Whether you agree with D3's developers' decisions make or not, there is a group of people always there for you - the Community Management Team. You know how many times they've answered players' questions and helped out with links, tips and information, right? Well, now THEY need our help!
For this year's Dragon Slayer Awards there is a notable Diablo III presence. D3's team is nominated for 'Top Community Management Team' and 'Community Manager of the Year' (Vaeflare).
And while you're at it, why don't you give a little support to the fellow World of WarCraft Community Management Team?
WoW has nominations in several categories: 'Most Passionate Fan Base', 'Top Community Management Team' and 'Community Manager of the Year' (SEVEN WoW CMs: Nik "Daxxarri" Gianozakos, Sam "Nakatoir" Dempsey, Zarhym, Bashiok, Nethaera and Rygarius).
In the other categories there are some Blizzard dedicated nominees, so be sure to check them out as well and if you like what they're doing, give them a vote as well!
Now's the moment to show our appreciation and prove we're aware of the hard work the CM Teams are doing!
Blue Posts
Originally Posted by (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Loot Will Get Better
Charging through the world of Sanctuary desperately hoping for a good drop of loot or a haul of gold can get extremely tedious the after six or seven dozen times. Some of the extra dungeons and side quests are fun... BUT THEY ARE ALWAYS THE SAME! What you need to do to keep the game more interesting isn't just to focus on character building and itemization, we need more quests to complete and areas to explore. You should be adding more with every patch.
We agree. We're looking at ways to implement additional character building (possibly through an expanded Paragon system), better itemization with what Josh has temporarily named “loot 2.0” (targeted items, competitive legendaries, transmogrification, and other options provided via the Mystic), and more choices when deciding what you want to go do in game (for example, endless dungeons) in Diablo III's future. There's even more that we're not ready to talk about just yet, but we're not just idly sitting by. If you haven’t already, you may want to check out some of the recent interviews our developers have had with fan sites. There’s a round-up available here: http://us.battle.net.../blog/10471971/ (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Priorities in Future End Game Content
Diablo 3 would have more longevity if Act I normal had an optional quest that granted you +1 Strength (depending on class) permanently and the same optional quest on Inferno granted you +4 Strength permanently.
Thank you for sharing Diablo III feedback, and your ideas on side quests. I think the heart of what you're mentioning (based your feedback, and others) is that Diablo III could use more things to do once you've completed Inferno difficulty. We're working on adding some variety for players who have completed Inferno difficulty, but we've also heard players mention that the Hell difficulty feels redundant. We're looking at ways to adjust what it takes to get to Inferno as a result. Hopefully, the sum total of those changes means we'll be adding interesting variety, and longevity to the end game, while keeping the path along the way fun.
Here is a reply from Wyatt to Flux, when asked about the possibility of removing the Hell difficulty, so that you have some context and insight.
Be Careful with Username/Password Requests
Ya it's started again.
http://imgur.com/a/YXjSN
Basically this guy PM people on gen chat that they have unknown plug-in and hoping they will go to the listed website, which is not belong to Blizzard's nor Bnet's, and enter their username and password.
I just hate if this http://us.battle.net...ic/6794640553#1 happens to anybody again out there.
Thank you all, I've made sure to forward this along to our investigative team who can be reached through that inbox. On a side note for those who have not done so already, we encourage you to look into getting the authenticator and SMS Protect set up. Both will greatly help prevent the chance of any compromise to your account's security. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Charging through the world of Sanctuary desperately hoping for a good drop of loot or a haul of gold can get extremely tedious the after six or seven dozen times. Some of the extra dungeons and side quests are fun... BUT THEY ARE ALWAYS THE SAME! What you need to do to keep the game more interesting isn't just to focus on character building and itemization, we need more quests to complete and areas to explore. You should be adding more with every patch.
We agree. We're looking at ways to implement additional character building (possibly through an expanded Paragon system), better itemization with what Josh has temporarily named “loot 2.0” (targeted items, competitive legendaries, transmogrification, and other options provided via the Mystic), and more choices when deciding what you want to go do in game (for example, endless dungeons) in Diablo III's future. There's even more that we're not ready to talk about just yet, but we're not just idly sitting by. If you haven’t already, you may want to check out some of the recent interviews our developers have had with fan sites. There’s a round-up available here: http://us.battle.net.../blog/10471971/ (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Priorities in Future End Game Content
Diablo 3 would have more longevity if Act I normal had an optional quest that granted you +1 Strength (depending on class) permanently and the same optional quest on Inferno granted you +4 Strength permanently.
