[p]1) If magic find is bad, and it feels like a mandatory/decision reducing stat, why do gold find, extra xp, and other pointless secondary stats exist? Should secondaries all just be removed?[/p] [p]2) Almost every "good" weapon looks like this:2000 dps, 600 str, 600 vit, socket, pointless secondaries[/p] [p]MAIN STATS ARE NOT INTERESTING. Blizz, make something cool. Crushing blow was nice. Cooldown reduction and resource reduction are pretty cool too. But having two interesting stats and main stats as the ONLY options is not ok. I was reading the D2 manual this week for fun, and under items it said that there were too many properties for them to be listed. That's the way it should be. Now that I've complained, I need to provide a suggestion to help instead of just put angry things in caps.[/p] [p]A compilation of things that are my ideas, other people's ideas, or things that already exist that I know of that I think would add positively to the items:[/p] -decrease main stats numbers, so that when comparing other, less effective stats, the efficiency is more or less equal[/p] -remove crit damage, make critical strikes just do double damage. Keep it under control[/p] -make items have higher chances to freeze/slow/convert/fear/etc. have higher values so that they become more viable (dont forget that synergies with stun and freeze and such also make them increases in damage sometimes)[/p] -remove secondaries and keep the useful ones (the cc things mentioned above, pickup radius, individual resists, and control impairing effects reduction) as primaries[/p] -make individual resists have much higher values (i.e. 350-500), and make items unable to have all res and individual res, you have to choose[/p] -add stats such as the following (maybe good, maybe not. The idea is moar properties=moar choices)[/p] *chance to ignite[/p] *more damage dealt to ignited enemies[/p] *increased duration (anything that lasts a certain amount of time before stopping)[/p] *chance for projectiles to pierce/ricochet/seek/bounce back and explode[/p] *chance to cast (any skill in the game from any class, ooohhh yeaaa)[/p] *equip a certain aura[/p] *increased area of effect range[/p] *increased projectile speed[/p] *chance to gain 10% move spd/atk spd/damage/crit chance/armor/resource regen/life regen/etc. for 3 seconds on hit/when struck/when attacking/etc.[/p] *chance for resource spender to be free[/p] *deal 10% of your current life as damage on hit[/p] *etc. you get the point. not sayin any of theseare stellar,but hey at least a fewmore would be a welcomed change[/p] P.S. number balance not thought out for more than 2 seconds [/p] What do you guys think? Please post your ideas/suggestions I'm really curious about this![/p]

Combination recipes drop from monsters. Example:

Rare Lightning Skill Damage Bracers

• 1 normal bracer of a certain type
• 1 weapon with a base damage type of lightning
• Yellow, blue, and white crafting mats
• Gold, Blood Shards

Quote from Bleu42

Can't get rid of legendaries you don't want. Correct, even if you found a complete perfect rolled item that you don't want to use, the only thing to do is salvage and sell for the same price as a badly rolled legendary.

Maybe they could make a quick equation giving the legendary a higher price if the rolls are higher to the max.
For example:

• A poorly rolled Andariel's Visage can be sold to the vendor for 6k gold (about), and salvaged for 1 orange mat, 2 yellow mats, 4 blue mats, 8 white mats.
• A well rolled Andariel's Visage can be sold to the vendor for 11k gold (about), and salvaged for 2 orange mats, 4 yellow mats, 6 blue mats, 10 white mats.

Quote from Doorsfan

I do really like the ideas suggested by OP and the incentive/idea behind it.

Because one thing that is echoing off the walls more and more, is that people are saying that there is a lack of actual happening with the items.

The idea of D3 seems to be - afaik - get items. That's all. What then?

They should look into making some aspects competetive. Because having power without measuring it to something dynamic (another player?!) is pretty darn pointless. Unless that which you fight against also scales dynamically or is tuned so that it stays difficult. Which in the case of D3, is not true at all.

One of the major issues im seeing - is that other games or just mods to D2 already did a better job with just sheer concepts compared to what RoS has delivered so far. Because the very premis of D3 RoS in it self is flawed. Having a "item hunt" - when that item hunt leads to nothing, is pointless.

What mods and games are you referring to specifically? I would like to know since I'm a game designer myself

Having watched a lot of streams and kept up with the news for ros, I would like to compile some small suggestions I've heard from the whole community here that could revitalize the end-game about: trading, pvpve, drop rates.

Trading

Here is a suggestion I made in another thread, but I would like to reiterate it here:
Make ALL items and currencies trade-able with and only with people that were on your friends list/in your clan when the item dropped. Reasons why this is good:

• It builds your personal community, encouraging you to have a lot of friends and interact with them
• It encourages social interaction between your friends and your clan (respectively), since you have to communicate with them about the loot, mats, or gold you want to exchange with them
• It makes it so random strangers is not a part of D3ROS trading, since the max friends you can have is 100 and thus your trade reach is limited
• There would be an incentive to keep farming legendaries, even after you have found all the ones you want for your build, since you will be able to sell/exchange them, still benefitting you to find them

PVPVE

Athene made a video suggesting that this would be a core of the endgame and longevity of D3ROS and that it needed to be implemented. Blizz wants balance, and it just simply doesn't exist in PVP for D3V or D3ROS. Thus, the best middle-ground would be PVPVE, where:

• You would fight monsters, or waves of monsters, solo or in a coop game and try to get the best time, the best kill streak, or even just beat a harder pack than the other team.
• Both teams (maybe more than 2 teams? tournament?) would play in their own instances at the same time as each other.
• There could even be a turn based PVPVE where one team (or solo) plays a level and adds a bunch of difficult modifiers to the level they will play, and then the other team, when they come online next, play that same level, matching the difficulty and seeing who got the best time or score or whatever. It's basically like HORSE in basketball, but in D3ROS.
• There could be ranked and unranked games, ranking by clan, etc.

This would be good because it would encourage competitive gameplay in an environment whose balancing is already being done for the PVE in-game. Competition, cooperation, and community interaction would all come from this PVPVE system.

Drop Rates

This one is a small change that will also help the longevity of the game. We know that blue said that the drop rates are boosted for the beta, but I still just wanted to say that finding a legendary should still take some amount of time, not 12 legendaries in one rift level (kripp's video).

Conclusion

These are a combination of my suggestions, the overall community requests, and some specific people's suggestions (such as Athene) compiled into a post about D3ROS' longevity. Please feel free to constructively criticize and hope that Blizz sees this!

Edit: Grammar

Trading

1. Make gold (and blood shards) bind on account, but allow all items to be trade-able.
2. Make trading cost blood shards, and let the cost vary depending on the relative level/power of the item.
3. Make only clan members and friends who were your friend when you got the item (from a drop) people you can trade with (makes it so random people can't trade).

This makes trading closed to your social circle, encouraging you to have more friends and stay with an active clan. It transforms it from a total single player to a nice coop experience that is immune (or maybe not, open to constructive criticism) to hacking or botting or whatever.

Nephalem Rifts

Make rift keystones of varying rarity (normal, magic, rare, legendary) where:

a. The rarer it is, the higher the density, and a density percent mod will appear on the keystone tooltip

b. Legendaries aren't necessarily higher density, they have really cool, predetermined layouts, mobs, and perhaps semi-guaranteed treasure (i.e. Stomach of the Flame Giant Keystone: gives a horadric cache with a bunch of fire items/legendaries)

c. Craft keystone at the jeweler (give him a use, they're kind of gems) where:

i. Legendaries will need whites as a base (just like leg crafting now in ros), and other rare and unique crafting materials per cool map design (à la pony level staff)

ii. You can combine 2 (or 3) whites for a blue, 2-3 blues for a yellow

iii. You can re-roll the density on the keystone for mat costs (gold, blood shards, anything really)

d. Let legendaries (or maybe rares too) give you 1-4 (or however many is a good number) allies (sometimes, kind of rare) that can be things like golems, knights, angels, etc.

Overall, this would shale up the rifts EVEN MORE. The ally idea is a lot of content/ assets for the devs to add, but the rarity thing is not very hard at all, especially if you remove the legendary idea.

