...So it begins

[TheExorcist]

Strange?
DUnno wether to believe or not
I've just read a so and so from NZ had played DI.He had to purchased NZD 25,165.57 for the 5 star gem. After obtaining that thing not only he quit but uninstalled the DI.

Reading so many reviews etc in my honest opinion at the moment the only Diablo game that I would like to play once more just two:

1. Diablo original (I hv the original cd)
2. Maybe Diablo resurrected????( I still hv the original Diablo 2 expansion set. Bought when at college etc. hihi)

hv a nice day

[Teebs]

I genuinely have no idea what the plethora of antipathy towards DI is coming from.

It has been officially available for exactly 10 days - I would assume that anyone who was caterwauling about Eternium after playing only for 10 days might receive a bit of derision.

Admittedly I am not a "hardcore gamer" though. As an F2P player - I haven't hit a paywall - so far it isn't pay to play anyway. I don't know about the pay to win aspect - I am not particularly competitive.

I do like the 'co-op' elements - wish there was a crew of Eternium players to get together with to play.

... ktb

[Raingold]

I got the 'not compatible with your device' message when DI dropped, along with loads of people whose devices also met specs. I tried other games and went back to taking a break from gaming. Helpful to see the comments here. Disappointing that it's a money-suck. I'll pass. Too bad.

[Tolimar]

Right there with you, uninstalled! It’s too bad, really. This huge company that could easily afford to offer a truly free to play game. Making an honest dollar and rewarding their loyal players with a great game is the big lesson they should have taken from Eternium. Let’s just hope Eternium is bringing in enough of those dollars to survive.

Watched some YouTube video reviews of DI, made by seriously hard-core gamers. Two words to describe them come up most often: sarcastic and brutal. Yet they say the developers are laughing, just waiting for that first billion $ to roll in, and they say it will! They think some of the very deep-pocket “whales” may have already spent a million $ to reach end-game. They have the top-notch gear and absolutely trounce weaker players in PvP, which they say has been ruined by the “casino” loot system of DI. People with gaming and gambling addictions will lose life-savings and fortunes playing this game. Every pay-to-play trap has been designed psychologically to suck players in. They say DI, as predatory as it is, will become the #1 game in the history of video games. I am very saddened by what Blizzard has become, because I have fond memories of WoW and Diablo 1 & 2. One reviewer said DI is D3 with the pay-to-play mechanics worked in. Another f-bombed so often it was laughable. One video had a banner across the top in huge letters for the entire video that said something like “do not pay money for this crap”. And the comments sections… phew! I think I saw that a news outlet had a story about the outrage over DI. Gameplay does looks awesome in the videos. Check some of them out while we wait for the next ANB. Peace.

[Grand_Wazoo]

Lol this is crazy.
He probably did more money with the video but still.

[Arawn]

So $110k or 10 years to max out a character. Yeah, no. Uninstalling

[Tolimar]

Thanks. Just went to the App Store to download. My regular internet has been down for like the last 18 hours so I’ve been running off of my cellular 5G low data mode, so it will probably take a bagillion years to get it downloaded - LOL! Thanks again!

[davidz]

Just install the app and add Eternium server. A bunch of channels…

[Tolimar]

I tried going to Discord a little while ago but had no idea how to use it. It seems very complicated to me, and I found it very frustrating. I tried pushing each button to see what they do, but that didn’t help much. Is it like the forums where you look up posts, or is it like a messaging service where you actually talk to people? Very confusing. Sorry for my stupidity.

[davidz]

The Eternium discord is very active… you can chat with some experts there. One of the beauty of Eternium is that knowledge and skills really matter. With the same build, those expert can beat 158 while I only get 153… Boss fighting alone involves a lot of skills.

[Tolimar]

You are way better than me and than you think you are if you have reached Trial 153. I have never played a Warrior, but my best BH has only cleared Trial 137. I have downloaded 3 Warrior Build guides for future reference. My Main BH needs 3 more CTd items, so it looks like the next two ANBs will go toward finishing his build. Thanks for helping.

[davidz]

There are guides and experts around this forum and discord. I’m not that good, the best warrior I had before only reached TL 153 I remember.
You probably know the following about getting to lvl 70 with warrior:

https://youtu.be/PJUeXslj9Qg

Here is Rommy’s guide about what to do after lvl 70

https://youtu.be/fBOg-JqoQdc

You then just farm at TL 100 or TL 105, and make sure you can finish it in around one minute. That will give you tons of CL and crafting materials, and maybe some really good drops. Then you can craft gears in Pythia. In Pythia you type in the level of all the qualified crafts you made, Pythia tells you what level the next craft may get. Then you save a couple hours for pushing. Make sure to watch some videos on high level pushing.

[Tolimar]

I thought I had joined Discord but found it very difficult to navigate through it. My fault entirely, I am sometimes not very savvy about such things. For example, how are you getting that tiny picture of my avatar followed by Tolimar at the beginning of your comment?
Everyone that comments on one of my posts seems to know how to do it, I have no clue how to figure it out. I still have trouble posting screenshots.
And every time I try to use an emoji, it gets replaced by a ?. Yet I know I have seen emojis used in the forums.

Wait, how did it do that Montresor?

Well, it looks like I figured one thing out. LOL.

[Tolimar]

I agree, especially when one wrong push of a button can cost you $99.99 if you aren’t paying attention! I figure that it’s something to do until the next ANB comes along, as you say, worth a look.

[Ozymandius]

Tolimar Thanks for your insight. I am a little skeptical of getting sucked into a game with lots of pay gates but maybe it is worth a look.