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so much for HC inferno players if you can't avoid that 170k hit minus armor and etc
not to mention assuming you can reach inferno mode without dying on the others
Quote from antioch18
The fun is in playing the game, not working out how to play it.
I agree with Jay but I think the skill-UI redesign made the game a lot harder to figure out how to play. I've played the Beta with both the old UI and new UI and found the old UI much much easier to use. The new UI makes me jump through hoops to get things done and I dread leveling just because it means I'll have to go fuck with the UI to access my new skills/runes (this is compounded by the fact that the skill/rune you just unlocked is not easy to discover).
I really hate the new skill UI and feel it did the exact opposite of what Jay wanted it to do: it made working out how to play the game difficult and irritating. It was honestly enough to make me want to stop playing.
Also, Jay's excuse about wanting to hide the "elective mode" skill option and keep it as "tribal knowledge" is complete BS. He's plainly admitting that they're actively designing a bad user experience by (1) making a setting that should be default not default, and (2) making the discovery of the setting difficult to find (this is a no-no for good UI). I really want to set up a google trend search to track just how many people need to hit the web to find out how to change the skill settings. If this number is high enough it will be a clear indication that blizz killed the user experience with this "improvement."
My 2-cents.
Quote from th3o
LOL, is this @ 3:20 subtle product placement in the background? like chris metzens ray ban glases and a macbook pro? ^^
Quote from killer0178
I don't know if it's just me but lately I haven't been getting any yellow item at all from the SK. First time I killed him with every character it was a guaranteed drop, now it isn't
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Thanks cyan, I added your questions (rephrased a little) http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/4888509006?page=1#17
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Streamlining identities is one thing, but completely negating the use/need of a character name is something else! I like seeing the battetag up on the face plate and character name plates, but can we not at least show them both so what I name my character is seen? Even just a "Character (BattleTag)" above the player's head would work for me. I'm saddened that they went back on the initial "we'd heard you!" speech.
As for the developer chat, man that was garbage. First, it wouldn't let me in (due to caching that bit.ly?) until I found the direct link on diablofans. Then I just missed the chance to paste in a question so I only got to ask one about 45mins in! I had a series of questions I wanted answered (post http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/4888509006?page=1#0 if anyone wants to add or answer some). The majority of those questions had well-known answers or were just useless in the first place. I figured the core diablofans people would be there that had proper knowledge of the game and would actually ask better questions!
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Also, wtf is with the korean commercial? Is that how those people sell things?
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It says "min" damage. So that would be the normal hitting you without any crazy effects at all described elsewhere.
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If that's true then that's broken because the "fast" affix would be retarded hard to click on, and it would severely gibble ranged characters' ability to outmaneuver enemies instead of taking hits.
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I don't understand his statement, what makes inferno so much different than hell in that you can't "avoid" a group? Do they aggro off your screen and follow until you die?
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I am curious about this, as they did say "no spikey damage" from enemies.
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Tanakeah, be at the chat http://www.forums.bestbuy.com/t5/Let-s-Talk-Games/Diablo-III-Developer-Chat/td-p/504917 and throw your question/statement directly at Jay, lets get this bs changed!
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I agree, and during the best buy live chat thing next week I fully intend to ask when they will bring in an easier to use skill UI because yes, this is painful.
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How will you know without buying it and finding out? Are you going to wait until weeks after and look online or something? Or ask friends to verify?
Anyway, it's pretty silly to not buy a game because you don't like the animation style of its cinematics when they're around 0.1% of the duration of the game.
They have officially said that they're doing "storybook animation" which looks like anime to me, so see you at release? lol
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No it's just showing that they're trendy hipsters? haha
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It sounds like it'll be pretty gentle, worry not.
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Haha yeah.
And SIIIGHHH at the canned response for UI options. If that's the issue, give us an ini file with a complete list of options to turn anything in the UI off and so many people will be happy to go edit that file and turn off stupid annoying things. The "friendly UI" can remain untouched because those people don't care about the more advanced options anyway.
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You don't have to do anything, lol. And if you're going for synergy, then anything but the DH goes with the monk (they both use Dex) so better odds of gear.