Paragon

1. Make the earlier levels slower (1-80), make the mid levels faster (81-300).
2. Make another skill tab that lets you improve you currently equipped active and passive skills.
3. Add these things to whichever tab deemed fit:

a. Each different type of elemental skill damage

b. Thorns

c. Life Regen

d. LoH

e. Projectile Speed/Range

f. Splash Damage

g. increased duration of your cc effects

h. etc. <comment cool stats

These are some changes that would make a difference. Maybe not awesome ideas, but the skill upgrading would be cool. Although there could be a problem with the constant respec issue.


Notes

I'll update it with edits, but that's all for now

Quote from Sagathiest

if you hand Lord Voldemort a shitty wand he's still Lord Voldemort. the ideal wand maximises his power but even with a shitty wand he's still one of the most powerful wizards alive....

I'd simply like to point out that in the 7th he spent countless resources trying to obtain the elder wand so he could kill Harry

Lucid Beta

The story is that you have been trapped into a nightmarish trans by a Dark Mentalist. You fight your way through randomized dungeon levels until you muster up the psychological power to face your inner demise once and for all.

With over 20 skills, randomly generated items, monsters, and dungeons, 3 classes each with a different passive skill tree and extremely fast paced combat, the game's technically endless dungeon (even after the final boss fight) is never exactly the same.

Here's a link to the game: http://gamejolt.com/...cid-beta/16686/


Elite Monsters can be very dangerous


This electric chest is deadly


Explore six different area zones

If you could create any skill or skill rune in Diablo 3, what would it be? Post your ideas! I'm making a diablo type dungeon game with a few of my own ideas and improvements to the genre. I was wondering if anyone had any cool ideas they could give for the game in terms of skills

The game is called Lucid. You start off in a dungeon and never leave it. There is no town, there is no going back. The dungeon is your mind. A dark mentalist has caused you to enter an unwanted trans and your imagination takes you to a labyrinth like dungeon where you fight off monsters. Of course, your killing spree does not go unrewarded. Many items of varying rarity and power remain undiscovered by your mind, and you must use their potential to defeat the mentalist once and for all. A variety of skills can be found by any of the three character classes, but each of their passive skill tree differs a lot. Every time you play, a new dungeon layout is created, as you venture through six different zones...


You mind is a prison, and they only exist because you let them...

Revelations will occur to you and help you fight against these monstrosities...

You choose who you are...

Link to U.S. Forums Thread: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/10949674935#1

Link to EU English Forums Thread: http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/8965947786 highly rated Link to Italian Forums Thread: http://eu.battle.net/d3/it/forum/topic/8965497773 Link to Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/1t4f9u/suggestions_wave_of_death_defence_of_the_outpost/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edit: Player ShadowAegis in the U.S. forums suggested a really nice way to get great endgame ideas (such as DamienJohn and MrMonstrosity's ones) into the game.
I really liked his idea so I will put what he wrote just under here: "I could go for those challenge modes and I will give you a personal opinion. My take is real simple I say that those ideas and others like them can be handled in the following ways.

Let's say that with you and others brainstorming the devs could come up with around 20 such ideas.

Then the devs could take a poll and similar to the design a legendaries. Then the 10 with the most votes would be added in. Then out of those ten players could vote once more on which ones would be ladder only. Then the five with the most votes wins a place on the ladder only challenge modes.

I think that having challenges modes that are ladder only as well as having some non ladder would be great for this game. What does the rest of you think." http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/10949674935#8 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi everyone!
I'm here again to suggest some ideas I had.
I know that one of them is a very popular requested feature (and suggested many times) and the others "might" sound similar but I think that I found some interesting ways to make them feel unique.

This is the first time I suggest an idea and throw it out to the "public" before hearing the feedback of the italian community (except the last suggestion) so I really don't know how this will end but in case you will like it, please click on the thumb just under my avatar on the left of this post, thank you

Prepare yourselves because this is a MASSIVE post with LOADS of images.

As always I apologise for my english.

TLDR Version at the end of the post.



This is one of the most popular features that this community would like to have in the game.
It's an "arena" where you have to fight waves of monsters.
But my suggestion gets a bit deeper and extends the difficulty based upon the player skills/gear/luck (yeah a bit of luck is always required :P)..

Let's have a look on the first image:



As you can see the difficulty is disabled because monsters will increase their strength as long as you survive in the arena.

So how do you extend the difficulty of this mode?

It's easy. Simply click on the "change" in the "Options" pane and:



In the "details" pane you can see the differences between the "type of monsters you're going to fight against".

If the player chooses "Normal" monsters he will face:

- normal monsters waves (this means that "normal" waves are composed by normal monsters)
- 1 elite pack every 5 waves
- 1 boss every 20 waves
- no random spawns

Note: random spawns are random generated monsters that have a chance to be spawned in addition to the wave: random spawns might be normal monsters, elite minions, elite packs or bosses

What happens if the player chooses one of the other "monsters type"?







Note: remember from now on that the numbers/values on the pictures are just examples

I think that the "Extreme" monsters are gonna be hard for everyone, even for the hardcorer of hardcore players.

Of course you don't do this just for the glory but for the competition because Wave of Death (much like the other two modes) will have a classification for the best players in the world based upon waves cleared, monster type selection and number of party members.




The name might remember you Defence of the Ancients but the game is not a MOBA and only the name is similar

WHAT IS DEFENCE OF THE OUTPOST?

Defence of the Outpost or DotO is similar to a "monsters wave" game but it's very different in philosophy.
You have to destroy the Demonic Shards that are the cause of the demonic invasion on the region.
Unfortunately there are many villagers and soldiers that ask for help so you have also to protect them.
So your mission is to protect the soldiers while at the same time put an end to the demonic invasion by destroying the Demonic Shards.

HOW DOES DEFENCE OF THE OUTPOST WORK?

When the player enters the game he will be inside the outpost. To start the "real game" he has to accept the first quest:





Note: the first quest will always be a "defend the villagers" quest because villagers play a very important role in DotO:
for every villager saved you gain one resource and resources are necessary to upgrade the outpost and to train new soldiers and improve their equipment.
These upgrades require quite some time to finish but the more villagers you have the faster you will finish them.



As I said earlier this game is like a "monster waves" game so you will have endless waves of enemies and every wave will have an increased quantity of monsters.
So the more you take to destroy the Demonic Shards the more difficult the game is going to be.
Every wave is composed by a set number of attacks (as you can see from the image) and if you kill all monsters of an attack before the time expires, the new attack will start istantly.
If on the other side you cannot kill all monsters before the time expires well... you will have to fight more monsters and this might lead to dramatic soldiers losses.

You can also notice in the image that there is a debuff called "Demonic Influence".
This debuff decreases your effectiveness in combat and you can free yourself from it only when you destroy the Demonic Shard.

Note: in this case you will win the game if you destroy the shard because there is only one to destroy but there is an option that allows you to increase the Demonic Shards you have to destroy (more on this later).
Every shard reduces your effectiveness in combat by 20% (example).

What happens next?



As you can see when the last attack has been cleared the countdown for the next wave begins (remember that the countdown starts in any case even if there are monsters left to kill).
This is the perfect time to go outside the outpost and try to find and destroy the Demonic Shard or accept new side-quests or upgrade the soldiers and the outpost.

SIDE-QUESTS AND UPGRADES

The player decides to go inside the chapel:



Cylai (the NPC with the yellow exclamation mark) will be the "side-quest giver":
these quests are repeatable and will allow the player to "obtain" new villagers, soldiers or powerful temporary buffs.
On side-quests you have to do different things around the map (outside the outpost) like "free the imprisoned villagers", "help the soldiers and recruit them for your cause", "kill mob X to gain a powerful buff" and so on.

The player can choose which quest to accept but he can only have one active at any one time.
In addition if the player has an active side-quest he cannot upgrade.

