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Ehud
Sep 19, 2003

football.

Goon discord: https://discord.gg/kVgpMVkfZT

Release information
Early access for deluxe/ultimate editions: 6/1/23 (7pm eastern)
Release date for standard edition: 6/5/23 (7pm eastern)

Classes
Barbarian
Druid
Necromancer
Rogue
Sorcerer

Resources
D4 Database: https://diablo4.cc/us/

Build Guides:
https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/
https://maxroll.gg/d4/

Skill/Paragon/Build Planners:
https://lothrik.github.io/diablo4-build-calc/
https://d4builds.gg/skill-trees/
https://d4planner.io/skilltree/Barbarian/

All Important Diablo 4 Terms Explained Fast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_g9lvCjWkg

Useful info from goons
Getting big damage: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=532209207
A bunch of useful info about the UI/Settings: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=532165275
Min/Max nerd stuff: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=532198836
Launch day guild invite info: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=532202062

Ehud fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Dec 29, 2023

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Ehud
Sep 19, 2003

football.

reserved for things

Au Revoir Shosanna
Feb 17, 2011

i support this government and/or service
diablo means devil

alg
Mar 14, 2007

A wolf was no less a wolf because a whim of chance caused him to run with the watch-dogs.

HELL yea

Ehud
Sep 19, 2003

football.

12 hours

Paracausal
Sep 5, 2011

Oh yeah, baby. Frame your suffering as a masterpiece. Only one problem - no one's watching. It's boring, buddy, boring as death.
Can't wait to sit immobile on my couch for 17 hours straight clickin and killin

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

I hope this game is good

thats not candy
Mar 10, 2010

Hell Gem
:getin:


FFT posted:

He gets mentioned regarding the black soulstone @ 3m39s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBjgmaNRDHo&t=219s

well drat that shows you how well i was listening!

i hope hes in the game somewhere

Mr Scumbag
Jun 6, 2007

You're a fucking cocksucker, Jonathan
Respecs are too expensive

Doomykins
Jun 28, 2008

Didn't you mean to ask about flowers?
Respecs should be more expensive. No, every character should be locked in. No respeccing.

Compulsively refreshing the thread all weekend to get the real poop on how secretly bad this game was all along.

Have fun clicking monsters tonight thread, I'll see ya next week.

Rufio
Feb 6, 2003

I'm smart! Not like everybody says... like dumb... I'm smart and I want respect!
I am gonna click some monsters tonight!!!

ephex
Nov 4, 2007





PHWOAR CRIMINAL

Au Revoir Shosanna posted:

diablo means devil

What the!!!

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010





Why is there a new thread

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

I think the game is being released today

coelomate
Oct 21, 2020


i am excited to play this video game

Ehud
Sep 19, 2003

football.

George H.W. oval office posted:

Why is there a new thread

the old one is being goldmined

Vapor Moon
Feb 24, 2010

Neato!
The Human Font
I haven't paid any attention to D4 news, has there been any endgame content properly shown off or is it a D3 situation where we get to find out how 'fun' it is when we get there after release?

Sweeper
Nov 29, 2007
The Joe Buck of Posting
Dinosaur Gum
I can't believe I paid $20 more to play a game four days early, feels bad, guess I'll have to drown my sorrows in loot

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Thank you for paying more to tell me if it’s worth buying

Mr Scumbag
Jun 6, 2007

You're a fucking cocksucker, Jonathan

Sweeper posted:

I can't believe I paid $20 more to play a game four days early, feels bad, guess I'll have to drown my sorrows in loot

I hear chicken helps.

Raged
Jul 21, 2003

A revolution of beats
I have already set aside an old nasty pair of sweat pants to fart into the whole weekend.

Ehud
Sep 19, 2003

football.

Vapor Moon posted:

I haven't paid any attention to D4 news, has there been any endgame content properly shown off or is it a D3 situation where we get to find out how 'fun' it is when we get there after release?

It launches with an endgame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGDizGfd5KQ

basically there are nightmare dungeons (d3 rifts with added mechanics), whispers of the dead (world objectives you complete for d3 style bounty rewards sort of), helltides (d2 terror zones, get a currency used to unlock chests with good items), fields of hatred (PVP)

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


Mr Scumbag posted:

I hear chicken helps.

Blizzard has claimed there are no sets in this game yet I can go to the KFC website and look up all the 6pc bonuses right now??

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

Hell yes.

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

How did this feel to play with a controller btw. Might bring out my Xbox controller lying around

Vapor Moon
Feb 24, 2010

Neato!
The Human Font

Ehud posted:

It launches with an endgame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGDizGfd5KQ

basically there are nightmare dungeons (d3 rifts with added mechanics), whispers of the dead (world objectives you complete for d3 style bounty rewards sort of), helltides (d2 terror zones, get a currency used to unlock chests with good items), fields of hatred (PVP)

That's people talking buzz words over promo footage.

Flavahbeast
Jul 21, 2001


Vapor Moon posted:

I haven't paid any attention to D4 news, has there been any endgame content properly shown off or is it a D3 situation where we get to find out how 'fun' it is when we get there after release?

