MrBrown

As far as I know, their license only covers BG1 and 2. So IF they can make a third one, it would be up to the license negotiations to cover the engine as well. I suspect that they'd want to use their updated version of Infinity engine as much as possible. Related, I have no hope that they'd be able to swing for AD&D. They'd probably have to use 4e or 5e. Normally I'd agree, but: a) If they do it in the old engine, b) How many 4e and 5e computer games have you seen?

Is it their intention to make BG3, if it happens, on the same engine or new? In other words, would they aim it at the retro-crowd, or make an AAAAAAAAAAA-title?

Well, there was one dungeon in Act I, The Lycaeum, that was "added" in a patch. It was in the game, just wasn't generated before. Act II is the most random, really. It can take a dozen runs through an area to get all the variations. And this is not counting the ancient device in Desolate Sands, which probably takes a 1000 ~_~.

Enrage timers are only for Inferno, AFAIK.

I've played Barbarian, Monk and Wizard to level 60, and found Wizard to be the easiest (pre-inferno anyway). They all have their weaknesses and strengths, though.

FYI, there's a longish post on the official forum by Blizzard about Diablo 3; what's happened so far, what they're doing in the future, etc. http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/4940437236#1 TL;DR: - Launch problems because of unexpected volume of usage. - In the future: buffs for legendary items, extra stuff for lvl60 chars besides item grinding, PvP (more far off).

Civ5, with the expansion. The more I play it, the more I like it over Civ4. A little Diablo3 on the side as well. Starting to get that itch for a little ADOM and FO:NV too.

Since the 1.0.3 patch? Or do you mean just the regular enrage that happens after around 5 minutes? If I'd had 5 minutes I could've killed him super easily. I swear it was silver of health left every time. I tried Fists of Thunder too, didn't help. I dunno, if you did it with only 14k, hats off. Lots of crit chance and damage? I only had 17% chance and 137crit damage. And I guess it's 3 minutes, not 2.5, that he does the new "explosions enrage" thing. Yeah, in 103, and by enrage I meant the phase when he starts using the meteor over and over again. I used Way of the Hundred Fists and the Mantra that gives you more damage, and protected myself with Serenity and Seven-sided strike.

I killed Belial with a Monk with about 14k DPS, *barely*... he went into enrage just as he died, and I died as well. Luckily he doesn't have Revive. Managed to beat Diablo on Inferno recently too, with a party. I had most trouble with Ghom and Iskatu as a Monk. Speaking of Ghom, he's up next for LadyCrimson. Have fun.

Starcraft 2 released in july 2010, and the 1st expansion still isn't out.

You sure you can't afford one? AH Prices have been dropping like hell (on EU at least), and you should be able to afford one like that with <200,000 easily. Also, found both of these in Act 1: So... just keep grinding.

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/blog/5077625/Diablo_III_Hotfixes_-_June_Updated_2806-28_06_2012 They just keep nerfing inferno.

Frenzy.

So, a friend found the blacksmith plans for a set (http://eu.battle.net...allowed-barrier). Turns out you get plans for the whole set with that one plan book, so now he's crafting said set items for everyone in our group of friends. EDIT: And about the AH. I don't understand people's problem with it. If you don't like it, stop using it. I've made it to Act3 Inferno without buying anything from it (on softcore); it's by no means necessary. Yes, you'll have to spend more time grinding for items without it, but did you really expect the game not to be about that?

Patch 103 coming within a day, apparently.

It looks far better on my Barbarian. Thankfully mine has a Strength bonus over the Dex one. But yeah, it's kinda boring you can't dye legendaries... makes you look like a clown eventually.

You realize the drops can't be exciting if you keep using AH?

I'm farming act I inferno currently with my Barbarian, who has about 9k life. It's all about armor and resistances.

I watch way too much pro-SC2. At least I play myself as well. Sometimes <.>

Valor. In other words, don't, until you're level 60.

Use whatever you have the best items for.

The blacksmith really gets worse as you level up, since your equipment will constantly be more and more tailored to your character, while the blacksmith's will still be totally random. If you have a piece of armor with one property you find useful, it might still be worth it to smith one with 3 random properties, but when you have armor with 2 properties you want, making one with 4 random starts being pretty pointless, especially with the extremely high prices. Hopefully the price lowering will make him interesting again. The jeweler sort of seems useful, but you should remember that the equipment drops always have higher stats bonuses than the gems at a particular level, so unless you only want to buff one stat (granted, many characters will), you're better of without sockets. Weapon and Helm slots seem to be always useful, though.

Melee classes should also consider using Amethysts on weapons to get the Life on hit -property. Very useful, especially on the higher levels. The AMA in question is probably this one: http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/uoooj/i_am_we_are_wyatt_cheng_andrew_chambers_and_jay/

On the topic of hacks, here's a funny one (well, sort of): http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/uovpp/accidentally_discovered_item_chat_link_code/ Other people can use it to crash your client if you click their item links.

I love the new 103 changes to item drops on inferno. With the current drop rates, AH just saves so much time it becomes almost a necessity to use it. At least feels that way for Barbarians and Monks. It'll also make it easier to actually play Inferno with Hardcore characters.