Aug 28, 2012

Build Details User-Friendliness: SS Witch Doctors rejoice. With the dawn of patch 1.0.4 pets are suddenly viable in Inferno and a whole slew of build opportunities have opened up. The class we were promised at release has finally become a reality, so let’s celebrate by examining a truly bread and butter, Inferno viable, pet-doctor build. Each skill in this...

Jul 30, 2012

Build Details User-Friendliness: D There are three terrifying things in this world: Bears, Zombies, and the stampede scene from The Lion King. Somehow, Blizzard managed to fuse equal parts of all three into one of the most devastating moves in the game: the Witch Doctor’s Zombie Bears. Although this build has some of the highest damage output in the game,...

Jun 28, 2012

Build Details User-Friendliness: SS Stormaggedon: Storm Lord of All is probably one of the most user-friendly builds out there in the sense that, properly geared, you basically close your eyes, hold down the left mouse button, and slap your numpad like an outspoken child. This is easily one of the highest DPS-centric builds out there for the Monk, with just a...

Jun 24, 2012

Build Details I know what you’re thinking. You’re staring at one of the most commonly agreed-on-worst Wizard powers sitting on your left click. As you scan in vain for a signature spell those thoughts of trolling some Diablo forum are building strength.  Have fun – the flashiest builds are typically employed with the greatest rarity. Ironically, Energy...

Jun 18, 2012

Build Details User-Friendliness: A The Proc-Doctah build relies on your pets taking most of the heat, their AoE DoTs constantly proccing tasty crowd control effects to keep enemies grounded and out of your hair. As such, your biggest concerns as a user are managing your pet cool-downs, and knowing when to keep your distance or close in to reapply Locusts or...

Jun 15, 2012

Build Details User-Friendliness: B+ What looks intimidating on paper isn’t so scary in practice.  Your calling card is burst damage: with Wrath of the Berserker and full fury you should be able to crush a champion very quickly, provided you can position correctly to achieve your maximum potential.  Meticulous attack-chain management will limit the amount of...

Jun 8, 2012

 Build Details User-Friendliness:     D- Weapon Throw is your bread and butter AOE, followed with Ancient Spear for excellent single target damage and Seismic Slam for keeping mobs at arm’s length.  Pop Impunity-runed War Cry when dealing with ranged elemental attackers and Call of the Ancients when the situation demands meat shields to soak up damage. ...

Jun 4, 2012

After a solid decade of waiting, we the faithful have finally been rewarded with the third coming of our demonic messiah, and – as the gospel predicted – Diablo III is a marked improvement over its predecessor in nearly every way. Following the various developer discussions leading up to launch, it is clear they set out to improve the Diablo dynasty in very...

May 22, 2012

Whether user or critic generated, so many of the negative words swirling around the Internet for Diablo III have to do with the connection issue.  Yes, to play this game you must be continually connected to the Internet and their servers.  Let me give this chorus their due: there is something fundamentally wrong with lagging out of a single player game, just...

May 18, 2012

If you’ve been wisely avoiding the various cesspools of internet opinion the past couple weeks, you’ve missed the Diablo III backlash. Seemingly everyone who couldn’t instantly get a perfect connection and play this game has let us know, frothing at the mouth atop any soapbox that will have them. Predictable, but surprisingly...