If you ultimately want to PvP, why would you care if monsters are hard? They're just the roadblock between you and the level cap/gear.

Solution: Level 1 toon fast, level 1 toon slow

In a game like diablo, you cant only pvp. Unless you dont care about getting stronger which is pretty rare and odd in a game like this.

Hard games last longer too. So harder monsters = less boring l00t grind, more fun for a longer time and since I'll be better than others, my monster killing will reflect that (not as much if theyre easy) and ill get even stronger, faster.

Including some areas/monsters that take a lot of skill to beat even with high level character (ie. maybe like 1/3 of max. lvl players are capable of beating) would probably make the endgame more interesting for people interested in PvM.

If you can just steamroll over any non-player enemies with your level 90 character and you're not interested in PvP, there isn't really anything except MF to do unless there is areas/monsters like that. Never really played WoW, but I'm under the impression that it has some pretty difficult quests that very few people have succesfully done? I hope we see an option for something like that in D3 too.

WoW has bosses that take weeks to master and you have to do one run without anyone failing at doing their thing correctly to kill it.

and being near perfectly geared isnt an option.

thank god for diablo's random looting system... or else the game wouldnt actually be that interesting

I really, really hope they don't make content that require multiple players to beat. There's a reason I'm not playing WoW. Sitting around for hours waiting for other people to get ready makes me want to kill myself.

they wont

Prop bet that beta gets released in next 7 days?

Word on the street is Tuesday/Wednesday.

A group is already cracking the beta client, they've already got it where you can get into an empty world and run around, but they haven't released it yet.

http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/s...d.php?t=810208

Hopefully they can get it so you can run around and try skills on random enemies in a dummy world or something.

I'm very much looking forward to coding a bot for this game.

I thought friends and family beta was already underway?

he meant close beta

just watched a barb with a 2hander for the first time

jesus christ mobs fly all over the place its amazing

I wanna play :'(

I can't wait any longer. I've already busted my load several times watching trailers and watching content. I need the real thing though.

Anyone else want a solid horror 3rd person rpg like diablo 1 was? I want D3 to scare the pants off me and be worried for my character. The butcher in diablo 1 used to give me nightmares.

That's because you were 8.

Here's what a random event looks like.

eh.. random?

that event isnt random at all -.-

Has anyone from Blizzard mentioned approximately how long they expect it to take for a new character to reach Inferno? Since nobody is going to be leveling more than one character of each class (well, except hardcore players), I'm hoping that it either takes a good long time to reach Inferno, or there's a ton of stuff to do once you get there to stay busy.

apparently you can sell your characters so might be reasons to get more...

I'd be shocked if they allowed you to sell characters outright.

Its almost moot anyway, unless it does take a long time to get to Inferno. Everything about a character but his level can be bought on the RMAH / respec'd.

wrong thread... WHOOPS

More brilliant to let people sell their accounts outright, that way people would have to buy more copies of the game and inflate the numbers for it. How else does WoW "have" 11 million players? (I know I've purchased a new copy of the game at least 20 times, and I know botters who have 15-20 copies going at any given point, plus all the spammers who buy a new vanilla key to spam trade every day or so)