So, Diablo 3

[Razor]

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

Well that explains the oft-asked question on why they're called

billion balls

[Cerebus]

Yeah, I thought of that, too. Reason I didn't mention is that it's actually "billard" and not "billiard". So there's at least one letter difference. Unlike "pool" and "pool".

[Razor]

Why must you ruin my hilarious jokes.
You cut me so, so deep.

[Cerebus]

I don't regret anything!

[Prpl_Mage]

Meteor with anything, -... - meteoric, they're all bullshit. H

There is an attribute called meteoric? Only meat Molten that asplodes on death and those disintegrate that drosp flaming fields at you.
And yes, invulnerable was hell, act 1. In that one hungering woods place. Fast, extra health and Invulnerable. Could've been a lot worse though. Had to get meteor and some other spells like that since the minions blocked most spells I cast. And well, they did no damage.

The health of monsters a getting pretty high. Luckily I found myself a spear with 220dps so my damage increased a whole lot. Also activated monster health bars which makes my life easier. The skeleton king had a whole lot of life.

Also. We call 1000000 (six 0s) a Miljon or million. While 1000000000 (nine 0s) is a miljard or what I suppose you call a billion. Then we have the 1000000000000 (twelve 0s) which is what we call a biljon and what most others would call a trillion.

[Cerebus]

We're on the same team, then.

[Archem]

Am I late to the party?

[Razor]

There is an attribute called meteoric?

Ah, no, you're right to question. I mean Mortar. Mortar is a bitch. Not as bad as Vampiric though.

[SaiKar]

Mortar is a bitch.

I used to think mortar was a bitch too until I realized that it has like a set firing arc. Close in under them and they fly harmlessly over you. Up close and personal isn't exactly the best place to be for a wizard, but it beats a steady stream of deadly fire that can outgun me at range.

[Prpl_Mage]

Just beat nightmare with my demon hunter. Might just be that I stash some gear with my wizard that the demon hunter can use when the level is right. But it felt like I did a whole lotta more damage as demon hunter than wiz. But I died a lot easier as demon hunter when I actually got hit. Diamond armor is a great way to avoid taking damage while vault is good for avoiding it. But that kinda expects you to be able to move as well...

And yes, mortar is a bit annoying. Stay close and the problem is solved. But stay close and the monster will melee you to death unless you're a barb or monk.

Some more annoying combinations:

Vampiric/molten, plagued/jailer, mortar/knockback, extra life/shielded, fast/molten, molten/vortex, teleport/firechain/molten.

[Ben]

Razor donated a gift key to Ben. Ben is Playing through. Ben will give his verdict once he beats the Skeleton King with two classes.

[Ben]

Ive skeleton king'd with every class. My first play through, I was like "this is so pretty i want to buy this"...
the hype made this seem like it was going to be way better than it was. Im going to buy it, but Im going to buy it in a couple of years, from a discount bin, because as much as I appreciate razors gift, it really is not that great. I found D2 to be just as good if not better. The online made this game way too easy...granted, Im not playing any harder modes...but really...pfft

[Cerebus]

And it didn't require you to be Online, even when playing alone.

[Archem]

Im going to buy it, but Im going to buy it in a couple of years, from a discount bin

If you can find it in a bargain bin, you tell me about it. I've seen how Blizzard sells their games, and know all about their $40 Starcraft Battle Chest. The game's over a decade old, and they still want me to pay ten bucks beneath the new price because it includes the expansion. Same thing goes for the Diablo Battle Chest, and they removed Diablo 1. If anything, that's increased in price.

I found D2 to be just as good if not better.

Seems to be the general consensus among the Diablo community. I personally still prefer the first game.

The online made this game way too easy...granted, Im not playing any harder modes...but really...pfft

I felt the same, but all I've heard is that Act II is when it takes off the kid gloves.

[Prpl_Mage]

granted, Im not playing any harder modes...but really...pfft

You killed the first boss in act 1. In normal. I'd be surprised if you even died during that time. There's more or less nothing to endanger you unless you let them chew you while answering the phone.
Difficulty is put a bit higher towards the end of act 1 and then act 2 introduces a lot of enemies that puts your hp in shiny-red-mode. Nightmare makes all the elite mobs so much more challenging and the damage done by enemies sometimes gets silly. In hell you wonder why most enemies kill you in 2 hits and why in gods name the creators created attributes such as mortar on savage beasts. Or horde, or slow missile or invulnerable.


Some people prefer Diablo 2 and expected diablo 3 to be diablo 2 with shiny graphics. But it's a new game just like diablo 1 compared to diablo 2. It's only natural that diablo 3 is not equal to diablo 2.

Also to all you online-haters. Can't be long before someone manages to find a way to go around that and create some sort of silly  "diablo 3 offline singleplayer only: independent made version". The characters are stored on the battle net servers. Losing all my character progress because of a harddrive failure would suck like with diablo 2.