Thank you for sharing Diablo III feedback, and your ideas on side quests. I think the heart of what you're mentioning (based your feedback, and others) is that Diablo III could use more things to do once you've completed Inferno difficulty. We're working on adding some variety for players who have completed Inferno difficulty, but we've also heard players mention that the Hell difficulty feels redundant. We're looking at ways to adjust what it takes to get to Inferno as a result. Hopefully, the sum total of those changes means we'll be adding interesting variety, and longevity to the end game, while keeping the path along the way fun.
Here is a reply from Wyatt to Flux, when asked about the possibility of removing the Hell difficulty, so that you have some context and insight.
Wyatt Cheng: A related question to that is, 1-30 the first time through normal is interesting, maybe the first time because of the story. maybe the 2nd time through it’s a different class and you’re doing different skills. Maybe the pacing feels right. maybe it’s even interesting further down since the challenge holds up and your loot/reward acquisition rate stays high and feels right.(Blue Tracker/ Official Forums)
But then kind of like what you’re saying, I don’t know if it’s specifically NM and Hell that’s the issue. More that you really want to get to Inferno and you’ve got a long road ahead of you and it’s very predictable and very much the same. Another question for us to ask ourselves is, what makes the destination so much more interesting than the journey? Can we make the journey appealing as well? If not, then maybe we should just move the destination closer.
Be Careful with Username/Password Requests
Ya it's started again.
http://imgur.com/a/YXjSN
Basically this guy PM people on gen chat that they have unknown plug-in and hoping they will go to the listed website, which is not belong to Blizzard's nor Bnet's, and enter their username and password.
I just hate if this http://us.battle.net...ic/6794640553#1 happens to anybody again out there.
Thank you all, I've made sure to forward this along to our investigative team who can be reached through that inbox. On a side note for those who have not done so already, we encourage you to look into getting the authenticator and SMS Protect set up. Both will greatly help prevent the chance of any compromise to your account's security. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Lion and Pan's Diablo Motorcycle
Originally Posted by (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
What sleek and beastly vehicle would suit the refined tastes of the Lord of Terror? Designers Lion and Pan have come together to share their Hell-forged motorcycle in this week's Artisan Showcase!
Recently Taiwanese community manager Broodlisk interviewedthese two passionate designers about their Diablo-themed motorcycle. Lin WenXian (also known as Lion) and Pan WenZhong (also known as Pan) won the excellent work prize in the 2013 KYMCO Motorcycle Design Competition with their “DIABLO” design, and Broodlisk interviewed them to understand how Diablo came out from our screens to become a running motorcycle on the road.
Q. Please tell us a little bit about yourselves.
Lion: I am called Lion. Both of us are graduates of Dayeh University, and our major was Industrial Design. The reason we chose to create DIABLO was the brainstorming of us and our German teacher, Johann Geiger.
Pan: I am called Pan. The first time we made a connection with KYMCO was when we participated in the first KYMCO Design Competition last year and I was dragged into entering the game by Lion. We actually got some experience from the competition because Lion won first prize, and that gave us the motivation to enter the second Competition this year.
During the whole discussion, we tried to search for some young elements because our target group is between 18 to 25 years old. It happened that the most popular news was all about Diablo III and e-sports back then, so we made up our minds to use DIABLO.
Q. Could you explain more details about how you put DIABLO on this motorcycle?
Pan: First, we collected a lot of research about DIABLO to analyze the design language. For example, the front brake of this motorcycle must clamp the wheel, so we imagined that as Diablo’s claw and we made it look like powerful claws are clamping the front wheel. The next part was the front end of the motorcycle, and the first thing came to our minds was Diablo’s head. We also made its horns into the rear-view mirrors. We can see a lot of hard and sharp triangles on Diablo, and we used the concept of those special triangles to slowly build the whole body of the motorcycle.
Lion: Looking at the head, you can see where the triangles are used.
