D3 15th of May, you gonna play?

[Devlin]

I liked them all in different ways actually.

But to be true to my nature, I'm gonna go with a melee class, barbarian most likely.

[kodin]

like what i've seen so far

completed monk, tried out a couple other classes (demon hunter, barbarian) but got the most fun out of monk ^^

[Goza]

Also maybe a bit simplistic? Though there seemed like some cool combos we could do, if we tried -- frost nova, snare, ranged DPS, etc.

Yeah, thou the beta was also prob way too easy, even more when I played it in coop. I didn't see a way to raise the difficulty by hand.

Witch doctor is a bit weird, very much like the old necromancer.

I also thought witch doctor had a strange mix of skills, like swapping demon dogs for fear. And how much dmg those spiders did, where did they hide the detailed spell descriptions a la "does X points of dmg"?

[kawe]

detailed descriptions in tooltips when you either press ctrl or have the checkbox in options for detailed stuff checked.

* with witch doctor at first I thought similar with dogs vs fear, but then read that spell slot's title, defensive, which makes more sense.

[Goza]

Ah nice, yeah I didn't spend much time in the options, silly me. That'd have helped.

Regarding the dogs, I didn't saw them as very "defensive", but then again, due to the low difficulty of the beta, it may not have shown.

Anyway, I'll prob get the game for at least a playthru, and amazon.co.uk has it for 34 Euro which is quite nifty.

[Starbrow]

I had the pleasure of trying out all classes but the Demon Hunter at Sint's place yesterday. The Witch Doctor feels like a really odd class, but with a ton of funny spells (Nach should totally play a spider-based WD ) and does a ton of damage when he gets the AoE drain spell. Wizard was cool enough with interesting animations, though I didn't think it was that special.

As for the melee classes, the Monk has a mixture of cool and really odd spells. Wave of Light in particular stands out (giant f-ing tower bell from the sky? what the shit?). Barbarian was super brutal and SMASH SMASH SMASH all through out, which was exactly what I was hoping for. I am now 100% sure that I will be playing one.

A thing I noticed which isn't related to the classes was the really good sounds that are in this game. Whenever you smash something, release a chandelier to drop on some zombies, collapse a wall, teleport or whatever, the sounds are just so well made and help hugely in creating a fantastic playing atmosphere. The game itself is also really pretty and it feels really epic once you get a good 30 mobs gathered and three people let all of their AoE rip through it all.

[Abyiss]

Yeh Starbrow, i was absolutly loving the baba!!!

(knew i would)

Tryed the Wizard, seemed really weak by comparison, I think they need to mix up his early ability's to make them more interesting. No need for diamond skin so early on in the game ;/

Did anyone get very far with blacksmithing? does it have a cap on beta?

[Gaeios(Graxlos)]

blacksmithing on beta seemed a bit useless, since after doing the first upgrade, the weapons I could make required lvl 15-16.

[Abyiss]

yeh true, im up for seeing it more maxed out .. got it to level 3, would be cool to see what weapons are at lvl 10 or what ever

[Yoica]

Max blacksmithing you can reach on beta is up to the last step before hitting lvl 5. Pretty pointless since you can make stuff for lvl 27+ at that point.

Blacksmithing is only useful for the shoulders on beta.

[Starbrow]

I talked to Sint about the blacksmithing as well, and it seems that you will be levelling it up as you go along, and won't get it to level 4 (max in beta) when you are level 13, but a lot later as it does require a lot of gold. I assume it will follow your level progress more smoothly in the full game.

Also, I found this really nice post about customization in D3: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3811455085?page=1

[Goza]

Wtf EU 1st world problems?

[Starbrow]

As you said further up: Amazon here we come!

[Goza]

Amazon has by now raised the price to 32 pound, which (if you need shipping to abroad) is ~ the US bnet price.

[delling]

I just got the year-long WoW sub, which came with a free D3 key -- I would've thought more people would do that