Is there any way to sign up for a Beta invite, or is that pretty much an impossibility.

9/21/2011 1:11:52 PM

It's in your Battle.net account.

9/21/2011 1:24:09 PM

ive had that beta option checked for ages, but since i no longer am subscribed to WoW I am sure my chances of getting a Beta invite are slim

9/21/2011 1:33:38 PM

you won't get shit unless you know someone who knows someone. it's always how it works.

9/21/2011 1:44:08 PM

I got the beta invite for Starcraft 2 in the first round, and I don't know anyone at Blizz.

9/21/2011 2:01:08 PM

^^, ^^^ both 100% incorrect.

9/21/2011 2:23:27 PM

Just need to be incredibly lucky.

9/21/2011 2:51:58 PM

I don't think public invites have gone out yet. They just released the Press keys yesterday.

yeah some people already have keys, lucky bastards

[Edited on September 21, 2011 at 2:54 PM. Reason : nvm]

9/21/2011 2:52:35 PM

i know someone who works for blizzard, but i'm not THAT close so i'm not bothering him about it. i'm hoping they give beta invites to blizzcon attendees though, that'd be nice.

9/21/2011 11:20:28 PM

I'll buy your D3 key for 40 bucks.

9/21/2011 11:27:32 PM

i won't

9/22/2011 9:33:59 AM

^^^fuck that i hope by then they give blizzcon attended free CEs in their goody bags

[Edited on September 22, 2011 at 10:27 AM. Reason : *]

9/22/2011 10:27:23 AM

As i said on page 6, don't expect to see this game until 2012.

Quote :

"We commonly use the term “soon” when referring to Blizzard releases, because we know that no matter how hard we’re working to reach a target, we’re not going to compromise and launch a game before it’s ready. For Diablo III, we were aiming to launch by the end of 2011. As we’re announcing globally today, our new target for the game is early 2012."

9/26/2011 7:02:03 AM

Just means more people will get into the Beta. My chances just went from 1% to 2%!

9/26/2011 7:42:36 AM

lol d3

i give up on looking forward to this

9/26/2011 9:17:13 AM

My guess is the launch date is when they think people will be done with Skyrim.

Hell, maybe it's when the devs think they'll be done with Skyrim.

9/26/2011 9:21:35 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlhWqmVeDno&feature=player_embedded

boom

10/21/2011 6:30:17 PM

gotta give it to blizzard, they know how to make Cinematic CGI look damn impressive. Now what they need to do is make a damn CGI movie based on diablo, starcraft and/or warcraft... They got the manpower, money and talent to do this.

10/21/2011 6:37:13 PM

I'd settle for them releasing the damn game within my lifetime.

10/21/2011 6:48:43 PM

nahhhhhhhhh.... lol gonna be at least two more wow releases before then. lol

10/21/2011 8:38:50 PM

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12/7/2011 4:01:11 PM

I too can photoshop

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12/7/2011 4:08:26 PM

nah son new beta invites went out yesterday

nothing here

rumor is that Blizz will announce the release date this weekend at Spike VGA

12/7/2011 4:09:49 PM

I didn't get one so it probably definitely is a hoax

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12/7/2011 4:11:42 PM

i, too, thought it was phishing.

12/7/2011 4:11:46 PM

12/7/2011 4:56:06 PM

Just got in too; downloading now

12/7/2011 5:05:53 PM

had a good download speed for awhile, then everyone else got home and started

12/7/2011 5:39:30 PM

i keep checking my spam folder and battle.net account info just in case I missed something

alas

12/7/2011 5:42:22 PM

gmail didn't toss it into a spam folder if you use that.

12/7/2011 5:55:11 PM

ugh bastards

12/7/2011 6:46:00 PM

beta beaten

12/7/2011 8:51:10 PM

got d3 beta invite and tor preload notice within a few minutes of each other

12/7/2011 8:57:55 PM

i believe they're primarily testing the blacksmithing in the beta process now.
they've limited the beta to cover act 1 with a maximum level of 13.

12/8/2011 8:09:13 AM

From what I understand, the Beta is wrapping up. They're testing the real money auction house, achievements and other non-gameplay related content.

Additionally the Facebook Beta Giveaway contest ends this Monday(12/12).

