Diablo 3!

[KingOfPain]

The Girl's name is Leah (guessing from the game play trailer). As to whose love child she is, or her relationship to Cain, we will let Occhi decide

KoP

[Bam-Bam]

Sure show how each of the devs have their own ideas how the game works or should work, and things can get worse in the wrong hands. Speaking of WW nerf on the last patch. Instead of tweaking the numbers on damage dealt, or bumping up the mana cost, he (wasn't it just one guy left to update LoD?) decided to tweak the WW animation (putting it on timer) instead making it unfun to use... Maybe I have myself to blame for this

KoP

They/he put WW on an animation timer??? No more KoP whirling Dance of Death?

Mind you, I wasn't a big WW fan, but the DoD was the fun of it. As to the barb being overpowered--clearly he's not played the game with some of us.

[FoxBat]

I don't know of any Whirlwind adjustment in 1.10, took a "spin" (bad pun) with my barb and didn't see any change, could still hit weak enemies reliably with a fast weapon. In LoD, Whirlwind attack rate has always been based off of weapon speed, meaning the attacks occur every X frames depending on the weapon speed, which you could call a timer. But that's nothing recent.

[KingOfPain]

Thread in the old n54 forum. I reported the WW nerf in "Don't Say That! ;p".

*waves to Bam-Bam*

No more KoP whirling Dance of Death?

Yea, the nerf pretty well rendered WWology null.
*OMG look at the primitive screen capture assembled anim gif!*

KoP

[KingOfPain]

Came across THIS while surfing the Asylum for some dates.

MEMORABLE QUOTES of 1999 inside ) by Charis

(Woo, nice job, King...)
Wishing you the very, VERY best new year, and a supremely
Merry Christmas, Charis and the Mrs' wish you

HAPPY HOLIDAYS to You and Yours!


For your pleasure, here are some of my...

Memorable Quotes from 1999
--------------------------

... CharisBloopers

* Sniff... do I smell something on fire? Wait, that's me!
(a rogue caught in a bad Firewall in the cats when a door closed)

* If we follow my plan, that bird is *so* dead!
(famous last words before Foulwing slew an entire IM party of four)

* Eep!
(BAR partner takes a lvl 18 fireball in the back, when I swore
I had heal other selected)

* Did you ever select Teleport instead of Telekin during recovery?
(A simple mistake that led to a two hour stair recovery)

* What do you mean no Golem spell?!?!
(Last thoughts of an Immortal sorcerer on his 3@30 attempt on
dlvl 15, on seeing soul burners)

... On Charis' speed

* Holy cow! Now he's stair trapping the devil kin!
(IM game where a very wounded warrior had to clear dlvl 2)

* Charis' pacifist got a dot quicker than his last dozen characters!
(congrats to Charishalom(PAX))

* Charis, i had a feeling you were insane, but know i know for sure!
(Congrats to my MM after his spell-free, 9.5 hour, solo 3@30)

... Partners who make you smack your head

* 479 hp!? You're a f#@$%ing cheater!
(pathetic words heard from a stranger when my AMZ in leather of
whale and lion rings popped into a game to say hi to someone)

* Oops, sold it already.
(for repairs, someone sold a Stormshield w/o asking, to my rogues' dismay)

* Woohoo!! 50-30 Drake's Wiz, my lucky day!
(after hello, the first words from a coop partner, 2 mins after
joining a game i had been in for over a hour just clearing 13)
[But the ring did end up going to a good cause for a 3rd party]

* I ID'd that Great Helm in town for you
(the Gotter, which had been careful maintained unid'd)

* I finished off Plaguewrath for you
(After a grueling, multi-recovery Amazon death match, the beast
is isolated and weakened, ready for the coup de grace)

* Don't you have any resists?
(Comments after a burst of chain put my Geezer at around -300 hp,
who had not only no resists, but no mana shield)

* Did I lag you out?
(after game crash on new player join, after seeing blue FPM drop from
Laz, before i could pick it up)

... On the cerebral side

* If you can't whack him to death, maybe you can kill him with Math!
(after discussing some Monte Carlo simulation of Warrior melee in the cats)

* You could more likely prove my mother is a demon b#tch from hell
than prove the existence of gravity!
(a late night discussion on philosophy and quantum mechanics)

