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I'm holding out until later today for the other panel. But damn if there's no actual systems work like oh idk sets being mandatory, paragon being awful ect, it looks like yet another disappointing blizzcon for what now feels like blizzards neglected child of a game.
Maybe this new form of DLC will be common? D3 IS their only game without a steady source of income, so maybe if a payed DLC system is put in place we'll actually get some meaningful changes to the core game play?
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My vote is for all 4, and as I said in the other post, will certainly check out the cast when I have time.
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No time atm, but will certainly check this out!
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Because I like ARPGs and D3 in its current form with its current loot drop rates and skill system seems impossibly broken.
As far as D3 goes, the only reason I played this season is the tenth stash tab, I seriously doubt I'll play D3 in future seasons. The game as it stands now has about a week or so of fun to it and then it is time for Path of Exile or Grim Dawn or some other game where it is more fun exploring all the build possibilties.
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Everything I'd like to see CAN be implemented within D3. However, I'm not sure blizzard is willing to risk drastically changing D3, so a D4 announcement would be exciting because it means they would essentially have a clean slate to work with.
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I don't want a D4 
Improve D3 and I'm happy! Also, 2-4 years goes by fast if you have something to do, work, hobbies, whatnot so I'm fine with a wait time.
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MHM *speculated* on the announcement, like so many others. He doesn't have any more knowledge than you or me about when the patch hits.
The PTR is an exploit festival at this point (paragon 10k player in a few minutes, GR100ish cleared) - I *hope* Blizzard takes its time with this patch and doesn't rush it.
Also, Blizzard said in the beginning this season will last "at least 4 months", so end of August was kind of expected from the start. A lot of streamers, websites, Youtube content creators and so forth just created some hype about speculated information to get more clicks. There's nothing new on when the patch hits,
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Pray to your mail gods, be they UPS... Fedex or otherwise. That be your only hope in salvation!Quote from Polrayne
Signed into Amazon this morning and it tells me that my CE is being "prepared" for shipment....
Secret hopes that its on a truck and going to be delivered today?
Or believe the "delivery estimate" of before 8:00 pm on Tuesday..........
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Do me a favor, stop callously insulting people on this forum for trying to have an intelligent discussion. I personally expect more from moderators, but maybe I shouldn't.
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Most companies dont even bother to give half the information blizzard does. Blizzard cares about keep us up to date, and people that seem to not understand things change, that cause blizzard to give "time frames" instead of dates now.
It's a good point to bring up, that people holding Blizzard accountable to their release dates is what caused Blizzard to STOP giving release dates. But don't be naiive. The PROBLEM was Blizzard missing release dates becauseQuote from Molster
You know back in the day, blizzard gave exact planed dates, 100% exact to what they were hoping for, but they have to push them back and people would complain over and over about this, so what is the solution? blizzard no longer gives us exact dates until the game is pretty much going gold. And when they try to give "basic ideas" and "thoughts" about a release goal, we STILL get people QQing about everything they can about how they are giving us no information now, and how everything they are saying is to just "keep us happy"...
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Dolaiim - LOL!
I used that phrase earlier today when talking to my Boss about an issue at our studio: "When your idea doesn't work - get ready for the biggest shit storm of 'I-told-you-so' in the history of human language!"
She told me to take the rest of the day off and pull my head out of my ass.
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"Hey I gotta kill my wife because she's turning into a big baddy - will you help me."
"Sure."
"Oh Hagrid (can't remember his name) - help me Hagrid, I ate too much Taco Bell!!"
(One shot - gruesome death)
"Thanks, I couldn't have done that with out you. Now go get me some stuff so I can make cool toys. Kthnxbye."
Not to be the dramatist of the forum - but... being the dramatist, wouldn't you think that he would have some dialogue that's in the realm of:
"Go avenge my wife's death and kick Leoric's ass!"
Or when whatever character responds and says to him:
"this has to be done."
Hagrid would respond with
"f*ck you dude, these people are my FRIENDS."
