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Yay Diablo III! Although I'll admit, I had never heard of GameTrailer until the voting was announced. Love the latest Tyrael image to get the wallpaper treatment, too.

Congratulations to all who made it to the wiki shout-out! Personally, I am wishing there was a blush emoticon on this site because I really am feeling the "aw, shucks" moment.


Edit: Just want to point out -- and yes, I missed it myself -- that Nephalem is mispelled.

Wonder if that page'll have a toggle. Sure would be nice to avoid all that extra clicking, but I guess that's when I go find another site that offers a good compilation with advanced tooltips.

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Love the left banner, but the right... I can't like the one on the right -- despite the high-quality -- because the head and facial features immediately brought Rhonin to mind.

Good to hear. I don't plan on utilizing all my slots, so I'm rather pleased that NA won't be split up.

Some tooltips have a new background graphic as shown below.

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The new Completed Quest UI looks interesting, though.

Quote from Mayne

But my main point was why they decided to remove the pets, who were working fine, just for their looks. As I said, why not just patch the looks later? I cant imagine removing the pets gained any time on their plans for the release, just seems a bit pointless to me, that is all.

Looks, no matter how trivial it/they seem, can surprisingly have a big effect on the game. I do not have the beta, but if Blizzard's post(s) are anything to go by, I wouldn't want utterly cutesy companions. It'd kind of ruin the mood.

Actually, thinking about that reminded me of this.

Didn't see that coming.

'Tis a shame. I love watching and reading about the stuff that comes out of Blizzcon, but if not holding one this year really will help them out with their schedule for releasing the upcoming games... /crossfingers

Proudly submitted my vote for Diablo III!



It is such a relief to read this. I get enough loot RNG on my own without needing to compete with others on WoW, so while there may be a downside to it... I am glad that there are separate loot drops.

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Agreed. There must be an option to make the advanced tooltips default, as to not do so would be insulting to knowledgeable players and stunt the growth of a newcomer. So while it's nice that Blizzard is trying to be thoughtful, I think the people in charge could have gone about this whole matter differently.

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Updated crimson on mantra of healing

Crimson: Increases the Life regeneration granted by Mantra of Healing to 162.41186.2 Life per second.

ty Sojourna for catching that one

Happy to be of assistance!

Mantra of Healing: Life regeneration increased to 81.2593.1 Life per second.

• Crimson: Increases the Life regeneration granted by Mantra of Healing to 82.2594.1 Life per second.

So... Crimson only increases the LPS by 1 life? And it was this way even under the old values? That can't be right. <_<

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Thanks for clearing it up.

I enjoyed reading IGN's interview with Aaron Williams. That being said, the last Q&A regarding (possible) tie-ins to the game has me feeling concerned. Blizzard tried to limit out-of-game lore for World of Warcraft so players wouldn't be left in the dark, and failed. Will it be a different story (pun intended) this time around?

On a related note: The guy in the background had me thinking of Penny-Arcade


I hope it didn't increase "item diversity" too much. I don't want it to be like when a person goes to a store looking for an item and then proceeds to be overwhelmed by all the brands on the shelves, to the point of becoming completely stumped.

Yes, an argument can be made that there ought to be a reasonable amount of junk in a game. If the amount of trash drops is too large, it'll lead to frustration and people will feel spite towards Blizzard when they actually get a good item to drop (instead of any real sense of accomplishment).

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This time around the inconsistancy is somewhat made on purpose to make the Book of Cain seem more like a 'real' in-game item. Deckard Cain is not all-knowing and the book is not an episode on History Channel about the story of Sanctuary.

Yes, but most will be taking it as gospel because "hey, it's canon!" Whatever the case may end up being, you can sure bet it'll be a headache for DiabloWiki in some cases.

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I assume I've missed something but concerning the white items... They don't want people picking the up and selling them, though they do sell, and if they see that a lot of people are they will nerf the amount of coin received from vendoring even lower than what it already is. If they don't want it looted, why make it drop?

In other words, they tried to make everything useful in some way but that merely ended up causing dilution. So instead, whites will still drop but not be of any use. Then when something better than a white item drops (and there will be a lot of white trash), you'll be more likely to yell "eureka!" or whatever.

Take into account as well that for them it means needing to balance fewer items and the things may actually have better stats and effects than previously.

Hope that made some sense, even if you don't agree with their decision.

Right now, it seems too early to give a definitive answer to your question. The patch has been pushed back, so we'll have to wait a bit longer to be able to ascertain the change's effect (if there is any).

Personally, I would have put the potion thingy at the end anyway but I'd like to be the one deciding that, not Blizzard.

Think I'll start off as mixed, as I see myself playing solo nearly all the time. link to build

If the Monk class hasn't changed too much by the time of release, I could very much imagine it remaining my main.