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Quote from "Daemaro" »

No it does not. It can't lower it enough. It lowers resists, but it can't break a cold immune.

Anyway sure if you're level 97 with items given to you everything is fine and dandy, but I'm talking about a single player playthrough. When you reach hell what level would you be? 60ish?

I always managed to run into a monster that would break gameplay. Sure I can reload and it'll be gone or I can go back and grind, but I'm still having to avoid that monster by exiting the game.

ah k, i wasn't too sure about that one.

To me diablo was always a multiplayer game. I agree with you that single player is much much harder than bnet play simply due to the shortage of items available to you and also you dont have other players helping you. i still wouldnt mind seeing immunes just perhaps they can find a way where they dont have them on single player (or 1 player bnet games), however, when playing in a game with multiple players then they can start bringing some in which will then mean that you need to actually work as a team. Just my opinion tho. I also liked the fact how on bnet with more players in the game the more harder the monsters got and better chance of drops. that was possible in single player aswell if you type in /player 8 or something, dont remember.

Quote from "LordRayken" »

Correct me if I'm wrong, as its been a few years since I've played... But...

I remember blasting away and even killing cold immune monsters, it just took longer... So...

I actually never made an ice sorc so i'm not 100% positive on this but doesn't the skill Cold Mastery lower enemy cold resists resulting in breaking most cold immunes? Plus if you have facets etc that also adds to lowering the enemy resists. I remember reading somewhere (however have forgotten the actual specific numbers) that for e.g. monster #1 has 130 cold res (aka cold immune) and then once you take into account all immune lowering skills/items monster #1's cold res is now 75 and is therefore not a full immunity and can still be damaged, however, its only slight dmg and can take a while to kill him. which i think explains why you could still kill cold immunes.

Dont quote me on this tho like i said ive never made a cold sorc, i only ever used chars that didnt really have any trouble regarding immunities like hdins, nova infinity sorcs, psn, bone and summoner necros and smiters lol

I loved it how d2 at times was insanely hard, like maybe 1 in every 50 baal runs the throne would just be covered in unique souls that shoot you from 2 screen away and kill most players in 1 hit lol. It actually made it challenging, most people would cry and leave the game but I would just take them on. Another one of those crazy 1 hitters are those little Stygian dolls i think they're called where they're very small and hard to see and run almost as fast as you teleport lol.

If anything I hope d3 is even harder, because d2 got to the point for me where pvm was a joke (kill hell baal full game in like 3 seconds) and the only challenge for me that kept me playing was pvping and trying to get all perfect pvp gear.

EDIT: I do realise however it did basically come down to gear in d2 and how long a person plays so i know this most likely won't happen but it would be neat if they release a difficulty after hell that is insanely hard, even with perfect gear you will need to work with other players and stack skills and work effectively as a team to have a chance of surviving. idk lol

Quote from "Dimebog" »

There is no such thing as B.Net 1 or 2. There's just one system and it's being upgraded now.

ah k sweet. So will it be possible then to play d2 on bnet and chat to someone playing d3 using private msgs. Sounds good to me

edit: haha I also really really hope they fix the lag issues with bnet. i'm sure they will tho. lag was basically diablos strongest power in d2, the ability to freeze us while his minions invisibily move around and kill us.

It's too early in the morning for me lol so is this only like a cosmetic change to bnet 1? and is in no way related to the 'new' bnet 2?

Quote from "scyberdragon" »

In my opinion there really is no reason to upgrade weapons other than end game items. Any other item you could simply replace rather then "upgrade" your current one. To implement an entire system for end game seems a little redundant to me. I would prefer more items all together. More uniques, magic, and or set items. Customization can come from what type of unique you use (a unique that adds strength and knock back or a different unique that adds + to skill). Lets face it, everybody used the same rune words anyway so it really didn't customize anything.

Yeah I totally agree. The point you make about how in d2 everyone just ended up using the same gear in the end should be taken into consideration by blizzard. Players will always find out what the best items are for what class/build and before you know it it will become a cookie cutter just like d2 and everyone will be using them. However, if they can create mass amounts of uniques/items that can cause some more 'compitition' between other items it will give users alot more choice in regards to what gear to use when at end game. for example for a wizard have like 5 or 6 different choices for end gear wands each with their own disadvantages and advantages and make it an actual tough decision for the user to pick between them and they have to consider their playing style etc (this can be hard to keep it balanced tho if not people will just still start leaning towards 1 specific wand and everyone will use it). In d2 they had plenty of items but not really for end gear. example in d2 for a poison necro the only good top end wand was Death's Web, not much choice This along with rune skill customization, awesome random stat generating rare items and then gem/jewell for gear customization should offer plenty.

