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[[Image:allthesediablo3s.jpg|thumb|right|Introducing the highly anticipated Shoplifter class.]]
[[Image:d3qq9.jpg|thumb|Diablo 3 in a nutshell.]]
Diablo 3 is an Action RPG developed for the PC by [[Blizzard Entertainment]], and the [[You|unholy bastard child]] of [[Diablo 2]] and [[World of Warcraft]]. While its [[Bullshit|11 year development cycle]] led people to believe it was going to be the [[Lie|most awesome thing since sliced bread]], it ended up being a boring mess of a game that bombed as quickly as your average [[Crap|Free-to-Play MMO]]. Veteran Diablo players were annoyed by the dumbed-down character customization, the cartoony WOW-like atmosphere, and the fact that the game was [[Scam|rigged]] to force you to buy gold and items from Blizzard for real money. Blizzard fanboys who bought the game were annoyed by the fact that there were no [[Faggotry|mailboxes for them to dance on]], and that there was nothing for them to do after playing the game for hundreds of hours.


'''Diablo III''' is an over-rated, over-hyped <s>hack'n'slash</s> kite'n'run game released in 2012. It was announced [[last Thursday]] to the [[cum|joy]] of many [[gay|hardcore]] fans. There was excitement for all of two seconds before the lifeless nerds who still play ''[[Diablo]] 2'' [[WoW|were annoyed by the new graphics and features]] because their eyes are not used to more than 256 colors. This led to lulz, because ''Diablo'' is WoW with [[Fuck you I'm a dragon|less dragons]]. It is the first entry in the series to abandon the classical hack'n'slash genre and instead embrace the kite'n'run concept.
The game has also been plagued by its share of errors, hacks, and retarded development decisions that eventually led to to Game Director [[Nigger|Jay Wilson]] committing [[An hero|seppuku]] in his bathtub. His funeral was subsequently crashed by vengeful Diablo fans, who desecrated his remains by pouring [[Mountain Dew]] and Cheetos on them. The cops were unable to intervene because of the noxious body odour emanating from all the unwashed [[Neckbeard|neckbeards]] there, and had to maintain a safe distance downwind.


==The forging of ''Diablo III''==
Since it launched, around 98.5% of Diablo 3's player base has evaporated, leaving behind only a small handful of [[Idiots|dedicated players]]. These sorry fools have nothing better to do with their time than to sit in their basements playing the game and writing [[flame_war|lengthy rants on the official forums]] about how much the game sucks, even though they still play it for 7 hours every day. The developers have since basically given up on the game, leaving a skeleton crew behind to patch the game every couple months with just enough new "content" to satiate the drooling imbeciles who still play it.
[[Image:D3qq9.jpg|thumb|right|''Diablo III'' in a [[Balls|nutshell]]...]]


#Make the new ''Diablo'' [[ZOMG|3D]]
#[[EA|Remove Satanic graphics]] so it looks like [[Shit|''Warcraft 3'']] in order to ensnare "[[Newfag|casual gamers]]".
#Consult /b/ to gain some insight into how you might go about making the game even [[Unrealistic expectations|better]] than D2....
#Become mind-reamed at the sheer horror of /b/ and never ever to be hard programmings again.
#Instead of actually programming a whole game, devise just a small section and have it so that when [[You|the player]] reaches the end they just start from the beginning on a [[Erection|harder]] difficulty level.
#Wait until the next [[Starcraft]] gets released.
#[[????]]
#[[Profit]]!!