Sort of, at least one guy got to level 100 / t100 maps in the 10 day reviewer preview but I dont think the level 100 boss was part of the preview and I'm not sure if t100 is the current cap for nightmare dungeons or just the cap for the preview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji4QDveNOj8

wizard2
Apr 4, 2022
see you in Sanctuary, gamers

Herstory Begins Now
Aug 5, 2003
SOME REALLY TEDIOUS DUMB SHIT THAT SUCKS ASS TO READ ->>

Flavahbeast posted:

Sort of, at least one guy got to level 100 / t100 maps in the 10 day reviewer preview but I dont think the level 100 boss was part of the preview and I'm not sure if t100 is the current cap for nightmare dungeons or just the cap for the preview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji4QDveNOj8

he's doing 630 million damage aoe hits in that?

Internet Explorer
Jun 1, 2005





Okay guys and gals, only good posts in this real Diablo 4 thread.

negativeneil
Jul 8, 2000

"Personally, I think he's done a great job of being down to earth so far."

boredsatellite posted:

How did this feel to play with a controller btw. Might bring out my Xbox controller lying around

It plays excellently and the game feels like it was designed around controller. I played beta on my PC using a controller and never felt like I missed traditional kb+m.

rap music
Mar 11, 2006

gonna click on so much freakin loot!!

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


Herstory Begins Now posted:

he's doing 630 million damage aoe hits in that?

Pathetic I know, but we should forgive him.

Ehud
Sep 19, 2003

football.

Vapor Moon posted:

That's people talking buzz words over promo footage.

They cover a basic explanation of each system once you get past the 45 second mark. I was trying to avoid linking a 30 minute long, longwinded explanation from a content creator.

Here is a short text explanation of the endgame systems at launch.

https://www.polygon.com/23671429/diablo-4-endgame-activities-paragon-nightmare-dungeons-pvp

WORLD TIERS
Upon completing the campaign, players will get access to a special “capstone dungeon,” Piepiora says. Completing that dungeon will unlock the first World Tier, which will in turn unlock a new level of difficulty, but also grant access to powerful new loot and other advantages for your character. If you want Diablo 4 to be much, much harder, this is for you.

PARAGON SYSTEM
Beyond the base skill tree, players can further customize their characters using the Paragon system. The Paragon board will offer “a lot more depth, a lot more customization,” Piepiora says. Calder noted that players can rotate the Paragon board to personalize the overall direction of their endgame upgrades — many of which look like boosts to character stats.

Related to the Paragon system is the Codex of Power, through which players can equip Aspects, which can be earned through dungeons. Through Aspects, players can make items they find in Diablo 4’s world more powerful, turning them into legendary-class items.

NIGHTMARE DUNGEONS
Players can return to dungeons they’ve already played through and modify them with a Sigil. These Sigils, Sweetring explains, will “alter the play style and intensity of a dungeon.” Nightmare Dungeons are more difficult, have additional objectives, and will feature modifiers called Affixes. Piepiora highlighted one of those Affixes: Hellgate, which will randomly open up portals inside of dungeons that summon monsters not native to the region.

There are “over 120 dungeons to play through and find in Diablo 4,” Piepiora says, and every one of them can become a Nightmare Dungeon.

ENDGAME EXPLORATION
The overworld of Diablo 4 will also be modified to include targeted activities in areas called Helltides. Monsters become harder, and new environmental effects, like meteors falling from the sky, will pester players as they try to slay the forces of Hell.

There’s also a bounty system centered around a location called the Tree of Whispers, which tasks players with completing bounties in various locations across Sanctuary to earn rewards. These are contained activities that players can do solo or with a group, Blizzard says.

THE FIELDS OF HATRED
Parts of the world of Sanctuary are poisoned by Lilith’s presence, and when players visit them, they can engage in player-vs-player combat. Players can earn items called shards in PvP, and redeeming them involves a twist: Shards must be “purified” before they can be redeemed back in town, and other players can try to stop you (and steal your shards) on your return journey. That system brings a bit of extraction shooter flavor to Diablo 4. Purified shards can be turned in at towns to purchase special cosmetic reward

madstrike
Jun 10, 2013

Herstory Begins Now posted:

he's doing 630 million damage aoe hits in that?

Pretty there's a 2Billion hit in there too. It's the unique gloves that he uses that store up damage and release it when he stops channeling WW.
(He oneshot Butcher and didn't even notice it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qilm35LMnJw)

madstrike fucked around with this message at 13:02 on Jun 1, 2023

Dysgenesis
Jul 12, 2012

HAVE AT THEE!


Sorc is pronounced source.

Flavahbeast
Jul 21, 2001


Herstory Begins Now posted:

he's doing 630 million damage aoe hits in that?

keep an eye out for these fellers i guess

drewmoney
Mar 11, 2004
Bought the game on Xbox due to a glitch in the Xbox store that let me buy Ultimate for $45 instead of $155 in Australian money. My 7 year old son is pumped.

Heithinn Grasida
Mar 28, 2005

...must attack and fall upon them with a gallant bearing and a fearless heart, and, if possible, vanquish and destroy them, even though they have for armour the shells of a certain fish, that they say are harder than diamonds, and in place of swords wield trenchant blades of Damascus steel...

Not even sure I’ll buy it; I’m waiting to see how playable it is in China. But Ps5 or steam deck? drat I want both but poo poo is $70 expensive.

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mbt
Aug 13, 2012

drewmoney posted:

Bought the game on Xbox due to a glitch in the Xbox store that let me buy Ultimate for $45 instead of $155 in Australian money. My 7 year old son is pumped.

The game is not rated for 7 year olds.

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