One thing that I noticed in the gameplay video was the inclusion of purple drop items...
I know its still early and that is the nature of this question and may help show Blizzard that there is some concern with this. But for me some of the allure of seeing gold/yellow items was that 2-3 seconds of discerning whether or not the item was a really nice find, or just another semi good item. Purple items are reserved for WoW and if I have to see the word "epic unidentified breast plate" in trade chat ever.... I might go mad.
I will be playing D3 to get away from WoW for a while and dont want such a huge parallel.
Its D3 though not WoW, D3's best items are called unique. Purple items seem to be the rare items as I still saw a gold (amulet?) drop off that big dude. And one thing we have to remember is that blizzard probably gained over 6 million fans of their games with WoW and I dont have any doubt that they will feel the hype from their fellow WoW players and pick the game up. Having purple items in a game with a tone of people that have never been in the Diablo community will overwhelm these purple items to be called epic.
The color isn't that big of a deal but if the item-grade of purple items are indeed called "Epic" then I will be slightly disappointed.
On another note...
I believe both bosses in the game-play trailer dropped purple items. While we know nothing of what the purple lettering means according to the item, (Could mean amazing, could mean garbage) the fact that both dropped an item of the same grade is a bit troubling. How common are these drops? Or is it just the demo being beefed up a bit?
Yellow and Brown had some similarities in terms of color when you quickly glanced by them, so I guess that might be a reason as to why purple could be the new yellow. Just a theory.
They could change the rarity colors at this point, it wouldn't be hard to achieve, I liked the old scheme but they could have entirely new rarity levels this time around.
If I recall correctly in the developement panel, both of the monsters that dropped those items werent even bosses, just random mobs that were generated by so hopefully you are right and that quality of loot isnt dropping that commenly off random monsters
If I recall correctly in the developement panel, both of the monsters that dropped those items werent even bosses, just random mobs that were generated by so hopefully you are right and that quality of loot isnt dropping that commenly off random monsters
Ah, you are right. I guess they were part of that "randomly-generated quests/encounters" thing. But that just raises my concern :(.
I think you're gonna have to get used to people comparing everything to WoW, especially another game by Blizzard. 11 million people play WoW, and a very good portion are going to play D3 I'm sure.
Lol, you could TELL they rigged that demo with godly stuff. Aka the epic armor that dropped from the chest for the Barb, and I bet that purple isn't another epic, 'cause the epic loot that dropped for the barb was like white with black lettering, or maybe I was just not paying attention. Lol.
I think purple is distinctive but in no way is it going to be the highest armor format, not only because its the color purple but because of the WoW-stigma. I think they are straying away from many of WoW's ideas, and for the better too. However item colouring becomes limited because there are limited amounts of colours in our universe unfortunately. We'll all get used to it, sooner or later.
The color isn't that big of a deal but if the item-grade of purple items are indeed called "Epic" then I will be slightly disappointed.
On another note...
I believe both bosses in the game-play trailer dropped purple items. While we know nothing of what the purple lettering means according to the item, (Could mean amazing, could mean garbage) the fact that both dropped an item of the same grade is a bit troubling. How common are these drops? Or is it just the demo being beefed up a bit?
Be that as it may, the idea of yet another WoW aspect being incorporated into this game irritates me. I'm not buying a variant of WoW, I'm going to buy Diablo 3 damn it!
You WILL be buying Diablo III; not a variant of WoW. Did you play Diablo II or WoW? They have much less in common than you seem to think.
--"I think purple is distinctive but in no way is it going to be the highest armor format, not only because its the color purple but because of the WoW-stigma. I think they are straying away from many of WoW's ideas, and for the better too. However item colouring becomes limited because there are limited amounts of colours in our universe unfortunately. We'll all get used to it, sooner or later."
By the way, colors are limited to the universe. Many animals can see several colors that we cannot.
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I know its still early and that is the nature of this question and may help show Blizzard that there is some concern with this. But for me some of the allure of seeing gold/yellow items was that 2-3 seconds of discerning whether or not the item was a really nice find, or just another semi good item. Purple items are reserved for WoW and if I have to see the word "epic unidentified breast plate" in trade chat ever.... I might go mad.
I will be playing D3 to get away from WoW for a while and dont want such a huge parallel.
On another note...
I believe both bosses in the game-play trailer dropped purple items. While we know nothing of what the purple lettering means according to the item, (Could mean amazing, could mean garbage) the fact that both dropped an item of the same grade is a bit troubling. How common are these drops? Or is it just the demo being beefed up a bit?
I guess it does the same for me until we know more.
Are you serious?
Are you REALLY going to bitch about this?
Really ... ?
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Why? Seems just like Diablo 2 to me.
You WILL be buying Diablo III; not a variant of WoW. Did you play Diablo II or WoW? They have much less in common than you seem to think.
--"I think purple is distinctive but in no way is it going to be the highest armor format, not only because its the color purple but because of the WoW-stigma. I think they are straying away from many of WoW's ideas, and for the better too. However item colouring becomes limited because there are limited amounts of colours in our universe unfortunately. We'll all get used to it, sooner or later."
By the way, colors are limited to the universe. Many animals can see several colors that we cannot.