I have three ideas:
1.) Useless YouTube Guy
-Posts video guides of a build that is all over the internet and provides no unique look at the build however believes you should subscribe and like all of his videos.
-Posts on various forums starting a topic then simply just links his 20 minute video of him rambling on about this said topic
-The female character will be slightly attractive yet incredibly ditzy but has thousands of subscribers just to look at boobs
-Will not utilize runes and just has 1 skill called "Please subscribe" 1 second cool down, begs targeted creature to subscribe
2.) Boring Streamer
-Main ability is promoting his/her stream
-Class flavor text: Gaze into the mindless stream with billion gold giveaways and shoutouts every hour why do it yourself when you can watch someone else do it
-The only part of the world this hero can explore is his/her bedroom. The only monsters it occasionally battles are mom or dad.
-This hero thinks it has a job yet could make way more money mopping the floor at McDonald's.
-Immune to Adblock
3.) RMAHer
-This hero can only be unlocked after 3,000 hours of gameplay
-This hero is not fun to play
-This hero only is playable to make real life money. Having fun is not allowed.
-This hero only plays games to make real life money - getting an actual job is hypocrisy
-Scratched from development after announcement to remove AH. Blizzard felt that people should play the game to have fun and not complain about how bad the game is yet continually post "I just play to make real money cause I probably make SOOO MUCH"
;p ;p ;p ;p hehe.
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Yeah but the classic team doesn't have the resources to remake a game from scratch. They couldn't even remaster War3 correctly.
Also that link headline is misleading. They recovered enough source code to have a game, how do you think they made patches and an expansion. The thing it sounds like they didn't recover is the 3D models used to generate the sprites and backgrounds in the game. Note that Starcraft Remastered didn't have those either, they touched up everything like pixel art, but that would get pretty challenging on Diablo II with it having so many more characters and animation frames at larger sizes, also many of them being complex "paper dolls" composed of interchangable parts.
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After Warforged its pretty clear that they aren't ready for a D2 remaster. A decent D1 remaster is probably all they could muster.
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At the time of the D1 manual, when they wrote that Inarius' wings were stripped, I'll bet they had in mind typical feathered angel wings, not the energy tendrils that showed up in D2. I think there's an unused graphic of an angel statue that looks such. And of course the iconic angel on the mana globe was always the more traditional style. In other words I'm not sure they thought through how to tear out the energy wings and whether they want to keep that part of lore.
A summon is to call something from somewhere else. Lilith s more than the sum of the "ingredients," that would instead be manufacturing her.
Its possible/likely that she needs some kind of human host to tether herself to Sanctuary, just like all the Prime and Lesser evils had. However while host is shown to have some influence on their power (Diablo as Albrecth vs Aidan), its also clear that Diablo's power clearly surpassed any one host.
Lilith is causing the remaining humans to act worse and spreading chaos and corruption by here mere presence. She may also be summoning demons to help her out and that is causing massive collateral damage to humans. Some heroes might want to get rid of her for that reason alone, even if it isn't the best thing for humanity in the long run. Remember the lore panel stressed that feeling of how the good guys don't always win or they arrive a day late and a dollar short, whatever we accomplish in D4 is almost certainly going to have a huge failing or downside. Like maybe killing Lilith opens us up to worse aggressors in expansions.
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The leak was pretty accurate but I don't get how they are doing male amazons. They either have to have it be the only single-gender class or else tweak the concept.
Demon Hunter is a much better concept for an archer IMO, is distinct from the elementalism of sorc/druid, and perfectly fits the grimdark setting. I'd hope they would push more in that direction rather than rehashing D2 just because.
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Because the guy says "save us, mother" and Lilith is not Lucion's mother.
This is a human/nephalem who is also a Triune member. Its unlikely to be anyone we know already.
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The lore panel explicitly identified this guy as a Triune member.
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Diablo 2 was the same once you gained some levels, frozen orbing and whirlwinding everything down. Or even a high level mage in D1 spamming chain lightning, teleporting around the levels instantly doing Laz runs. The horror aspect never really worked past the early game.
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Blizzard North was independently working on D3 when WoW was gearing up for release, the project failed on their watch as so much key talent jumped to flagship. The D3 we have was built from scratch a bit after they shut down blizz north, meaning only 5+ years of actual development.
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A new class is half the selling point of an expansion, you don't go selling that separately unless you've given up on them.
Also the anniversary thing is a temporary event done up with VGA-esque shaders, its likely just an easter egg like the moo moo farm with no bearing on lore. The plan going forward rather looks like they want to gradually feed their daily players additional random content to enjoy rather than building campaigns for the one-and-done crowd that made up the millions of sales of the base game.
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