Usa Forum - Thinking about coming back - went to Diablo instead :-

Urbin

8/31/2012 6:14:00 PM

With all the postings about patch 5.0.4 I was starting to feel the twitch to
come back form MoP after all. So I started looking around, read up on patch
notes, reinstalled my curse client to get as many addons updated as possible
before re-subbing, then went to the battle.net page to see about
re-subscribing and upgrading my account, but still undecided (sifting
through my load of addons that I hadn't kept updated in over a year sounds
like an epic quest on its own; as does the download of the 5.0.4 client).

Anyway, while I was looking around the battle.net page I noticed that the
Diablo III trial edition was available again (it temporarily wasn't when I
checked a while ago, that time, I started playing SC II instead :-)

So I downloaded the 8GB game client (took me about 6 hours at 500kb/s) and
gave it a go. First impression: the cut scenes are awe inspiring. The pencil
drawn scenes as well. Starting my first character (a demon hunter named
Urbin of course) was a bit of a shock, the movement seemed a bit jerky and I
kept opening all kinds of windows trying to move using WASD (even after
realising it won't work, my fingers still went back for it; I had to
reassign those keys to do nothing :-)

I played straight through the first act (killing the skeleton king), which
is as far as you can go in the free trial. I had a blast. I am now taking
each of the other classes there (though with less exploring) to see how I
like it, if I do, I might buy the full version, though I don't see myself
levelling each class all through the game, nor do I see myself playing
through the same content on each difficulty grade. Once I've seen the story,
I don't think I'd be willing to do it again and again and again. We'll see.

As for MoP, before stumbling on diablo, I was tempted to re-subbing now to
get used to patch 5.0.4 and catching up a little, then playing a month
pre-MoP and then a month of MoP before quitting again. I think I'll wait
another month and just do the single-MoP month, if at all...

In any case, I'll keep following the group to see how you all like it.

Cheers
Urbin, Level 10 Demon Hunter :-)

--
Dun Morogh-EU (PvE) | Juran (65), Druid
Urbin (85), Hunter | Surana (75), Mage | Greeta (65), Rogue
Mymule (85), Warlock | Kordosch (75), Deathknight | Gera (26), Paladin
Sunh (81), Priest | Taalas (85), Shaman | Vargal (42), Warrior

22 Answers

Catriona R

8/31/2012 7:44:00 PM

On 31 Aug 2012 18:14:08 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>I played straight through the first act (killing the skeleton king), which
>is as far as you can go in the free trial. I had a blast. I am now taking
>each of the other classes there (though with less exploring) to see how I
>like it, if I do, I might buy the full version, though I don't see myself
>levelling each class all through the game, nor do I see myself playing
>through the same content on each difficulty grade. Once I've seen the story,
>I don't think I'd be willing to do it again and again and again. We'll see.

It's very fun first time through, after that, well, I ended up back in
WoW by the time I'd reached Inferno mode but since it's not a
subscription game, I drop in every now and then and have a blast
slaughtering demons :-) Very fun game and good for not eating as much
time as WoW!

>As for MoP, before stumbling on diablo, I was tempted to re-subbing now to
>get used to patch 5.0.4 and catching up a little, then playing a month
>pre-MoP and then a month of MoP before quitting again. I think I'll wait
>another month and just do the single-MoP month, if at all...

Hehe may as well now, if you buy D3 it'll scratch your gaming itch for
a few weeks :-)

Ian Noble

8/31/2012 9:35:00 PM

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:43:53 +0100, Catriona R
<catrionarNOSPAM@totalise.co.uk> wrote:

>
>On 31 Aug 2012 18:14:08 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>>I played straight through the first act (killing the skeleton king), which
>>is as far as you can go in the free trial. I had a blast. I am now taking
>>each of the other classes there (though with less exploring) to see how I
>>like it, if I do, I might buy the full version, though I don't see myself
>>levelling each class all through the game, nor do I see myself playing
>>through the same content on each difficulty grade. Once I've seen the story,
>>I don't think I'd be willing to do it again and again and again. We'll see.
>
>It's very fun first time through, after that, well, I ended up back in
>WoW by the time I'd reached Inferno mode but since it's not a
>subscription game, I drop in every now and then and have a blast
>slaughtering demons :-) Very fun game and good for not eating as much
>time as WoW!