==Story==
Diablo 3 takes place in the realm of Sanctuary, 20 years after the [[Nigger|Archangel Tyrael]] destroyed the Woodenstone with his magic [[penis|sword]]. The explosion blew up Mount Arreat and reduced Tyrael to component parts. After Dorothy spent 20 years putting him back together, he returned to Heaven to face judgement for being a [[retard]] and almost blowing the Earth up. After some riveting dialogue and a totally kickass fight scene, the Archangel Imperius punished him for his transgressions by turning him into a nigger and [[LOL|launching him at a village full of white people]]. Unfortunately, he missed, and ending up launching Tyrael into the old cathedral where Diablo was buried. For some unexplained reason, this resurrected every dead demon on Earth, and they all began tearing up the countryside. The angels simply shrugged their shoulders and watched the carnage while drinking malt liquor and [[fun|pissing on hapless peasants below]].
You start the game as a lone warrior, sent to Tristram to investigate the Flaming Nigger from Outer Space. You encounter a girl named Leah, the niece of Deckard Cain from the first two games. Later, the two of you end up rescuing Cain himself from the newly resurrected Skeleton King. Cain doesn't identify your items this time around, so his only purpose in the game is to say stupid bullshit before being murdered by a purple fairy with Princess Leia hair.
After meeting up with Tyrael, you both embark on a quest to defeat the remaining two lesser evils, Belial and Azmodan. You would have known about them if you [[dork|read the Diablo II instruction book all those years ago]], but you didn't, did you? Your first target is Belial, who is known for being a [[homo|master manipulator]]. Or at least, he was, up until several angels dropped a safe on his head, reducing his intellectual capacity to that of a 10 year old. In the process of hunting Belial, you discover that there is a Magic Soulstone MacGuffin of Doom that somehow trapped all the souls of all the evils from the first two games. That's right, nothing you did in either of the first two Diablos actually mattered! What a [[gay|wonderful]] plot twist!
Anyhow, you resolve to trap the two souls in the Soulstone MacGuffin so your totally-not-evil witch partner Adria can perform a dark necromantic blood ritual to "destroy" it. After capturing the two souls, you leave the concentrated power of Hell in the hands of some woman you've only known for about 30 minutes while you go have a beer. Of course, while you're away having the beer, Adria resurrects Diablo, who returns as all 7 of the Prime and Lesser Evils combined. After a hefty amount of thought and consideration, Blizzard decided to make the resulting abomination look and sound like a gay, effeminate version of Diablo. He even has [[tits]]. Really, we're not joking. They jiggle around, too...
Gay Diablo invades Heaven, and you follow him in. A dramatic confrontation ensues at "The Pinnacle of Heaven", and Gay Diablo turns into a Pinata that explodes in a shower of cash and prizes. There is a great celebration, right before you go out and do this all over again [[Over 9000|3]] more times.
==Gameplay==
[[Image:diabloporn1.jpg|thumb|If you get sick of Diablo 3's dreary gameplay, we recommend this more enjoyable activity.]]
Diablo's gameplay is the exact same hack'n slash bullshit you got sick of 10 years ago, only this time in glorious 3D. Enemies show up, you click them until they die, and then they explode in a flurry of cash and prizes. Occasionally there's some story bullshit you don't care about, then it's back to killin'. The game is divided into 4 Acts, each with a [[Lie|distinctly different]] setting and new assortment of baddies to kill. After you beat all 4 Acts, you do them over again on a harder difficulty setting. The difficulty levels are Normal, Nightmare, Hell, and [[Gay|Inferno]]. Once you beat Inferno and [[Basement Dweller|hit the game's level cap of 60]], you can then spend your endgame time <strike>dancing on mailboxes</strike> farming the game for more gear so you can get more cash to buy more gear to get more cash to buy more gear so you can have good gear and lots of cash to buy good gear with. What's the point, you say? Clearly, you're not familiar with [[Shit|these types of games]].
The multiplayer system is similar to [[Diablo 2]], allowing a maximum of 4 players to band together against the forces of Hell. Unfortunately, the game has reached a point where 90% of the people in public games are either bots or [[China|Chinese]] gold farmers, so unless you have friends who haven't quit the game yet, you probably won't have a good time. There's also no open PVP like there was in Diablo 2, so you can't gank all these losers.
While Diablo 3 is really just a prettier version of Diablo 2, it needn't have been a bad game. Unfortunately, Blizzard decided to ruin the experience by combining it with all the worst elements of World of Warcraft. Character customization is as simplified as it possibly can be, to the point where you have no control whatsoever over your character's attributes or skill strength. Each character has only a handful of different skills, most of which suck, and you can choose 6 of them to spam over and over again on your hotbar.
===Grindfest 2012===
[[Image:Diablo3_D3_Profit.jpg|thumb|Diablo 3 is deliciously Pay-To-Win. Only, you don't win anything...]]
Because of the game's over-simplified character progression, all Diablo 3 characters of a certain level are effectively the same, and can only really distinguish themselves with gear. This is all part of a nasty scheme by [[Jews|Blizzard]] to force you to use the Auction House, an in-game gear trading system that allows you to buy and sell items for either [[Internet Money|gold]] or [[Jewgold|real money]] (Blizzard takes a hefty cut of all transactions, of course). The Auction House is basically the retarded cousin of [[EVE Online|EVE Online's economy]], a spreadsheet laden paradise filled with [[retards|stupid people]] who don't understand the basic rules of [[economics]]. While this makes it fairly easy to make piles of gold and cash off of it, adding this kind of drudgery to a game that's supposed to be fun (in other words, not an MMO) is a cardinal sin of gaming that has alienated most [[normal people|sane gamers]] from Diablo 3.
To further shore up players for the Auction House, the game is rigged so that 99% of the items that drop from enemies will be total pieces of shit, and the few that aren't shit won't be for your class. Remember the old days of Diablo 2 when you actually got excited when a rare item dropped? Not any more, [[bitch]]. Now, you can find a whole inventory of rares, and more often than not you will end up selling every single one to a [[Jew|merchant]] for chump change. Legendaries are even shittier, and the Auction House is continuously flooded with garbage legendaries nobody wants.
You'll notice we've dedicated a big chunk of the Gameplay section to talking about the Auction House. That's because Diablo 3 is really just a fantasy-themed Auction House. Diablo 3, at its core, is a shitty Skinner Box of a game designed around a service to make Blizzard money, and it has worked flawlessly due to the stupidity of its fans. You might have thought it impossible to so thoroughly ruin a game whose premise is so simple, yet years of working on World of Warcraft have turned all the Blizzard devs into jaded, money-grubbing fucks who have lost all faith in humanity. They don't even want to make good games any more, they just want to make money off the backs of drooling neckbeards so they can construct a fallout shelter for when the current generation [[Apocalypse|grows up and ruins the planet]].
==Character Classes==
Diablo 3 has 5 character classes: [[Fag|Monk]], [[Fag|Barbarian]], [[Fag|Demon Hunter]], [[Fag|Wizard]], and [[Nigger|Witch Doctor]]. In the interests of sexual equality, Blizzard decided to allow you to play as either a [[Asshole|male]] or [[Cunt|female]] version of your character instead of forcing you to play a specific gender for each class. In the interests of [[13 year old boys]], they made all the female characters' armour look like bikinis. The best part is that you can buy "Vanishing Dye" for your armour that makes you look like you're in your [[Panties|skivvies]]. Unfortunately for the 13 year old boys, this sword cuts both ways.
[[Image:Diablo_3_Characters.jpg|thumb|The usual suspects.]]
Anyhow, the five character classes are as follows:
==="The Monk" a.k.a. Punchy McCracker the Tornado Chucker===
The monk is a holy warrior who worships 1001 gods, who are apparently all Dalmations. The male monk looks like a child molester who strung a few coconuts around his neck, and the female monk looks like a sickly anime character who could do with a bit of sunlight.
The Monk is a melee class that combines the Monk from D&D with the Paladin from Diablo 2. While you deal abysmally shitty amounts of damage, you compensate for this with evasion buffs, healing abilities and magical auras that buff you and your party. This is all very useful because when you get to Inferno you will die in 4 hits instead of 2. Sadly, your low damage will kind of negate this benefit.
A lot of Diablo 3 players think the Monk class blows, which it does. On the upside, you get an attack that shoots [[over 9000]] lightning tornados at enemies whenever you attack stuff. This turns every battle involving Monks into a rave that crashes everyone else's computer.
==="The Barbarian" a.k.a. Faggio Chopmaster the Whirling Musclehead===
The Barbarian is a warrior cast out from his tribe after being caught raping a chicken. Both the male and female Barbarians look and sound like butch queers.
The Barbarian is a big, lumbering jock whose only skill is doing lots of damage and not getting killed. He/She/It is every Diablo 3 player's favourite class because the only thing you need to do is just continuously hold the mouse button down. Unfortunately for melee classes in Diablo 3, the enemies at higher difficulty levels are so overpowered that it's impossible to engage them directly unless you've spent like a billion gold on gear. Assuming you don't want to do that, the only way to survive as a Barb is to dual wield a pair of speedy weapons and continuously use the Whirlwind attack. This makes your character twirl around the playing field while wildly swinging his weapons around. As you're doing this, the game appropriately plays Flashdance in the background.
It is a statistically documented fact that only fags, dykes and retards play Barbarians.
==="The Demon Hunter" a.k.a. Sissyboy Kiteypants the Leaping Devil Raper===
The Demon Hunter is supposed to be some emo loser whose family was murdered by demons, and who now seeks revenge on all of demonkind. The male Demon Hunter looks like the Prince of Persia (and even has the same voice actor), and the female one is just some 18 year old slut.
