We have a first look at some of the Wizard's runed Teleport spell. However, the Indigo rune currently does not work and has been left out. It is also very important to keep in mind this is from the beta client and may easily change once the game is released.
Blizzard Beta Contest - Round 2
If you have entered into the Blizzard Twitter contest, make sure to check your emails tonight, as the accounts should become active today! Remember, don't forget to send a new tweet for week three, it will add to your chances!
Official Blizzard Quote:
We are going through the process now; e-mails will be sent out later today. We'll make an announcement when they are. :0)
No Act Updates
It looks like we will not be seeing any updates on the official site about act 2, 3, or 4. They wish to keep anything on the game guide spoiler free until release.
Official Blizzard Quote:
Can we expect a fullfiling the Part about acts in the "Game Guide" section of official D3 page?? Before the release
No, we're trying to keep the site spoiler free and only have info on things that are available in the beta. More or less.
Bashiok On No Stats, Level 60 Cap, and Rewards
It looks like the blues have returned from vacation and Bashiok is posting away about the level cap, stats, and rewards!
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No Stats, Level 60 Cap, and Rewards
Looking at this thread I'm glad the messaging we've been getting out has resonated with the majority of you. I'm not sure it can be explained any more than it has been. If anyone is unconvinced I'm not sure just repeating myself will convince them, but I have to give it a shot. Just to sort of go over the main points as I see them...
Concentrated Coolness - This is a Blizzard design mantra and is sought with a lower level cap. By having fewer levels we can ensure each one feels more significant. In Diablo II you had 99 levels. Each one was a small step in player power, and when it came down to it, once you hit 80 or so you had already out leveled the content enough to make it easily farmable.
Achievements - Whether you choose to recognize them or not, achievements provide a far better, visible, and even tangible reward to time invested than inconsequential gains on a road to 99. Diablo II had an achievement, and it was level 99. It was an achievement because it offered no real power benefit but was reached to show off time investment. In Diablo III we have hundreds of achievements
Content - Leveling to 60 should take you to the end of Hell difficulty. This is a nice progression as when you finish 'progressing' and move into the 'farming' phase, you're at level cap. We don't feel there's any benefit to allowing players to out level the content, and in fact directly goes against the intent of Inferno always being difficult.
Difficulty - With fewer levels and a finite cap we're assured players will reach if they finish Hell, we can actually tune the game to be difficult at all times (important for Inferno) since we don't allow you to out level the most difficult content.
Can you explain "Tangible Reward" when it comes to an achievement? That goes against the idea of the achievement system. It isn't supposed to give you anything other than bragging rights.
We don't have plans to ever attach the achievement systems in our games to player power or progression. We absolutely have tangible rewards though, like titles, mounts and pets in World of Warcraft, portraits in StarCraft II, and at least banner customization options in Diablo III, if not more.
A more philosophical question. Was the D3 team ever tempted to get rid of levels entirely? Go back to the Mega Man style of getting skills (beating bosses)? You can't wear X gear or use Y rune until you have Z achievement (beating act bosses)?
I've never been aware of a design or proposal to remove levels. They're fairly meaningful, recognizable, powerful to a feeling of progression, and I would personally argue a bullet point on the definition of the RPG genre.
Would a feature like those 'angel wings' (collectors edition) be considered one of those? For example, an achievement might get you devil wings or hooves (burning footprints).
We're not going to give the CE wings out through other means, but sure we very well may attach different cosmetic rewards to achievements.
Curse Weekly News Update
Curse has come out with this week's news update!
Leveling cap to 60 means only one thing, having a room for the expansions to fit in the future wise. But, was that the big surprise for the early week? [ explaining the no stat , CE and level cap? ]
Leveling cap to 60 means only one thing, having a room for the expansions to fit in the future wise. But, was that the big surprise for the early week? [ explaining the no stat , CE and level cap? ]
Before this post I actually thought the alabaster runestone with the wormhole effect meant from the first teleport you do, you have 2 seconds to cast it as many times as possible (which I thought sucked because a low level runestone meant you have enough time to barely scrape in your second teleport instantly after the first).
This has taught me .
Jesus fucking Christ! Alabaster rune! How fuckin OP is that?!
Was it OP for a Sorc to do that in D2? There were no runes then, the base teleport allowed you to do it. As a low health/defense ranged class it's quite balanced to have a skill like this. If you're not careful you'll teleport right into a champion pack and die.
Nice vids but how do you have runes in beta Molster? Is the hacking easy and do you still need a beta invite to play like this?
