Because I was getting tired of digging through Diablo fans updates, I've compiled all of the revealed unique affixes so far.
Not sure if anyone cares to have this, but I spent some time compiling it for my own interests, and
figured I might as well share it. Thanks again to dfans for enlightening us.
There are likely a few duplicates, but oh well
Arranged general categories for some vague sense of organization and plain readability. And Barbarians can no longer use Lashing Tail Kick.
General/Miscellaneous
1) Heal for 1% of your maximum Life per second for each enemy affected by a damage over time skill.
2) Chance to shatter and instantly kill frozen enemies.
3) Chance to spawn a Nephalem orb when you Blind an enemy.
4) Your projectiles move faster.
5) Occasionally taunt nearby demons, forcing them to mindlessly melee you.
6) Your melee attacks hit enemies up to 40 yards in front of you for 100% weapon damage
7) While below 30% Life, all attacks are guaranteed Critical Hits.
8) Summons shadow clones to your aid when you are hit by a crowd control effect.
9) After earning a massacre bonus, gold rains from sky.
10) While casting Town Portal you gain an immunity bubble.
11) The world map is always revealed.
12) Completing an event grants a special reward.
13) You absorb an attribute from the pack you are fighting.
14) Gain a soul stack on kill. After reaching 10 stacks, you release a poison explosion for 500% weapon damage in a 30 yard radius. (Could this be Breath of the Dying!?)
15) Enable all runes for a specific skill.
16) Summon a treasure goblin who picks up normal-quality items for you. After picking up 40 items, he drops a rare item with a chance for a legendary.
17) After killing 20 enemies you explode out in anger, dealing 400% weapon damage as Fire to all nearby enemies.
18) Deal 20% additional damage after remaining stationary for 3 seconds.
19) Increase your highest primary attribute by 10% but reduce the others by 5%.
20) Periodically charm a nearby enemy. While charmed, the enemy takes 35% more damage.
21) Double the number of enemies that Lightning elemental effects jump to.
22) Double the damage of Poison elemental effects.damage.
23) Double the chance for Arcane elemental effects to charm the enemy.
24) Double the healing amount of Holy elemental effects.
25) After earning a massacre bonus, summon forth 5-10 skeletal guardians for 45 seconds.
26) Burn the ground you walk on, dealing 100% weapon damage each second.
Chance on Hit
1) Chance on hit to poison your enemy if they have a higher health percent than you, causing them to take 20% increased damage for 5 seconds.
2) Chance on hit to create a chaos field at the enemy's location for 5 seconds, causing enemies inside to be Confused.
3) Chance on Critical Hit to increase attack speed and movement speed.
4) Chance on hit to deal 12% of the target?s current health as Holy damage.
5) Casts a Poison Nova when you hit an enemy.
6) Chance on hit to blast your enemy with Lightning and slow its attack speed and movement speed! This effect jumps to additional enemies.
Runspeed
1) Gain increased run speed after Fearing enemies.
2) Gainup to 30% increased run speed based on amount of Life missing.
3) Every time you destroy a wreckable object, you gain a short burst of speed.
Life/Resources
1) Taking fire damage restores resources.
2) Healing wells replenish all resources.
3) After earning a survival bonus, quickly heal to full Life.
4) Heal to full Life and resources when you fall below 20% Life.
5) Potions affect all allies.
6) While moving your resource generation and damage is increased by 25%. While stationary your resource regeneration and damage is reduced by 25%.
7) Health globes restore 20% of your primary resource.
8) Chance on kill to siphon the spirit out of the slain enemy. When the spirit is pulled to you, it heals you for 10% of your maximum Life and Mana.
9) When receiving fatal damage, you are instead restored to 100% of maximum Life and and resources. This item is destroyed in the process.
10) Heal for 10% of your missing Life when you kill an Undead enemy.
11) When receiving fatal damage, there is a chance that you are instead restored to 25% of maximum Life and cause nearby enemies away to flee in fear.
Flavor
1) Gib all enemies you kill.
2) Your items become indestructible.
3) Transform into something angelic or demonic.
4) Chance on hit to summon a herd of murderous cows.
5) You turn into a treasure goblin or pony.
6) You may move unhindered through enemies.
Chest/Shrine
1) Haunt is cast on all nearby enemies when you open a chest.
2) Chance on killing demons to gain a shrine effect.
3) Opening a chest grants 100% increased damage for 30 seconds.
4) Shrine effects last for one hour.
5) Shrines will spawn an enemy champion.
Pick Up Radius
1) Each time you pick up gold, increase your Gold and Health Pickup radius by 1 yard for 10 seconds, stacking up to 30 times.
Life Per Second
1) Your Life per Second becomes an aura that affects all nearby allies.
2) Increase your Life per Second by up to 100% based on your missing Life.
3) Gain a death aura that deals 1000% of your Life per Second to enemies within 20 yards but your Life per Second no longer heals you.
Thorns
1) Your Thorns damage is applied on every attack.
2) Thorns now deals fire damage.
3) Your Thorns damage now hits all enemies in a 15 yard radius.
4) Chance on being hit to deal 1000% of your Thorns damage to nearby enemies.
Block
1) Blocking an attack Freezes the attacker for 3 seconds.
2) Blocks have a chance of summoning a hell hound.
3) Blocked attacks heal you and your allies for the amount blocked.
4) When you block an attack, gain 100% chance to also block the next 2 attacks.
5) You take 50% damage from blocked attacks.
Defensive
1) When there are 5 enemies within 8 yards of you, gain an absorb shield for 30% of your maximum Life.
2) Chance on kill with Holy damage to summon an Inner Sanctuary on all group members which heals them.
3) On gold pickup: Gain armor for 5 seconds equal to the amount picked up.
4) Periodically gain a shield that absorbs and reflects projectiles.
5) Emanate a Slow Time bubble around you.
6) Prevent 100% of Arcane damage taken and heal yourself for the amount prevented.
7) Prevent 100% of Cold damage taken and heal yourself for the amount prevented.
8) Prevent 100% of Fire damage taken and heal yourself for the amount prevented.
9) Prevent 100% of Holy damage taken and heal yourself for the amount prevented.
10) Prevent 100% of Lightning damage taken and heal yourself for the amount prevented.
11) Prevent 100% of Poison damage taken and heal yourself for the amount prevented.
12) Gain immunity to Freeze and Immobilize effects.
13) Enemy missiles sometimes pass through you harmlessly.
14) Reduces duration of control impairing effects by 75%.
Stun
1) Summons shadow clones to your aid when you stun an enemy.
2) Lightning damage effect is increased and lightning damage has a chance to stun.
3) Increases duration of stun effects by 1 second.
4) You take 25% less damage for each enemy that is stunned within 25 yards of you.
5) Stun enemies for 1 second the first time you hit them.
6) Gain increased damage after stunning an enemy.
7) Damage increased by 15% to targets that are slowed or stunned.
Knockback
1) Knockbacks will knockup enemies instead.
2) Knockbacks cause the enemy to move more slowly.
3) Periodically knockback nearby enemies.
4) Increase the Knockback distance of your skills that cause Knockback by 100% and increase their damage by 50%.
5) Chance on attack to shoot out a spectral creature dealing damage and knockback.
Chance on Being Hit
1) Chance on being hit to charm Undead enemies.
2) Chance to explode in a fan of knives for 200% weapon damage when hit.
3) Chance on being hit to summon a protective pylon.
4) Chance on being hit to Confuse the enemy for 2 seconds.
Globes
1) Crushings blows have a chance to spawn a health globe.
2) Increase chance to find Health Globes by 100%.
3) Health Globes picked up release an explosion for 100% weapon damage to enemies within 40 yards.
4) Picking up a Health Globe increases your maximum Life by 5% for 15 seconds, stacking up to 5 times.
5) X% chance for health globes to also grant a power up.
On Kill
1) When you kill a fallen, you Charm surrounding fallen.
2) Reduce all cooldowns by 1 second every time you kill a demon.
3) Chance on kill to increase damage dealt by 4% for 5 sec., stacking up to 5 times.
Follower
1) Equip on Follower: Your follower cannot die.
2) Equip on Follower: Gain access to all skills.
Demon Hunter
1) Marked for Death causes all rockets to lock in on that enemy.
2) Automatically cast Smoke Screen when you fall below 25% Life. This effect may occur once every 30 seconds
3) Your Spike Traps lure enemies to them.
4) Bolas now explode instantly.
5) Fan of Knives knocks targets back.
6) You may have 2 additional Sentries.
7) Hungering Arrow has 20% additional chance to pierce.
8) Vault knocks enemies back.
9) 5% chance on hit to create a Spike Trap, Caltrops or Sentry at the enemy's location.
10) Companion - Wolf Companion now summons 3 wolves.
11) Leave a clone of yourself behind after using Vault.
12) Enemies you hit become Marked for Death.
13) Elemental Arrow now generates 3 Hatred.
14) Vault now costs 8 Hatred instead of Discipline.
15) Strafe no longer costs Hatred.
Monk
1) Removes the cooldown of Seven-Sided Strike.
2) Reduce the cooldown of Breath of Heaven by 50% and increase its radius to 50 yards
3) Wave of Light will refund its Spirit cost if it kills 4 or more enemies.
4) Wave of Light is now cast at your enemy.
5) Gain 10 Spirit per second while standing in Inner Sanctuary.
6) Double the range of Deadly Reach.
7) Blinding Flash now generates 50 Spirit.
8) Tempest Rush no longer costs Spirit to channel.
9) Increase the radius of Breath of Heaven to 50 yards.
10) When Dashing Strike hits an enemy more than 25 yards away, its Spirit cost is refunded.
11) Increase Exploding Palm's on-death explosion damage to 100% of the enemy's maximum Life.
12) Spirit Generators generate 50% additional Spirit.
13) Gain the base effect of all four Mantras at all times.
14) Mystic Ally mirrors your attacks.
15) Chance on hit to gain an effect that removes the Spirit cost of your abilities for 3 sec.
16) Lashing Tail Kick releases a Fireball for 300% weapon damage as Fire.
Barbarian
1) Threatening Shout has a chance to Charm enemies and cause them to join your side.
2) Ancient Spear pulls you to your enemy.
3) Leap gains up to 3 charges.
4) Warcry increases your and your allies' run speed by 40% for 10 seconds.
5) Reduce the cost of Seismic Slam to 15 Fury.
6) Cause an Earthquake when you land after using Leap.
7) Increase the duration of Ignore Pain to 60 seconds.
8) Reduce the cooldown of Earthquake every time it kills an enemy.
9) Call of the Ancients last until they die.
Wizard
1) Ray of Frost now pierces.
2) Electrocute can chain to enemies that have already been hit.
3) Your Mirror Images have a chance to multiply when killed by enemies.
4) Frost Hydra now periodically casts Frost Nova.
5) Arcane Torrent instantly lays mines on the ground.
6) Automatically cast Diamond Skin when you fall below 25% Life. This effect may occur once every 30 seconds.
7) Explosive blast no longer has a cooldown.
8) Reduce the resource cost of Fire skills by 30%.
9) Meteor now homes in on enemies.
10) Energy Twister now travels in a straight path.
11) Frost nova is now cast at your enemy.
12) Lightning skills have a chance to turn the enemy into a lightning rod, pulsing Lightning damage to nearby enemies.