The Demon Hunter is a ranged, bow-wielding class that's basically a combination of the Amazon and the Assassin from Diablo 2. Other than being a whiny bitch, the Demon Hunter excels in the fine art of doing piles of damage and running away. You'd better be good at doing piles of damage and running away too, because Demon Hunters are very wimpy and all of their skills revolve around helping you do piles of damage and run away.
This may not sound like much fun, but Demon Hunters have their uses. Until the game's economy went into the shitter and the Auction House became filled with a glut of endgame items, the only way to survive Inferno's stupidly overpowered enemies was to do piles of damage and run away. Naturally, the Demon Hunter excelled at this, to the point where lots of people re-rolled as Demon Hunters because their previous characters weren't very good at doing piles of damage and running away. The ideal setup split these responsibilities between 2 or more Demon Hunters, one of whom would play Ring Around the Rosie with enemies while the other ones shot them in the ass. This exercise summarizes about 90% of Diablo 3's multiplayer battles.
==="The Wizard" a.k.a. Frostybutt Bubbleboy the Levitating Bug-Zapper===
The Wizard is a rogue mage who was expelled from the Jedi Academy in Caldeum after blowing his instructor's head off "just to see what would happen."
The Wizard is your standard mage character, except instead of just being a damage dealer he can also freeze enemies and use powerful armour and evasion spells. Thanks to masterful class balancing, a good Wizard can permanantly freeze enemies and is almost impossible to kill. Sadly, most Wizards in Diablo 3 are ex-WoW players who only care about maxing out their DPS and turning themselves into gimped Demon Hunters that shoot lightning bolts.
==="The Witch Doctor" a.k.a. Ufufu the Spear-Throwing Nigger===
The Witch Doctor is a walking example of every negative stereotype that has ever existed about undiscovered Africa. He's a nigger with a feathery headress, hoops through his mouth and ears, a ridiculous accent, and very little clothing. His primary attacks involve either shooting enemies with a blowgun or flinging poisonous jungle animals at them.
Combat-wise, the Witch Doctor is basically a combination of the Necromancer and the Druid from Diablo 2. In addition to doing similar amounts of damage as a Wizard, you can summon zombie minions to distract enemies while you blast them with your blowgun or fling fireballs at them. This makes the Witch Doctor a very easy class to play. As it happens, not many people play as a Witch Doctor because he's a nigger and people have horrible memories of how shitty the Necromancer from Diablo 2 was.
==Development and Update History==
Shortly after Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction was released, Blizzard claimed to be working on Diablo 3. Not much was heard about the game over the next few years, and it was assumed to be vapourware. Every now and then, gameplay footage and trailers would be released, promising that the game would be finished "when it's done." This led fans to believe that Blizzard was slowly honing and perfecting the game into a polished gem of Diabloey goodness, when really all they were doing was coming up with radical new ideas and then cutting them out because they thought their fans would be too stupid to enjoy them. This eventually led to Diablo 3 being released with around 50% of its planned content and mechanics cut out, with the developers promising to release them when they had them perfected. PVP was notoriously cut out at the last minute, with Blizzard planning to re-implement it in a few months. They didn't.
Diablo 3 sold over 10 million copies at launch, making Blizzard a bazillion dollars. For the first few days, it was the hottest game going. Then it all went to Hell.
===OMG, Hax!===
[[Image:Blizzdrone_defending_authenticators.jpg|thumb|Now you parents out there know how to get little Timmy a job.]]
[[Image:Allthesediablo3s.jpg|thumb|"What are you staring at me like that for? I'm buying these for all my friends!"]]
[[Image:D3Inferno.jpg|thumb|An artist's depiction of what Inferno was like for D3 player during launch.]]
Shortly after Diablo 3's launch, a large number of Diablo 3 players had their accounts hacked by Chinese people, who stripped them of all their items so they could sell them on the Auction House. As it turns out, this happens every time a Blizzard game is launched because most people who play Blizzard games are 14 year old dorks who download gigantic piles of warez, porn and fake hacking programs onto their parents' unprotected work machines.  Blizzard was kind enough to let players with compromised accounts get all their items back, and even began offering an iPhone app as well as a physical authenticator that prevents a person from logging into your account remotely.
Sadly, most Blizzard fanboys are immature losers who love to whine and troll, so the Diablo 3 forums ended up being awash with conspiracy theories about the hacking wave. Many people thought the whole fiasco was a scam Blizzard designed to sell its overpriced authenticators for the exorbitant sum of $6.50 + free shipping (that's over two weeks of allowance! Holy shit!), but a quick bit of research would have revealed that the Blizzard Authenticators are custom-manufactured [http://www.vasco.com/products/client_products/single_button_digipass/digipass_go6.aspx Vasco Digipass Go 6 units] that Blizzard sells at cost and ships to your house for free. You also don't have to buy them. At all.
Blizzard stressed that as far as they knew, it was impossible to be hacked with an authenticator and that it hadn't happened once in the several years they had been selling them for World of Warcraft. Naturally, the forums began to fill up with trolls claiming to be "a 46 year old IT specialist who has been to university for computers and got hacked even though I had an authenticator", but Blizzard didn't deem this to be credible evidence. There were also rumours that the hacks were the result of an exploit in public games that allowed hackers to instigate Man-in-the-Middle attacks against their targets. This supposedly allowed them to hijack their targets' game sessions and kick them out of the game while they and their friends stole all their stuff. This ended up being proven false by actual IT specialists who knew what they were talking about, but all of the underage whiners on the forums didn't care because they felt that being members of [[Anonymous|Anonymouse]] and browsing the [[Deep Web]] made them knowledgeable beyond mortal comprehension.
While no serious person bought into any of the bullshit surrounding the hacking fiasco, it was very negative press for the Diablo 3 community, making the old Diablo 2 veterans realize that years of World of Warcraft had garnered Blizzard one of the worst player bases on the entire internet, second only to [[Runescape]] and [[League of Legends]].
===The Bots Are Coming! The Bots Are Coming!===
After the game had been out for a few weeks, Chinese gold farmers had perfected their botting programs and set up gold farming farms with dozens of computers running Diablo 3. Because of the game's horrible balancing issues and numerous unpatched exploits, this initially made the owners of these farms hundreds of dollars per day. More and more people hopped on the bandwagon, discovering new exploits faster than Blizzard could patch the old ones. Eventually, there were so many of these people that the massive influx of cheap gold caused its value to deflate faster than your dick after witnessing the lovely fan art to your lower right.
To make matters worse, at this exact same time, players who were just making it to level 60 and encountering Inferno ran into a bit of a problem. Blizzard had rigged the game so that Inferno was too hard for players to beat right after they finished Hell. In order to find gear that was good enough to progress through Inferno, they either had to go out and buy $50-$100 worth of Diablo 3 gold to spend in the Auction House, or spend inordinate amounts of time farming Act 1 over and over again for gold and gear. At this point, all of the Diablo 3 players who weren't [[retards|MMO enthusiasts]] abandoned the game in droves. Blizzard quickly nerfed Inferno's difficulty, but by then it was too late. As more and more players left and more and more bots joined, the value of Diablo 3 gold continued to plummet. When the game launched in May of 2012, gold traded for $7.00 per mill. In July, it traded for $2.00 per mill. It now trades for $0.25 per mill (less if you buy from third-party gold sellers), and the economy has since been thoroughly screwed.
==Damage Control==
After Diablo 3's mass exodus of players, the game was left with only a small player base of zombified basement dwellers who had both the patience and common sense of rocks. As more and more of these people farmed Inferno, the market became flooded with endgame gear, and it soon came to pass that only a very small number of items with certain attributes were worth anything at all. This completely destroyed the crafting system and turned the hunt for items into a boring grindfest in which you vendored 99% of the things you found. Players also felt like there was nothing to do other than mindlessly farm items.
Blizzard would lazily implement numerous stopgap measures to try and fix their game and keep the remaining losers playing it. None of them worked very well. Come take a look at the train wreck:
===Phase 1: I Told You the Paragon Path Sucked!===
To address the issue of players becoming bored, Blizzard crafted a most devious and effective solution: Paragon Levels! How does it work? Well, it's simple. They're like normal levels, only requiring over 9000 times as much experience and giving you a negligible bonus to stats and item finding chance per level. Doesn't that sound like fun? Well, it is! And it can be explained using math!
After you get to Level 60 (the game's original level cap), you start gaining Paragon Levels. There are 100 Paragon Levels. Let me break it down for you:
Amount of XP needed to get from Level 1 to 60, during which you will beat the entire game three times: 25,934,700 <br>
Amount of XP needed to get from Level 60 to Paragon Level 100: ~10,319,000,000 (That's nearly 400 times the first figure)<br>
Amount of time it takes a normal person to get from Level 1 to 60: 20-40 hours<br>
Amount of time it would take a normal person to get from Level 60 to Paragon Level 100: 600-700 hours<br>
Amount of normal people who've done this: 0<br>
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<Center>'''''"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori..."'''''</center>
[[File:Diablo 3 pony level.jpg|center|600px]]


