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if you fail to see this then again I repeat, refrain from quoting me because you simply cannot compete.

I love how you think think you've already won this argument, considering that I already addressed that point (point 3, did you miss it?), which you obviously ignored since it completely debunks your case.

So you say what if the runner is a wizard or demon hunter and the chaser is a barb. I guess you're not aware of how some of the spells are going to work in D3. The melee classes have all been given more range skills to use, and you can't use teleport and such indefinitely.
So I ask you, if you think it's not possible for a barb to catch a wizard in an arena when the wizard can't use teleport non-stop, then what hope did the barb have in catching a wizard in d2? You don't seem to be complaining about this.
He can camp it. There is a wall in the way, and if the wizard wants any hope in getting in view of the barb then you would have to get closer, which defeats the purpose of running.

And we haven't even played it yet so I think this is enough of the scepticism already.

Finally, look at point 3 again in my previous post. *and refrain from quoting me coz im too cool*

Right, now you're just scrambling for more reasons to try defend D2. There really is no need, it has already been established - by about 90% of fans since we still have the nostalgics to deal with - that the arena is the better system.

Manually used health potion compared to run over health globes that instantly heal?

1. You're forgetting about rejuvenation potions in D2
2. They're manually triggered and you're trying to twist this around by claiming that running over them is more of a flawed system.
3. The arena is a controlled environment - so I'm willing to bet that there will be an option to allow or disable the health globes
4. The low health player runs away to wait for the health - the enemy has two options, to either:


• hunt them down, and since we are trapped in an arena setting, we can't run away indefinitely in a straight line which means catching up to them will be way easier (this happened in the dueling gameplay video) or...
• to wait in the centre where the health globes spawn to be the first to get to them, in which case the low health player will end up coming to you.

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...I said Diablo pvp was easily controlled and changed whenever you felt like it, with this new system it could be the same way but it was never hard to make a 1v1 or 2v2 or 3v3 in Diablo 2, if it was for you then you simply don't know what you are doing.

There's at least one person in this thread complaining that you could be dueling the same person over and over again. What do you think would happen if you spent the time to organize a 3v3 match in a game? Obviously you'll be fighting the same person over and over.
And I don't need to hear about how easy you found it, just accept that it will be much easier with the D3 system to play team battles.

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Diablo 2 had health pots which weren't allowed in any good dueling, if you don't pvp in Diablo then you simply won't understand. Going to town and healing were not allowed in any duel with significance if you did you take a loss. Also when you are low on health yea may want to play a little more cautious but that doesn't mean run away and try and hide till a health globe pops up so you can be like "YEAZ I R TEH AWESUM NOW CAUS I SUX N HID N NOW i AM R fUlL LiFzORS Wow!!!!" Why should we reward someone for losing a fight and running away till they have full life again and the other guy is left with what he had? Give your opinion on the matter but from what you type I can tell you can't PvP in Diablo and thus have no idea what I am even talking about or anything so refrain from quoting me.

Health pots weren't allowed? Health pots were frowned upon in pvp, not that they were restricted. In the same way hiding and waiting for health globes can be frowned upon, but it's not restricted - and in THIS case, the other guy can take measures to counter this. It's an arena, you can't dodge the other guy forever, and all the health globes are in the middle so you can stand there and hoard them for yourself if you need to.
"In any good pvp battles"? Well now we can scrap that and say "in any pvp battles".

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and yet in Hardcore if you step in the arena... only one walks away.

Hardcore arena i think should definatly have some health potions in the finished game.

I feel that if you are hanging on 10 hp and able to get a health potion and bring your helath back to even ground. it makes the match much more enjoyable. and then if i die like that. im gonna say damn that was a fun match.

Then make another hardcore char

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And nobody at Blizzard work with graphic design? Weird, I wonder who's been making all their design choices and the actual art/graphics.. You're entitled to your opinion, but stating your "trade" means nothing when you can't tell what everything's for (it's not even final). I worked with graphic design myself and it looks ace to me!

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You know what the areana for diablo 3 reminds me of.

The coloseum. Just battles to the death!

Obviously your opinion is strongly biased. What's with people being afraid of accepting new and better things?
"If it's not broken, don't fix it". Is this your motto?

And fourthly, Diablo 2 had health pots and a safe zone - aka town a few feet away - which encouraged running away and healing which shouldn't be allowed.
There were 4 health globes, 1 for each person, if the guy wants to run away to heal then obviously the enemy will know where to find him.
And what about being low on health? Won't that encourage running away? Don't be stupid.