Item-customizing in D3?

[DoranM]

For those of you who monitor our Diablo 3 Dev Tracker this will come as no extra surprise to you, but if you've been slacking - Well..I'm here to update you anyway

Someone asked the question this morning about item customization and how it will be handled in D3, although Bashiok doesn't give us anything too solid he does confirm that sockets will still be used, and that runewords will not, but runes will be part of the skill tree and they are getting away from those as inserts, he also hints that there will be more coming, but we don't know what yet.

Check it out:

Original Post/Question:

Will there be more ways to customize your items than in previous games, or(this might be a bad question)will the players be able to customize items at all in D3?

If so, in which ways?

Replies from Bashiok:

Thus far we've shown that items do have sockets, and gems can be placed in them. We're not continuing runewords, and the term 'rune' is now associated with the rune/skill system. What other options may be available, we're not telling.

We haven't released any information on our site, but it was possible to collect socketed items as well as gems in the BlizzCon demo, so any news site or fan site that attended MAY have included that as information. I don't remember any specifically reporting on it off the top of my head.

The gem stats at this point are more or less just the basics yanked from Diablo II to get the system running and have something to play around with.

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[DoranM]

Personally I've always liked the gems, combining etc is fun, the same goes with runes; I'm pretty confident though they'll come up with some new stuff that will be equally as enjoyable. I almost wonder if they won't come out with some form of crafting skills

[Jigsaw]

Some news worth reading, thank you DoranM

[dunhac82]

I think it'd be awesome (albeit maybe impossible) if all of our weapons could be unique looking, or have a great enough variety to where not every other person is running around with a similar looking weapon, armor, boots, etc. Thanks blizz....now I'm chomping at the bit to want to know more.

[Genesis]

I would of rather seen the rune system reworked to make it plausible to the legit player, and not a system that promoted duping. Then again, I'm sure if they're taking it away they will replace it with something else of equal value or better. Just like stats changing to autostats, theres bound to be some idiots spouting "I want ma nigma!"

Wait, did I just go in a circle?

[Seth]

Nope, you're good

I was happy for the new playability runewords added to Diablo II in LoD, and I'll be happy with whatever change they make in Diablo III, because I know that they're a company that's always come through with awesome titles.

[DesmondTiny]

I was really happy when they announced no runewords in items. (Yea im a classic fan)

[jwest88]

The most advanced runeword I used was ral+ort+tal. I could care less about runewords. What I loved was set items(uniques/good rares were cool too). I loved that green; hope the sets are improved and are not impossible to get in D3.

[Kwic]

Thanks for the "news", I haven't skimmed through dev tracker lately

cheers

[deathMars]

Sucks that they changed how runes work in this game, as it was tight in Diablo 2. But besides that, thanks for the info. Can't wait what they have for us..