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d3 probably at summer 2011

Any kind of leeching and rushing would suck badly.. thats what really makes all the effort you do for the game feel really nothing when others get their rewards by just leeching.

Sounds ok so far. Just waiting to see more info!

Too bad only in US and Canada

lol I would hate to live in Quebec, alaska or hawaii

Good thing, this is what I really thought about the game.. If WoW can hold up such a huge amount of areas without loading screens why can't diablo3?D

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aww man.. fury and cool downs? sounds just like WoW.. idk what to think about this.. i'm afraid that it's not even gonna feel like a diablo game.. that news was just heartbreaking or maybe that news has been out, idk, either way i'm

yeah aww d2 had it so good.. mana! mana leech yeah right.

there was cooldowns in d2 also (after LOD came the cast delays == cooldowns)

Good stuff! "RAKANISHUU"

Doesn't really affect on me.. I play on classic and the stash has been the small one all the time

Dont know what I should think about the removal of differentiated skill trees, tbh it probably shouldnt matter that much. It makes each class play a bit more like one class, rather than 3 main specs, which is both good and bad.

Well I think we will still focus on some tree. If we want like Whirlwind to be our main skill, there will be other skills in that tree that will boost Whirlwinds effectiveness. This way we will focus a bit more on one tree.

But this is also a huge help for balancing the different trees. Now we have access to utility and damage mitigation in other trees and as bashiok said they don't have to put these skills in every tree now that you can just hop to another tree and pick the skills that you like from there.

Although ... when it comes to a simple visual aspect choice like a quest indicator icon and such things, i guess saying "its from WoW" somehow still is a valid argument on its own.
Why? I dont exactly know, but seriously, taking basically icons out of another game just doesnt sound right (unless the same series) if you get what i mean. :confused:

Everything is still a placeholder out there.. they will change as it has been said by bashiok.

This really sounds good.. especially for the passives and utility skills. And this way you can pick your favourite skills like whirlwind and shockwave and completely leave out those others you don't want to use. If you were pretty much forced to 1 tree only you would probably pick all the skills in that tree because you would have to spend the points somewhere in that tree.

With this new system we will have so many options because we can choose from 3 trees so even the 1 point you are going to put to every skill can make a big effect on your character. If you put shockwave and whirlwind for example and take 1 point for all the other skills you will spend quite many points to all skills. Instead you could pick leap and cleave along with shockwave and whirlwind and save rest of the points and use them to improve your character with passive or utility skills.

Is this the answer for players not using all skills ? If so It's a bad one, only means i will have to waste more skill point, If I am going to use something I am going to max it out or get as close to it as possible...

Whats the big deal if the low tier skills are so good that you will gladly spend some points to those? I would hate to spend 1 point only for a crappy skill that doesn't do much good just to get higher tier skills. Most of the low tier skills are probably some basic killing skills and passive damage boosting skills. For example why would anyone leave out damage mitigation or damage boosting skill from the very first tier?

You have 3 trees imagine all the options for those 5 points you need to pick from 3 trees. If tier 1 has like 2-3 skills for each tree that is 6-9 skills where you have to spend 5 points.. are you sure there isn't anything that you wouldn't want to spend those 4 extra points instead of only 1?

edit. ps. go play diablo 2 if your dream is that old crappy skill system.

but theres nothing wrong with synergies

they just made spellcasters useful =3

spell casters used to suck really badly before them and there werent as many build options

woot? sorcs used to be really great even before synergies.. bone necs were a bit weak but they were still strong in pvp.. javazons were powerful. Hammerdins didn't work in LOD iirc but in Classic they were the strongest option for a paladin.

There was more build options than now.. with synergies yes you have to put so many points to useless skills, just to make your main skill powerful enough to kill someting in Hell.

Back then you could make dual and tri tree sorcs easily and they were quite powerful in Hell, nowadays you need to have kickass gear to make dual tree work good in hell. Also many other paladin builds than hammerdin were really good (zeal, vengeance etc)

Great news.

I'll once again start from scratch in classic hc.

It was fun

I wished for classic to be changed back to the way it was before LOD.