Character Stat Assigning
I was able to be one of the first to tryout the new playable demo Diablo III. I was able to get a lot of information so far in regards of skills, gameplay, graphics, dialog, NPC's, and more...
One of the more interesting things about the game play is the Character Stat Assigning. I was able to level up the Wizard and the Witchdocter to a few levels and noticed something strange.
I was able to talk to the lead director of the demo area and was no at liberty to say but was able to tell me that Character Stat assigning will be totally automatic. You will not have any control of which stats get increased. This greatly reduces stragety and builds for the near future when Diablo III gets announced.
Thasador
Staff Member
i agree. my guess its only the demo because Blizzard doesn't want to give away to many secrets.
There is no flaw. Those who don't want custom stat allocation won't care about min-maxing a character and play for the simple pleasure of killing enemies. Those who do want custom stat allocation care about min-maxing a character and play for the simple pleasure of killing enemies without issue.
I agree entirely that the option should exist.
I think the auto skill allocation was coming for a long time.
You say they have the upper hand, how so ?
They will have weakness like every other players.
Classes will still be extremely customizable by equipment (they already said there will be a ridiculous amount of gear), skills and the skill 'runes' that will allow you to customize them.
Even if that is not final, everyone should agree that the stat system from D2 should change. I started playing D2 again 2 months ago. Stopped last week. I did every kind of build I haven't done yet. I did a sorc and the stats advice was 'enough str, rest int vit'. Then I did a bowazon and advice 'enough str/dex rest in vit', Then I was really bored with that and made a paladin, again 'enough str/dex rest in vit'. Completely thirsting for strength and blood, I did a barbarian, and 'enough str/dex, rest in vit'.
WTF are the other stats there for if the only attribute that should be boosted indefinitely is vitality? That is completely wrong! I want the strongest barbarian that was ever done! I don't want Usain Bolt!
That's the major quarrel I had with the old system. Sure you could assign stats where ever you liked but if you wanted to be a solid player you pretty much had to spend at least 50% insto vit.
First it's shitty cartoon/finger-painting environments, now I'm loosing control over my character. Who the F*** are these people!!! What have you done to our game???
Those cookie cutter builds exists because the effect of each atribute in previous diablos wasnt very usefull (besides allowing you to wear your equipments i.e.).
STR: the extra damage you gain is horrible, you just have to put enought for your gear
ENE: it was useless in most PVM cases, even for a sorceress.
If blizzard had made better atribute effects we could see a lot of diferent stat builds in D2.
If they made Str more effective though just imagine, a barbarian with a little into dex, little into vit, rest into STR. Glass cannon PvP build.
They could take out almost anyone in 1-2 hits probably.
There really was no customization now that i think on it, everyone went shit tons of vitality, and those who didn't died in like two hits pvp or hell mode. Auto stats = you don't suck like you did in d2 if you didn't pump vitality. I once tried to stack a barb with strength, and one time with dexterity. Both times i did he would perform horribly in hell difficulty, he would die in one or two hits. PVP? lol, one shot every time. But when i stacked vit? i did pretty darn well.
In diablo 2, stat point customization consisted of getting JUST enough str/dex to use the gear you wanted,
(usually a paltry 70-80 + item bonuses)
But seriously, whats the point of using 100 str to gain +100-200 damage? when you do like 6k per hit anyways? No point, thats what.
and then pumping the FUCK out of vitality. EEEEVEEERYYYONNNNEE did that. i mean you COULD do differently, but you would suck Bigtime.
Plus, a 3k hp sorceress or necro was just retarded.
I think (myself included) many people loved diablo2, it was a good game.
But when you honestly think about how many issues with gameplay there were such as stats, items, runewords, etc.
And about how nobody actually wants to run through the outdoors areas and kill shit because its incredibly boring.
There really were lots of things wrong with this game, lmao. WHY DO WE LOVE IT SO MUCH?! :3 lol
you are a noob.