I finally made it out of act 1 last night. Hoping my merc becomes useful at some point. For now, he just wonders around and talks **** to me. I think I saw him twice during the act 1 boss fight. *******.

I think act 1 took me about 7 hours and I explored everywhere. At 9.5 hours now somewhere in act 2, still trying not to miss anyplace on a map.

added my gamer tag to the thread, man this games so much fun

The advice I gave him was, "Explore as much as you can now because you won't want to once you hit Nightmare."



FUUUUUUU this game is some awesomely difficult.

Diablo, Hot Pockets, a Micro Brew and The Price is Right... Feels like freshman year in college circa 2000

I played through act 1 completely, one game instance, explored everywhere, did all events (that were present) and listend to all the dialog and it took me ~7

I like how you can tell how stable the servers are by the number of people viewing the subforum.

Server is up and working = ~25-30

Server is down = 90+

NACHUNJA#1411

level 30 barb

Need help beating a mob, but I'll put in spoilers:

hey karak , i think you should make the battle tags thread into a google excel doc be easier to update

why do i love diablo and HATE wow

I dunno.

I played WoW for a while and I will admit I was looking for any reason to not want to play Diablo. Read every post of the thread leading up to its release, tons of reviews, etc. and wanted to find a reason I wouldn't like this game.

So far I only played last night up to lvl 12 as a wizard and I while I am still rusty, and the mouse based movement is still awkward, I know this game is going to win me over.

Why would you actively look for reasons to NOT do something for fun?

D3 is way better than WoW for a bunch of reasons IMO.

1. It's not subscription based, you don't feel like you "lose" money by not playing it.
2. It's a fast paced game, not slow paced.
3. You can solo if you want or party if you want, it's up to you.
4. Item hunting is much more fun than killing the same boss every week and just hoping he drops what you want. D3 has a much more slot machine approach, you never know when you are about to hit the jackpot and you can play as many pulls as you want.

Agreed for most of those reasons and many more. Exception is #1. You can not play WoW at all and still not "lose".

I meant if you are paying for something monthly and don't use it you feel like a sap, you may feel compelled to play when you might otherwise not want to, to get your money's worth, etc.

I never notice my mercs really doing anything (I use Templar when I single player) but they never die either. Are you giving them stat items? Like for a templar, you definitely want vit and I suppose str if you want him to kill stuff too.

I know what you meant, and I meant my answer in sort of two ways. Sort of a troll response and actual response.

Seriously though, you shouldn't feel compelled to do something just cause you paid in advance. That's a good way to possibly make yourself less happy.

Mercs damage is absolutely terrible and they don't have the skills you do either obviously, so they don't really exist for killing.

The templar seems to be a good tank for you, distracting some of the monsters off of you. The other two just help you out also but either buffing your own damage or disabling enemies.

The +3% crit skill the scoundrel gives is better than anything else he does, that translates into a lot more damage for me.

Basically it's still up to you to help you kill everything, they are more just auxilliary support.

But if you do wanna boost their damage somewhat remember mercs have a primary attribute, just like players. Templar = str, Scoundrel = dex, Enchantress = int

You guys were higher level than me and like 3 stages ahead of me.

Also, I'm in a battle and Jackitos joins and I insta-die. It was pretty sad.

I'm gonna run a new character along side my wizard pretty soon if you want to play, but it's gonna be hc.

Well, just finished act 1

(plot/game spoilers)

i have my templar merc fitted out with mostly rares (good ones too), and i have him set to mostly use abilities to tank and take aggro off me. he does die sometimes, but he is a good distraction for mobs while i aoe. between mirror image and my merc, i can sit safely back lots of times and just rain down hell on the hellthings.

Can you have more than just the templar following you?