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Dammit, Demonmonger, you have to be so positive?

I really hope Crusader gets some love this patch. It's a mess.

I'm the biggest raging fanboy and even I'm feeling let down. What the hell?

That dungeon thing is totally boring to me. I don't care about some anniversary event. I want to know about the main game I spend most of my time on! There's a serious disconnect here.

Necro is cool, of course, sure. Who isn't down with that? Even at a cost. But damn...

Tyranny out in a few days. Better not be a similar letdown.

They hired a new art director 11 months ago. He's on the 45 minute panel to help discuss new content for Diablo 3.

Why? Art director's do the heavy lifting, like world design, telling the artists how everything should feel and look, the colors, the mood, high level shit. So he'll probably be up there to say, "Look at this cathedral! Or this entirely new area! This is the feel we went after when creating Skovos."

So D3 is getting something, and it may be as huge as an expansion. Because you don't put your art director on stage to talk about transmogs and season resets, which I keep hearing is the expectation and is getting ridiculous.

The speculation splits into two camps.

People done with Diablo 3 and who have taken leave of their sanity to convince themselves D4 is a possibility.

People who still enjoy Diablo 3 and base their speculation on evidence before them. i.e. The actual words in the preview blog.

I hope not. Waste of resources. Massive. Give me new shit I've not seen before.

I've already played 10k hours of D2, and it doesn't need to be remastered anyway. If you're not playing it now, a fresh coat of paint won't make you play it either.

And the art panel could just as easily to cover new art for an expansion.

It's not only the 45 minute block, it's the main one hour long event with the devs on the main panel stage that's the big deal. The one where the text states that they'll reveal new content and features, which is pretty explicit.

I'm a big confused. Are people upset because there's no chance of a D4 reveal or something? No matter how you slice it, it's pretty clear we're getting new shit, even if it's not an expansion. One hour is a long time to talk about a lot of things. The RoS/2.4 panel was an hour.

Would a simple Yes or No kill them regarding whether they're going to be adding anything more? It's not like letting us know they're cooking something up would kill the hype.

I guess that "Blizzcon will be cool!" tweet is a sort of answer, but... ugh.

Expansion or new content.

D4 is not going to happen. Y'all crazy.

Even in the most cynical forecast, I say the game has at least one solid patch/expansion left in it before Blizzard "moves on".

Man, this build gives me an idea... Thank you for the inspiration.

For everyone suggesting buffs, that is the last thing we need!

We actually need NERFS to bring the sets that are far overpowered down to the other sets. Power Creep has gotten out of control, if sets were brought back down to a happy medium T13 tuning, we would see a lot more diversity in games.

Obviously 1-2 sets are ALWAYS going to be the best or "meta" but many people do not care to push leaderboards, instead they simply do the season journey and farm T13 casually with friends. I feel those players should be able to do that with many setups. That being said, I feel that every single class set has a variation to easily do a GR70 and get the journey done. So personally, I feel we are in a good spot.

One legendary item could drastically change the current class meta. For instance, the new grenade item for Demon Hunter might pull the DH into the meta as a DPS, the grenades do some insane damage if used in a proper way when combined with the other damage from the grenade skills.

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Every reference at Blizzcon, even through the Necro video as well as from the ending of A5 have a common theme. That theme is the Nephilim having to much power and becoming a threat to humanity itself.

Well, if you pay close attention, the Necro calls the Nephilim the "Heroes of Light". Referring to them as something else, we can assume that the Necro is NOT a Nephilim. So is the Necro being recruited by Tyrael through the horadrim? I feel that this all makes too much sense.

It is a risky proposition however, because if the core of the Next and Likely last D3 expansion is to remove the threat of the Nephilim, what will happen to the classes that we all love (Barb, DH, WD, Monk, Wiz, Sader)? Will there be new class art done to change the appearance of the class to notify us that the individual we played as was in fact a Nephilim, but we have not yet attained that achievement?

Furthering my evidence, they discuss in numerous interviews changes for the future, beyond 2.4.3, beyond 2017, and they always have this giddy smile on their faces about it. They are also unwilling to comment on any question regarding the "Unannounced Project" in which they have been hiring many additional staff members to assist with.

Realizing that the current staff of D3 is likely also working on this "Unannounced Project" it makes logical sense that the project is D3 X2, the Fall of the Nephilim. After all, the reason D3 Vanilla became a mess was because of a difference of passion and views due to the 4 year layoff of developing the game to assist with WoW (confirmed via Blizzcon 25th anniversary panel having been 2005-2008).

What are your thoughts regarding this rumor?

I have a thought that OP is a blind Blizzard fanboy who adores absolutely anything with (c) Blizzard

Without ever having attended one, I can guarantee you OP that every employee is briefed in a meeting before Blizzcon to smile at every question, and never shoot anything down directly, instead be vague. "Is there going to be a D4?!", *employee smiles*, "What, are you trying to get my fired?!" doesn't actually mean anything, at all.

If they weren't even ready to *announce* anything, and in the same breath tell us the Necro will be at least 8 months out, we AREN'T getting anything new, expansion or otherwise, for YEARS. We'll be lucky if they even talk about anything at the NEXT Blizzcon.

Stop hyping yourself, and just play games you enjoy, it'l make everything a lot more fun.

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Dammit, Demonmonger, you have to be so positive?

I really hope Crusader gets some love this patch. It's a mess.

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Dammit, Demonmonger, you have to be so positive?

I really hope Crusader gets some love this patch. It's a mess.

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Hey assholes, post the patchnotes for the upcoming patches. Point out what you are disappointed about

In summary, it is a TON OF NEW THINGS, and clearly a lot of stuff they still do not want to share coming to us in the near future and different intervals next year.

This game was really good, and it will be taking another step forward.

1 - Having a crafting mats tab instead of storing them in stash is awesome.

2 - The fill feature for the Cube is awesome.

3 - Constantly adding new zones with some lore is really nice!

4 - Challenge Rifts are going to be a fun competitive option to get bounty mats. They are also a means to have fun with friends, yet compete on leaderboards. Level, paragon, gear, etc.... None of it matters. But most importantly, they are going to take a snapshot build from the community, and that is the build we all play in the challenge rift, really really sweet idea!

5 - Necromancer is going to be AWESOME!!!!!

6 - Seasons on console is also really nice!!!

7 - The 6 new legendary items being added in 2.4.3 are going to be really fun and open up other build options!

8 - We get the 2.4.3 anniversary patch on PTR this coming Tuesday.

9 - When asked if they have "anything planned moving forward with story, etc..." had a huge smile and said "we cannot dive into that much"

10 - MANY NEW CLASSES, saying "we certainly have many NEW classes to add to the game, not only with the potential of bringing back old classes such as Druid and Amazon, but also unique classes not in the Diablo universe!

11 - Bottom line, they are clearly putting a ton of work into this game, proving it is FAR FROM MAINT MODE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMbYOaKW25g

Greater Rifts are getting a facelift with monster A.I., density, etc.

Clearing a GR without dying gives an automatic extra gem up.

Some details about Challenge Rifts as well.