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Quote from "KayDo" »

Hey guys, I was just reading the top 10 duechebags in diablo when It dawned on me!

We all wonder what exactly that meteor was, and majority believe it to be an angel.

Ok so think about this... with blizzard implementing ALL new characters (Except barb of course) What if by Tyrael destroying the world stone made him in some form human? losing his angelic powers and rejected from heaven or however blizzard could mix it up. I think its VERY plausible!

give it some thought and see what you can cook up!

Quote from "Guildenstern" »

Probably many have noticed this already but I couldn´t find a thread for it, so here it goes.

My concern is that during the fight with the Thousand Pounder (the fat blue boss) in the gameplay trailer you can clearly see that the Barbarian is able to pass through him while using the skills Furious Charge and Leap in a similar fashion to WoW, where you can just walk through any player or monster as if they were made of air. Obviously, I’d prefer if it were more realistic and stop/crash when hitting an obstacle (not saying that the skill shouldn’t work at all, but maybe the skill animation could adjust itself in length when facing an obstacle) for 2 reasons. The first one is that my level of immersion will be lowered when unrealistic things like this happen and the second reason is that the level of danger (for the Barbarian at least) is also lowered since you can never get cornered and ganged up on when carelessly walking into a group of monsters. Also, specifically during the fight with the Thousand Pounder, the Barb could have just charged through repeatedly and never get hit back since the fat guy only had melee attacks I think.

So to elaborate on specific changes I’d like to see in these skills, for Furious Charge I’d prefer if it simply worked like the Paladin´s charge in D2 where he needed some room to charge and obviously couldn’t charge through the monsters, meaning a ganged up charger is a dead charger. About Leap, I realize that it is intended to jump over (not through) monsters but I think there should be more consideration in the height of the monsters and the angle of the jump. For example, if the Barb gets encircled by a group of zombies and wants to Leap out he would theoretically need an angle of 80º or more to jump over without bumping them, making the possible traveled distance no more than 1 meter in length (yes, I am factoring the superhuman jumping ability of the Barb). This means that if the barb wants to leap across the room like he so often does in the gameplay trailer, he should have no obstacles right in front of him since he would need to jump with an angle of 10-20º to be able to do this.

Well, the leap idea may be overextending it but I think they should definitely make both skills not able to pass through enemies.

JoltJared - Dude, you just messed up my whole week. I'm gonna be sweatin balls for thursday now, damn you BUT thank you Bashiok!!!!!!!

Bashiok - It's in line with our previous web updates, don't go too crazy.