There doesn't seem to be a lot of that courage building dialogue of help us beat back the hordes of evil - no sense of the emotion of what's happening in New Tristram. Seriously there needs to be a little more "please help us Obi-Wizard, you are our only hope!"
edit:typo and formatting for ease of reading yourself to laughter.
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THANK YOU! I can't stand listening to "oh that was gross" or "oh, I'm super-hawt because I got that 15 kill bonus" or "no Mom, I don't want to go to Chucky Cheese's tonight - gawd!"
Streamers - turn off your vent. No one wants to hear your WoW guildmates talk about raiding.
Blizz - give Dolaiim a Beta key pls.
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I completely agree with this - and am probably on a short list of people who were unhappy to hear the news of no BOE. It forces you to make a hard decision about that lucky piece of great loot you just found. If you can wear it for awhile and then go "oh well, that was fun - off to the AH I go with this old piece I don't need anymore" than there is something lost there to me. If you work hard for your gear - you should have to make equally hard choices for what you plan to do with it. Being able to wear it for an hour or a year - and then get more benefits from it, like sellling - just degrades the coolness of the loot.
However - in a game like D3, we have the chance to find that epic piece of loot, over and over again. Where as in WoW - you most likely got that nice BOE from a raid; that after you attained it, there were several other people in line to get it the next time it dropped. So it might be a forgotten issue.
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I still do not see how this can be damaging in ANY way to the game. There are going to be so many levels of customization to the gear alone, that it will be hard for people to carbon copy everything from another player. Then you factor in the customization of the skills themselves - essentially a reflection of your play style - and it would be very unusual for anyone to copy you completely.
I inspected some of the greatest players of my class in WoW many times. I checked out their builds on the Armory. I even duplicated a few things in gear and skill point allocation. I never duplicated anyone completely. Their play style was just too different from mine and they liked the ugly looking gear
There will be cookie cutter builds that function around a combo of skills and gear that are generally most effective in all situations. That's going to come about by information on the internet and forums like this one - not because you got inspected.
I do not understand why anyone would be upset to be "seen" at anytime. That is if you have nothing to hide. Keeping your gear a secret for the sake of secrets is silly in my opinion.
And the argument "well others won't let me group with them, because they will think I have crap gear and don't realize what I can do with it" doesn't work with me either. If you run into pretentious people like that, then most likely you don't want to group with them anyway. They are the asshats that get off on controlling a group of people and not playing the game.
I would rather have someone inspect my gear - than spend ten minutes talking about it to them. Because it doesn't just stop with "what chest piece are you using?" It gets into runes, dyes, stats on the gear, skills it effects, etc. Wouldn't it be easier to just say "inspect me and go to the D3 wiki."
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Agreed. The Follower system is not going to break your D3 experience. Obviously what we know about this system thus far, gives you the chance to let your Follower take the lead, or sit in the back of your ride. I have a sneaking suspicion that most who hate the system, will come to appreciate it.
Lets wait to see what Blizz has to say about it tomorrow.
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I about fell out of my chair laughing at this one. I too agree, completely, with your opinion on this
So here's the secret; I believe the game will come out in Q1 of 2012. For all my ranting about it still coming out this year, its my gut feeling that they will wait. I don't think it makes sense for them to wait - for all the reasons I've mentioned - but it's what I think will happen. I think Blizz is all about their autonomy from Activision and continuing their good brand and take on games. If they want to fine tune - they will, no matter how long it takes. I do believe they will be pressured to get it out there and that if its held over into 2012, there will be some intense discussions to that end with the Suits. My pipe dreams tell me November. My optimism tells me December. My gut tells me 2012.
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With the random pockets in the static world hosting a variety of things (quests, dungeons, etc) it would be cool if there was a universal portal, like the red portal to cows, that signified a special dungeon. Make it an ultra random thing, that has a low appearance rate and hosts some special mobs that have a high drop rate for some top gear. So if you are out farming and run across it, its like getting the Uber level jackpot - without the need to amass reagents to make it.
Knowing Blizz, it'll be fun of kittens or murlocs....
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And that's just sick, twisted irony that I decide to go back to D2 and they are going to reset the ladder so I have to wait.....