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If they are worried about inflation in the economy, isn't this going to further increase the price of Radiant Stars? Seems counter productive.

Given that these gems are account-bound and un-socketable, I'm not entirely sure that it is intended to be a money-sink despite the high cost. For most players, it'll be a small number of one-off payments rather than an ongoing fee, so it might suck a little money out of the system, but not in the kind of way that'll have much of an impact on the market. I think they'll function more at a status-symbol, which is just the sort of thing that attracts a premium.

Well, I'm thinking like this.

Say you happen to have helm, chest, pants, weapons, rings, and amulet, each with max sockets.

helm - 1
chest - 3
pants - 2
weapons - 2 (1 each)
rings - 2
amulet - 1

Total - 11


As it is now, if you want max gems in each socket, you have to get 11 gems. But after the patch, if you want max gems in each socket, you no longer have to get 11, but 33 (11x3). Not only that, but all of the other resources that go with it - and those gems can never be sold or traded, even if you no longer need them.

Granted, I think many people will probably only get them in their weapons, maybe in their helm. But what I'm looking at is the prospect of the addition of Marquise gems increasing the demand of Radiant Stars three times over. With little economic knowledge, I'm assuming that it will increase the price of Radiant Stars at least marginally, if not drastically.

It really just seems like a huge gold sink at the moment, and I'm not sure how it will effect the economy overall. It won't need Tome of Secrets, but I expect Demonic Essences to be fairly high priced initially, if they don't remain at least in the millions (depending on how many of them actually circulate).

I guess I just don't really see where the players "win" with this move. It seems that if they wanted the players to "win", they would simply make the Radiant Star Rubies do more damage, and introduce the new patterns as ilvl 63 drops (maybe as Uniques), and not require a new type of essence.

Also, Blizzard has said constantly that they want gold to remain the currency in D3. While this might be true, the value of gold tends to fluctuate depending on the prices (value) of other items in the market. How will the additions change that? Will our gold eventually be worth more or less?

This reminds me, I was thinking the other day about Ethereal items for D3. In D2, Ethereal items were really awesome. They were more effective, and above all had a translucent, 'otherworldly' look to them. In my opinion, Blizzard has a chance to do something like this with the new pattern. Were it my choice, I would make the created items Unique, with the D2 name color, and also make them Ethereal. I wouldn't make them limited durability though. In fact, the quality of Ethereal could be, along with the 'otherworldly' look, that the item is Indestructible. After all, were are going to have them socketed with Marquise gems, which will cost probably close to 100 million each (3 Radiant Stars = ~75million, + 20 million, + Demonic Essence). On top of that, the Blacksmith probably will also charge quite a hefty fee in mats and gold just to craft the new item. So why not do something cool like make them Ethereal?

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Soul bound stuff should have been in the game from the beginning. It's the easiest, most effective way to remove stuff from the economy. Instead, they changed their mind, and now are panicking while the AH is over-inflated. Also, they screwed up crafting in general so bad, that there's little incentive to sink items into the artisans. Also, why didn't the Jeweler craft rings and amulets from the beginning, 1-60?

If they are worried about inflation in the economy, isn't this going to further increase the price of Radiant Stars? Seems counter productive.

Okay, so the new Marquise gems are account bound. That means in order to get one, you will have to get the specific design for the gem + 3 Radiant Stars + 1 Demonic Essence + 20 million gold, all of which will be forever removed from the economy.

What impact, if any, will this have on the game? Should this gem be account bound?

A new tier of account-bound gems of has been added to the game: Marquise

Marquise Gems stats are as follows:

Marquise Emerald
Weapon: Increased Critical Hit Damage by 110%
Helm: +33% Extra Gold from Monsters
Armor: +62 Dexterity

Marquise Topaz
Weapon: Melee attackers take 2200 per hit
Helm: 33% Better chance of finding magical items
Armor: +62 Intelligence

Marquise Amethyst
Weapon: Each Hit adds +700 Life
Helm: +19% Life
Armor: +62 Vitality

Marquise Ruby
Weapon: +150 Minimum and +150 Maximum Damage
Helm: Increases Bonus Experience by 33%
Armor: +62 Strength

These gems can only be created at the Jeweler and will require the following reagents:

3 Radiant Star Gems
20 million gold
1 Demonic Essence

Un-socketing Marquise gems will cost 5 million gold

The designs for the Marquise gems will drop randomly from all level 63 monsters

Note: The designs are not account-bound

P.S. Spelled "Marquise", and "Account" wrong in the title (didn't proofread the title). Mods, will you fix it please?

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Yet another snapshot monk with regular high ias/cc gear...

Basically.

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There will always be 2 types of gamers:

The actual D2 players:
The gamers from that era are no longer 18 or 19 years old, we're more like late 20s even 30s - we know how the world works, we've lived with absolute rubbish games back in the day and we appreciate the up and downsides of D3. We also know that Blizzard generally still provides the best quality and content when compared to any other game developer out there.
I think to this layer of gamers the game is ok. It's not brilliant yet, but it's definitely not something to cry about every day before sleep. 40-50 bucks is not something to cry about either, hell - beer for one night could cost way more than that. D3 is a potentially fantastic platform, give it some time and it will possibly develop into superb game, just like D2 did with LOD release - because lets face it original D2 was pretty damn boring.

I'm an "actual D2 player" - played D1 and D2 for many since their releases, and am in my 30s...

...and I think that D3 is technologically a step up from both games. But gameplay, no. It might beat D1 but doesn't come close to D2, in my opinion. D2 wasn't boring to me either, even before LoD.

And the story of D3 is just total shit. I could have written a better story putting a marker in-between my toes and spinning around on a large roll of wax paper completely drunk off my ass... and that's if you read it with the vomit still on the pages. The story is absolute trash.

And Diablo's voiceover is just completely terrible. People may say, "Oh, it' just a voiceover," but when you spent over a decade opening the seals of Chaos Sanctuary to hear the chilling, "Not even death can save you from me," the Diablo voiceover from D3 just doesn't cut it.

Let me not fail to at least mention the disaster that is itemization in D3.

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Here's an old picture of what blizzard release date should have been http://tctechcrunch2...late-leaked.jpg . Titan shows that it will be release late 2013, but since blizzard procrastinate, it will probably be release 2014 along with new wow expansion (though it shows late 2013, they will probably push it for 2014 like they did with BC).

Did you see the WoW Movie that came out in Q4 of this year?

Oh wait, nevermind. That was The Hobbit.

If the players need to inform Blizzard how to create PvP for their game, then the players should be getting paid for it, and the design team should lose its job, in my opinion.

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Blizzard really needs to clarify the situation.

No. They don't.

Opinions.

Make more of the possible builds as viable as the "mandatory" ones.

These "X million dps" videos would be much more impressive if they were able to pull it off with any number of random skills they plugged in.

All these videos prove is that one or two builds continue to outperform others, making them essential builds. The billions of possible builds advertisement is pretty much garbage, as anyone actually trying any random combination will know.

For 100m you should be able to just look at things and kill them.

Before spotlight: For 3 million gold

After spotlight: For 12 million gold

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If you want to get a change of scenery, yes.
If you want to get anything else from it, no.

Once you get the ability to make Normal Whimsy, stop imo.

Best audio eh? Grats to them. I guess the panel didn't hear Diablo's voice.

Don't forget about fighting Adria.

Between Adria and Imperius, it's not like they left much room for story growth.

D3 is more of a story killer, imo.

Long live Cain.