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[Sirian]

Still playing my wizard, i'm in act4 now, and let me just say this, the archon form is awesome. If i enter an area and there's a huge pack of mobs, i can just use that and melt everything in seconds. And since every kill adds 1 second to the duration, if you go fast enough you can basically always be on archon mode. If something gets close to me, i can just use my aoe blast, or the aoe melee that deals tons of damage. With that, it only takes some lifesteal % or +hp on hit/kill to always be at full hp and melting through elites/bosses/crowds - everything. I'm not using it all the time because it kinda forces me to rush through levels and i want to take my time on the first playthrough, but once i'm done i'll definitely do some farming with it. I feel like it wouldnt be as good in multiplayer though, since i'd get less kills to sustain it.

Oh also, i noticed that you can make things a lot easier by simply buying stuff in the auction house. You can get really good gems for a very low cost, and all sorts of nice items to dramatically boost your stats. I died a few times now, but more often than not it was because of lag spikes (from having other users on my connection).

[Astral]

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#fkRXUP!UbV!YbaYZb


My current Witch Doctor build. I plan on switching to Zombie Bears for my left click once I hit 54 (because everything's better with bears). It eats through mana, but with my defensive cooldowns and Vision Quest on almost constantly, mana regen is less of a thing.

[AustralianWinter]

GAMEPLAY:
The gameplay is, unsurprisingly, rock solid. Diablo III is a masterfully designed hack'n'slash, that does away with a lot of the mechanics of D2 that I hated. And I have played D2 A LOT.

STORY:

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The story is mindblowingly bad. My god, is it terrible. I mean, goddamnit, it is horrible. I am utterly confused as to how anyone at Blizzard can have considered to even use it. It fits nowhere into the story line, everyone acts completely out of character (except for Cain, I gather) and the villians are weakly characterised and superficial. Welkl, except fro Maghda, and everyone has every reason ever to hate her (which was good, I like motivation).

CONCLUSION:

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Blizzard continues their trend of making thorough games with bad plots.

 I, of course, will be playing Nightmare. And probably invest countless hours in the game.

[Sordid]

Oh please, having an excuse plot is standard in the Diablo franchise. In fact it's standard in every computer game ever except Planescape: Torment, Knights of the Old Republic 2, and Shadow of the Colossus.

[Neonivek]

The story is mindblowingly bad

I know it is beautiful! I especially love how they make the previous diablo games superfluous rather quickly.

[Crustypeanut]

Hell Difficulty.  It hurts.  Just in the first act, while hunting wretched mothers, I came across a cellar.. with a zombie champion.. who had Molten, Mortar, and Electrified effects.  Wiped the 4-man group more times than Diablo in Nightmare.  Ow. 

[Neonivek]

Hell Difficulty.  It hurts.  Just in the first act, while hunting wretched mothers, I came across a cellar.. with a zombie champion.. who had Molten, Mortar, and Electrified effects.  Wiped the 4-man group more times than Diablo in Nightmare.  Ow.

You were quite lucky. Electrified and Molten arn't so bad and Mortar is only bad against the ranged units.

Now if this was Frozen + Arcane Enchanted + Fast

[Crustypeanut]

Hell Difficulty.  It hurts.  Just in the first act, while hunting wretched mothers, I came across a cellar.. with a zombie champion.. who had Molten, Mortar, and Electrified effects.  Wiped the 4-man group more times than Diablo in Nightmare.  Ow.

You were quite lucky. Electrified and Molten arn't so bad and Mortar is only bad against the ranged units.

Now if this was Frozen + Arcane Enchanted + Fast

I'd have been more worried about one with a Molten Electrified Vampiric Zombie in the cellar.  Bastard would probably never die.

[Sirian]

Yay i finished it ! In normal mode that is. BUT i didnt die against Diablo without even adjusting my skills for the fight.

