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Quick sand would fit in better with the Borderlands that Tar Pits.

Thinking of Hell too coz of the bubbling effect...
But who says it must have something to do with the environment. Maybe there's a new 'tar' monster who when the moment u step in the tar, jumps out, splashes u with tar to blind u and dirty ur armor and smacks u the face with a club made of dried tar:P
Did I mention tar monsters could be anywhere...

Or some kind of skill. Anyway, I could see this in a jungle area, I think.

Iuno about a jungle, a swamp, definitely.

FUCK, I should have talked about other possible environments in that post...
Oh well, next time...

Anywho, anyone else feeling a swamp?
Could be the return of those barely-remembered giant-mosquitoes.

My first guess wasn't hell, but rather more of swampy areas much like Kurash, Act3 in Diablo II. I loved that map, would really like to see more of it.

We already know that they have to be close to done with Act II if they are working on bosses there...so my guess is some of them are also working on the next area and trying to incorporate bubbling tar into it. So, I was thinking what a better desolated place than the Dreadlands?

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Or some kind of skill.

That's exactly what I was thinking. Maybe the witch doctor has a new spell called "Tar Baby" that explodes into a puddle of tar under enemies to burn them and slow them down.

I would say more than likely it's for a jungle/swamp area but dreadlands would be cool.

Well, technically bubbling tar can burn your flesh clean off, it sticks to things like no brother's mother, and it reeks.

I'd think it would be in some rocky, craggy, semi-mountainous region.

A WD skill would be tight as well, no doubt. xD

They really like to make Witch Doctor skills indirect, like Fire Bats. I mean, it's not necessary for the bats to be present in a typical Flamethrower skill, but why the hell not? It fits!

This is why I say Tar Baby instead of just Toss Tar Puddle. It's got a kind of voodoo mix in it, animating an idol. Imagine the WD tossing a little tar golem on the ground at which time it charges, rams, and explodes upon a group of baddies, smoldering the whole way. Now they're covered in burning tar and slowed down at the same time. Sounds pretty b'dass to me! Much more so than tossing some tar on the ground.


The only problem with this whole thing is the quote says "Watch your step," meaning that the player is guaranteed to be avoiding tar that's on the ground. I got carried away earlier and didn't read the whole quote. Oop.

I thought of hell also, but I like the idea of a swampland or the dreadlands better. A witchdoctor skill would also be really sweet, although who's to say that this skill will belong to the WD and not the 5th, unannounced class?

I'm wondering if this game is even going to take us back into hell. I personally felt like act IV in D2 was a little goofy (though still creepy). I think in this game, I'd find it much scarier if diablo were stalking the earth.

In order to add a horror / suspense aspect to the game, as well as to give the players more of a feeling of diablo's presence and a sense of impending evil, Diablo could appear in the storyline at certain points to kill some people or destroy something or acquire some mystical item he needs to destroy the world or something scary. I'm sort of thinking of Nemesis from Resident Evil 3, if you've seen that one.

In the interest of making Diablo more frightening, maybe the tar effect is actually a spell used by diablo?

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Well if they make Act III a swamp area then its starting to seem like the Acts are following the D2 pattern. And Act IV would probably be Hell.

The Acts are not strictly categorized by a single terrain/setting. You will encounter multiple terrains/settings in each Act.

mmmmhmmm I want to see a spooky swamp type place.
With swamp gas that burst in to flames, with quick sand, and tar pits...

Am I the only one who thinks they're trying so hard to come up with fresh new ideas, but coming out with idiotic, misplaces ones? Not to sound rude, bitchy or whatever..but seriously.

I'm thinkin quicksand

Speaking as a student of geology a tar pit can occur anywhere in any setting as it depends on the subterranean structure and not on the outside environment. So they could conceivably put one in any of the already announced acts.

Personally I think that aesthetically it would fit nicely in the desert setting.

so acts in this wont be like just 1 terrain setting or what cuz someone said that you will run into more different terrains in a act which I think would be pretty cool but actually acts with 1 kind of setting makes more since like D2 in act 2 was sandy maybe you went there to see whats going on and you help people out in that kind of place idk and wasnt there some tar in act 3 of D2 but you couldnt go in it?

Tar pits fit only in a few places:

Dinosaur Age jungles / lush green areas.
Primordial craters (Un'Goro Craterish idea)
Deserts (already done, so either they are talking more about act 2, or hinting about act 3)

I think it would be plausible to assume that they're hinting about Act III, like you said. As far as I've seen in RPG games, jungles are typical to contrast with a desert prior.