I've been playing a lot of Diablo II: LOD recently, and it always frustrates me that later in the game, a lot of skills (the ones that levelling only increases 1-2 points of damage per level) are to be entirely avoided, except as a prerequisite to a good skill or as synergies.
I would like to see every skill stay, at least niche-useful, crazy idealist though I be.
I realize that this is perhaps premature, as we know very little of how skills are working in Diablo 3 yet, but I'm just putting it out there.
Well the term "Witch" conjures to mind similar things to most people. But guess what. Take a guess. Give up? I'm a witch. And take another guess. I'm a male and at the youthfull age of twenty. That kinda fucks up the hollywood stereotype, doesn't it?
Well I for one am not female and have the jewels to prove it...
Sorry, you missed my now re-editted second edit;
Essentially I think the modern Wicca (and related) religion's use of the term Witch for adherents is not as culturally relevant as folk stories/TV/Shakespeer etc.
Luckmann, using nouns referencing the real world is inevitable.
Why is a Barbarian called a Barbarian?
That's an English/Roman/Greek term for an uncivilized person! Why would the world of Sanctuary call Barbarians Barbarians? Why would they call themselves Barbarians?
Witch doctor is a term with connotations in English culture just like the word Barbarian.
Edit: Having read a part of your post I'd clearly missed, I think you should look at the term "Witch Doctor" with its modern connotations, not just as a generic synonym for "healer".
I assume you can see my direction here.
PS: Also, making the class "witch" instead, with my cultural basis coming from Shakespeer and modern television (and retro television from the 60s and 70s) etc, the word witch conjures to mind a magicdoing woman, especially but not necessarily white and old. I guess people removed far into the realms of fantasy or who use other centuries as their cultural frame of reference are bound to have differing preconceptions.
Edit again: I feel that these stereotypes are more familiar than those of Wicca and related modern religions also.
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I would like to see every skill stay, at least niche-useful, crazy idealist though I be.
I realize that this is perhaps premature, as we know very little of how skills are working in Diablo 3 yet, but I'm just putting it out there.
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Sorry, you missed my now re-editted second edit;
Essentially I think the modern Wicca (and related) religion's use of the term Witch for adherents is not as culturally relevant as folk stories/TV/Shakespeer etc.
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Why is a Barbarian called a Barbarian?
That's an English/Roman/Greek term for an uncivilized person! Why would the world of Sanctuary call Barbarians Barbarians? Why would they call themselves Barbarians?
Witch doctor is a term with connotations in English culture just like the word Barbarian.
Edit: Having read a part of your post I'd clearly missed, I think you should look at the term "Witch Doctor" with its modern connotations, not just as a generic synonym for "healer".
I assume you can see my direction here.
PS: Also, making the class "witch" instead, with my cultural basis coming from Shakespeer and modern television (and retro television from the 60s and 70s) etc, the word witch conjures to mind a magicdoing woman, especially but not necessarily white and old. I guess people removed far into the realms of fantasy or who use other centuries as their cultural frame of reference are bound to have differing preconceptions.
Edit again: I feel that these stereotypes are more familiar than those of Wicca and related modern religions also.