She is the daughter of Aiden (dark wander) and Adria.
Aiden is the son of King Leoric. The King's younger son Albrecht died, well killed by Aiden actually.
This makes Aiden the new King, eventhough he died as well.
When Leah was born, she was Princess Leah.
Also of note, the Skeleton King is her Granddaddy
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Flux strikes me as someone who shouldn't be in a writing position.
Frankly he comes off as the worst kind of D2 purist. Unwilling to believe any changes could be made in the new game that would improve the old one. And he can get kind of snide about it in his posts.
Sometimes some of our writers here can be guilty of that too, but usually very mildly. You can tell they are trying to remain neutral. I appreciate that
I for one am pro anything that makes the game better, be it from the old games or brand new. Blizz has an excellent track record in that respect, so there is nothing to worry about.
Also, I'd like to point out that since this is a beta reveal, none of the changes are going to be significant enough to push the release back. The only thing that's gonna change that at this point is if there are major issues during the beta, which is unlikely
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There's a lot of rumors flying around about the NDA lift on the first. The most important thing to remember is that it's all unfounded bullshit.
As far as I've seen the only thing any of this is based off of is a quote from Flux regarding a bashiok post on easy vs accessable:
"The first topic that leaps to mind in terms of “too easy vs. accessible” is no longer valid, since that game feature has changed a lot since we last had public info about it. And there’s a new changed/feature that excellently illustrates this point, but I can’t comment on it yet."
These are not words to send you running outside and screaming at pedestrians. Every time there's a Blizzcon or any other even we get features that have "changed a lot since we last had public info about [them]." This is not something new.
Hell, the last big one we had was the new rune system, and it's freakin' AWESOME.
Even if some of the weird things people are saying were true (though of course it's still almost certainly totally unfounded bullshit), they don't have the full story. It's far more likely any significant changes are going to be incredible and badass like the rune change than some sort of apocalyptic game-destroying nightmare.
That's all, you can go back to fear-mongering now, I doubt most people will be reasonable enough to listen.
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Hey now, I'm refreshing the page every few minutes too
I'm just highly skeptical.
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Balance requires a lot of data to get just right. They can probably tune systems and mechanics balance from PvP for the most part, so I imagine it will be the biggest focus of the beta. Resource costs, weapon damage, ability damage ratios, range, cooldowns, every aspect of each class's abilities will need tweaking.
Internal testing probably got them in the ballpark for most of their numbers--which is generally good enough for PvE--and with the beta they'll fine-tune them, so they'll be reasonably balanced for PvP.
I know they're not trying to super-balance PvP, but even with minimal balancing they'll need the number of people the beta provides.
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All of you have something. Contemplate it.
When you did it, you were probably either ignorant of how stupid it was, or you ignored the people that told you it was stupid. You decided to do it anyway, most likely because you were young and reckless. People do stupid things, in their formative years especially. Pretending like you never make terrible decisions is lying to yourself.
You "chose" to perform that stupid act, just like a drug user "chooses" to use for the first time. It's pretty much unavoidable that someone does something desperately stupid like that at some point in their life.
If you do something dangerous and injure yourself, or damage someone's property, or ruin some opportunity you had, you are punished by virtue of the act. You get the stick instead of the carrot.
For someone that their stupid thing was some form of hard drug, you get the carrot. It doesn't feel like a stupid thing at all. You are rewarded for that first stupid ignorant decision. So you're that much more likely to repeat that mistake, and each time you do it's harder to undo it. Worse, if you try to stop you will feel violently ill for days or even weeks.
Imagine if that were the case with the stupid thing you did.
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OK first, you have a spellchecker in your browser. It's underlining all these words you're typing for a reason.
SECOND, it's very easy to dismiss addicts as having made a choice. Not everyone is born in suburbia and educated on the dangers of drug use. If you have a genetic predisposition, and you are born somewhere that doesn't have information force-fed to you about the harm drug addiction can cause, it's not so clear cut.
Not everyone is privy to the knowledge you are. This may be difficult for you, but try to put yourself in someone else's shoes. Imagine, for the sake of argument, that you had lived your life up to this moment without knowing coffee was an incredibly dangerous substance.
You might have heard vague hints as to negative side effects, but nothing substantial. So that one time, back when you were in your teenage years, you tried a cup. For all you knew, it was just another thing adults did.
Well, that was pretty good, so next time it's available you have some more. And the next time. Pretty soon you're buying it yourself. And then it's a daily ritual. All your extra money starts being poured into acquiring more. Any time spent without a hot cup in your hand is spent thinking about the next one. Finally, when your job won't let you drink it constantly during your shift, you quit.
Broke, homeless, and still trying to get that next cup whenever you can, you finally realize how fucked you are. So you decide to quit.
The first day is almost fine. You want to get a cup, but it's tolerable. You try to find something to distract you but it's all you can think about. You have trouble sleeping that night, thinking about the taste.
The second day you start to feel sick. Your stomache tightens and loosens constantly, and any food you try to eat winds up on the ground again fifteen minutes later. It's OK though, food isn't really appealing. As night falls you try to sleep, but your thoughts of coffee and your rebelling stomache make it impossible. You feel exhausted and your eyes are grainy and painful from lack of sleep.
The third day you start shivering uncontrollably, and sweat pours off your body no matter how cold you are. You can't sit still, and you still feel sick constantly. You try to eat again, but now your throat is so tight you can't swallow. You simply huddle in a corner and hope think about how much better you'd feel if you had one more cup.
The fourth day it only feels worse, so you finally drag your ass back to your supplier and hand over the few coins you've collected over the last few days. The coffee makes everything go away--you feel alert and healthy almost instantly. But the feeling starts fading almost immediately, so you go back for another cup. And another. And another.
You can't afford rehab if you're broke, and you can't avoid a trap you don't know exists.
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I'm personally not a fan of the "disease" label, but there's definitely a genetic component. There's a reason why certain groups of people and families have histories of substance abuse. American Indians, for example, have comparatively high rates of alcoholism due to a genetic predisposition.
I think it's ironic that people are so quick to judge drug addicts when drugs are basically traps with little hope of escape. Once you're hooked on some of the harder stuff, the recovery rates are miniscule, because withdrawal is so incredibly painful and unpleasant. By comparison, the more subtle trap of obesity, is allowed to run rampant, and called a "lifestyle choice."
There are so many psychological addictions with just as harmful ramifications as drug addiction, but lacking in the horrors of physical dependence. These addictions can be defeated without feeling sick and unable to sleep for days on end, pissing blood and sweating uncontrollably, or any of the other wonders of withdrawal. They can be defeated by a fraction of the self-control and support needed to defeat a physical addiction.
But they keep doing. They keep feeding their obsessions that destroy their health and turn them into dull societal deadweight, same as the junkies, and then point and laugh at those drug addicts and mock them for their weakness.
Personally, I think that's pretty messed up. Take a hard look at your own faults before you mock someone else's.
*Not that I think the death of a singer is some huge deal. Not to be insensitive, but there are more important things going on. But this "holier than thou" attitude about addiction is ridiculous.
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