Agreed. D3's good fun in modest doses. I'm still playing it weekly
with a couple of friends - but by the time I'd been everywhere for
about the eighth or ninth time in various difficulties, it lost a
little too much of its novelty to keep me playing it as my primary
game. Looking forward to MoP launching.

Cheers - Ian

Orion Ryder

8/31/2012 11:57:00 PM

On Friday, August 31, 2012 2:14:10 PM UTC-4, Urbin wrote:
> With all the postings about patch 5.0.4 I was starting to feel the twitch to come back form MoP after all. So I started looking around, read up on patch notes, reinstalled my curse client to get as many addons updated as possible before re-subbing, then went to the battle.net page to see about re-subscribing and upgrading my account, but still undecided (sifting through my load of addons that I hadn't kept updated in over a year sounds like an epic quest on its own; as does the download of the 5.0.4 client). Anyway, while I was looking around the battle.net page I noticed that the Diablo III trial edition was available again (it temporarily wasn't when I checked a while ago, that time, I started playing SC II instead :-) So I downloaded the 8GB game client (took me about 6 hours at 500kb/s) and gave it a go. First impression: the cut scenes are awe inspiring. The pencil drawn scenes as well. Starting my first character (a demon hunter named Urbin of course) was a bit of a shock, the movement seemed a bit jerky and I kept opening all kinds of windows trying to move using WASD (even after realising it won't work, my fingers still went back for it; I had to reassign those keys to do nothing :-) I played straight through the first act (killing the skeleton king), which is as far as you can go in the free trial. I had a blast. I am now taking each of the other classes there (though with less exploring) to see how I like it, if I do, I might buy the full version, though I don't see myself levelling each class all through the game, nor do I see myself playing through the same content on each difficulty grade. Once I've seen the story, I don't think I'd be willing to do it again and again and again. We'll see. As for MoP, before stumbling on diablo, I was tempted to re-subbing now to get used to patch 5.0.4 and catching up a little, then playing a month pre-MoP and then a month of MoP before quitting again. I think I'll wait another month and just do the single-MoP month, if at all... In any case, I'll keep following the group to see how you all like it. Cheers Urbin, Level 10 Demon Hunter :-) -- Dun Morogh-EU (PvE) | Juran (65), Druid Urbin (85), Hunter | Surana (75), Mage | Greeta (65), Rogue Mymule (85), Warlock | Kordosch (75), Deathknight | Gera (26), Paladin Sunh (81), Priest | Taalas (85), Shaman | Vargal (42), Warrior

Glad you are having fun. I forget where you are playing the game? US or Europe?

My son Tyler is after me to download our free copy as he wants to play. This weekend he might have it.

Is a Demon Hunter the closest thing to an Amazon/Hunter?

I miss Kasim and the Valkyrie and the good old trusty Titan's Revenge.

Now if the Diablo 2 characters were availabe in Azeroth it would be fun indeed.

OH! OH! OH!

Orion

Orion Ryder

9/3/2012 12:38:00 AM

On Friday, August 31, 2012 2:14:10 PM UTC-4, Urbin wrote:
> With all the postings about patch 5.0.4 I was starting to feel the twitch to come back form MoP after all. So I started looking around, read up on patch notes, reinstalled my curse client to get as many addons updated as possible before re-subbing, then went to the battle.net page to see about re-subscribing and upgrading my account, but still undecided (sifting through my load of addons that I hadn't kept updated in over a year sounds like an epic quest on its own; as does the download of the 5.0.4 client). Anyway, while I was looking around the battle.net page I noticed that the Diablo III trial edition was available again (it temporarily wasn't when I checked a while ago, that time, I started playing SC II instead :-) So I downloaded the 8GB game client (took me about 6 hours at 500kb/s) and gave it a go. First impression: the cut scenes are awe inspiring. The pencil drawn scenes as well. Starting my first character (a demon hunter named Urbin of course) was a bit of a shock, the movement seemed a bit jerky and I kept opening all kinds of windows trying to move using WASD (even after realising it won't work, my fingers still went back for it; I had to reassign those keys to do nothing :-) I played straight through the first act (killing the skeleton king), which is as far as you can go in the free trial. I had a blast. I am now taking each of the other classes there (though with less exploring) to see how I like it, if I do, I might buy the full version, though I don't see myself levelling each class all through the game, nor do I see myself playing through the same content on each difficulty grade. Once I've seen the story, I don't think I'd be willing to do it again and again and again. We'll see. As for MoP, before stumbling on diablo, I was tempted to re-subbing now to get used to patch 5.0.4 and catching up a little, then playing a month pre-MoP and then a month of MoP before quitting again. I think I'll wait another month and just do the single-MoP month, if at all... In any case, I'll keep following the group to see how you all like it. Cheers Urbin, Level 10 Demon Hunter :-) -- Dun Morogh-EU (PvE) | Juran (65), Druid Urbin (85), Hunter | Surana (75), Mage | Greeta (65), Rogue Mymule (85), Warlock | Kordosch (75), Deathknight | Gera (26), Paladin Sunh (81), Priest | Taalas (85), Shaman | Vargal (42), Warrior