My build :

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Ray of frost + Snow bast (left click)
Shock pulse + Explosive bolts (right click)
Frost nova + Shatter (1)
Diamond skin + Crystal shell (2)
Magic weapon + Electrify (3)
Archon (4)

Passives : Glass cannon, Astral presence, Cold blooded

Stats : 129 str, 147 dex, 601 int, 293 vit, 609 armor, 944 dps (without buffs) @ lvl 33

Basically I use ray of frost as my primary single target dps, and shock pulse to deal with crowds. If they're a bit tough i throw in a frost nova to give me a bit more time with the shock pulses, and if i'm taking damage i use diamond skin. It really worked well for almost all types of enemies.

The advantage of using ray of frost for single targets is that it has relatively high damage (215% up to 280% weapon damage after 1.5 sec, plus the cold blooded 20% bonus), and since it includes a slow, it's really well tailored to kite.

Shock pulse on the other hand lets me handle all the waves of melee mobs very easily, it's really fun to throw it at them and watch the explosions create a chain reaction. Also it's free which is really good. Before, i was using Arcane orb which is equally good but I had to kite all the time to let my energy replenish.

If you're playing a wizard too i'd be very interested to know what you're using, i'm sure my build could benefit from new ideas.

[Neonivek]

I switch a lot but here is what I got. Now forgive me for not remembering the names

Electrify: Piercing orb (Left)
Disintigration: Chaos nexus (Right)
Teleport: Clone
-Blank- (This always switches out)
Iceshield: Frost nova
Magic weapon: Arcane

Talents: Glass Cannon, Prodigy, and the one that makes the shields recover health (for conveniance)

[Darkmere]

WD and acid cloud:

It's always good. I have a hard time removing it. However, at 52 soul harvest only gives me about a 40% damage boost, so it's less of a necessity. When you get it, try the locusts with mana return on spread, you can cast it on a group, spam acid cloud, finish with full mana. Also, for MOAR, try the gruesome feast passive. It stacks with soul harvest.

I was pleasantly surprised how well grasp of the dead and gargantuan was able to group up swarms, at least for a while. Eventually everything just overwhelms you, and you'd better be able to take a couple hits. Nothing like vortex, knockback, molten on teleporting monsters.

[Patchouli]

Hell Difficulty.  It hurts.  Just in the first act, while hunting wretched mothers, I came across a cellar.. with a zombie champion.. who had Molten, Mortar, and Electrified effects.  Wiped the 4-man group more times than Diablo in Nightmare.  Ow.

You were quite lucky. Electrified and Molten arn't so bad and Mortar is only bad against the ranged units.

Now if this was Frozen + Arcane Enchanted + Fast

In ours, we had Mortar, Invulnerable Minions, and something else. We couldn't do it at all.

[penguinofhonor]

I play for an hour or so: "Barbarians are super fun! I love being the tanky melee guy."

Then I come into this thread and see that apparently I made the wrong decision.

[KaelGotDwarves]

Play the class you love and think is fun, but as-of-yet there's no fantastic viable solo build for inferno as a barbarian.

EDIT: Nevermind, after searching the internets I found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAw9mHfLjv0

Earlier today someone posted an Inferno Butcher run by a Witchdoctor that took 25 seconds. Spamming zombie bears. http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/tw15u/wd_inferno_butcher_kill_in_25_sec_wow/

So apparently monk, wizard, and witchdoctor all have their OPness figured out.

[Darkmere]

Speaking of impossible groups... Leaper pack: invulnerable, knockback, teleport.
Wretched mother pack: Shield, molten, something I couldn't see past the vomited-zombie-apocalypse.

I'd also like to point out how awesome the auction house is, because I hated public trade games (I never had anything anyone wanted, no one had anything I could afford). Now, if I don't feel like gambling, I can toss those above-average pieces up for some change and save up for the massive upgrades later. Or gear my alts efficiently without having to save every piece I find that seems like it could be tempting someday. It's awesome.

I actually kinda hope the RMAH will stabilize the gold AH as well. Time will tell, of course, but actually having gold be viabl currency would be a nice change for the franchise.