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1- D3 will be released (once finished) in Europe? (i m from Portugal) and in other countries at same time?

Not 100% but yes, if not then it should be relatively soon after U.S. release, a week at most.

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2- D3 will have a "offline" co-op system? for example a LAN party?

No, there is no way to play co-op off-line.

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3- According my "searching" for informations there are some informations that said D3 will be released in August/September is that true?

there is no release date for D3. As of now, all we know is that they are still pushing for 2011. An educated guess would put it in Nov-Dec at the earliest.

DiabloFans: http://diablowiki.com/Resistances" rel="nofollow" Resistances played a huge part in Diablo II, but if you were not lucky with gear drops you would get very quickly overwhelmed in Nightmare/Hell difficulties. Can you give us any details on how the system will be changing? Will it replace the immunity system or will they go hand in hand, once again?

Jay Wilson: Well, the main reason for immunities in the game was to encourage party play. However, we have seen that some players just want to play by themselves? And that is fine, if a player wants to play single player, the player wants to play single player, we're not going to strong arm them into playing with others. Keeping this in mind, we aren't looking to have full immunities or anything of the sort; however we are considering keeping one-element immunities on enemies. Because of the way our skill system works it's almost impossible to build a character that won't have some alternate skill to attack an enemy. So then it becomes an interesting use of a skill or skills that you may not be using all the time. We think that's interesting and fun gameplay, to have to adapt to situations. The adaptation just shouldn't be realizing your character or class is broken and you have to run away or you need to get in a multiplayer game. Those are things we intend to avoid forcing the player into.

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I think a lot of people have misread this statement. There will still be immunes to single elements. Just no: immune to fire,cold, and lightning monsters. However, as stated, with the wider build varieties, this shouldn't be a problem.

I honestly was not a fan of the cube so I hope not

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1. Instead of just saying "Some quotes directly from The Sin War, show just how much he despises humanity." Try putting it in more of a literary way. As in, Imperius is said to despise the very existence of mankind. And possible elaborate this idea more as it is the basis of this whole article.

2. For the part of the sword discussion, is there a quote you can give about this being a part of his look, meaning that imperius has a sword emblem on his chest. Without knowing this, the picture does not reflect anything special. And yes, I would use your top picture here.

3.I would put the info from the Diablo site in quotes (either regular or blue quotes).

4. I feel the ending needs more. What is is that you are trying to say about these events. Your article flows like this: Imperius hates humans, there is a comet that hits sanctuary, imperius and tyrael do not get along, and then nothing. There needs to be a conclusion of all of these ideas presented.

NEWS meeting. Start your own meeting purple.

For anybody who likes these pics and wants to use them as a background, again, I made this awhile back with all five characters.

http://www.diablofans.com/topic/23291-d3-class-bg/

Well, regardless to how Blizzard is designing the game (trust me, I understand it is a PvE game), Dennis and Kevin plan to spend a lot of their time playing in the arena as I feel many other will do as well. This is what makes the game fun for them.

As for me, I do not like PvP. I would prefer to kill demons than other players. Luckily for those of us like me, 95% of the game is catered towards us.

Let them be happy with their measly 5% of the game

But seriously guys, you have to talk about some PvE in my absence

The wiki is up to date. If you read, it says current known weapons of use but not only weapons they can use nthe only weapons we know wizards can't use are two-handed weapons. So maces, daggers, swords and axes (all single-handed) should be able to be equipped. They even have weapon enchant skill so... I definitely plan on creating a melee wizard.

Well, then I guess I will need three accounts.

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Were-Hamster, I'm guessing. I have a lot of rep, but will not post it because every time I do, I lose rep.

Tsk tsk... You rep spammers! Scourge of the board, darkness of the forum, and festering vile ooze of the internet! Begone with you!

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sleep sleep sleep. whatever is there is going to stay. get some sleep. and if its not there, the party will be wide awake slaying it...

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Fantasy Tactics Updates.