Well now that I tried to download my free install from ny contractual guarantee to play WoW for a year I envy you as I keep getting an error message regarding "agent" which is some kind of upater. When I check the processes tab on task manager there are tons of "agent" processes running.

This baffles me considering that it hasn't even installed yet. I would think that setup would first download the program and install it before it loks for dang blasted updates.

Well wish me luck.

Orion

steve.kaye

9/3/2012 7:01:00 AM

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:34:47 +0100, Ian Noble
<ipnoble@killspam.o2.co.uk> wrote:

>On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:43:53 +0100, Catriona R
><catrionarNOSPAM@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>>On 31 Aug 2012 18:14:08 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>I played straight through the first act (killing the skeleton king), which
>>>is as far as you can go in the free trial. I had a blast. I am now taking
>>>each of the other classes there (though with less exploring) to see how I
>>>like it, if I do, I might buy the full version, though I don't see myself
>>>levelling each class all through the game, nor do I see myself playing
>>>through the same content on each difficulty grade. Once I've seen the story,
>>>I don't think I'd be willing to do it again and again and again. We'll see.
>>
>>It's very fun first time through, after that, well, I ended up back in
>>WoW by the time I'd reached Inferno mode but since it's not a
>>subscription game, I drop in every now and then and have a blast
>>slaughtering demons :-) Very fun game and good for not eating as much
>>time as WoW!
>
>Agreed. D3's good fun in modest doses. I'm still playing it weekly
>with a couple of friends - but by the time I'd been everywhere for
>about the eighth or ninth time in various difficulties, it lost a
>little too much of its novelty to keep me playing it as my primary
>game. Looking forward to MoP launching.
>
>Cheers - Ian

You and Cat seemed to last longer than me. It's great the first time
around but it takes the things that I like least about WoW (repetition
and farming for gold and gear) and sort of makes them into a game.

The furthest I got was Act 2 nightmare and all the time that I was
playing Act 1 I was thinking how long it was, and was it not over
already. Then I remembered thinking that about Act 4 the *first* time
around and stopped playing knowing that I wouldn't be able to face it
again.

I still have it installed and I have a friend that I play with on
occasion so I think that's the only time that I'll play it in future.

steve.kaye
--
Jelan, 85 Priest Mingan, 85 Shaman Jaille, 80 Warlock
Kibbs, 85 Paladin Clokk, 85 Druid Belugar, 76 Warrior
Miho, 85 Rogue Jengu, 82 Death Knight Yopp, 73 Hunter
[ Ravenholdt-EU (Horde) ] Aloola, 70 Mage

Urbin

9/3/2012 8:33:00 AM

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:57:15 -0700 (PDT), orionryder@hotmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, August 31, 2012 2:14:10 PM UTC-4, Urbin wrote:
> > With all the postings about patch 5.0.4 I was starting to feel the twitch=
> to come back form MoP after all. So I started looking around, read up on p=
> atch notes, reinstalled my curse client to get as many addons updated as po=
> ssible before re-subbing, then went to the battle.net page to see about re-=
> , I'll keep following the group to see how you all like it. Cheers Urbin, L=
> evel 10 Demon Hunter :-) -- Dun Morogh-EU (PvE) | Juran (65), Druid Urbin (=
> 85), Hunter | Surana (75), Mage | Greeta (65), Rogue Mymule (85), Warlock |=
> Kordosch (75), Deathknight | Gera (26), Paladin Sunh (81), Priest | Taalas=
> (85), Shaman | Vargal (42), Warrior

Orion, you need to get yourself a proper newsreader or learn to snip the
quotes you're replying to. Google Groups has really (or just once more)
messed it up truly this time :-(

> Glad you are having fun. I forget where you are playing the game? US or Eur=
> ope?