Note: basically you have two choices: accept a side-quest or upgrade/train your soldiers/outpost/villagers.
Of course the player can decide to go for a quest or for an upgrade while under siege but this will expose the outpost (in the case he's around the map to complete a quest) or the villagers (in the case of an upgrade) to massive danger.

If the player decides to upgrade he can talk to Sylmo (the NPC in front of the barbarian in the image):



Here you can see how many resources are available, how many villagers there are in the outpost, how much the upgrade time reduction is (3% time reduction per villager) and at what ranks are the soldiers' equipment and the outpost (maximum rank is 4 for both).
I think I don't need to explain much more as the image is quite clear so let's have a look on the various situations:





As you can see, the player decided to upgrade the soldiers' equipment but the time-choice for the upgrade was not good as the outpost is under attack.
This will make the defence much harder since not only he has to protect the soldiers but also the villagers because if you have no villagers left the upgrade won't finish until you save other villagers.

Note: this means that you cannot accept new side-quests (because you are upgrading) and you have to cancel the upgrade and start it over again once you have at least one villager. Also resources spent for the upgrade are lost forever.

Once the upgrade is complete all soldiers will have different visuals:

Equipment Rank 1:



Equipment Rank 2:



Equipment Rank 3:



Equipment Rank 4:



As you can see the number of soldiers has increased to 5.
This is because the player trained the villagers:





Note: The training villagers are the "templar-like" NPCs on the left. They won't attack enemies as they're still villagers.. so you have to protect them until they finish the training.

Now let's have a look on the last upgrade you can make:





How will your outpost look like when the upgrade is finished?

Outpost Rank 1:



Note: as you can see once you have upgraded the outpost to be at least "rank 1" you will receive a "global" buff that will diminish the effects of Demonic Influence.
I think you also noticed that the banner has two additional little flags on both sides. This is a suggestion to have "clan banners" - the little flags represents the clan flag.

Outpost Rank 2:



Outpost Rank 3:



Outpost Rank 4:



Once the player is prepared and confidend to leave the outpost he can finally go and destroy the Demonic Shard.
When he finds it he has first to kill the boss that makes the Shard invulnerable and then he can destroy the shard itself and claim victory.

Victory can be sweet and inside the outpost chapel you will find a new room filled with treasure... much like this one:



Note: this is just an example of how the treasure room should look like. The treasure will be based upon difficulty, outpost starting conditions, waves cleared and total game time

MODE SELECTION

Now let's take a step back and have a look at what are the different options for DotO:


Note: as you can see for DotO you can choose the difficulty because it will only determine the power of the monsters.
The "normal - 1 entrance" on the "options" pane is refered to the conditions of the outpost (more on this just under here)

Let's click on "change" and:


In the "details" pane you can see the conditions of the outpost once the game starts plus it let's you know how rewarding the side-quests are.







I'm sure you noticed the "1 entrance to defend" option at the bottom of the details pane.

What does that mean?
It means that the player can choose how many entrances the outpost will have.
This will make the game a lot harder not only for the fact that the player has to defend the outpost from multiple-side attacks but also that he has to destroy a number of Demonic Shards equal to the number of entrances (and remember that every Demonic Shard will increase the effects of Demonic Influence)!



The map layout will be something like this:

2 entrances:



3 entrances:



4 entrances:



Note: have a look on the minimap as well




Infernal Rift is the last suggestion I have (finally ;D).

WHAT IS INFERNAL RIFT?

The player has to reach a "room" where he can find the Infernal Rift and then seal it.
To accomplish this he has to complete quests and gain control of strategic areas that gives him buffs of his choice.
Once the rift is sealed he can take his just rewards.

HEROIC MODE





Once inside the game the player has to gain control of strategic areas and to do this he has to kill the watch towers:



and place his banner in its place:



Before gaining control of an area the banner has to maximize its influence.
This will take some time and in this time the player has to defend the banner from monsters' attacks (if the banner is destroyed he has to replace it and re-do the "operation").
Once he gained control of the area:



he can choose which buff to gain:







The buff affects the player only while he's inside the area of control. Different areas can have different buffs if the player decides so.

Gaining control of areas is very important because once the player has all areas under his control he will be able to enter in the Infernal Rift room and complete his "mission".

Unfortunately gaining control of areas is not very easy because banners can be attacked by monsters once in a while and also because there might be some "closed paths" that will force the player to do some quests if he wants to proceed:



Take the quest, complete it...



... and go back to gain control of other areas.

Once all areas are under the player's control the Infernal Rift room will open and a boss will spawn.
The player has to kill the boss and destroy the Infernal Rift to be victorious.

Note: once you can target the Infernal Rift (it's invulnerable until you kill the boss) and you attack it, it will keep spawning monsters (both normal and elite) until you completly destroy it.

NEPHALEM MODE

It works much like the "heroic mode" but you will have no quests, maps will be "mirror-style maps", rewards will be PvP-oriented (if they will ever exist) and it will be a speed-run mode.





You objective is always the same: seal the Infernal Rift.
To do this you have to gain control of all areas on your side of the map.
This will open your door and lock other player's doors that grant access to the "central room" (the Infernal Rift is inside this room).

Here's an example of a 1vs1 match:



Note: once the "central room" is opened, the random monsters' attacks to your banners will stop.

Note 2: mirror-style maps might be something like this: http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/monk/TLMC2/korpolusmall2.jpg (thanks SC2 :D)
"white dots" are the spawning locations of each player in a ALL VS ALL match.

If you succeed in sealing the Infernal Rift you will take all the rewards for your own.

But if you die... well... you won't be able to resurrect, other players' doors will unlock and you will lose your chance to win.




In DotO what's the point in wasting time between a wave and another to upgrade the outpost/soldiers or accept side-quests? Isn't it better to just go straight for the Demonic Shards?

For certain cases probably you are right. Maybe in the case where you have just one entrance you'd better go directly for the Demonic Shard.
But did you think that you can choose a harder difficulty and/or more than one entrance?
In the case of more than one entrance, if you go for one Demonic Shard are you sure you will be able to find it, kill all the demons to reach it, kill the boss, destroy the Demonic Shard and go back in time before your outpost is overwhelmed by monsters?

Did you think about allowing the "upgraded outpost buff" to be active only while inside the outpost itself and not "global"?

Yes, I thought about it and I think it will make DotO even more challenging.
The only thing is that Demonic Influence "numbers" have to be balanced.

Will there be only one map for DotO?

Well I'd like to have at least 3/4 different maps

Your numbers/values are all screwed!

As I wrote earlier numbers/values are just examples
This also includes the time between waves in DotO.

What happens if a player of the other team gain control of all areas at the same as me in the Infernal Rift?

Well... I don't thin it can happen. There is always a 0,0001 sec of difference between two actions ;D


Don't you think that the Extreme difficulty in Wave of Death is a bit too... extreme? C'mon... 1 boss every 5 waves plus frequent random spawns and normal minions are elite minions?!

I say: why not?
I mean.. players asked for challenges! Then give them challenges!
You are not forced to play on that difficulty... you can still enjoy Wave of Death in a lower difficulty But Wave of Death is just another suggestion of the usual endless wave game. Why bother to suggest it again? I think that giving Blizzard different variations of this type of game might allow them to find something new and interesting to implement. Also.. if you suggest it once again they might really implement it DamienJohn suggested the challenge mode just a few days ago. In his post he also suggested the "Infernal Tower" feature that is similar to your Wave of Death. Did you just steal his ideas for your own glory? Absolutely no. I read his thread and I liked it a lot.
Wave of Death, Infernal Tower or whatever you name it it's always the same suggestion that the community has been asking for quite some time now: an endless wave game with increasingly difficulty monsters. Similar ideas but with some differences (I wrote this just above here). The only thing I stole from him was the name of the new game mode "Challenge mode" because I think it's very fitting for a mode that can include both PvP and PvEvP. Defence of the Outpost and Infernal Rift ideas weren't suggested by anyone else.Or did I really miss that awesome post where someone suggested similar ideas?
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That's all guys!
I hope you enjoyed it (the few ones who were able to read till here at least )!

Let me know what you think.