Pan: Well, the original design of the motorcycle was more complicated, artistic and organic, but or teacher, Geiger, thought it was too much because there were too many unnecessary designs. So, we kept simplifying the design. Also, you can see another part with lots of curves. We got that part from Diablo’s muscles. The reason we used it is so that the motorcycle doesn’t look too hard.
Q. Then why did you leave so much space under the backseat?
Pan: That’s because the road conditions of Taiwan are so “smooth” (laughter), and we designed a “motocross for city” which provides great shock absorbing effects when riding in the cities in Taiwan.
Lion: From the back of the motorcycle, you can see that the whole thing tilts a little forward, like people tilt while running, which makes its orientation appear forward-leaning. We hope that people will look dominating when riding it. We also created a virtual 1 to 10 scale character we called dummy to see how “dominating” it would be.
Q. What are the 2 bottles on the both sides of the motorcycle? They look like some kind of accelerators.
Lion: Those are fuel cells filled with hydrogen, and they will emit water when it is transformed into electricity, because hydrogen becomes water after combining with oxygen in the air. The chlorophyll battery we used last time was more complex because it transformed chlorophyll into electricity and we needed to refill the water to charge it.
Q. Did you learn all this in school?
Pan: Basically, you need to know a lot of different technologies, but you are required to gain more information if you want to do something different.
Lion: Well, we learned all of this information by ourselves. The range of industrial design is very wide, and includes art, design, technology, mechanism, engineering, and materials.
Q. Are you going to attend any other design competitions in addition to the motorcycle design competition?
Pan: To be honest, I just attended the“Make it Real! Aivia Esports mouse design competition” award ceremony a few days ago and I was one of the finalists.
Q. What’s your procedure for attending competitions?
Lion: Um... we have some drafts first, and discuss the concept with our teacher. Later, we draw some pictures about it, and we don’t make models until we are chosen.
Pan: Actually this procedure is not only for competitions. Whatever we do, we start with drafts and designs, and we won’t do definite models until we confirm the look or shape.
Q. When did you guys begin to play the Diablo series?
Lion: The first Diablo series I played was Diablo II, and I bought Diablo III right after it was released. I think Diablo III is fantastic! Not only the game production, but also the characters created by the American artists are marvelous! My friend bought the Diablo III collector’s edition, and an art book is included inside. I always borrow that book from my friend because I think their creative process is very cool. I think Blizzard Entertainment Taiwan can also ask our teacher to cooperate in developing some creative Diablo merchandise.
Pan: You know, I have had certain “special” ability in video games since I was a child, which is I’ve lose in games all the time. That is why playing games is rarely an option for my entertainment. However, on the artistic side, the creation of characters, and even the animated video for Diablo really appeal to me and make me stay in the game. Frankly speaking, I hope to see it on the big screen one day.
Q. It’s a nice idea to hold a competition, but can there be too many industrial design competitions for students to take part in?
Pan: There are tons of competitions, but students are all willing to attend these competitions. If a competition is related to video games, I think they will be more eager to get in because they will get a lot of responses. The award can be divided into product-oriented or design-oriented, which gives competitors different directions to consider how their works will be when designing. However much the prize is, we intend to take part in those competitions in which the themes are more interesting because we can expand our thoughts and show our abilities as much as possible to compete with students from other schools.
Q. Last, give some words to those rookies who also want to bring the concepts from games into industrial design in a fashionable style!!
Pan: By transforming virtual games into real objects through design, designers can make people feel these things are fashionable because people can really touch and use these objects in daily life. When you are using these objects, you will be like, “How cool!” and that’s where fashion comes from.
Lion: Call and meet Johann Geiger! (laughter) My major was mechanical engineering, and I was totally an amateur on these art works. I improved a lot after following him to attend competitions handle cases, and accumulate experience. His teaching is really special and he also keeps updating his thoughts all the time.
Do you want to be someone like them who bravely goes forward to achieve your dreams? Do it now! Working hard and accumulating experience is the only way to become a master of your craft!
What do you think of Lion and Pan's Diablo motorcycle design? What other Diablo characters do you think could use a snazzy ride, and what do you think they would look like? Let us know in the comments below!
