DiabloFans

oh yeahh Protoss and Wizzard FTW!

Can I take back my "Like"?

Starcraft 2. I found it extremely fun to play. Casual or more serious on ladder. Even campaing is great.
Already a favorite.

Also old school games like Wolf, Doom, Duke Nukem and SNES and Master System games. Diablo 2 I guess I did play Diablo 1 a lot but I never get hardcore to it so I won´t say it as one of my top list.

I think I got tired of everything D2 have.
1 - Bots for ads; 2 - Bots for rushes; 3 - No in-game transfer system;
4 - Lack of personalization at end game since everybody uses the same Builds and exactly the same itens (forced, cause others builds and gears would suck in Hell);
5 - Temp ban while playing legit;
6 - always worried about dupes when trading;
7 - Useless NPCs (gold for what? Buying Tomes?);
8 - primitive/fail crafting system;
9 - broken runewords;
10 - Full imunities (prevents you for experimenting in solo games);
11 - Over dependency on Hirelings; 12 - excess of shitty itens; 13 - lag/instability;
14 - graphics (not Blizzard´s fault I know);
15 - Lack of new content (like more pandemonium events and D clone stuff).

Most of these probably can´t be corrected cause the core game has its limits, but others (dupes and bots) Blizzard clearly fails to solve. All this plus item shops and vicious character leveling services ($10 for a lvl 90 char. $#%@ you). After so much time I can´t overlook them anymore. I will always remember Diablo 2 as my most played game (for now atleast), but I moved on and I´m happily waiting for D3.

That Caldeun art looks like City of Brass from Magic the Gathering :).
Let´s hope for one more video per character.

Wizzard FTW. Then after a long long time I´ll play Which Doctor. Barbarian only if he has something different that just brute force, throwing skills perhaps.
No intent to play Demon hunter or Monk. Never liked ranged (except casters) characters and Monk´s skills looks too much like something from Dragon Ball.

wow Demon Hunter´s projectiles goes really fast. Nice visual overall, specially Barbarian´s WW.
New PC will be needed.
I´m curious to see what Time Warp skill will do with different runes. Faster Cast rate to allies in the blob? Faster Regen?

Heaven, Hell, wathever. I wanna see what happened to Tristram or Mount Arreat.
Having a new place would be epic for sure, but seeing our old landmarks destroyed by a meteor or exploded by Angel, that would be priceless

I´m expecting the beta to come out in August.
Blizzard´s past is what ironically makes me think like that. They are well known for being evasive and all that "soon" and "when its done" things, so if they are finnaly announcing a date (or a period) I have no problem believing in it. There would be no difference in keeping us in the dark for 2-3 more months, if they picked up the callendar and said "this month" they should be pretty close to finishing the game.

If they dont.. I really dont care that much. They launch when its done and I play when its launched.

Quote from ScyberDragon

Just so you know, no actual member here is controlling the ads or profiting from them.

... hmm five minutes later we see lamborghini exiting Diablo Fan´s office tower... interesting :whistling:

Weird.. I see no ads at all here.

EDIT. I use Firefox (+ ad block, idk if this matter) and I see nothing, but with IE, I get one between the digest an blue topics and one below the final post. Anyway, I think its an acceptable amount. Someone have to pay for this.

Could be worse.. we could have those ##@$$ pop ups that follows when you scroll the page. lol that would kill the site.

Never liked D2´s PvP. Was too unorganized. Always near the city doors, people killing you while you running to get you body back, lvl 90 players coming to a lvl 50´s fight. I PvP´ed a few times with 50/50 success rate ,but I felt so bored after so litle fights that I never played again.
But now I´m looking forward to the new system, seems fun, surely give a try.

D2´s cow level started with the mysterious non-existent cow level of Diablo 1. Would be lame to continue the same joke.
But Blizzard loves secret levels and Easter eggs... I expect some heavy rainbow area, an unicorn level, or at least some big references to these things.

They may raise the cap in expansion, but not because it has to be 99 or 100. If its planned to get at lvl 60 at the end og the game, what will we do on an extra act? Just more gear or gold? Other than that, the new content should be harder and with more challenges, if you can´t level up it means that your max stat, may not be enough to have a fun experience. Would be possible to finish the expo, but unnecessarily hard.

EDTI: just though this.
- You reach 60 near the final Act 4 boss of "Hell".
- A new act from an expo will be added to "Normal" and "Nightmare" too.
- This means that we gonna have 2 more act before reaching the old Act 4 boss of Hell.
- So, to reach the old Act 4 boss, passing trhough 2 more acts, you gain more levels and find more gear.
- In result, theoretically, the Act 4 boss of Hell will be eassier to beat with an expo (because you have more time till you reach it), than will be if you play the original game.
= How will they fix this paradox?

In D2, they "corrected" this by adding all monsters to act 5 of Nm and Hell, but is boring (and not very creative) to fight monsters non related to the act lore, just for making the game harder, or as hard as it should. Hope they can do better this time.

I believe the poitn here should be archetypes and not just names or similar looks. You have: Tank, Spellcaster, Summoner/suporting spells, light/fast fighter and a ranged.

I don't like saying WD = Necro, Barb = Barb, Sorc = Wizz, although its true. If you think in functionality you wont have the "DH = (1/3 Sin) + (2/3 Zon)" kind of mathematical aproach.

We have basic archetypes and lots of characteristcs to mess with, such as contraptions, auras, pets, vsual, shouts...

Quote from enkeria

Will you miss your favourite character genre and do you think they have killed some good ideas or perhaps made them better?

In D2 I made few serious characters. 1 Throwing Barb (extremely fun! you should do it!), 1 Necro (Summon+ Corpse Explosion), 2 Paldins (Frost-Zeal and Hammer), and 7-9 Sorcs (most of them meteorbs). I guess I will do the same (proportions wise) with Barb (if I can throw stuff), WD, and mainly Wizz. Really don´t care about Monk, DH, as I never cared for any Sin, Zon, Druid. Let´s see what expansion brings...