The images on the "Fantasy Tactics 2" section are from the old update. The next update and official one will come tomrrow.
If you have any problems with the site, just let me know, and I'll fix them up :]
Also the battle field image, I realised there is a section of the image missing, not sure why, but doesn't really matter.
Hope you like it!

I posted this on the Diablo 3 forums as well. Its pretty long but I wanted to share.

I don't visit this forum often but recall numerous times during the Diablo panels that the Blizzard employees read them and take feedback directly from the forums, so I decided to come here and convey my thoughts/suggestions for Diablo 3 and hope some of this finds the way to the developers. I have had the honor of playing the demo version of Diablo 3 at both Blizzcon 2008/2009 and both times I went was purely to play/see Diablo. I have spent countless hours on Diablo 2 and value it as the best game I have ever played. So I will start with a general review and then a few points that I noticed that could be improved. I realize that the game is far from done and there is a lot of work to do, but I hope my suggestions help.

Overall I was satisfied with the overall feel of control over the characters. I played every character 3-4 times over and there was only a few times where it was awkward. The graphics all looked amazing and I really like the way the dungeons/outside area's have a life of their own. The characters are all awesome and I personally enjoy either of the 2 casters over the others.

First the list of things that are awesome:
Checkpoint system - maybe add some sort of path on the minimap on how to get back to where you died.
Spell Graphics
Health Globes
Random Dungeons in the ground - Maybe throw some down the mines and stuff too (act 2). Although those random pillars in the dungeon which were so huge when you where clicking around would send you across the map were pretty annoying. Maybe just have them be destructible terrain and not targetable. (the unstable ones were good though)

Let me continue with items i saw i thought need improvement:
Inventory:

In 2008, we got to use an inventory where every item took up a slot and there was talk of bags being added as extra storage space. I am so used to the inventory from Diablo 2 that it really felt akward to find items in your bag.
In 2009, we got to try a new "tetris style" inventory where everything was 2x1 or 1x1. This felt a little more natural, however, the entire time I was using this inventory, it felt extremely confusing. The reason for this was that every item bigger than a gem was the same size, and fell in different spots in your inventory depending on the items you picked up. I remember one instance with the wizard where I picked up a staff, and then immediatly after picked up a wand. When I wanted to equip that wand with a orb I had also found I had to go through a lengthy process of finding not only the wand by deciphering the text, but also distinguishing the orb from the rest of the items as well. One of the advantages of Diablo 2's inventory was that each item had it's own size, but the downfall was that some items took a lot of room and where over sized.

The red X's over the items have to go. Talk about blocking an already small image with a huge red X. If you cant use it just shade the background red but dont block the graphic.

My suggestion: for this would be to have fewer slots in the inventory, make the items graphics bigger and not so set back into the background of the slot, keep the "tetris style" over the first style, but keep the items to a limit of 1x1 1x2 or 1x3. Fewer slots in the inventory would make picking up unnecessary items irrelevant without the town portals.
Items:
Rare items (gold) dropped WAY too much. I had a complete inventory of rare items in the 15 minutes we were able to play. I understand that, (from one of the panels) you are trying to bridge the gap between rare and unique items by making them in some cases better than/equal to some uniques, but I really dont like that idea. I think unique items should be extremely rare and should be better than the rare items. Especially if the amount of rare items dropped stays the same. I outfitted on of my wizards in a full new set of rare armor/weapons in one of my games. Which means I completely suited up my character with equal level rare items in 15 minutes. I feel that my character shouldn't even have magic items (blue) equipped until later in the game. And definitely not in all rares until the middle/end of nightmare difficulty. Then all uniques until hell difficulty. Again, this is purely based on the amount of drops from the demo and I understand that it might have been toned up a bit. I am hoping and praying that there items as rare/if not more rare than say a Zod rune.

