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Claws clearly make it hard to hold weapons... also why bother with weapons that can break or tarnish when you have natural weapons?

Best class... for what?
Soloing Inferno?
Co-op?
PvP?
Making Gold?
Farming items?

Too simplistic a question in my mind... Which character do I like the best? I love the look and feel of the wizard... Is it going to be the best at everything... very unlikely... blizzard are better at balancing games than that.

Some of the greatest fun I have had is playing with friends... when I then come back and play the game as a single player the game has lost some of its shine. Humans are (read a large majority) social creatures that enjoy experiences with other humans... that is not to say there aren't times when people need some alone time... so yes when my friends are online I will be playing co-op as much as I can... when they aren't online I will probably alternate between solo and co-op dependent on how annoying the population as a whole will be and how tolerant I am feeling at the time.

*Puts on tinfoil hat*
I think what they are doing is waiting until Torchlight 2 is announced for released then releasing at the same time to swamp any potential for rivalry in later years by causing this new game to flop.
*Takes tinfoil hat off*

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i'm not argueing that the animations are good. I'm saying that they were intentional and are not blizzard being lazy or just fucking around and not getting to it.

Did you even read what Bashiok said?

"We’d love, for example, to have the monk display his weapons during all of his skill animations. But it’s an enormous animation and effects investment to get it done, and we have to weigh all of these things against other features and polish."

You can say "intentionaly cut the feature", same as mystic, scrolls, etc. They ran out of time, and getting all the things they planned done, would require many months if not extra years.

How long do they want? They have had, erm... Years! I cannot understand why this game has taken so long to develop. Given they are implementing battlenet 2.0 and the RMAH but other than those 2 things it isn't that much of a technology or systems leap from diablo 2.

There is something up with the production of this game imo. To go from a short beta to an extended one, scrapping and revising major systems when they stated just before releasing the beta that it was ready barring a bit of polishing... It all just doesn't add up in my mind. Weird. Anyway... Lets hope they do finally release it and then use the patches to make it more than a diablo 2 expansion.

One wonders what exactly they have been doing. The number of features that were described in the original pre release teaser that are now "non functional" or outright removed is growing by the day.

It is lost forever, nothing you can do about it...

Just to freak you out even more ... What is to say if you had played another 30 seconds and killed one more monster that you wouldn't have gotten the rarest item in the game. If you focus on these sort of things you are just going to end up with ulcers!

If nothing else I like your thoughts on stats and requirements. Hopefully blizz do another 180 on stats again... Though not affecting release... The way they have it at the moment is pathetic and boring.

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Hai guyz! We haz been working on diablo 3 for 10 years and now we realises that diablo 2 was actually perfect... so whatz weez is gonna do for youz is givez you nice new graphiczes and ...

FAIL - graphics is really outdated already

Yup...

Hai guyz! We haz been working on diablo 3 for 10 years and now we realises that diablo 2 was actually perfect... so whatz weez is gonna do for youz is givez you nice new graphiczes and ...um... free town portals and ID's ...awesome sauce, right! Reminds me of hammer when he goes to fit out ironman suit with guns...

Seriously though when I started reading this I had to check the date... No, it's not april 1st... To be still unsure of how you want to do things this late in the development cycle is rather strange.

The mystic... How long have they had this on the table... This reeks to me of ... We can't be bothered thinking up something original for the expansion so let's pull one of the features and tweak it slightly... There we go expansion done.

The stat changes are just bizarre... We aren't able to allocate stats so all it means is that we look for items with particular stats on it... Can you say boring! Part of the fun is balancing stats around... Is this 5whatever here equal to or better than this 6whatever here... And what about if I put it in combination with.... With removal of secondary attributes like attack and defence it becomes ... 8 str vs 10 str... Uhhh derrrrrrr.... It is an rpg, there is supposed to be some thought involved...

I will buy the game but my interest level is rapidly approaching zero... which is sad because this had so much promise 10 years ago.

Congrats ghostload and thankyou medievaldragon for the opportunity.

**gimme bookofcain**

Very keen to have a look at this book.
Thanks for the opportunity.

Don't mind at all. Nice find. Part of the reason I first asked was that it was given such prominence in the cinematic... Still have no idea what role it plays or could play though.

Edit: just looked back at black soulstone cinematic and it is there too...

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The least you could do is screenshot it. If you don't go look at it and take a pic, why should we be expected to?

It's like a yahoo article about a giant meteor without a picture of said meteor.

Fair enough. Am on my ipad and not sure how to upload a file from there. Will put one up when I get home. You can also see the necklace in the last 5 seconds of the intro cinematic released.

Been having a look at the intro cinematic and was wondering if the necklace leah is wearing has any special significance?

Please note I am most definately not looking for datamined story, but rather just if the necklace is of some particular symbol we may have seen in the beta or earlier diablos or the books.



Cheers for your time,
Mae

Edit: ok image is in there... best I could do.