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Quote from "Noah" »

the wizard? u would have that they could have thought a better name, but hey sweet!

Agree Completely... weak name, sweet character

Will there be an option to do an advanced start?

For example... say we want to try a new barbarian character, but don't want to wade through the first Act, will we be able to set up an advanced start (presumably we would just have character and skill points to distribute and gold to furnish ourselves via the town).

Just a note to say that Diii.net has screen pics from Leipzig... and that I'll miss the potions. The globes just seem like a hassle, and you can't sell them!

Truthfully, I'm a little tired of this topic. But since I'm still reading it while waiting for the next Blizzard news release...

I think there should be:

A character that commands the weather and changes shape - sort of combining the Druid's nature based skills with the Sorceress' blizzard and thunderstorm skills. Little to no fire skills here, except of course Warm to regenerate mana.

I also see a character that creates magical damage and heals - thus we have magic bolts, something that has the effect of Static Charge, etc. coupled with healing and offensive auras. Perhaps a few fire skills here, but no meteor, hydra, or such, maybe fire wall or enchant (even though I thought enchant was largely useless). This character would be stronger than the first, nature based character, perhaps more like the Iron Wolves of Act 3, with swords more common than staves.

The third character I see is more along the Amazon and Assassin combination, with a few of the Paladin attack skills thrown in. Hopefully no traps though. Traps just didn't seem that, well, real (as if hurling fireballs is) as it would take a long time to set up a trap. This character would have to specialize in either ranged or up close melee and would have to specialize in the effect (cold, heat, etc.) that goes along with their selected weapons. Thus no fire arrow, but having to specialize separately into bow skills and fire damage. Thus you would be able to respec without too much difficulty into another type of damage or another type of weapon, but not both.

I can only imagine the spreadsheets blizzard must have as they try to balance exciting innovations with character class limitations accross single and multi-player scenarios. Actually, I think they must have relational databases going.... or the spend way to much time having to rehash every event from every angle.

Disproportionate life points means that someone will likely need that globe before others. Paly's with healing auras do nothing for single players who want to play something else... and you wouldn't want to limit a spell caster to always having to have an a hirling with a healing aura. And so forth and so on... so I don't see how they can completely get away from potions unless every character also has a healing skill they can use... or if globes work like loot, everyone has a chance of getting one and they are the only ones who can see it.

Personallly, I was OK with the potions. I hadn't considered that the globes are similar to pac man and such until some other poster pointed it out.

I think that just dropping loot that you don't want has a couple of problems too... wouldn't that then make it a free for all for that item with no guarantee that anyone needs to give you anything for it? I think you should have to keep all of your items or leave them - without anyone else being able to see them. Restrict trading to in town in a trading screen.

How will the monsters in single play differ from Battlenet?

Will the same items on Battlenet be available in single play? (I'm not a fan of the two differing in terms items and rune words)

With the expanded storage/bag system, will be still have a chest in town?

Will we be able to gamble for all types of items or will it be the same as D2 where we could say gamble a katar, but not a long staff?

One additional thought...

Please stop the constant animation on Diablo 3 character classes pages. The barbarian looks like he is hyperventilating and the witch doctor looks like either either has Parkinson's disease or is really coked up and can't stand still.

Quote from "Sly_dawg19" »

Come on guys, we all know what the three remaining classes are.

4.Rouge
And heres why: This one is completely obvious, DUH. There will be an Amazon type character, Rouge fits male and female, it can encompass all aspects of fighting. This is a no brainer.

5. Seraph (Paladin Class)

I agree with those that don't like the WitchDoctor... especially if he/she is forever stuck wearing feathers.

The Rogue/Amazon seems unnecessary if you have a Barbarian and Paladin. I would much rather have an Assassin.

I'm OK with a Paladin class, but don't really want angels, nor do I particularly like the name Seraph. Speaking of names....

I don't like the name WitchDoctor either. What I'd like D3 to allow is for us to choose the name of our class and for that to show up in BNet or single player. I'd like to see a range of possible titles - probably depending on gender, but maybe that's a bit too parochial, out of millions of gamers out there there has to be at lease one or two TG folks who would prefer to choose a male title with female character or vice versa. So, Blizzard programmers, please don't assign names to the classes, let us choose what we want our character to be called.

For example, we could choose: magus, wizard, warlock, sorcerer, mage, magician, conjurer, wise man, wise woman, sorceress, witch, spell binder, spell caster, etc.

Then we could have a barbarian, viking, marauder, figher, amazon, harpy, mongol, etc.

And a thief, assassin, ninja, shadow, trapmaster, trickster, silent knife, etc.

And a paladin, guardian, crusader, defender, protector, vengance, etc.

And because we're stuck with the witchdoctor (when I would much rather have the necormancer or druid both of whom I think will get dropped in favor of the WD), we could have a wise man, wise woman (yes overlap possible wth magus character unless the developers think that's a bad idea), shaman, medicine man, herbalist, hedge wizard, vodoo priest, vodoo priestess, cultist, summoner, etc.