Introducing Challenge Mode.
Challenge mode will have 3 different "sub-modes": Wave of Death, Defence of the Outpost and Infernal Rift.

Wave of Death
It is one of the most popular features that this community would like to have in the game.
It's an "arena" where you have to fight waves of increasing difficulty monsters.
The player can also choose some "particular" options to make the game harder.

Defence of the Outpost
Defence of the Outpost or DotO is similar to a "monsters wave" game but it's very different in philosophy.
You have to destroy the Demonic Shards that are the cause of the demonic invasion on the region.
Unfortunately there are many villagers and soldiers that ask for help so you have also to protect them.
So your mission is to protect the soldiers while at the same time put an end to the demonic invasion by destroying the Demonic Shards.
You can also upgrade your outpost and soldiers and you can do side-quests to help you claim victory.
The player can also choose the starting conditions of the outpost (quantity of soldiers, starting resources etc.)

Infernal Rift
Solo/cooperative: The player has to reach a "room" where he can find the Infernal Rift and then seal it.
To accomplish this he has to complete quests and gain control of strategic areas that gives him buffs of his choice.

Competitive: the player has to reach a "central room" where he can find the Infernal Rift and then seal it before opponent players.
To accomplish this he has to gain control of strategic areas that gives him buffs of his choice.
It's a speedrun game but if the player dies he cannot resurrect and other players will have the possibility to claim both treasure and victory.
The game will be played on mirror-like maps. Much like this one: http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/monk/TLMC2/korpolusmall2.jpg

I can completely see both sides arguments, and truth be told I don't know which one is right, or even if there is a right side. I'll try to compile some arguments I've seen multiple times from both sides.

Anti BoA;

Loss of socialization. Yes, with one less way to interact with other players, we defiantly lose a little bit of that.
Your gear is completely up to the rng gods. Yes, it's very likely that it will take you a good amount of time to get every piece for something, and there's no way to susupplement that.
Can't get rid of legendaries you don't want. Correct, even if you found a complete perfect rolled item that you don't want to use, the only thing to do is salvage and sell for the same price as a badly rolled legendary.

Pro BoA;
You can't have your cake and eat it to. With free trading you have a super saturated market just like todays, and you can have every piece of gear you've ever wanted in minutes. Thats if you want to have a viable self found environment. OR, you make self found near impossible to try and compensate. You can't have a non saturated market while at the same time having a playable self found game.

We actually don't lose much socialization. With crafting getting some love, crafting mats, gems, gold and items up to rare quality will be in demand, and trading will still exist.

Blizzard will actually have complete control over the gear pacing of the game. If you have to farm fir every legendary you have, then things like drop rates and stat rolls can be finely tuned.

Self found will actually be viable.


Like I said I don't think the anti BoA crowd is wrong. As a player however I find the BoA route to be more enticing, and as such is the side I choose.

Quote from dousie

Having watched a lot of streams and kept up with the news for ros, I would like to compile some small suggestions I've heard from the whole community here that could revitalize the end-game about: trading, pvpve, drop rates.

Trading

Here is a suggestion I made in another thread, but I would like to reiterate it here:
Make ALL items and currencies trade-able with and only with people that were on your friends list/in your clan when the item dropped. Reasons why this is good:

• It builds your personal community, encouraging you to have a lot of friends and interact with them
• It encourages social interaction between your friends and your clan (respectively), since you have to communicate with them about the loot, mats, or gold you want to exchange with them
• It makes it so random strangers is not a part of D3ROS trading, since the max friends you can have is 100 and thus your trade reach is limited
• There would be an incentive to keep farming legendaries, even after you have found all the ones you want for your build, since you will be able to sell/exchange them, still benefitting you to find them

PVPVE

Athene made a video suggesting that this would be a core of the endgame and longevity of D3ROS and that it needed to be implemented. Blizz wants balance, and it just simply doesn't exist in PVP for D3V or D3ROS. Thus, the best middle-ground would be PVPVE, where:

• You would fight monsters, or waves of monsters, solo or in a coop game and try to get the best time, the best kill streak, or even just beat a harder pack than the other team.
• Both teams (maybe more than 2 teams? tournament?) would play in their own instances at the same time as each other.
• There could even be a turn based PVPVE where one team (or solo) plays a level and adds a bunch of difficult modifiers to the level they will play, and then the other team, when they come online next, play that same level, matching the difficulty and seeing who got the best time or score or whatever. It's basically like HORSE in basketball, but in D3ROS.
• There could be ranked and unranked games, ranking by clan, etc.

This would be good because it would encourage competitive gameplay in an environment whose balancing is already being done for the PVE in-game. Competition, cooperation, and community interaction would all come from this PVPVE system.

Drop Rates

This one is a small change that will also help the longevity of the game. We know that blue said that the drop rates are boosted for the beta, but I still just wanted to say that finding a legendary should still take some amount of time, not 12 legendaries in one rift level (kripp's video).

Conclusion

These are a combination of my suggestions, the overall community requests, and some specific people's suggestions (such as Athene) compiled into a post about D3ROS' longevity. Please feel free to constructively criticize and hope that Blizz sees this!

Edit: Grammar

I like the enthusiasm and I like a lot of where the ideas are going. That being said, like others have mentioned, atleast in a typical forum-induced heavily negative and unproductive manner, that they could be reworked into something a little more realistic clearer. I think trading is important to a lot of us, I know its extremely important to me, and I would like to see a way to trade some of the really cool stuff we find. Without trading, it just feels like I'm playing some kind of static RPG off-line on my Playstation or something. When making these suggestions it's extremely important to keep in mind the ways it can be exploited, as others have mentioned. While it may be a fantastic method if everyone were honest and forthright, the ways you described simply leave a lot of room to be manipulated, and thats exactly what we need to avoid going into RoS.

It would be cool to see a trade limit on items. Maybe it can only exchange hands but three times before it's account bound. This would be particularly interesting to me because it leaves some flexibility and uncertainty (which is crucial) for the price of the items to fluctuate because of the remaining opportunities it has to be exchanged. For example, an item may be valued its highest with 2 or 3 opportunities to trade, being an exceptional piece of equipment, as it reaches its final trade limit, it may decrease or increase, because there is the realization that it can no longer be traded. I think a system like this would work best if it said how many exchanges were left on the item description tag.

To build on this further, I think another way of limiting would be to limit how many times gems could be socketed or resocketed (with the "theory" being that every time you resocket/desocket you figuratively (not literally affecting the item) degrade the item until the ability to contain a gem is no longer available) Again, a system like this would be best if it were displayed in the item description how many more resockets the item could handle. What we need here is a funnel of equipment. We would need new items entering the market, and items exiting the market permanently. Systems like this need balance, what we had in Diablo 3 Vanilla was an excruciating amount of items entering the market every day, the effective 99% (anything below the very very best equipment), which would lose value guaranteed in combination with the fact that the best items never expired or left the market. There was such a massive influx of mediocre and crap gear that the best gear would perpetually get more and more valuable and more and more rare. We need a better distribution curve of the items. They have taken measures to address this in part in RoS so we will see how that goes, but we really won't know without the hard data that we get from just having the game out and playing it for hours and hours mulitiplied by the millions of players.

how can u possibley add something to that???