+skill Modifier: I dont remember seeing this on any items and would be really upset if it was taken out. The +skill modifier was the end all best upgrade you could look forward to. Diablo to me is about maxing your characters and not repeatability of content. I recall something about not having to rely on gear to play your character. But why. I understand not having to rely on gear to get through normal difficulty. But you should definitely be reliant on harder difficulty's. (Im tired so this doesn't even stay on topic but is a general gist of so many factors that rely on each other to make Diablo Diablo)

Also, only got to play with the runes a little in the first demo, so that whole paragraph above might be moot.

No mana potions/cooldown on health potions: I have to give this one a BIG thumbs down. If you ever get down to low health and have to kill some monsters for some health globes, but cant because you are out of mana and health potion is on cooldown, you lose time playing your character. Ya having to buy a lot of potions was annoying, but not nearly as annoying as running away knowing there is nothing you could have done about it. This affects the witch doctor and wizard the most since their killing power is reliant on mana. Justifying it with having to spend points in talents is demoralizing and shouldnt be in the game.

"This item is worth 300% more gold to vendors" Please please please please please dont implement this mechanic. If we need 300% more gold from vendors, I'd rather just go pick up another item.


Characters

Cooldowns: *sigh* I think if you design skills around cooldowns, they shouldn't be there in the first place. Limits to how many of a spell can be active yes, cooldowns no. Cooldowns are not a fun mechanic. You add a whole new element to Diablo: Time management which is really not a fun one to keep track of all the time. It also adds to you losing control of some of your characters abilities and thus repeating that you don't have complete control over your character at all times since time itself has taken a part of it.

Passive Skills: I really don't like having to invest my points into passive skills. The different skills you invest to should all do something visually, whether it be add another spell. The passive skills should be applied to affective spells like synergies in Diablo 2. All this says to me is that someone doesn't want to think up new skills for all the characters and wants to fill in the blanks with things that people really don't want to have to spend 5 character levels on to max out.

Wizard
Mirror image: splits you and the mirror image right where the image is cast. This spell would be a lot better if the mirror image was cast and spawned at the point where the mouse is. This gives a lot more control over where the image is, where monsters fire their ranged attacks, and doesn't account for any loss of character control when the split happens.

Explosive Blast? I think it was called, whatever looked like the miniature nuke. Something didn't feel right about this spell, I don't know if it wasn't balanced, or just didn't feel like it was doing anything compared to arcane orb for example. Maybe it was just the graphics against the desert, but as far as light show goes, this spell needs to be upped. It would be really cool if this spell was replaced with a castable ranged fire nova or something of the sort.

Frost Nova Freezing rather than slowing = awesome.

Energy Twister: Again with the lose of control, not of your character but your spell. Not being able to control where the whirlwind's fly is annoying if you just used your entire mana pool to shoot 6 twisters that ALL went around the 5 guys our shooting them at. We already this spell and it called :charged bolt
I don't think we need another.
My Suggestion: Make the whirlwind animation bigger (not much mind you) and have it cast where the mouse it at and not have it move. Have it start with weak damage and gradually get stronger over time that way if you are running away, its pointless to cast it, but if you have a group of enemies and a tank, then it would be great to cast it if the monsters stay put.

Ice Armor: Whats the deal with it wearing off..... timers are really annoying.... my 2 cents.

Disintegrate: Make this fire and light things on fire!!!!!!! Making it bright red and arcane is weird.

Teleport: Just remove this altogether. I understand its for getting out of tough fights, but come on, put something cooler in the last tier and just get rid of this ridiculous spell. We have frost nova and mirror image to get out of tough spots, the last thing in any tier should be a REALLY cool offensive spell.

On another note i'm really interested in seeing how this melee wizard will work since it seems like the only skills for it are in the first couple of tiers and aren't supported by anything later in the tiers. But Im sure that's just a work in progress.

Witch Doctor:
Skull of flame: I don't care what its called, its amazing.

Horrify: Awesome.

Zombie Dogs: Any way we can have more control over these?

Parasite? - Why are there 2 ways to summon zombie dogs. Seems like a waste of a talent since you can just summon the dog after the creature dies anyways.

Haunt - Loss of control, again. Have him just shoot a spirit out from his body and the spirit dive down the mouth of the monster and possess it or something.

