Diablo 3 Beta First Impressions and a brief tirade on statistics

[Frag]

One thing to note is that the difficulty of the beta is not at all indicative of the final game. In many of the discussions related to difficulty the devs have likened the beta to the first few open areas in D2 on normal. Those areas weren't difficult in any way either.

On the topic of difficulty, check out this post:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/4443593/..._2012#blog

The title of the post is "You Will Die. We Promise".

It has a video where some of the Blizzard employees talk about how difficult the game is at the higher difficulties.

I wasn't planning on playing until they posted that, so apparently it worked. Hopefully a streamed virgin playthrough on hardcore through Inferno should show how wrong they are.