Master List repost

No new additions

Player Char
- choose male/female => choose class => choose faction heaven or hell, faction determines whether your char is light or dark, eg Paladin or Anti-Paladin (anti is kinda like the reverse, anti does not work for all classes some just have a good or bad version, where the good and bad versions arent complete opposites like the barb)
-some form of customization like colours of armor and if it’s 3D, body size, hair colour, facial hair and the like
-characters age (but not as quickly as in Fable), at the top of the character record it makes the chars seem more real, mages classes of course start with a higher default age than warrior classes and priest classes
-characters to have a voice so they aren’t just the emotional zombies they were in the previous games, only saying something if inventory full or every 12 stages or so (you can import a voice if u wants to)
- definitely no races, definitely no vampires, half human/half something stupid, elves, fairies, cyborgs, metahumans, killer robots from the future, gnomes, goblins, trolls, dwarves, orcs, half human/half something stupid (Half Breeds/hybrids) as a playable character like some people want, diablo is humans only, always has, always will (god I hate people who want these things, go play WOW or DND if you want these things)
-the ability to sheath weapons (put weapons away), and not just remove items for your char, I mean more like pressing ‘w’ and you don’t have anything on the other slots
-if you fall just short of the strength requirement (5-10 under) of a weapon you can still use it but you drag it and use two hands to swing it, like the skeletons in act 5 (would be cool/funny)
-every class should be able to dual wield two small weapons, up two small sword, at the same time (daggers, dirks, Kris you know the small ones)
-if you are evil (faction Hell), or a thief class, you can attempt to steal items from shopkeepers (click button next to repair)
-higher max char level
-near the top of the char record page, should be your chars religion, ‘High Heavens’, ‘Burning Hells’, ‘None’ or ‘something else’, factions may dictate this.
-mage type chars look like they are wearing cloaks rather than armor, similar to how they like when they aren’t wearing armor, (it looks kinda stupid when the only difference between a barb and a necro is their size)
-there is a character page which shows what your char looks like with all his items on, 3D and zoomed in (most likely the inventory page)
-every class could start in a different location
-more small unique details between the chars or char types, like how Druids gain a speed bonus when using a maul, and similarly Barbs with axes, they could, if it isn’t already in d2, implement something like mage classes have slightly fast casting times than priest or warrior classes also an unarmed warrior class should do more damage than an unarmed priest or mage class, currently I think they all do the same unless you have really high strength
-characters names should be extended to up to 20 characters instead of 15, and you should be able to use spaces also you should be able to use special characters if you cant already
-there should be a records page, which shows you chars total number of kills per act and for the game, most powerful enemy vanquished, how long you have been playing for, favourite (most frequently used) Spell or skill, favourite (most frequently used) weapon/s [this area is where the kill counter from diablo 1 should be, seeing as the interface is different from diablo 1, i.e. the black box at the bottom of the screen that used to display the kill counter no longer exists]

Classes
-somewhere between 10 - 20 or so chars, possibly keep some of the original classes and some new ones
-Generally chars in Diablo should fall into 3 categories, Warrior, Priest, and Mage, so this is how i will describe them.
-Warriors
Anti-Paladin
anti-Paladin is not a necromancer, Anti Paladin is exactly how it sounds an inverse Paladin, while the Paladin Heals, gives life, and gives bonus, an Anti Paladin takes lives and his Auras would have more incommon with curses of the Necromancer from D2, he does not however posess other Necromancer skills like revive and golem summoning.
Archer
The Archer or as they are more commonly known the Ranger is kinda like a male amazon. He is the epitome of skill with a bow, his skills centre around the Bow, but he also possesses other skills as well, He can track enemies exceptionally well and has an affinity for nature, i.e the abilty to summon animals to his cause similar to the druid from D2
Bard
not the hellfire version a good one, the Bard is best described as a cross between a fighter a budget paladin and a budget mage. He is a fairly capable fighter, His Songs (which would be one of his skill sets) either provide bonus to party members like th D2 Paladin or harm enemies like the D2 Necro.He also has a small range of powerful mage type spells.
Bounty Hunter
Like the Ranger he is adept at tracking/stalking, but his services come to those in need at a price, while the Ranger does so for virtue and honour the Bounty Hunter is a schemeing mercenary. He possesses several skills similar to the Assassins trap Skill set. but also several warrior type skills as well
Monk
not the hellfire version a good one more like the DND version, unarmed, martial artist. The Monk main form of attack is his fists and feet. His powerful attacks are capable of doing several types elemental damages
Ninja
kinda like male assassin in several aspects. While this class may seem unlikely, if one thinks about it, it can work. He would be able to throw shuriken which would act like the Necromancer skill Teeth, and a skill similar to the assassins skill, cloak of shadows would do quite well to emulated the Ninja's stealthiness. but the Ninja would also have several skills more designed for combat, they are skilled warriors, so they would also posses several skills than would do haeavy damage, and increase their chances of scoring critical strikes.
-Priests
Cavalier (Crusader Inquisitor)
A warrior truly dedicated to the erradication of evil. They epitomise honour, courage, loyalty, virtue. They are expertly trained to Hunt down and defeat classically evil beings and monsters i.e your corrupt mages, daemons and the like. Possesing mostly warrior type skills, they do have several spells at their disposal, mainly of the self Buff kind, not so much party oriented
Cleric (Adept, Prior, Zealot)
a class i am truly surprise has not made it into Diablo yet. A great fighter, but he is a Priest and as such can cast a variety of spells, Turn Undead similar to the D2 paladins conversion but only works on Undead of high levels low level undead are destoryed, can summon down the wrath of their chosen deity to smite there enemies similar to Fist of the heavens only more accurate and more powerful, posseses many bless type spells that increase armor, damage, stats these work similar to enchant i.e they must be cast on their target. They also have an intense hatred for the undead and thus would have a bonus to damage when engaging them
Mage
Alchemist
Possessing the ability to animates inanimate objects. it is an Alchemist who truly makes Golems (not a Necromancer unless it is a Bone Golem), creates weapons out of the elements around him for a better insight to the abilties of an alchemist watch the Anime Full metal Alchemist, you may be surprised as to what they are capable of.
Conjurer
specializes in creating creatures and objects to help him. This is the charatcer that it appears many people want, he is a summoner, summoning powerful daemons and magical beasts to aid him
Elementalist
specializes in elemental based magics, and this is what his skill sets would be divided into
-Fire fairly obivous
-Water(ice) again fairly obvious
-Earth, conjuring up walls or rock to trap enemies or stop ranged attacks, opening holes in the ground to swallow his eneimes, for a better look into the powers of earth magic check out Avatar the last Air Bender, and the Anime Full metal Alchemist.
Warlock
not like the wow one A supernatural character whose sinister powers are inborn abilities, not spells, Such as shapeshifting into Daemons or Lycanthropes (Lycans is short for Lycanthropes).
The next few classes are better suited to being just the one mage/sorcerer class that can perform the skills of all of them
Abjurer
specializes in protection magic (kinda like auras and the armor spells)
Diviner
specializes in detection and divining magic (find/disable trap, far sight and identify)
Enchanter
specializes in manipulating the minds of sentient beings
Illusionist
specializes in creating illusions to confuse and mislead
Invoker
specializes in invocation/evocation magic (lightning/magic type spells)
-definitely no Subclasses or Multiclasses in d3 just True classes
unless by subclassing it is you choose either;
-Warrior
then you choose a warrior class
-Priest
then you choose a priest class
-Mage
then you choose a mage class

Storylines Major/minor
-with the worldstone gone demons are more free to enter the world of sanctuary, this is how more powerful demon lords (act bosses of sorts) can come through
-as both demons and angels can enter the others realm, I think more demons and angels should be present at the gates to each area, they are suppose to be lock in eternal combat, yet only one angel was in hell possibly fighting demons on their own turf
-the last two lesser evil Belial Lord of Lies and Azmodan Lord of Sin elude us still
-the eternal battle between the High Heavens and the Burning Hells is still raging
-the prime evils returning (or just diablo) without their soulstones as they arent needed for the prime evils to exist
-something about Tyrael, is he corrupted? (Kinda been done before, a lot) is he banished from heaven? It may just be me but arent angels forbidden from major influences on mankind or something like that, I forget what it says in the text regards the lore of angels in diablo
-Of course if tyrael is corrupted shouldn’t at least one of the seven player chars from d2 also be corrupted, they spent more time in the vicinity of the corrupted worldstone than tyrael did, and im not counting nightmare and hell, unless tyrael is corrupted thru having shards of the worldstone enter his body when he smashed it.
-tie up any loose ends from the diablo series not that I can think of any right now but there is probably a few mostly to do with tyrael I believe
-the angel inarius, he could perhaps be set free from his prison of mirrors to seek revenge on the prime evils or something
-tie in with the diablo novels some how
-something with Deckard cain is he still alive, he is getting old, but for some people it would feel like diablo without him.
-some mention of the heroes of d2/d2lod, perhaps you could find part of there armor of course the set would have a name like Unknown Barbarian heroes…. or something
-you could find out that cain is not the last of the horadrim, there is another, most likely an evil mage or sorts, you kill him then inform cain he once again is the last of the horadrim, cain has a wet eye.
-if a playable char returns in d3 like the chars from d1 did in d2, have more of a storyline for them, not just the ‘oh xchar is now a monster I have to kill’
-several powerful demons that have been defeated in the previous games could make a return thru some kind of resurrection/summoning spell, similar to the one Baal used to bring the warlord of blood (bartuc the bloody) back to life
-A civil war could break out in Hell, between Belial and Azmodan as they both vie for Ruler of Hell
-If D3 is a prequel, you should be able to be involved in the Binding of the three, or the Sin War, or any other event in the diablo History, such as the Blackening of King Leoric (well maybe not that one thats a little recent compared to the Binding of the three and the Sin War)
-D3 could be set a short while after the events of LOD and Hell has taken over and you must try to reclaim the World of Sanctuary and possibly Heaven.

