Diablo – What’re the Pros and Cons in having repeated class in the same party
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In this two examples, what could be the Pros and Cons? Are there any?
Barbarian + Wizard + Monk + Monk
Barbarian + Barbarian + Barbarian + Barbarian
Best Answer
As stated in the question about class roles, here, each class is designed to function as an independent unit.
This means that you are not penalized for having more than one of the same class. What you might gain, however, is highly variable, dependent on what classes you're stacking. Multiple monks, for instance, can give you more than one mantra, or... depending on their build... they might not use a mantra at all.
There is one consideration though: you don't want the duplicated classes to be using the same abilities (very likely at lower levels). Duplicate copies of the same buff will not stack with each other, but will instead reset the duration of the effect.
The best answer one can hope to offer is that you won't be hindered by having more than one of the same class, but there's no way to answer the other question (what characters synergize well together) in the most general case.
You can pre-download Diablo 3 once you've purchased it online. As @dlanod mentioned, you can generally pre-download Blizzard games.
However, to more directly address the question you have proposed you need to remember/be-aware that Blizzards downloader is a Peer to Peer downloading scheme. They use small feeders to populate different sections of the game to different people and then all of those people are offered up as hosts to everyone else to get those parts.
So the situation is not really a few hundred thousand people all hitting one or two servers for the game, but a few hundred thous and people all getting a small piece pretty quickly from the server like normal web browsing or MMO traffic or whatever, and then sharing that with everyone else as long as they are downloading.
There should not really be any release day concerns with access the server to download the client to your system.
Class specific weapons can provide some class only enchantments that you cannot get on standard weapons. Whether or not this is worth a trade off for damage, that is entirely up to you to decide.
For instance, you can find a demon hunter only 1 handed crossbow that provides hatred regeneration or a wand for mages that provides improved arcane pool.
Like James mentioned in his answer, the demon hunter is the only class that has a unique situation where you MUST have a ranged weapon equipped or you can't use his ranged attack skills. And his one handed crossbow is the only ranged weapon you can dual wield.
Best Answer
As stated in the question about class roles, here, each class is designed to function as an independent unit.
This means that you are not penalized for having more than one of the same class. What you might gain, however, is highly variable, dependent on what classes you're stacking. Multiple monks, for instance, can give you more than one mantra, or... depending on their build... they might not use a mantra at all.
There is one consideration though: you don't want the duplicated classes to be using the same abilities (very likely at lower levels). Duplicate copies of the same buff will not stack with each other, but will instead reset the duration of the effect.
The best answer one can hope to offer is that you won't be hindered by having more than one of the same class, but there's no way to answer the other question (what characters synergize well together) in the most general case.