HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
The flexibility of the Rogue is what suits me plus he made farming Kor Dragan super easy and most likely will be something like that process at end game for farming decent loot as well.
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Diablo IV Pre-Launch Thread of lore, news and beta withdrawl
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Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
I took some video of my level 20 Rogue farming the level 30 zone and deleting everything. I'll try and put it up later.
Beastclaw Raider
Banned
I'm thinking melee for my first class. I haven't tried playing with a controller yet but thinking of just sitting back with a Xbox series x or ps5 dual sense for my first playthrough so barbarian and rogue is itching.
Looked at quite a few rogue gameplay videos last night and the pacing seems crazy with its movement skills and passives
Looked at quite a few rogue gameplay videos last night and the pacing seems crazy with its movement skills and passives
Schmendrick
Member
I always felt extremely ressource starved on rogue. great damage output and mobility, but the forced downtimes rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe my gear was just not good enough.
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Oh snap. Might have to give my business to GameStop. It's been a few years since I've even stepped foot in one.
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Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Shadow imbue + resource gain on kill from shadow damage mitigates that problem a lot. Crowd control + legendary item that gives you resource on CC helps too. It takes a little while to get it online, but it slaps. Inner Sight also helps with unlimited energy for 4 seconds.
Minsc
Gold Member
I think my biggest annoyance with Barb in the second beta (my first time playing) I found I had to use the charge / rush attack to get any movement and as a regular attack, then the only real crowd control was the ground toss one - but you need rage so it's not always ready and even if you have rage you can generally only do it once. Eventually I added in the Jump which helps a tiny bit for crowds and also a bit more for movement, but it has a pretty slow timer. So my biggest complaint really with Barb was other than zooming around the screen to attack enemies it was hard to deal with crowds. Whirlwind I tried but it felt terrible, ran out super fast and did almost no damage. Overall it was fun to try Barb, but it didn't sell me much on the class again.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
For Barb, the Rallying Cry shout skill helps a lot with fury generation. Deathblow also grants fury. Ground Stomp is the main CC skill.
Whirlwind needs proper fury generation behind it before it becomes useful.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
MaKTaiL
Member
REVIEW COPIES ARE BEING DISTRIBUTED!
A friend of mine works in a gaming news outlet here in Brazil and he often gets early copies for review. Albeit he was not selected to receive a copy of Diablo 4 he said they are already out and people are already playing it for review. He also said that characters created during the review period will be deleted on release. Review copies this early is a very good sign IMO.
A friend of mine works in a gaming news outlet here in Brazil and he often gets early copies for review. Albeit he was not selected to receive a copy of Diablo 4 he said they are already out and people are already playing it for review. He also said that characters created during the review period will be deleted on release. Review copies this early is a very good sign IMO.
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Icymanipulator
Member
The open beta convinced me this isn’t worth $70.
Wait for a sale.
Wait for a sale.
MaKTaiL
Member
Funny. Both betas did the exact opposite for me.
Minsc
Gold Member
Yeah, the fact I was able to complete and get the rewards for both betas in the limited time they ran for is a pretty clear sign the game's going to be incredible for me. Enjoyed the second beta even more than the first.
Glad to see we get a month or so to finish the campaign before the first season begins too, so we can just jump right in and skip the story entirely then. Do they give you a leveled character too?
Glad to see we get a month or so to finish the campaign before the first season begins too, so we can just jump right in and skip the story entirely then. Do they give you a leveled character too?
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
I'm almost certain you don't. You can skip the campaign, but you start at level 1.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Sheeet, I want to review this game
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
Beastclaw Raider
Banned
Yeah, wasnt really sure because well, blizzard as of late.. but the betas gave me hope, a lot of it. This game is crack
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Thinking about it a little more, Sorc is also going to be good for PvP because as far as I know, they are the only class that has a cheat death skill. I think I prefer it if no class has a cheat death skill.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
DavidGzz
Member
Have you ever played D3? Try playing to level 14 without being resource starved using spenders. Level 14 would be 20% of max level(of 70) the same percentage we got to play to in this beta since now max level is 100 and we didn't get to mess with the paragon board either. Your last sentence is more than likely correct.
