Originally Posted by
pyrotemplar
1: it all depends on your perspective and what u enjoy playing, i personally will be starting with a demon hunter follow my a barb.
2: the events of D3 happen about 20 years later, so u dont really need to play d2, but it would not hurt. you can look up a timeline to get caught up on the story
3: a system with a 2500k should be able to max it out, the system specs are not out yet but don't expect them to be huge as blizzard like to make their games playable to a wide range of computers
hope this helps