Biggest concerns: No high damage single target attack. The fire bomb is great to lob in for some AOE, but the witch doctor has no single target attack as I recall that isn't from summoned items. He is in definite need of something like: Voodoo needles: The witch doctor throws a barrage of needles into a single target for x+x more damage than the fire bomb. This concern is also that the witch doctor relies too much on micromanagement and not actually playability. Defensive skills in last tier = bad.

Barbarian

I don't remember a lot of the skills from the barb or the names, but I do remember the Rage system. I for one am really not a fan. It felt weird, and when you are sitting there smashing things and buttons, you don't want to be looking at 3 little globes in the bottom right of the screen to make sure you have enough to use your next move. I know the mana is the same way, but mana is a sliding scale, whereas the 3 globes are a visual count. Big difference when it comes to function.

It honestly felt like I was just smashing buttons and if he did the move, then cool, and if not then just keeep smashing until he did. Mana has a limit, you know when you are reaching the end of the limit and you need to refocus your attacks. With the rage system you add micromanagement to attacks and add limits past something you can control = not Diablo-esque

The Knock-back attack: Knocking something back and then knocking it to the floor are 2 completely different things, knocking something back and having to wait for it to get up after spending that rage on it was pretty annoying if you ask me.

Cleave was good.

Monk

The Monk was probably one of the best thought out characters. I play casters in most games but enjoyed playing the monk.

Seven sided strike: Loss of character again. Since the monk is holy have him strike and the images of holy just attack while the monk stays where he is. No need to keep taking the characters and making them move. When he charges ahead, have him stop when he hits the first creature and then the seven sided strike go off.

Why doesn't he use the staff if its equipped. Makes no sense, he shouldn't equip staffs if he isn't going to use them and they shouldn't give him extra damage if he isn't using them. I saw some fist weapons in the concept art so I assume it will be changed, but the stat specific staffs should only be there if you plan on making one of his trees a holy caster type.

Better visual for combo points. Actually to tell you the truth, I still don't know how to tell what point of the combo I was in. I didn't even realize that the monk had combos until I heard about it in the developer panel. I played him as soon as I got there and for someone who was just trying to get as much play time in with him as possible, i didnt even really examine the skills much.

The last class: I am not saying I know what it is, but based on my best guess, please dont call it Hunter, Rogue, Assasin, or amazon. Ranger sounds nice ;).

Questions:

Of course I got some questions after blizzcon that I wasn't able to ask at the panels. I know Blizzard has a habit of being hands off with questions. Im sure some of these were answered and I just missed them, but Ill ask anyway. But figure I'd ask a couple non imposing questions.

What is the main focus of development at this point in time? Content, Characters, Story, Multi-player?

Are +skill items planned? Maybe trying to be avoided? ( I think this was answered somewhere, just cant find it again)

Linkable items? Would love to link an item in Diablo 3 to my friend playing SC2 through battle.net.

Are uniques still purple, and planned to still be purple?

Anything like an armory planned?

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If Diablo is like the devil wouldn't that make Dialon closer to God? haha

Dialon is Diablo in disguise, you can put two and two together if you read the Sin War books, as what they stand for is opposite of who they actually are.

There are very many gods of Sanctuary, Amazons have 3-4 godesses, Sorceresses have 3 gods, Druids are more in tune with nature and believe in natural spirits, Barbarians regard the Ancients as gods, Priests of Rathma treat Trag' Oul as a god that keeps the world well balanced. The Assassins aren't well known because of how secretive they are, and Paladins are followers of the Zakarum. Witch Doctor believes in voodoo gods and if you read some of their history, they had tribal battles to capture sacrifice victims. Wizards I am not sure about. Monks have their 1001 gods, though I wanna ask one to name all 1001 and see how far he gets. There is the Triune and The Cathedral of Light led by the Prime Evils (in disguise to the general public, as the much high ranking priests know who the Triune really is) and Inarius respectively. There are yet many other small much less known religions also.