13) Black Hole Slows targets by 50% after it ends.
14) Your Chill effects have a 50% chance to Freeze instead of Slow.
15) Double the duration of Fire elemental effects.
16) You may have one extra Hydra active at a time.
17) Teleport gains the effect of the Wormhole rune.
18) Magic Missile fires 2 extra missiles.
19) Double. the number of enemies your Electrocute jumps to.
20) Emit Lightning Nova around you for 150% weapon damage every second while your Arcane Power is less than 20% of maximum.
Crusader
1) Removes the resource cost of Blessed Shield.
2) Increase the size of your Blessed Hammers.
3) Flail surges to an additional enemy.
4) Reduce the cooldown of Heaven's Fury by 50%.
5) Falling Sword can be used again within 4 seconds before the cooldown is triggered.
6) Gain 15% increased damage for 3 seconds after blocking an attack.
7) Chance on hit to pull in and Slow nearby enemies.
Witch Doctor
1) 30% of any damage dealt to you is redirected to your Zombie Dogs
2) Horrify causes you to Fear and Root enemies around you for 8 seconds.
3) Your Fetish Army lasts until they die.
4) Insect Swarm and Haunt now deal their damage in half of the normal duration.
5) Doubles the duration of Locust Swarm.
6) Zombie Dogs instead summons a single gargantuan dog with the power of all other dogs combined.
7) Grasp of the Dead no longer has a cooldown.
8) Plague of Toads now seek out enemies and can explode twice.
9) Pets deal 100% more damage.
10) Zombie Dogs stuns enemies around them for 1 second when summoned.
11) Spirit Walk lasts until you attack or until an enemy is within 30 yards of you.
12) Reduce the cooldown of Fetish Army and Big Bad Voodoo by 1 second each time your fetishes deal damage.
13) Increase attack speed of your pets by 100%.
14) Corpse Spiders release a web on impact that Slows enemies by 50% for 3 seconds.
15) Enhances your Poison Darts.
Other
1) Drinking Kulle-Aid allows you to burst through walls summoned by Waller elites for 5 seconds.
194 Unique Affixes
I don't want to be greedy, but if they added about 100 more, I think I'd be satisfied. 300 is a nice number.
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IgnatiusReilly posted a message on Every Legendary Affix So far...Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion -
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WarlockHolmez posted a message on Loot 2.0 - Which affixes would you like to see?We know Blizzard is working on "build-defining" affixes for legendary items in Loot 2.0. This is one of the improvements many of us are counting on to improve itemization. What types of affixes do you think qualify as "build-defining"?Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion
Have an idea for a cool affix? Post it here, I'll add it to the list. Also, we don't know if rare items are getting any types of special new affixes, but if you have an idea for a rare affix (minor build-defining effect), post it as well.
Most of my ideas involve Elemental Damage, applying Status Effects, and manipulating Status Effects that are already applied. This is just for fun, and who knows, maybe an affix or two could give Blizz some ideas.
(My Affixes)
(Community Submitted)
Legendary Affixes
Weapon:- Critical Hit Damage is increased to Stunned targets.
- Killing a Frozen enemy Shatters them, dealing damage to all enemies within 10 yards.
- +% Chance to Knock Back. Enemies that are Knocked Back damage all enemies where they land.
- (Your idea here)
- Gain 1% Attack Speed and 100 Life on Hit each time you're dealt more than 25% of your max Health. Lasts 5 seconds.
- 10% of damage dealt to you heals allies within 20 yards.
- When below 30% Health, all your attacks gain 50% chance to Knockback.
- After 10 successful Blocks within X seconds, release a Shockwave with a Chance to Knockback all enemies within 10 yards.
- After 10 successful Blocks within X seconds, release a Wave of Light that Heals all allies within 30 yards.
- Every time you Block, gain X Armor/All Resistance/HP, X maximum stacks, lasts for X seconds.
- (Your idea here)
- Every time you do not block an attack your Block Chance is increased by 5% and your Block Amount is increased by 25%. (Resets after block)
- Lightning Damage you deal has a chance to Stun enemies.
- Cold Damage Slows enemies, with a chance to Freeze.
- Fire Damage Ignites enemies, causing them to take more damage from all attacks.
- Poison Damage causes enemies to take extra damage over 10 seconds.
- Holy Damage deals additional damage to Undead and Demons.
- Shadow Damage reduces an enemies Healing.
- Arcane Damage has a chance per hit to Blind, Fear, or Stun enemies.
- You're Thorns Damage is increased by 50%. While Stunned, your Thorns is increased by an additional 40%. +150-250 Main Stat. -75-150 Vit.
- Your thorns damage is increased by your critical strike damage percentage. In addition every time you get hit you receive 20% less damage for the next incoming hit.
- (Your idea here)
- Adds 5% Fire, Cold, and Lightning Damage to all of your attacks. (Vengeance? :D)
- (Your idea here)
- Your "+Critical Hit Damage %" instead adds a "% Damage Increase" to your non-Crit attacks. (Conversion TBD)
- Your attacks have a % chance to destroy all objects in a 30 yard radius.
- Firewalkers make you immune to burning ground effects. (Desecrator, Molten, etc)
- Monsters no longer Drop Gold. Gain 50% Bonus Experience.
- Monsters no longer Drop Gold. 50% of your total Gold Find grants Bonus Experience instead.
- Every time you are healed by a Health Globe, gain X% Magic Find for 20 seconds. Can surpass Magic Find cap.
- The duration of all buffs (Self/Ally/Shrines/NV) is doubled.
- When traveling from one act to the next, your max NV stacks is increased by 5.
- Each time you complete a quest, your max NV stack is increased by 1.
- All Skill Costs, Cooldowns, and Experience Gained are reduced by 30%.
- Dodging an attack increases your Critical Hit Damage by 20%. This bonus resets after you deal damage with any skill.
- After getting a call out for destroying the environment, your damage increases by an amount equal to 100% of the number of environment objects destroyed.
- Enemies hit by the environment take 30% more damage for 3 seconds.
- Enemies slain with a critical hit splatter blood onto your screen and have a 100% chance to drop a Health Globe.
- 3-6%chance on hit to transform into a werewolf and gain 15%attack speed and 10%movement for 15-30seconds. (internal cooldown of like 1 minute or whatever to stop abuse).
- +10% chance on hit to make monsters twerk for 3 seconds.
- Allies within 25 yards are healed by 10% of all damage dealt to you while Sweeping Wind is Active.
- Serenity grants Immunity to all allies for 2 seconds. The cooldown is extended by 5 seconds.
- Your Critical Hit Chance is increased by 1% for every 5 enemies hit with Multishot. Lasts 5 seconds.
- Reduces the initial Damage of Cluster Arrow by 50%, but increases the number of bombs released to 10.
- Hydra adds 5% (corresponding element) damage to all Allies' attacks within 25 yards.
- All allies within 15 yards, after using Leap, gain a 30% damage reduction buff for 5 seconds.
- Enemies slain by a Hydra have a chance to spawn another Hydra in their location.
- The cooldown of Wave of Force is reduced by 2 seconds for each ranged attack it reflects. Enemies hit by reflected attacks have their movement speed reduced by 80% for 4 seconds.
- While Diamond Skin is active, you will leave a trail of frost that slows enemy movement speed by 60% over 6 seconds.
- Your pickup radius now increases the area of effect from your Whirlwind ability by 20% of its initial value but no longer effects gold or health globe pickup radius. (e.g. 10 yards pickup radius become 2 yards increased Whirlwind aoe but you now have a 0 yard pickup radius for gold/health globes)
- If an enemy is killed by your Rend ability it has a 100% increased chance to drop a health globe. (e.g. 10% > 20% dropchance)
- Your Leap ability drags all enemies in the launching area within 8 yards to the landing position.
- Your Ignore Pain ability now renders you immune to crowd control effects during its duration but you only reduce the incoming damage by 40% instead of 65%. (also breaks CC effects)
- Your Sprint ability now allows you to run through enemies during its duration but increases the fury cost to 30.
- Your Weapon Throw ability now passes through all enemies but its damage is reduced by 20% (multiplicative)
- Your War Cry ability now costs 20 (40 with charge! rune) fury instead of granting 20 (40 with Charge! rune) fury. It also does 400% (800% with Charge! rune) weapon damage in a 25 yard radius.
Rare Affixes
Gloves- Adds 4% of both Poison and Cold Damage (any combo) to all of your attacks.
- Adds 10% of (specific element) Damage to all of your attacks.
- Gain 1% Lifesteal from your (specific element) Damage attacks.
- Monsters have X% higher chance to drop Health Globes.
- (Your idea here)
Set Bonuses
Demon's Skin:- (2) set: -Melee attackers ignite on fire, taking 10% more damage from all attacks. The fire spreads to nearby enemies.
- (3) set: -Enemies within 15 yards have a chance to be feared occasionally.
- (4) set: -+10% Damage to Demons.
-Reflect 10% of all Ranged attacks as Fire Damage.
-You leave a trail of fire in your wake.
- (2) set: -+10% Resistances to All Elements.
-Gain 10% of your max (resource) each time you block.
-While above 50% (resource), your attacks gain 10% Holy Damage.
- (2) set: - Your Frenzy and Bash abilty now swing with both weapons at the same time.
- The arc of your Cleave ability is now 3 yards wider and your Cleave ability does 20% more damage. (multiplicative)
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WarlockHolmez posted a message on Rewarding the Loot Hunt - Loot 2.0MrMonstrosity has me inspired after reading his post full of suggestions for Blizzard. I've decided to further investigate the issues with the "loot hunt" to discover solutions.Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion
I want to find really rare items and be able to use them! I want to see that orange glow on the ground and know I have something special, to save for specific builds that could take advantage of it, or for other characters.
How many times have you found a top tier item and kept it? Sometimes I find upgrades for Alts, but even then it's usually worth selling them knowing I can always buy a replacement later. We need a reason to keep items we find.
The intent of this post is to balance (Not defeat) Auction House use and Finding Usable Gear from Playing the game yourself.
Link to Diablo 3 General Forums Post:
http://us.battle.net...opic/9793090332
The core issues I feel are:- The AH takes all the fun out of finding useful items.
- Items found while "playing the game" are Auctioned 99.99% of the time to be able to purchase upgrades, via Auction House.
- Finding your own gear and progressing at the rate of the general community is impossible. While this shouldn't necessarily be as fast, the difference is too vast.
- Personally discovered items will be considered "Pristine".
- Pristine Items gain a % bonus to all affixes.
- Pristine Legendaries receive a bonus, special affix.
- When a Pristine item is traded to any other account, it becomes "Worn".
- Worn items contain the original stats of the item.
- A limited number of Pristine Items can be equipped at a time. (possibly)
(This example demonstrates a +20% increase to affixes. Yes, I didn't calculate the %damage change. It would be +58%, therefore the DPS would be even higher. I didn't feel like doing the extra math. :P)
Result:- The best items in the game can only be found by YOU.
- Finding a specific legendary you want will still be rare.
- Finding any legendary may be exciting enough to motivate trying new builds.
- The bonus, legendary affix should have a very unique impact on each item, strongly influencing unique builds. (Better affixes than the one that took me 10 seconds to come up with.)
- Just like in D2, the playtime required for the best legendaries (uniques), could be a very long time, but it WILL be special when YOU find them.
