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I killed one dragon and looted the body but it wouldn't do the shiny "gimme ma soul" effect. Is this a bug or do some dragons not give a soul? it's like my 7th and hasn't happened before.

I've killed maybe 20 dragons total so far, but 3 didn't give me their soul. Not sure why, but it doesn't seem like a big deal to me. I've got maybe 10 souls sitting there collecting dust with no Thu'um's to spend them on.

I've noticed you need to loot them to get the soul. Doesn't seem to apply to all of them though, not sure why.

I don't believe consoles get mod support, either. Could be wrong though.

I personally think people are putting too much worth into specific words used. "Our brethren" is a pretty ambiguous phrase, and in no way does it mean he's speaking directly to someone involved with his "brethren". When I say "our people" I could be referring to Canadians, white people, males, people of certain descent etc since all those possibilities encompass myself, but you'd never know because I gave you no context to make an assertion from. With completely ambiguous context behind the phrase, it could mean anything. But I guess that's part of the fun

As for speculating about Leah and Diablo. I don't know how or why, but I feel Diablo is going to take on more of a protagonist role in D3. That doesn't mean we won't encounter and fight him, but considering we apparently travel to the High Heavens, it seems like there's a large shift in power and/or control going on, and Leah may or may not have an influence or control over him due to being who she is, and what she's learned from studying Cains work. It may just be Diablo that destroys Azmodan, as an example.

Please excuse my nitpicking.

What exactly does DiabloExpressions mean? It just seems... off, and I don't really understand what the point behind the name is, and what it reflects. In my honest opinion, I wasn't sure if this was a site that was promoting the supposed "working emulator", a site that was for customizing characters (hence, expressions), a merchandise site or what. It just seems to be a fansite, and your name should reflect that. If I was browsing sites on Google, I think I would quickly identify a name like "diablofans", or even "diablo.incgamers" before "diabloexpressions" because it's a rather ambiguous and unfitting name.

Also, why didn't you install your CMS to the root of your site? I don't know, as a web designer/developer myself (and work for a promotional company, hence my nitpicking above), having the entire site sitting within a folder called "joomla16" reeks of unprofessionalism and is just bad practice. Not to mention, you may run into unnecessary complications if you ever want to use a subdomain while retaining convenient pathing. Roots are always easier to work with. I understand it's just a game site, but one you seem to want to be taken seriously. With the little experience I do have with Joomla, it shouldn't be too hard to set Joomla up again using the root of your site. Just remember to back your database up and make sure if you're using prefixes, that you define this in the setup. Because unless you're doing a manual install (which few do), the auto-installer will force you to recreate the database (unless in recent years they've implemented an "use existing database" feature /shrug). I would suggest doing this while the site is still rather dormant.

Just my 8 cents.

Just expand on what Verity said, there aren't realms in the traditional sense like in WoW. Your region is a realm, and you create private games (max 4 players) within that realm. Think of it as hundreds of thousands of instances being run.

I won't be surprised if the cut part of the cinematic is Leah going crazy and turning into Diablo because the Black Soulstone triggered something in her. Diablo may want to destroy the other Prime Evils, and retake Hell back for himself.

My point? I won't be surprised if Diablo takes on more of a protagonist role, than an antagonist. That's not to say we won't fight him, but I have a feeling that Diablo isn't going to be the main enemy in D3.

Who's to say that it's Diablo that takes over Leah, and not the other way around?

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The D3 aesthetic artifact just sold me the collectors edition (I wasn't planning at first).

Same here. That head is going on my desk at work.

Plus, as per the response above, I wouldn't be surprised if vanishing dyes only work on certain pieces like helms Having the only alternative appearance option as "nothing" seems clunky, and not Blizzards style. While I totally understand they're different designers/developers, they were hesitant on adding transmog to WoW for very similar reasons (they don't want the core game being played in tuxedos, christmas things, etc), so I don't see "naked" in D3 being acceptable either.

