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please everyone who keeps saying its gonna be a 5/5 max check out this website: http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u263/fex_dominate/Diablo3.jpg

here we can see clearly from the gameplay video there is a 1/5/10/20 progression. this was just a little sample which will assuredly change, considering some of the skills in there dont change with ranks up and cost nothing to cast.. they were soley there for giving us a taste of whats to come, but it seems almost certain they have done away with the 20 points max for all skills. i personally am all for this, there is no point in me putting 20 points into ice bolt which i never use just to max out blizzard synergies for my sorc. i would much rather have those points to put into energy sheild or frozen armor or something of the sorts.

Quote from "Murderface" »

= I am an insult to the English language.

yes this is true... he did state after that post tho that he was french and his english wasnt very good. none the less, it gave me quite a good laugh. but hey, at least hes trying, i took 3 years of spanish and the most i can do is count to ten, maybe. lol thank god for being seated next to the mexicans in class. cheating ftw :thumbsup:

it will most likely be the same as in d2, where there will be some class specific drops and other general drops. as mentioned above, there will most likely be many many more items in d3. im excited to see what new elite items there are, oh the possibilities are endless!

Quote from "LolygagerX" »

I never believed that I would do this... I also wanted the world a little bit darker... I too have signed the petition. 34,345 signatures! KEEP 'EM COMING!

congratulations on achieving... (dramatic pause) nothing! there have been multiple interviews where blizzard has stated they are not changing the art style, they are happy with it, other styles simply do not work for what they are trying to achieve.

...i sure hope this "petition" doesnt pass or im gonna have to eat my words :confused: stand firm blizzard!

Quote from "GrimDiablo" »

Drove around ALL DAY today looking for Diablo 3 and every store I went to (Best Buy, Circuit City, EB Games, ect.) none of the stores had any in stock. Are people scooping them all up to resell on ebay or something?? What the heck is going on.

hehe, well for your first post buddy you sure gave us all a nice laugh, at first i thought it might have been a typo and you meant diablo2, (i had to drive all over to get a new LOD key, 3 lod cds and no cases with keys :mad:) but now im not so sure it was a typo. funny either way :thumbsup:

Quote from "Spartan12" »

I agree i am going to sign for the petition too

Diablo 3 looks like Cartoony crap for little children
The Graphic Art is LAME now

I am very disappointed with Blizzard for making diablo 3 look like WoW

haha, way off man. i think you clicked the wrong thread buddy. besides, your not signing anything, your clicking a button. i can hardly consider that a petition.

i dont have the time to read through this whole post cause im at work atm... but for those of you saying that you would wait another two years, or i think i even saw one that said 10 years for diablo 3 to be exactly how you want it, it has been 8 years since d2 came out and graphics have come such a long way from then. for you to think that it is gonna be on par with d2 your sadly mistaken, things obviously have to change due to the huge gap in time and technology. in the next two years graphics are gonna be much better than what we have today, so the entire game would change yet again, and i cant even start to imagine in the next ten years what we will see graphics wise.

because of the simple fact that there has been such a gap in the time between d2 and d3 you cant expect everything to be perfect, besides every game gets patched anyways, they will release it, some people may complain about some things and if enough complain about the same thing they will most likely patch it accordingly. personally i wish it had come out a year ago, i cant wait until it is released. if i dont like the art style once i buy it and play it, i would probly send something to blizzard asking them to change it, as it is now i dont see myself having any problems with it, im not too concerned about minor details in surrounding structures and minor tweaks in art style, im more interested in the actual game play than the art. d2 has terrible art and graphics by todays standards but its a fun game to play, which is why im still on it most nights of the week. as long as d3 stays on par with the actual game play aspect they wont hear a word from me... other than my gratitude.

Quote from "Fargnbastage" »

The BoP and BoE system is one of things I disliked about WoW to begin with. I came from EQ where you could reuse items that YOU SPENT TIME getting.

quick question on this small part of your post. while i am not at all in favor of there being a BoP system, im not entirely against a BoE system if done correctly as i stated much earlier in this discussion. my question is like you said you want to use items that "you spent time getting." with the way the D2 economy is set up, most people dont use anything they find (except for the early on items when your a low level), it is mostly items other people have found or duped. wouldnt you rather find that super unique item and have it actually be worth something? not have to find 40 of them for there to actually be any value to it.

i stated in an earlier post in this thread, if blizzard implemented a respec option, you wouldnt have to reroll characters, granted some people would just because... but with a respec option you can make one barb, and respec him whenever instead of having to roll 10 barbs just to get the last one right. with a BoE system, and not everything has to be BoE.. just super rare stuff, i personally think it would help the items to retain some value.

do i think blizzard would do this to diablo 3? highly doubtful, but i wouldnt be terribly upset if they did, as long as it was done correctly.

after reading through this entire post there are a few things i think need mentioning.

first of all, this is a diablo fan site, it is not a diablo debate site, or a diablo anti-art site. if a staff member wants to post something in support of diablo 3 on the front page of a site that is dedicated to diablo 3 i see absolutely nothing wrong with that. if he took your advice shmeeleemaster i believe it would completely contradict what this site is about, it is about promoting diablo 3, not about being bias/non bias. in my oponion this entire site should be considered bias towards diablo 3.

as for this next post...

