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I'm not sure if this has been brought up before, I searched and Googled a bit but came up empty. In short:



I found an invisible link under the Visit the Community Site link. It all happened randomly, I'm not even quite sure how I clicked it, but does anyone else have any idea what this could be?

You know what would be cool is if sixty was the cap for gaining talents and points or whatever, and then anything past that IS for those grinders that want to do so. It would be useful for someone who wants to just quest or whatever in seeing just how long they've played with a current character, and could be nice for the throwback nostalgia.

I'm not against an option for it, and I don't see why anyone else would be.

The only 3D movie I've seen is Jackass 3, and if you saw that, you won't ever think it's stupid again. I should be able to have the occasional monster fly in my direction and make me jump back.

Oh god yes! Dungeon Keeper! I'm still ready to murder the people behind canceling number 3. >:| Apparently there's an Asian F2P Dungeon Keeper online game thing. That sucks.

Age of Empires 2 holds a fond place in my heart, as I can remember playing the shit out of it over LAN in my CISCO class. Three hours or so of that almost of every day, we had the most massive battles possible on a Windows '98. ^^

Dune and the first two Warcrafts as well. I enjoyed the story more than I did the RTS gameplay, as well as TA.

Even creating a police for it is kind of mute, because of the same fundamental problems with policing the internet: It's global. It crosses nearly all borders and you'd have to have a global police force to do so, which is nigh impossible. Sharing will continue no matter how mad you get, corporate CEOs.

My stance on piracy is that I try before I buy more often than not. Demos aren't as common as they used to be and I think that if you want my support for your game/movie I should know exactly what I'm paying for. I've played a couple of games that I would only buy if they were twenty or so or less even. That's why I love Steam.

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You were close.

That may also be because we've not seen all of the game yet. In D2 you were following a demon on his path of destruction; in D3 the start of the game is relatively quiet. I think as the game continues we'll continue to see more of what you want.

I'm still one of those people who thinks it's too early to make any decision on the game.

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Again, the same can be said for console users.

Personally, I think that most console gamers are younger than the PC crowd. Consoles are generally cheaper and more available for those who aren't able to afford and/or maintain a gaming PC; a console game is developed with that console's limitations in mind, whereas PC game requirements can vary quite a bit.

I don't know... I tend to play with people my age and older anyway, so I'm probably just not seeing the younger crowd.

Exactly. Most of the people playing around with computers when they were kids in the late seventies to the eighties are grown up now, and that accounts for A LOT of gamers, programmers, etc. If you grew up in the past few years with a computer, though, the age of gamers would seem younger to you.

While it's true to say I've not played with every single person on the internet, I still feel I've had enough experience to state my opinion. The notion that you've not met/talked/gamed with every single person on the internet is a gross statement that could be applied to literally everything. For the two months that I spent in WoW I never played with every single sub, but that was still enough to make me cancel.

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Glad I could help add to the cryptic speculation. lol

Oh, you have no idea. Your thoughts have been earth-shattering in the cryptic puzzleology academic community.

Today's been a pretty exciting day for Diablo fans, with 200 fresh beta access codes to Blizzard's sweepstakes winners (congratulations!), the third quarterly conference call, and many just beginning to sink their teeth into beta patch five.

While Bashiok told fans not to get too excited about the conference call, some interesting tidbits did come up; primarily, that the beta period is nearing the testing implementation of the Real Money Auction House, and that the Collector's Edition of Diablo III will come with a toggleable pair of wings and some snazzy dyes.

Note: The wings and dyes notes have actually been viewable since BlizzCon on the Collector's Edition webpage. The fallout of the quarterly conference did bring some clarification to light:



While all of these great responses did clear up quite a few things, there is still some confusion about the way the wings will work if in the inventory of a Hardcore character. Obviously, under normal circumstances, the wings would be lost on character death.

And while we're on the topic of clearing up confusion: last Friday, we posted the supposedly complete patch notes, coinciding with the reset of the testing server. But the official site has since been updated with most of the recent changes. Here, we have the passive skills that were not included in the patch notes, as well as the skill updates that didn't make the official list.

