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Hello all,

I just wanted to start a little game/discussion for the forums here, for those of us who have been playing D3 since its release last year. Please post a memory you have of Diablo III that is no longer in the game, whether it has been removed by a patch, changed, no longer viable, etc. Feel free to comment on the memory of the person before you, and please add your own! If you like, you can also add pictures/screenshots as well.

I'll go first.

Diablo III: I remember when... we had Invulnerable Minions as an elite affix.



Note: Please, nothing immature like I remember when the game was good, or something like that. The point of this is to reminisce about things that people may have forgotten about, or haven't had the opportunity to experience if they started playing Diablo 3 at a later date. This is not a "let's bash Diablo III" thread. Thanks!

I still play every day. I have a paragon level 100 Wizard (who is my main), and I'm currently working on getting all achievements. I strongly recommend for those who are getting a bit bored with the game at this point, to take a look at the achievements. Some of them (a lot of them) are really a lot of fun to try and obtain! Especially the Unique Collection achievement. I am trying to hunt each Unique monster, there are 82 in all and I have around 16 or 17 left to kill. It's kind of a cool feeling to be a sort-of bounty hunter, aside from the normal loot or exp runs. At the same time, I'm doing this with a Demon Hunter to try to get the 100K demons killed achievement as well. He's also gaining paragon levels, and I'm getting legendaries. So it's like killing 4 birds with one stone.

I also leveled each class to 60 in both Hardcore and Softcore.

TL;DR: The achievements are worth trying to get, and will breathe life into the game until RoS. It has for me, anyway.

Guys, I finally did it! I feel a sense of accomplishment.

The screenshot:


Nothing fancy, I didn't kill Jay Wilson for the last kill, or the first zombie in the game, or Azmodan, or anything like that. I just wanted to get to Paragon Level 100 and finally did it It was on a pack of snakes in the Dalghur Oasis.

I just wanted to say a huge thank you to all of you here and on the Diablo III official Wiz forum. I know I definitely read more than I post, but these forums really keep the game alive for me.

I also uploaded the collection of videos from this run to YouTube as well, if anyone was interested in seeing the Paragon Level 100 live as I did. The videos are still being uploaded, but when it's done processing, it will be here:

YouTube video:
http://youtu.be/267qcK_niVM
Paragon Level 100 Moment is at 09:13

Thanks again everyone!

Now, on to my hardcore characters...

Hi all!

Just wanted to share this mock-up infographic I designed for a new endgame option within D3. I've been traveling quite a bit for work, so to deal with my Diablo withdrawals I've pieced this together based on some existing ideas I've seen within the community as well as some new ones of my own.

Would love to hear some feedback on the concept as well as thoughts on what endgame means to you in Diablo.

Direct Link: http://i.imgur.com/JadEbrk.jpg

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Why? The endgame in Diablo has always been about farming for better loot so you can farm for better loot.. better.

I agree! This is purely intended to augment that loot hunt we all know and love and extend the game's replayability, not replace it.


Why not just include Trials and Towers in Adventure Mode?

Good question. Each mode has a specific purpose that not everyone will be interested in, so overloading Adventure Mode with additional features feels like messy design to me. Story Mode = Enjoy the story, Adventure Mode = Play the item-hunt game (heart of Diablo franchise), Challenge Mode = Optional, augmentative content that extends the lifespan of the item-hunt game. But of course these modes could be joined, this is merely personal preference.


Does that mean no gear rewarded in Challenge Mode?

Yes. Only cosmetic rewards, competitive rankings and XP are offered in Challenge Mode. If Challenge Mode offered loot rewards, it would diminish the inherent purpose of Adventure Mode. The aim is to bring the heroes you've built into Challenge Mode to see what they can do, i.e; to improve your capabilities in Challenge Mode you need to farm Adventure Mode.
TL;DR: I like to compartmentalize.


Are Trials and Towers randomized to any extent?

No. By removing the random elements in regards to layouts, monster types and density, the Trials and Towers can serve as directly measurable content in a competitive sense. If random was at play, someone could simply perform well due to having "lucky RNG". So to summarize, randomization has been removed in Challenge Mode in order to level the playing field.


How does Difficulty work in relation to Trials and Towers?

Trials that are not affected directly by difficulty (like Race Trials) exist as static events that are played and ranked the same across all difficulty levels. Trials that contain monsters and are therefore affected by difficulty selection are ranked as per the difficulty in which the player achieved their result (see: Seasonal Leaderboards UI). Pandemonium Towers are capped on lower difficulties, higher ascension only becomes available with higher difficulties, with the Pandemonium Tower becoming "uncapped" on Torment VI.


The Tower is Endless?

Theoretically, yes. The increase in difficulty is dynamic up until the fixed rewards cease (Level 100), after that, each level sees a static increase (additive percentage) in Monster Damage and Hit Points. For the purpose of this concept let's say that's 5% per level, this means the most godly geared/skilled players can truly test their heroes to the absolute limits.


Couldn't you just skip mobs? Change to a more defensive spec for higher levels? And what happens when you die?

To access the next level you would be required to kill all the monsters on the current level. Skill selection would be locked from when you enter the Tower with a checkpoint every 25 Levels at which you can change your skill spec. These checkpoints also act as respawn points upon death, but they no longer appear after Level 100 (which would be very hard to reach as is).

Overall I haven't put too much thought into how tower progression would work, but I think losing all of your progress upon death would be a bit too much considering how long the climb is. I would love to hear some other ideas/suggestions regarding this!


What is this simultaneous instance nonsense?

When there are other players in your game and you choose to start a Trial or Tower, a dialogue box appears asking them if they would like to join in and challenge you. If they accept, they will be transported to their own instance of the same challenge. You are able to see the "ghosts" of other players according to where they are in their instance (see "Festering Circuit" race screenshot), but you have no direct affect on their game environment. For Tower Races, you would receive toast notifications in your chat each time a player reaches a new level.


Why not just have them in the same instance?

The competitive factor in Trials and Towers is based around how well each player performs, not how effectively you can impede your rivals. This is especially applicable to wave-type Trials and Pandemonium Towers, in which you can't have both characters in the same instance without it being Co-op.


Are the Bosses in Boss Time-trials different from their typical versions?

Yes, they would essentially be Uber versions of their normal encounters, with additional modifiers, more minions, larger HP pools etc.


Do Race Trials have other variables?

Races have additional factors in play outside of simply getting a character from point A to B. For example, Speed-boosting Nephalem Glory orbs can spawn along the route but might not always be in the most desirable of locations. In addition, obstacles such as Bear Traps and Barricades can impede your progress (another reason for separate instances). P.S- I love Mario Kart.


Uhh.. Where is PvP?

Ideally, Challenge Mode would also accomodate any type of future PvP implementation. I haven't included it in my concept as it's such a gigantic feature that it would probably need it's own infographic.


What's with the groan-worthy TV show references?

Because geeknerd.

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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.

Remember when this thread was about remember when?...