Europe.

> Is a Demon Hunter the closest thing to an Amazon/Hunter?

I have no idea what an Amazon would have been like to play as I never played
Diablo II. I've now started one of each classes available (are there more in
the paid version?): Monk, Barbarian, Witch doctor, Mage (I might be
forgetting one of them). And plan to play each of them through Act I before
deciding if I want to buy the full version. Then I'll probably decide on one
of the characters, play through the full game once and then lie it aside
again.

So far I like the DH and the Barbarian best (one ranged, the other melee).
Haven't gotten further than reclaiming the crown on any of the others yet
(they are between level 3 and 7) but it seems that the mage plays itself
pretty much the same as the demon hunter, i.e. not much variation between
the two ranged characters, but then that might be because I'm playing at the
easiest level plus am still using the restricted "only three spells" mode. I
tried unlocking the "extended interface", but that just lets me pick my
three spells more freely, but won't actually let me use more of them at the
same time (is that a limitation of being only level 10 or of the free
version?)

Anyway, this is good fun and will last for a while without the addicitve
potential that WoW has to offer, in that regard it is the perfect "family
friendly" distraction for me.

[1] family friendly as in "good for keeping my family intact", not as in
"good for kids to play" ;-)

Cheers
Urbin
--
Dun Morogh-EU (PvE) | Juran (65), Druid
Urbin (85), Hunter | Surana (75), Mage | Greeta (65), Rogue
Mymule (85), Warlock | Kordosch (75), Deathknight | Gera (26), Paladin
Sunh (81), Priest | Taalas (85), Shaman | Vargal (42), Warrior

steve.kaye

9/3/2012 9:56:00 AM

On 3 Sep 2012 08:33:11 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:57:15 -0700 (PDT), orionryder@hotmail.com wrote:
>> On Friday, August 31, 2012 2:14:10 PM UTC-4, Urbin wrote:
>> > With all the postings about patch 5.0.4 I was starting to feel the twitch=
>> to come back form MoP after all. So I started looking around, read up on p=
>> atch notes, reinstalled my curse client to get as many addons updated as po=
>> ssible before re-subbing, then went to the battle.net page to see about re-=
>> , I'll keep following the group to see how you all like it. Cheers Urbin, L=
>> evel 10 Demon Hunter :-) -- Dun Morogh-EU (PvE) | Juran (65), Druid Urbin (=
>> 85), Hunter | Surana (75), Mage | Greeta (65), Rogue Mymule (85), Warlock |=
>> Kordosch (75), Deathknight | Gera (26), Paladin Sunh (81), Priest | Taalas=
>> (85), Shaman | Vargal (42), Warrior
>
>Orion, you need to get yourself a proper newsreader or learn to snip the
>quotes you're replying to. Google Groups has really (or just once more)
>messed it up truly this time :-(
>
>> Glad you are having fun. I forget where you are playing the game? US or Eur=
>> ope?
>
>Europe.
>
>> Is a Demon Hunter the closest thing to an Amazon/Hunter?
>
>I have no idea what an Amazon would have been like to play as I never played
>Diablo II. I've now started one of each classes available (are there more in
>the paid version?): Monk, Barbarian, Witch doctor, Mage (I might be
>forgetting one of them). And plan to play each of them through Act I before
>deciding if I want to buy the full version. Then I'll probably decide on one
>of the characters, play through the full game once and then lie it aside
>again.
>
>So far I like the DH and the Barbarian best (one ranged, the other melee).
>Haven't gotten further than reclaiming the crown on any of the others yet
>(they are between level 3 and 7) but it seems that the mage plays itself
>pretty much the same as the demon hunter, i.e. not much variation between
>the two ranged characters, but then that might be because I'm playing at the
>easiest level plus am still using the restricted "only three spells" mode. I
>tried unlocking the "extended interface", but that just lets me pick my
>three spells more freely, but won't actually let me use more of them at the
>same time (is that a limitation of being only level 10 or of the free
>version?)

It is due to your level. You get 6 abilities eventually although you
should have four available at level 10. You should have got access to
Vault at level 9. You open the 5th ability at level 14 and the 6th
ability at level 19.

