no period it is not period I personally hated that builds came with an alternative weapon just for buffing skills period The system was rarely used for its intended purposes and that is why it was removed period
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If Blizzard won't items swapping I expect they will prevent swapping from inventory too (something like we're only able to change equipment in town). Go in inventory for switch weapon during a fight break the fast-paced of the game, so I doubt it will be permitted.
True, there are other options. I think simply removing any effect a weapon may have given you, once swapped, would be removed. That would not be that hard to program. Probably the same programming as shrines.
However, I never use the weapon swap. I always found the best item and the time and just used that.
With removing systems, Blizzard is also adding many to the game. Skill runes for example are amazing. I would take this system over weapon swap any day. There are also at least two more systems that they have not revealed yet. They may be removing some but they are also adding more to it.
@Luc - they have said for now you can still swap through inventory. If the system continues to be abused, then they will fix it later.
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Didn't Blizzard just recently say that they are in fact doing a weapon swap?
A person on b.net asked if Weapon swap is coming back to Diablo 3?
'At the moment it is. The confusion it creates for players is a good point really in my opinion. From my time in tech support it was a common enough issue that we had pre-written responses to send to people to help inform them of where their weapons went. BUT that said it’s not a problem that’s completely without a solution, so while it’s a decent argument it’s sort of weak because it could probably be addressed somehow. One good reason why it’s not a feature we like the idea of is that it adds a new type of play complexity that we don’t want to layer on top of those that we already have. We’re creating the game, the skills, the movement speed, kill rates, skill runes, and all other combat related mechanics and features to fit as tightly together as possible. Throwing in weapon swapping forces that tightening/balancing to take it into account. Only thing is that it’s not a clear cut feature. You either know how to game it – or you don’t. So it creates a separation of players that isn’t based on use of the character and skills but doing this weird little trick and swapping back and forth between weapons at specific times. It becomes a necessity to remain effective or as a strong opponent, and we believe the combat has enough going for it that it doesn’t need difficult to explain and understand features like weapon swapping.
I know this is probably the wrong audience to try to make that argument to, because most of you are on the winning end. But trust us that there will be plenty of separation between you and the noobs to show how awesome you are without weapon swapping.
You also have the issues of it just being used for storage, which feels super cheesy. Or as a means to game MF by swapping in weapons to get 0mgz uber dropz.'
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No.
Its Blizzard being lazy and taking the easy way out.
Period.
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at emil colon I don apostrophe t know coma maybe it is a new rule or something period
No really I understand. My point is that instead of trying to fix these problems and keeping a good feature it, they just remove it.
This is Blizzard's way now. Something doesn't work? Don't try to make it work better. Just delete it. TADA! All problems solved.
I just can't stand when they do that, especially because of "abuse" and thats how they react to it.
However, I never use the weapon swap. I always found the best item and the time and just used that.
With removing systems, Blizzard is also adding many to the game. Skill runes for example are amazing. I would take this system over weapon swap any day. There are also at least two more systems that they have not revealed yet. They may be removing some but they are also adding more to it.
@Luc - they have said for now you can still swap through inventory. If the system continues to be abused, then they will fix it later.
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A person on b.net asked if Weapon swap is coming back to Diablo 3?
'At the moment it is. The confusion it creates for players is a good point really in my opinion. From my time in tech support it was a common enough issue that we had pre-written responses to send to people to help inform them of where their weapons went. BUT that said it’s not a problem that’s completely without a solution, so while it’s a decent argument it’s sort of weak because it could probably be addressed somehow. One good reason why it’s not a feature we like the idea of is that it adds a new type of play complexity that we don’t want to layer on top of those that we already have. We’re creating the game, the skills, the movement speed, kill rates, skill runes, and all other combat related mechanics and features to fit as tightly together as possible. Throwing in weapon swapping forces that tightening/balancing to take it into account. Only thing is that it’s not a clear cut feature. You either know how to game it – or you don’t. So it creates a separation of players that isn’t based on use of the character and skills but doing this weird little trick and swapping back and forth between weapons at specific times. It becomes a necessity to remain effective or as a strong opponent, and we believe the combat has enough going for it that it doesn’t need difficult to explain and understand features like weapon swapping.
I know this is probably the wrong audience to try to make that argument to, because most of you are on the winning end. But trust us that there will be plenty of separation between you and the noobs to show how awesome you are without weapon swapping.
You also have the issues of it just being used for storage, which feels super cheesy. Or as a means to game MF by swapping in weapons to get 0mgz uber dropz.'
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