Mixing, matching, transmuting, and crafting have been a structured and useful, to varying degrees, part of Diablo II since its release. Now that we're on the verge of another year in the development cycle, we may be getting closer to what exactly crafting, in whatever form it assumes in Diablo III, entails.
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In the past, crafting, or transmuting as it is more correctly called in the context of the Diablo world, was done with the Horadric Cube, introduced in vanilla Diablo II in a quest in Lut Gholein. Various items would be placed inside the Cube, also functioning as extra storage space, and the Transmute button would be clicked. If you knew what you were doing or read some online lists of transmutable items, a new item would be made and the old items would be gone. If you didn't, well, you would experience a fail. (More about transmuting here.)While some have stated the desire to see the Horadric Cube return in Diablo III, others have been looking for new ways of slanting a possible crafting system. Early last year, when more of the UI was released in snapshots, our forum board went abuzz with talk of the mysterious new "Talisman," as it was called by Bashiok (see right). Was it possible that this was the new crafting system? However, nothing further was revealed, and the Talisman remained what it was: a mystery and an annoying secret. Furthermore, with the UI changes that have assailed the game since early last year, this may not still be on their development platter.
Now, in response to some good ol' fashioned fan inquiry, we have a new but no more helpful update!
Official Blizzard Quote:
Item crafting and/or augmentation isn't something we've discussed/revealed yet. I think it's obvious there will be some ability to change an item after you've picked it up off the ground, but what that will actually entail is a secret to be revealed later.
Besides confirming that crafting will be in the game, although that could probably have been surmised long ago, it also brings the discussion topic back to the community. What form do you think crafting will take in Diablo III? Is it a welcome sight?
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Hmm, what is this stockers that you speak of?
What would happen when it fails? Nothing, or you lose all current enchantments (a la Torchlight)
I can live with the first one, but losing anything is not something I like. When I put my resources into a crafting system I'd like it to have progress. Or, at least, no negative effects.
I do not mind if it fails if one of the mods gets worse. It would be paying respect to the orginal D1.
Indeed. Because of the limited space, I settled for saving only flawless and perfect gems, but I soon had to make a mule for them. *sigh*
Now I should look into other mods as well. How does ES interact with PlugY?
Also, how does LAN play work with PlugY? As long as both players have the same versions of the mod, it should probably work, right?
PlugY has been known to cause issues with the stash when playing multiplayer. The issue lies within the use of the extra stash pages. It is best to backup the shared stash file to another folder before playing Lan.
Eastern Sun has a special stash Switcher to be used when playing multiplayer.
Which version of LoD patch are you running. Most mods are designed for 1.09 or 1.10. Eastern sun is one of the few mods that added a launcher to load the game and it will backup the diablo files to a backup folder while it loads the 1.10 files needed to play. For 1.12 download version you need to use a program that will run a cd check since 1.10 still needs the cd check to run before loading the game. If you have more questions feel free to PM me or post in the Official ES thread.
for some reason the only thing the diablo 3 team can talk about is comparing diablo 3 to wow, like they have to cadre to the needs of the wow community.
I agree when I put something a rune in a skill or a gem in a item I want it increase not negative...
Huh, I thought you had a chance of completely screwing up the item in Torchlight.
Ah well, we both agree that you should at least get some reward for investing your precious items in crafting.