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[Simmura McCrea]

Open Beta's main problem has been download speed, yeah. You can only hammer servers so much before it just causes everyone's speed to drop.

Half a gig in the last 3 hours. Dear god.

[Drakale]

The passive skill tree is a thing of beauty, you can do some crazy builds with it as it does not restrict you in any way.. I like how it's hard to "redo" the tree, make build decision matter and give a good reason to roll new characters(or use the money shop for those that want to).

Diablo III suck in that way, every character of a class is essentially the same, since there is no cost to respec. It's especially aggravating since Diablo II had it right in the first place.

[aristabulus]

Open Beta's main problem has been download speed, yeah. You can only hammer servers so much before it just causes everyone's speed to drop.

Half a gig in the last 3 hours. Dear god.

This is exactly why I did my main client DL a week ago.  The only slowdown I've suffered was the little 8 MB hotfix they did for the act 3 boss...  took 10-15 minutes, whereas the client and the main OB patch roared along near the peak of what my connection can handle.

[Aklyon]

There is summon skeletons. They don't last very long and usually die in one hit until the gem levels some, but theres also a thing (in the cosmetics shop) to turn it into summon statues.

It doesn't work any differently, but it looks pretty awesome in comparison I'd say, now that I have the gem again to use.

[Neonivek]

So basically as of right now I might as well uninstall this game since I am already behind everyone I could possibly play this with

That is... rather annoying.

[nenjin]

So basically as of right now I might as well uninstall this game since I am already behind everyone I could possibly play this with

That is... rather annoying.

You're always such a bundle of sunshine.

[Neonivek]

So basically as of right now I might as well uninstall this game since I am already behind everyone I could possibly play this with

That is... rather annoying.

You're always such a bundle of sunshine.

I am just a little mad that collapsing because of lack of sleep yesterday has pretty much punished me.

[hemmingjay]

People roll alts. I just did as a matter of fact. Also, random groups are just fine in this game.

[Neonivek]

People roll alts. I just did as a matter of fact. Also, random groups are just fine in this game.

They did that already. They now have all their alts at a level too high for me to catch up.

[BuriBuriZaemon]

Just made a witch that I plan to develop as cold-spellcaster. Name is Pruella.

[Aklyon]

People roll alts. I just did as a matter of fact. Also, random groups are just fine in this game.

They did that already. They now have all their alts at a level too high for me to catch up.

All of them?
Because you can make a lot of alts with 24 character slots.

[BuriBuriZaemon]

Okay I have been looking for PVE farmer as my first character. So far the consensus is Necro Witch, because she is passive dependent so you can gear her up for magic finding. However, there is a catch... summons are very weak and she does not shine until level 40ish, at which she will have enough investment in summon passive skills.

Another popular build is Chaos Inoculation (CI) Cold Witch. CI gives your witch immunity to chaos damage and (not sure about this) 50% increase to Energy Shield, but set your max HP to 1. So yes you're a one hit wonder.

Thoughts?

[aristabulus]

People roll alts. I just did as a matter of fact. Also, random groups are just fine in this game.

They did that already. They now have all their alts at a level too high for me to catch up.

I haven't put more than a few hours in, because the game's not leaving anytime soon.  My ranger is maybe L8, the rest are barely-made-it-to-town.  By the time I turned in last night, there were announcements of first-at-L50 or so.  I guess some folks called out sick, lol.  But not all of us.

[Aklyon]

The problem with Necro Witch right now is twofold:
1. its always been one of the longest slow-burners. It does great once you've gotten things far enough along, but until then its kinda slow.
2. zombie health got nerfed too much at the moment, so they're more fragile then they used to be by far.

As to CI, pay attention to the patch notes (or the 0.10.0 passives tree): CI no longer gives ES bonus. They didn't wipe the class forums along with the characters, so anything not updated since yesterday (or today) is either out of date, or at best will have a broken passive tree link.

Also, CI is more gear-dependant, since you have two sources of ES: Passives (including Intelligence), and gear. Th passives are percentage bonuses the majorty of th time, so if you got no ES, you're up the creek if you pick CI.

[BuriBuriZaemon]

The problem with Necro Witch right now is twofold:
1. its always been one of the longest slow-burners. It does great once you've gotten things far enough along, but until then its kinda slow.
2. zombie health got nerfed too much at the moment, so they're more fragile then they used to be by far.

As to CI, pay attention to the patch notes (or the 0.10.0 passives tree): CI no longer gives ES bonus.

Thanks for the info. Yes I got confused about the ES bonus status. I don't mind Necro Witch's slow start, I am just worried the gameplay will bore me to death because that's what I felt about Necromancer in Diablo 2. I will go CI Cold Witch for now.