A few more changes have made their way in to Diablo III beta patch 10, including the removal of Scrolls of Companion and Scrolls of Reforging, and we’ll be updating the patch notes to reflect that.
In both cases these are features we felt were underdeveloped and just not quite good enough for the game in their current state. The companion pets felt like they were mandatory to maximize play efficiency and some of the pets were too cutesy for the gritty, dark world of Sanctuary. Neither of those are issues we felt like we could solve without a lot of additional work, and we’re trying to close in on a solid release date for the game, not move further away. When weighing these systems against releasing the game, we decided to cut these scrolls and stay on track for the game’s release.
We think we can make companion pets into a much cooler system (both mechanically and visually), and evolve the reforging scrolls into a more meaningful system at some point in the future. For the time being, they will not be in the initial release of the game.
I'm glad to hear this. Months ago I posted on the Beta Feedback forums that scrolls of companion should be removed because of the same reasons they gave. Also, having these scrolls in the game makes the gold collection radius a completely useless stat/affix. I agree with the reforging removal as well simply because it makes finding and IDing an item more exciting instead of "oh well, I can always reroll it anyways". Thanks for sharing this update! =]
more good news for week of feb 5th release date (well release date date... ... ... ) (6,7,8) is my guess.
Release date date in a couple of weeks... release sometime in April. Sounds right.
well get the date either week of feb 5th (week of the call) or not for awhile. Thats how is been for almost all their titles.. so hope it stays the same. (I dont think cata followed that) but you get the idea
One quick exmaple, SC2 release date on May 4th, call on 9th..ect
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Release date date in a couple of weeks... release sometime in April. Sounds right.
Why did they remove companions... so stupid
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One quick exmaple, SC2 release date on May 4th, call on 9th..ect