- Collecting gear you find and saving it for later/other builds/characters is possible again.
- Purchasing items off the Auction House will still be critical and convenient for quick upgrades and finding/trading gear required for your specific builds.
- The loot hunt becomes exciting again!
- This is the only solution I can see (or something similar) to having loot YOU find to occasionally be better than what you might be able to buy in the Auction House.
- High end gear will still be extremely expensive on the Auction House. It's not like a perfect item for each slot will drop for you right away, if ever.
- Possibly lowering the drop rate of Legendaries could make them feel more special, with this system in place.
- The items we find need to be stronger than traded/auctioned items, or the AH will win every time.
Criticism:
There has been lots of positive feedback so far as well as some good constructive criticism. I want to discuss some of the criticism and how it might not turn out how it sounds.
The main strongest criticism seems to be that luck will become an even stronger factor with this system in place. That players who find high-end legendaries will be pushed too far ahead. I believe an opposite effect would occur.
High-end drops will always be great (with Pristine or without). But all the low/average value drops won't be and are usually trashed. But with the Pristine system, those items have a chance. Those items also drop much more frequently than the rare, high-end items. Therefore, more lower-end players will be pushed closer to the high-end players because of the frequency of drops. This will actually help close the gap, not expand it, therefore reducing Luck as a factor.
Example:
For every one 1500 dps Skorn that drops, one-hundred 1300 dps Skorns drop (estimating, wouldn't be surprised if it's more). In the current system, the one player gets a great weapon OR great trade, the others get vendor trash. With Pristine, the one player gets a top of the line weapon OR a good trade, and the 100 others get useful items too, possibly many of them gaining decent upgrades, shortening the gap between high and low geared players.
Another very important point here is that lower geared players will be able to close the gap slightly on high-geared players through playing the game. It won't be an instant jump like if they upped general loot quality in a patch, because you won't be able to get the upgrades instantly through the Auction House, it will take time.
+1 if you like the general idea! I see a lot of positive responses, but not enough +1s! -
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MrMonstrosity posted a message on Loot 2.0, discovering its true potential.Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion
Rarity
If you ask any veteran Diablo player what their most memorable moment was from a past Diablo game, more often than not it will involve a story about the time when a certain rare item dropped for them. Whether that drop was a legendary (unique) item which was statistically next to impossible to find, a high rune needed to craft an amazing runeword, or even just a legendary item with perfect stats, the feeling was pretty much all the same (alright.. finding something like a Windforce, Zod rune, or Tyrael’s Might was a little different haha). Players could probably even go as far as recalling the time of day, act, zone, or monster that dropped that particular item, it was that memorable. How can we give this same nostalgia feeling back to the items in Diablo III?
Drop Rates
Drop rates have changed dramatically since release. I remember when the game was first launched I had almost leveled up two characters to max level before seeing my first legendary drop. I didn't really mind the low drop rates (even though the items were usually worse than rares), but it was a huge change compared to Diablo II where you couldn't finish the first Act on normal without seeing one drop. Where Diablo II had all items available in the hardest difficulty, Diablo III did things differently by splitting them up between four difficulties. This severely limited the amount of legendary items which could be found.
The good news is there is a change coming in loot 2.0 which which will make all legendary items available in every difficulty. I don't need to dive into all the details regarding this as many people are already aware of them, but what I want to talk about is the new possibilities this opens up. Possibilities in regards to drop rates. What I'd love to see now is the shift back to different drop rates inside each item type. I wouldn't mind the statistically impossible drops if it was offset by the fact that there were other, more common items available.
For example, let's take a look at legendary two-handed swords. Currently in patch 1.0.8 if we were to find a legendary two-handed sword in Inferno difficulty it would could only be one of 4 possibilities. With the new change that number will now increase to a possible 9, more than double the previous amount. We now have enough items in the same item type to afford to have substantially different drop rates.
(numbers are just for show)
The difficult part is balancing drop rates alongside the Auction House. In Diablo II the rarest item of them all, Tyrael's Might, had the highest chance to drop from the last boss in the game. Do you know what that drop rate was? A staggering 1:409,739 (0 Magic Find / 1 player game). Considering there was no Auction House available in Diablo II, even seeing one on another player was a feat of it's own. If Blizzard tried to make an item equivalent to that in Diablo III the drop rate would probably need to increase to something in the millions due to the Auction House.
Something could also be added to increase the excitement and also help people recognize the rarity of the item visually. Something as subtle as a different particle effect in the legendary's beam of light would go a long way to recognize when something truly special dropped. I don't know about you but if I saw an unidentified two-handed sword on the ground with a sparkling beam like The Grandfather's below I'd be jumping out of my seat in excitement.
How cool would that be, especially for new players or the less informed to know how rare their drop was without running to the Auction House to check the prices. What do you think the order in rarity is of the legendary helms below?
In one of the recent developer interviews Travis day is heard saying that he wants to create items that will be remembered. He even goes on to compare the impact of the items he hopes to create to that of World of Warcraft's Legendary sword, Thunderfury. I just pray that the reason he's using Thunderfury as an example isn't just for the sole reason it was powerful but also that not everyone had one and that it took not just a lot of hard work to get but even just plain luck. It wouldn't have had near as much impact if everyone on the server was running around with it, people knew of you and your guild if you were lucky enough to receive one, that's the reason it was remembered.
While I'm on this topic I'm going to also going to mention my own opinion in regards to the transmogrification system which might be making it's way into Diablo III. Don't include legendary items. The unique models are just as much of the reason as the unique properties as to why they can be labeled as a legendary. Do what you want with rares, but please leave legendary items out of it. If you absolutely think legendary items need to be included than at least connect the ability to do so with only the items your character has personally identified, at least that would help keep the integrity of the rarest items.
So please Blizzard, I beg, move away from the only thing rare about an item being the combination of random properties to the actual item itself.
Rewarding the Hunt
At the heart of the Diablo series lies the single most important aspect of the game, the hunt for items. It's the search for rare items which makes us stay up all hours of the night killing demon after demon, hoping for that one special drop.
Since the introduction of the Auction House the hunt for items has changed, instead of hunting for items in the game world we're now instead supposed to hunt for deals on the Auction House. Players are rewarded more for sitting outside the game than actually killing monsters. The Auction House isn't going away, so how can we give incentive to those that actually play the game?
Recognition for Discovery
This idea I haven't seen pop up anywhere and I've had stuck in my head since my days of playing Diablo II and I think has a lot of merit as a feature in terms of both game play longevity and progression. The idea first came to me doing Act 3 Mephisto runs one night playing Diablo II a long time ago. As cheesy as it might be I used to keep a pen and paper at my desk to write down what unique items I'd find during my play session, something that I could not only use to brag about to my younger brother but also something I could use to record my own collection of items (pen and paper achievements...lol).
The idea would be to connect a bonus, most likely in the form of small stat increases, to the discovery of items. It's such a simple idea and one I feel would change the game for the better. In the example below I used the achievement layout to showcase the idea.
Notice how I used the word "identify"? This would be such a simple way to ensure that people couldn't just buy every single item off the AH to reap all of the benefits, players would now rewarded for playing the game not the Auction House. The bonus wouldn't have to be huge, just a little something to be recognized for the effort (or luck) put in to obtaining items. Sure someone could buy or trade for unidentified items outside the AH but it would be much harder to do, especially if they adjusted the drop rates accordingly.
So maybe you're rocking a Maximus and you find a Warmonger, wouldn't it be cool if by just finding a weapon of the same type you just increased your two-handed sword damage by 1%. Better yet, if the bonuses were account wide similar to achievements, you could find something on your Barbarian that could potentially give a small boost to another class. I think this idea is great in terms of progressing your character as you play the game. As another added bonus for identifying an item, and if the transmogrification feature existed (which I hope it never does) would be to allow that item's model to be applied to another item of the same type.
This next addition is for all you lore junkies and collectors out there. With being a game designed completely around cool items why don't we know more about the history of them? There's an entire in-game journal which for the most part is completely ignored. Why not make a section for all the cool items we find?
I don't know about you but there's so many items like the Grandfather that I'd like to know more about. I'm sure the writers at Blizzard could throw us a bone, the Diablo story is rich with lore.
Magic Find
Ah, the stat everyone loves and hates at the same time. Just like it was in Diablo II, Magic Find is a very valuable stat. So much that people were actually switching to an entirely different gear set just to boost it as high as possible before landing the killing blow on elites and champions. Blizzard's fix, the addition of Paragon levels to slowly make the need for Magic Find on items obsolete as a player progressed to level 100. Sure this was a great bonus to have and fixed the need to swap gear but it also created an entirely new problem, punishment to play anything other than your character with the highest Paragon.
Something that struck me by surprise is a recent quote taken from the recent Blizzard Developer Interview with Diablofans:
Originally Posted by Travis Day (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
We've definitely talked about things like taking Paragon and decoupling it from your character specifically and making it something that is more account-over working. So that any time you invest in the game is rewarded and you don’t feel like we’re taking anything away from you if you want to try new characters or try out different play styles within the game.
I used to think the same way as Travis, I've always wanted to try out some other classes other than my barbarian but there was something always holding me back, something called Paragon levels. Was it the slight boost in primary stats stopping me from switching to a different character? Nope, it was the thought of all the loot I would be missing out on if I didn't have my valuable Magic Find which Paragon levels granted me. I would easily trade 300 of my primary stat to jump on a different character for a night, but when it came down to missing out on the potential for loot, nope not a chance.
I think it would be completely wrong of Blizzard to make Paragon levels account wide. Paragon is meant to provide players who've reached level 60 an extended progression system, don't shorten that to 1/5th of the time needed by requiring only one character to reach Paragon 100. Instead, bare with me on this one, why don't we remove Magic Find from items and Paragon levels. Wow, do you feel that? That's called freedom, the freedom to play any character you want now and not have to sacrifice loot.
So, if we no longer get our beloved Magic Find from either items nor Paragon levels where do we get it now? Well, what if we moved it all into Nephalem Valor and tried something like this:- Remove the NV cap size of 5
- Cap Magic Find at 500% for every character
- Award different values of Magic Find per stack of NV depending on the Monster Power
- Earn NV at any level, not just at level 60
- Lose a stack of NV for every death
- De-emphasize the need for Magic Find in general
Simple changes right? But lets look at what issues we may have just solved:- Rewards players for playing at a higher Monster Power (reach MF cap faster)
- Rewards players for staying in one game and playing through all acts
- Lower level characters have the same chance at finding legendary items
- No longer punished for playing low Paragon characters (No MF)
- Stops high MP leachers (if they keep dying it's not worth it)
- Might help somewhat to combat bots
- Players shouldn't need to get to max MF to find good items, sure it should help but not as much as it does currently.
(the new "Magic Find"?)
Crafting
Crafting has such huge potential to be one of the most interesting parts of Diablo III. Not only that but it might be the only way to fix the economy in it's current state. A little over a year into the game and we can already see the hyper inflation resulting from a game with no proper item or gold sinks. So, what can be done to crafting to get and keep a healthy economy?
Salvaging
Something absolutely needs to be done to make salvaging items more desirable. Yeah there's Brimstones, but I'm not sure why Blizzard decided to make them have a 100% chance of being salvaged from legendary items. I guess It probably made sense back when legendary items were actually hard to find at release, but when they increased the drop rates they should have also removed the 100% salvage chance.
