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Quote from CherubDown

It appears that there is no difference whether you are playing multi-player or single-player as far as drop rates go per individual player. You will not be at an advantage or disadvantage based upon how you want to play the game (excluding the fact that each player can share their drops in multi-player).

Hmmm. Not quite.

Official Blizzard Quote:

The fact that you're killing faster (which you will) in a group means more items in less amount of time, means we don't need to provide other incentives.

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Also, I'm curious, when other players kill monsters, does our Magic Find apply to those monsters or does it get to zero for those?

How is that not quite? That's exactly what it's saying. ONE MORE TIME GUYS:

The drop rate per character is IDENTICAL in single and multi-player.

Those words need to be printed in very large letters on the front page of this website.

There are other advantages to multiplayer because of item trading and rate of monster killing, but that's NOT changing the drop rate PER CHARACTER.

Quote from Don_guillotine

There are some pretty hilarious ones.

My favorite so far was this ad for a funeral service:

I love that one

Secret Rainbow Unicorn Level Leaked!

Place Wirt's Fourth Leg, a scroll of Town Portal and Diablo's Horn into the Nephalem Cube and, while standing on the infamous rainbow bridge in Act 1, activate it. A portal will be opened to a bright cheery world full of sparkle and happy smiling plants and animals. This world is populated by majestic unicorns, who have a charging attack that deals 666 physical damage and knocks you back. Killing them results in spouts of rainbow blood from their mutilated carcasses. Killing all of them and activating the Happy Wish Seals arranged in a smiley face across the map spawns MEGA-CORN, a unicorn boss that shoots rainbow lasers and leaps into the air to perform an AOE stomp. If MEGA-CORN is slain, the world of sanctuary turns dark and drab like REAL fans think it OUGHT to be, and the smiling faces turn to horrible diseased screaming ones.



The infamous Rainbow Bridge.



Actual image of Rainicorn Paradise.



The world of Sanctuary, before and after slaying MEGA-CORN.

My good friend Daemaro likes posting about bad things that happen, to convince you how fucked we are as a society. I thought I'd post this just to give everyone a little warm fuzzy if they haven't seen it already. We can all use some good news

BLAM

-The Gulf Oil Spill is almost back to normal levels
-We can (and have) pretty effectively treated HIV and AIDS, and prevented their spread further (even in 3rd world countries).
-The hole in the Ozone is shrinking consistently now, and could be gone entirely as early as 2060
-Traffic fatalities and teen pregnancy are at record lows, due to super-safe cars and effective birth control/education (AKA the evangelical right got OWNED)

And the crown jewel, a reiteration of the thing I've said so many times:

-Everyone is living longer, healthier, and wealthier than ever before, and the gap between developed and undeveloped nations has been and continues to close fast:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jbkSRLYSojo

So go forth, and be merry! Despite our problems, we continue to improve

Also, for even more cheer, capuchin helper monkeys!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vRzp9O9Qc1o

Quote from popo_joe

ok you take away haggling, since games r reduced to 4 players and you dont need to see people for trading, what would be the point of playing online?

Playing with other people.

Quote from popo_joe

stop comparing diablo and wow, they have nothing in common.

They're both RPGs with randomized loot and a valuable ingame currency. They both have large communities who wish to trade with eachother without hassle.

Quote from popo_joe

diablo is not an mmo, and the only way to socialize in the game is either by trading (which wont be popular with an AH) or by helping people or getting helped.

Or playing the game cooperatively--the main function of battle.net.

Quote from popo_joe

dont take AH for granted, we still dont know and im sure blizz dont wanna take down trading.

It's highly likely there will be an auction house. And it doesn't take down trading, it gives you a better way to do it. Manual trade is still an option.

Quote from popo_joe

and btw for me, as soon as you cant haggle , i dont call it trading, you dont trade in an AH, you just buy stuff, just like with merchants.

No, you bid on items, that's why it's called an AUCTION house. That's half the fun.