also sorry if my post is hard to read or doesn't make sense, im at work and just typed if heaps fast lol

i've never been a fan of the barb i never liked it how melee chars had attack rating, the only melee char i ever used was a smiter who didnt need attack rating. the barb looks like it has been greatly improved but still in d3 i'm gonna have to go with the wizard and the paladin equivilent (hoping that one of the two unreleased chars is a aura buffing caster/melee :))

Quote from "deathMars" »

I was suspecting something like this as well. I am assuming that the game will have around 5 or 6 acts, like Diablo 2, but each act will be exponentially larger and be mroe detailed and have more sidequests. But I think that that the Wizard, Barbarian, and the Witch Doctor are pretty much finished.

yeah if you think about it the acts in D2 actually took a while to do if you didnt rush and have high lvls helping you. But your right I hope they make the acts even larger and take even longer. And even tho I loved rushing lol if they can try find ways to prevent rushing it will make the characters harder to get upto high lvl and in the long run make it more rewarding to have a high lvl, and though i dont like the idea of respeccing but if it takes far longer to lvl upto a high lvl then this makes sense.

haha yeah not a very original name but so far looks like the class im going to be using. looks pretty cool, but wtf is with the skill called 'epic storms' can't those geeks think of a better name.

" “why would you want to play with someone else?” They can go hostile at any time and kill you, mostly in an exploitive way and it’s not like it’s a fair fight - you’d probably be dead before you even noticed they went hostile; there’s a good chance they’ll steal all your loot so you won’t get anything good and it just makes the game a little bit harder so why would you want to play that way?"



i also dont like what has been said here. this is rarely the case (at least for me) and it sucks how a minority of pkers are ruining pvp for the rest of us. Diablos gone soft lol.

"The average game size on battle.net in Diablo 2 games is 1.2 players"

haha personally I think bots play a massive role in this low average. I know of such people who run as many as 24 bots 24/7 in private games, with each bot managing a couple hundred games each per day.

1) With diablo 2 players were forced to make 'mules' due to not having enough room for all their items. I note that a new inventory system will help reduce this problem, but what if the player has 100's if not 1000's of items? Will you be implementing a 'gold' system similar to what D2jsp.org forums has done? which in result has solved this very problem.


2) Diablo PVPing has always been an aspect of what truly made diablo what it is; uniquely bold and not watered down as most games of today are. How will you expand upon diablo2's pvp system without losing alot of the charm found in d2 pvp?


3) Some Fans seem concerned in regards to PK'ers joining public games and killing them when they're very low level. Instead of catering to only these concerned players and having 'mutual hosting in pvp', instead will a 'level hosting restriction' be implemented? Where players can host anyone same level or higher than them, however, can only host someone within 5-10 lvls below them without having to have a mutal agreement?

haha I didnt really word the last question very well but i think its pretty important.

i never carried keys with me because they took up the room of a vauable small charm. so whenever i ran into a locked chest i would just tp to town and buy a key from the merchant guys and just go back in and open the chest lol. now with no locked chests i don't needa do this and can save like 10 seconds each time

Hey i've been following this site for a while now but decided to finally register and share my ithoughts in regards to pvp.

I've played D2 regulary for years now on Bnet and PVP is the one thing that has kept me playing. I've done everything there is to do in PVM 100's of times over and the only thing that keeps me playing is PVP. PVP is a real test, you get the chance to fight people that are equal to you and is basically the only thing in the game that is competitive. I can kill Baal on hell in full game in seconds without losing any life, whats the fun in that.

With PVP it keeps me interested in trading and magic finding just so i can find perfect gear for my PVPers.

Ok sure there are alot of people who ruin pvp for everyone, but I still wish they keep the option to Hostile someone without them agreeing to it. Somebody said before they should make it impossible to hostle a person 10 lvls below unless they agree to it aswell, that is a great idea. If they remove all hacks, remove town guarding, add a cap on who you can hostile without them agreeing and make it impossible to tppk then i think it will be great.

I still wish they keep the ability for you to hostle people around same lvl or higher without them agreeing. I love it when im baaling and some char will come try to pk everyone and i just pk them back. it throws in a bit of variation and fun into the game.

PVPing is a must and i really wish they don't water it down + please no areanas or prizes. I love just dueling in act1 and using the cracks in the ground and rocks to your advantage.

also sorry for such a long post lol

ps 1 more point in regards to sorbing. I dont care if someone uses 1 wisp or has stacked res but being able to sorb to the point where it actually heals your character is no fun, ruins the pvp game. so I think to limit the amount of sorb% a player is allowed to have is a good idea. let them add whatever sorb gear they want but have it max out at 25% or something along those lines. damage reduction has a limit at 50% so why doesnt sorb?