Most games I play, I know nothing about the story unless they force feed it down my throat. All I know is, I want to see some cool looking art and destroy it.

Yeah, it's been pretty much flawless the last few days.  I'm up to level 47, pushing hard for 60.  After that, it's time to start farming Legendary equipment!


-b0b
(...~2200 DPS.)

The_Fat_Man wrote on May 24^th, 2012 at 5:43pm:


I'm not sure where I was when I finished Normal, but I just had to completely re-spec my character to make him less squishy.  I died seven or eight times trying to kill the butcher on Hell.  I compared my specs to another wizard with 22,000HP - I had 6,200.  ;-/

I've been giving up Magic Find in favor of vitality, and I boosted it to 11,300 with just two items.  I'm hoping to be in the 15k range with a few more items.


-b0b
(...still has decent damage output, though.)

What spells are you using btw?  I have the following.

Left Click - Magic Missle (increased dmg rune)
Right Click  Disintegrate (Wider beam rune)
1 - Frost Nova (Cold Snap Rune (9 sec cooldown)
2 - Diamond Skin (Crystal Shell increased absorb rune)
3 - Magic Weapon (15% dmg rune)
4 - Hydra (Arcane Rune)

In related news, here's a very interesting post from Blizzard about planned updates for the next patch.  They're fairly substantial updates, including a reduction in gem combination prices and materials, a reduction in blacksmith upgrade costs, and a buff to the power of Legendary items, among others.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/6018173/Game_Design_Update-5_28_2012


-b0b
(...thinks these sound like positive changes.)

In case any of you were wondering, the stability of the Diablo servers is still questionable.  I picked up a copy for Mere last night and got it installed this afternoon.  I was going to run her through the basics tonight, but guess what - servers are down.  I tried playing on lunch today, but guess what - servers were down.

As a network engineer, the magic number for infrastructure uptime is "five nines," or 99.999% uptime.  That number is difficult to achieve, but with the right design (and budget) it is an approachable goal.  I don't necessarily expect a video game to have 99.999% uptime, but I'm somewhat convinced that Blizzard's infrastructure folks are borderline incompetent.  The game has been out for two weeks, how could this not be ironed out yet?




-b0b
(...should probably get some exercise anyway.)

Don't forget...Diablo III is unplayable even in SINGLE PLAYER!

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I tried to jump onto the Auction House today during lunch, but the servers were down.  Yay, Blizzard!

Since I've wasted entirely too much of the last two weeks on Diablo, Bethesda is rescuing me with the announcement of the first Skyrim expansion, Dawnguard:



Sadly, it won't be available until the ambiguous date of "Summer", and the XBox will get it 30 days before PC and PS3.


-b0b
(...lame!)