Quote from popo_joe

yes,

an auction house is like a merchant, except that you can give your items to that merchant an he'll sell em for you.
you talk to a guy in town, he shows you what he got, and you buy stuff.

an auction house would kill the trading.

people wont bother to trade.

what kept me playing the game for all those years was the trading.

Using an auction house IS trading. And it would cause it to flourish.

WoW uses an almost identical magic item system, with randomized prefixes and suffixes, rares, and uniques, so we know the AH works with randomized items.

Fewer items drop in WoW, but with both games the vast majority of items are vendor trash that no one will buy in the auction house. More items might ultimately make it into the Diablo Auction house, but they will nearly all be useful.

And as for the number, the more items are in the AH the more stable the economy is, because prices will flex more smoothly. It's in no way bad to have more selection. Even if it somehow was a bad thing though, there would be plenty of ways to break it up.

Edit: No need to worry though, there's like a 99% Blizz already has an auction house implemented. They're not stupid, they know it (or something very similar) is needed.

I love how these terrible posts are always by someone new, meaning it's probably that same guy who used to post this crap making new accounts over and over again. For the love of GOD, get a life bro.

Also, PvP in D2 sucked a dick. Could the new PvP system for D3 be better? Sure. In fact, I'm quite sure they'll expand upon it and make it better as time goes on--adding new modes and features in patches. But as it is now, is it better than D2? Absolutely, positively, without a fucking doubt, a thousand times yes.

It's with the mouse. WASD doesn't work well with the isometric fixed camera because it means you can only move in eight directions.

Screw wisdom, this was a giant bait-and-switch. I mean, wallpapers, fine. But the exact same ones we've had available for freakin' months, in some cases years? Who thought that was a good idea?

You don't have a fucking 5 month buildup for a few rehashed images that probably took one guy ten minutes in Photoshop.

Seriously, if they'd switched this one with any of the other milestones it would have been better...

Quote from Hypz23

Shows that they are feeling the pressure to get the game released already, if they are not bothering to try to rework it and instead simply take it out. The "maybe in the future.." added in is meaningless.

They're going to release a massive number of content patches, and at least one or two expansions. Why would they completely scrap an idea they think is good when they can keep developing and release it later when they make it work?

That would be madness.

As for the rest of you, we've seen all the ways you can customize your character all day every day for three years. Manually placing stat points is one small and mostly bad feature for customization, replaced by several far better methods. I find it ridiculous that after how rigid point placement was in Diablo 2 that people still consider it a method of customization at all.

All I can think of is some kid getting his cupcake taken away and replaced with a huge German chocolate cake, then the kid crying and complaining about it on forums because damnit, his new cake was supposed to be EXACTLY Diablo 2. To hell with mommy if she won't release the same game over and over with better graphics and...

I may have lost my train of thought somewhere in there.

Lets go over what blizz has told us.

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

Should rares & legendary items be Soulbound in Diablo 3, meaning once that item is equipped, then it can no longer be traded, sold at auction, or used by another character.

The advantage of Soulbound items is it would reduce the supply of legendary items. RIght now they never perish and the volume of them will keep increasing as MILLIONS of people are playing the Diablo slot machine. Diablo has gold sinks, which remove gold from the game, because they prevent mass inflation (the devaluation of currency), why not have item sinks to prevent mass devaluation of legendary items?

1. Elective mode is not needed for at least the first 20 lvls. The game is setup with particular skill types. Ie you don't need plague of toads and poison dart since you can only spam one.

2. The BS only makes the best gear in the beta because you can progress him farther than you can your own character. On e past 13, you will find better gear than he can craft.

3. I will agree the dmg gear is the best but you know everyone will stack MF particularly in normal since massive dmg is not really needed. Better to go for the items while you can sacrifice the DPS

4. Groups will be better. It more for killing speed than drops. Especially if playing in a PUG, most players won't be sharing loot. So the drops remain the same as SP. just more if you can kill quicker.

5. Not sure if you're telling people not pick up the skill. I don't see why not, it's an awesome skill to add to your spam and power move. Add with dogs and that leaves you open to cast your two most powerful skills

It was just a matter of time before someone did this..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOon5kWkmyY