{{Quote|Diablo 3 is so boring you would have more fun at a bingo hall.|[http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/diablo-iii/user-reviews spinpixy]}}
'''Rewards for getting your 100 Paragon Levels:'''


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+300% Magic and Gold Finding Chance (more gold and gear!).<br>
+300 to your Main Attack Stat (you can buy shoes that add this much)<br>
+200 Vitality (same deal)<br>
+100 to each Secondary Stat (useless)<br>
A cool character portrait<br>
Becoming like that fat guy who plays WoW in South Park, only without all the fun parts<br>
The suicide of your friends and family<br>
 
 
Let us stress that there's no new content to go along with these extra levels. You're still farming gear and experience on the same stretch of Act 3 over and over again for hours on end, only this time you gain Paragon Levels which will help you get better gear!
 
To help understand just how exciting this is, feel free to check out the handy chart below, retrieved from the good folks [http://www.diablowiki.net/Paragon here]


==Story==
[[Image:paragonkillme.png|center|thumb|300px|I'll stick with cherry pie, thanks]]
[[Image:Diablocolor.jpg|thumb|right|This is you and your mother in ''Diablo III''.]]
[[File:D3 wow.jpg|right|thumb|Breathtaking [[copypasta|originality]].]]
[[Image:Diablo_3_Characters.jpg|thumb|right|The playable cast (L to R): Weaboo, Jigaboo, Emo, Homo, and Pedo.]]
[[Image:Diablo3-Blizzcon08.JPG|thumb|right|Blizzard agrees...]]
[[Image:smashedcomputer.jpg|thumb|right|Blizzard'ss [[DRM]] server.]]
<!--[[Image:Jewjitsu.jpg|thumb|right|You can play this guy, too.]] Shit; find something better faggot-->
[[Image:Diablo3_D3_Profit.jpg|thumb|left|e-Peen = srs bzns]]


All the guys you killed in the previous ''Diablo'' games are still [[Lolwut|alive]]. Turns out the whole thing was an [[Jenkem|opium]]-induced dream of Deckard Cain's, So you will have to go around [[Series of tubes|magic land]] and kill all of Diablo's minions, Diablo himself and  [[Your mom|Lord of Destruction]].  
Blizzard also tried to fix the deflation of Gold by upping the repair costs of Level 60 weapons and armor and increasing the crafting costs of Level 60 items by a huge amount. The hope was that this would act as a gold sink and absorb a lot of the excess gold flooding the market. Not only did this not work, but it made even more players quit the game in frustration after losing all their money on repair bills.  


When you are done with that you go to hell and [[kill]] them all again.
===Phase 2: Satan Would Be Proud===


{{Quote|The game is not about skill, it's about <s>[[boring|persistence]], not getting angry at dying (I fail at this one) and</s> [[Shit no one cares about|gear]].|Hydra}}
[[Image:hellfirering.jpg|thumb|300px|If you look up "Skinner Box" in the dictionary, you will find a picture of this thing.]]
[[Image:Average inferno mob.jpg|thumb|left|Introducing: ''Gearcheckferno'']]
While the Paragon Level update worked better at capturing the attention of their brain dead fanbase than they had hoped, Blizzard felt compelled to add at least a little bit of extra content. They added a difficulty slider called Monster Power that ranged from 0 to 10, increasing the amount of bonus experience and gold/magic find you got with each level. They also added a ring you can craft called the Hellfire Ring, which increases the amount of experience you get and makes you gain Paragon Levels faster! To get the ring, you have to go out and get 5 special bonuses by killing special enemies, kill 3 guys who only sometimes drop a key, then use the 3 different keys from them to make a machine, then get the bonuses again and use the machine to teleport to a special realm to fight a random one of three bosses, each of whom will only sometimes drop a crafting item, and then after you get all 3 crafting items from the guys you can make the ring, which will end up being a piece of shit 90% of the time. <br>
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As you go through the game expect to kill the same 10 monsters over and over again with them [[recolor|changing colors]] as they get stronger. When you beat the game you will only get to see some crappy Blizzard cinematic scene where you find out that the last guy you killed is still alive and you will have to kill him for the 5th fucking time in the expansion pack and the 6th time in the sequel.
'''Time for more math!'''


Now, don't get bored with it so you can hop onto multi player and spend hours typing in "WUG? WUG? WUG? WUG? WUG? WUG? WUG? WUG? WUG? WUG? WUG? WUG? WUG? WUG? WUG? WUG? WUG? WUG? WUG? WUG? WUG?". Soon you'll find out that everyone in the fucking game only wants 1 item (remember the [[Diablo II|stones of Jordan]]?) even though they already have 2 character's inventories full of them.
Average time it takes to get the bonuses and kill a key dude: 15 minutes. (You can only kill one at a time becuse they're all in different Acts and you have to reload the game to go to a different Act)<br>
Chance of getting a key on Monster Power Level 5: ~50%<br>
Average time it takes to get all 3 keys on this level: 1 hour 30 minutes<br>
Average time it takes to get 3 machines on this level: 4 hours 30 minutes<br>
Average drop rate for crafting agents on Monster power 5: ~50%<br>
Average time it takes to get all the crafting agents if you use your machines wisely: 9 hours to get the machines + 1 hour to kill all the bosses twice = 10 hours<br>
Likelihood that your ring will suck balls: 90%<br>


==Classes==
The basic concept of D3 is to get the common classes mixed up with AIDS and fail, leading at least to the following poor abominations:


===[[homo|The Barbarian]]===
So, you can spend half the time it would normally take to beat the game...to get a ring! And it will probably suck.
This [[raging]] [[jew]] comes along with a new, unique concept: all of his/her melee skills are for looting.  The [[Skinhead|Barbarian]] in Diablo II was also capable of stomping the living shit out of the [[niggra|Paladin]]. This has not changed in Diablo III, in fact their only purpose is gathering money of the sold items and leeching the exp of party members in case gold should get any kind economic value at the battle.net servers. They are not capable of casting spells, one of the abilities however is involved with "9/11".


===[[nigra|The Witch Doctor]]===
Of course, playing on higher Monster Power Levels will up the drop rate by 10% with each level, but once you get above MP 5 you need to spend tens if not hundreds of millions of gold pieces on gear in order to survive. Gee, I wonder if this was intentional on Blizzard's part? The pain of this experience is dulled by bringing all your friends into the game so you don't all need to get the machines, but by this point all your friends have run for the hills and you're the only sad loser left in the game.
Basically this is the [[Necrophiliac|Necro]] combined with some [[Furry|Druid]] elements and all the kind of diseases you can get by lurking not 4chan. They suck cocks, and are the worst character in the game. The only thing they're good at, is blowing darts and cock.


===[[weeaboo|The Wizard]]===
===Phase 3: Dude, Where's My PVP?===
The Wizard is a mixture of the good old fashioned spell caster and a [[wapanese]].  Level by level you will get better anime looking equipments, making you the horror even in hell.


===[[pedophile|The Monk]]===
After withholding PVP from Diablo 3 players for months after launch, Blizzard finally gave fans the highly polished product they'd all been waiting for- a dueling minigame where you can't even win anything. And there's only one arena you can fight in. This pissed off die-hard fans of the series who wanted the open PVP from Diablo 2 to return, which proves that none of them ever actually played Diablo 2. Much whining and bellyaching erupted over this decision, and most players came to regard the addition of PVP as some lame, tacked on update to appease the mouth-breathing fanboys QQing on the forums.
[[Kung fu]] fighters that came from [[Pedobear|Pedobear's]] academy.


===[[emo|The Demon Hunter]]===
Again, they also tried to fix the game's ailing economy. They added a new tier of max level gems that are bound to your account, with each gem taking around 100 million gold out of the economy after being crafted. Oh, and if you want to unsocket them you have to pay 5 million gold every time.  
Ranged emos who dress in black with a cloak and crossbows to shoot their wrists with. They were a good class at launch. [[Last Thursday]], the class got nerfed into oblivion, causing immense [[butthurt|joy]] to all those that rolled one on the first day, and even more to those that had lost time with their original char, and rerolled to DH. They now suck at PvE, and will most likely get one-shot by everything when PvP gets [[never|released]].


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They also upgraded the crafting system to allow you to craft weapons that could potentially have better stats than any other items in the game. These are also account bound! Genius! In addition to needing reagents for the new items that you can only get as a random drop from elite mobs, the crafting cost of each item is between 75k and 200k. Also, only around 1 out of every 50-100 items is any good. Crafting these items is like gambling, and for the most part it isn't cost effective at all.


==[[baw|PVP]]==
It looks like this gold sink is actually working, as the price of most rare and legendary items is plummeting dramatically. This has made the more [[LOL|sensible Diablo 3 players]] very happy.


