Diablo 3

If you close the game & start it again, the monsters all refresh, though the quests are done.

20k on potions/repairs? You're far higher level than me, I don't think I'm spending 1k. I don't even have 20kgp.

I've exited and came back in a couple of times, no monsters in heaven.

Haven't tried previous Acts.

Currently Lvl 31 Wizard.

Have you tried to start a new game in the main menu?
I think you can pick were you want to start.

Mick wrote:Have you tried to start a new game in the main menu?
I think you can pick were you want to start.

Not yet, only noticed that the only waypoints I can currently get to are in heaven and there are no monster spawns (other than Diablo...).

I'll probably try a few more times, then start a new game and see.

Ken,

To "Redo" levels at the main menu on the left side there is a change quest. Once you change the quest it should say Start Game instead of Resume Game. That should be it.

After you are done you can head back to the highest spot you got to in the same way.

Krystoff wrote:Ken,

To "Redo" levels at the main menu on the left side there is a change quest. Once you change the quest it should say Start Game instead of Resume Game. That should be it.

After you are done you can head back to the highest spot you got to in the same way.

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Redoing Heaven took about an hour, but made about 25kgp.

Brad popped in just as I was heading for Diablo.

I still can't believe how easy it went with two people. I don't think I really felt threatened throughout the battle. I thought he would have been tougher with two people, but I guess not since he had to split some of his attacks.

Thanks again Brad for the assist.

you make a lot more money if you play in Nightmare. Make sure you upgrade your equipment from items in the Auction. You should be able to buy good items for less than a couple of thousand per item. Get socketed items when you can. Good gems are cheap to buy. Great gems however, are very expensive.

Dwarmaj wrote:Redoing Heaven took about an hour, but made about 25kgp.

Brad popped in just as I was heading for Diablo.

I still can't believe how easy it went with two people. I don't think I really felt threatened throughout the battle. I thought he would have been tougher with two people, but I guess not since he had to split some of his attacks.

Thanks again Brad for the assist.

It was fun. I was surprised too how much easier that went. Diablo killed me about 4-5 times solo, and I beat him with lots of running around until my heals recharged. Together, I never needed to run away. (I sometimes had to run back to him after he picked me up & threw me...)

Ross wrote:Great gems however, are very expensive.

Speaking of which, how do you get those page thingys the gem crafter needs to train? He wants 10 and I only have 1 (& don't remember where that one came from)

Easier to buy them from the Auction House. You can get a ton for really cheap. You will need to upgrade your gems as well. It might be cheaper to just buy the gems you want though.

Pages of Blacksmithing and Jewelcrafting come from Nightmare mode.
Tomes of Blacksmithing and Jewelcrafting come from Hell mode.

Not sure if there is another one above that in Inferno mode but it does follow the pattern. The pages drop with a good frequency in Nightmare so if you aren't needing to go up quickly in the crafting you can get them naturally. If you want it done quickly then the AH is your friend.

Currently I don't pay over 1K for any item. There are too many upgrades in the 1K range that I can buy an upgrade every level or two and keep current. Since I just hit 50 I need to head back in and check for any upgrades. So far it is really only the elemental attacks (poison, fire, lightning, etc) that are killing me. I have a 47% physical reduction in damage but the highest elemental I have is 13%.
Lately I h

Same here. Those exploding bodies that spread in to fire or poison are the only things that drop me, oh and those fricken laser beams. So far in Nightmare none of the Bosses have killed me, but I'm in Act III now so we'll see what happens.

The big arm weirdos that can do a ranged poison grab underneath you suck! The laser beams do too!

I died once to belial but that was because I misclicked and ran into three of the exploding rings at the same time. Other than that I haven't had any problems on the bosses. I am close to the spider queen in act 3 and getting closer to Azmodan.

Ross wrote:Easier to buy them from the Auction House. You can get a ton for really cheap. You will need to upgrade your gems as well. It might be cheaper to just buy the gems you want though.

Yes, this is true up to a certain level of gem.
I stopped train the crafters. I must have 40 page for the gem guy and 80 pages for the blacksmith.

Most good items you can get cheap with a little hunting thru the auction. (under 3K)
I have bought a couple in the 20K range with 18-20 resistance all & +50s ability.

