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

Henchman 21 posted:

I hope the servers aren't too slammed

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

I'll tell you what I tell my wife: Finishing as fast as possible is much more important than having fun.

explosivo posted:

Tiny Timbs posted:

Went and got some beer and a bucket of grocery store cookies

Lister posted:

I got disconnected immediately after killing (Act VI boss) Ashava and now it's telling me my account is locked and try again in a few minutes.

My review: Game's really big. The story is exactly what I want out of a higher-number sequel story that balances the old and new in a way that rehashes some, but is mostly fresh.

Also, the writing and some of the quests are clearly influenced by Witcher 3. An NPC used the word "whoreson" which I'd never known until it was said about 200 times in W3.

Jaytan posted:

I’m pretty convinced this whole build guide thing is a product of path of exile trauma where it’s possible to spend all your points and have a character that doesn’t do anything.

Literally buy some skills that do the same thing, and don’t over invest on passive skills early. Consider respecting when you get legendary items. There you go build guide complete for all five classes.

Internet Explorer posted:

I was just talking about how Blizzard really knocked it out of the park with this launch, but lol at deploying an update and (?) bringing down the servers on the official launch day.

isk posted:

Could I trouble someone for Cliffs notes on this?

Herstory Begins Now posted:

resistance affixes have about 1/100th the magnitude of effect you'd think that they should have. you could increase their magnitude 10x and they'd still be the weakest affix in the game. presumably they're broken/something isn't working right.

tldr: 55 res gets you like 2% more of a specific elemental damage reduction

Impermanent posted:

diablo 4's launch is really interesting because you can really see the relatively normal gamer's gobsmacked and horrified reaction to the path of exile lifestylist's way of playing a game like this. I say this as a path of exile lifestylist.

EVERY TIME GOING posted:

You don't need to learn the lingo to run the T1 cinematic leveling experience and hitting the imps with any random stick will finish the campaign. Afterwards if you want to get on the current endgame treadmill, there are only a few viable skill combos that 95% of the gold farmers and internet beggars run because the majority of skills in this game are so anemic they can be considered cosmetic.

Pain of Mind posted:

I think the game is profoundly worse than any other standard Diablo, including Diablo 3 1.0. My complaint is not that some skills have longer cooldowns, but I do feel somewhat astonished that everyone rates the game so highly, when I am bouncing off D4 pretty hard as an enjoyer of D1, D2, and D3.

Astryl posted:

I'm sure it is from a gameplay perspective tbh, I only tried to play it for maybe an hour, but its graphics gave me a legitimate headache and I never bothered again.

Gwaihir posted:

This poo poo drives me absolutely insane but they keep doing it!! It's like they're loving allergic to giving us hordes of zombies to explode for ????????

Stupid loving mmo brained bullshit.

Nfcknblvbl posted:

Yeah, a lot of people just want to see a bunch of elite packs explode on the screen at once.

DaveKap posted:

Currently, the direct rewards you get from doing them (adding 2 stat points or obol storage) is permanent on your account, shared between all characters, and across seasons but the ability to unlock them and the renown they give do not, as they currently don't across characters. This lets each character have the entire "renown checklist" available to play through as "a thing to do" but since the only important bit of renown rewards is the skill/paragon points, you can freely ignore them. Those account-level reward from renown (skill points, paragon points, etc) which currently does carry across characters may possibly not be given in seasons, but this is up in the air. It's believed on Friday we'll get more information about this, since people have quite loudly exclaimed how much they hate uncovering the map and doing renown poopy work each season and this Friday we're getting Blizzard's first fireside chat in which they apparently have something to announce about this.

tl;dr the direct rewards from statues will carry over, do them. The renown rewards that include statue gathering, dungeons, and side quests are unknown, so maybe don't poopsock those.

Mr Beens posted:

Considering the question of what carries over gets asked every page and the only actual answer that was ever given was statues, everything else has just been speculation and implied from vague statements.
They have not anywhere unambiguously laid out how seasons work in diablo 4 and what carries over. Hopefully this will be resolved tomorrow

Ehud posted:

I've been talking to non-ARPG friends (who have gotten very into D4) about this topic. My broken ARPG brain is fully prepared to do everything over again each season. Meanwhile, they're all saying they will never play seasonal if it means having to re-do renown, altars, etc.

Cynically, I think their goal as a live service game is to get you logged in as many hours as possible each season to get you to buy stuff. Carrying over progress works against that goal. I just wonder how many casual people they might lose altogether if nothing is carried over.

I also wondered if they could have some option to have ladder/non ladder seasonal characters. Let people reuse seasonal characters or some form of progress (renown, altars) if they want, but have separate ladder characters who start from scratch and can be part of leaderboards and whatnot. I don't know if they want to splinter the player base like that though.

This huge open world design and all this side content does feel at odds with the classic ARPG season start from scratch formula. Maybe they have something creative up their sleeve.



they don't

exquisite tea posted:

A month is literal Forever Time in ARPG terminology, most D3 ladder resets crest after about two weeks and you wouldn’t want to have to play much longer than that, anyway. Seasonal play is about finding a new character or build you want to try and taking them through the game until you either accomplish your goals or get bored. They’re not meant to keep you on the treadmill forever, although now with the battlepass Blizzard will certainly try.

Astryl posted:

https://youtube.com/shorts/XZKRTJpHsio


The entire thread, me included, tbh.

exquisite tea posted:

Almost literally everyone will play seasons exclusively.

Mikojan posted:

Its not like the PoE skill tree where its incredibly easy to brick your entire character.

Gwaihir posted:

Progression is good, it's just the morass of a million stats that aren't really different at all that suck rear end.

idk how to get around reducing everything to one "Number go up" stat though, other than like, focusing on gear affixes being things that more tangibly change your playstyle like CDR or haste/resource gen effects.