Nice one, i like the new Rune system, but is really the skills automatcally assigned or what?
No, the narrator girl made a lapsus memoriae obviously, confusing skills and abilities with stats because they are both discussed consequently on the same subject of customization.
There's other things, like how we've changed the way that gems work. In Diablo 2, gems could only go on white -- or nonmagic -- items, while gems are now a separate chance for a weapon, meaning that we roll the item's base attributes, and we roll for its chance to have gem slots. So now any item, even legendary ones, can have gem slots. That plays a lot into the core of the item system [...] even if you find the best item in the game, the stats on that item have some randomness to them that means there could be a better version of that item. Well, now, if you find the best item in the game but it doesn't have any gem sockets, then it's not the best version of that item. In terms of creating item variance, we're looking to enhance that within Diablo 3."
that makes me very happy aswell, to know that the item variance and basically the customization of the game, is going to be even better than diablo 2. This game is destined to be amazing! : P.
1UP: Can you talk about the state of the classes? For example, is every class -- even the two that you have yet to reveal -- playable in the game right now? JW: No. The fourth class is playable in game but is using a placeholder model -- one of an NPC, actually. And all of the skills are what we call "programmer art" because we haven't implemented actual skill effects. So that one is just in gameplay testing for us while we determine signature skills. The fifth class, we're just about finished concepting it and are about to start building it. We can't use placeholder art, so we're now just going to build a model and start working on the first series of skills for that one. We're actually spending more time on the Witch Doctor, Wizard, and Barbarian because of a big change we made to the skill system that we wanted to [integrate them] with -- so it's mostly just artwork that's going on for the other two classes.
That saddens me... gotta wait longer now for a new playable class...
sigh... so they are making the game more user friendly.. that means a load of spoiled ass hole douche bag kids coming on thinking they own the world... but then again i suppose those people are already on d2 its just funny to kill them as most suck
Sweet. .... ...
if it IS the skills too, then i'm not buying diablo 3 : P...lol.
That saddens me... gotta wait longer now for a new playable class...
I thought I was bad with screwing up information but she tops me, auto skill assignment
I preferred the interview 1up had with jay though, had much more information.