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Scroll of Identification: This is the one thing I really disagree with. Only having to right click an item just doesn't feel right.

I agree. What's the point?

The stat UI doesn't look at all like the WoW screen. Totally different. Really. Not copied at all. Queue the "Diablo is like wow" posts!

Barbarians kinda got screwed with the stat changes, didn't they? Seems like they need Str/Dex/Vit and a little Intellect(?) - while other classes need maybe 2 at the most.

Simply including affixes that augment specific skills greatly expands the itemization pool and build possibilities.

This is totally awesome though. Love items with flavor!

Summer or later at this point now.

I smell christmas.

Wow those did not look good at all. The triple shot and the snake one didn't even look to come from the dart gun.

Clearly you've never seen Dragonball Z

This is actually a point for my argument, isn't it?

If you watch people playing beta with this ability; you wouldn't call it lackluster. It's pretty cool looking in action. Probably looks best on a female caster, though. A guy jumping during a spell cast just isn't too manly.

The wizard jumps during the casting of that spell, as if blizzard is laughing at you that you can't normally do it.

The teleport monsters one is odd. If he goes too far away; will he aggro other mobs to you?

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well that's a pure money making decision there.... but is it 10 characters at a time (so you could delete and rebuild) or then characters ever? (per region)

At a time, I'm sure. It'd be crazy for it to be "ever"

Well, there's this thing you know... respec

Yeah I know. I'm just saying that it's interesting. As I'm sure we've all played wow on occasion; you and I both know it's a lot easier to learn a "build" from level 1 than to start at level 85 or whatever. Leveling as a moonkin from 1-84 and going cat at 85 doesn't pan out well for most people. It's a bit of the same. A fair sample of a build isn't possible if you are doing a run at 60 with a completely new setup - your output will not be optimal initially - thus you'll end up with lots of people saying "this or that build sucks" cuz they couldn't figure it out after doing something entirely different for a very long time. Human nature.

I understand why the limit exists - or at least, I have my assumptions - and it makes sense, it's just slightly amusing.

I don't have a problem with the 10 character limit/region; but it is kind of amusing that they boast like 2 trillion viable builds, but you can only level about 10 of them.

I'm curious why the US has 2 regions in Diablo, but like hundreds of servers for WoW. Is wow that much more server intensive? And diablo maybe only pinging back on occasion or something?

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10 isnt a bad number thats more than you can have per server on WoW right?

I think wow is 10/account. I forget.

I can't see the point of making more than 5 toons, though ? Why bother ? Maybe some hardcore toons, but even then, that's 10 max.

WD doesn't exactly scream 2H Zweihanderblade of death!? Hopefully staves and what no will balance this..

I doubt at higher level gear, you are going to see a lot of two handers that will help with mana regen, give extra arcane power or help with casting speed, etc. I think your go to build for a wizard will always be a 1 hander and a book/orb offhand. Witch Doctor would be the knife/doll set up. I see lots of videos like that already. Plus they'll also talked about weapons having procs and flavors to them - I doubt any 2-handers will have caster friendly procs.

It is one of the things I've noticed about the game though. That and the lack of strength needed for heavy armors. It's a bit weird to imagine a level 60 wizard running around in plate mail. But I guess it'll happen.

Also, Acid cloud is the best looking runed skill I've seen thus far. Looks fantastic. Not sure of the point of the dead dude popping out of the ground, but oh well.

If you want to know the reason for Diablo's delay, you really don't have to look much further than the 2011Q4 numbers across the video game industry. Down like 20% from 2010. Blizzard has already lost like 2 million subs from WoW, I imagine on their next call, they'll be down another 400-600k in subs simply based upon this (completely ignoring any SWTOR effect). So, if this is the case, imagine them putting extra resources into a known profit maker and taking a little away from one that can be put on hold for a few weeks/months. Also, look at all the other titles from other game companies that have been delayed already this year. Seems like there might be a little bit of soft panic in the industry with the poor showing. (I think the pandas in wow are a desperate gamble to rekindle interest in something they see as reaching the end of its life cycle)

If you remember the Blizzard release schedule that was leaked last year, they are already behind on like 2 or 3 other releases (SC2 expansion, most notably), so it's not hard to imagine that everything has fallen behind. Again. I'd possibly point to the big drop in WoW subscriptions as a contributing factor. They don't release a lot of games, so they rely on that constant revenue stream. If it dries up a little, imagine the impact it'd have.

You can also look at some of the blue posts. The follower system is being totally revamped (survivable after normal) - imagine the issues that creates with the latter difficulties. You'd have to reduce the player effectiveness and/or up the monster effectiveness to compensate. It's a decent sized change to make.

And the retooling of the socket system. That has to be a lenghty process. Some of the runestones make no sense or are just dumb. The demon hunter one that are all various on shadow beasts? Get a little creative would you. Some of the damage numbers seem way off on a few of them too.

The "balance" issue is a bunch of hooey. WoW has been out for, what, 6 years and it still isn't balanced in their eyes. Look at some of the previous builds of this game. Upping damage 1% here, lowering it 1% there - that's not balancing, that's just minor tinkering (ie wasting time). There will be tons of patches post release - there is no real need to hold up anything for a balance reason, when that is easily patched every tuesday until they are happy with it.