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Hopefully this is accompanied by a huge wave of opt-ins. Then again, playing the beta for 2 weeks before they close it prior to launch might be lame.

This comes with an exclusive playable character class: Short, overweight Italian plumber.

Diablo must prepare for my mustache of DOOOOOM!!!

They should have made inferno scale with the stats of the player or average of the group. That way, with the better gear you find, the difficulty of inferno increases and the better drops you can get.

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The people whining about these changes are the same ones who would say: "Inferno is just too easy, give us more end-game content" if they left it how it was.

Besides, under the old system, everyone would play until someone found the easiest spot to farm and then everyone would stop there and farm. If it was in Act I, no one would play any further than act I. This way, there is incentive for playing all the way through inferno.

If you're saying that people would whine over how it was before, that it would be too easy. Whyyyy would they make it even easier then?

You're saying that people would find the best spot to farm, how would they do that if they haven't tried the other acts? Also there will never be "the most awesome place ever to farm", more like 1 tiny better place than the others. So only bots would run that one place all the time. So there's already enough incentive(if thats needed) to go through the other acts.

How would people find the best spot to farm? Google. It won't happen on release day, but after a couple weeks people will know the best spots.

The best spots to farm would be somewhere close to a waypoint where there are likely champion mobs (Nephalem Valor) and also close to a boss. See I haven't even played the beta and I know the best places to farm in Inferno.

EDIT: I forgot, they only said the beginning would be easier. I'm sure the OVERALL difficulty of inferno was actually harder than before.

The people whining about these changes are the same ones who would say: "Inferno is just too easy, give us more end-game content" if they left it how it was.

Besides, under the old system, everyone would play until someone found the easiest spot to farm and then everyone would stop there and farm. If it was in Act I, no one would play any further than act I. This way, there is incentive for playing all the way through inferno.

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And here is the first inferno nerf.

Actually, the way it was set up before, Inferno would actually get easier the further you got. Not because of monster level increasing, but you will find better equipment as you go. So technically this is an Inferno buff because now it gets harder as you progress.

I for one am excited about these changes. Hopefully acts III and IV will be so difficult that farming those areas won't be a viable option for a long time.

Also: No diminishing returns on magic find. I'm cool with that.

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yay people can stop QQing about build devotion/hot swapping on the go and boss loot. hooo-fucking-ra. praise the diablo gods

Its a band aid solution that fixes nothing.

Some level of permanency shouldn't need to be encouraged, it should just be.

This changes almost nothing on that regard. I'm not saying its not nice to have, but its not even a solution to that at all.

Agreed, removing permanent choices takes away all meaningful decision making in game. Though I still like this idea to encourage prevent boss farming.

They should have it stack as a percent. For example you kill one mob and get +10% Valor. Once you have any it slowly diminishes over time like 1% over 3 minutes. This would encourage you to not only have a build for maximum damage, but also survivability and it encourages you to stay in combat and not run back to town. It also would mean that at 100% Valor it would take several hours for it to go away completely, but if you kill another special mob you can boost it back up to 100%. Not having played inferno I don't know how viable the numbers here would be but you get the idea.

I know the blues really like the changes to the rune system, but what about the beta testers. Unfortunately, my internet doesn't reload fast enough for me to win a beta key, but do the testers feel the same way about the new changes? Just curious.

I think the removal of certain systems will actually help get this game out faster. Initially there is a bit of work to get the replacement systems in place, but when it comes to final polishing there will be less systems to balance.

Here's hoping this means they will meet their "Early 2012" goal... but I'm a glass half full kind of guy.

I hope with the release of b.net 2.0 to the masses Diablo 2 will also get a major update. A lot of the limitations with content and such come from the old battle.net. I'm no computer programmer but I think that a major update in the online services could mean a major update for Diablo 2, without the limitations of the current battle.net.

Don't flame me for ignorance, maybe they have announced that the old battle.net will remain for legacy titles and they won't all go to b.net 2.0.

People are complaining??? Seriously?

Any other company would have stopped patching and balancing 3-5 years ago. Most companies do not put legacy teams on games that are 10 years old. Not only that but Blizzard has a sequel in the works and they are still improving D2.

Plus being disappointed about a patch that is still in public testing is lame. Its not even final yet.

Blizzard makes no money (maybe from that ad banner) from battle.net play and a new patch isn't attracting a whole lot of people to purchase the game. And those who do are only paying $20.

I guess what I'm saying is, if you want more content, wait for D3.

Where is Halo? Isn't that the game that revolutionized console FPS games? Not one Halo game is represented.

"Sorry Master Chief, Wario kicked your ass."