Towns / world
-could throw in some cultural references to pop culture and other games for fun;
baldur's gate had a character called sir Garrick and he was modeled on sir robin from monty pythons holy grail, (he even sang the song brave, brave sir……), Warcraft had wirt’s other leg, and WOW has wirt's third leg
Diablo 3 could have a sorcerer called Tim or an npc called Roger the Shrubber, or a Knight who says ‘Ni’ or an item called the Doomhammer
-scary like diablo 1 (the lone hero descending into the darkness), this can be done by reintroducing the creepy soundtrack like diablo 1 had, Danny Elfman is good at gothic soundtracks, Medievil, batman the Animated Series are some of his best works
-more villages/towns/cities, some ruined like tristram in d2/LOD
-more towns/villages per act, could have a big city like lut Gohlein as the main town then further out in the wilderness a groups of houses with some npcs
-buildings in towns and cities to have very gothic architecture (like the Chaos Sanctuary in D2) esp. churches and cathedrals, think Notre Dame in France
-Trade-routes throughout the world of sanctuary, your char can buy passage on a caravan along these tracks, but beware they are full of bandits
-good old crossroads, complete with gibbet (cage) like in willow, lol
-bars, pubs and taverns, sometime adventurers just need a few drinks, a bit of entertainment (gambling/woman) and a rest, come on who hasnt wanted to pull up a barstool and drink with geglash in act 2 or drown your sorrows in the tavern of the rising sun when playing Diablo of course, intoxication would work like a curse
-buying alcohol for adventurous minors it’s always fun (ala baldurs gate),
-taking on castles/fortresses full of demons
-unofficial titles by which townsfolk refer to you kind like fable (people called out your title) =>
For killing a few witches get a Witch Hunter title
For killing a few daemons get a Daemon Hunter title
For killing a few vampires get a Vampire Hunter title
and so forth
-mounts to make travelling faster (may or may not be able to attack or be attacked if on mount)
-bigger acts (act 2 and 5 size) with more internal stages like caves and dungeons
-craggy peak stages
-eastern European forests, big thick ones, like the ones in Germany (like on the outer packaging of cadbury’s dark forest chocolate) not the scrag forests of act 1
-swamp/bog/quagmire/marshland good ones
-stages fully covered in snow, so much you leave footprints in the snow
-the tree house village (like where galadriel lives in LOTR, or the ewoks from star wars)
-similar to those little houses in act 1 that have a cow inside, why not have home stays, a house fenced off field, sheep and cattle.
-more interactable environments, things you can hack away at/through like bushes and vines also more things like the cairn stones in acts one you click on them and your char speaks
-bring back the d1 shrines (plus x lvl to x spell, plus x amount to x stat)
-villages full of possessed people (like griswold in d2)
-go to amazon/necromancer/druid homelands plus the kingdom of westmarch and north/south of kurast (we never went there in diablo 1, 2 or LOD)
-seeing at it is heaven vs. hell and we went to hell in diablo 1, 2 and LOD go to the high heavens (but not for a long time just one or two stages)
-if you can go to somewhere where it is impossible for the average person to go, dont have barrels and chests there, golden chests are ok they are special (demon horded treasure)
-bring back the ‘cornerstone of the world’ so you can trade between your chars, (without having someone say they'll help then steal your items)
-random shopkeepers who can sell you things outside of towns (may be single player only, as pkers would have a clear shot at you, unless they were in a house or something which acted like a town i.e. not attacking players)
-skull piles/skeletons on the ground, should yield skulls of varying power
-weapons racks should be like they were in diablo you know the armories of hell (on lvl 13), you know where each item sold for 10000gp not they useless crap they give in d2
-if you have a bow or throwing weapon, you should be able to shoot things in the air, like those birds and those jumping guys.
-if you go to an area from d1, d2 or LOD, it should look the same, not like how D2 tristram differs from diablo tristram (rivers are different and no cathedral, it would have been cool to do even the first four stages of the labyrinth)
-several features that are accessible only after you have beaten the game, (similar to the cow lvl)
-underground cities, like the Underdark in DND, but no gnomes or drow
-large cities full of corruption, complete with shady back alley locals
-more bodies of dead heroes on the ground that actually yield something good not just 3gp
-day and night
-weather (ok so D2 kinda had weather but it only really rained in act 3), also lightning spells should do more damage in the rain
-European style weapons like axes/swords should be in short supply in an area (act) that is based on another geographical location such as the Middle East, Same goes for the other areas, mostly weapons from that area, very few weapons from other areas
-the stages need to be not so flat, they should be like in Baldur’s Gate and Warcraft III, there are little hills and bumps, I cant believe act 2 of D2 hardly even had a single sand dune you could run/walk over
-deep gorges and ravines, some you can walk through, others you cant
-you can pay an NPC to personalize/socket/imbue some of your items your items, but only later in the game/difficulties
Bring back the books from diablo that told the history of the world of sanctuary, they were cool

Quests
-lots more quests 27 is not enough (30 with v1.12 if it exists) and more quests per act, only 4/5 acts have 6 and that isnt enough
-arena quests (last man standing), other players can place bets on multiplayer
-quest based on class (everybody does the same quest but it differs depending on which class you are)
-quests differ depending on faction such as an evil person could choose not to kill something, or they could choose to kill a someone instead of save him
-quests that dont appear in quest log, (gheed wanted a gem a small weapon some gold or something didnt he)
-quests that are normal/nightmare/hell only
-Some quests differ slightly depending on the difficulty, Normal, Nightmare or Hell
-some quests that are single/multiplayer only,
-quest exp (getting exp just for finishing quest)
-better quest rewards, also quest rewards improve with difficulty (such as 1 socket/imbue in normal, 2 in nightmare and 3 in hell)
-protect village for x amount of time (good) or invade village for x amount of time (evil) I love these quests
-you can receive quests from monsters (like gharbad and snotspill in diablo)
-fist fighting quests, survive a few rounds to get a weapon, women, learn some info, raise some much needed fundage, or just prove how tough you are, that sort of thing
-a few quests where you are able to potentionally weaken a boss, (Na krul from hellfire, reading the books weaken him)
-not sure if it can be done but it was cool (but sometimes not) but it was cool how in Diablo not every quest appeared every time during your game, you had to go to new game and hope you got the quests you missed.
-the age old sword in the stone quest, of course the sword is worth it
-everybody loves kicking the door in of the hideout of a cult, and totally kicking all their asses
-quests only appear in the quest log once you have begun them, like they did in diablo1
-a few quests that take almost the whole difficulty (or game) to finish
-some quests that either must be finished in the next act, or require something from the next act to finish it
-lots more quests that are harder in difficulty, most of the quests in d2/LOD are fairly easy to complete

