the act of picking up a health globe will restore some health for you and nearby party members just as shown in the game play video.
however, players should also be able to carry potion bottles of different sizes, and picking up a health globe should refill these bottles a little bit.
Players can click a button to drink from their health potion bottle, restoring some extra health when needed. This means that players won't always need to rely upon running over health globes at just the right moment during a battle. Nor will they need to worry about doofuses who would use up all the health globes too fast to maliciously ruin the attempt on the boss.
this system gives the players the ability to more adequately respond individually to any burst damage they might be taking. You won't have to type out "use the globe now!" to your party members during the boss fight, but you can certainly do so for those players who are interested in using the health globes to maximum possible effect.
That said, I want to make it clear that players will still always want to be on the lookout for health globes! And acquiring larger belts which are able to hold additional potion bottles will be desired. So this is still preserving the theme of health globes - a way to restore health that doesn't require a trip back to down or a fortune of gold to fork out!
Who says you have to be extremely close? Or even close at all? Maybe being in the party will do
It would not be realistic to allow party members to loot items from very far away from themselves. Perhaps an auto-loot feature could be implemented that would automatically pick up gold that drops from monsters only as you walk over it? This would help to alleviate the constant need to click to pick up gold?
I'm just remembering Act 5 in Diablo 2 where players were often entire screens away from one another. If Diablo 2 had the proposed loot system for Diablo 3, I would definately want to follow close to my party members so I can see what items drop for me from the monsters my team mates kill. Is this going to slow down the pace of the game or just encourage more team play?
individual loot is a neat idea but it is going to be annoying. It kind of forces you to want to stay close to your friends so that when they kill something, you can see the loot that drops for you as well. I don't like the idea of my friend killing something, having crap drop for him but an awesomely rare piece of gear drop for me, and he can't even see my version of the loot to notify me to run over there and pick it up.
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The class would be highly valued in groups and of course the class would be able to specialize in a different role/tree if they wanted as well.
What do you think?
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however, players should also be able to carry potion bottles of different sizes, and picking up a health globe should refill these bottles a little bit.
Players can click a button to drink from their health potion bottle, restoring some extra health when needed. This means that players won't always need to rely upon running over health globes at just the right moment during a battle. Nor will they need to worry about doofuses who would use up all the health globes too fast to maliciously ruin the attempt on the boss.
this system gives the players the ability to more adequately respond individually to any burst damage they might be taking. You won't have to type out "use the globe now!" to your party members during the boss fight, but you can certainly do so for those players who are interested in using the health globes to maximum possible effect.
That said, I want to make it clear that players will still always want to be on the lookout for health globes! And acquiring larger belts which are able to hold additional potion bottles will be desired. So this is still preserving the theme of health globes - a way to restore health that doesn't require a trip back to down or a fortune of gold to fork out!
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It would not be realistic to allow party members to loot items from very far away from themselves. Perhaps an auto-loot feature could be implemented that would automatically pick up gold that drops from monsters only as you walk over it? This would help to alleviate the constant need to click to pick up gold?
I'm just remembering Act 5 in Diablo 2 where players were often entire screens away from one another. If Diablo 2 had the proposed loot system for Diablo 3, I would definately want to follow close to my party members so I can see what items drop for me from the monsters my team mates kill. Is this going to slow down the pace of the game or just encourage more team play?
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