Ross wrote:Same here. Those exploding bodies that spread in to fire or poison are the only things that drop me, oh and those fricken laser beams. So far in Nightmare none of the Bosses have killed me, but I'm in Act III now so we'll see what happens.

I hate those too.

Are you in Hell or Inferno mode now?

You guys' avatars are tougher than mine. I can minion munch pretty well but often those bosses can take me from full up to 'bloodied', so I can't take 2 in a row. Too big a horde of elites also & my heals don't recharge fast enough.

I just recently got to act I in nm.

...Plus, I still need to update my video cards more 'cuz I've died many times from my screen minimizing on me for no reason and I reopen it just too late. :-(

Mick wrote:

Ross wrote:So far in Nightmare...

Are you in Hell or Inferno mode now?

Edited to poke a little fun...

oops I thought I had hit the quote button under Krystoff.

I am in nightmare currently, almost to Act 4. Still need to beat the spider queen Cydaea and Azmodan.

You guys didn't mention those Mallet-hand Demons... They hit like a hammer!

But yeah, those claw armed things are the toughest of the minions I've come across. But I just started NM level 1.

Does anyone play in Elective Mode?

Don't even know what that is... (So no)

I play elective mode. Makes it much nicer to customize the skills to what I need. I don't use the mouse to click on the skills so I don't drag them off.

Edit:
Elective Mode (Settings -> Game Options) gives you the ability to put any skill from any section in any hotbar slot including your left and right mouse buttons.

If you are using Elective Mode, with a Demon Hunter, a cool power to replace your Left Mouse button with is Evasive Fire.
It actually generates 4 Hatred per shot and hits pretty good. Plus when you fire with it you you tumble away only if a target is close to you. Basically if you just keep firing you will tumble away from the target automatically.

I made it to Hell Mode today. We shall now see how bad my gear is!

Ken, do you get a lot of lag. Your character is always way behind us and looks like he's rubberbanding all the time.

Also, Brad and Ken, you should sign into vent even if you don't have a mic. You can still hear others.
Brad, you might even have a mic built into your computer.

Ross & I made it to Hell today. It's too tough for my character. :-(

I seriously need to get my video problem fixed...

Ross wrote:Ken, do you get a lot of lag. Your character is always way behind us and looks like he's rubberbanding all the time.

I don't notice lag when playing solo, but my character does seem to be slower than everyone elses.

My wizard doesn't have any speed boosting items.
I usually have three green bars with a ping ~250. Though I noticed yesterday while at the hospital that my ping was around 100. At home my DSL is 5Mb, haven't seen a need to upgrade to 12Mb until now...

I also noticed that I tend to die a lot more in multiplayer...

In solo I tend to move to where I can just see a spawn, throw a Hydra at them to weaken them, then buff and blast. For most bosses I usually just use Hydra (venom hydra is best) and stay out of their range. Archon works well too unless the monsters have an instant kill.

Even when you were playing at the hospital you were still rubberbanding so it's not your connection. Look online and see if you can find some settings you can tweak.

It's probably my PC graphics processing.

The PC itself has plenty of CPU power 2.8Ghz 64-bit i7 processor. 4Gb of Ram.

It's not a gaming PC and has an Intel HD graphics 3000 adapter.

I'm not sure if this is something that can be fixed...

Single player work fine most of the time.

I'll look around though.

Hey,after getting killed by the Skeleton King in Hell over & over, I tried to go back to other areas to level up, and it wouldn't give me any experience. Then I went back to the Skeleton King again, and after killing me a bunch more times, I finally beat him and it told me...

I need to upgrade the game to continue!

Did you know that? How many other times will they suck $$ from us? I didn't upgrade yet... What are you guys going to do? Looks like I'll be playing my other characters for a while...

Dwarmaj wrote:It's probably my PC graphics processing.

The PC itself has plenty of CPU power 2.8Ghz 64-bit i7 processor. 4Gb of Ram.

It's not a gaming PC and has an Intel HD graphics 3000 adapter.

I'm not sure if this is something that can be fixed...

Single player work fine most of the time.

I'll look around though.

