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Alrite, i see alot of bad or incorrect information in this thread and wanted to throw in my two cents here.

MikeHawk, as you have learned, you can check your in game latency by mousing over the little green/yellow/red bar beside your mana/spirit/whatever pool. This is very important, because "pinging" one server is not the same as"pinging" another. Pinging or the proper term latency, is literally the amount of time it takes for your computer to send a message, and receive a reply back. As you did, pinging google, who has millions of servers, spread all throughout the world, that are not congested, could simply mean you are "talking" to a server in your town, just down the street from you. This is a very small distance and doesnt take a long time to communicate, hence the reason you got a 55 milisecond ping. Talking to blizzards servers, which could be thousands and thousands of miles away from your home, which are under heavy load and network congestion, means you will get a higher ping, and a usual acceptable range for this ping is 100-350 milliseconds. Going outside of this range, you might start to experience "warping" or unresponsive controls. What im trying ot get across here though, is that "pinging" a server isnt a consistent thing, its different for every server you communicate with.

So latency is how long it takes, your bandwidth, which you said was 1.5mb, is the maximum amount of data you can communicate at a time(think of this as like water in a pipe, you have a 1.5 inch pipe and can only force so much water through, if you had a 3 inch pipe you could force more water through faster), however diablo 3 requires very little data to be sent, less than 1% of your connection will be used by diablo. So, bandwidth really isnt a concern.

Now what you are experiencing is happening to alot of people, and it is due to the load on blizzards servers. You will more than likely see this disappear over the coming weeks, and in a month or two will hopefully never see it again. But right now there are millions of people all trying to play this game, and blizzards servers simply cant handle it. So if you get disconnections or warping or whatever else, this more than likely isnt an issue with your internet, but it is on blizzards end. Now with that being said, you could still be a factor in this. For example antivirus programs often contain some sort of firewall software as well, which could be interfering with the games ability to communicate with the servers. Torrenting software as well can wreck havoc on your internet connection, this includes even if the software is not running on your computer, but say a sibling was running it on their laptop which uses the same internet connection.

Lastly i wanted to add in a little tidbit, now im not attempting to defend blizzards decision to make this game require internet connectivity, but diablo isnt meant to be a single player experience. You can play it single player, but it is ultimately meant to be played as a social experience. For an example, the smash brother games are good as single player games, but are meant to be played with friends, they are meant to be a social experience. Or take any mmo, you can play them single player, but ultimately you are missing out on an important aspect of the game. Also taking into account the need to prevent hacks/duping due to the real money auction house, i can see the constant internet connection as being justified in that way. To end this, personally i have enjoyed the hell out of diablo 3 so far, there have been a few roadbumps, but nothing that has soured the experience for me really, and im gonna keep on playing

Thought id throw my hat in the ring:

59 Demon Hunter

Main - Hungering arrow - Devouring Arrow

Second - Charkam - Dual Chakram

1 - Rain of Vengeance - Dark Cloud

2 - Spike Trap - scatter

3 - Smoke screen - lingering fog

4 - Companion - Bat companion

Passive - Vengenace, Sharpshooter, Archery

Alrite, so first and foremost, the one thing that i havent seen a single other demon hunter use is smoke screen, and i think i understand why, its because the tooltip is incorrect. Not only will enemys not attack you, it makes you invulnerable as well as break any movement impairing effects(slow, freeze, stun, etc), so say you are fighting the butcher, and are gonna get caught in fire or are grappled by his chain, just pop smoke screen and all damage is negated. This has been the saving grace for me as a demon hunter.

Secondly, spike trap is ungodly powerful, and with scatter you will place three in a spread out row at a time which is great for large mobs to turn into a fine pink mist. However, when fighting harder enemies, the trick is to fight in doorways or stairs. Since the traps cant spread out, they layer on top of each other. For me each trap does about 12k on hit, 24 on crit, so imagine dealing anywhere between 36-72k damage in a single hit, oh my god enemies just melt away.

The bat is just there for extra regen.

Rain of vengeance is an essential aoe ability, other than its cooldown there is no cost, i use the dark cloud ability because it targets individual units, which i find works better if your fighting a boss or other large individual unit instead of a group of units, but it is still effective against a group.

Lastly dual chakrams i use because it can just cause tons of damage to enemies pouring out at you, or at the very least on a hit you get the full 100% damage, but on a good hit against say a boss, easily 400% damage.

Passive abilities - vengenace to increase my hatred, i use a crossbow, so archery gives me an additional 50% crit damage, and sharpshooter gives me extremly high crit ratings

Overall, i like the demon hunter, i can dish out damage like noone else, and smoke screen keeps me alive while doing it.

@I_smell said:

Aaaaah kinda lame. The stuff the guys do for E3 is pretty bonkers, and that old E3 logo is super dull. Also it's all CRAZY shiny and a pretty boring scene.

Someone should do a Hardy Boys mystery fanart or like a Scooby-Doo fanart of the GiantBomb guys though.

I totally do hope they do the mystery thing.

wow....debbie downer right here if i ever saw one

This will never happen, but a new Ogre Battle Game, and i mean a proper one, not one of those turned based tactic things

Bump for video! or even audio

@Mr_Skeleton said:

@rmanthorp said:

Any word on if it is even coming?

Things like that take time, I would expect to see it in a few months in the best case.

i think rmanthorp thinks we mean the redesign, not the video. We want the video. They said during the "i love mondays" video that they were gonna put it up, but nothing yet

bump because I want this video posted as well

@Venatio:

i did and it still doesnt show up

I downloaded the pack, and the characters are there but i dont see mt fuji anywhere

I really enjoyed asura's wrath, but im kinda curious, what exactly is this? Is it just a short anime filling in story content, or is there any gameplay to this?