With the recent release of Diablo 3, thousands of fans - both new and old - have been running through Sanctuary, trying to push back the darkness. It was very surprising to me that many of my friends that have been logging hours into Diablo 3 still didn't know much about the basic mechanics of the game.
It's pretty easy to get through the Normal difficulty mode without knowing a thing about how stats work and what "DPS" means, but once you hit the higher difficulties it becomes quite a challenge if you have no idea what you're doing. So, here I am to help with some general information about how some pretty basic game mechanics work.
Before I get into stats, two very important things you should do first (if you haven't already) are:
1. Turn on elective mode. It's in the gameplay options...