* Whoa! That sword is better than sex!
(reflections on a Strange Bastard Sword of Carnage)

* Wouldn't it suck if we saw Illusion Weavers?
(Last words of an IM mage entering dlvl 9)

* I went to print the Amazon rules, but didn't have enough paper
(In response to, 'have you read the AMZ rules?'. Best other
response i've gotten was 'i should have a few hours this weekend')

... Ya just gotta smile

* Anyone interested in a Drag Zod?
(a very generous BNM/pure player in channel after finding something he couldn't use)

* Aaaarrgghhh!!!
(A legendary 49th lvl variant, on his step entering the
dungeon lvl 13 in his game-to-become-50, when a dog slew him)

* Sitting in a closet in my friends house.
(a rather unexpected RL answer to the question, WRU?)

* Charis, is that character a variant?
(I just love getting asked that in channel

* Sometimes i think you've got jello up there where your brains should be.
(Mrs. C., after third night in a row coming to bed at 3am after late
night IM sessions)

KoP

[Occhidiangela]

The Girl's name is Leah (guessing from the game play trailer). As to whose love child she is, or her relationship to Cain, we will let Occhi decide

KoP

I shall find a way. The creative writing muse has not been robust of late, even if the girl is.

Cyrene, I promise to name my first Diablo 3 Barbarian Ivov in honor of your old guild name, Irrelevant Vigilantes of Vaporware.

You hear me, folks? I have dibs on Ivov, the Barbarian, when we first play on whatever version of bnet exists when D3 comes out.

KoP: I always thought Realms Beyond was a reference to the little scene in Diablo I where the book, narrator, discussed the Realms Beyond . . .

Learn something new every day.

Occhi

[KingOfPain]

Cool idea! There shall be a team variant Irrelevant Vigilantes of Vaporware, or a bunch of toons running with Ivov tag

Yea, imagine my surprise when I saw that in lvl 4...

KoP

[Occhidiangela]

Cool idea! There shall be a team variant Irrelevant Vigilantes of Vaporware, or a bunch of toons running with Ivov tag

Yea, imagine my surprise when I saw that in lvl 4...

KoP

Team Ivov. OK, we can spread the Ivov love with a tag or a team.

Ivov the Engine Drivov is my guy . . . (reference to a song by The Who)

I wonder what class will be all about engines or tools/machines. Hmmmmm. Not the New/Old barb, not the witch doctor, I will guess

The Gnomes of the Gnorth.

These gnomes come either from

1. Xiansai
   
2. The mountains just south of the Dry Steppes
   
3. The Dreadlands
   
4. The mountains at the far end of the mountain range that splits Anaroch from the Survival Wilds/Entsteig.
   

See the Blizz Map of Sanctuary for where I get that idea.

Anyone want to bet they are the actual ancestors of those thrice bedamned Flayers of the Jungles of Kejistan?

Occhi

[KingOfPain]

I have just noticed Cy tagged it TIVoV. Perhaps he's playing off one famous 1970s new wave band?

Are we not men
we are tivov
t. i. v. o. v.
We're pinheads now
We are not whole
We're pinheads all
Jocko homo

Clicky

Hi, I just started a new D3 Guild called "The Irrelevant Vigilantes of Vaporware."

Our goal is to form a powerful guild, have a leadership struggle, and splinter into a bunch of sub-guilds of one member each with out-of-date web pages--all before D3 goes into development.

After that, we'll be real busy working on the Y3k issue.

Most likely the oldest D3 guild *bragging points*, if not (was) the smallest

KoP

[Cyrene]

Boy, does 9 years ago seem like eons. My kids were 3 years old--next week, they start Middle School

I have just noticed Cy tagged it TIVoV. Perhaps he's playing off one famous 1970s new wave band?

Are we not men
we are tivov
t. i. v. o. v.
We're pinheads now
We are not whole
We're pinheads all
Jocko homo

Heh, I don't remember the rationale over the tag and/or capitalization of same.

Here's the *really* (cue eerie music) weird thing, though. I posted that on July 21, 1999. Another thing that happened on July 21, 1999, was Teleworld, Inc., renamed themselves TiVo, Inc. Oooooooo

They were getting ready for D3!

Statements that this was the date of the infamous "spaghetti incident" are pure rumor.

--Cy