I've already suggested this idea before regarding new types of Brimestone's but I'd like to mention it again. The idea is that by salvaging legendary items they'd have a small chance to produce a type of Brimstone depending on the elemental type of the item that's being salvaged. Maybe even tie in the rarity of the legendary item being salvaged to the chance of producing one.
Make these also be part of crafting recipes for all of the artisans. Obviously crafting recipes as a whole need help before this could even be implemented but I'm sure we'll see that happen along with loot 2.0. It would definitely increase the amount of legendary items being removed from the economy.
Legendary Crafting Materials
In Diablo II we had Runes which were the primary crafting reagent. Runes ranged from the very commonly found to the near impossible to find. Blizzard really needs to introduce similar crafting reagents in loot 2.0. They obviously can't be called runes, as those already exist in the form of Skill Runes, but they need to exist in some other form. They need to be something that we can find out in the game world by killing things and more importantly be highly valued in the crafting system.
I think I've found the perfect place for them to drop.
You may recall coming across monsters with purple name plates and unique names during your play sessions. What are they you ask? Your answer is as good as mine, the only thing they're linked to right now is an achievement. Sure some of them are obviously in the game for a laugh, Jay Wilson comes to mind, but for the most part they just exist for no reason at all. Why don't we give them a reason to exist? Blizzard could toss those rare crafting materials on their loot table with a very tiny drop rare and put them to good use. Beef them up a bit in terms of health and damage similar to Keywardens and they'd be perfect. Give them a little bit more randomness in their spawn locations so they can't be easily farmed and you'd have a very nice feature.
There's 82 named unique monsters as part of the acheivement "A Unique Collection", giving them all a chance to drop a unique crafting reagent would be an amazing way to spice up crafting. Throw on a Bind to Account similar to Demonic Essence and you'd really have people out in the world playing the game like it was meant to be played.
If you're anything like me your stash and bags are already really full of items that you couldn't possibly fathom the idea of more crafting materials. This next idea is to help all of us hoarders get a little breathing room.
This would be so welcome, having separate inventories for weapons and armor, crafting materials, gems, and the upcoming mystic artisan. Make picking up items automatically place them in the right inventory and you would have probably one of the most welcome features to many people alike.
While we're at it let's go ahead and clean up something I wish was never implemented in the first place... 15 gem versions. Blizzard should reduce the number of types found in the first 3 difficulties to one each, there's not really any point in having more.
Removing these steps in gem progression could be countered by just decreasing the drop rates accordingly. While we're talking about gem drop rates I don't see why we can't just have all gem grades be drop-able, but with increasingly low drop rates. At least that would give self-found players a chance at getting to the higher versions. It's not like upgrading gems is good gold sink anyways, we can definitely find a better one.
The Mystic
Everybody knows she's coming in the expansion but just how she'll work is still a mystery. The mystic might have features like crafting elixirs or potions, but she'll most definitely be involved in some type of item upgrading or enhancement feature. I tried my best to come up with a solution that not only works in terms of item progression, but also something to become the main item and gold sink for the game.
It was very hard trying to come up with an idea on just how her features should work. You obviously want to avoid making it so players only have to find one item and then just keep upgrading it until it's the best item in the game. That's why I didn't include a way to reroll item properties in my version of the mystic. I think by not allowing the re-roll of item properties it should at least still give reason for players to seek out upgrades. Instead my version focuses on only upgrading the originally rolled stats on an item. These stats could be upgraded to it's max potential value, but only for an increasingly amount of gold as it gets near max value. Take a look at the example below to see how upgrading this helm's Critical Hit Chance would work.
If you noticed above by placing the item you wish to upgrade in the mystic's menu you are shown the max value of the properties which already exist on the item. By clicking on each property you'd be presented with the required materials and cost to upgrade the stat. The idea is for different stats to be upgraded using different crafted materials, materials being a combination of both Bind on Account and tradable materials. This would ensure someone couldn't just buy all the crafting materials off the AH and upgrade to a perfect item, they'd be forced to play the game in order to collect the BOA items similar to Demonic Essence.
The next thing you may have noticed is the cost associated with upgrading the Critical Hit Chance on the helm by .5%. The number is meant to be big, this cost will be the main gold sink in the game and most likely a cost most min/maxers would be willing to pay to upgrade an item. The most interesting concept however is one that you can't see in the picture above. The concept being as you gradually upgrade your stats on an item the monetary costs associated with the upgrades also increases.
In the example above you can see how the closer the value moves to it's maximum potential, the higher the cost associated with the upgrade. This in some way mimics how the current gem progression system works that we all use Diablo III.
Legendary Items
This is the biggie and one of the additions I'm most excited for from loot 2.0. The developers, more specifically Travis Day, have already stated that they want to make game changing legendary items. Game changing in terms of the way items interact with skills, passives, and gearing choices.There probably will be a couple different types of items that will make up the this whole concept, lets explore some.
Class specific legendary items and set bonuses have the most potential when it comes to items that change the way skills and passives work. Really, it's the only option since putting skill changing properties on an item type available to all classes would be pointless seeing how skills are unique to each class.
In the expansion I can't see any classes getting any additional Skill Runes. What I could see though is a new empty rune slot being added.
What rune belongs to this slot you may ask? Well the answer is, it depends on the items you're using!
When I was originally trying to determine just how adding new Skill Rune effects on items should work I didn't have the empty rune slot. The problematic scenario I kept running into was, what if someone didn't want to use the new Rune Skill being offered by the item? Would they have to just shun that item out of their possible gear choices and find something else? That's where the idea of an empty Skill Rune slot came from, now when equipping an item with a new rune variation they wouldn't be forced to use it anymore, they'd have the choice of turning it off/on just like any other Skill Rune.
The beauty of a system like this is that it offers a huge depth in game play compared to the current system. Currently in the game once you hit level 60 you're done discovering your skills. With a system like this even at level 60 you could keep discovering new builds depending on what items you've found. Remember the idea of super rare items I talked about above? Imagine playing the game for a year and finally getting your hands on one of those super rare items with a sweet new Rune Skill, your entire play style or build could change to something completely different. It would make the game feel so fresh, people wouldn't be able to just run to the forums, look up the best build, and be done with swapping skills forever. Instead new builds would constantly be discovered that not everyone would have access to right away. This idea could even go further, what if a new build needed not only 1 but even 2 or 3 new Rune Skills only available on items. Combining gear to make new builds, who'd have thought? If Blizzard added even one new item to the game at a later point it could have the potential to create entirely new builds.
The next type of item I'll touch on is the also made to be for class specific items.
These could directly add new bonuses to passive skills or skills themselves. In the example above I gave a direct bonus to the Barbarian passive skill, Brawler. That seems pretty simple on it's own but what I hope you all noticed is the twist at the end which reads "within Pickup Radius". Hmm did I just make a once useless stat potentially sought after by the Barbarian class?
What I hope you all take away from this example is that we don't need to be so focused on making every single affix as good as one another. Lets make items do the work in making this happen. Imagine if there was a shield that changed the way Thorns damage worked and allowed stacking it to be viable, or a mace that made stacking as much armor as possible increase the damage of one of your skills. The possibilities are endless here and I really hope these are the type of ideas Travis Day is working on.
The next, and final type of legendary item that we could see wouldn't really have anything to do with Runes or skills at all. Instead these items would focus on providing unique new ways to play and gear your character. Imagine if you found the Girdle of Giants below.
Pretty cool eh? Some might think it doesn't change much because of the reduced damage, and really it might not do much in terms of directly increasing your overall damage. It might not even look like it would be better than today's Witching Hour which has amazing damage stats. It instead does something else, it opens up how many choices the Barbarian has in possible weapon choices. This one item added hundreds of different combinations of weapons. Maybe some of these combinations have the potential to create a new build, the possibilities could be endless. This is just the result of one new belt, imagine if other similar type items existed.
[saving this area for showcasing my legendary item thoughts]
In Conclusion
If you made it this far in my crazy long post I salute you and thank you very much for taking the time to look over my ideas. As you can see I'm very passionate when it comes to Diablo in general, especially when it comes to the hunt for items. I think by working together, the Diablo community and Blizzard, we'll finally get to the point where we can call Diablo III the greatest ARPG every created.
Thank you.
If you haven't checked out my other posts please feel free to look them over and let me know what you think.
http://www.diablofan...review-a-dream/ (old ideas, but still an interesting read)
http://www.diablofan...-dream-fanmade/ (pretty cool idea for a variation of the classic ladder system)
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MrMonstrosity posted a message on Patch 1.0.9 Dungeons, a dream... [[ FANMADE ]]Disclaimer: This is a fanmade idea. Its format as if a Blizzard representative is stating these things is just to add flavour.Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion
Dungeons
We've received quite a lot of attention over the past couple days in regards to the Patch 1.0.9 Preview, especially the new random dungeon feature. We'd like to talk a little more about how we plan to implement this feature and what type of things players can expect from it in the future.
Gamers love competition, wether it be between other gamers or even on a personal level by challenging themselves. It’s always been this way, it’shumanNephalem nature. With this in mind, we’ll be introducing a new Dungeon Score rating system which directly relates to the new random dungeons in the new patch. The Dungeon Score will be a weekly score given to all level 60 characters based on how well they do at not only finding these new dungeons but also completing them. Broken up into classes for obvious balance reasons, players can compete on a week by week basis for top honours of being the best of the best in PvE. Scores are tracked and saved every week on our website and the top Dungeon Scores will be visible in an all time leader board for bragging rights.
We think this will prove to be a better system then the type of character levelling ladder everyone is familiar with. Instead of taking the same route every single time to compete for the top position people will get to experience new dungeons every single week thanks to randomization providing endless amounts of content. We'll also be looking at adding some miscellaneous items such as a special banner, unique dyes, and other cosmetic items (providing players no advantages, besides looking good!) to the top weekly players of each class. Don't worry we aren't forgetting about everyone else. Other players can also earn special rewards by reaching certain Dungeon Score break points, rewards which will given out on a class by class basis. In order to earn rewards for a specific class you must reach the required Dungeon Score that week by playing that class.
With our effort to promote in game exploration we’ll also be adding a similar feature to the Nephalem Valor bonus players are awarded for killing elite and champion packs. These new Dungeon Valor bonuses will give 5% extra Dungeon Score rating per stack and are earned only by completing dungeons. These buffs last the entire duration of the current game, persists through death, don't reset on skill tree changes, and stack with other Dungeon Valor buffs up to three times for maximum bonus of 15%. We think this will provide enough incentive to explore an entire Act.
As we mentioned in our Patch 1.0.9 Preview we'll also be introducing a new type of chest found only within these random dungeons. These chests have an increased chance to drop legendary items and new Blacksmith, Jeweller, and Mystic plans. Chances are increased based on both the current Monster Power level and the amount of Dungeon Valor buffs present at the time of opening them. In order for a chest to spawn players must defeat every elite and champion pack in the current dungeon, as well as the special dungeon boss present at the end of each dungeon.
In order to combat players from abusing invites to other players in order to open the final chests there will also be a requirement we haven't yet decided on. Things being considered are requirements such as being present at the time of entering of the dungeon similar to a boss fight, requiring three Dungeon Valor stacks, or being present for all elite kills inside said dungeon. We'd love to hear your feed back on this issue as we feel it's important to get right and not let it become exploited later on down the road.
