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I hope this makes things less reliant on the auction house, I hate what its made the game. I farm a lot, but still every piece of gear I am wearing is bought on the auction house. It pissed me off so much I haven't played for 2 weeks, I want to be able to find sweet loot and equip it. But it looks like its time to give it another try.

By making it easier to get loot it would make me play way more. Getting good gear in D2 definitely didnt take anywhere close to this long - when I spend 150 hours on a character to get him not even close to BiS it takes away motivation to play other classes. I liked the constantly building new characters in d2, trying funky builds and gearing them up. You can't really do that unless you have unlimited free time.

It's funny how many people are pissed about this. I'm positive there will be plenty more feats of strength based purely off luck.

Wow. Way to release the game a week before finals for most colleges and probably high schools. I have to choose between doing ok on finals or playing diablo 3 that whole first weekend. Yup, failing finals. They owe me a semesters tuition.

Well, we know the release date is not Nov. 5th. Mark that one off! https://twitter.com/#!/stormich50/status/179381318755430401

the last 2 minutes of force & sixens diablocast on friday was very interesting... both in California for a secret event? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-622f8WAaU

I'm glad they are working on getting the game out ASAP, but I find it funny how many systems they have been cutting to help speed it up. Seems to contradict their previous statements that the game will be released when its done, and they want to make sure its completely developed before they release it. There must be a lot of pressure from activision / mike / shareholders to get it out...

You get a respec now with each difficulty, and you can also make tokens to reset stats - so its not too big of a deal anymore just use them for leveling and once you get to more endgame and know what you want to build out fore sure respec and build appropriately.

new skills UI is the worst UI ever. confusing, especially for people new to the beta - my friend came over to try and couldnt figure it out, and i couldnt explain it well enough to him because i dont get it either. makes me not want to play the beta anymore, and so far ive been an addict and logged probably 100 hours - i dont grow weary of it. if they dont make huge changes to the skill UI... ill be very disappointed in blizzard. Theres no way they could allow that garbage to ship.

edit: to clarify, i dont mind the rune/skills changes - not the best but it works. its mostly the UI, skill grouping, and inabilty to swap stuff around quick an easy. not fun for beta when i like to switch around and play with every skill. and moving a skill to a different spot on your bar is annoying. you have to use a 3rd skill to swap in and out if you want to change the position of 2 skills. clunky.

Too much work IMO, I like Forces the best.

Its a bit pre-emptive... but I see it being a shield based class. There isn't really a class centered around a shield, barbs being the most applying but they lack skills to really utilize them. Barbs will mostly duel wield or use huge 2-handers, demon hunters double crossbow, wizard and witch d have their own offhands, and monks will likely use fists or whatever gives them the most damage.

They did say Q2 on the call, but they had also said Q4 before. That's a planned date, not a set one.

Well, that was exactly what I expected.

And not what I was hoping for...

What??? Classical musics the best!

Not bad overall. And holy hell... those are some huge healing increases on the monk.

If it was just for tracking me that would be fine. It helps you always improve, and at least in WoW raids I was always like, must improve to get my dps higher! Always felt good to improve your dps, shows your gaming improvement as you generally have the same items for a longer duration endgame.

It would be nice to see others, always fun to compete with friends. But I understand the reasons for not I guess...