So, post-ah debacle and WITH the expansion (if anyone has it), how is Diablo III now?

I was reading around on their forums and the general feeling is that it's a totally improved game now?

Arkat wrote on Mar 28^th, 2014 at 3:49pm:


THAT's what seemed to be a recurring theme - almost verbatim.

So it's a repetitive dungeon crawler hack n slash with gear progression as end-game?

And I'm not bad-mouthing that genre - sometimes that's what ya wanna do

Their so called Loot 2.0 really makes the game more fun for casual gamers I think. You get loot with stats that fit the class you are playing at the moment. And even on normal you can find legendary items now at a decent rate.

The new mystic(crafting npc) allows you do reroll one of the echantments of an item, so if only one thing is wrong on an item you can make it your perfect item you were looking for.
And for the styles you can change the appearance of an item to each other item you already found for that slot. You can even make yourself look like you would have only legendary items, even if everything is just random drops.

And I think the adventure mode makes it a bit more interestig instead of just running the whole compaign over and over again. Unless you are farming only on 1-2 spots anyways because you want max exp or drops.

All skills got reworked and many runes got replaces by new ones. So now you can make a frost orb sorc like in D2.

So if you have the game and didn't play it for some time, even if you don't buy the expansion the game should be fun again for 1-2 weeks, depending how many different classes you like to play or how much fun you have in farming better gear.

The expansion itself... they managed to have it ready 1-2 weeks before the release so that there were  no big problems on release day.
Not much to say about it, if you like the story depends on personal opinion anyways. Apart from that usual diablo/blizzard quality of a game.

At least the week before the expansion you could get the base game for only 20€. Guess they had a similar promotion for america.

But I am very surprised the base game isn't down to 20 €/$ permanent price already.

And about the frost orb sorc... you won't be able to spam as much orbs as in D2, unless you tuned your gear for that.
But the Spell behaves similar to D2, still best to get the orc exploding right behind the mob you want the most damage on. ^^

It is awesome.

And don't forget to check amazon. At least for me it's cheaper to buy it on amazon than on the official blizzard store.

Maybe other online shops or game stores have even better prices.

whothefuckami wrote on Apr 9^th, 2014 at 11:37pm:

If you live in New Zealand and don't get the lag, yeah maybe.

SwashbucklerHater wrote on Apr 9^th, 2014 at 6:25pm:


DIII on Amazon is $35+$40 = $75... that's not cheaper than $60 on battle.net. Unless you mean just the expansion, then yes, it's like $1.50 cheaper, yay?

Ah yeah, gotta love how lazy companies do $ = €.

Munkenmo wrote on Apr 13^th, 2014 at 3:59pm:


You're agreeing with him. IIRC the POE servers are in your neck of the woods, the lag in NA is terrible - something we're not used to.

cdr wrote on Apr 13^th, 2014 at 8:08pm:


They're hosted in aus.

I think poe is the better game of the two, but its definately better when theres 20ms pings in poe and 280ms pings in d3

cdr wrote on Apr 13^th, 2014 at 11:09pm:

She stayed with the game for a long time but it eventually got to her. Besides, the good things in the DIII expansion made it much easier to leave PoE.

Illetirated wrote on Apr 14^th, 2014 at 3:23pm:


That's technically the patch, not the expansion.