[[Image:diablo-3-pillow.jpg|thumb|right|Blizzard announced that family-friendly merchandise will accompany the game.]]
==Eloquent Prose From Diablo 3 Players==
[[Image:Diablo 3 Cake.jpg|thumb|right|Please to be having [[cake]]!]]
{{squote|I heard people talking about how blizzard does not want to make classical pvp servers for Diablo III but more like pvp where you can attack only those players that want to fight you... oO
{{squote|I heard people talking about how blizzard does not want to make classical pvp servers for Diablo III but more like pvp where you can attack only those players that want to fight you... oO
What ever that sh*t is, I don't call it pvp, that's called dueling. They say pvp can ruin the game experience. My question is how can you talk about game experience if there's no pvp?
What ever that sh*t is, I don't call it pvp, that's called dueling. They say pvp can ruin the game experience. My question is how can you talk about game experience if there's no pvp?
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{{squote|As if Diablo III could not getting any more shitty, Blizzard fucked up [[The best|the PVP]] in the game. Now, instead of PVP being awesome and [[no life|raping every noob in your path]], you now have to ask the person if they want to fight you. In the past, you were able to go into a game that was full of noobs and own them all, but now every player in the game is going to be a [[Faggot|carebear]]. Gay.|[[User:Piercedanon|Piercedanon]]}}
{{squote|As if Diablo III could not getting any more shitty, Blizzard fucked up [[The best|the PVP]] in the game. Now, instead of PVP being awesome and [[no life|raping every noob in your path]], you now have to ask the person if they want to fight you. In the past, you were able to go into a game that was full of noobs and own them all, but now every player in the game is going to be a [[Faggot|carebear]]. Gay.|[[User:Piercedanon|Piercedanon]]}}


== BUY OUR AUTHENTICATORS!!!1 ==
==Wait, Ponies?==
 
Just a few days after release, a giant hacking wave swept over the D3 community. The reaction of the fanboys and the forum CMs consisted of riling accusations as they blamed the players and told them that their accounts have been hacked due to supposedly [[CP|compromised computer systems]]. Blizzard CMs made sure to continuosly instruct D3 players to buy their overpriced authenticators, promising that authenticators would fight off any attacks on one's account. However many players that have in fact been using authenticators turned out to also have been hacked. Many gaming journalists have since published articles and there have been [[some argue|reliable sources]] describing how Blizzard servers allow hackers to use multiplayer game session IDs to instigate MitM attacks against players, enabling them to gain hold of their characters without ever having to go through the login authentification process.
[[File:Blizzdrone defending authenticators.jpg|right|thumb|Gaming journalists/players claiming to have been hacked despite use of authenticators are all actually chinese farmers trying to cast doubt on the greatness of Blizzards authenticators!! They are also [[David Icke|reptoids]] from Niburu.]]
 
 
Blizzard, being the greedy kikes that they are denied any such accusations, again telling their players to buy authenticators. The audacity of Blizzard reached even greater levels when CMs started to accuse players who claimed to have their accounts hacked despite use of authenticators to be liars. Since then many players have posted time stamped pictures proving that they are in fact owners of an authenticator but despite all of that Blizzard, in its desperate attempt of damage control, still hasn't admitted to their compromised servers and instead goes on accusing their playerbase of downloading too much furry porn.
 
==Bugs, hackers, botters, and surprisingly, more bugs==
 
Since launch, this game has proven to be one of the biggest fails in the history of gaming in terms of coding. From god-mode bugs, to Auction House rollbacks by players, even plain abuse of their own system.
Blizzard's coders did a really [[fail|great job]]. [[retard|No one]] would ever expect this [[piece of shit|game]] to be so polished. For instance, at launch, when a [[faggot|player]] used the auction house to sell an item, they had a 5 minute time window to remove it from there, if they made a mistake. Well, Blizzard's coders did the best job there. If the 5 minute window had already passed, and you wanted the item back, even if it had bids already, all you had to do was change your own OS clock to the time you put the item in the auction house, and cancel it. Obviously, this shit was exploited as fuck, causing much butthurt to those trying to bid on items. This was a known bug by some since launch, and was only fixed 1 week after it came public. After this, multiple similar bugs came across, and you can probably still abuse this somehow.
 
Hackers were also a major source of lulz and rage in Diablo III. It was claimed by players that you could get hacked without the hacker even knowing your password, through public games (see: [https://encyclopediadramatica.se/index.php?title=Diablo_III&action=submit#BUY_OUR_AUTHENTICATORS.21.21.211| BUY OUR AUTHENTICATORS!!!1]). Blizzard stated that this [http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/4211043914| was impossible], [[bullshit|you can't get hacked with authenticators]].


Botters then flooded the game, [[Azn|Azns]] were farming with multiple computers that had multiple virtual machines, doing 50 mill per hour, while [[retard|normal players]] did 500k per hour if they were lucky. Obivously, the economy went to shit, and now that the Real Money Auction House is working, gold is worth pretty much nothing. The cap at the RMAH for gold is 2.5$ for 1 mill, but this is being sold for lower than 1.5$ per mill on third party websites. [[Everyone|Who would've guessed.]]
[[Image:midnightsparkle.jpg|thumb|300px|"I used to wonder what friendship could be, right up until you disembowelled me!"]]
Since everyone loved the cow level from Diablo 2 so much, this game features...a pony level! After spending a bazillion hours hunting for obscure items that drop from even more obscure mobs, you can craft a magic staff and travel to a mystical land full of happy clouds, rainbows, cuddly teddy bears and My Little Pony characters. This level makes a nod to the internet phenomenom known as [[bronies]], who were overjoyed to have a shout out to them in a popular video game. Everyone else was happy because they got to cut the ponies' heads off.


==See Also==
==See Also==
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*[[Diablo]]
*[[Diablo]]
*[[Diablo II|Diablo II: Electric Boogaloo!]]
*[[Diablo II|Diablo II: Electric Boogaloo!]]
*[[MMORPG]]
*[[Fags]]
*[[Basement Dwellers]]


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==External Links==
==External Links==
*[[Wikipedia:User:Tyciol/Diablo_III|Wikipedia]] [[Wikipedia:Diablo III|Article]]
*[[Wikipedia:Diablo III|Article]]
*[http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/ The official Diablo 3 forums. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.]]
*[http://www.diablowiki.net/Main_Page Everything you ever wanted to know about Diablo]
*[http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites/ If you still play this game, go on here, buy a gun, and shoot yourself.]
*[http://diablo3.mmorpghax.com/fat-nerd-rages-about-diablo-3-auction-house Fat Cunt Rages on D3]
*[http://diablo3.mmorpghax.com/fat-nerd-rages-about-diablo-3-auction-house Fat Cunt Rages on D3]


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Diablo 3 in a nutshell.

Diablo 3 is an Action RPG developed for the PC by Blizzard Entertainment, and the unholy bastard child of Diablo 2 and World of Warcraft. While its 11 year development cycle led people to believe it was going to be the most awesome thing since sliced bread, it ended up being a boring mess of a game that bombed as quickly as your average Free-to-Play MMO. Veteran Diablo players were annoyed by the dumbed-down character customization, the cartoony WOW-like atmosphere, and the fact that the game was rigged to force you to buy gold and items from Blizzard for real money. Blizzard fanboys who bought the game were annoyed by the fact that there were no mailboxes for them to dance on, and that there was nothing for them to do after playing the game for hundreds of hours.

The game has also been plagued by its share of errors, hacks, and retarded development decisions that eventually led to to Game Director Jay Wilson committing seppuku in his bathtub. His funeral was subsequently crashed by vengeful Diablo fans, who desecrated his remains by pouring Mountain Dew and Cheetos on them. The cops were unable to intervene because of the noxious body odour emanating from all the unwashed neckbeards there, and had to maintain a safe distance downwind.

Since it launched, around 98.5% of Diablo 3's player base has evaporated, leaving behind only a small handful of dedicated players. These sorry fools have nothing better to do with their time than to sit in their basements playing the game and writing lengthy rants on the official forums about how much the game sucks, even though they still play it for 7 hours every day. The developers have since basically given up on the game, leaving a skeleton crew behind to patch the game every couple months with just enough new "content" to satiate the drooling imbeciles who still play it.