The extended interface just allows you to choose more than one of a
particular skill type. The skill types for a hunter are primary,
secondary, defensive, hunting, devices and archery and the default
mode forces you to take one of each.

steve.kaye
--
Jelan, 85 Priest Mingan, 85 Shaman Jaille, 80 Warlock
Kibbs, 85 Paladin Clokk, 85 Druid Belugar, 76 Warrior
Miho, 85 Rogue Jengu, 83 Death Knight Yopp, 73 Hunter
[ Ravenholdt-EU (Horde) ] Aloola, 70 Mage

Catriona R

9/3/2012 11:13:00 AM

On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 08:00:51 +0100, Steve Kaye
<nospam@giddy-kippers.co.uk> wrote:

>You and Cat seemed to last longer than me. It's great the first time
>around but it takes the things that I like least about WoW (repetition
>and farming for gold and gear) and sort of makes them into a game.

I actually like farming so that bit of it's fun to me :-) Where I got
stuck was finding Inferno mode too hard and dying every elite pack I
met but being unable to gear above them without buying from the
auction house, which I was trying to challenge myself to not do! The
last patch appears to have improved matters though, I got further into
act 1 than I ever have before, just with WoW being patched my time's
going there atm... I'll be back at D3 sooner or later though, still
want to complete it fully!

>The furthest I got was Act 2 nightmare and all the time that I was
>playing Act 1 I was thinking how long it was, and was it not over
>already. Then I remembered thinking that about Act 4 the *first* time
>around and stopped playing knowing that I wouldn't be able to face it
>again.

Hehe Act 4 was really short! Sounds like it's definitely not your kind
of game then lol :-)

Urbin

9/3/2012 12:22:00 PM

On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:55:53 +0100, Steve Kaye wrote:
> On 3 Sep 2012 08:33:11 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> > not much variation between the two ranged characters, but then that
> >might be because I'm playing at the easiest level plus am still using the
> >restricted "only three spells" mode. I tried unlocking the "extended
> >interface", but that just lets me pick my three spells more freely, but
> >won't actually let me use more of them at the same time (is that a
> >limitation of being only level 10 or of the free version?)
>
> It is due to your level. You get 6 abilities eventually although you
> should have four available at level 10. You should have got access to
> Vault at level 9.

I'll check tonight, I might have misremembered, only having had the fourth
relatively late.

> You open the 5th ability at level 14 and the 6th ability at level 19.
>
> The extended interface just allows you to choose more than one of a
> particular skill type. The skill types for a hunter are primary,
> secondary, defensive, hunting, devices and archery and the default
> mode forces you to take one of each.

So what you are saying is that I will always be limited to max 6 spells,
just that the extended interface will let me have e.g. 2 primary, 3
secondary, 1 defensive and none of hunting, devices and archery?

I guess that will take some getting used to (unlike WoW where often there
were rather too many abilities to fit into a rotation :-)

Cheers
Urbin

--
Dun Morogh-EU (PvE) | Juran (65), Druid
Urbin (85), Hunter | Surana (75), Mage | Greeta (65), Rogue
Mymule (85), Warlock | Kordosch (75), Deathknight | Gera (26), Paladin
Sunh (81), Priest | Taalas (85), Shaman | Vargal (42), Warrior

Catriona R

9/3/2012 12:37:00 PM

On 3 Sep 2012 12:22:12 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:55:53 +0100, Steve Kaye wrote:
>> The extended interface just allows you to choose more than one of a
>> particular skill type. The skill types for a hunter are primary,
>> secondary, defensive, hunting, devices and archery and the default
>> mode forces you to take one of each.
>
>So what you are saying is that I will always be limited to max 6 spells,
>just that the extended interface will let me have e.g. 2 primary, 3
>secondary, 1 defensive and none of hunting, devices and archery?
>
>I guess that will take some getting used to (unlike WoW where often there
>were rather too many abilities to fit into a rotation :-)

Yep, it's part of the challenge to pick the best combination of
abilities and runes for your playstyle, since you can never have more
than 6 at one time (plus three passives). In theory, all abilities
should be similar in power, in reality, it can take a lot of
experimentation to get a setup that fits your own preferred play. My
only character I've levelled high is a Monk, and I have a completely
different build to the other high level Monks on a.g.d2!

alt.games.warcraft

Thinking about coming back - went to Diablo instead :-

Urbin

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