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Yawn. They're using a bunch of wordy responses in hopes to confuse the reader's actual issues with the game. Straw man, deflection, camouflaging. Whatever. The game is flawed, it's lazy, and it's cheap. I don't die because I'm bad, I die because the game mechanics are cheap. There's no skill, there's no intense moments where I have to use a correct sequence to survive a given situation (unless you consider trap, kite, run,shoot "skill"). And now I'm just about out of hell and feel like I accomplished nothing. Why? Because when I died I just went back to the mobs and unloaded and died again and repeat. There were no tactics, nothing other than kiting and shooting and dying. Obviously you want this to be a gear check.. great. Guess what? I didn't get a single rare item in Hell for my class. I didn't get a single upgrade in hell. The harder the game got, the worse the drops got. This is a fact. Sure, involve luck, but should lucky keep me completely out of balancing my character when I'm putting more time and effort into the game? This makes no sense. But hey, I got a bunch of other classes upgrades and rares. What a coincidence, I can now use the auction house to sell these items and buy item that anther class got that would have benefited me. Why is this not shocking? Why, it's the RMAH. Obviously it hasn't been released, but that completely irrelevant considering it was meant to be released shortly after launch.
So now I've purchased my gear in the AH. Fantastic. Wait, no it isn't. It completely contradicts the ARPG genre. Instead of being rewarded for my time and effort into killing those shiny yellow and bold blue mobs with an upgrade, I receive a golden ticket to log out of the game and reward myself with a hefty burden of browsing the auction house. Oh fun. Now that I've put the effort into killing these mobs I get to put even more time into rummaging through this annoying storefront. Just fantastic.
You want tactics please play Hardcore, see how that changes wither or not you care about dying. Blacksmithing was suppose to fill in for low drop rates thru Nightmare and Hell. People seem to think it's useless, therefore it's their fault for "not wanting to waste gold" to upgrade the Blacksmith, not Blizzard's.
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I soon speculated that maybe the Black Soulstone has all 3 Prime Evils inside of it as a result of the 3 other soulstones. Then I realized; if that's what Azmodan was after, that means he either a)wants it to shove it in his head and gain their powers combined or b)wants to destroy it so they can never come back(if they actually even can die).
What I'm getting at is the rumors of Diablo being feminine and people speculating that Leah might be the next host for him. So I'm thinking maybe Leah does what her father does and gets influenced by the Prime Evils to shove it in her head before Azmodan has a chance to.
I see it playing out as she does it before we kill Azmodan in Act 3. BAM! Up comes the combined girl-looking demon that is Leah with the Prime Evils combine(boniness and skinniness of Mephisto, tendrils and tentacles of Baal, red and horns of Diablo; as people have been speculating). Into act 4 she goes(Hell) we kill her and release the Prime Evils and they are in full power because there are no more soulstones. Roll in the expansion.
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You can kill the Red Dragon if you sit atop the first tower in 1-2 and pelt him with about 150ish arrows and he'll drop around 30,000 souls take awhile but is well worth it if you are patient.
Also, any monster you see should be reachable. The guy your thinking of you can get too him if you jump off the side at the bridge across the Red-eyed Knight where you fought the Blue-eyed Knight; it's little hard to see but there's a hole on the wall that lets you jump off the bridge(also get a crossbow!). As for the Red-eyed Knight if you want an easy way of killing him I got a trick that I learned from a friend; you can lure him down near the pit filled with floating white things near the beginning, and run around it till he charges and falls for a free 3,000 souls. Trying to take him down early in the game is really tough, so if you want a different measure try the pit. He's more of a You Shall Not Pass guy anyways.
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Well your entitled to your opinion, but I honestly think SC2 was one of the best games in the past year or so. Sure the campaign was lack-luster but you should expect that from and RTS. Ranked multiplayer is getting more balanced so there is competitive play and its really challenging when you get into the higher ranks. And of course the most underrated part of SC2 always gets overlooked the Custom Games, where you get so many different games you can play from TDs, DOTA, Arenas, they even got Shooter games, etc., etc.
Anyhow, if anyone has played the Blizzcon demos(like me) they would know the game was awesome so far and they are improving as they go on, at least thats my opinion and the majority of the Diablo community I think. I dont think it'll fail from my experience we'll see come beta. But if it does, which I highly doubt, I'll be playing Dark Souls, Skyrim, or something of the like.
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Don't see why Blizzard would have anyone BUT Big D as their poster-boy for the Diablo franchise. Would they really show some random demon as the face of Diablo 3? Wouldn't make sense, and it's been confirmed by Jay Wilson that Diablo is in the game. So if he's in game then why would anyone else represent Diablo 3 other than him(Baal was an exception from LOD since Diablo was "dead")
Edit: For the OP, I think you should build on what they have as the render and add on to the art. Example: adding more spikes, putting some scales to beef Diablo's look up, make him stand in a pose similar to what he would look like in D2(1 hand on the ground ready to do his charge slash thingy or readying his lightning hose would be sick-looking with the new model)
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Melee range is melee whats the difference other than it doesn't scale with weapon damage instead with gear/spell power whatever stat they call it. Same concept using different mechanics.
Edit: Also they never said Wizards can't use swords, think i saw a screenshot where a Wizard was holding a sword and an orb, don't remember from where. But, that's probably where Magic Weapon comes into play( from Diablowiki.net
Magic Weapon - A spell for the battle mage, this one imbues huge magical damage into the wizard's weapon).
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But my own would be the Monk, Wizard, Barb; 1-2-spell punch. For the builds, I'll leave to my friends to decide on their Monk and Wizard; Frenzy Barb for me woooo.
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Speaking of the Mistress of Pain, do you guys think other powerful demons may show up in the game like Lilith(wasn't killed canonically/lore wise or at least I think so) or other demons who may be related to the Prime Evils/Lesser Evils? Maybe other entities as powerful as them; Inarius breaks free anyone?
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I have Diablo as my final boss, with encounters(but not fights) with Baal and Mephisto throughout the act with them taunting you leading your smartself into a trap. During the act all of a sudden the appearance of hostile Angels who seem to not be from the High Heavens. With the final fight with Diablo, after his "defeat" Tyrael, Mephy, Baal jump in cinematically kicking your ass and leaving you to die right before you can finish off Big D, then they portal off to the High Heavens to attempt to destroy the Angrius Council(leading to the expansion of course).
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Not much has been mention of the Big 3 and lesser evils, outside of Jay Wilson confirming Azmodan and Belial having appearances in D3(the latter in Act 2), and the 99% chance that Diablo is the final boss of D3. With that being said I can only assume Azmodan would be in either Act 1 or 3; maybe in Act 2 as well?
1.Anyways, my question is where do you think they'll fit the unmentioned(Mephisto, Baal, Duriel, Etc.)?
2.With the addition of 1 expansion maybe even 2, who do you think will be missing in vanilla/regular and why?
3.Also most importantly with Diablo having his new dew, what do you think the other bosses will look like? Will Baal finally be a real crab? Mephisto's got sexy legs, lolwut? Andy went up a cup size?! Belial is actually a bug; Lord of Flies?
Here's my wacky idea: Act 1 would have Azmodan involved leading to a Duriel, heading to Act 2 where you would fight Andy first then Belial where he escapes using her as a distraction(Lord of Lies lol),Act 3 maybe Azmodan + Belial as a dual boss fight(that would be awesome), Big D at the end with his Brothers stepping in before his "defeat/death" leading to the expansion.