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Server down until 11:45pm PST....I'm out!

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:lol: Same here. Hopefully it'll be up for our Lunch 'n' Loot tomorrow.

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Australia, mates!

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Set up my Battletag at least.
No gaming for me until Thursday at the earliest. But I'd love to drop into some of your games here with my lowly character once I finally get my copy.


Decker01#1233

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Won't have time to play until next week, but battlenet name is Dave#1521.

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Installed and played no problem last night from 8-10PM EST. Played with 2 friends that I played Diablo 2 with back in the day, and had a blast.

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I played about 3 hours last night. I was lucky I guess. I did try co-op once and decided to leave the game after a few minutes. When I tried to go back into the single player I kept getting some error about "party members" and it wouldn't let me in. Then after a while I just got the Error 33 Server busy, which was fine, I was fixing to go to bed anyway.


Awesome game if they can get all of the server bugs fixed.

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i didn't have any problems either playing on the east coast.
i'm confused about the public game. how do you create your own private game with just you and your friends? There's only 1 button - public games and that brings you automatically into a game with random people.

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TirMcDohl#1669

I only had time to play through the first mission. No issues with connectivity.

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That is a lot of travel for a video game.

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noob question about the barbarian. i have a dual wielded most of my time so far. if i have a shield equipped do I have to block manually with it or do i just take less damage automatically?

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Block happens automatically.

I have a question about the Witch Doctor if anyone is using one. I can't figure out how to use my equipped weapon. The mouse buttons map to magic skills and I have no idea how to change it. Any ideas? The only time I was able to use a weapon was before I unlocked magic skills.

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where do i go to find my "battletag". i named my Barbarian "GreyWolfSif", is that it?

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The short answer is: you don't (unless you run out of mana). Instead, your skills are modified by your weapon. Hold control while hovering over a skill for details on how it works.That's your character's name. Your battletag is associated with your whole account. To find it click the social button and then click "Add Friend" and it'll show it to you.

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i just went to battle.net and found it I think -- "GreyWolfSif#1556"

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Finally got this to run somewhat smooth on my macbook. I dropped the foreground fps from 150 to 100 and it made a big difference. I was even able to bump the resolution from the bare minimum.

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I don't think you can. Most (all?) classes don't actually do a default attack. The only thing a Witch Doctor's weapon would be used for is to calculate their skill damage, and for other stats.

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Is it more satisfying playing the Barbarian so that you can actually see your character actually use the weapons you pick up?

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I dunno, I'm having a blast playing the Witch Doctor. I'm digging those toads that you can throw out. He can dish out some pretty awesome AOE damage. Honestly it hasn't bothered me at all not having a need to do a normal attack, actually its more fun without it.

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I would say no. In fact the witch doctor is amazing. He has a good attack...his summoned animals keeps enemies from attacking you...and his slow spell is easier to use than the traps the demon hunter has....of the three classes I have used it is my favorite so far.


Just to be clear...weapons DPS raises every spell you have in the game. It is the base of all your spells. (even though this makes NO sense) The Demon Hunter needs to actually have a bow to use some of their spells. I think this is only class that lets you equip some weapons that do not work with their spells...

As said above, shields add to your armor automatically. If you are confused about using two weapons for a monk or barbarian...it works like this. You add the two dps of each weapon, divide by 2 and then times it by your attack per second number, which you can find under your stats. So I was doing about 15% more damage with two weapons...worth it to me since Diablo is all about the dps.

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D2 had a single player mode with characters that you couldn't use on bnet. You could only use it for tcp/ip and single player. I want to say local too but I don't remember if D2 had that.

I remember having to download a trainer in Diablo 1 so the cheaters couldn't kill me anymore. I lost way too many ears.

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Yes, but their infrastructure is completely different for Diablo 3. Mobs and their loot tables are stored on the servers, along with many other things. They did this for a reason. They want to try to obfuscate stuff as much as possible to avoid having the hacking and duping issues that Diablo 1/2 had. So even if they wanted to have an offline mode, they'd have to recode a lot of stuff. I understand people's frustration in this, but I also understand Blizzard's reasons for doing it this way (piracy and hackers, basically).

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Thanks for the opinions. I played the Witch Doctor in the beta and found it pretty fun (since, of course, I play one in real life). I just thought it was weird that he'd grab a broadsword and then blow darts at people. I guess I'll just have to get over that.

Man, I love New Egg's free shipping. They sent out my copy of Diablo from Baldwin Park CA ysterday at 5:30 PM, and it's sitting on my desk before lunch. Sweet!

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I have to correct my above post...using two weapons increases your aps by 15% only..not 50%

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I'll be on tonight. Quake1028#1224, rolling a wizard. Gave up last night and went to bed.