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Whats the difference between having 14 skills or all of them able to be "used" when you can only ACTUALLY use 6 active and 3 passive. The only difference is you would either have to go to town and respec or you can stay out in the field and after combat switch the skills to favor your battle style.

The amount of scripting and all of that jazz just to make a player waste a little more time every time he wants to switch up playstyles imo is more of a hassle than it is a benefit for the game.

If you ask me the BEST choice I can find is a nice timed cooldown on the switching of skills so as to prevent the rapid changing of your abilities to favor every fight your about to encounter or to juggle ALL skills with higher cooldowns.

The difference is this is Diablo and not GuildWars. This game gets more and more Guildwars like every update.
Where is the customization if I have every skill unlocked? Why the hell would I use that low tier skill when my high tier skill is the exact same level? Runes? Runes proved to be lackluster and a farce to what they originally told us, much like this game.
I want the ability to make my character different, and with their system you lose that ability. There is no thought process and no feel of achievement with their system, it's just fuck it here are the skills. They say you can't survive with 6 power skills and you have to mix and match and again I call bullshit, 1 buff, 1 debuff, 2 power spells and Diablo is a wrap kids.

You're a retard.

The end.

Why not elaborate there buddy? Oooooh wait, everything I said makes sense DOH! If history has proven anything about Diablo it is that PvM is a joke, how could it be anything else? Your character is essentially a god.

Honestly it doesn't matter, we have no PvP support in Diablo 1 or 2 and those turned out great. Regardless of how clueless or bad at PvP jay and crew are the community will eventually take over like Diablo 2 and it will be the same grind gear for PvP, there will still be money matches and FT5 and online ladders, what annoys me is he hasn't announced a way to duel mid PvM yet has he? I don't want to only 2+v2+, I want 1v1 and I want it mid game and not have to exit and join a dumbass arena.

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Whats the difference between having 14 skills or all of them able to be "used" when you can only ACTUALLY use 6 active and 3 passive. The only difference is you would either have to go to town and respec or you can stay out in the field and after combat switch the skills to favor your battle style.

The amount of scripting and all of that jazz just to make a player waste a little more time every time he wants to switch up playstyles imo is more of a hassle than it is a benefit for the game.

If you ask me the BEST choice I can find is a nice timed cooldown on the switching of skills so as to prevent the rapid changing of your abilities to favor every fight your about to encounter or to juggle ALL skills with higher cooldowns.

The difference is this is Diablo and not GuildWars. This game gets more and more Guildwars like every update.
Where is the customization if I have every skill unlocked? Why the hell would I use that low tier skill when my high tier skill is the exact same level? Runes? Runes proved to be lackluster and a farce to what they originally told us, much like this game.
I want the ability to make my character different, and with their system you lose that ability. There is no thought process and no feel of achievement with their system, it's just fuck it here are the skills. They say you can't survive with 6 power skills and you have to mix and match and again I call bullshit, 1 buff, 1 debuff, 2 power spells and Diablo is a wrap kids.

There will be no HC 3rd party sites that sell gear or gold? Did you play D2? Of course there will be sites, if there is money to be made there will be a seller.

"Now, skill and trait points were also removed."
...Why? Who cares if people hoard up points for a later skill, if they could make skills that were actually useful like they said they could then there wouldn't be a reason to hoard. So now every barbarian is exactly the same beside gear till high level when Meta gear is found and bam everyone is the same, fantastic.
Also why the hell would I use Bash or whatever low tier skill once I unlock the high tier skill? Obviously they can't make the skill worth 2 shits with points put into it, why on earth would it be a better choice going off my weapon damage when the top tier skill will have an equal booster?

Please don't tell me "Oh but there is more then 1 type of best gear" or "But but but runes in skills" all that shit will be figured out within a few months and top tier builds and gear will be known. Looks like Jay and the crew again are showing their inexperience with Diablo 1 and 2 when creating this game.

Diablo 2 was bad enough when you smashed kids they wanted to know all your gear and build, now you limit it even more so there is no thinking involved ha.
Way to make a series with a ton of re playability look stale for the first time, why the hell would I continue to play when 1 Barb or Monk is all in one and there is literally no customization.

Why not just remove Mana and cool downs while we are at it? Lets remove ALL thinking required please!!!!