Weapons/items
-version of weapons more powerful than elite
-light and dark versions of weapons, (but not all) Light weapons give off a Holy glow, while Dark weapons give off an unholy glow
-more items of all types
-cloaks and capes over armor
-bring back the rags
-bring back the club that looked like a bit of wood with a nail in it
-bring back the spells books from diablo 1 (plus x lvls to x spell) and the bookshelves they are found on.
-also shields can be strapped to your back, that way you can have a shield and a two handed weapon, cant block but the armor rating thing still applies
Bring back items of the pit (plus -x to x stat)
-customize armor and some weapons NWN styles
-new types of weapons, such as whips [yeh i went there], slings, bayonets (see Anderson form Hellsing) katana, shuriken (ninja star), ninja to and wakazashi (I know this isnt an Asian themed game or DND, but you should know what i mean)
-more gems/better version of gems, more runes/more powerful and more rune words
-if the is something like the cube in d3 it should be available earlier in the game (I hate finding a good item or two and my stash if full of runes and gems and im in act 1) also it should be larger
-more transmutable items
-more craftable items
-more uniques, and more powerful, plus more that look different from their base item it should be like in Diablo nearly every unique item looked different form its base type
-trophies =>
demon heads, pelts, hinds, scalps, hooves, horns, tusks (work like charms and some as items like weapons and cloaks) and of course somewhere to store them like a seperate stash for trophies
-bring back the elixirs from diablo
-bring back the oils from diablo hellfire
-more set items (esp class specific sets)
-6 – 8 feet tall swords, which even someone like the barbarian has to use two hands to swing it
-definitely no GUNS, definitely no GUNS, no guns of any kind
-some legendary items, which you have to search for the parts and combine them to get a really powerful item, these items can either be created in the cube or by a master blacksmith
-throwing hammers, there are throwing knives and axes, why not hammers
-Flaming Longswords, man these weapons rock
-more non European style weapons, like Scimitars and Katanas

Multiplayer
-since it will be similar to wow, guilds will be cool, (even if there are no official guild option people will do this anyway)
-less fucken lag (my god is that a must)
-not sure if it is caused by lag but fix the problem of the black wall that stops you from moving
-an arena for dueling (PK), other players can place bets, the winner of the pk duel takes a large part of all the winnings, odds of winning would most likely be calculated on something like lvl. Lower lvl, better pay or something like that
-checkbox for dueling works similar to trade check box, not possible unless both people check the box
-more people per game increase the number from 8 to 12, unless it is like wow and is all on servers
-bigger friends list maybe 35 instead of 25
-more multiplayer (battle.net [Closed]) only runewords
-games should have some kind of identifier which says the game is expansion or not and what difficulty it is before you try to join it
-ears or the d3 equivalent trophy’s price should be based on lvl, it is stupid to have a lvl 9 ear sell at the same price as a lvl 99 ear
-not sure if this is already the case, Shrines should have bigger effects on multiplayer, i.e. bigger bonuses and last longer (this is for TCP/IP, Open and Closed)
-Gaining exp for duels, they count as a monster of the equivalent level, killing a lvl 90 char would roughly be the same as killing a lvl 90 monster
-once you join a guild, your char bears the insignia of that guild, such as a little pic on their cape
-very good anti hack/dupe protection
-a help section for newcomers, explaining how to do all the commands
-more features only available on battle.net, like the world events and the ubers

Npcs/mercs
-More sarcasm and cursing by the townsfolk and much less political correctness, it makes for an interesting conversation, a more medieval feel to the language they use
-a few Hollywood actors to do a few of the voices, like Sean Connery to do a wizard, or Michael Dorm to do a brooding warrior or something like that
-the cow suit guy from diablo hellfire,
-mercs that have better AI, can choose whether they act aggressive or passive, attack or defend, more choices of merc classes, more powerful, and can use a few more items (not a full set), resurrection scrolls and be able to hire 2 max
-mercs need to have a few more skills than the one or two they have in D2
-also mercs have a voice just a few more sound files, they follow you to hell and back and all they can say is ‘thanks’, ‘I will put this to good use’, ‘I cant use this yet’, ‘uuurrrrrrrggggghh’
-more people who unofficial follow you like the barbarians in act 5
-if there are witches, they should be like adria in d1, or the corrupt rogues, and not as a playable character, to similar to the sorc
-random npcs adventurers (some dead and you can loot their stuff)
-random people who give you a quest or two
-more people in town to talk to, that don’t sell/give quests to you, like farhnam and geglash (yes people out there like to talk to these people)
-random NPC groups out killing demons, (groups of paladins and assassins out doing their jobs that sort of thing)
-some npcs who after rescuing them follow you, of course you can equip them but they don’t use the full set of items, they use weapon shield, armor, helm, gloves and boots, they are kind of like a type of merc you don’t have to pay for
-more drunk npcs, they always have something funny to say esp. farhnam
-more Angels, diablo is heaven vs. Hell and we have only seen two angels, Tyrael and Hadriel, there are other angels mentioned in the diablo texts but they are never seen in the games
-npcs always seem pretty eager to help you on your quests, where are the npcs who refuse to provide you with the info you need, until you beat it out of them?
-more ethnically diverse npcs, where are all the Norse, Scandinavian, Irish, and Scottish npcs
-more npcs who actually have the right accent for the geographical area they are in, with d2 nearly every one had the same accent even if the were from the deserts, the jungle or the tundra
-more npcs who hit on the player character
-More npcs who try to coax the player char into joining the forces of Hell

Skills/spells
-a generic skill tab that everybody has, with find item, find potion, disarm trap, pick lock and spells/skills like that
-not really sure if it can be done, but bring back the unique skill feature from Diablo, each class had a unique skill;
Warrior: repair item
Rogue: disarm trap
Sorcerer: recharge staff
In d3 a priest class could have a unique skill that increases the damage of holy spells, like holy bolt, alternatively an evil priest unique skill could increase the damage of unholy skills like unholy bolt
-bring back the spells of immolation (fire nova) flame wave, lightning wall, elemental, stone curse, and apocalypse
-higher max skill level (20 it too low, I know skills go higher than this but you can only add to a skill 20 times, then it stops the rest must be done with items)
-lightning spells to have a higher minimum damage, I hate it when its 1-5000
-more magic damage based skills, you know the ones that aren’t elemental based more skills like berserk, magic arrow, telekinesis, some times these are the only spells you can use to hit the enemies, also some of these spells need to do more damage
-a new type of skills (like Cold, Poison, Fire, Lightning, Magic, Physical) called Unholy [working title] and these spells are for evil chars, things like unholy bolt, demonic chill, of course if you that all the skills like holy bolt, and the holy auras would all be Holy [working Title]
-all classes have a few more defensive skills/spells
-not really sure if this already happens but, 24 points into a lvl 1 skill, should do more damage than one point into a lvl 24 skill
-a few more spells that control the badguys, like psionics attacks
-there should be a spell for each class that summons a minion, even for warrior classes, warriors could summon primal beasts like wolves and bears or summon valkryies and berserkers, priests Devas or fallen Devas if they are evil, mages anything from demons to elementals to the undead
-more spells like Cloudkill, Ice Lance, Acid Arrow, finger of death, disintegrate and some spells similar to other DND spells which when cast, create a weapon like Flame Sword and Magic Hammer