The rumors I've been reading point to an announcement of a release date at the Spike VGA this Saturday at the same time Blizzard unveils the opening cinematic for D3.

12/8/2011 10:03:55 AM

that seems right. the auction house had already been flooded with rare items. so i'm suspecting that it won't be easy to get much value out of anything you're selling unless you're the absolute first

12/8/2011 10:24:05 AM

In other words I am gonna play this game for a week and then realize every single other person spent 12 dollars buying the best gear you can get from chinese farmers. While I used to hate BOP items in WoW at times at least it made it obvious who bought their character and who earned stuff. I don't know I hope it isnt going to be that bad, but unfortunately that is how I forsee that going.

12/8/2011 10:36:17 AM

i don't think it will be bad in the point of lots of farming, but if theres an option between selling items for gold in game OR selling for real money, that you're not gonna see anything for gold.

similarly i think that the game will become a lot less fun with overgeared characters.


one note i had while playing with the demon hunter was that i experienced lag in the game. i'm not sure if this was due to hangup beta problems or if it was due to the always connected "feature" trying to perpetually sync my character to their servers.

i didn't notice it on the other characters that i ended up trying out, but i'm not sure which part was the contributing factor.

12/8/2011 10:41:54 AM

With Skyrim, Skyward Sword, and several other games that have come out lately I find it a bit hard to manufacture enthusiasm for Diablo 3... of course it probably won't release for quite a while.

12/8/2011 10:42:16 AM

most sites have the release date listed as Feb 1st.

I'd suspect it would be pushed back into march or april though, just knowing blizzard.

12/8/2011 10:45:34 AM

Quote :

"similarly i think that the game will become a lot less fun with overgeared characters."

From the recent interviews I've read, you won't even be able to survive on the Inferno difficulty lever (whatever the insane top one is), unless you've made several runs through on Hell and gotten Hell level gear. Inferno is designed for end-game, max leveled (60) players only, so even "traditionally" overgeared characters will still have a challenging time. The word "brutal" got thrown around a lot by the developers

12/8/2011 10:46:52 AM

i can see that happening.

i would debate starting on a higher difficulty level when the game comes out while playing with friends, depending on the class that i played, and that they allow it without beating the game on normal first.

12/8/2011 10:54:06 AM

From what I've read you can't start on Inferno, you have to beat Hell to open it up. But I don't know if you can start on Hell if you have to open it up as well.

12/8/2011 10:59:32 AM

hmm, that actually reminds me that in d2 they designed it so that the harder difficulties scaled in levels, rather than make the monsters scale to you and just change numbers or health values...

12/8/2011 11:02:46 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaO0gV9t6YM

Anyone wanna embed that? It's a video showing the Wizard skill Meteor and how the spell changes with the different rune stones slotted into the spell.

12/8/2011 11:06:58 AM

can not wait to play this

12/8/2011 11:12:09 AM

wizard is only one i didn't get to try cause servers went down.

speed of early leveling feels like it would be monk > wd > dh > barb so far

12/8/2011 11:21:28 AM

Monk is a pretty soloable class?

12/8/2011 12:32:50 PM

at least for the early levels it feels like it.

i played the demon hunter first, then monk, then witch doctor, then barbarian.

they implemented a shared stash, so i was able to transfer some basic weapons and gear across characters.

the demon hunter was fun, but was more of a kiting class until i could craft a better bow and it started ramping up in speed, but still required being on the move more. (this made the small bits of lag i experienced at the time even worse while trying to stay on the move)

the monk was definitely the favorite that i tried. very melee oriented, but the basic attack combo is a 3 hit combo that finishes hitting everything in a cone in front and doing a small knock back. i was able to equip two fist weapons that raised the dps from the base 3.0 to 4.3 i think. i also had a head piece that gave 3 life back per point of spirit (think mana/rage/utility) that is spent. given that i was in melee range picking up the life orbs dropped was very easy, getting large kill combos was easy, and chaining kills was easy. i think i played for 24 minutes and made it to level 5 and expect i could finish the first act in 45 minutes.

some of the other monk abilities looks like it could make him group oriented (group heal, group damage reduce, aoe slow) but he seems fine to dish out damage on his own and in a very quick manner.

12/8/2011 1:09:19 PM

I played a monk once too, till I took a arrow to the knee.

12/8/2011 1:36:28 PM