Diablo 3 - General Discussion I

[Urlithani]

I made a new char, zoomancer this time. Am I supposed to be able to kill anything on my own? My skeletons don't really die but they do shit for damage. On nightmare now, lvl 69. My skels only level 25

Max out:

Raise Skeleton
Skeletal Mastery
Corpse Explosion.

Put about 10 points or so into Amplify damage, and get a NM Act 2 Offensive merc for Might aura. Amp Damage makes your skeletons do 100% damage, and your merc's might aura ups everyone's damage too. As soon as the first monster dies, start hitting corpse explosion and the rest will follow.

It's good to have one point in each curse. Attract is great for crowd control because even in hell with level 29 skeletons, my skeletons still die in certain fights(cursed and monsters with conviction). Also, Attract cannot be overridden by another curse so you can spam Amp over it. Your minions are dumb, and you'll often find them fighting at choke points where only 1-2 can attack at a time. Spam terror to make all the monsters flee and your skellies will move in behind them and fill up the space.

I always keep a clay golem out too because he slows monsters he hits, and it works even against bosses. Slowing them to 30% means you can keep Amp instead of decrepify to kill them faster.

If you do end up killing bosses on runs like Baal/Mephisto, you may find that it takes a good while for your minions to take them out. Find a 6 socket weapon with a good speed (usually a 6 socket phase blade), and an armor with Crushing Blow mod on it (usually Goblin Toe, since it is a very easy drop and has 25% CB on it). Put 4-5 Eth runes and 1-2 Shael runes in the blade(depends on the breakpoint, I don't remember), and start swinging on the boss.

With 5 Eth runes, it's -125% target defense. Against Act bosses, it's cut in half to 62.5%. It doesn't matter if your swing does 10 damage, since whenever you hit and Crushing Blow goes off, it instantly takes off 1/32 (or is it 1/64th?) of an Act boss' total hp. It's important to note that the Ignore Target Defense mod does not work on bosses, nor on superuniques, which is why Eth runes are used instead.

My memory isn't exact but it's pretty close there.

[Lorrac]

Originally Posted by Zarcath

I made a new char, zoomancer this time. Am I supposed to be able to kill anything on my own? My skeletons don't really die but they do shit for damage. On nightmare now, lvl 69. My skels only level 25

The minions have jack and shit for dps. They're there just to shield you. The damage comes from corpse explosion. Before the marrowalk bug was fixed you could get some decent bone damage instead if you wanted, but not anymore. Just bonespear whatever your merc is attacking (the merc is KEY to zoomancer builds) and once the first corpse is in, start the party.

[Araxen]

Rumor: Diablo 3 Announcement Coming Next Month (Update: Blizzard Responds) - Shacknews - PC Games, PlayStation, Xbox 360 and Wii video game news, previews and downloads

[Jarlan]

Blizzard Entertainment

let the speculation begin

[Akileese]

Are you fucking kidding me? Yes, a cold looking icy background. DIABLO 3 SPECULATION! It's Wrath of the Lick King.

IBTR.

[Hardcore Cracka]

Please tell me how that's related to Diablo at all.

[Jarlan]

Originally Posted by Akileese

Are you fucking kidding me? Yes, a cold looking icy background. DIABLO 3 SPECULATION! It's Wrath of the Lick King.

IBTR.

If you recall, before Starcraft 2 was announced... every day they would display a new splash image, consisting of a timeline from their first title, all the way past World of Warcraft, ending with Starcraft 2.

Now the question is: Is this a teaser for a new game?? It is obviously, as this is a typical blizzard thing to do. The real question is though... what game?

Thats from another forum I frequent, I thought I would pass the word along and see what you guys think. They seemed to think it was


Reasons it's likely Diablo 3:
- Patch 1.12 for Diablo removing the need for the disk to be in to play.
- Blizzard buying up every diablo3 domain they could.
- The rumor about the next Diablo being set in a world where "Hell froze over."
- Imagine is linked as "ice1"for Diablo III.

That image is called ice1. If you remember Diablo II v1.11, they said hell was freezing over. It's not a movie, so it doesn't matter if it is reused. There are satanic symbols in the ice if you look closely.
- June 29th is the10th year anniversary of Diablo II.
- Diablo III is probably going to be announced next Sunday [upcoming tradeshow]. If it isn't announced at either WWI or Blizzcon, don't expect it any time soon.

[Phoenix]

Lulz fail nigger 4.0

[Dis]

This link confirms it is Diablo 3

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

There is definitely lots of ice in this link.

[Jait]

I logged in just to give you a - internet for this faggotry. (And Dis gets a +)

And Diablo 3 as a MMO is news to me.

[Froofy-D]

-1 internets for getting my hopes up. Personally, I'll take D3 over WOTLK or SC2. A multi-player 2.5D RPG with the playability of D2, graphics better than WoW, and a Mod/Editor system better than WC3. Yes please?

edit: hmm the man makes some convincing arguments. perhaps it could be???

[Jarlan]

Originally Posted by Dis

This link confirms it is Diablo 3

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

There is definitely lots of ice in this link.

Why the mystery in the image then? Obviously WOTLK is already announced, it has its own website.

[RiskyChris]

Don't forget there was an ice level guys in Diablo II this is totally real.

Edit: Also the spell Blizzard too.

Edit2: Wow and the company is Blizzard too! D2 -> ice -> blizzard -> blizzard -> d3

[Modo Icecrown]

Reasons it's likely Diablo 3:
- Patch 1.12 for Diablo removing the need for the disk to be in to play.
- Blizzard buying up every diablo3 domain they could.
- The rumor about the next Diablo being set in a world where "Hell froze over."
- Imagine is linked as "ice1"for Diablo III.

That image is called ice1. If you remember Diablo II v1.11, they said hell was freezing over. It's not a movie, so it doesn't matter if it is reused. There are satanic symbols in the ice if you look closely.
- June 29th is the10th year anniversary of Diablo II.
- Diablo III is probably going to be announced next Sunday [upcoming tradeshow]. If it isn't announced at either WWI or Blizzcon, don't expect it any time soon.

I never heard a rumor about Hell freezing over in Diablo. Not trying to be a jerk, homie - but where did they say hell was freezing over in Diablo? I mean, it sounds like it's just a phrase.

[Jait]

Originally Posted by Jarlan

Why the mystery in the image then? Obviously WOTLK is already announced, it has its own website.

What makes you think there's any mystery? It's a fucking splash intro-screen FFS.

If it's a surprise they'd put a timer or something else on there, and 150,000 people would've known before you came across it. Next time you think you have "teh skewp", rethink.