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IPOIORION posted a message on Help: Reforging advicePosted in: Diablo III General DiscussionI appreciate the help, this is pretty common practice on console, I don't know if it got engrained by cheaters using the materials glitch or what.
Again, thank you for taking time to respond.
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Bagstone posted a message on How popular is season 18? A naive data analysis attempt.Posted in: Diablo III General DiscussionMaybe some of you fellow HC players have noticed that the servers have been acting up lately, as also reported by others. Combined with the mixed reception of the seasonal theme (some people saying they don't like it; some clearly enjoying it), I was wondering how popular this season is. Of course we don't know any player numbers, as Blizzard isn't sharing them. So I thought: why not use the stats from a D3-related website that has been up and running for several seasons with no major changes nor announcements to compare the different seasons? I went ahead and did some very basic plotting of D3Resource.com. Here's what it looks like, annotated (click here or on the pic for higher resolution):
I thought it provided some interesting insights (obviously this is just me guessing based on crude, superficial data analysis):
- The Triune season is indeed a bit less popular than LoN. Which is surprising to me, as I felt 2.6.6 has more in store than 2.6.5 (some set revamps, new legendary powers, an actually newly implemented mechanic as season theme). My guess is that the summer release timing and the upcoming WoW Classic release had some people skip this season.
- I was very surprised that 2.6.1 saw more traffic than 2.6.0. I believe this is, again, due to the Necro DLC hitting in summer; also, the release of 2.6.1 fell together with Blizzcon, which has always brought people back (I always see a few spikes in traffic around Blizzcon).
- Looking at the graph, it looks as if balance changes are almost as successful in bringing people back to D3 as large content patches (compare S10 and S16 to S11) - especially after a long drought.
- A similarly interesting insight is that the introduction of season themes alone was not interesting enough to bring people back (S14) - but a set revamp was (S16). This sort of makes me question Blizzard's statement about the introduction of seasonal themes being highly successful. By what measure? Are my numbers so off here?
- The last, really interesting insight I want to make is that of player retention. It seems as if two seasons in particular were able to keep players engaged for a bit longer than the rest - S11 (Necro DLC) and S17 (LoN theme). Which brings me to a point I made countless times: Diablo is a loot-based game. A new class gives you more new loot to hunt. A push for LoN builds prolongs the loot hunt, because it takes longer to get a full ancient set. Want players to play more than just the weekend? Give us something exciting to loot on day 2.
Ending on the obvious caveat - this graph represents visitors on my personal website. It's from the entire domain of D3Resource, but the bulk by far (>80%) comes from the Season Journey Tracker, and the graph looks the same if I sample only for that. Also, I did not account for anomalies (e.g., a sudden increase from some random website that shared any of my links prominently).
TL;DR: I looked at some graphs and determined that if Blizzard gives us a reason for a prolonged/new loot hunt, or shakes up some set damage numbers, more people play Diablo 3. #shocking!
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Holyknight3000 posted a message on The TriuneThis wallpaper was inspired by the name of the season 18 buff: Season of the Triune.
I tried to find some amazing free to use stone/cave wall stock artwork and found the best one. I also reverse engineered the Triune emblem from the Book of Tyrael.
I also wanted to add shadow silhouettes of a couple of triune cultist members so that the image felt like a secret meeting in a cave a-lit by fire and the emblem slapped on the cave wall slightly faded.
So happy with the results, and I hope you like and enjoy!
HK
Cave wall found here: Cave Wall Texture
Cave wall art © original artist (dont know them)
Triune, Cultists, and Diablo 3 © Blizzard
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Varking posted a message on 10 Players on one mapPosted in: Diablo: Immortal
Looking for news about the game it was neat to discover how many players were shown on screen at once. The gameplay trailer shows various amounts but it seemed fairly often we would see around 6. On this particular screengrab I noticed 10 so I took an awful shot at cropping it. Still, something to think about.
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Holyknight3000 posted a message on The Final Farewell to Diablofans...Posted in: Diablo Wallpaper and OS ArtBack in 2008 the week building up to the World Wide Invitational 2008 was a fun one. This website was originally Diablo3.com and then blizzard approached them for the name and then we got diablofans.com in the end. That helped people set the rumor mill on high alert. As the week progressed the new teasers each day adding a new clue as the ice slowly broke away revealed many things.
MMO Champions post on the teasers: WWI Schedule and Live Stream
Each day the community speculated over what they meant. I remember seeing a protoss glyph and then eventually a Diablo 2 rune. Then a circle with 3 rings. People then thought it was like a solar system with the then 3 blizzard universes. Then the near final image showed eyes glowing and and then a feint tusk. People thought at one point it was a hydralisk or something.
Then the day finally came and then the new incarnation of Diablo came into view with the Reveal trailer the day the WW:08 started. It was practically a mini Blizzcon really. I still remember the live stream was on a link that popped up the stream. The streams lag was pretty bad and it wasn't even widescreen.
Here's 2 videos of the reveal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvAxEnNik8s
When the lag finally subsided then I could see the trailer. That day I started making wallpapers for the game.
I posted it here and on diabloii.net (then called diii.net when d3 came about.) From there I decided to break outta my then comfort zone and started painting the diablo 2 runes larger and trying to give them a fiery feeling. At first I added them to my early profile art.
