Megan O'Neill

I prefer traveling by ground over flying.

Last week, we talked about the various game modes you can play, but come on, what good is all that if you haven't picked a character to play yet? Which Diablo 3 class should you play -- and what makes them any different from the classes you find in WoW?

I've been getting into Pet Battles more because of Anna's brilliant to-the-point guides, and while I know there are better pets out there to use, I'm partial to expanding my army of demonic giraffes minions. Thankfully, most of these are drops I can farm rather than tameables out in the world, so it almost doesn't require pet battling skill at all.

So you've been persuaded to try Diablo 3 (maybe you read about the basics). You've loaded into the game, and now you're faced with the question of what game mode to play. There are many modes of play in Diablo 3 and some of the modes refer to what content you're playing rather than what difficulty.

Three years later, despite the warnings that the Diablo franchise is the maker of computer mouse graveyards, my original 2-button mouse still lives, though I admit the plastic has worn off in two fingertip-shaped spots. I might not log into Diablo 3 every day like I do for WoW, but now at Blizzard Watch we have more space to talk about and share the game. We've got you covered (again) for learning the basics of Diablo 3.

So how is your Season 3 going? Are you chasing leaderboards and Conquest achievements or are you just gunning for a level 70 to complete the seasonal transmogrification set?

In World of Warcraft, "hardcore" is a term often found opposite "casual" in those heated debates about whether time spent should be equal to rewards received. But in Diablo 3, "hardcore" isn't a player-generated term to describe other players -- Hardcore is a specific game mode.

At first it looked like all I had to write about for the patch 6.2 warlock changes was that Demonology was nerfed pretty hard, but then I found some things like next tier's set bonuses and new demon models. So let's get to it. Mind you, the caveat about the PTR changing is always there, moreso now when we're at the beginning of the PTR.

The Adventure Guide looks new, but it's quite familiar -- it's the old Dungeon Journal with a new splash page of content suggestions. The Adventure Guide, like everything else on the PTR, is a work in progress and could change at any point. The Patch 6.2 notes for the Adventure Guide mention that "more information will be added as development continues."

I have notes spread out on skills, passives, specific gear pieces, general tips, and I wish there was a way to collect and connect them all together in one place. I might still have to keep a notebook of general wordy tips around, but Diablo III MVP Monstrous found a solution to my gear and skills set problem -- it's simply called D3 Planner.