Mooege or some other "educational only" emulated server using the beta content (runes are in your data files, just not accessible in the real Battle.net environment). You do not need a beta key. I have not seen a build that actually lets you play the game in the same sense as the real beta..you spawn monsters manually, no quests.
Pico has the cute look for sure.
Good pick on being the news reader.
But, she could work a bit on the vocals though, it sounds a lot like she's reading an autofeed at times.
I don't hear any PASSION for the games she's talking about. Just a single monotone voice reading the text in front of her.
Diablo 3 has taken the U.S. video game publisher and developer Blizzard a decade to complete. If delay has something to do with Korea Gov. or adding new idea to PvP or finalizing w/e they game developers are doing, so here is my question .... what have u been doing for past 10 years? patience is virtue, but trust me limit has time for closure.
Jesus fucking Christ! Alabaster rune! How fuckin OP is that?!
OP for what? its terrible in PVM because you no longer need to teleport anywhere for a boss to get loot, you farm everywhere in the game so teleport is essentially almost useless in PVM and only decent in PVP to get away once every 15 seconds... lol
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
"once the pretty hardcore gamers we had testing inferno found it fairly difficult, we then we doubled it" -trolololol jay wilson
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Blizzard Beta Contest - Round 2
If you have entered into the Blizzard Twitter contest, make sure to check your emails tonight, as the accounts should become active today! Remember, don't forget to send a new tweet for week three, it will add to your chances!
Official Blizzard Quote:
We are going through the process now; e-mails will be sent out later today. We'll make an announcement when they are. :0)
No Act Updates
It looks like we will not be seeing any updates on the official site about act 2, 3, or 4. They wish to keep anything on the game guide spoiler free until release.
Official Blizzard Quote:
Can we expect a fullfiling the Part about acts in the "Game Guide" section of official D3 page?? Before the release
No, we're trying to keep the site spoiler free and only have info on things that are available in the beta. More or less.
Bashiok On No Stats, Level 60 Cap, and Rewards
It looks like the blues have returned from vacation and Bashiok is posting away about the level cap, stats, and rewards!
Official Blizzard Quote:
No Stats, Level 60 Cap, and Rewards
Looking at this thread I'm glad the messaging we've been getting out has resonated with the majority of you. I'm not sure it can be explained any more than it has been. If anyone is unconvinced I'm not sure just repeating myself will convince them, but I have to give it a shot. Just to sort of go over the main points as I see them...
Oops! Correct link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuKvxab1kBk
Can you explain "Tangible Reward" when it comes to an achievement? That goes against the idea of the achievement system. It isn't supposed to give you anything other than bragging rights.
We don't have plans to ever attach the achievement systems in our games to player power or progression. We absolutely have tangible rewards though, like titles, mounts and pets in World of Warcraft, portraits in StarCraft II, and at least banner customization options in Diablo III, if not more.
A more philosophical question. Was the D3 team ever tempted to get rid of levels entirely? Go back to the Mega Man style of getting skills (beating bosses)? You can't wear X gear or use Y rune until you have Z achievement (beating act bosses)?
I've never been aware of a design or proposal to remove levels. They're fairly meaningful, recognizable, powerful to a feeling of progression, and I would personally argue a bullet point on the definition of the RPG genre.
Would a feature like those 'angel wings' (collectors edition) be considered one of those? For example, an achievement might get you devil wings or hooves (burning footprints).
We're not going to give the CE wings out through other means, but sure we very well may attach different cosmetic rewards to achievements.
Curse Weekly News Update
Curse has come out with this week's news update!
Before this post I actually thought the alabaster runestone with the wormhole effect meant from the first teleport you do, you have 2 seconds to cast it as many times as possible (which I thought sucked because a low level runestone meant you have enough time to barely scrape in your second teleport instantly after the first).
This has taught me .
Yes, 1 tweet first week, you can send a second one on week 2 (which is over) and a third on week three.
If you only sent one in on week one, your still in the contest.
Mooege or some other "educational only" emulated server using the beta content (runes are in your data files, just not accessible in the real Battle.net environment). You do not need a beta key. I have not seen a build that actually lets you play the game in the same sense as the real beta..you spawn monsters manually, no quests.
Good pick on being the news reader.
But, she could work a bit on the vocals though, it sounds a lot like she's reading an autofeed at times.
I don't hear any PASSION for the games she's talking about. Just a single monotone voice reading the text in front of her.
Author of: Random Ravings of Warcraft
what have u been doing for past 10 years? patience is virtue, but trust me limit has time for closure.
OP for what? its terrible in PVM because you no longer need to teleport anywhere for a boss to get loot, you farm everywhere in the game so teleport is essentially almost useless in PVM and only decent in PVP to get away once every 15 seconds... lol