Other things we're in the process of deciding on now is just how Dungeon Score rating will be calculated, right now in our current build it's being calculated by:
- End chests opened (completion bonus)
- Elites/Champions slain
- Number of deaths inside each dungeon (score is docked every death)
- and Dungeon Valor stack bonuses
In Closing
We think this is a feature that will provide our player base with endless amounts of content. As players upgrade gear, explore new builds, and group with other players they'll find new ways of competing for the top Dungeon Score rating. Be sure you provide your feedback on this new feature as we work closer to the release of patch 1.0.9.
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MrMonstrosity posted a message on Patch 1.0.9 Preview, a dream...Patch 1.0.9 PreviewPosted in: Diablo III General Discussion
Well, we just recently launched patch 1.0.8 but we're already well into development on 1.0.9, and while it's still weeks away we're going to start hitting you fast and furious with blogs aimed at explaining the upcoming changes. The next patch is going to be the biggest patch we’ve developed to date and most certainly provide the most features and systems changes. To kick things off, I wanted to provide an overview of some of the larger features, systems changes and game improvements.
Introducing the Trading Post
When we first started working on the Auction House the initial idea was to make a system that was easy to use and as efficient as possible for players to buy and sell gear. The end result was a system that was almost too efficient at what it did and removed all player interaction completely from the process.
We want to get back to the roots of what made Diablo II trading so popular over the years, but at the same time also improve it by taking what works rather well with Diablo III's Auction House to enhance it. In patch 1.0.9 we'll be removing the Auction House and introducing the Trading Post. The Trading Post works in a similar fashion to the Auction House in terms of its search functions and interface but with some key differences. Gold will no longer be used as the currency when it comes to buying items, instead you'll be trading the items you collect through your adventures with other players. You'll be able to use an interface to select which items you have for trade and also search for items other players across your region have for trade.
The Trading Post will offer an easy to use interface to make the trade process simple:- Choose the items you wish to trade.
- Search what others have to offer or the offers you receive.
- Accept offers through the interface without needing to be in game.
- Ability to barter back and forth with other players.
Here's an example of how a trade might work:
Player A just finished his play session for the night and has a sword that he wants to trade. He opens up the Trading Post interface and adds the sword he just found to his trade window and then logs off for the night.
Player B is searching for a new sword for his Barbarian and uses the search filter to find one that matches the criteria he's looking for, he sees the sword that Player A just posted. Player B selects the items he feels he'd be willing to part with from the items he has for trade and creates an offer.
Player A logs in the next day and finds he's received many offers for the sword he'd posted the night earlier. Player A goes through a couple of the individual offers but decides to use the search feature instead to filter the offers to help find a specific item he's interested in. Player A finds the offer Player B has sent, likes the item, feels it's fair trade, and clicks approve.
The items are traded to each players account.
The removal of the AH also means the removal of the Real Money Auction House. Many players refer to the RMAH as a “Pay to Win” feature, that wasn’t our original intent but in reality it does hold true in many scenarios and we feel it really is removing the enjoyment out of actually playing the game for a majority of our players. It will no longer be possible to purchase items using real currency, however we still have plans to offer the option to buy and sell gold. Gold will still remain as the main currency in the game but instead of being the sole currency will be used in combination with other in game items.
We’re also exploring the idea of drastically reducing the amount of gold dropped from normal monsters. We’d like the main source of gold to be from killing bosses, elites and champions, opening chests, and completing side dungeons. This should result in the value of gold to increase as we add in new features that rely on gold and also act as an extra step to combat gold sellers and bots. We'll provide some more details on this further down in our blog entry and will also be sharing more information in the near future.
Crafting
To salvage, or not to salvage…
We’ve introduced 7 new Brimstones to the game, each corresponding to one of the 7 types of available weapon damage. Salvaging a weapon with a specific type of weapon damage whether it be Holy Damage, Cold Damage, Fire Damage, Lightning Damage, Arcane Damage, or Poison Damage will have a chance to produce one of the new Brimstones. Salvaging a legendary Physical Damage weapon or a legendary armor piece will also produce a new type of Brimstone. Salvaging jewelry will provide a chance to receive any of the new Brimstones.
Salvaging legendary Lightning Damage weapons and jewelry will sometimes produce a Charged Brimstone.
Salvaging legendary Poison Damage weapons and jewelry will sometimes produce a Toxic Brimstone.
Salvaging legendary Cold Damage weapons and jewelry will sometimes produce an Icy Brimstone.
Salvaging legendary Fire Damage weapons and jewelry will sometimes produce a Fiery Brimstone.
Salvaging legendary Arcane Damage weapons and jewelry will sometimes produce an Arcanic Brimstone.
Salvaging legendary Holy Damage weapons and jewelry will sometimes produce an Angelic Brimstone.
Salvaging legendary Physical Damage weapons and armor will sometimes produce a Somatic Brimstone.
These new Brimstones are not a 100% guaranteed when salvaging legendary items, but rather will only a small 5-10% chance to be produced. While you may not receive a Brimstone every time you salvage an item, we’ll also be making a type of “consolation” item which can be sold to a vendor for a significant amount of gold. This should create a market not only for the Brimstone’s themselves, but the legendary items that produce them. We want you to be faced with a difficult choice when you find a legendary item, do you keep the item, trade the item away, or salvage the item for hopes of a Brimstone?
These new Brimstones will be the key ingredients used to craft the newly updated Blacksmith and Jeweler items which are also being introduced with patch 1.0.9.
A New Ally
Patch 1.0.9. not only updates the current crafting system for the Blacksmith and Jeweler but will also introduce a third type of craft. We’re introducing the Mystic, Myriam Jahzia, who was first introduced during beta. The Mystic’s primary purpose will be enchanting items which will include the upgrading of existing stats on items and also the re-rolling of the randomly generated properties found on an items.
The Mystic will require significant amounts of gold and combinations of the newly introduced Brimstones in order to purchase her services, further strengthening the market value of legendary items and gold.
The point of the mystic is to offer players a new way to improve their characters in terms of item progression as they play the game instead of relying solely on finding drops. Now all legendary drops, no matter if the item is an upgrade or not, can potentially be used to upgrade your character. We think this system offers players fantastic item progression and will allow all players including some of the top geared players in the world to continue upgrading their gear for a very long time.
We haven’t decided on the costs associated with upgrading each of the many different stats yet but we do know they will vary from stat to stat. We expect stats such as Increased Attack speed, Critical Hit Chance, and Critical Hit Damage to fall into one category, primary stats in another, and so on. We don’t expect unique procs or unique properties found on legendary items to be included with this feature. Expect this to broken down into a different blog post all together in the coming weeks.
We would also like to point out that by using the Mystic to enchant items the item itself will also become Account Bound. This will ensure items are constantly being removed from the economy as they’re upgraded and still allow non-enchanted items with desirable properties or highly rolled stats to have a high trade value and continue to be sought after as they will help players skip some of the steps necessary to eventually upgrade to a “perfect item”. We don’t expect players to ever be able to fully upgrade every item on their character or even be required to, but it’s something the min/maxing type players can strive for over time.
The Mystic will also offer unique potions and elixirs that can’t be purchased or found anywhere else in the game. These items can be purchased with gold and brimstones and when used will give the player bonuses to stats such as Magic Find, Experience Gained, and Movement Speed, for a limited amount of time. Think of them as a Shrine that persists through death and lasts much longer.
Truly Legendary Items 1.0.9 and Beyond
We want to make “game-changing” legendary items the norm going forward. Our philosophy for legendary items has always been the same, to be powerful and promote build diversity. We know we haven’t been able to deliver on this fully up to this point, but with patch 1.0.9 we think we’ve finally been able to make this reality. When a player finds a legendary or set item the first thing they should be thinking is how can they use this item on one of their characters or how it might fit into a specific build.
Class specific items
We feel the one of the best ways make legendary items truly game changing is to allow certain items to alter the way specific class skills and passives work. While we can’t obviously give every single legendary item the ability to alter skills and runes we chose to focus only on class-specific items and set bonuses. This made the most sense in terms of design, we could take an item that was already exclusive to one class and use it to provide new and interesting ways of playing that class.
Patch 1.0.9 introduces revamped class-specific items and set bonuses that provide unique alterations to already existing skills and passives. The most intriguing idea behind this concept is going forward we’ll be able to constantly open up new and exciting builds for each class as new items are introduced to the game. With the introduction of one new item or even mixing different items an entire build could be born. This will truly allow new builds to be built around items.
Legendary status
We're not just updating class specific items in patch 1.0.9. We're going to revisit all legendary items to make sure they live up to their legendary status by not only providing great stats but also providing unique properties that will change a players game experience. While class-specific items will change the way skills and runes work for classes, we still want to make sure non-class specific legendary items also have an impact on build diversity. We decided to go a little bit of a different route with non-class specific items. Rather than focusing on individual class skills and passives, these items will introduce new unique properties that might change a players gameplay or change the way specific stats interact with a character. By doing this we can take a non desirable stat and change it into something a specific build highly values when using one new item. We plan on releasing a entire blog post dedicated to this topic in the next few days but here's a taste of the type of things we'll be talking about.
Itemization
In addition to the upcoming legendary items we're going to be reworking the way elemental damage and physical damage work with weapons. Weapon damage including the base damage of the item will roll either as Holy, Cold, Poison, Fire, Arcane, Lightning, or Physical weapon. By doing this we can use the "adds % elemental damage" affix found on many of the legendary items in the game to provide a direct damage boost to weapons that also have the corresponding damage type.
For example, if you have a sword that has a damage range of 700-1000 Fire Damage and you equip an item with the property "Adds 5% Fire Damage", the new damage range of the sword will be 735-1050 Fire Damage. This not only provides a simple way of calculating damage but also provides an interesting way to combine weapons and armor.
We'll also be including more information in the next coming days in addition to the blog post regarding legendary items.
Promoting Exploration and Adding Excitement
You call that a dungeon? This is a dungeon!
Many ideas have been discussed by our developers in terms of how we can constantly add exploration back to game after the initial play through for our players. There’s nothing that saddens us more than seeing 90% population running the same act or in many cases the same zone over and over knowing that if they do anything different they’re hindering efficiency in both terms of items and experience gained. While repetition has always been part of the Diablo series we feel this can be cut down substantially. You’ve already seen improvements when it comes to giving players options in regards to this when we adjusted the monster density in patch 1.0.8, we’d like to go a bit further.
In 1.0.9 we’ll be improving on the randomly generated side dungeons found in all acts across the game in Inferno difficulty. We’ve created new tiles for almost every zone across all 4 Acts which will allow spawn locations to be found in every part of the game. An entrance in the wall found in the Cathedral, a burrow found the in Dahlgur Oasis, many different possibilities exist. We’ll also be taking a look at every aspect of them to truly make them a random experience. Things such as:- Increasing the amount of spawn locations substantially in terms of both Acts and where they can spawn in each zone.
- The difficulty, dungeons can be found with additional monster power levels above the current game.
- Dungeon size, number of levels, the layout, and tile sets.
