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Ok, I think I've heard enough. So, for all you folks who can't understand why anybody would build more than 10 characters: I'm a hardcore diablo player (not as in hardcore mode, I just love diablo). Since the revelation of the skill calculator, I have designed 13 character builds that I want to play and finish the game with. And that's not accounting for hardcore and for multiplayer, that's just singleplayer, non-harcore characters. And I haven't even played the game yet! Guess how much the number of possible characters will increase once I actually touch the game and try out PvP or hardcore. Every character build requires: a) Different gear with b ) different enchantments and c) different gems d) different companion with e) different items f) different runes in different skills g) different specialisation in artisans. Don't you try telling me that it will be easier for me to switch out every single one of these things if I want to play three different builds of a barbarian, than for blizzard to allow say 15 character slots instead of 10. Besides that, respeccing your character to a different build doesn't give you the playthrough value. If I finish the game (lvl 60, beat inferno) with a frenzy barbarian and then respec him into a juggernaut how will that allow me to do a new playthrough when the game is already beaten and I'm on max level? People who say that you can just respec your character if you want a different build obviously haven't thought about it enough.

Srsly though we all know we WILL be playing the game no matter what, the amount of delays the game has gone through and the number of times we thought we are close to the release only to be disappointed again calls for some response. Though it is best to vote with one's feet, I think it will be sufficient to at least not buy the game immediately when it goes on sale. Anything to show Blizzard that we are getting tired of being kept in the dark all the time. I'm not buying the game in the first month.

Definitely looks great. Youtube front page has much to learn from you guys.

Holy crap how high is Deckard Cain's Vitality? He takes a fiery meteor and a free fall through fire and the next time we see him he is trying to ward of some Skellies like nothing happened. Must have some sick regen.

My eyes! Oh! Why the hell did I look? Goddamn curiosity!!!

Damn my timing. I wrote a bunch of class guides just when there was a bi-weekly draught and when wiki issues come back my guides are already a couple months old and nobody writes about them /whimpering

Dammit they changed the impale? I don't even have the beta yet but I had a master archer character planned...and now my core skill is not a bow shot

I have to say, I'm just an observer to the contest and didn't post, and now I'm glad I didn't. Not one winner has made any sense to me yet, neither of them was very funny while other entries were much better and didn't win. Not saying the contest is rigged...but you sure have some very strange sense of humour. <_<

Um...I think Sixen needs to learn to not talk over other people...

Dammit...no new info on the runestone system or the potential increase in the amount of character slots per account

I have to say...after seeing the concept art of Azmodan and his realisation in the cinematic trailer...I really really want to see all the Evils (Prime and otherwise) again in some form or another in D3 cinematics. Duriel would look BADASS!

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This is Diablo, not Battlefield or CoD. Physics really isn't a central part of the game. Especially considering you are a barbarian fighting zombies and monsters of all kinds. In that environment, everything you know about physics gets thrown out the window, and rightly so. If I wanted realism, I wouldn't be interested in Diablo at all.

This has nothing to do with realism. I have played Titan Quest, another ARPG like Diablo (probably one of the best Diablo clones out there BTW), full of mythical monsters, magic etc. Again not your typical realistic game. It had ragdoll physics and the proper sense of direction I described in my post. The more damage you dealt on the killing blow the more the monster's corpse reacted to the hit. And I can tell you landing a powerful attack and just swatting the monster off your way felt awesome. It gave your attacks a sense of real power and weight behind them, like they were real hits placed on very physically 'there' objects. No matter that you were dealing with a fantasy world, the power of your character just oozed all over the place when something like that happened. Which is what they are going for here. Unfortunately the way they implemented it makes it look kind of cartoony in that monsters just launch into the air in nonsensical and way-over-the-top fashion.

What would make you feel more powerful and badass? If you struck a monster with a swing from the right and it just inexplicably jumped 20 feet into the air? Or rather if it launched to the left (as it should), perhaps hitting a tree, some rocks or barrels on the way, or just rolling down a cliff as it carries the power of your blow with it? I can tell you from experience the latter feels great. And with the kinds of attacks that Diablo has (Cleave, Whirlwind, Leap Attack etc) it would look much better if there were monsters flying all over the place in various directions, rather than just launching straight up into the air when you kill one of them. I'm not urging the Diablo team to implement complete realism and tone everything down. I still want it to be over the top...but this is the bad kind of over the top.

What I don't like about this system is the disregard of direction. For a monster to fly this high up there would either have to be a large explosion underneath it or it would have to take a powerful uppercut strike. With Whirlwind I don't want monsters to go flying up, they should be swept to the side. The direction of the strike should determine the direction the corpse goes. I'm ok with pieces of monsters flying all over the place but it should at least make some sense. If you are slamming a hammer on the monsters head it really shouldn't fly up, if anything you should punch it three levels down the dungeon.

I'm not much of a picture editor/maker at all so I'll just give my 2 cents with a suggestion...make the O in Diablo the typical Diablo O...with a + in the middle of it as the hells themselves meant it to be written.

If there is anything I would change, I would just put some kind of light into the center of the spirit globe. The light would just pop out a few rays every now and then as the liquid swirls around. When the spirit depletes under one half, the light rays would disappear. As for the DH resource, I'd just make the red portion brighter to look more like flame and the blue portion darker to contrast a little to the WD's mana. And also the DH globe separation thingy in the middle should be more 3D, since now it completely ruins the 3D feel of the globe.