Are you an aspiring artist or artisan? Make sure to share your creations with us in the Community Creations forum!
Recently Taiwanese community manager Broodlisk interviewedthese two passionate designers about their Diablo-themed motorcycle. Lin WenXian (also known as Lion) and Pan WenZhong (also known as Pan) won the excellent work prize in the 2013 KYMCO Motorcycle Design Competition with their “DIABLO” design, and Broodlisk interviewed them to understand how Diablo came out from our screens to become a running motorcycle on the road.
Q. Please tell us a little bit about yourselves.
Lion: I am called Lion. Both of us are graduates of Dayeh University, and our major was Industrial Design. The reason we chose to create DIABLO was the brainstorming of us and our German teacher, Johann Geiger.
Pan: I am called Pan. The first time we made a connection with KYMCO was when we participated in the first KYMCO Design Competition last year and I was dragged into entering the game by Lion. We actually got some experience from the competition because Lion won first prize, and that gave us the motivation to enter the second Competition this year.
During the whole discussion, we tried to search for some young elements because our target group is between 18 to 25 years old. It happened that the most popular news was all about Diablo III and e-sports back then, so we made up our minds to use DIABLO.
Are you ready to ride?
Q. Could you explain more details about how you put DIABLO on this motorcycle?
Pan: First, we collected a lot of research about DIABLO to analyze the design language. For example, the front brake of this motorcycle must clamp the wheel, so we imagined that as Diablo’s claw and we made it look like powerful claws are clamping the front wheel. The next part was the front end of the motorcycle, and the first thing came to our minds was Diablo’s head. We also made its horns into the rear-view mirrors. We can see a lot of hard and sharp triangles on Diablo, and we used the concept of those special triangles to slowly build the whole body of the motorcycle.
Lion: Looking at the head, you can see where the triangles are used.
Can you see the claws and head of Diablo?
Pan: Well, the original design of the motorcycle was more complicated, artistic and organic, but or teacher, Geiger, thought it was too much because there were too many unnecessary designs. So, we kept simplifying the design. Also, you can see another part with lots of curves. We got that part from Diablo’s muscles. The reason we used it is so that the motorcycle doesn’t look too hard.
Q. Then why did you leave so much space under the backseat?
Pan: That’s because the road conditions of Taiwan are so “smooth” (laughter), and we designed a “motocross for city” which provides great shock absorbing effects when riding in the cities in Taiwan.
Lion: From the back of the motorcycle, you can see that the whole thing tilts a little forward, like people tilt while running, which makes its orientation appear forward-leaning. We hope that people will look dominating when riding it. We also created a virtual 1 to 10 scale character we called dummy to see how “dominating” it would be.
It was designed according to the local road conditions in Taiwan and incorporated a "green" concept.
Q. What are the 2 bottles on the both sides of the motorcycle? They look like some kind of accelerators.
Lion: Those are fuel cells filled with hydrogen, and they will emit water when it is transformed into electricity, because hydrogen becomes water after combining with oxygen in the air. The chlorophyll battery we used last time was more complex because it transformed chlorophyll into electricity and we needed to refill the water to charge it.
Q. Did you learn all this in school?
Pan: Basically, you need to know a lot of different technologies, but you are required to gain more information if you want to do something different.
Lion: Well, we learned all of this information by ourselves. The range of industrial design is very wide, and includes art, design, technology, mechanism, engineering, and materials.
Q. Are you going to attend any other design competitions in addition to the motorcycle design competition?
Pan: To be honest, I just attended the“Make it Real! Aivia Esports mouse design competition” award ceremony a few days ago and I was one of the finalists.
Q. What’s your procedure for attending competitions?
Lion: Um... we have some drafts first, and discuss the concept with our teacher. Later, we draw some pictures about it, and we don’t make models until we are chosen.
Pan: Actually this procedure is not only for competitions. Whatever we do, we start with drafts and designs, and we won’t do definite models until we confirm the look or shape.
Q. When did you guys begin to play the Diablo series?
Lion: The first Diablo series I played was Diablo II, and I bought Diablo III right after it was released. I think Diablo III is fantastic! Not only the game production, but also the characters created by the American artists are marvelous! My friend bought the Diablo III collector’s edition, and an art book is included inside. I always borrow that book from my friend because I think their creative process is very cool. I think Blizzard Entertainment Taiwan can also ask our teacher to cooperate in developing some creative Diablo merchandise.