So Gamestop has the CE listed on their website, but it says that it isn't eligible for in-store pickup. Anyone have and experience pre-ordering from Gamestop? Do I need to go into the store to pre-order or will I eventually be able to use the website for it?

Everyone will have a different opinion about Gamestop, some positive, some negative, most bandwagoning.

I've never personally had a problem with preorders or in store pickups. But that's just me.

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41% "Yes" in an diablo fansite ? In diablofans (the site with the lowest amaount of trolls and biggest amount of fanboys) ?

Creepy!

There are 340 active members in just the last hour yet only 236ish have voted. It's a very small number of votes for the amount of active people here overall. I doubt it's an accurate representation.

Contrary to your belief, there are a large number of trolls here and they are very active.

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Just goes to show you how badly Blizzard screwed up with their artificial hype scam with D3, and what happenes when you announce beta is coming a dozen times, but then release a Demo in its place.

Just goes to show how many people here believe idiotic stuff like this. What hype scam, and what's the difference between artificial hype and real hype? Yeah, baseless accusations without any backing. Secondly, common sense tells us it's a beta, not a demo. If they were looking to use the beta as a vehicle to hype the game, it would be an open beta like BF3. Now THAT was a demo. In actuality, they've done the exact opposite by limiting the size of their beta, which is further proof that it really is a infrastructure beta. Apparently the kids things it's cool to hate Blizzard and their games these days.

If they really wanted to stress test, they would place a player cap on the "server", which they would slowly raise when stable, not a cap on invites lol.

Why would they invite a whole bunch of people and say "LOL Sorry, server capped"? Talk about foolish. Blizzard understands what the servers can handle. They don't need to cap the servers (and I'd argue that the servers probably do have a cap, it's just higher than the number of people playing public games)

Honestly if anyone is the fool, it's you and your backwards logic. Blizzard didn't jerk anyone around. The only people that would think this, are the ones that created the hype themselves. Blizzard never affirmed a 2011 release. They were really hoping for one, but that's it. If you want to interpret that as a confirmation or some self entitled driven expectation, and hype yourself up over it, that's your call. *Especially* when every single one of us are well aware of how often Blizzard pushes titles back in the name of quality. To take small tidbits of hints and hopes, hype yourself up, then point the finger at them... get over yourself.

You also don't get to make up phrases like "regular and artificial hype" and base an entire argument from it when they are ridiculous definitions you came up with in your head. The same goes for "closed beta as needing an NDA" there's no rules of how a Beta test is run. There is just, again, you're ridiculous expectations.

With all do respect, you are an incredibly ignorant individual that believes everything should run, and only be run the way you think it should, not because there's a set protocol.

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that is correct my friend, and i didn't find big enough picture from blizz to go beyond 22" and remain it's quality beyond that

I too did a little of designing myself. Try Photo Zoom Pro. It works miracles (at least on relatively simple images). It's worth a shot.

This is how flat images work, using arbitrary numbers. (I say flat because this art couldn't have been done in a scalable format, however I would believe Blizzard has ridiculously high (talking 3000-5000 DPI) resolution versions in house. They would never provide us with those though)

Screen size: 1000x1000px
Print Size: 10" x 10"
Resolution: 300 DPI

If you sized that up to 2000x2000px, while maintaining 300 DPI (the bare minimum for an acceptable print), the print size effectively gets chopped in half to 5"x5". If you chose to maintain the print size instead of resolution, then you cut the resolution in half, to 150 DPI, which falls below print standards of 300 DPI. What happens, is you're trying to spread the same amount of pixels in double the area, hence you're going to get extremely blurring. No program can magically change this. Some programs are better at resampling than others, but you will *never* retain the same quality, especially when we're talking going from 22" to 42". There's a *huge* difference between screen size and print size.

I mean, if the OP wants to buy it go for it, I just wanted to warn him to not buy into their exaggeration of what that will look like in person. I will add, I take my job rather seriously and I'm extremely picky. I don't like seeing people get ripped off because the seller is taking advantage of the average person not knowing this information. Buy at your own risk, in other words

Not trying to be cynical here... but I wouldn't use those mocked up images as an accurate gauge for how big that is.