Didn't read it all but what I did read sounds fantastic.
Don't have to worry about some jackass namebotting or jacking my character names.
Don't have to deal with annoying long trade times.

And people complaining about the money aspect wake up, it was always there in D2 whether you witnessed it or not. D2JSP essentially owned D2's economy and that sites garbage, so hopefully this Auction house smashes them. Also people thinking since D3 will have a stable currency that D2JSP would become obsolete are wrong. People have invested to much into their system to drop it. They would still buy FG for gold and items, adding cash to D3 pretty much 1-ups JSP.

Part that makes it hardest to believe is the ending.
How can you justify an expansion when your main character is dead?

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Ive found that the safest and 100% working way to play Diablo 1 without the color issue is to right click on Desktop and select Screen Resolution (in Windows 7) or Personalize (in Windows Vista). Leave the window opens and run the game.

Have Fun !

This has been mentioned multiple times in this thread alone, please try and refrain from bumping 10 month old threads.

I can't see them not putting 1v1 in the game. I doubt there will be a ranked 1v1 however, but that doesn't matter cause ladders will be created online to decide that.
All I ask for is that every class has a chance against every class. Much like D2 if you are actually good at pvp then you can stand your own for the most part in every duel 1v1, a few 6/4, 7/3 matchups like trap assassin vs ele druid or melee druid but with the right gameplan you could pull off a win. I don't want it where its a definite 10/0 KO hard counter BS.
I also want the ability to take out higher levels with superior gameplay, just cause youre leveled to 60 doesn't mean my level 20 shouldn't beat you if I play my cards right and you suck.

I originally wasn't gonna go. However ill be in the area around that time visiting a friend and he told me to buy a ticket but of course the saturday and 3 day tickets are sold out haha. Everything on Ebay is way over priced as well.
Hopefully someone in one of the many areas im looking has a few tickets I can get off em with both arms and legs attached. Guess there is always a chance to buy it off the street outside the venue too.

Not sure if anyone here is going to Pax East 2011 but we can use this place to talk about it.
I am currently looking to get some Saturday tickets or worst case 2 3 day tickets, so if anyone has any for sale let me know.

To make this an actual thread however what are you looking forward to the most at Pax?

This art style fits Diablo better then the new one hands down. The new one plays and looks great while playing tho so I can't complain about that. However I would prefer the sharper Diablo style over the popping watercolor of the new style. It's like comparing Marvel vs Capcom 2 to Marvel vs Capcom 3, where they should of used High res sprites in 3 they went with a poppy 3d look. It works but you always gotten wonder would it of been better with the other style.

Now no doubt the new D3 team changed ALOT about Diablo and majority of those changes are good changes and will make it a lot more interesting to play and replay, that is something I don't think the old team would of done back in the day. Again tho I feel there isn't anything wrong with that, D1 was amazing and D2 is still good to this day even after all those "problems" with it. I think they would of kept the spirit and essence of Diablo alive and we would probably have PK and potions and everything we had in D1-2.

Mmm we still have no idea if it is coming to consoles or not. They simply said what they always say, it's a possibility. Them hiring for a D3 team for console can mean as little as nothing at this point. Till they come out and say hey we are making this it is nothing but Blizzard trolling.

Just look at Ghost, they hired for that and it got canned. Just cause Blizzard is hiring for something doesn't mean it's a sure thing.

It doesn't look that bad. Considering when it was made and we have no idea how far into development this was. I am confident enough in the team to smooth out the horrible camera angle and the models, everything looks very much place holder in the shots. I would 100% rather have played this 6 years ago and be waiting for D4 now then be forgotten and neglected by Blizzard for 10+ years. At least they could of cared more about D2 and its server.
It's easy to look at an alpha game back in 2004 and look at today with today's tech and what they learned from all the other games in between and say this looks bad, but I want to see you sit here in 2004 and look at this and say it blows. If you are a real Diablo fan you would simply be asking when it's due.

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It is too hardcore for me. I am unable to coordinate more than 4 active skills in a short period of time, so this is not the game for me

It does not feel like Diablo at all, trust me. It is more hardcore, difficult, etc. It is an e-sports game. The only thing they share in common is that both are based on skillshots instead of targeted skills.

It just finished Dling so I am gonna try it out now. If it is hardcore and difficult then it might suit the more high end PvPers of Diablo which is perfect for me.