Skills that were modified to work with weapon damage have not been included in this list because this change was previously announced in the official patch notes. If you would like to see the updated percentages based on weapon damage, please see here.


The Barbarian

Unmentioned Modified Skills
Inspiring Presence has been modified:

• Now allows Barbarians to regenerate 2% of their maximum Life per second instead of 60% of total Life per minute.
• Old: The duration of your shouts is doubled. While benefiting from War Cry or Battle Rage you regenerate 60% of your total Life per minute.

Earthquake has been modified:

• Now deals its damage as Fire-elemental damage.
• Old: Shake the ground violently dealing 240% weapon damage followed by an additional 150% weapon damage per second for 8 seconds to all enemies within 15 yards.

Overpower has been modified:

• Now has a 15-second cooldown that is reset whenever Overpower gets a critical hit instead of becoming available on critically damaging an enemy.
• Old: Press the advantage of a powerful attack to overwhelm the enemy for 150% weapon damage to all targets within 9 yards. Overpower becomes available whenever you make a critical hit against an enemy.

The Demon Hunter

Unmentioned New Passives
Night Stalker has been added:

• Unlocked at level 16.
• Every time you critical hit, gain 1 discipline.
• Discipline is used to fuel many of your tactical and defensive skills.

Numbing Traps has been added:

• Unlocked at level 21.
• Enemies hit by Fan of Knives, Spike Trap and Caltrops have their damage reduced by 30% for 3 seconds.

The Monk

Unmentioned New Passives
Combination Strike has been added:

• Unlocked at level 21.
• Each different Spirit Generator ability you use increases your damage by 10% for 3 seconds.

The Witch Doctor

Unmentioned Modified Skills
Gruesome Feast has been modified:

• Now: Whenever you are healed by a health globe gain 10% of your maximum Mana and 10% Attack for 10 seconds. The Attack bonus can stack up to 5 times.
• Old: Gain 10% Attack for 10 seconds whenever you are healed by a health globe. This effect can stack up to 5 times.

Vermin has been modified:

• Now includes Locust Swarm.
• Old: Your Plague of Toads, Corpse Spiders and Firebats abilities do 20% more damage.

Fierce Loyalty has been modified:

• Now Witch Doctor pets also gain 100% of the player's Health regeneration items.
• Old: All your pets gain 100% of the benefit of your thorns items.

Unmentioned New Passives
Bad Medicine has been added:

• Unlocked at level 18.
• Whenever you deal Poison damage to an enemy, their damage is reduced by 40% for 3 seconds.

Spirit Vessel has been added:

• Unlocked at level 20.
• Reduces the cooldown of your Horrify, Spirit Walk and Soul Harvest spells by 2 seconds. In addition, the next time you receive fatal damage you automatically enter the Spirit Realm for 3 seconds and heal to 10% of your maximum Life. This effect cannot occur more than once every 90 seconds.

Fetish Sycophants has been added:

• Unlocked at level 21.
• Whenever you cast a Physical Realm spell you have a 3% chance to summon a dagger-wielding Fetish to fight by your side for 60 seconds.

The Wizard

Unmentioned Modified Skills
Arcane Dynamo has been modified:

• The Flash of Insight time restriction has been reduced from 1.5 seconds to 0.9 seconds.
• Old: When you deal damage with a Signature spell you gain a Flash of Insight. After 8 Flashes of Insight your next non-Signature spell deals 50% additional damage. You cannot gain a Flash of Insight more than once every 1.5 seconds.

Unmentioned New Passives
Conflagration has been added:

• Unlocked at level 21.
• Dealing fire damage to enemies applies a burning effect, increasing all damage done to them by 15% for 3 seconds.

Lastly, it's been some years since most gave up on speculating about certain cryptic elements of Diablo, but discovery of an invisible input element on the Battle.net website has curiosity rearing like a bucking bronco. Perhaps now more interesting than even the seemingly useless Flash Chat_Gem on the official Diablo III website, the invisible box in the web Battle.net interface has finally drawn some interesting official responses:


Is the answer to this latest mystery to be found by following @Diablo on Twitter? Is the invisible box another enigma in a decade of Diablo silliness, or is there reason to wonder?

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