Quote from "cow_killer" »

Hey fuck tard if you dont have enough imagination to create a game frome scratch + past diablo games then abandon your post stupid director. I never played wow caused it suxed. So dont start fucking around with diablo 3.

this guy has gone so wrong in so many directions it just makes me laugh... make a game from scratch using previous games? contradiction anyone? never played wow cause it "suxed" ummm, how do you know it sucked if you never played it? just as none of us have ever played diablo 3, how do any of us know what it will be like when it is finally released?

one more thing i want to point out to shmeeleemaster... the first few days after the gameplay trailer was released and the petition came up, the forums were flooded with anti art posts and sign the petition posts and this is whats wrong with diablo 3. it seems to me for the most part this outburst of rage has subsided and there are less and less of these posts. but you said, what people are subjected to the most influences them, while i do believe this is true, the two articles pro diablo 3 art style is nowhere near the hundreds of posts that were made about anti diablo 3 art on this site alone. based on this according to your theory, you would think most people would be in favor of your opinion, considering there is much more written on that subject.

there is a difference though between a well written article such as posted here and the many incoherent arguments that generally say the same thing such as in the forums about anti D3 art. one well written article has much more influence on people than hundreds of complaints about one thing.

by the way.. this was way but just my 2cents

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Originally Posted by Eldius
Actually someone else probably came up with it before it was posted on the internet. Secondly, I believe that I submitted the idea before you did (not sure though).

Nope, just checked, and i submited it first...:cool:

p.s. Post your ideas in the "ideas sticky"..:cool:

this is not an original idea, you may have been the first to post it on this site, but the eastern sun mod created several years ago has the shared stash in it, and its quite a nice feature i might add.

Quote from "Karjalan" »

I'm not sure how people are concluding that a shared stash means no mules... it means you don't have to log onto your mules.... but you have to create them to abuse their "stash space"

if it was an account wide stash why would it be limited by the number of characters on the account? then everyone would just make 10 chars or w.e to have full stash space. if they did decide to make a shared account stash i dont think it would be based on the number of characters in the account, i think it would more be a set limit of space for all of the characters that you decide to create. a person with two characters in their account would have the same amount of space as a person with 10 characters.

Quote from "Kiserai" »

Yes, way way way too melodramatic. Your 'translations' are trolling, cynical stupidity at its finest.

Much of the outdoor area in D2 was static. Wasn't the outdoor area of Act 5 completely static or is my memory faltering? Besides, he said they were making the outdoor areas MORE STATIC, not COMPLETELY STATIC.

They're reasoning behind doing this is solid with me. The randomized dungeons are the core of Diablo and those will still be in place.

Next.

i have to disagree with this one. most of the outdoor area most certainly was not static. entrances to dungeons and different areas were constantly moved around everytime you start a new game. as far as act 5 is concerned, if i remember correctly most of the general outdoors was fairly the same, as in shenk was always in the same place but key points constantly changed around, such as the lost soldiers. but yes you are right, the dungeons were always random

Quote from "H[H »

Retribution;276781']If we had a stash that carried on to all of our accounts, it would make transferring, economy, and general item management much, much easier.

Yay or neigh?

making a stash that carried over to multiple accounts might cause some kinds of problems with different people accessing other peoples stashes... as far as one stash for all the characters in a single account, should be fairly easy to do as its already been done in the eastern sun mod. it is deffinately convienent and time saving. i would vote yay in this respect

Quote from "rdragon87" »

I don't think they set out to destroy the core feeling of the game. They said that it was one of the things they wished to preserve. What I think has happened is that they attempt to demonstate the feeling less thematically and more viscerally. I think they're trying to set the mood, and then let your own imagination fill in. Unfortunately for Blizzard, many have grown found of Diablo's gothic theme and shy from seeing it presented through different means. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but with a series that is eight years old, they need to breath life into it. In this case it means colour and art design some are not familiar or comfortable with. They are attempting to relate with a larger audience and, to some loyal Diablo fans, it feels almost alien.

As for the visual redesigns, they said that it just didn't work. What I'm assuming is that using the old system didn't allow for as much flexibility in the storytelling department. Imagine using the D2 set of lighting and colours and trying to portray something moving in the darkness. It would be harder. However, with the current colours and lights you can see the sillouette of the SiegeBreaker in the background. Combine that with a gaurd panicking about something being alive down here, and you have a palpable mood to work with. Darkness and realism don't always help the feel.

very well thought out and put in simple terms

Quote from "ubikenobi" »

Go take some statistics class you fool. You can't expect million people to vote, surveys are normally randomly based. Take a look at the survey on this board and look how many are in favor vs against new art direction of D3.

to be clear i never said once in my post that a million people should vote, i did however say that it should be a majority, as in half plus 1. please read the statement fully before you start bashing. also to be clear, its a petition we are talking about, not a survey, yes surveys are random. petitions are aimed at a specific person voting a specific way.