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Well said blood-doll, at least one person gets it.

WoW is an evolution of the rpg portion of D2, most Diablo fans resent WoW because of the mmo part of WoW (which leads to many differences in core gameplay between the two games because d2 is heavy on the Action in the ARPG and wow is heavy on the MMO in the MMORPG). Personally I'm a fan of both but a MUCH bigger fan of the Diablo series. WoW isn't really that much fun anymore with its over active "casual players should experience endgame too" approach, which isn't appropriate for an mmo of WoW's scale.

Druid. From a gameplay perspective the wind druid is the most powerful pvp class and IMO the best choice of character for solo HC. And from a lore and story angle I love his stoicism.

Even with a fourth difficulty (I would like a one btw) endless boss runs will be the endgame for D3, the developers have said this is how they want it, and I agree. It wouldn't be Diablo without mindless mf/exp runs. But extending the play through length by adding an "uber" hard difficulty level does have issues, the biggest being that it may deter players from reaching endgame (for the average player), because D2 was rather easy to complete. This could result in a shortened game life, then again thats just speculation.

The bag system has been changed, check out Blizzcast 8. It's basically a mix between wow/d2 with a new twist to make it something totally different, but most of all it provides large item animations for bigger items. The item scaling and name isn't solid at this point but what we knew as uniques is said to be remaining....and still being called unique. It has been recolored however, something not purple or gold. Purple will be used for something else (perhaps an item type better than unique? ie legenday/epic) and gold can be troublesome when a player tries to distinguish between a rare or unique. There is also an update on the fury system, it has a new display and "seems" to operate like something totally new to the genre but I can't say that with confidence, but it surly doesn't copy wow. Blizzcast 8 covers pretty much all the issues you brought up, so you might want to check it out if you haven't.

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Whats crackin'?

I have characters still from pre expansion, so if there was a wipe they missed a few ^^.

I'd bet he looks over these forums from time to time, but yeah try the official forums ^^.

That being my point.

Yes it is very awkward and ugly looking, but we cant knock it till we try it.

New, because it has a more Diablo feel, and the skill trees look better then what was seen at Blizzcon. I'm not a fan of the fury system look though, but functionality over esthetics any day.

I don't believe Blizzard ever mentioned that the next-gen mmo will be a new ip, but they have stated that they would like to make a new ip. That might be where you are connecting the dots.

^I believe that is about accurate. But Diablo 3 seems to have had stopped and restarted production on multiple occasions so who knows what if anything is left from 2001-2002 (probably nothing) and then mostly just conceptual work from 2003-2004. The bulk of the development we have seen I assume is from 2005 to now. If this is true a 2010 release seems likely.