- The type of monsters
- The “end boss(s)”, which includes a random elite/champion pack which is buffed considerably
Of course there needs to be an incentive to search out for these improved dungeons, which is why we’ve created them to provide a fairly substantial buff in terms of experience gained from the monsters inside and also completing the entire dungeon. We’ve also decided to add a new type of chest found exclusively inside these randomly spawned dungeons which not only provides a much higher than average chance to drop legendary items but also provides a small chance to find items of immense power that can’t be found anywhere else.
We think by adding these new features it will promote exploration across all acts and provide a much needed type of end game experience for our players which doesn’t take away from Diablo III’s storyline.
Beam me up...
One of the most exciting events in regular play session is hearing that special “clang” legendary items make and seeing that beam of light coming from the pile of corpses at your feet. Over the past patches we’ve increased the chance of finding these items and we really think they are in a very good place in terms of drop rates. While RNG is still a huge factor when it comes to the amount of legendary items you see drop in a play session we still wanted a way to add to the excitement without actually increasing the drop rates any further. We think we’ve found an artificial solution that does just that.
Now when playing with your friends or other players in public games you’ll be able to see and hear all legendary and set items that drop in game, even if they aren’t yours for the taking.
We’ve received very positive feedback on the elite/champion and goblin announcement introduced in patch 1.0.8, so much that we’ve decided to extend it to also include an announcement when players identify legendary items. Now through your chat window you’ll be able to see and view the items your friends and party find during their play session. Obviously this won’t be taken positively by all players so we’ve also added the option to hide or display these messages from chat.
In Conclusion
We’re very excited to share this new patch with you and gather your feedback. This patch will be our biggest one to date and we think it adds to Diablo III immensely in terms of fun game play and longevity. We defiantly aren’t done yet when it comes to improving the game and we’ll work hard to provide our player base with many features to come.
Be sure to check out the new information on Dungeons, which can be found here: http://www.diablofans.com/topic/92538-patch-109-dungeons-a-dream/
And then I woke up from my dream and came to the realization that we were still only in Patch 1.0.7...
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OneTwoSC posted a message on New Battle.net MockupEDIT: Scroll down for V2 and V3.Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion
EDIT 2: JUST added V4 down below.
I'm no designer but I thought it would be fun to shuffle stuff around and see how a new D3 bnet (once you logged in) could look... I tried to go off of Diablo 2's Bnet.
V1:
The chat itself could probably have tabs or whatnot. Also, I imagined that when you join a party or create one, the little 'avatar lineup' at the bottom would switch to your party's avatars (since there isn't much room behind your guy anymore lol). Then you could use the tiny arrow button next to "Monk Chat (1)" (which would say "Party") to switch back to avatars in the chat channel.
Also not really sure what "Leave Chat" would do... maybe or maybe not downsizes chat window, but it would take you out of the channel, leaving you to still type to friends/party.
V2.0:
V3.0:
1920x1080 social open:
1920x1080 social closed:
1280x1024 "Non widescreen":
V4 (minor shoutout to Sixen for help!)
V4 with possible Public games (Just added December 2012)
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Battle.net EU Forum Thread: http://eu.battle.net...opic/7527573396 highly rated
Reddit: http://www.reddit.co...stic_pt1_seals/
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Hi everyone,
before I start I want to apologize for my English. I hope you can understand it!
You might remember me for this thread.
This time I want to show you two ways I thought to make the mystic an artisan with original (I hope) mechanics.
This is the first part while the second one will come in the future (aka soon™).
It's a VERY VERY long read so I will put a TLDR version at the end of the whole post, but if you have some free time, please take a while and lis... read my idea
Like if you like!
PART 1: SEALS - BASE CONCEPT
What are the seals?
Seals are new droppable items that will allow the player to enchant any white item.
What is it that makes them different from the blacksmith's crafts and from a "similar-Diablo2-enchantment" implementation?
The difference is that with this system the player can choose which magic properties can be enchanted on the item.
Of course the choice remains random in some way (more on this later).
It doesn't seem a great idea... is there something that makes it cool?
Of course! It's been quite a while since I thought that Diablo 3 has a lot of potential in terms of character customization but mechanics like the ability to place statistics or the skill tree (that I really loved) that were a fundamental part of Diablo2 both for customization and replayability were cut from Diablo 3.
But it is also true that there are people who didn't like those mechanics so:
how to create another way to customize your character?
This is where my idea kicks in: seals can level up by capturing the souls (gain experience) of slayed monsters.
On every level they can be infused with different magic properties chosen by the player (these properties are the ones that will be enchanted on the item).
However, this wouldn't have been enough to make this idea looking great... maybe it would've just made it more frustrating.
So why not create a similar mechanic that players miss a lot, like Diablo 2 runes?
That's why I thought that if the player chooses the right combinations of skills (magic properties) to infuse into the seal he can unlock the secret properties of the seal itself.
But still, this was not enough for this feature because probably it would've been too easy to create the perfect seal so I had to think of two ways to make everything more hard:
1 - adding "breakibility" to the seal: on every level up and on every skill infusion ("skill infusion" is refered to the action of the player when he chooses a magic property to infuse into the seal) there is a 5% chance that the seal will break.
2 - adding another mechanic: the purification of the seal
What is the purification of the seal?
If the player reaches a point where the percentage of "breakability" is high he can decide to use the seal for an enchant so he can avoid to break it prematurely.
To be able to use the seal the player has to purify it by freeing and destroying the evil souls trapped into it.
Basically when the evil souls are free, the seal will disappear from the altar (more on this later) and some elite monsters will appear.
These monsters will be as powerful as the seal was.
Once the player has killed every monster of that elite pack, the last one killed will drop the seal in its purified form.
The purified seal allows the player to enchant a white item (more on this on the fourth part).
Elite monsters can also appear when the seal breaks prematurely, so it is important to handle these new items with care!
Another very important thing: if the player is not able to kill the spawned elite monsters the seal is lost forever!
So the player has to be careful to not make the evil souls too powerful!
Note: Purified seals cannot be traded
Are there different types of seal?
Yes:
- Seal of valor: can enchant one-handed weapons
- Seal of power: can enchant two-handed weapons
- Seal of will: can enchant armor items
- Seal of honor: can enchant jewels (white jewels? why not? maybe crafted by the jeweler)
- Seal of the Nephalem: can enchant class items
Seals are also divided based on the maximum level they can reach (e.g. the "Austere seal of valor" can reach only level 2 while the "Pure seal of valor" can reach level 3 and so on - note: the maximum level limit is 10) and based on their quality (magic, rare or legendary).
PART 2: SEALS - SKILL CHOICE AND INFUSION
In this part I will show you the first images of the new seal interface.
Here's the first one:
and here's the tutorial:
Let's see what happens if the player puts a seal into the altar:
As you can see the player chose a seal of valor and you can also notice that the quantity of souls needed for the seal to level up is 50.
The next image will show you the tutorial that appears when the seal reaches level 1:
See how the "breakability" percentage has increased to 5%.
This means that on the next level up or on the next skill infusion, the seal has a 5% chance to break.
At this point the player has just to click on the button "1 unused seal skill point" to open the window where he can choose which skill he would like to infuse into the seal:
This image shows you how the choice of a skill is made.
The player can choose one of two skills randomly chosen from a pool of many others.
Skills are divided between Primary and Secondary skills which can have other "secondary skills" called Traits.
Primary skills are infused into the first globe of every row of globes and they will determine what type of properties the seal will have.
Secondary abilities instead will improve or add effects that will "ensue" the characterization of Primary skills (I hope "ensue" makes sense).
Let's make an example based on the image above.
Cold Power will add cold damage to the item while:
- Freeze will add a chance to freeze the enemies
- Frozen Hell will additionally increase the cold damage done by Cold Power
- Blizzard will allow the player to use the Blizzard spell of the wizard (this affix doesn't exist at the moment but I think that the implementation of this idea would need a game with a larger pool of affixes and where an item can have more than just six affixes).
As you can see from the example above you can notice that the Primary skill determine the main "element" (in this case it's the cold damage) while Secondary skills just "ensue" it (I hope "ensue" makes sense here as well).
Anyway here's the tutorial that clears out any doubt you might still have:
This tutorial gives you another important information: the right combinations of skills allows you to unlock other primary or secondary skills so in the "list" of Secondary skills and Traits it won't appear any "Hidden" skill (which can be either Primary, Secondary or a Trait) because it is up to the player to discover "what skill unlocks skill X or Y or Z".
The player will have to choose from Fire Power or Cold Power and in our case he will choose Cold Power:
You can see how the Monster Power has increased and how it is based on the Primary skill (Primary skills will also determine the monster power).
Keep in mind that the seal breakability increases with a skill infusion as well infact it is now at 10% while previously was only 5%.
Let's see what happens at level 2:
This level activated two globes: one for another Primary skill and one for a Secondary skill so the player's choice for the next skill infusion can be made on two Secondary skills, two Primary skills or one Primary skill and one Secondary skill.
Have a look again on the seal breakability percentage.
On this next image you can see that the player has chosen another Primary skill:
and on the next level the altar will appear like this:
But let's take a step back: what would have happened if the player's choice was a Secondary ability instead of another Primary ability?
Here's the answer:
and the tutorial:
and level 3:
But let's take another step back and let's see which were the skill choices when the player decided to infuse "Freeze":
In the image above you can see that the Freeze skill has no Traits while Blizzard has. In this case the Traits of Blizzard would influence Blizzard of course, making it stronger by adding or improving its effects (e.g. a trait could add the effect of a Blizzard rune).
This time let's take a step forward instead and let's pretend that the seal has just reached level 4 and that the player has laready infused both Freeze and Blood Bath.
The player decides to infuse the next skill and:
But didn't Freeze have no traits? So how is it that possible?
Frozen Explosion is a Trait of Freeze and the infusion of both Freeze and Blood Bath unlocked it.
Frozen Explosion is infact a Hidden skill!
Hidden skills are a fundamental part of this idea and they will lead us to the next part but before we procced I want to try to be even more clearer on how this whole system works.
Basically this idea was inspired by one of my favorite games series: Heroes of Might and Magic.
If you never played any of them you might not be able to understand what I mean, but the ones familiar with the series will understand for sure.
I took the mechanic of the hero's level up (mostly from heroes 5) and just modified it a bit to be "Diablo-like".
Before we get to the next part I will show you one last image that might clears everything out (those of you familiar with Heroes of Might and Magic 5 might recognize it even if it is modified):
Don't look at the icons (they're just examples) but at the "sense" of the image.
I hope this helps to make everything clear on how my idea works.
PART 3: SEALS - HEROIC SKILL
This part explains how to unlock the "secret skill" of a seal with the right combinations of skills.
As I wrote above, the player doesn't know in advance how to unlock a secret skill.
However, it is possible to know what skills can unlock the Heroic Skill (this can be changed if it's too easy to unlock it).
What is the Heroic Skill?
I'm sure many of you noticed the big globe that is "alone". That globe is where the Heroic Skill will be infused.
Every Heroic Skill will give different magic properties depending on the type of seal and on the combinations of skills.
How do you unlock the Heroic Skill?
You just have to make the right decisions when you will infuse a skill.
But let's have a look on a first image:
You can notice that there is a "light" around the first globe: it means that the player is on the right way to unlock the Heroic Skill.
