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MrBean wrote:
I'm sure you can spare a 30 minute break from Tears of the Kingdom in order to play Diablo

Just play Zelda while you're waiting hours for a Diablo server to connect!

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM DIABLO IV’S POST-LAUNCH EXPERIENCES

Basically, a premium battle pass, more money.

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo4/23952500/w...

"With each Season comes a new Battle Pass for you to earn rewards from, containing 27 Free Tiers and 63 Premium Tiers. Overall, there are three versions of the Battle Pass available. The Free Battle Pass, simply called Battle Pass, the Premium Battle Pass, which will cost 1,000 Platinum (equivalent of $9.99 USD), and the Accelerated Battle Pass, which includes all perks of the Premium Battle Pass, 20 Tier Skips, the Wings of the Creator Emote, and will cost 2,800 Platinum (equivalent of $24.99 USD)."

I hate everything about what I just quoted, but it sounds like it's just cosmetics so far.

That sucks. Battle passes don’t belong in a $60 game IMO

They don't, but the genie's out of the bottle now.

Orlandu wrote:

Yup, they know it’s extra revenue for them that people will pay for.

Server Slam is good. Playing on PS5 though and running into some issues with my character not moving sometimes or getting stuck besides that it is good.

One week to go!

Ugh, to pause on TotK and play this or not ... The decisions!

The first week will probably be a bit frustrating with server issues, so you can probably wait at least a little while.

Everything I’m doing gets put aside when Diablo IV comes out. Diablo and Baldur’s Gate are my two favorite game franchises, and we get an entry from both this year. Between those, the PSVR2, and FF XVI, this might very well end up being my favorite year of gaming ever.

I'll pick it up on sale. Absolutely no rush, I've got TotK to finish, and waiting in the wings is Metroid Prime and Xenoblade Chronicles DE. I'm swamped!

This'll give them time to balance the classes, there's still too many Druids in denial that it's okay that they clear bosses at a third of the speed of every other class in the game and I think they're all developers.

No one has ever got a Druid right in any game. It’s just the red headed step child of fantasy classes.

Feeb wrote:

No one you say? Oh ho, but are you SURE?

Pre-load available, 85gb! Wow.

I'll have to pre-load it tonight

I made a thread here if anyone wants to leave their battle.net names for teaming up when it goes live - https://gametz.com/VideoGame_Discussion/diablo-4-p...

Ah, looks like the 85gb is with the 4k textures ... half the size if you're not playing on Ultra (which I won't be on my 3070).

I was kinda hoping the the Load times on the PS5 would be better. Since there is Cross platform I suppose they had to keep it the same... faster load times may give an advantage. I will end up getting this at some point maybe in July... I really need to knock out a few games before adding another.

I was considering the deluxe for early access. Who am I kidding, I won’t touch this for weeks.

Feeb wrote:

I said the same thing but Diablo is a great "play during downtime at work" game for me .

I think I'm gonna shelf Zelda (ugh, I know), in favor of Diablo + Final Fantasy.

Zelda will become a play during paternity leave game I think.

MrBean wrote:

Why not? ...Oh, 4K lol. I was like I was doing 120fps at 1440p Ultra on my 6700XT

I wasn't going to buy this. I didn't play either beta tests. Although I tried to play the first one but couldn't due to the wait times. And today I logged into my xbox, which has become my main console due to issues with my PS5. And on the store it had one of those new Just for You personalized sales they are doing now (not sure when this started, some time this year I think). It was for the Ultimate version of Diablo 4. Normally these things are like 15-25% off. And its based on games you've played/bought recently. Poissibly even the amount of money you've been spending. Not fully sure how these are setup. But this one makes no sense for it to be targeted at me. And the fact it was 50% off is really bizarre. This made it cheaper than the standard version. $49.99. So like the chump I am, I bought it. So I'll be playing this later tonight, even though I had no intention of doing so. Targeted sales 1, me 0.

And now that I've bought this, its giving me a Just for You sale of F1 2023 at 19% off. Which makes more sense. I've played F1 games on this system before. I've never played a Diablo or a Diablo like game on xbox before. Actually that is wrong. I downloaded that first beta test on Xbox. But never was able to connect to play it as the wait times were over an hour every time I loaded it up.

I’ve seen that going around Twitter.

Feeb wrote:

Yeah, I was just looking around on reddit and apparently this is a common thing happening. So now I don't feel so special, lol.

People also saying they pre-orderd the standard edition, and it showing them the Ultimate edition upgrade for $20. Which saves them $10. Not as big of a thing. But that one seems to be more common. Some people also saying they had Microsoft cancel their original pre-order. Then buy the Ultimate edition showing for $20. I wonder how that is going to pan out for them. Amazing if they get the full thing for $20. But I have a feeling it wont work out like.

PSN goes down at launch. I’m guessing hacked.

Fix for ps users who get license error. “Redeem” any free game add on or demo and then relaunch the game. Game will work after. Strange but many reporting it works.

I’m locked out of all digital. Can play my discs.

I really like how you can refund your skills for free up to level 8. It lets you test all the early base skills to see what type of build you like before committing. And you aren't punished by having to pay a lot of gold for it early in the game.

Feeb wrote:

Try going to Settings > Users and Accounts > Other > Restore Licenses > Restore
See if that works for you. I've had to do that a few times on PS4 and PS5 after PSN has had issues.

Archer wrote:

I got them back by doing the disconnect/ reconnect internet then restart. Unless it was coincidence and it’s just back up.

What class you all roll with first. I went sorcerer. Thinking of just making each character for the first 8 levels to see which I like the most.

Shane12m wrote:

This is what I did last night. And I still don't know which one I want to do first/main.

I want to play Druid- but it’s prolly bad. Sorcerer was most fun D3 for me so I’ll probably spend the most time with it. I plan on getting all the trophies so I’ll likely max a normal of each class.

Feeb wrote:

Why do you think the Druid is bad?

Shane12m wrote:

It always is. Or was in D 2 - I didn’t do much with it there because it was dlc. Wasn’t it worst in DPS charts too?

Druid apologists said it's fine that every other class clears content three times faster than them because once you get full legendary sets and set pieces they really start to do acceptable damage before they die in scaled content. Who cares if a sorc two-bangs the same boss? We finally have a class with a body type I can identify with. And that's the important part

D3 was all about not getting hit and killing fast. I haven’t played iv at all- but hundreds of hours in 3 proved you gotta dodge and blast. I’m not interested in slogging out a low DPS class- I’d rather be a glass cannon. More on this after I spend hundreds of hours I guess.

Guess sorcerer is not the same class as 3? It was called wizard last outing.

So now that I've spent some time getting sorc and druid to level 12. I'm dumping druid. Holy crap does it drop off bad as it levels. Sorc main it is.

I was going to do the same with rouge and possibly necro, but that would just be wasting more time instead of playing. Its just far more powerful than anything else. Like by a long distance. People claming the barb is the most powerful are out of their minds. And its actually far more fun playing with the spell synergy. Mixing ice and lightening is amazing. The druid is a one trick pony no matter how you spec your skills. And it doesn't level dps very well at all. You feel more powerful early. And as you level you start to feel very under leveled to the enemies. Which is the same problem I was having with necro as well, all be it far sooner. Barb just felt meh out the gate. The only other class that might compete with sorc overall is the rouge. But the bow stuff just turns me off.

I'm planning a more defensive oriented barb for teaming, and a sorc for solo. Being able to group up enemies, tank em and keep aggro with barb is nice