PSA: Diablo III Open Beta WeekendFollow

The entirity of my experience with Norton was 3-4 years ago, and it was hell. My parents were getting free AVG through their ISP, and the company switched to Norton from McAfee (score x2).

The program was worse than any virus I've ever seen. The system slowed to a crawl, even when it wasn't scanning. Start-up increased to taking several minutes. And this was for all of their machines--including their brand new laptop that had never had McAfee on it, so it can't have been from a bad interaction with a remnant of that program.

I have no clue what the protection is like, because at this point I would choose zero protection with caution over Norton. Maybe they just had a really bad experience. Maybe that years' suite was uncharacteristically awful. But the fact that it had the same effect on their old systems as the brand new one makes me think it wasn't a program interaction.

During the summer somehow my inactive Rift account got compromised when Trion did a freebie weekend. Like 3 months later, somehow my Bnet account got taken, too. I never could find anything on my system trying multiple programs and I've always been pretty damn careful with not trusting emails. Basically, if I ever got anything from a gaming company, I'd start from their home page and try to find word on any specials that way. Not that it's very common I'm tempted to do even that. Overall, my primary email account that I associate with any game is very rarely introduced to spam and for sign ups where I expect such, I use my age old Yahoo email that I seriously made pre-2k.

Also, an amusing HC Inferno death:


Edited, May 27th 2012 8:11pm by Spoonless

Interesting, Im on Act 2 about half way through atm but I think I might tinker around with a build like this, change a few things, Im Not having a ton of issues atm with what I'm using, But this might be a good boss build, for solo. Idk, Nice setup though. For Groups I sould see switching in Cleave + Reaping swing

Edited, May 27th 2012 11:48pm by BeanX

One question, as I still haven't gotten around to playing SC2. SpoilerTassadar's back? Or did you mean Aldaris?

Probably, then. SpoilerIf it was Tassadar, you'd probably remember the whole big to do about how somehow he was alive after crashing his ship into the overmind back in SC1.

Just picked up D3 over lunch. Are all you folks on US East? Are there specific servers within each zone?

Also, having only read the first and last dozen or so posts in the thread, I'm shocked beyond belief that every post isn't some variation of a MọÂnk Item joke.

What KT said. THere is no USEast, just North America. Oh, and don't bother trying to log on right now, there are some issues.

My favorite response that sums up all the comments in that thread.

All I saw were boobs.

Ok i just hit inferno on my barb tonight, Its like hitting a brick wall. I soloed Diablo On hell easily, didnt have many troubles on Act 4 either after i changed up some skills. But wow, Inferno is just a whole new ball game, I mean a pack of normal white mobs can kill me if I don't pay attention. Time to farm I guess.

If you think Act 1 is difficult, from what I hear just wait until Act 2. It's a slaughterhouse.

It is. I can handle up to the butcher relatively easily on my wizard but I had a friend skip me to act 2 so I could do some farming since I was hitting his soft enrage. Holy bean bangs act 2 is hard. I couldn't get past the very first couple trash pulls. Oh well, back to punching zombies in the face in Act 1.