Box art is decent enough, Pugular.

Why the fuck did I buy Diablo? I want this much more! Argh, it sounds great!

I've just realised other people can recruit your main pawn, not your actual player character. Doh!

I'm not really feeling this at all. It's all a bit vague. I'm all for figuring stuff out, but none of the quests seem clear enough and one's with waypoints sent me a millions miles off into the danger zone for nothing, only for it to re-appear all the way back near where i started. Is it bugged?

Seriously, fuck your ratings, curts. Thanks for the large nut.

@ Rick - PMSL! Honesty is the best policy, as they say.

I've just restarted from scratch. I'd already changed vocation three times, and none of them were working out. Not being able to block or evade was seriously fucking me up, and sitting back shooting arrows is boring as fuck!

Just made my new pawn and already i'm 10 times happier than i was before.

It's an obviously unpolished game, but it’s got its claws in deep and I doubt will be letting me go any time soon.

Went fighter and graduated to mystic knight. My main pawn is an idiot savant called Churro, who looks a lot like John Romero and has been hired by Tempy.

The combat has been great. Some of the special moves you get have so much weight and power - particularly one sword strike that eats about a third of your stamina, used to finish off downed enemies.

I thought I was going to hate not having a roll but now I'm not missing it. It's all about the shield skills. If you block at the right time with a Mystic Knight, there shield can unleash counters of all kinds. Haven't got this down yet - but there's an augment from the fighter path that extends the window of a successful counter by 5 frames. That's the kind of deep customisation, with a direct result on the mechanics of combat, that I've been looking for.

Not playing this today sucks : (

You can change vocation Tempy (you may know this, if so - sorry) at the inn in the city. You keep your augments from the previous class, and I guess their learned skills too?

Sick - we should trade, I can find yours right?

I feel a bit guilty as last night I cashed in my DLC code, which gave me 2,000 rift crystals allowing me to hire a pawn ten levels my senior...might just release her anyway and hire you lot.

I can see this thread getting rather busy with you and me under DD's spell : )

This this this. You'll clock AC in a few hours then still have a DkS shaped hole to fill - this will help you have a break.

This is what I was kind of asking - from research you keep 'augments' (permanent background bonuses), and the stat variations you get as you level up (fighter gets more hp per level for example) , but I'm not sure about skills..

If that is the case, you could nick the dodge roll from Strider for which would be nice. The picture that's building is a nice one though - go one of the core vocations first with an eye to developing into one which will benefit from it.

Need a definitive answer on skills transferring though, if I had to guess I'd say they do as I still have my sword specials as a Mystic Knight. That could be the factor - both those classes can use swords, whereas your skills will be on daggars and bows, right?

I think it's like that system, yeah - which I loved

Check the classes, I think one allows bows and swords which would be a nicer transition. Also, there's still the bonus of having your base stats upgraded as if you were a strider then transferring, maybe some kit can get the best out of that?

Need to be at home playing!

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Yeah, my skills are Daggers and Bows, both are so utterly pissweak it feels pointless. I might just need to level up some more as this Ogre has kicked the shit out of me three times now, wouldn't be so bad but the regular mobs take so long to chip away at.

Agreed. It seems so cool to start, but was thinking of going into assassin for some strength buffs and a sword/shield combo, mixed with bow skills ive already leveled up.

I fucking love the title screen music! It's straight out of an 80s action movie. This game is awesomesauce. 
Who's pawn is Balderak? Keeps appearing in my rift area, but he's too high a level, I don't want to have a pawn that's better than me

I really like the theme tune too...