Monsters
-more enemies that have a voice and say more than one line (like snotspill, zhar the mad, Lazarus, gharbad)
-demons disguised as people in town (would be cool)
-more powerful types of bad guy =>
Goat => Centaur, Minotaur
Fallen => fallen brute
Knights => Demon Knight
Blunderbore => Ogres
Claw Viper => Naga (the more feminine looking ones, not the WC royal guard type)
-tougher bosses (some with fewer minions)
-more visual variety in badguys kind of like how with the necromancers skeletons some have shields with arrows in them, some have axes, some have swords, and others dont
-a random evil/good version of you, wandering around (like pokemon but not as lame of course), could be interesting
-more badguys who worship a badguy and yell his name (carvers yell out rakanishu)
-Random badguys that ride on horses are charge at you
-less resistant badguys in hell
-bring back the gargoyles from diablo
-bring back the succubus from diablo
-bring back the mages from diablo
-bring back the butcher, warlord of blood and the skeleton king or a similar badguy
-bring back the black knights from diablo, they were so cool bursting into flames when they died
-bring back the Magma men (lava chuckers)
-bring back the lightning demons (lightning chuckers)
-bring back the overlords (uglies)
-bring back the vipers (snakes)
[Would have been quicker to say which monsters from diablo 1 not to bring back, lol]
-rocs (giant birds) that pick up your mount/baddies
-goatman/fallen armies complete with camps and chariots
-Demons
Baatezu, Balor and Tanar'ri (kinda look like dread lords from WCIII)
-Basalisks, kinda looks like a komodo dragon but bigger, way bigger (for you idiots out there, the basilisk in Harry Potter is actually a Boalisk, basilisks have legs)
-Hydras, the multiple headed beasts
-Medusae, snake hair ladies
-Rakshasas (shape change monsters)
-Mariliths (sometimes called Nagas, Half snake/half woman with lots or arms)
-More undead enemies
Banshee
Crypt Thing (very powerful Skeleton)
Liches and Demi-Liches (more like the DND version as opposed to the Warcraft version)
Revenant (very powerful Zombie)
Zombie Lord
-Ratmen, similar to the goatmen but rats, (there were ratmen in D2 but they used the Fetish image)
-Sirens
-some kind of sea monster, like the river monsters in act 3 but bigger, much bigger! Some kind of giant sea serpent or two like the Kraken or leviathans/mosasaur looking creatures.
-a few more plant type monsters wouldn’t hurt, shambling moulds and ones similar to the Venus fly trap monsters in the Legend of Zelda games
-a few more legendary beasts from mythology but not too many, mostly animal, undead and demon types, as these types are most common in diablo, dragons in diablo would seem out of place, as would some other legendary beasts, like mind flayers and beholders
-less monsters that run away, still have these guys, just less of them

Game Mechanics
-2.5D graphics, something between what diablo 1 and 2, and neverwinter nights are
-ZOOM the camera would be cool, even if it is isometric view. But esp. if its in 3D
-keep the three difficulty levels, but if the game if very big baldurs gate 2 size im cool with the difficulties just being a setting, like they were in Diablo: Hellfire
-bring back the kill counter, is was neat being able to see how many of a certain type of badguy you had killed, but when the kill counter reset at 500 or so that was gay
-items dump in piles that you click on and it brings up an inventory, (like neverwinter nights and Baldur’s gate) I hate just seeing lots of gold and items everywhere
-bring back gambling for unique and set items, which was cool
-bigger inventory/stash
-trade gold for exp (I know this seems a little cheap, but its how many Baal runs to go from lvl 96 to 97, and you have millions of dollars not going to any use)
-pressing the ‘H’ key removes all of the bars and icons around the screen so all that is left is the background pressing ‘H’ again brings them back
-belts auto fill, like how if you have a column empty on your belt and you pick up a potion in fills up, do that same thing with potion from inventory, if you have room, potions automatically go into your belt, (what I’m trying to get at here is if there is room in your belt, and you have potions in your inventory, they should go to your belt, i.e. the belt will always try to stay full)
-May be hard to implement but mercs have a belt for potions, and you can set it so when the mercs life drops below a certain point, the potions in the mercs belt will be used, saving you farting around trying to heal the merc, by pressing shift + #, # of course being a number 1 – 4, or if you didn’t know that, dragging a potion to the mercs pic at the top of the screen
-tutorial for newcomers, shows how to create basic melee fighter, ranged fighter, melee priest, ranged priest and mage class builds, hot key management, npc interaction things like that, game basics and char builds.
-an area that calculates your MF for you, if it can calculate armor/chance to block why not MF
-faster run/walk speeds
-if they don’t already, spiked shields or shields with spikes on them should do more damage
-not sure if this is the case, but you should be able to create the runewords without having to go on multiplayer
- bringing back the menu from diablo 1, You know when save and exit were two different options instead of the same be (or is that too cheap)
-more sensible and suitable weapon drops from monsters and bosses, i hate it when im the sorc and i find shit for the barb, also why does a monster using a sword drop an axe? he should drop a sword.
-An area in the records page that lets you know how long you have been playing for. like in Fable it tells you how many hours your played.

Other
-the soundtrack is included
-cloth map of the world of sanctuary
-DVD of the movies from the game
-Art of Diablo concept book, the Warcraft one was cool
-Free poster
-quik reference card of in game/in chat commands
-strategy guide comes with it, (some people need it), and even I pick up a few things from these books every now and again
-would blizzard supplying their own char/world editor for Diablo 3 be too weird, lol
-links to websites with special downloads, like items for your chars
-nice big manual for the game full of good stuff like where to find Easter eggs in the game as well as all the usual stuff manuals are full of
-some kind of d3 memorabilia, the box set of the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion comes with a Nerv Parking Permit magnet, something similar could be done for d3

From AcidReign
-Some kind of spike lord badguy with lots of spikes
-better/cooler avatars for chars, minions and mercs on singleplayer and multiplayer
-A rich and appealing storyline to continue from Diablo II. So far the storyline is nonconclusive at this point, and when it is, it has to be good.
-A new difficulty. Diabolical Harder - almost impossible to pass, but its rewards will be grand.
-it would be nice to see other PvP modes, such as capture the war banner, or a town raid with two opposing teams trying to take control.
-New interfaces. New menus, new inventory setup, new stash/bank area, new character stat window, new equipped items window (perhaps an optional character portrait?) Keep the old school health and mana orbs in the corners
-Slow the monster generation down, and make them more difficult. Diablo II was an off-and-on game because players lost interest with pwning huge amounts of easy monsters.
-More eye-appealing special effects. Perhaps they can add some ragdoll physics and some new fire, lightning, ice, and poison animations.
-Implement a Day-Night tracker. During the light hours of the day, demons will be less aggressive. During dark hours, the demons will feel more compelled to push their forces forward. This implementation could also be build upon for other things, such as quests and item finding.
-socketing items is similar to how you buy items, i.e you get the message "are you sure you want to socket this item"
-the average monster size should be larger

From jpbc99 (with a slight mod from Elfen Lied)
-you should be able to kill wildlife and other such animals like the cows in the wilderness

From Kingpin202
-Upgrades and add-ons to your armor (so you don't have to buy new armor)
-Upgrades and add-ons to your weapons as well.
-A secret Cow Level.
-More good characters gone bad like Griswold.
-After you die in Hard core you can still walk around in town/heaven. (It would only be -fun though on multiplayer)

From Maestro
-while in a group on multiplayer, if someone dies, they get a diminished (most likely diminished to 0) proportion of the exp that the rest of the group get for killing the badguy
-chars should have charisma rating, similar to the other stats, but with charisma the higher the rating the bigger the discount at shops
-a more precise appraisal on your more valuable items

From Morfias
-2 skill points per level up instead of 1
-monsters should drop items whose level requirement is a little closer to your own, it sucks when a level 12 char finds an item for a lvl 45 char
-remove the magical property ‘+x to xChar skills’, it is annoying finding a ring that is +X to skills only to realize it is for the play and you are the necro, just have the +x to all skills and +x to xskilltree properties
-on multiplayer you can only enter games of a similar speed to your connection (might be hard to do but it is gay when you have broadband and someone with dial up joins your game and it lags like fuck, course there is a serious downside, if you have dial up and your friend has broadband you wouldn’t be able to play together)

From Ureshi (with slight mod from Elfen Lied)
-the game isnt so linear, more freedom to go where you want, but you still cant go everywhere, and still have the acts (but they are bigger)

From ThatDude (with slight mod from Elfen Lied)
-Chars are able to sail on ships between places; the deck acts like a regular stage, going below deck would be like going from Cave Lvl 1 to Cave Lvl 2

From Vlady (with slight mod from Elfen Lied)
-some the chars should be able to use some of the skills that the prime/lesser evils use for example Demonic Chill