Most likely the graphics card. Also 4 Gb of ram seem low for a new PC.

bradly wrote:Hey,after getting killed by the Skeleton King in Hell over & over, I tried to go back to other areas to level up, and it wouldn't give me any experience. Then I went back to the Skeleton King again, and after killing me a bunch more times, I finally beat him and it told me...

I need to upgrade the game to continue!

Did you know that? How many other times will they suck $$ from us? I didn't upgrade yet... What are you guys going to do? Looks like I'll be playing my other characters for a while...

I haven't gotten to hell yet but that seem weird for it to ask for an upgrade.

bradly wrote:Hey,after getting killed by the Skeleton King in Hell over & over, I tried to go back to other areas to level up, and it wouldn't give me any experience. Then I went back to the Skeleton King again, and after killing me a bunch more times, I finally beat him and it told me...

I need to upgrade the game to continue!

Did you know that? How many other times will they suck $$ from us? I didn't upgrade yet... What are you guys going to do? Looks like I'll be playing my other characters for a while...

It's probably because you started with a trial version.

You may need to contact them and they'll fix the problem for you.

I doubt an upgrade is needed to continue in Hell.

Mick wrote:

Dwarmaj wrote:It's probably my PC graphics processing.

The PC itself has plenty of CPU power 2.8Ghz 64-bit i7 processor. 4Gb of Ram.

It's not a gaming PC and has an Intel HD graphics 3000 adapter.

I'm not sure if this is something that can be fixed...

Single player work fine most of the time.

I'll look around though.

Most likely the graphics card. Also 4 Gb of ram seem low for a new PC.

It's a work PC...

I could by more RAM for it, but I've never seen more than half in use.

It's most likely your video card. Can you turn down the graphic quality in game?

Will give it a shot the next time I'm in.

The game runs much faster once I changed video settings.

Shadows down to medium

FPS down to 70.

I didn't realize I was moving so slow. Now I feel like I'm hasted all the time, will take a while to get use to the faster speed.

I'm glad your finally able to keep up with us now.

Wow. Just got a "Massacre 352 monsters killed"

Nice!

How are you doing in hell? I changed my spec to be more defensive and it takes a bit longer but I am doing better. Progressing through act 2 now.

Ross wrote:Wow. Just got a "Massacre 352 monsters killed"

Wow, must have been a big room. The most I've gotten is is around 50.

I was having a really hard time in Act 2, then I upgraded my main/offhand weapon which increased my DPS by ~3,000. Much easier now.

I got the 352 in Nightmare with my Witch Doctor, who is only 49th.

Was against Rakanoth who keeps summoning those little Ghouls. It was them against my Area Effects and my spiders, and my spiders won.

My Demon Hunter is doing good when she has room to move. Those caves with cramped spaces make it tough against bosses with nasty powers, especially walls. But of course bosses in Hell don't just have one power, they always have 2 or 3, or in a few cases 4 powers. That's what kills me.

Wow, most I've done is about 100.
Wow, 3000 DPS.
I went defensive like Chris. Up to over 300% resistance on all and 2600 AC.

Mick wrote:Wow, 3000 DPS.

Increased DPS by 3k...

I'm not sure what's the standard for each class. My wizard had a DPS aroung 4500, now it's around 7800. I've seen some of the wizards on the forum posting DPS 20k+, but they're in Inferno...

My Witch Doctor just beat Nightmare, and she's only at 2,549 DPS, and 1644 armor. Killed Diablo and all the other bosses in one try each. I can see why most people go ranged. You don't want to be near elites and bosses in Hell.

My Demon Hunter is at 6,660 for damage, but only 2021 for armor. She does okay, but still dying a lot against elites. If she's able to move around she's pretty good though. Somethings the matter with game balance when you are fine against bosses but fear elites.

I don't think the Resistance number is a %. I think it works like resistance in D&D. So if you have 300 Cold Resistance and a cold attack hits you for 1,000 you only take 700.

This is what i found on the net.
http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/69584/how-is-resistance-percentage-calculated

So at 50th level with 300 resistance against a 50th level monster I should only take 45.5% of the damage.

Made it to Inferno, too bad levels are capped at 60.

I just upgraded my weapons and I'm now at 23,450.03 DPS. However, my armor totally sucks at 1,885.
Will see what happens.