Hell Is Other Players

Specifically, other players swamping the servers and causing rampant 1000+ ms lag spikes.

Oy.

I feel bad for people who were playing Hardcore last night.

Anywhich, after another weekend lost to Diablo 3, my Demon Hunter is now level 52 and braving through Act I yet again - this time on Hell difficulty.

One thing I've noticed - and hopefully, dear reader you can either correct me or confirm my suspicion - is that the challenge of each difficulty level stays relatively flat until you get to the tail end of Act III, whereupon the game suddenly mashes on the accelerator until you're pinned to your chair. At least until you hit the Auction House and buy your way through the gear checks that are Izual and Diablo.

Would it be rude to say that Diablo cheats like a bitch in this game, but at least there's a plot reason for that? It would? Good thing I asked first.

On a lighter note, after many, many hours of reloading various maps and enduring the capriciousness of the RNG, I now have the Staff of Herding, upgraded to Nightmarish version, and can thus take friends on magical journeys to Whimsyshire, where we will encounter singing flowers, care bears and unicorns.

And by encounter, of course, I mean kill in horrible, horrible ways.

But the loot is pretty good, so there's that.

Comments

[Gaming PC folks]

guess they should have forseen the reaction & beefed up the servers

[tov]

Inferno is different. Even after they nerfed Acts 2-4, the ramp up from Act 1 champions to Act 2 is insane.

I can farm Act 1 in my sleep - I can barely kill champions in Act 2 (wiped probably 20 times before killing belial) and I can barely kill white mobs in Act 3. Granted I'm playing a melee and can't afford the hundreds of real dollars or hundreds of million of gold to buy my way through these acts.

However I am stubborn, so I will probably throw myself at this until I can get through Inferno solo.

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sal

[Brian]

I managed to scrape my way into Act II Inferno on my Demon Hunter, but I basically bankrupted myself doing so. Stupid Butcher.

After patting myself on the back, I strutted into the desert and got myself one shotted by a leaping Lacuni.

Yikes.

So then I started playing a Wizard.