Diablo 3!?

[Acco]

As it stands right now, Inferno is broken difficulty, requiring lots of farming for items... and even then, still getting 2-3 shotted by hero waves.

[Sasha]

As it stands right now, Inferno is broken difficulty, requiring lots of farming for items... and even then, still getting 2-3 shotted by hero waves.

Item farming? Back in my day.. you'd kill Baal with your fists on Nightmare to gage your readiness for Hell.

[Tonk]

As it stands right now, Inferno is broken difficulty, requiring lots of farming for items... and even then, still getting 2-3 shotted by hero waves.

There where a few times i had to hit the auction for stuff on nightmare but it wasn't to bad. I know what you mean about the hero waves though. Some of them require about as much strategy as a boss.

[Zen]

It's probably balanced that way on purpose. Only those that are willing to shell out money / grind their asses off will be able to get elite gear to finish Inferno.

Gear was ALWAYS a grind in Hell difficulty of D2. Couldn't run around naked unless you were a 90+ sorc :P

[Drake Wingfire]

I started a monk, my lvl 51 wizzy was too squishy :S

Just made it to nightmare with him, actually managed to get the Staff Of Herding as well ^.=.^

[Lorethys]

*dusts off website bookmark* Bleh, I've not been here in ages. Should probably stay a lil more up to date with that.

Anyway, I picked up D3 a couple days ago, beat normal with a monk (I couldn't take the fight with Diablo seriously) at level 31. Currently derpin' with a Demon Hunter. Probably going to play all five classes through the game to see which I handle best before going to harder difficulties.

BattleTag is Dragonfire#1527  (t'was an old favorite username of mine, lotta good memories attached to it)
And now I return to the game; there is evil afoot and I must destroy it!

[Fazar]

I think Im totally done with D3, least for now.  Got to Act II inferno, running around with 9500 armour, 58,000 health, and 800 resist all, and some elite packs still kill me.

It is a indescribable pain to grind for hours on gear you can't even use, for no upgrade, and no money to buy what is actually an upgrade.  It was a good little run, but I can't see myself still playing it.

[Acco]

Exactly - Fazar has it right. Even the best geared toon can't cope with some of the shit inferno throws at you. To me, that's broken.

[Crassadon]

Item farming? Back in my day.. you'd kill Baal with your fists on Nightmare to gage your readiness for Hell.

. . is that true? :o

[Zen]

. . is that true? :o

If you were a high level barbarian with decent gear and a stockpile of pots, yes you could theoretically punch Baal to death. D2 allowed people to make way overpowered characters with a little practice and the right setup, which was one of the things I loved about it. Lots of gametime -> lots of goodies and skills -> overpowered characters that were fun.

Apparently D3 solves this by nerfing everyone's characters and making Inferno stupidly hard.

[Zelminax]

The wizards archon form is nicely overpowered right now. Although they plan to nerf it. Probably far to much than it need to be

[Sasha]

If you were a high level barbarian with decent gear and a stockpile of pots, yes you could theoretically punch Baal to death. D2 allowed people to make way overpowered characters with a little practice and the right setup

It wasn't overpowered, if you had a level 20 meteor fall on you, being level 100 won't matter, you're squashed like a bug. I had meant using your skills without relying on armour (or its effects), retreating backwards, using skills to dodge attacks was important in the game over spamming potions.

I will admit partying for EXP was done often. Items became less important later on, you could do a lot if you did it right, had to plan attack not just spam potions and attacks like D3.

[Acco]

During my month with D3 - one thing I really missed: 8P groups/games. I had so many friends that played that it wasn't possible to get our normal group into one game. Which sucked.

And yeah. D2 was far more skill bound than it was item bound... D3 is quite the opposite in Inferno.