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    Re: News - Blizzard apologises for imperfect Diablo III launch

    lvl 13 HC wizard, died against tiny spiders due to lag, wasn't impressed

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    Re: News - Blizzard apologises for imperfect Diablo III launch

    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Midas View Post
    Right, so whatever I have equiped gets used when I run out of arcane power. Cheers lads.
    It's more than that - your items are what determine the damage you do and how fast you repeat attacks. All the skills are modifiers on top of this base damage/attack rate. It's completely non-sensical, but if you give a wizard a dagger then he can fire off weak magic missiles more quickly, or you can give him a two-handed sword and the magic missiles will do more damage but can't be thrown as often.

    But if you ignore the sensibilities, it's a great gameplay mechanic, and allows you to tailor your skills power/rate/effects by changing weapons - and gives those characters a reason to loot as often as warriors.

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    Re: News - Blizzard apologises for imperfect Diablo III launch

    Quote Originally Posted by Scribe View Post
    Amazon didn't send out copies for the 11pm release, which made us have to buy a digital download which is at the ridiculous price of £45 for something that doesn't even have a physical component and is sold directly by Blizzard.
    Sorry if I'm missing something, but why? Did they come round your house and threaten to remove you kneecaps if you weren't playing the game within an hour of release?

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    Re: News - Blizzard apologises for imperfect Diablo III launch

    Anybody have any free copies of this game they don't want anymore??

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    Re: News - Blizzard apologises for imperfect Diablo III launch

    Quote Originally Posted by jimbouk View Post
    Sorry if I'm missing something, but why? Did they come round your house and threaten to remove you kneecaps if you weren't playing the game within an hour of release?
    Have you never met a BlizzBot on the internet before?
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    for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.

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    Re: News - Blizzard apologises for imperfect Diablo III launch

    Quote Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH View Post
    Anybody have any free copies of this game they don't want anymore??
    Shame they couldn't transfer them to you yey for DRM!
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Re: News - Blizzard apologises for imperfect Diablo III launch

    I also thought this. Why they couldn't follow the way they did it in Diablo 2 seemed strange, even with the real money auction house. Simply have it so offline characters can not use the online services, simple. The reason I see behind them it is possible to enable simple drop in co op and have greater controller over the piracy issues. Yet I think the people who want to play this online together would buy it anyway.

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    Re: News - Blizzard apologises for imperfect Diablo III launch

    After 12 years to launch a game, we need more than a d@mn apology!

    Took me ages to get online the other day.

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