The poster is only 42" across, or 3.5'. I can assure you that couch is longer than 3.5 feet wide and they've created the image to actually be larger than it.

I'd also be wary, because I would like to know where the people who made this obtained an image large enough, while maintaining an acceptable DPI for printing at that size for a clear print. You say you do graphic design, I'm surprised you didn't think of this

Looks nice on the site, but don't be surprised if you're highly disappointed with the quality when you receive it.

fwiw, I'm a graphic artist and work in promotions, I do this crap every day A 16:9 image (1920x1080) at 300 DPI has a max print size of roughly 6.5". They're offering you 42". Even at screen resolution (which is likely what Blizzard provides), it's only 22" across.

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Ehh if someone is willing to go through the effort of making hundreds of email addresses and going through each one to check for invites then more power to them. There's still the possibility that Blizzard has an IP tracker in the system.

Every beginning programmer can write a script to create countless mails and check them once a week in an hour.

Any beginner web developer can write a script to blacklist, or ignore duplicate IP addresses in the database and apply it to the submission form.

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Gems are intended to require level one. Bashiok said a while ago that this will encourage you to make twinks.

Official Blizzard Quote:

They don't have a level requirement so we do intend to see them used as a way to twink new characters, or allow people to buy into gemming up a bit earlier on if they have the gold.
Our current anticipation is that it will take the hardcore players quite a while before they start maxing out their gems, long enough that they won't see level 14 gems in all slots for all of their gear before we throw something new at them.

Official Blizzard Quote:

It's important to keep in mind that you can pay an artisan to remove the gems from an item. The last design I had heard of was that it was based on gem value, so as you socket higher level gems it becomes more expensive, but you'll almost certainly want to unsocket gems to level them up, or swap to new gear. This may cause some unique problems for low level (non-twink) characters attempting to buy high level gems and then being unable to remove them from the socket when they get a better piece of armor (because they can't afford it), but that may turn out to be an acceptable roadblock.

Ouch, the second quote sucks, I guess there goes my gem empire(they aren't gonna be worth much, that's for sure).

I did the math on it and it would take a LONG time to get your 1st Rank14 gem the proper way.


The equation to acquire your 1st Rank14 gem is simple,
Time = 3^(13-r)*(s+2)/a/t

Where,
r = Base gem Rank = 7
s = Number of sockets = 10 sockets
a = Gem acquire rate = 5 gems/hour
t = Average hours played per day = 4 hours/day

For our example,
Time for 1st Rank14 = 3^(13-7)*(10+2)/5/4 = 437.4 days =1.198 years

In other words, it will take 437.4 days at an average of 4 hours played per day to acquire 9*Rank13 gems and your first Rank14 gem.


The equation to acquire all Rank14 gems,
Time2 = 3^(14-r)*(s)/a/t

For our example,
Time2 = 3^(14-7)*10/5/4 = 1094 days = 2.996 years

It will take 2.996 years to acquire 10*Rank14 gems.

Not sure why people do this outside boasting their elementary knowledge of algebra.

This formula assumes that level 1 gems are the only things that drop throughout the entirety of the game, which is silly because we all know it doesn't work like that.

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200 from like 2million of people, not a big chance /sadface

It's actually only 1.4 million, and a large chunk of those people are in countries that are not eligible anyway.

Not a big chance, but better than just opting in

Blizzard (or really, any software developer) does not announce or confirm anything with retail suppliers prior to an official press release, which Blizzard does for every release announcement.

End of March is the end of Q1, and a very safe assumption when Blizzard says "early 2012". The actual statement is either a load of crap to stir up hype and garner more preorders, or they're twisting what was actually said, using words like "confirmed". End of March is more than 5 months away, I doubt Blizzard is even ready to "confirm" anything right now.