Diablo 3: The Demon Hunter and stuff

So, I got to level 11 with a Demon Hunter so far, seems quite fun! Though, I must admit most of my time over the past couple of days has been spent playing my Barb again, I specced him to a more tankish build and things are going much more smoothly. But anyway! The Demon Hunter, a ranged class that seems to have quite a lot of survivability, that could just be because I've not really leveled it! Not through taking the damage but more by avoiding it. Perhaps at later levels it will become more like the glass cannon-like Witch Doctor I've got!

It does seem fun, though.. I like the fact that you don't have to use a 2h bow/xbow or whatever and that you can dual wield the 1h stuff, funky! They also have a skill called Vault, which I love! I keep doing it even when I don't have to.. like I'm wandering around and I'll just "tumble acrobatically 35 yards", I think it's the animation that makes me want to do it.. maybe the sound too!

I just got a skill called Bola Shot, which I used for the first time on a pack of spiders.. boom boom, tumble tumble, boom boom! Teehee.

In other news, the Real money auction house went live for items.. and I sold some level 48 Monk fist weapon.. I think it sold for 12 euro and I ended up with 10, not bad for a days work! Shame nothing else sold :P Oh well! I'll just have to keep trying to find stuff to sell! Lots of people were talking about making 250 dollars, or euros.. but I don't know anyone who has. The most I've actually seen someone get was 25 euro, which is still pretty awesome I guess!

I'll just take a time out to update you on my other characters. I have my Witch Doctor at level 60, my Monk at level 56, my Barbarian at level 51 or so, a level 11 Demon Hunter and a level 9 Wizard.. I'm finding myself with the itchy feet syndrome I get when I play WoW. I can't stick with one character for too long but I guess that helps with the games longevity for me.

Ah well, I guess this post shouldn't really be called the Demon Hunter, cause I don't talk about it too much.. let's just add "and stuff" and y'all can deal with it!

Ciao for now!

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Diablo 3: The Real Money Auction House

I was going to post today about the Monk, but as I sat down to write, I had something else dominating my thoughts! What was that? I hear you gasp with anticipation? WELL!!!

Today was the third(or so) date that had been set for the Real Money Auction House to be released for Diablo 3. Yet again it appears to have been delayed, at least in the EU. It does seem to be live in the Americas and several people are reporting that they have sold items for up to $250, which is kinda insane! I guess these items must be high end Inferno items, for them to be that price.

For me, I'm waiting with baited breath.. hoping that the few items I have ready to throw up on there will sell, heck.. even if they just sell for a couple of euro I'll be happy! Who knew you could make money by playing a game.. I won't buy anything on there though, oh no!

I have had people asking me if I really think people will buy things for real money on the Auction House.. and honestly, I really think they will. People seem to buy things with no second thought to if it's really worth the money they are paying.. I mean, we all get the shaft by shops.. so why not in a game too?

But how high will the prices actually be? I think that the dominant sellers will be hackers/bots.. as with the World of Warcraft auction house. They are very good at catching them and banning them, but there are just too many I feel.. the next in the hierarchy would be people who camp the auction house, sitting there refreshing the page till they see a steal, then re-post it for quadruple the price or whatever.. I have a good friend who did this with WoW and they made a LOT of gold from it. The average Joe trying to make a sale will probably find it's not really worth it.. when you take into account the time it takes to farm an item/materials.

At the end of the day, it relies on us using it, for anyone to make anything from it. The question I have for you, the end user is.. will you use it?

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Diablo 3: The Game

Here we go again! Second installment time! It's late! 4:15am late and I apparently have to stay up till 10pm tonight... and Diablo is undergoing maintenance.. whatever will I do?! I guess I'll just have to spend some time trying to customize this page! Wish me luck! Forgot to add this link in the first one.. I guess this will do!

So, what is this game called Diablo 3? I guess I should really offer some explanation, in case you don't know.. right? Well it's kind of a hack and slash/dungeon crawl/grindfest genre PC game created by Blizzard Entertainment.. it's been a long time coming, I remember playing Diablo, Diablo II & The Lord of Destruction years ago! I'm told it was 2001 when the LoD hit the shelves.. I refuse to believe that it's been that long since I was a young lad playing games!

It's a point and click fast paced action-fest, the aim is to get your character to the max level(60, like vanilla World of Warcraft!), with all the best equipment you can find.. there are four "acts", which are kinda like these huge places you have to explore and quest in, to get your levels and gear! There is one thing that a lot of people have spoken out against and that's the fact that you can only play Diablo 3 online, even if you just want to play on your own you still have to be online. Then there is the Auction House, which I think I will go into more detail about in another post.. probably solely dedicated to it.. because it's got a lot of talking points!

Once you have finished playing through on the normal difficulty level, you'll be around level 30-32.. then you get to play through the same acts again, but with buffed baddies to hack and slash your way through! There are four difficulty levels for you to "beat", going from Normal to Nightmare, then to Hell and then finally to Inferno. I think I hit 60 at around act 3 of the Hell difficulty, but I could be wrong!

The best things about Diablo that I've found, is the gratifying sounds of your character, whatever class it is, tearing up the hordes of monsters that will surround you at every turn with mega fantastical weapons or spells that make them explode into a fine red mist.. or you could just decide to conjure up a giant frog that will swallow them up! There is of course getting loot.. Getting loot is cool, everybody loves getting new things even pixels do.

I plan on going over each class, as I play it more and more.. I'll most likely start next time with the Witch Doctor as that is the character that I have at the max level at the moment! Working on getting a Monk up there too, while I try to get my Witch Doctor some uber kit so I can attempt more Inferno(which in my limited experience so far, is quite difficult).

With that said, I think it's time to retire for the night.. or maybe I'll just watch an episode of Fringe..  just one, mind...

Ciao for now!

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