PSA: Diablo III Open Beta WeekendFollow

I for one, welcome our new Sand Wasp overlords.

Also, just unlocked Hell. I know what I'm doing tonight.

For some reason my keyboard keeps setting to German while I'm playing D3. Y and Z keys swap, and the ; and ' keys switch to accent marked O and A.

Very annoying. And it's only while in D3, like right now I'm alt-tab'd out and the keyboard works fine.

Normal? Fun. Nightmare? Fun. Hell? Fun. Inferno? Not so fun. I just finished Act 1, but while Hell felt like a good step in difficulty and enemy complexity, Inferno act 2 just seems to be ********** you." I'm gonna put it on the back burner while I get other classes to 60, the part of the game I enjoy.

I am able to handle everything in act 1 with ease outside certain rare combos and the butcher gives me a bit of trouble. Act 2 on the other hand makes me feel like I did zero gearing in act 1 and tried to dive right into it. It is... frustrating... to say the least.

Funnily enough, I found the opening canyon/path area to be one of the hardest parts of A2 since the lacuni firebombs are probably a guaranteed death for most undergeared. Adding the wasps to the mix doesn't help, but they're easy enough to dodge. Managed to get through the rest of the act, but had to turn to help on Belial since I just couldn't DPS all his adds down fast enough solo. A3 was a bit of a rude awakening getting to the first pack of fallen with like 3 shaman constantly reviving everything I'd just killed, so I gave up for a bit.

I'll probably just say I'm undergeared, maybe not so much "underskilled" however some may translate that. I just know my luck sucks with random drops, nobody buys my stuff from the AH (if it isn't going invisible), and I'm not really keen on farming endlessly with no guarantee I'd actually get a gear upgrade. I'd probably say building for Maghda or ZK to be the goto fights in A2, Maghda being the easier of the bunch, but it still doesn't quite make DH life easy post-Smoke Screen nerf.

Hahaha that was a good one

Act 3 is funny, Ive gotten 70-90 kill streaks from those large fallen packs.

have you been running s&b the entire time, or just now that you are in inferno? ive been 2H the entire time ive played (just got to hell) and was wondering if i was missing something from sword and board that is better than 30k crit mayhem.

Well I got thought most of Act 1 (inferno) last night. and actually kept a 5 stack of Nephelim Valor (sp?) from Skeleton King ~ Warden before I decided to turn in for the night. Now I have a full page of my stash with sellable rares, a Lvl 10 BS, next is JC. This is what I run Here. I dont try to keep up Wrath unless its a boss/Elite pack, I have like 27%(before Wrath) Crit and atm using S&B.

Yeah, I'll just say people are overvaluing their stuff. Between market saturation and a lot things maybe hovering around +50 stats, especially without resists, people wanting more than a couple hundred k for most things is... wrong. Then again, me selling things I think worth selling (not super) is probably why I'm poor since I price low. :P

Right now, you're probably not getting a ton of sales on items without resist all on them. You might sell some DEX stuff with a high single resist to Monks who are using OWE, but I think most people on Inferno are gunning for high resist in general, though some DH and Wizards might buy more glass cannon items.

I kind of wish you had 10 AH slots for anything, plus an additional 5 slots for under-50 gear.

Also, I sometimes grossly undercut in order to just move gear. When 4 characters have full bags plus a full bank, I just want to move the product.

Oh don't worry, as you progress into hell you'll start to get a taste of what it feels like to be a melee. Then in act 1 inferno you'll be mad. Then if you make it to act 2 inferno you'll rage quit.

I just wish companions were better at getting out of the way of ****. I'm not asking for 100% accuracy in dodging wasp, or getting out of desecration before taking any damage, but they really should be getting out of that stuff. Also, WTB 'assist' option. ******* bat attacking treasure goblins before I clear the area all day erryday.

Progressing slowly through A2 Inferno on Barb. My DH is on the ZK blood quests. Barb, I'm out of the canyon of death and have cleared the illusions. Gear upgrades suck right now. I am not getting very many sellable items or upgrades, and basically I'd have to spend 1.2M for a single upgrade of ~10 STR/VIT and ~15 Resist.

I'm considering picking up a second weapon with LoH on it and trying a dual-wield build out, but I just don't know that I can lose the damage mitigation from my shield. A2 is rough at 35k HP; I'd really like to get that up to 45k or so.

My biggest complaint is how they handled gear progression and difficulty level. You should be able to clear through to Inferno Skeleton King on A4 Hell gear, albeit with some difficulty. Then you should be able to farm to SK for gear to clear the second half to Butcher. Then you farm the second half for gear to clear A2 up to Maghda, etc. But ****, you can be wearing all A2 gear with some A3 gear and still have a rough time on a melee on A2. I can steamroll A1 on Barb. I can clear virtually any elites without much issue. A2 is absolutely brutal in my current gear.

Whatever. I'm still enjoying my time ingame. I do a couple farming runs and jump between characters. My HC Barb is in NM now, and my Monk and DH are pushing through Normal. I might level a SC Witch Doctor just for the level 60 achievement. The class doesn't really interest me, but maybe I'll end up liking it. I hated DH for the first 10 levels, and ended up really liking it.