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Quote from "scyberdragon" »

MIRROR RUNE: creates a mirror image of yourself behnd you. Casting the same spell but backwards. Essentially allows you to cast your spell both in front and behind you.

I just loved it !

I believe D2 leveling speed in SP are perfect.
One hour to reach something like level 10, then the time to level slowly increase to 30 minutes, one hour, one and half hour... In the 90+ it should be something like 3~4 hours to level.

Imo it's not to fast or not to slow. I don't wanna have another Lineage 2 experience (8 hours to level in a avarage level).

Quote from "Bartrex" »

Hmm Sin wars sets, nice idea, as long as they tell you the story about the set(from the books) that would be nice, since I haven't read the books that would kind of get me up-to-date

O.O Thats a nice idea. They could do something cool with sets. Every set piece should have a tab that works just like the Books of Lore (random texts you find in places that tells you something nice about the game background). Every set piece woud tell a different part of the story and you would fully understand it when you collect the whole set.

Maybe this should be another function to Cain. He not only identify your items but give some nice information about the unic/set items background. In the game were items are one of the top goals hear their origim would just make then even more cool.

Quote from "Dauroth" »

I actually like the idea! We never saw the other domains of Hell, except for Diablo's! Although I guess they should look pretty similar, do you think there's a possibility that they are in fact, like the Daedric realms of Oblivion in the Elder Scrolls, each representing the ruling Daedric Prince! Andariel's thematic would be Anguish, Duriel's Pain etc. What do you think?

I guess they could be a bit diffrent of course !
The hell from d1 and d2 are very different actually.

Maybe Andariel's hell would be very dark, filled with webs and acid pits... Duriel could be a ''organic hell'' like D1's hell... baal could be something similar to a psicodelic vercion of arcane sanctuary... I think give different look to different places in hell would be cool.

It is hard to say, now that they have dropped Willpower from the game. We do not know how much Fury generation will scale in regards to the choice of weapon the Barbarian wields. Since they are going to have more affixes in Diablo III than Diablo II, I see no reason as to why they would not have very slight beneficiaries. I do not think there will be a blanket stat. This can be a common modifier on class-specific equipment, kind of like +skill in Diablo II.

I was a bit vague in my post, so I will clarify:

Class-specific gear will always exist, and will likely drop for every character. Putting stats that only affect a specific resource is okay, because a Monk picking up an orb with +Arcane Power regeneration as opposed to picking up an orb with +Faster Cast Rate is going to feel indiffierent. As long as it is not placed on rares, sets and uniques that everyone can equip, there can really be no serious harm.

Most importantly, it means no more mana leech. Mana leech... potentially the most essential stat for physical characters in Diablo II (plus Life Leech if you are of the melee sort). This means every class will be designed to sustain their resource throughout combat scenarios to keep them fun to play.

At this point it leaves resource modifiers as something you can have, but do not need. You can choose between a claw with +Spirit Regeneration, or a claw with +Precision. My point still stands that there is no reason not to have resource-related affixes on equipment that is designated for a particular class, as every class is designed for being able to be able to sustain their resources without it.

Here are a few pictures I found elsewhere. I have not seen them (after searching around) on this site, and I thought they were good pics, so here ya go.





4th difficulty reveal/confirmed


Below is a Wizard armor spell breaking up...unsure of what it is


Below is the Monk's Blinding Flash skill


Below is the Wizard's Blizzard skill






























Below picture is of 'Slaughtered Calf Inn'

This is much, much higher quality than previous vids, and plays in 720.

http://www.gamespot.com/shows/now-playing/?event=now_playing_torchlight_ii20110629

Thought I'd show you all the next Diablo III creature sculpt I did:

I'll take some better pics soon, this pic looks more squished than it actually is.

Quote from "italofoca" »

Imo bosses should have 3 components to make it more chalenging:

1. The less important one, the bosses should require some level of strategy. Like knowing their moves and the right times to attack, using part of the enviorment at your advantge (like hide behind a column to avoid a powerfull spell), etc...
2. Good evasion. Bosses should fill the entire screen with special attack of multiple parterns and you must avoid then, like those old school arcade spaceship games.
3. Limited area. You shouldn't be able to retreat as you like. You have to kill the boss or die, no third option.
4. As all classes of diablo are DPSers i think most bsses should have a significant HP regenration. You have to kill then fast, you must be competent and focused or else eh will kill you because you run out of health/energy.

Thats my opnion. Those elements are only nessecery on hell though. In normal the game should be relativekly easy and nightmare should ve a middle ground.

I like that.

-In normal, a boss should just wander around using regular attacks with little health regeneration. You can use exits as you like.
-In nightmare, a boss would start to use SOME special skills that require you to move or attack at a specific time. They should also have slightly more health regenerations. You can use exits, but when you do they regain 1/2 of their lost health.
-In hell, a boss should use mostly special attacks that require you to move or react at a specific time, the spells would be much larger (AoE) and they would have significant health regeneration. All exits are blocked.

I realize that some of us are a little frustrated at Blizzard for prolonging the creation of Diablo 3. I am no different. The purpose of this poll is to let of a little steam but not to the point where you're blowing off so much steam that you make an embarrasment out of natural spring geysers and saunas all over the planet. Just a brief opinion will do. Nothing outrageous or speculative. I realize we all have differing opinions so, at least as it concerns this particular thread, let's have a small amount of tolerance for other people's opinions, no matter how "wrong" their opinion seems to you.

Allow me to set the example...

Blizzard, I realize that you really want to make a great game in Diablo 3 and I'm cool with that. In fact, I hope you make this the best game you will ever create. But, uh.....can it be done a bit faster please? Thanks.

I'd love to have the Unreal Tournament or Quake sounds in it (with an option to turn it on/off ofcourse). M-m-m-onster kill!

I doubt Blizzard will do that !! it's broken the fealing of d1 they try to bring back !

I would rather they do not go with other game styles and do it their own style and try to keep a lot of the things that made Diablo great. I never really liked Zelda and I am not a big fan of God of War.

The primary quality of blizzard is to analysis all gameplay of others games and pointing the best features and make it better !

Blizzard already made a ranger and it did not use summons at all

but instead did massive damage with a bow =3

it was in warcraft 2 so blizz can still make a ranger and be different than other companies rangers

however im not entirely expecting the class to use bows im expecting more throwing weapons but due to not looking at the barbs skill tree in a while im not sure if the barb used throwing weapons or not lol

i actually want to see a rouge with a skill tree myself xD

also in diablo 2 polearms went pretty much unthemed by any class
the barbarian usually could use any weapon but no real reason other than personal liking lol

so i would not be surprised if bows existed but werent a theme of any char only due to throwing weapons existing =3

Ooooh, now I see what you mean :D.
However, health and cold damage equaling resist may get somewhat confusing..
As well as having different types of magical properties resulting in completely different ones..

So, may I suggest having different "types" of charms, not magical properties.

For example, offensive, defensive, neutral, evil, good, ect types of charms.

So if you place a defensive charm next to a good charm, you would get increased health regeneration.
And if you placed a defensive charm next to an evil charm, you would get "attacker takes damage of X"
Defensive beside a neutral charm would result in extra defense.
Offensive next to a neutral charm would grant you increased physical damage.
Offensive next to evil would grant lifesteal.
Offensive next to a good charm would grant manasteal.
And so on.

These types would be varying in strength, so that it would add more diversity.

edit: And yes, I know that life/mana leech won't be in D3, was just suggesting them as an example.