MikeM
Member
Schmendrick
Member
i was still ressource starved at lvl 25 with all unique gear, and that definitely felt odd, especially bc at the same point in the game (or rather the Betas) my necro/sorc basically used zero ressources and instakilled everything on screen.
I`ve played Diablo since D1 and it feels as if Blizz got quite a job to do with the class balance going forward. Maybe the balance evens out later in the game but the power and ressource handling of the classes shouldn`t be that uneven during leveling.
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DavidGzz
Member
It's still lopsided in D3. A Necro will level soooo much faster than any other class and it's been 11 years. I don't think their priority is early game. End game will be what hooks us to keep buying their cosmetics. That's where the balance will matter. The early game just needs to get us from point A to B and there is tier 1 for anyone struggling.
Hooking people early game is also important, don't get me wrong. But I don't think spending too much time on that is as important as the end game power and loop. They should still try, but it's like an 80/20 importance 20 being for leveling which is where we spend about 1% of our play time if you're hardcore.
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Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Here's the video I was talking about. Even at level 20, with the right gear and skills, resources don't have to be scarce.
CasperDarling
Member
Sorry if this has been asked. But where can I upgrade my standard edition to the ultimate edition so I can play early? I don't see the option on Xbox. Only shows the full price
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
I did it from Blizzard's website but that might have been PC only.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Beats me. Tweet it at Rod on Twitter.
Beastclaw Raider
Banned
Probably related to your blizzard account, they said it had cross progression but yeah, try to get some type of confirmation like renta said
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Less than two weeks for preorder access.
Luipadre
Member
My battle.net says release is 6.6 but i have the deluxe edition. Probably just a bug and it will change to the 2nd. I cant fucking wait
Antwix
Member
You will retain everything related to the ultimate edition on every platform regardless of edition since it's tied to your battlenet account. The only thing you cannot do is play during early access with the standard edition if you double dipped.
Hot5pur
Member
Niice. Any idea on the embargo?
Minsc
Gold Member
I wonder if you buy 3 ultimate editions if you get 3x the season pass skip points? Lol
Luipadre
Member
Probably on the 2nd? Not that i care. I played a lot in the beta, game slaps
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
Ended up upgrading.
Game is clearly in a very polished state already. Gives the chance to no life the game over the first weekend for that deepest lore run.
Game is clearly in a very polished state already. Gives the chance to no life the game over the first weekend for that deepest lore run.
zomboden
Banned
https://www.wowhead.com/diablo-4/news/first-look-at-exclusive-diablo-4-kfc-weapon-cosmetics-333091
KFC weapon skins are available to see now. 1 skin per chicken sandwich. 5 purchases to collect all 5 of them. Promotion starts on the 29th?
KFC weapon skins are available to see now. 1 skin per chicken sandwich. 5 purchases to collect all 5 of them. Promotion starts on the 29th?
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Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Guess I'm gettin' diabeetus
zomboden
Banned
Seems to be. Rhykker said they were putting QR codes on the packaging themselves you have to scan so people won't be able to order outside US with a VPN and then not pick up the order.
Promotion isn't officially announced but people are saying US only in the rumors im seeing. We will just have to wait for the official information.
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HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
I am in my mid 50s aint no way I am eating KFC (or any other fast food for that matter) especially for a skin, I enjoy my heart beating too much
flipsake
Neo Member
I really hope they don't put all of the good cosmetic gear behind paywalls or add 'buy it now' options etc. but how can you give them any credit these days when the overriding feeling is that they will do something sooner or later to push you down the path of further monitization.
cormack12
Gold Member
That's just shit tho. Why do they do this
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Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
My plan is to do a group outing with non-gamer friends to KFC and then scan everyone else's order.
cormack12
Gold Member
And also get me codes as well, I will pay for a round of burgers