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Quote from "Daemaro" »

Potions are still in the game, you can see them being used in the gameplay if you watch, especially the Assault Beast fight.

Bashiok had this to say about potions still being in the game:

Quote from "Magistrate" »

Yeah, it was. They just won't be as integral with the new orb system (they'd didn't like it that potions were so expendable.) But now orbs are doing the same thing that potions did, so...

I wonder if there's mana orbs like there are health ones.

Quote from "Article" »

"Ultimately, if someone can always replenish their mana and replenish their health, then game balance kind of goes out the window," admits Pardo of the old potion system. "So it also allowed us to do more interesting things with the classes themselves. If you can't always just save yourself with a potion, then it makes other skills suddenly crucial for combat, like escape skills or crowd-control skills or things like that, which didn't really matter in the Diablo series previously."