{"id":15396,"date":"2012-05-15T13:09:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T20:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=15396"},"modified":"2013-09-01T12:38:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T19:38:55","slug":"the-beginners-guide-to-diablo-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2012\/05\/15\/the-beginners-guide-to-diablo-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"The beginner&#8217;s guide to Diablo III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"15396\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Anyone_home.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Anyone_home.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Anyone_home\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15398\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After Diablo III&#8217;s first twelve hours in the wild, I can safely say this online only experience is not your Battlechest&#8217;s Diablo!  Think of this as the new Diablo.  Diablo 2.0, if you will.  It&#8217;s a whole other thing.  And as such, you might need some help.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>After the jump, I bring you the wisdom that can only come from first-hand experience<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Error 37 means the server is overloaded and you won&#8217;t be able to connect.  Error 315300 means that you CTL-C&#8217;ed the password from the front end of Diablo III and have been CTL-V&#8217;ing in a series of asterisks as a password, and that&#8217;s not your password.  Error 3006 means the game can&#8217;t retrieve the character list you haven&#8217;t even made yet because you&#8217;ve been getting errors 37 and 315300 for about an hour.  Error 3005 is pretty self evident in that it tells you that you&#8217;ve been disconnected.  Of all the errors, error 3005 is the most newbie friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Now that you have that under your belt, you&#8217;re ready for some more advanced tips.  Error 75 means the servers are down for maintenance.  You may not know this because you&#8217;ve been actually playing the game for a while.  At which point you logged out from your 21st level character to change your banner to one of the pictures you just unlocked.  When you try to resume your game, you&#8217;ll discover error 317022 informing you that your game configuration can&#8217;t be loaded.  Neither can you join a game, or start from a different quest, or do anything but admire your character standing next to her newly modified banner.  Why don&#8217;t you play another character for a while?  You can come back later for error 300008 when checking the character list to see if you can play your 21st level character yet.  Which you can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>But of all the error messages that are part of Diablo III, the one you really want to strive for is what I call the prime error:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"15396\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Ill_say.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Ill_say.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"I&#039;ll_say\" width=\"488\" height=\"322\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15397\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you see this, you&#8217;ll know you&#8217;ve really made it as a Diablo III player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-15396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-diablo-iii"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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