I'm kind of undecided on how I feel about the AH. It seems like you can only go so far without buying anything from it. I suppose people did a lot of trading and whatnot in the past anyways, but a big part of Diablo to me was always the thrill of constantly seeking the next upgrade, which is greatly diminished if you can just buy all your gear.
That said, I do think you should definately at least look at buying a good weapon or 2. They make a huge difference. For instance, I just spent 30k buying a new axe and shield, replacing my 15 level ...
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So far even in Hell the proper bosses are actually pretty easy. There are some attacks that 1-shot me in Nightmare before I started going for a more survival oriented approach, but they are fairly easy to dodge for the most part. The only things that I found challenging in Nightmare were the Champions/Elites with bad combinations of abilities. In Hell it's way worse, and I've found it's not too uncommon to bump into 2 sets of them near the same place. I died to the very first Elite mob I found in Hell. I also found 2 that just weren't worth the...
I'm pretty sure Monks just tend towards low DPS in the stat sheet. After a couple good upgrades I'm sitting at 400 (level 34).
I looked at Nearika (also lvl 34), and he has about 250 with a shield.
I'm starting to wonder if somethings up, cause I've beaten act IV now and I only have 285 dps x_x
I dunno if that's normal for a monk or what.
There is a click to move option. I remember I turned it on for a while when I played through D2 the first time.
To make a very long story very short:
The game is great.
The online requirement is not.
There hasn't really been much to say over the past 4 weeks. We've been doing tech design, which unforunately didn't end up being quite what I expected. I was imagining discussing the design behind making a good game, but that isn't exactly what we got.
The first few days we looked at the history of video games, which was interesting, but not exactly something that will be useful to know. Following that we looked at some of the technical aspects of what exactly is required in a game. Most of it was (to me at least) common sense, but stated in...
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