Diablo III - New patch 2.1 Coming Aug 26

[Caged Great]

So, I figured I'd get the Pink'd achievement out of the way as well as the speed run achievements together.

It took 2hr 24 min start to finish on normal (oddly enough act I and act two were the longest....)

[nickerjones]

How do u speed run?

[photon]

I think you just do it as fast as you possibly can.. skip all side stuff, go exactly the right path, etc.

[Caged Great]

Originally Posted by nickerjones

How do u speed run?

Basically, have armor that attacks the enemies significantly when struck, and fast walk run boots as well. Then basically try to ignore all the enemies and go right through the act as fast as possible.

[ShaolinFlame]

In case nobody has figured this out yet I have a huge tip for you guys:

If you hold down control while mousing over a skill it will give you detailed stats explaining what damage the skill is doing (calculated as a % of your base damage usually), and also various other stats regarding the skills effects.

Thanks loading screen tips!!!

[KTrain]

If you want to make the game much harder, press "z".

[DatSOOKin]

Originally Posted by ShaolinFlame

In case nobody has figured this out yet I have a huge tip for you guys:

If you hold down control while mousing over a skill it will give you detailed stats explaining what damage the skill is doing (calculated as a % of your base damage usually), and also various other stats regarding the skills effects.

Thanks loading screen tips!!!

You can also go into options -> gameplay -> and turn on Advanced tool tips and it will have that turned on all the time. Its very useful.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by KTrain

If you want to make the game much harder, press "z".

I once hit that by accident, it killed me quickly =/

[Caged Great]

What happens with z?

[psicodude]

Originally Posted by Caged Great

What happens with z?

It zooms in, so you can't see as much of your surroundings.

[ma-skis.com]

Originally Posted by psicodude

It zooms in, so you can't see as much of your surroundings.

but your character looks much cooler up close

[Caged Great]

It's down for maintenance till 10 AM

[Thor]

Well just hit Hell on my witch doctor, solod the whole thing so far, just really needed about 15k health and a bit of armor to help take down the last act, nothing terribly hard so far, but then again witch doctors are a party on to themselves.

Balancing health and dmg is sure key though, but hell is already significantly harder and I imagine I need to get up to 20,000 health sooner rather than later.

Besides buying your gems, buy gear too, there is soooo much cheap rares that will help you alot in nightmare if you need it, especially late acts.. Sell all your yellows, just do a bit of research on similar items and make easy gold, I found underselling gets it sold fast and is way better than selling it to a vendor or disenchanting it.

[Caged Great]

getting 20K health is pretty much required in Act II and III for Hell. You die way to quickly otherwise. Thankfully it's not a big deal to get that.

Also, try to find bargains that increase damage, health and protection if possible. Before I faced Belilal, I just leveled so I went to the store with 25K gold on hand, and managed to replace 5 different things that increased my health by 4K, and damage by 3K

[Sluggo]

The long down time might be because of this: http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/diablo-iii/1224789p1.html

[Thor]

One of the main threads about a guy claiming he was hacked while having an authenticator on his account was just pwned by a Blizz employee:

Hi Turtle. According to your account records an authenticator was not attached to the account until after the compromise. If you'd like to discuss further, or have any questions, please contact our customer service department: https://us.battle.net/support/en/ticket/submit

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/top...008932?page=26

My guess is those with authenticators are fine and that these rumors of SQL injections and the like is just panic by people who are hoping their non authenticator accounts are still safe.

[LChoy]

Originally Posted by Thor

Well just hit Hell on my witch doctor, solod the whole thing so far, just really needed about 15k health and a bit of armor to help take down the last act, nothing terribly hard so far, but then again witch doctors are a party on to themselves.

Balancing health and dmg is sure key though, but hell is already significantly harder and I imagine I need to get up to 20,000 health sooner rather than later.

Besides buying your gems, buy gear too, there is soooo much cheap rares that will help you alot in nightmare if you need it, especially late acts.. Sell all your yellows, just do a bit of research on similar items and make easy gold, I found underselling gets it sold fast and is way better than selling it to a vendor or disenchanting it.

What did you use for skills? I'm playing a WD as well but I haven't found a comfortable set of skills to stick with so far. I'm back and forth between spiders/blow darts and my dogs seem to die too quickly

[Mazrim]

Originally Posted by Thor

My guess is those with authenticators are fine and that these rumors of SQL injections and the like is just panic by people who are hoping their non authenticator accounts are still safe.

Yeah, I would imagine the authenticators are helping with this. I have yet to hear of any of my friends get hacked with one, but quite a few without had their WoW accounts hacked.

[nickerjones]

I just found my first legendary last night. It was when I was helping them do the catapults in act 3 ( normal) and one of the monsters on the lift ( that was broken) dropped it. It was crappy but hey ... its a legendary.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by nickerjones

I just found my first legendary last night. It was when I was helping them do the catapults in act 3 ( normal) and one of the monsters on the lift ( that was broken) dropped it. It was crappy but hey ... its a legendary.

Almost every legendary I have found (or the one I can make) seems fairly crappy compared to the rare or magic item options out there. A couple I have found in the Ah are good enough that I would like them, but they still seem lacking.

Now that might just be because none of the stats I get are ones I care about, but even then it seems like they are pretty under powered for how rare they are.