Story

Diablo 3 takes place in the realm of Sanctuary, 20 years after the Archangel Tyrael destroyed the Woodenstone with his magic sword. The explosion blew up Mount Arreat and reduced Tyrael to component parts. After Dorothy spent 20 years putting him back together, he returned to Heaven to face judgement for being a retard and almost blowing the Earth up. After some riveting dialogue and a totally kickass fight scene, the Archangel Imperius punished him for his transgressions by turning him into a nigger and launching him at a village full of white people. Unfortunately, he missed, and ending up launching Tyrael into the old cathedral where Diablo was buried. For some unexplained reason, this resurrected every dead demon on Earth, and they all began tearing up the countryside. The angels simply shrugged their shoulders and watched the carnage while drinking malt liquor and pissing on hapless peasants below.

You start the game as a lone warrior, sent to Tristram to investigate the Flaming Nigger from Outer Space. You encounter a girl named Leah, the niece of Deckard Cain from the first two games. Later, the two of you end up rescuing Cain himself from the newly resurrected Skeleton King. Cain doesn't identify your items this time around, so his only purpose in the game is to say stupid bullshit before being murdered by a purple fairy with Princess Leia hair.

After meeting up with Tyrael, you both embark on a quest to defeat the remaining two lesser evils, Belial and Azmodan. You would have known about them if you read the Diablo II instruction book all those years ago, but you didn't, did you? Your first target is Belial, who is known for being a master manipulator. Or at least, he was, up until several angels dropped a safe on his head, reducing his intellectual capacity to that of a 10 year old. In the process of hunting Belial, you discover that there is a Magic Soulstone MacGuffin of Doom that somehow trapped all the souls of all the evils from the first two games. That's right, nothing you did in either of the first two Diablos actually mattered! What a wonderful plot twist!

Anyhow, you resolve to trap the two souls in the Soulstone MacGuffin so your totally-not-evil witch partner Adria can perform a dark necromantic blood ritual to "destroy" it. After capturing the two souls, you leave the concentrated power of Hell in the hands of some woman you've only known for about 30 minutes while you go have a beer. Of course, while you're away having the beer, Adria resurrects Diablo, who returns as all 7 of the Prime and Lesser Evils combined. After a hefty amount of thought and consideration, Blizzard decided to make the resulting abomination look and sound like a gay, effeminate version of Diablo. He even has tits. Really, we're not joking. They jiggle around, too...

Gay Diablo invades Heaven, and you follow him in. A dramatic confrontation ensues at "The Pinnacle of Heaven", and Gay Diablo turns into a Pinata that explodes in a shower of cash and prizes. There is a great celebration, right before you go out and do this all over again 3 more times.


Gameplay

If you get sick of Diablo 3's dreary gameplay, we recommend this more enjoyable activity.

Diablo's gameplay is the exact same hack'n slash bullshit you got sick of 10 years ago, only this time in glorious 3D. Enemies show up, you click them until they die, and then they explode in a flurry of cash and prizes. Occasionally there's some story bullshit you don't care about, then it's back to killin'. The game is divided into 4 Acts, each with a distinctly different setting and new assortment of baddies to kill. After you beat all 4 Acts, you do them over again on a harder difficulty setting. The difficulty levels are Normal, Nightmare, Hell, and Inferno. Once you beat Inferno and hit the game's level cap of 60, you can then spend your endgame time dancing on mailboxes farming the game for more gear so you can get more cash to buy more gear to get more cash to buy more gear so you can have good gear and lots of cash to buy good gear with. What's the point, you say? Clearly, you're not familiar with these types of games.

The multiplayer system is similar to Diablo 2, allowing a maximum of 4 players to band together against the forces of Hell. Unfortunately, the game has reached a point where 90% of the people in public games are either bots or Chinese gold farmers, so unless you have friends who haven't quit the game yet, you probably won't have a good time. There's also no open PVP like there was in Diablo 2, so you can't gank all these losers.

While Diablo 3 is really just a prettier version of Diablo 2, it needn't have been a bad game. Unfortunately, Blizzard decided to ruin the experience by combining it with all the worst elements of World of Warcraft. Character customization is as simplified as it possibly can be, to the point where you have no control whatsoever over your character's attributes or skill strength. Each character has only a handful of different skills, most of which suck, and you can choose 6 of them to spam over and over again on your hotbar.


Grindfest 2012

Diablo 3 is deliciously Pay-To-Win. Only, you don't win anything...

Because of the game's over-simplified character progression, all Diablo 3 characters of a certain level are effectively the same, and can only really distinguish themselves with gear. This is all part of a nasty scheme by Blizzard to force you to use the Auction House, an in-game gear trading system that allows you to buy and sell items for either gold or real money (Blizzard takes a hefty cut of all transactions, of course). The Auction House is basically the retarded cousin of EVE Online's economy, a spreadsheet laden paradise filled with stupid people who don't understand the basic rules of economics. While this makes it fairly easy to make piles of gold and cash off of it, adding this kind of drudgery to a game that's supposed to be fun (in other words, not an MMO) is a cardinal sin of gaming that has alienated most sane gamers from Diablo 3.

To further shore up players for the Auction House, the game is rigged so that 99% of the items that drop from enemies will be total pieces of shit, and the few that aren't shit won't be for your class. Remember the old days of Diablo 2 when you actually got excited when a rare item dropped? Not any more, bitch. Now, you can find a whole inventory of rares, and more often than not you will end up selling every single one to a merchant for chump change. Legendaries are even shittier, and the Auction House is continuously flooded with garbage legendaries nobody wants.

You'll notice we've dedicated a big chunk of the Gameplay section to talking about the Auction House. That's because Diablo 3 is really just a fantasy-themed Auction House. Diablo 3, at its core, is a shitty Skinner Box of a game designed around a service to make Blizzard money, and it has worked flawlessly due to the stupidity of its fans. You might have thought it impossible to so thoroughly ruin a game whose premise is so simple, yet years of working on World of Warcraft have turned all the Blizzard devs into jaded, money-grubbing fucks who have lost all faith in humanity. They don't even want to make good games any more, they just want to make money off the backs of drooling neckbeards so they can construct a fallout shelter for when the current generation grows up and ruins the planet.


Character Classes

Diablo 3 has 5 character classes: Monk, Barbarian, Demon Hunter, Wizard, and Witch Doctor. In the interests of sexual equality, Blizzard decided to allow you to play as either a male or female version of your character instead of forcing you to play a specific gender for each class. In the interests of 13 year old boys, they made all the female characters' armour look like bikinis. The best part is that you can buy "Vanishing Dye" for your armour that makes you look like you're in your skivvies. Unfortunately for the 13 year old boys, this sword cuts both ways.

The usual suspects.

Anyhow, the five character classes are as follows:


"The Monk" a.k.a. Punchy McCracker the Tornado Chucker

The monk is a holy warrior who worships 1001 gods, who are apparently all Dalmations. The male monk looks like a child molester who strung a few coconuts around his neck, and the female monk looks like a sickly anime character who could do with a bit of sunlight.

The Monk is a melee class that combines the Monk from D&D with the Paladin from Diablo 2. While you deal abysmally shitty amounts of damage, you compensate for this with evasion buffs, healing abilities and magical auras that buff you and your party. This is all very useful because when you get to Inferno you will die in 4 hits instead of 2. Sadly, your low damage will kind of negate this benefit.

A lot of Diablo 3 players think the Monk class blows, which it does. On the upside, you get an attack that shoots over 9000 lightning tornados at enemies whenever you attack stuff. This turns every battle involving Monks into a rave that crashes everyone else's computer.

"The Barbarian" a.k.a. Faggio Chopmaster the Whirling Musclehead

The Barbarian is a warrior cast out from his tribe after being caught raping a chicken. Both the male and female Barbarians look and sound like butch queers.