Pan: You know, I have had certain “special” ability in video games since I was a child, which is I’ve lose in games all the time. That is why playing games is rarely an option for my entertainment. However, on the artistic side, the creation of characters, and even the animated video for Diablo really appeal to me and make me stay in the game. Frankly speaking, I hope to see it on the big screen one day.
Q. It’s a nice idea to hold a competition, but can there be too many industrial design competitions for students to take part in?
Pan: There are tons of competitions, but students are all willing to attend these competitions. If a competition is related to video games, I think they will be more eager to get in because they will get a lot of responses. The award can be divided into product-oriented or design-oriented, which gives competitors different directions to consider how their works will be when designing. However much the prize is, we intend to take part in those competitions in which the themes are more interesting because we can expand our thoughts and show our abilities as much as possible to compete with students from other schools.
Ride DIABLO and dominate the night!
Q. Last, give some words to those rookies who also want to bring the concepts from games into industrial design in a fashionable style!!
Pan: By transforming virtual games into real objects through design, designers can make people feel these things are fashionable because people can really touch and use these objects in daily life. When you are using these objects, you will be like, “How cool!” and that’s where fashion comes from.
Lion: Call and meet Johann Geiger! (laughter) My major was mechanical engineering, and I was totally an amateur on these art works. I improved a lot after following him to attend competitions handle cases, and accumulate experience. His teaching is really special and he also keeps updating his thoughts all the time.
This is Lion and Pan's original DIABLO motorcycle!
Do you want to be someone like them who bravely goes forward to achieve your dreams? Do it now! Working hard and accumulating experience is the only way to become a master of your craft!
What do you think of Lion and Pan's Diablo motorcycle design? What other Diablo characters do you think could use a snazzy ride, and what do you think they would look like? Let us know in the comments below!
Are you an aspiring artist or artisan? Make sure to share your creations with us in the Community Creations forum!
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Posted Jul 27, 2013I don't think itemization or improved character skills alone would improve the tedious feeling of going through NM and Hell, there definitely needs to be quite a lot of changes to the journey (NM, HELL specifically).
Perhaps we are looking at it wrong, Inferno is not the destination but only another step in our journey.
Our destination is more like reaching Paragon 100 and doing other stuff afterwards like PvP, possibly achievements for some people if they can make them more meaningful like from Mr. Monstrocity's Loot 2.0 suggestions.
To that end, I personally think it would better if they just consolidated Normal, NM, and Hell into the 1-60 framework, I think Diablo historically has been always been about end game (other that low level dueling and at least in D2). For example, all the available skills you can have are unlocked once you reached level 30, and that is accomplished just a little while afterwards past entry into NM as I recall (correct me if I'm wrong).
I think another two issues in regards to the early/mid-game issue is that the story is just too tied into the game and the linearity of the maps.
Even though D2 essentially only had large square regions of maps randomized in one of several directions it still felt more "open" than the current D3. I think if anything besides itemization and skill improvements they should really consider reworking a lot of the maps similar to what D2 and Grim Dawn are doing with map randomization, and also generally create a free roam mode detached from the story.
I know there are a ton of other issues and more specific detail to go into but this is at least a start.
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Posted Jul 27, 2013Allow Normal and Nightmare to potentially drop high-end items so people won't feel like they are wasting their time... well, at very least, it would help a little.
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Posted Jul 27, 2013Allowing end game items to potentially drop in a new consolidated NM-Hell probably would help a lot. I always thought Jay's model of having end game items only being able to be dropped in inferno really made people feel like they had to play inferno rather than it just have been a harder difficulty just for kicks or people who wanted to "challenge" themselves.
At the very least the removing of Hell would help a lot, though I think if they are to release these changes with expansion they might as well just remove both NM and Hell altogether (assuming there will be at least one new act added to the game). and make it so the first playthrough will be from 1-60 on normal and then followed by inferno (but inferno would be more open or perhaps have randomized acts/levels as opposed to the current linear story mode.
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Posted Jul 28, 2013I try not to support people/things that do not deserve it.