So, Diablo 3

[Ben]

a question...because i trust you guys

I want to play this. But i do not want to play any multiplayer. Is this game still rad with just single player content? Will I dig it? Is it worth the money to buy?

[Razor]

Bro friend I could give you a guest pass, or you could wait 3 weeks and download the free version. Same thing, actually, just a 3 week wait.
You get to play all the characters up to level 13, up to the first third of the first act. Then YOU could decide.

You'll only get one of the hirelings though. But yeah, you could do that if you so desire.

[Prpl_Mage]

a question...because i trust you guys

I want to play this. But i do not want to play any multiplayer. Is this game still rad with just single player content? Will I dig it? Is it worth the money to buy?

I find that the game is highely playable alone. Only problem is that Ai characters are rather bad at this "got your back" thing. Which usually means that I end up kiting the harder enemies on Nightmare with my wizard. Hirelings are more or less bad, at least the damage is bad. Took forever for my templar to deal the finishing blow on the skeleton king.

Second problem is that you need to be connected to that one internet thing to play. The people on your friend list can join your game whenever - unless you block that option. And barely anyone plays public games it seem.
I'm musing that hell will be really difficult, and probably hard to do on your own. Just like it was impossible in Diablo 2. But that's no change.
Monks and Barbarians survive a bit longer than the other classes but need to enter more close combat which is an extreme danger in harder difficulties.

I'm mostly playing alone, got a char I play with some friends and my brother that's used for just that thing. But I'm liking it. Dying is kinda part of my everyday life though. Elites and champions are lethally hard on nightmare.

[SaiKar]

Yeah I haven't played once on multi, since I got the game like a week later and everyone else without jobs already shot up to level 40+ on nightmare while I was slogging through act 2 on normal.

If you liked Diablo 2, you'll almost certainly like 3's solo gameplay. The core hasn't changed a bit.

[Razor]

I'm up to that last boss on Nightmare with my Witch Doctor. This is possibly impossible.

[SaiKar]

Have you tried not sucking? I've heard that helps.

[Prpl_Mage]

Have you tried not sucking? I've heard that helps.

This actually helps a lot.

Just beat Nightmare last night with my lvl 51 wizard. Wave of force, arcane armor, diamond armor, arcane orb, archon and magic missile with extra arcane power gain managed to get that one boss pretty good. Won't say there wasn't a lot of tight spots but it worked out.
Moving helps a whole lot. Damage reduction stuff is a winner when you get stuck in those damage fields and of course some sort of crowd control like slow, stun or freezing.

[Razor]

Well after I complained here I had a good 6 hour break or something and came back to it and beat it the first go.
Now I just need to raise the funds to go to the secret place on nightmare.

[Prpl_Mage]

Well after I complained here I had a good 6 hour break or something and came back to it and beat it the first go.
Now I just need to raise the funds to go to the secret place on nightmare.

Got the recipe for herding staff nightmare, actually bought it from a merchant in act4 but still.

Found my 4th legendary item. Ravenwing, a wonderful bow with nightmare quality. Description says it's Blood ravens bow, pretty neat. So far I've found 2 bows, a crossbow and an armour that are legendary.

[SaiKar]

Oh, so there are gold items in the game? I must admit that the lack of uniques and set items has been making me sad.

Act 1 boss down. He was a lot easier than on normal - having Hydra helped a ton. I started dying a lot to random blue grouped chumps though, so I've seen the value of good VIT boosting gems and gear and doubled my health up to 4k. Still pretty fragile Wizard, but at least I don't die in quite as pathetic of ways.

[Prpl_Mage]

I started dying a lot to random blue grouped chumps though, so I've seen the value of good VIT boosting gems and gear and doubled my health up to 4k. Still pretty fragile Wizard, but at least I don't die in quite as pathetic of ways.

I know the feeling, managed to up my hp to 16k by the end of nightmare after finding a really good spear and some other vitality items.

Oh, so there are gold items in the game? I must admit that the lack of uniques and set items has been making me sad.

Yes, although they are orange. And there seem to be sets, since there's an achievement for completing class sets. But no idea where to get those.

Ran into the most annoying attribute of elite today.  Invulnerable. It basically meant that only the elite monster could get damaged and the 4 minions were immune to all damage. I could freeze them, stun them and push them back. But they couldn't get killed. They all died when the leader died luckily though. Found out that kiting people for too long gives you a debuff that acts like poison. Aka you lose a percentage of your health over time till you die from it. Good times.

[Razor]

Jesus ****, are you playing Hell? Because that sounds awful.

So far my least favourite monster types have been Vampiric with anything, Meteor with anything, to a lesser extent Shielding. But especially Vampiric, I hate those guys. I hate them with plagued, I hate them with meteoric, they're all bullshit. Have not yet encountered Invulnerable, but I saw a screenshot of someone near the end of Act 1 on Inferno, fighting a yellow monster.
It had over 1 billion health. 1 billion as in 1 thousand million (as opposed to I think the imperial billion, which is a million million).
I don't even want to know how much health the very last boss has on Inferno, but it sounds like you will not succeed solo.

[Archem]

(as opposed to I think the imperial billion, which is a million million).

What the **** is this?

[Razor]

What the **** is this?

Imperial was the opposite of the right term
I was thinking of this, the long and short scales.

Basically, we (Australia, England, GoodAmerica) all use the short scale (thousand million = billion) and a whole bunch of smelly countries that aren't us use long scale. Blimey.

[Cerebus]

Yeah, here, your "billion" is called "milliard". Then, you get "billion" and "billiard", then "tri-" etc.

So, your "quadrillion" is 1,000,000,000,000,000 while ours is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
And by here, I mean Québec. I'm not sure what English Canadians (A.K.A. rest of Canada) use.