The Barbarian is a big, lumbering jock whose only skill is doing lots of damage and not getting killed. He/She/It is every Diablo 3 player's favourite class because the only thing you need to do is just continuously hold the mouse button down. Unfortunately for melee classes in Diablo 3, the enemies at higher difficulty levels are so overpowered that it's impossible to engage them directly unless you've spent like a billion gold on gear. Assuming you don't want to do that, the only way to survive as a Barb is to dual wield a pair of speedy weapons and continuously use the Whirlwind attack. This makes your character twirl around the playing field while wildly swinging his weapons around. As you're doing this, the game appropriately plays Flashdance in the background.

It is a statistically documented fact that only fags, dykes and retards play Barbarians.

"The Demon Hunter" a.k.a. Sissyboy Kiteypants the Leaping Devil Raper

The Demon Hunter is supposed to be some emo loser whose family was murdered by demons, and who now seeks revenge on all of demonkind. The male Demon Hunter looks like the Prince of Persia (and even has the same voice actor), and the female one is just some 18 year old slut.

The Demon Hunter is a ranged, bow-wielding class that's basically a combination of the Amazon and the Assassin from Diablo 2. Other than being a whiny bitch, the Demon Hunter excels in the fine art of doing piles of damage and running away. You'd better be good at doing piles of damage and running away too, because Demon Hunters are very wimpy and all of their skills revolve around helping you do piles of damage and run away.

This may not sound like much fun, but Demon Hunters have their uses. Until the game's economy went into the shitter and the Auction House became filled with a glut of endgame items, the only way to survive Inferno's stupidly overpowered enemies was to do piles of damage and run away. Naturally, the Demon Hunter excelled at this, to the point where lots of people re-rolled as Demon Hunters because their previous characters weren't very good at doing piles of damage and running away. The ideal setup split these responsibilities between 2 or more Demon Hunters, one of whom would play Ring Around the Rosie with enemies while the other ones shot them in the ass. This exercise summarizes about 90% of Diablo 3's multiplayer battles.

"The Wizard" a.k.a. Frostybutt Bubbleboy the Levitating Bug-Zapper

The Wizard is a rogue mage who was expelled from the Jedi Academy in Caldeum after blowing his instructor's head off "just to see what would happen."

The Wizard is your standard mage character, except instead of just being a damage dealer he can also freeze enemies and use powerful armour and evasion spells. Thanks to masterful class balancing, a good Wizard can permanantly freeze enemies and is almost impossible to kill. Sadly, most Wizards in Diablo 3 are ex-WoW players who only care about maxing out their DPS and turning themselves into gimped Demon Hunters that shoot lightning bolts.

"The Witch Doctor" a.k.a. Ufufu the Spear-Throwing Nigger

The Witch Doctor is a walking example of every negative stereotype that has ever existed about undiscovered Africa. He's a nigger with a feathery headress, hoops through his mouth and ears, a ridiculous accent, and very little clothing. His primary attacks involve either shooting enemies with a blowgun or flinging poisonous jungle animals at them.

Combat-wise, the Witch Doctor is basically a combination of the Necromancer and the Druid from Diablo 2. In addition to doing similar amounts of damage as a Wizard, you can summon zombie minions to distract enemies while you blast them with your blowgun or fling fireballs at them. This makes the Witch Doctor a very easy class to play. As it happens, not many people play as a Witch Doctor because he's a nigger and people have horrible memories of how shitty the Necromancer from Diablo 2 was.


Development and Update History

Shortly after Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction was released, Blizzard claimed to be working on Diablo 3. Not much was heard about the game over the next few years, and it was assumed to be vapourware. Every now and then, gameplay footage and trailers would be released, promising that the game would be finished "when it's done." This led fans to believe that Blizzard was slowly honing and perfecting the game into a polished gem of Diabloey goodness, when really all they were doing was coming up with radical new ideas and then cutting them out because they thought their fans would be too stupid to enjoy them. This eventually led to Diablo 3 being released with around 50% of its planned content and mechanics cut out, with the developers promising to release them when they had them perfected. PVP was notoriously cut out at the last minute, with Blizzard planning to re-implement it in a few months. They didn't.

Diablo 3 sold over 10 million copies at launch, making Blizzard a bazillion dollars. For the first few days, it was the hottest game going. Then it all went to Hell.

OMG, Hax!

Now you parents out there know how to get little Timmy a job.
"What are you staring at me like that for? I'm buying these for all my friends!"
An artist's depiction of what Inferno was like for D3 player during launch.

Shortly after Diablo 3's launch, a large number of Diablo 3 players had their accounts hacked by Chinese people, who stripped them of all their items so they could sell them on the Auction House. As it turns out, this happens every time a Blizzard game is launched because most people who play Blizzard games are 14 year old dorks who download gigantic piles of warez, porn and fake hacking programs onto their parents' unprotected work machines. Blizzard was kind enough to let players with compromised accounts get all their items back, and even began offering an iPhone app as well as a physical authenticator that prevents a person from logging into your account remotely.

Sadly, most Blizzard fanboys are immature losers who love to whine and troll, so the Diablo 3 forums ended up being awash with conspiracy theories about the hacking wave. Many people thought the whole fiasco was a scam Blizzard designed to sell its overpriced authenticators for the exorbitant sum of $6.50 + free shipping (that's over two weeks of allowance! Holy shit!), but a quick bit of research would have revealed that the Blizzard Authenticators are custom-manufactured Vasco Digipass Go 6 units that Blizzard sells at cost and ships to your house for free. You also don't have to buy them. At all.

Blizzard stressed that as far as they knew, it was impossible to be hacked with an authenticator and that it hadn't happened once in the several years they had been selling them for World of Warcraft. Naturally, the forums began to fill up with trolls claiming to be "a 46 year old IT specialist who has been to university for computers and got hacked even though I had an authenticator", but Blizzard didn't deem this to be credible evidence. There were also rumours that the hacks were the result of an exploit in public games that allowed hackers to instigate Man-in-the-Middle attacks against their targets. This supposedly allowed them to hijack their targets' game sessions and kick them out of the game while they and their friends stole all their stuff. This ended up being proven false by actual IT specialists who knew what they were talking about, but all of the underage whiners on the forums didn't care because they felt that being members of Anonymouse and browsing the Deep Web made them knowledgeable beyond mortal comprehension.

While no serious person bought into any of the bullshit surrounding the hacking fiasco, it was very negative press for the Diablo 3 community, making the old Diablo 2 veterans realize that years of World of Warcraft had garnered Blizzard one of the worst player bases on the entire internet, second only to Runescape and League of Legends.

The Bots Are Coming! The Bots Are Coming!

After the game had been out for a few weeks, Chinese gold farmers had perfected their botting programs and set up gold farming farms with dozens of computers running Diablo 3. Because of the game's horrible balancing issues and numerous unpatched exploits, this initially made the owners of these farms hundreds of dollars per day. More and more people hopped on the bandwagon, discovering new exploits faster than Blizzard could patch the old ones. Eventually, there were so many of these people that the massive influx of cheap gold caused its value to deflate faster than your dick after witnessing the lovely fan art to your lower right.

To make matters worse, at this exact same time, players who were just making it to level 60 and encountering Inferno ran into a bit of a problem. Blizzard had rigged the game so that Inferno was too hard for players to beat right after they finished Hell. In order to find gear that was good enough to progress through Inferno, they either had to go out and buy $50-$100 worth of Diablo 3 gold to spend in the Auction House, or spend inordinate amounts of time farming Act 1 over and over again for gold and gear. At this point, all of the Diablo 3 players who weren't MMO enthusiasts abandoned the game in droves. Blizzard quickly nerfed Inferno's difficulty, but by then it was too late. As more and more players left and more and more bots joined, the value of Diablo 3 gold continued to plummet. When the game launched in May of 2012, gold traded for $7.00 per mill. In July, it traded for $2.00 per mill. It now trades for $0.25 per mill (less if you buy from third-party gold sellers), and the economy has since been thoroughly screwed.