Let's skip to a higher level and let's pretend that the player infused the right skills to unlock the Heroic Skill:
and the tutorial:
and now with the Heroic Skill already infused:
Notice the green colored bonuses. Those are the Heroic skill magic properties!
The image above represents a case where everything went well (perfect skill choices and very lucky randomness), but in most cases the player will have to "wait" before having the chance to infuse the Heroic Skill because as I wrote earlier skills are randomly chosen from a pool of many of them.
In the image below you can see that the player had to wait until the max level to be able to infuse the Heroic Skill:
The player is also allowed to keep infusing skills even after the infusion of the Heroic Skill to make the seal more powerful but if he decides to do so he knows that the seal might break.
You can notice this with two images I showed you: a level 6 seal breakability is much lower than a level 10 but also their "power" is much different.
NOTE
I already explained this earlier but to make it clear I will explain this again:
in the images the level 10 seal breakability is 100% because the last skill has already been infused.
A level 10 seal with one seal skill point still remaining has a 95% breakability: this means that with the last skill infusion the player has a 95% chance to break the seal and if the infusion is successful the breakability percentage reaches 100% (the max level limit is 10 so with this last successful infusion the player does no longer have the risk to break the seal)
Let's have a look on the last two images before proceeding to the next part:
PART 4: MYSTIC - ENCHANTMENT
Once the player has purified the seal he cannot enchant a white item alone: he needs the help of the mystic.
To enchant an item you just need materials and gold.
Let's see a first image of the user interface:
As you can see there are two "slots": in one the player has to put the white item and in the other he has to put the right purified seal (seal of valor for one-handed weapons, seal of the nephalem for class-items etc).
There is also an "Item Statistics" panel where the player can see what magic properties the item will gain.
Here's an image of how the enchantment works:
The player just needs the required materials and gold and the enchantment will happen.
PART 5: MYSTIC - UPGRADE OF A SEAL
Seals can be upgraded and this allows the player to increase the maximum level limit a seal can reach.
This means that if the player wants a level 10 seal (which is the maximum level limit cap) he needs the help of the mystic (droppable seals reaches a maximum level of 6 in Inferno difficulty).
Here's two images on how the user interface will look like:
As you can see you can upgrade magic and rare seals (legendary too).
Higher level and legendary upgrades are droppable recipes of course.
On the image below you can see what the player needs to upgrade a "Seal of Will" (max level 1) into an "Austere Seal of Will" (max level 2).
You can now understand how important is the role of the mystic.
We will now have a look on the tooltip of a seal:
Let's explain its characteristics in detail:
you can notice that this is a rare seal and that it has a "Sacred power".
"Sacred Power" is just an indication to know what it is its maximum level.
However, you don't need to remember every single "power" to know what it is its maximum level because just below that there is this writing: "Level 5".
So this seal can reach level 5 at maximum.
If the player wants to increase its level cap he needs the mystic and the "upgrade operation" won't modify its magic properties in any way (except the level cap of course).
Speaking of magic properties you can see that this seal have two of them:
- Chance to break the seal recuded by 20%
- Monster power is reduced by 25%
This means that the seal has less chances to be broken and that the power of the monsters is reduced by 20% when they are released.
There are many more magic properties of course:
- Seal can be reused (only on a legendary seal)
- Indestructible (only on a legendary seal)
- Infused Skills power is increased by 5% per seal level
- Maximum level is 15 (on a legendary seal with reduced seal breakability and with the magic property above)
- Elemental skills power is increased by 10%
- Monster power is increased by 10% (yes, there are also negative magic properties!)
etc etc.
I also thought to give the Mystic the ability to also craft seals other than just upgrade them.
PART 6: CONCLUSION
I think that this idea will add a great amount of longevity to the game and a different "style" of enchantment.
I believe that if a player wants to create the perfect seal he needs to farm a lot but I hope that this doesn't lead to more frustration:
if the creation of Heroic Seals was almost impossible to do this idea would just need some adjustments like increasing the skill infusion choice from only two skills to three.
I know that to implement all of this the game would need a major overhaul but maybe the devs can take this idea to create a much more enjoyable and deeper-depth game.
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Edit - Note
I'm not a fan myself of "break things" mostly if you have worked so hard to obtain those things.
As I wrote in a post on reddit I couldn't come up with anything else other than this "breakability" and I think that some features needs some downsides to make the game less linear.
Of course the "breakability" can be removed and changed to something else so that's why I'm writing here a couple of alternatives
Diablo (EU - EN):
instead of adding more seal breakability, with every seal lvl, it should add the chance of decreasing the seal of 1 seal lvl, so it would not get destroyed, but just lose one lvl. bcs it would be really annoying and propably really hard otherwise to get a lvl 10 seal.
CrniVuk (US - EN):
instead of "breaking" it in a way that it dissapears let the Seal simply be dissabled unless you can repair it again with some other specific item/seal/what ever.
That way the progress you worked for months doesnt just dissapear, and you encourage players to get out there and do something against it.
This could also work as a gold sink, as the Mystic has to repair it for you of course.
There can be other alternatives of course, just remember that this is a base idea that can be used by the devs.. so anything can be changed to be less complex / frustrating etc. It needs hard testing.
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This is all and I will leave you with two last images of the new UI (TLDR version after the images):
TLDR version:
Added a new droppable item: seals.
Seals are livellable items that must be purified (you have to kill the evil souls inside it) to make them able to enchant a white item (the enchantment requires the help of the mystic).
The magic properties infused into the seal can be choosen by the player in a random way (much like Heroes of Might and Magic 3/4/5) with the seal skill points that are earned through the levels of the seal.
The mystic will also increase the maximum level limit that a seal can reach.
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Thank you and thanks everyone for kind words.
I've read some comments on Reddit as well and while I agree with the people who says that these two ideas might be too much complicated for the Diablo3 player base I think that something must be done.
As I wrote at the start of the post these are just a couple of ideas that the developpers can use as base for something new and different.
If ever implemented I don't expect these features to stay the same I thought them, but I'm expecting them to give some nice ideas to developpers. That's all
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Link to U.S. Forums Thread: http://us.battle.net...opic/8156055717 highly rated
Link to EU English Forums Thread: http://eu.battle.net...opic/6787929710 highly rated
Link to EU Poland Forums Thread: http://eu.battle.net...opic/6891639245 highly rated
Link to Reddit discussion: http://www.reddit.co...nd_the_burning/ highly rated
And “like”... if you like (on the official forum threads and reddit too if you'd like of course)
Thanks everyone for the very positive feedback. It's much appreciated!
I'm glad that so many people liked the suggestions!
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Hi everyone,
I wanted to send an e-mail directly to the developpers but it seems that they don't have a direct way to give them feedback (the only one I could find was this: wowcmfeedback@blizzard.com but it seems it refers only to the feedback on CMs, MPVs etc. - and anyway the files in .pdf are too big to be sent to them ).
So the only way to do it it's by using the forums so I will write my ideas here.
I'm sorry about the very long read BUT this is my feedback and it was intented to be read by the developpers, so if you don't want to read it, just stop here.
(remember that these are just simple ideas that the developpers can take as base to create something new and improve the game)
Here's the e-mail:
Hi,
I'm Edriel, an italian Diablo 3 player.
Firstly I want to apologise if my English is not very good, I'm really trying to write in the most clearer way I can but I don't know if I will succeed.
Since the launch of the game I felt that this chapter of the Diablo series could be very successful.
However I don't think that in its current state it can become a masterpiece.
With that in mind I started to make many suggestions on the Italian Forum and after a while quite a few people who were excited about my ideas suggested me to personally send you my feedback.
So that's why I'm writing you this e-mail.
I hope you will enjoy the two ideas I translated for you, because it took quite a while to do it
P.S. I posted the Talisman idea in September so it might feel a bit “old”.
P.P.S. I hope you can answer me, even just a “we received your feedback and we appreciate it would be nice”
Sincerely
Edriel
an italian fan of the Diablo series
FIRST SUGGESTION - REINTRODUCTION OF THE TALISMAN
➢ BASE CONCEPT
This idea is ment to improve 2 important aspects of the game that currently, in my opinion, are lackluster:
1. Longevity
2. Paragon Level design
I imagined something that is not far from the philosophy of the Diablo series and something that I really loved in other games: the souls.
The Talisman will be a special container that will allow the player to capture the souls of defeated enemies.
As you can see from the image the Talisman will feature 5 minor globes and a supreme globe of souls.
In the 5 minor globes the player will trap the souls of lesser demons (normal monsters or Elite monsters – the quantity of souls needed to full the globes depends on balance of course and on the talisman type. So the player can have “situations” where he/she needs just one Elite monster to fill completly the globe, “situations” where the quantity depends on how many times the player used the Talisman or “situations” where he/she needs a mix of normal and Elite monsters' souls and in this last case Elite souls would fill more the globe) while in the Supreme Globe the player can capture the soul of a Boss.
Every minor globe of souls will activate its own effect based on the type of Talisman that I will show you time to time.
When all the minor globes are full, the player is allowed to capture the soul of a boss that will increase or add other effects.
In addition everytime the players starts a new game session all globes are empty.
➢ TALISMAN OF THE NEPHALEM
This idea could replace the current mechanic of the Nephalem Valor by inherently including it into the Talisman.
The idea can also be “expanded”. But how? In this way:
This is the Talisman of the Nephalem.
As you can see there are various effects: +1 Artisan Item, +1 Follower Item etc.
These effects will unlock everytime the relative minor globe is full, but the effects (or bonus items in the case of this type of Talisman) are not cumulative so, for example, if the player has both the first and the second globes full, only the second effect will be applied.
With this Talisman the player needs just one Elite monster to fill completly a single minor globe and the effects will be applied only on Elite monsters kills and Boss kills.
Once all 5 minor globes are full, as I wrote above, the player can capture the soul of a Boss.
This soul will grant him/her the chance to have all the effects active, but when he/she kills another boss or when he/she kills an Elite monster and the “Talisman procs”, all souls will be lost.
Why did I wrote “Talisman procs”? Because if you did see there is a “chance to find 1%”.
What does that mean? It means that the chance to find bonus items is only of 1%.
Don't worry about that percentage because it refers to a Paragon Level 1 character: the percentage is equal to the Paragon Level of the character.
If the player kills another boss, instead, the chance is always set to 100%.
In this next image you can see the tutorial that might clear any doubt you could still have:
In this other image you can see that the player has a 1% chance to find an extra gem on the next kill of an Elite monster (or Boss):
This last image shows you how the Talisman will look like when all the globes are full:
➢ TALISMAN OF ENCHANTMENT
I feel that the lack of a quest that makes you enchant an item is very sad, so I thought a way to allow the Talisman to enchant items.
My initial thought was that this system should have had a mechanic based completly on the “harvest” of souls so without the need to add new droppable items and with a completly random enchantment.
However I feel that the introduction of new droppable items would fit much more the philosophy that the
developpers wanted for Diablo3.
These new items are the Soulstones and they will have one magic property each (except one particular soulstone of which I will write later)
This image represent the Talisman of Enchantment.
To explain how it works here's another image:
As you can see even in this case there is a sinergy between the Talisman and the Paragon Levels: the higher is the player's character Paragon Level the more powerful are the magic properties.
Let's have a look now at how a Soulstone looks like:
This is the particular Soulstone I wrote about earlier.
