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It is great that they are getting a graphical identity but like many games it feels like graphics are taking over for game play. The only reason I have seen for the 4 player max is the screen is to busy. While a good looking game is great gameplay must come first, that is why people are still playing a decade later. But whatever.

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I love the Seismic Slam It reminds me of Shockwave from Wc3. And the sound is pure awesomeness.

That's the exact reason why I'm gonna chose a juggernaut barb

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Multiple big area AoE's, are only way feel some power with magic
I personally dislike that Wizard's electric thing, it looks terrible.

Everything with barbarian is just right, that melee strength is just awesome :thumbsup:

Ohhh why do you dislike lightning ??? It's look very great and realistic, not like d2...

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It is a lot of things, but it is not realistic. Or it is realistic, but it is far from looking like real lightning.

lol I know it's not like real behavior of lightning, the only thing is the lightning doesn't travel in a perfect line.

If we want a real behavior of lightning.
First wizard will take damage.
Second flying monster must be immune to lightning (don't touch the ground)
And the lightning are supposed to be fast and after disapear after 0,01 sec.(no one will see the spell with the refresh rate of our screen) lol

You can't compare dragon age's graphics to Diablo. They are in two different categories. Blizzard isn't trying to get the best graphics, just cool looking ones and I think their lightening is cool looking.

I'd like it if thrown fire kind of "lashed" like a campfire does, much in a sense where it seems dynamic and flowing.

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Color is much better than Diablo's. This screenshot isn't best for showing this, purpose isn't fill whole screen with this thing I like those little things around arms. I really liked Dragon Age spells in general, very nice looking.

Ark, I dislike the lightning of your picture (Dragon age) !! (almost white) and plus I think I see a kind of summon pop out of lightning (too much effect, too much branch, too much exageration)

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You can't compare dragon age's graphics to Diablo. They are in two different categories. Blizzard isn't trying to get the best graphics, just cool looking ones and I think their lightening is cool looking.

Right !! and I don't find what lightning have wrong. I find it perfer for d3.

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The Wizard doesn't conduct electricity That is what makes the lightning travel to her opponent instead of her.

lol, we can start about physics !!
The electricity just find the shorter way to reach the ground, air is less conductible than blood of wizard !!!

i still feel like plague of toads is something from harry potter, no matter what bashiok says

Is it just me or it seems like a graphic nerf? They made it look plain and non-flashy now. (the youtube video that was posted)

'Over-flashy' effects don't last... There'll ALWAYS be better effects.

What defines an effect as too flashy is yet to be determined. However the iterative process through which blizz puts each aspect of the game-making process will hopefully enable them to determine when the effect gets actually more boring with time.
Remember...those skills are gonna be used hours on end...and not only during a 2 minutes youtube vid.
So the feeling behind the effects must last.

originally i made a huge fuss about the over brightness of the spells which bashiok responded to. After I played torchlight, I came to see that diablo 3 was actually perfect as it was. I hope they don't tone down v_v

I'm not a big fan of the disintegrate beam, to be honest.

Barb skills on the other hand are quite impressive, exept for that whirlwind.
I never really liked it, looks like a 300 pound ballet dancer....

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I'm not a big fan of the disintegrate beam, to be honest.

Barb skills on the other hand are quite impressive, exept for that whirlwind.
I never really liked it, looks like a 300 pound ballet dancer....

I agree, but I'm going to overlook disintegrate beam. Not sure why a lot of people seem to like whirlwind.

its become more of the hand in hand hting with the barb. barb, o ya ww. duh?

i think quick, simplistic, and mild gratification is what they need to shoot for. something that feels like a normal attack with a little flavor. (zeal, tiger strike,jab, poisin jav, fire arrow)

as for the d2 flasshy things, it came from sorc/sin traps/ and necro. these, well im too tired to think how they fit in, but ya

i like the flash they have now, but will it last?i mean, bliz sets the standard. usualy a game will go out to only beat 1 standard bliz sets. i bet one game will go out to just beat the animations. the true bliz standard that cant be broken is the legitness of the game.

I hope the tone things to a good point.
Remember this game is made to be played on multiplay, and party will take around 4 members. If every effect is too flashy the game will become too chaotic.

Particulary i think magic missile and arcane enchant weapons should not be so purple. It should be some kind of very palid purple. I allways thought those "pure" magical energies should look colorless because of it's neutrality.

Another effect i dislike is the barbarian Ground Stomp. If you play attention, when he use it alot of white cracks appears on the ground. Those white cracks looks lame and magical (wich is terrible since the barbarian should be 100% magicless).

And I don't like corpse spiders. The spiders are so big and fat wtf. They should be thounsant of small ones, like carrion swarm. It's alot more creepy.

But i really love all other effects. Specially the fire spells, time bubble and the barbarian physical attacks (they really made some boring attack, like cleave, look great without adding to much flash).

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If every effect is too flashy the game will become too chaotic.

True !! and plus the spell we see is not the higher spell of the game, if is already flashy on the start I don't imagine in the end...

I know we haven't seen it yet but I am very interested to see what the gargantuan looks like. I hope they don't just make him a giant zombie. I hope they make him look truly gruesome because I plan on using him a lot.

I'm glad I had built myself a new computer. I know I will be able to run this game with ease once it is out in the few years.

I hope that all of the WD spells get a "creepier" feel to them. He is our "dark" class for this game and he needs to live up to that. Poison, fire, fetishes, and zombies - it shouldn't be too hard to make this character creepy.