Diablo 3 Open Beta Finishes
Posted 23 April 2012 by RushsterThe title says it all. I hope you all had a great weekend of play time and don’t forget to let us know what you thought of the Beta in the forums. The servers are now offline and closed testers will have to wait until they come live again.
Party’s over guys. For now.
Update: We’re running a quick ‘n’ dirty poll on the facebook page with three choices just to get a rough idea of what the open beta players’ assessment of it was. We’ll probably run a more extensive poll here later in the week but for now this should give us an overall impression.
Damn, really was hoping to get my Monk to lvl 13.
So close!
Don’t worry, you’ll get a chance in the retail. Beta achievements won’t carry over anyway so nobody would be the wiser 8)
Awwww
I’m SO glad I took screenshots of my betamax achievement then.
Also took screenies of the rare items I got, if anyone is interested
Unlocked all upgrades for the shared stash (1st page only, I spent the rest on almost getting the blacksmith to level 5, but that’s where the pages of training came in).
Wonder how many kiddies have no idea what a Betamax is. Worked one hell of a lot better than our brand new VCR.
Anyhoo, I thoroughly enjoyed the barb. Best by far. Leaping and Scorpions attack were really fun. Now seeing the mobs fly up into the screen was sorta silly after the first 100 times. Wizard was a semi close second.
Least favorite: Witch Doctor. Just didn’t enjoy the skills that much. Will give a try eventually just to see some zombie dog explosions (fond memories of CE).
Hope everyone that isn’t a JERK! (regular beta testers)
enjoyed their weekend.
What’s a VCR? :p
Had some great testing! loved the barb and WD, monk was kinda bad.. but well see when the game hits the stores! Can’t wait to explore the other acts and read/listen to the lore. Great game!
Woot! Barb and Witch Doctor all the way!
+1
My 2 favourite classes to play as well.
Now it’s a great time to see the results of a previous pole “what will be your first character when D3 launches on D3″. I would love to see the updated percentages after so many people played the beta!
I imagine there will be quite a few changes in preference. I brought all five classes to 13, and, except for my first choice (WD) staying the same, all other preferences got shuffled. I would never have guessed that my original second place choice (Wiz) would end up falling to last place. I imagine that itemization really does make a big difference, however; I happened to find two rare hand xbows early on, which made the DH far more fun than I expected…so, luck of the draw.
The preferences will further change as they release the rest of the class intro videos, and even then will change after the recency effect starts to wear off. Probably the best poll would be any one conducted not now but the week before release.
Likewise, I brought them all to level 13, however I was completely amazed with the WD and DH.. I’ll definitely have one of each.
DH came into it’s own, like yourself, with the two hand xbows, they rock!!
I ended up with plenty of salvaging material to create a good dozen two-handed barby long swords (they’re near the end of the blacksmith’s list), a 20 damage with poison, nearly hurt my ears on a few occasions when the barb “rung through”.
Luck is the perfect word, as I was extremely lucky to find so many rares, and be able to pass them to other characters.
Used the flamberge too. Easily the best barb weapon in the beta. Even Rares in the AH couldn’t match its 18DPS on a good stat roll.
Noooooooo!
I know Blizzard doesn’t owe anybody anything, but why did they only open it up for a weekend? D2 had a much longer open beta period, why not D3?
Because different games, with different servers, have different testing needs.
This is a test first and foremost, not a demo.
Ah, time to play the Beta again.
lol.
I logged on about an hour after the servers shut down, just to see if I could log on some more (you never know)…
Hell yeah, finally its back to being a VIP club for the lucky few “real” key holders.
Well for another 7 days.
I wanted to see the Den Of The Fallen. Never got to, although I did get a ‘Jar Of Souls.’ That one was awesome.
I got the Den of the Fallen a few times.. Cool, but nothing too special. 2 Levels with an uber chest at the end.
I got yelow belt from chest <3
@Darkk
What you need more? Its same as The Pit in Diablo2 act1…
Got unic creature – LLoid the Cursed(or something like that) with his own event 8) at 4th Cath after all char maxed(over 15h SK runs minimum)
also black mushrooms
Den and Jar r common. More common then ring drop
PS 470 ach – 100%
Den of the Fallen was cool. Over the weekend I think I got to see most of the different events and side quests. I guess the only reason Den of the Fallen is exciting is because it’s slightly harder than other areas and you see higher level monster modifiers. But I enjoyed all of the cave-like underground areas, especially the Cave Under the Well.
I really enjoyed the opportunity to play with some of my friends who hadn’t yet gotten access to the beta over the weekend. Playing with friends is a lot more fun (for me) than playing with anonymous people online, so this weekend was a lot of fun for me for that reason.
Thats because most people who play in public games are retards that don’t know how to play or are just bad.
Roll solo or with people you know, public games are awful.
Hate to think what public games will be like in nightmare and above
Its like the old saying goes “Amateurs get you killed”
Most people with closed beta access aren’t ”retards that don’t know how to play”. The D3 beta isn’t that complicated, and doing an SK run in a public game is normally a painless experience.
It actually has nothing to do with the skill of the players for me; it has everything to do with a feeling of community. I don’t mind helping out a friend of mine, even if they’re new to the game, because that social interaction has a lot more substance to it than just silently rushing a boss over and over.
I disagree. Public games were fun when I tried them. Public game players may not be as good as having a pre-configured team, but how could it be? I found plenty of perfectly serviceable play, intermixed with silly n00b stuff. And I like both kinds.
It’s fun telling people about Radek’s rings, and swooping in with Vault and saving the day with massive overkill, and I like just playing with normal people playing the game, which totally happens too. No, they don’t ALL suck. I’m not talking with them on Vent or coordinating my gear and build with them, but that would almost defeat the point.
In public games, you’ll have to deal with people doing things that you didn’t plan for. Sounds good.
I’ve had nothing but good experiences playing in public games in the closed beta.
That was a pretty “douche bag” reply.
And you are such a PRO at the game….*rolls eyes
I second Enlil’s opinion. I level much faster playing solo than I do with other players, because the monster health gets larger but the kill-time gets slow due to either inexperience, stupidity, laziness, or maybe a combination. That’s why I think 4-player limits is a mistake. When you call people out, you get a “it’s beta lulz”, well at release you’re gonna get a “it’s hell lulz” or a “go ‘head I’ll catch up”. Or people who just won’t respond because there aren’t a ton of people relying on them, just 1-3. Blizzard should have made the cap 8 people and made the difficulty increase with the amount of players in the ZONE and not in the game. I see pubs as a fail for D3.
Yeah it was nice to play with some of the people that I’ve only known from forums.
I was really excited to play the monk at first. Then I saw some videos of monk gameplay and it looked really boring. After testing the class I’m really excited again!
Other than the monk, witch doctor was a lot of fun! Can’t wait for release!!!