# Diablo 3 SDMB Co-op Meetup thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 14, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-3-sdmb-co-op-meetup-thread/621925 "2012-05-14T20:16:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-3-sdmb-co-op-meetup-thread/621925/1 "2012-05-14T20:16:56Z")
Diablo 3 supports up to 4 player coop (which is underwhelming, down from 8 in D2) with seamless transition between single player and coop, from what I understand. I’m sure there will be lots of dopers playing together, so I’m creating a thread to coordinate groups who can find each other. What I don’t know is how level-dependent Diablo will be. Will you need to create a character for each group you want to play with, and only play with them, so that you guys are always at the same level? That’s what I did with friends for games like Borderlands and Dungeon Defenders - otherwise if you had a group where one guy was level 25, one was 21, and 2 were 17… the game either scaled down, and the level 25 guy would just plow through everything, or scale up and the level 17s would be useless and get killed constantly. Will that be an issue in D3? I really don’t know. I wonder how much of a level gap would be viable. So you may want to find a group where you only play together so you’re always at the same strength and at the same content… or just try to form ad hoc groups that are close enough to be fun for everyone. We’ll have to see how the game plays in practice. The multiplayer is drop-in/drop-out, so if we all build a large friends list with each other, we’ll probably be able to find level-appropriate games on the fly too. So go ahead and list your battle tag, when you’re available to play, class preferences (seems like it’d be boring to have multiples of one class in a group), and eventually your characters. Let’s use eastern time just to keep things consistent and simple. Also list your steam name if you prefer to coordinate that way - I know I will, since I won’t be on [battle.net](http://battle.net) all the time, but I will be on steam all the time. So, here’s me: Battle Tag SenorBeef#1394, Steam SenorBeef, available usually 7pm-1am eastern +/- on weekdays, most afternoons on weekends, not sure about class preferences yet - probably a sorceror for my main but I’ve already got a group for my main character. So feel free to try to get a group of 4 players for launch day if you don’t have one. After a few days, when people have a firm idea of what their characters will be, we can start posting specific meetup requests, ie something like “want to play with other level 20s on difficulty 2, act 1 this weekend” type stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-3-sdmb-co-op-meetup-thread/621925/2 "2012-05-14T20:31:41Z")
Suggest merging [with the other thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=651720) but have this be the OP, if possible. ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-3-sdmb-co-op-meetup-thread/621925/3 "2012-05-14T20:42:12Z")
My Battle tag: Kinthalis#1202 I killed the other 1201 Kinthalis’ by the way. That’s how I roll. I’ll be playing mostly single player on release day, but I’ll look around for peoples later in the evening for some co-op. Also, why are release dates always Pacific time? Servers won’t be up for me until 3 am. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-3-sdmb-co-op-meetup-thread/621925/4 "2012-05-14T20:46:31Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Suggest merging [with the other thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=651720) but have this be the OP, if possible. Woops, didn’t notice that. I already posted links to this thread in the SDMB steam community and a group announcement, so it would be better if we could keep this URL if possible. ---
**Author:** ![My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Darn_Snake_Legs)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-3-sdmb-co-op-meetup-thread/621925/5 "2012-05-14T20:52:49Z")
Pangolin#1890 is me. -Mike Can’t wait. ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-3-sdmb-co-op-meetup-thread/621925/6 "2012-05-14T21:40:30Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > What I don’t know is how level-dependent Diablo will be. Will you need to create a character for each group you want to play with, and only play with them, so that you guys are always at the same level? That’s what I did with friends for games like Borderlands and Dungeon Defenders - otherwise if you had a group where one guy was level 25, one was 21, and 2 were 17… the game either scaled down, and the level 25 guy would just plow through everything, or scale up and the level 17s would be useless and get killed constantly. Will that be an issue in D3? I really don’t know. I wonder how much of a level gap would be viable. I’d assume multiplayer difficulty will be about the same as it was in Diablo II, which was multiplied by the number of players if I remember correctly? Other than that it wasn’t level-corrected at all other than increasing for each game area, so low-level monsters were still the same at level 50 and Nightmare games would be instant death to a level 10 character. ---
**Author:** ![Stringer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Stringer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringer)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-3-sdmb-co-op-meetup-thread/621925/7 "2012-05-14T23:57:50Z")
LET’S DO THIS weas#1942 ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-3-sdmb-co-op-meetup-thread/621925/8 "2012-05-15T01:23:49Z")
After reading this, I think I’m going HARDCORE: > **[If You're Not Playing Diablo III Hardcore, You're Doing It Wrong](https://www.gamespot.com/articles/if-youre-not-playing-diablo-iii-hardcore-youre-doing-it-wrong/1100-6376560/)** > > Nothing is beautiful and everything hurts; why you should embrace death in the Diablo universe. Anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![Stringer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Stringer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringer)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-3-sdmb-co-op-meetup-thread/621925/9 "2012-05-15T01:44:11Z")
I’m not willing to commit to hardcore until I’ve seen they’ve fixed all the problems that plagued D2 hardcore. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-3-sdmb-co-op-meetup-thread/621925/10 "2012-05-15T06:11:38Z")
Me = Yeticusrex#1389. Demon Hunter and Monk, for starters. Yeti Jr. = TripleBrown#1647. Barbarian and Mage, for starters. ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-3-sdmb-co-op-meetup-thread/621925/11 "2012-05-15T11:45:34Z")
Where the hell can we add friends to battlenet? ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-3-sdmb-co-op-meetup-thread/621925/12 "2012-05-15T12:04:43Z")
Nevermind, you add them in game! ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-3-sdmb-co-op-meetup-thread/621925/13 "2012-05-15T12:43:46Z")
In case no thread merge, tomscud#1970. Probably a couple hours at a time, mostly 8 to 10ish central time. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-3-sdmb-co-op-meetup-thread/621925/14 "2012-05-15T13:08:53Z")
My key is extrakun#6337, though I am in Singapore, not sure if I can run into any dopers. ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-3-sdmb-co-op-meetup-thread/621925/15 "2012-05-15T14:18:57Z")
Rucksinator#1660 Buying the game now ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-3-sdmb-co-op-meetup-thread/621925/16 "2012-05-15T14:26:09Z")
I don’t have a handle yet, but I’ll let you know. Should have the game this evening. ---
**Author:** ![martu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@martu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/martu)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-3-sdmb-co-op-meetup-thread/621925/17 "2012-05-15T15:25:08Z")
Can Europeans play with you guys in the US, anyone know? ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-3-sdmb-co-op-meetup-thread/621925/18 "2012-05-15T15:27:49Z")
I won’t be getting the game for a week probably and will spend a few days fooling around in SP to get accustomed to it, but then I’ll post my tag in here. I hope my cornfield DSL will be adequate for multiplayer. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-3-sdmb-co-op-meetup-thread/621925/19 "2012-05-15T17:03:25Z")
I don’t expect to have the game until 4 July or so. All extra funds until the end of June will be going toward fixing our HVAC (see my thread in MPSIMS if you want to help defray costs). ---
**Author:** ![Hirka\_T\_Bawa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/db5fbb/32.png) [@Hirka\_T\_Bawa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hirka_T_Bawa)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-3-sdmb-co-op-meetup-thread/621925/20 "2012-05-15T19:47:16Z")
My tag is hirka#1677, trying to get on now, but the servers are down ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diablo-3-sdmb-co-op-meetup-thread/621925.md?page=2)