Quote fromSo Blizzard is looking for an art director, how does that affect the release day?
Its not so much that the specific job leads me to believe there is a lot of work still to do, but the fact that they're still figuring things out, and we all know that new hires takes some time no matter how far up the corporate ladder. Looking for a fresh set of eyes, especially to lead, could result in major changes which take time.
I have my fingers crosses that they're just adding and adding people to get things done quicker. :cool:
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They were a nice utility to accompany your class. I like using cold mercs with my fire/light sorc.
I love the idea of quests mercs you need to keep alive and temporary help mercs on quests.
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I am caucASIAN.
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I don't know how A2 could be reasonably difficult without making bosses to easy when you do go back to them later on unless they were just easier the first time for some reason.
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I will continue to do so though!
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I think we can also assume that there is a ranged melee class or it will be a major part of a class.
Blizz has also spoken of trying to make everything seem new and mixing up classes a bit. I think we won't see the necro brought back in the same form, but the class will probably be split into other classes. One of them is the WD (Witch Doctor) who seems to utilize the new and improved bonewall/firewall combination of zombie wall. The WD also has summoned pets which does sort of take the roles of Druid/Necro summons.
The only part of the Necro left really is curses and raising the dead. I can see Blizz combining these aspects of the Necro with the basic paladin concept.
My only problem is trying to predict where Blizz will incorporate a shapeshifter, if they even do before an expansion.
Barbarian - pure melee
Magus - pure caster
Hunter (Ranger) - ranged physical, traps, maybe pets/shift, Assn/Amazon/Druid combo
Knight - Paladin/Necro combination of sorts. Trying to keep the name faction neutral was hard)
Witch Doctor - summoner/caster, Necro/Druid Combo
The Necro/Druid are split up over multiple classes. The Hunter type class incorporates a large portion of the zon/assn where the Druid/Necro are spread around more thinly.
Further now, I'll make a guess at some skill trees.
Barb
-Shouts
-Passives (weapon specs, maybe weapon enhancements/enchants, resistances etc)
-Combat (different attack styles like WW)
WD
-nature magic (poison, fire, locust)
-summons
-dark magic (maybe? I couldn't think of much for a third)
Hunter
-pets/pet buff
-ranged/melee attacks
-traps/passives
Magus
-fire/wind
-Ice/water
-light/earth
(I figure they'll try to mix it up so its not the same old same old. Maybe you would use ice after a water spell for increased effectiveness, I don't know. The trees will include utlility in each like an earthen armor, wind knockback, and ice prison etc)
Knight
-auras/curses
-combat
-holy (damage mitigation, light spells, target buffs, undead damage, shield buffs)
I'll admit, I'm not very well read on Diablo lore. I did play D1 for a bit, and D2 for a long time.
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I hope they just allow you to store masses and masses of items in your chest or something similar.
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I would just like to know what you guys think. I agree with him that using say +str from items to equip other items was pretty stupid and time consuming to figure out. I had to know what I planned to have later on if I didn't have all the items at the moment.
"Or: Stat Requirements and Why I Hate 'Em
They say the developers read these boards sometimes. I'm not sure what to think about that. We generate as much drivel here as we do productive discussion, and I imagine less than a quarter of our productive discussions broach topics that haven't already been covered internally by the developers. Nonetheless, I figured I'd post my all time biggest complaint about Diablo II in hopes of garnering support and seeing the problem corrected in Diablo III.
First, I'd like to say that I'm a long time fan of the Diablo series, and I respect the fact that Diablo II remains a defining piece of the action RPG genre nearly a decade after its release, all because Blizzard did so many things right with the game.
But here's what I think they did wrong.
A freeform stat point system is great for character customization, and challenging endgame content is great for challenging endgame content. But when the one affects the other in such a way that hard stat points can't be spared to meet equipment requirements without assistance from gear, it creates a scenario in which gear is dependent on gear. Reaching that 200 strength requirement for the best piece of armor in the game or maintaining a 75% chance to block with a shield that you may not even have yet simply can't be done without destroying your health bar in the upper difficulty levels. That is, unless you rely on strength and dexterity bonuses from equipment.
Doing this, however, demands that you know what your equipment requirements will ultimately be, and how far your equipment will go to cover them. Essentially, in order to successfully distribute stat points now, you need to know what your ideal gear set will be later. For a new player approaching a new class, this means spending hours researching the entire catalogue of items, perhaps without even knowing what you're looking for.
That's a lot of overhead for a game with such a strong spirit of "pick up and play."
What do you do when you're level 57 and you realize you picked the wrong gear set to focus on? How do you fix your misspent stat points without rerolling the character entirely? What do you do if you only play single player and your odds of actually obtaining even one piece of your ideal armor set are nearly impossible? Are you to be eternally stuck with inadequate stats across the board just because the drop rates were designed around a large-scale trading economy? Or if you do go online, how do you participate in that economy when your character is still too weak to generate any loot worth trading?
These aren't unsolvable problems. Obviously, there are tons of successful Diablo II players who have learned to deal with tough equipment requirements. But it's an important issue of accessibility, one which has kept me personally from enjoying fully half the classes and specs in the game despite years of loyalty. As the Diablo III trailer itself so eloquently put it, nothing should stand between you and whatever it is you want to smash. Stat tweaking and loot hording are half the point of the game, yes, but they should follow basic gameplay in my opinion, not precede it. It's a frustratingly simple problem that could be solved by utilizing a different (perhaps class-based?) system to determine what loot a player can or cannot wear.
I'm excited about Diablo III, but I hope half my time playing the game won't be spent worrying about how to play the game, as it was the last time around."
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Typical generic response. Of course the dates will change, they're just fighting for your reserve money now before others get it.
Try asking them if they have Battletoads in stock...
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I hope they make a pure caster. Which of course they will. I just hope they make the caster have all sorts of abilities unlike D2 where you were essentially one element and then you had to be two with immunes. I'd like to see a utility tree or utilities mixed in like teleport or knockback or other stuff that I'd rather surprise me.
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Aww beat me to it!
Scissor me timbers!
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I'm betting they've tried accounting for that although, the scammers get smarter as Blizz gets smarter.
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Because D3 will be a solo game as well they must make everything soloable.
I do hope they make it harder as you suggest though. Maybe they could encourage groupings by making the monster something like 90% tougher than the original with every person grouped. This was 2 people would be fighting a monster almost twice as hard but not quite. Assuming only in hp. If his damage went up... he'd kick all our asses.
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Weren't they there for WoW? I heard about them giving away murloc costume tokens.