Diablo III. Diablo Wiki. Diablo: IncGamers. Feature: Interstate 1-60: Welcome to my Nightmare. So Normal is done. “What’s next?” Doesn’t even register as a question in my head as I immediately pick Diablo’s loot and start all over on Nightmare. I know every mob, every area, every quest, every trick in the book. My build is flawless, the double axes of my barbarian spin in a whirlwind of crimson death and there hasn’t been any enemy that could oppose me and my cloth-using entourage of a wizard and a witch doctor. Or so I think. Act I is there to endorse my delusions.
In under two and a half hours the Butcher is dead, drops its crappy blue loot and I take the caravan to Act II. As we progress further into Nightmare, the way we look at the game gradually changes. Somewhere in late Act II or early Act III I am forced to start thinking differently in terms of what kind of gear I want on. In Act III, I abandon my Stomp/Overpower/Whirlwind build as it was hard and dangerous to utilize at times. Normal: Stack as much damage as possible. Vortex: We keep our emergency escape button ready. Feature: Inferno difficulty, whining and the endgame of Diablo III. According to a statistic Blizzard released in their latest blog post, only "1.9% of all characters have unlocked Inferno"; a potentially misleading statistic as it refers to characters instead of players and especially given that "unlocking" Inferno only means having reached level 60 and beating Diablo in Hell difficulty.
The true number of players who have made significant progress in Inferno will be far lower than that; there is no doubt that the people who have reached Acts 2 and beyond are part of an elite within Diablo III's playerbase. not even a week ago. Initially, it seemed that ranged characters were dealt the better hand in terms of progressing through Inferno, as seems to be the custom in role-playing games these days; Monks and Barbarians have no way of avoiding damage - and there is certainly enough to go around in Inferno.
Remember what Blizzard said about Inferno before release? For every amazing item, there are (and must be!)