 Act 4...



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

wfz on 23 May 2012
Ail said:
Just finished normal mode and I can't help but think that I liked Act 4 in D2 better than Act 4 in D3.
I don't feel so crowded by enemies in D3 like I did back in D2 Act 4...


Hopefully the three higher difficulty levels throw more enemies at us.



blkfish92 on 23 May 2012
Ail said:
blkfish92 said:
So when you guys have it working is it the shiz?


It's not like it's down all the time...

Since release there has been one time when I coudn't play for a period of 2 hours ( on release day evening.). That's all

Otherwise the game has always been up and worked smoothly for me..

 

Most of the noise around the servers being down all the time come from nerds that got mad because the game had a lot of problem on release day..


Ohhh



           

lestatdark on 23 May 2012

So, they decided to do a server update without any kind of warning in-game . Pretty damn nice move there Blizzard!



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