Then later I did the same to all 33 of them. Then used a fireworks 4 effect that allowed me to make a star with 33 points and made an evenly spaced rune circle that made the runes where they would be. Then I'd use the warp tool and made them lay at a nice angle then started putting the denizens of that world in the middle helping me make the Fiery Runes Series.
Over the years I'd make many wallpaper series. Sometimes with concept art, line art to give an old feeling like the Book of Cain would eventually give us.
Other times I'd remake D3 artwork that was in screenshots and like some of the Monks early runes and glyphs.
As well as the wallpapers that would come from them:
I was very proud of those. I tried to reproduce them so hard and then when the then computer I had; the hard drive would fail and I lost that artwork and would have to remake one of them again from scratch Hell here's the WIP i posted on diabloii.net.
I would also make my own fan art for Diablo as well. It may not be as good as others but I'm still proud of it.
Later I would make Calendars for each month that I could and also make them for that current year AND eventually for the EU. But at one point I started making uni-calendars that would have the month and the days but those days and months would neither have the years nor the weekdays on them so people could use them more than once. That way the wallpaper and calendar wouldn't become dated by the end of that month.
Then eventually in march Reaper of Souls would come out but for me unfortunately my biological father would pass on from this world as I posted the final wallpapers of the first part of the Acts 5 series.
That would also garner a change in the fiery runes into one of my favorite changes the runes would be called The Soulfyre runes, Still keeping the moniker of Fiery Runes. This time with a more "souly" look. That series became the largest one spanning 55 wallpapers.
In this series I experimented on many ideas as well as unique and fun things.
I also did tributes as well for people effected by bad events as well.
I also made my first ultra-wide wallpaper during my 7th anniversary during this series.
Later the Necromancer Pack would come out and Then I decided to end the Soulfyre series and start Essence based on the Necromancer's resource.
Then During Blizzcon 2018 the much spirited reveal of Diablo: Immortal a mobile diablo game that has spurned so much vitrol in the community I still tried to make wallpapers for the game and will continue after Diablofans fades away...
The latter days of Diablofans was a somber one as we say good bye to one of the few remaining pillars of the diablo community. We say goodbye and thank those who gave us a website to speak our minds and let us post fan art/fan fiction/ and Diablo Wallpaper/OS art. Thank you guys for this website and the community that was here. We'll find a new place eventually. Either in r/diablo or elsewhere. Thanks guys for a place I could post my wallpapers. Especially back when you guys had a small gallery at one point before that was removed.
Forever Thank You.
Aaron Williams (Holyknight3000 aka The Runeweaver)
After this site goes you can find my works on:
deviantART: https://www.deviantart.com/holyknight3000
twitter: https://twitter.com/Holyknight3000
diabloii.net: https://www.diabloii.net/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/510
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Holyknight3000 posted a message on Fiery Runes II: Bestiary III: #1 Vidian - Lord of Envy
It's been over a year since I've posted a good old Fiery Runes Wallpaper. I wanted to make one with Vidian and this was really one of the few I could use that was decent. The art/pose of Vidian is by Daniel Barras.
Hope you guys like!
HK
Art (C) Blizzard
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Kallizk posted a message on Favorite part of Dfans.Posted in: Diablo III General DiscussionThe Community, the theory crafting and the datamines. xD
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Aerisot posted a message on Favorite part of Dfans.Posted in: Diablo III General DiscussionHey guys/gals!
As a long standing member/moderator of this site, I have seen an awful lot of content, features and people, but personally my favorite thing on this site is easily the Fan Art, When I became a moderator, I personally wanted to look after the Fan Art section, somehow even convinced Molster to have a contest for the front page once!
I am just curious, what is your favorite part of this site? If could be anything that you have experienced on here.
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Kallizk posted a message on Diablofans A Farewell TributePosted in: Diablo Wallpaper and OS ArtA Shame indeed, i'll be in the DFans clan (EU) forever, long live DFANS \m/ hehe
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Awesome! Loved the wallpapers, even the Immortal ones. The early reveals with the blue ice was probably the most exciting thing to Diablo until the reveal trailers.
Can't wait to try the new game and see if Blizzard have kept their standards up, even if people won't be willing to admit it. Good? Bad? We'll find out soon enough. Now I just need to get a new phone and wait for Diablo 4....
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Wow, that would be amazing. Would never have thought of this. Being pretty much a life long Blizzard fan (Warcraft 1/2/3, Starcraft 1/2, and of course Diablo everything), this would be kinda emotional. Not teary eyed or anything, but more heart warming.
Metzen and Morhaime defiantly are legends when it comes to video games.
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It could refer to the Greed sweepstakes that happened on both facebook and twitter. It was stuff like a custom made ps4/xbox1/laptop in the theme of Greed.
Grasping at straws.... there's a very little chance that it could be another announcement for something bigger or more game related during Gamescom and something leading up to Blizzcon.
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Nice, these are always great to run when waiting for a rift to close. I usually skip 2 and 5.
BTW, I'm a PS4 player too, hit me up if you'd like to run some grifts sometime.
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Here's an old Bnet secret.....
http://classic.battle.net/window.shtml