Damage Control

After Diablo 3's mass exodus of players, the game was left with only a small player base of zombified basement dwellers who had both the patience and common sense of rocks. As more and more of these people farmed Inferno, the market became flooded with endgame gear, and it soon came to pass that only a very small number of items with certain attributes were worth anything at all. This completely destroyed the crafting system and turned the hunt for items into a boring grindfest in which you vendored 99% of the things you found. Players also felt like there was nothing to do other than mindlessly farm items.

Blizzard would lazily implement numerous stopgap measures to try and fix their game and keep the remaining losers playing it. None of them worked very well. Come take a look at the train wreck:

Phase 1: I Told You the Paragon Path Sucked!

To address the issue of players becoming bored, Blizzard crafted a most devious and effective solution: Paragon Levels! How does it work? Well, it's simple. They're like normal levels, only requiring over 9000 times as much experience and giving you a negligible bonus to stats and item finding chance per level. Doesn't that sound like fun? Well, it is! And it can be explained using math!

After you get to Level 60 (the game's original level cap), you start gaining Paragon Levels. There are 100 Paragon Levels. Let me break it down for you:


Amount of XP needed to get from Level 1 to 60, during which you will beat the entire game three times: 25,934,700
Amount of XP needed to get from Level 60 to Paragon Level 100: ~10,319,000,000 (That's nearly 400 times the first figure)

Amount of time it takes a normal person to get from Level 1 to 60: 20-40 hours
Amount of time it would take a normal person to get from Level 60 to Paragon Level 100: 600-700 hours
Amount of normal people who've done this: 0

Rewards for getting your 100 Paragon Levels:

+300% Magic and Gold Finding Chance (more gold and gear!).
+300 to your Main Attack Stat (you can buy shoes that add this much)
+200 Vitality (same deal)
+100 to each Secondary Stat (useless)
A cool character portrait
Becoming like that fat guy who plays WoW in South Park, only without all the fun parts
The suicide of your friends and family


Let us stress that there's no new content to go along with these extra levels. You're still farming gear and experience on the same stretch of Act 3 over and over again for hours on end, only this time you gain Paragon Levels which will help you get better gear!

To help understand just how exciting this is, feel free to check out the handy chart below, retrieved from the good folks here

I'll stick with cherry pie, thanks

Blizzard also tried to fix the deflation of Gold by upping the repair costs of Level 60 weapons and armor and increasing the crafting costs of Level 60 items by a huge amount. The hope was that this would act as a gold sink and absorb a lot of the excess gold flooding the market. Not only did this not work, but it made even more players quit the game in frustration after losing all their money on repair bills.

Phase 2: Satan Would Be Proud

If you look up "Skinner Box" in the dictionary, you will find a picture of this thing.

While the Paragon Level update worked better at capturing the attention of their brain dead fanbase than they had hoped, Blizzard felt compelled to add at least a little bit of extra content. They added a difficulty slider called Monster Power that ranged from 0 to 10, increasing the amount of bonus experience and gold/magic find you got with each level. They also added a ring you can craft called the Hellfire Ring, which increases the amount of experience you get and makes you gain Paragon Levels faster! To get the ring, you have to go out and get 5 special bonuses by killing special enemies, kill 3 guys who only sometimes drop a key, then use the 3 different keys from them to make a machine, then get the bonuses again and use the machine to teleport to a special realm to fight a random one of three bosses, each of whom will only sometimes drop a crafting item, and then after you get all 3 crafting items from the guys you can make the ring, which will end up being a piece of shit 90% of the time.

Time for more math!

Average time it takes to get the bonuses and kill a key dude: 15 minutes. (You can only kill one at a time becuse they're all in different Acts and you have to reload the game to go to a different Act)
Chance of getting a key on Monster Power Level 5: ~50%
Average time it takes to get all 3 keys on this level: 1 hour 30 minutes
Average time it takes to get 3 machines on this level: 4 hours 30 minutes
Average drop rate for crafting agents on Monster power 5: ~50%
Average time it takes to get all the crafting agents if you use your machines wisely: 9 hours to get the machines + 1 hour to kill all the bosses twice = 10 hours
Likelihood that your ring will suck balls: 90%


So, you can spend half the time it would normally take to beat the game...to get a ring! And it will probably suck.

Of course, playing on higher Monster Power Levels will up the drop rate by 10% with each level, but once you get above MP 5 you need to spend tens if not hundreds of millions of gold pieces on gear in order to survive. Gee, I wonder if this was intentional on Blizzard's part? The pain of this experience is dulled by bringing all your friends into the game so you don't all need to get the machines, but by this point all your friends have run for the hills and you're the only sad loser left in the game.

Phase 3: Dude, Where's My PVP?

After withholding PVP from Diablo 3 players for months after launch, Blizzard finally gave fans the highly polished product they'd all been waiting for- a dueling minigame where you can't even win anything. And there's only one arena you can fight in. This pissed off die-hard fans of the series who wanted the open PVP from Diablo 2 to return, which proves that none of them ever actually played Diablo 2. Much whining and bellyaching erupted over this decision, and most players came to regard the addition of PVP as some lame, tacked on update to appease the mouth-breathing fanboys QQing on the forums.

Again, they also tried to fix the game's ailing economy. They added a new tier of max level gems that are bound to your account, with each gem taking around 100 million gold out of the economy after being crafted. Oh, and if you want to unsocket them you have to pay 5 million gold every time.

They also upgraded the crafting system to allow you to craft weapons that could potentially have better stats than any other items in the game. These are also account bound! Genius! In addition to needing reagents for the new items that you can only get as a random drop from elite mobs, the crafting cost of each item is between 75k and 200k. Also, only around 1 out of every 50-100 items is any good. Crafting these items is like gambling, and for the most part it isn't cost effective at all.

It looks like this gold sink is actually working, as the price of most rare and legendary items is plummeting dramatically. This has made the more sensible Diablo 3 players very happy.

Eloquent Prose From Diablo 3 Players

 
 
I heard people talking about how blizzard does not want to make classical pvp servers for Diablo III but more like pvp where you can attack only those players that want to fight you... oO

What ever that sh*t is, I don't call it pvp, that's called dueling. They say pvp can ruin the game experience. My question is how can you talk about game experience if there's no pvp?

I mean I don't want to play the game where I must ask every stupid noob if I can kill him, wtf is that sh*t for? Why should I build my character if I can't use it to kill noobs in game? I don't want to play in single player and do stupid quests, that's boring. I want to play pvp, like in WoW. I don't want to play WoW for next 6 years, I want Diablo III, waiting for this game for so long and now if there is no pvp, wtf am I going to do? go questing? go kill stupid monsters? that's boring man.

If they need to make PVE servers for frp noobs fine, but there are lot of players expecting good PVP experience, so when I connect on battle.net I can go and pwn them, or get pwned, isn't that the point of multiplayer, competition? no?

Anyway, I enjoyed Diablo II even though real pvp never existed, but now its like 2009, you can't make a game without pvp... I mean why the f**k you make a game without pvp?

Any news about this matter? Is there any petition or feedback going on for this?
 


 

BAWWWWWWWWWWW

 
 
As if Diablo III could not getting any more shitty, Blizzard fucked up the PVP in the game. Now, instead of PVP being awesome and raping every noob in your path, you now have to ask the person if they want to fight you. In the past, you were able to go into a game that was full of noobs and own them all, but now every player in the game is going to be a carebear. Gay.
 

 

Piercedanon

Wait, Ponies?

"I used to wonder what friendship could be, right up until you disembowelled me!"

Since everyone loved the cow level from Diablo 2 so much, this game features...a pony level! After spending a bazillion hours hunting for obscure items that drop from even more obscure mobs, you can craft a magic staff and travel to a mystical land full of happy clouds, rainbows, cuddly teddy bears and My Little Pony characters. This level makes a nod to the internet phenomenom known as bronies, who were overjoyed to have a shout out to them in a popular video game. Everyone else was happy because they got to cut the ponies' heads off.

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