It will have always a primary statistic and a relative magic property of the class that uses that statistic.
For example the “Soulstone of Virtue” grants Dexterity and:
– Spirit Regeneration
or
– Life points per Spirit points spent
All other Soulstones will have their magic properties and their relative values completly random.
Let's have a look on how this Talisman works (make sure you check the Paragon Levels everytime):
Last but not least, the image that shows you how a full-globe-talisman looks like:
The soul of the Boss, as you have seen from the images, will give you a random number of sockets.
Anyway, this idea can be replaced with, maybe, a better one that allows the soul of the Boss to add a random magic property instead of the sockets.
Note: This Talisman idea can be used to craft new and powerful rings and amulets as well!
➢ TALISMAN OF SKILLS
This type of Talisman will allow the player to improve his/her abilities.
Let's see how it looks:
With this Talisman, whenever the player starts a new game session, the globes won't become empty.
The quantity of souls the player captured will be saved so the player's efforts won't be wasted, because every talent point the player gains makes the next Talisman “refill” longer.
To prevent that a player becomes too powerful, there can be a maximum number of talent points a player can gain.
To learn how this Talisman works I will show you an image:
Like every other Talisman I showed you, even this one has a sinergy with Paragon Levels.
The last image represent the Talisman when it has all its globes full:
➢ TALISMAN OF ABILITIES
This Talisman allows the player to benefit from various temporary buffs chosen by the player himself/herself.
Every 10 Paragon Levels a globe will unlock (in this Talisman there is another type of globe – the globles of temporary buffs - where the player can “put” the chosen buff) and it will allow the player to benefit both a longer duration of the buff and a “major quantity” of buffs at once.
Every globe has a duration of 5 minutes (hypothetical duration).
However, the 10th Paragon Level is an exception because the player will unlock not one, but two globes.
Anyway here's a first image to understand better what I've just written:
Now another image that shows you how the Talisman works:
In this case the temporary buff has already been chosen. To choose a temporary buff the player has just to click on the globe of temporary buffs. Once he/she clicked on it a window will open: this window is much like the window that allows the player to choose his/her passive abilities (just to let you know how it looks like).
From the image you can also understand that the temporary buff is already active because the minor globe linked to it is full.
Let's skip to level 20:
At level 20 a second minor globe of souls will unlock. This will allow the player to benefit from temporary buffs for another 5 minutes, but he/she must pay attention because the minor globes are not cumulative.
This means that the duration is just refreshed and it won't stack so the maximum duration is always 5 minutes.
At Paragon Level 30:
In this last image the player has just filled the second minor globe of souls.
This will grant him/her another temporary buff for another 5 minutes since the duration has just been refreshed by the second minor globe.
Just to make it clear: temporary buffs stacks with each other so in this case the player benefits of both temporary buffs.
What happens at Paragon Level 100?
This image explains that when the player captures the soul of a Boss, he/she can benefit of all the temporary buffs for a maximum duration of 30 minutes (or until he/she kills another Boss) with doubled effects!
Isn't there a negative aspect?
Yes and no: it's true that the supreme globe of souls makes the player very powerful, but the downside is that he/she must kill a boss within 5 minutes from when he/she filled the last minor globe.
This is the Talisman at full power:
Note - Temporary buffs can be various: e.g. +10% armor, when you drink a healing potion you gain 50 points of Fury etc, +5% movement speed etc.
➢ TALISMAN OF PORTALS
This Talisman has the simple function to capture souls. Once enough souls are captured the player can decide to release them to open a portal that leads to the Burning Hells.
The monsters that the player will find inside the portal will be stronger the higher the Paragon Level is.
Here's an image to explain how it works:
Here's an image of the new UI:
➢ THE TALISMAN
All these Talismans are separated ideas, but I thought that it would be awesome if all of them could be implemented into the game:
By clicking on the icons, the player can choose which Talisman he/she wants to use, so the Talisman itself will change its functionalities based on the player's choice.
The function of the Talisman can be changed any number of times within a game session but everytime the player changes a type of Talisman for another all souls will be released.
The Talisman of skills is no exception, but the bonuses the player receives from the skill points (the ones that are already allocated) will continue to be granted to him/her even if the Talisman is set to another type.
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P.S. You can check the animated gifs of the talismans of portals and abilities at these links (but the words are in
italian sorry):
Portals: http://imageshack.us...minatoevoc.gif/
Abilities: http://imageshack.us...itaanimato.gif/
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SECOND SUGGESTION – THE BURNING HELLS PORTALS
➢ BASE CONCEPT
This idea might be similar to the Talisman of Portals one, but I can assure that its philosophy is completly different.
After you defeat Diablo in Inferno difficulty the player will find out that there are still many Burning Hells Portals active throughout all Sanctury! The player's mission is to seal all of them.
To start the “sealing operation” the player has to talk with the Caravan Leader in any act.
The NPC will show the player the map of Sanctuary where he/she can see where the portals are.
After the player has chosen which portal to seal, he/she will start a quest that will be different everytime: mission rewards, objectives, treasures, bonuses etc. will be different from mission to mission (except a particular one,called “Enigma” where the objective is always the same – more on this later).
The tooltip of a mission looks like this:
● Mission Type
▪ Objectives
● Enemies in the area
▪ Resistances, abilities, damage, etc of the enemies
● Rewards based on the Mission Type
▪ Quantity or type of reward
● Description of the mission
The Description of the mission will be the only thing that has a fixed “pre-set” since the number of mission types is limited to three (the number is just the number of mission types I could thought about, but the number can increases depending on the feedback received).
It might sound a bit complicated now, but I can assure you that it's a very simple idea and with the help of some images everything is going to be much clearer.
Once the player has accepted the mission, he/she will get teleported to the area where the portal is and we can start the “sealing operations”. When the quest is completed the player can get his/her rewards.
➢ MISSIONS
Let's have a look at the map:
In this map the player can see where the portals are.
In every game session the position of the portals changes but the total number of them is always 10 (hypothetical number).
Let's have a look:
Note the different positions of the portals between the two images.
At this point the player has just to choose what portal he/she wants to seal so he/she will mouse-over over one and:
Let's analize the tooltip:
Mission: Assault
The mission type Assault is one of the three different mission types.
Assault indicates a mission where the player has more than one objective (objectives are random – I wrote about this earlier) and he/she must do them in a precise order. For every objective the player completes he/she will get a reward (more on this later).
Monsters
This point indicates which monsters the player has to fight against when he reaches that area.
In addition the player will know what the resistances, the abilities, the weakness etc. of the monsters are going to be.
Note: I thought that the resistances and the weaknesses of the monsters could be a fixed number (like 50%) and that only their damage increase could be random.
Another nice idea would be that the resistances of the monsters scale with Monster Power (MP0 = 5% resistance, MP1 =10% resistance... MP10 = immunity and no weaknesses ---> of couse the immunities cannot be to all elements...)
I thought it would be nice to reintroduce the resistances (even if it goes against developpers' will) mostly to give a sense to the elemental damage types.
In addition the player knows before the battle what type of resistances/weaknesses the mosters will have, so he/she can prepare better himself/herself with another type of weapon and/or another build etc.
Objective Rewards
Everytime the player completes an objective he/she will receive the rewards that are listed in this point.
Mission Rewards
When the players completes the mission he/she will get the rewards listed here.
Note: Just to be clear, even if I wrote this earlier, the rewards are random, and so are enemies etc.
E.g. If the player gets another Mission: Assault he/she might get the objective to kill X number of monsters and then save Y villagers, the monsters might be Moloks and Cultists with cold resistance and fire weakness, the objective reward might be Z quantity of gold and the Mission reward might be a rare amulet.
Let's have a look on the second mission type:
Mission: Race against time
In this mission the player has only one random objective but he must do it within a certain amount of time.
The thought a player should have is: will I go for the mission rewards or for the hidden treasures?
As you could understand, if the player wants the hidden treasures he/she must explore very well the entire area to look for them at the probable expense of a mission accomplishment (you lose time while looking for hidden treasures) or if the player wants the mission rewards he/she has to leave behind a lot of hidden treasures.
Note: This would be an ideal situation which might change due to the player's progress (more gear, lower MPs with end-game gear etc).
Hidden Treasures
This is a list of what items the player can find if he/she explores very well the area.
By doing so he/she loses time and he/she might fail to complete the mission.
Hidden treasures can be found inside corpses, chests, ashes etc.
Enemies and Mission rewards
The same as in Assault
Let's have a look on the last mission type:
Mission: Enigma
This mission type will have always a fixed objective: “disable traps”.
By looking at the image you can easily understand that there are no enemies, but this doesn't mean that when the player activates/disables a trap they won't appear.
To disable a trap, a player has to solve little enigmas (in Soul Reaver 1 style – just to be clear on how I ment these enigmas to be – but much much easier to solve) or he/she must activate and then destroy them (much like the one in the Cathedral where when you click on the chest a lot of skeletons appear).
Rewards
Everytime a trap is disabled/destroyed it will drop something. “That something” is what it is listed in this point.
Enemies and Mission rewards
The same as in Assault and in Race against time.
Now that the player knows what type of missions and rewards he/she can get, he/she has only to decide where to go:
Once the player has completed that mission (note how the portal is now grey-colored):
he/she has only to choose another one:
and so on.
➢ Q&A AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Q. What does the player have to do once he/she has the map of the burning hells portals open?
A. As I wrote above, the player has just to mouse-over over a portal to choose which mission he/she wants to do and once he/she decided he/she has just to click on that portal and the click “accept”.
Q. What would happen if a player relogs into the game after he/she got a disconnection while he/she was doing a mission?
A. As I wrote above, the position of the portals changes on every game session.
However if the player gets a disconnection or has to log-out, the mission will remain active and when the player steps back into the game he/she will see a town portal that leads to area of that mission.
Of course, if the player was doing a Race against time mission type that mission would get cancelled if too much time has passed between the disconnection and the relog.
Another thing: the Burning Hells portal of that mission will remain active, visible and will stay on the same position as it was before the relog. When the mission is completed that portal will grey-out and be disabled like all others. This is to clarify in case you had some doubts if there could be a case where a player could get more than 10 portals open at once in a single game session.
Q. Aren't there going to be any monsters in the Enigma missions?
A. Enigma mission type is like the other two, so the player might have to fight against monsters. That image was just an example to let you see that you could get an empty map and a “relative safe” area (however, monsters can spawn from traps!)
Q. In the Race against time mission type the player could just skip the mission rewards and just look for hidden treasures! Didn't you think about it?
A. In this mission type the rewards must be balanced in a way so the player MUST choose what he/she really wants to do: fail the mission and look for treasures or complete the mission and leave the treasures?
Q. Is there any achievement for the Burning Hells Portals?
A. Yes, here's a couple:
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P.S. Enigma missions might not be very “Diablo” like, but I think that something different might help this game to become a real success. Also you can have a mission that is a mix of all three... well.. the combinations can be many... it's just a matter of immagination I guess.
P.P.S. “Missions” can be renamed to “Quests” of course
If you would like to check my other ideas you can click on the link below:
http://eu.battle.net...opic/6533923479
That is an index of all my ideas for Diablo3, but unfortunately they are all in Italian.
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Reintroduction of the Talisman
and
The Burning Hells Portals
by Edriel - an italian fan of the Diablo series