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Jul 3, 20181
Holyknight3000 posted a message on Celebrating 10 Years of WallpapersPosted in: Diablo Wallpaper and OS ArtIt's been a long wild 10 years, thanks mag and here's to 10 more years!
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Jul 2, 2018
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Holyknight3000 posted a message on Celebrating 10 Years of WallpapersPosted in: Diablo Wallpaper and OS Art
10 years ago I started making a simple wallpaper with the hype of Diablo 3's announcement back on June 28th 2008 during the World Wide Invitation 2008. Less than two weeks later I made my first Fiery Runes Wallpaper. Various side series like The Acts, Calendars, and eventually Diablo 2, Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch.
These past 10 years have opened doors that helped me to get to know so many people. Artists, Fans, Community People, and many new Friends along the way. Seriously thank you for enjoying my wallpaper art over this past decade. It means the world and beyond to me that people have enjoyed my work, shared it, commented and critiqued, liked, favorited.
These wallpapers helped me get into the Diablo Fansites like diabloii.net thanks to Lourdes though he's long moved on from anything gaming news related. From there all things Fan Art Watch related took off. Got to know multiple fan artists, and then the Fan Creations Community Manager for D3 Vaeflare aka Kymba LeCrone.
Again a million times a million thank you's for all the support over these past 10 years for enjoying all the wallpapers. And a big thank you to all the fan artists for letting me use their works over the years.
Here's to another 10 years with another Diablo game on the horizon.
Aaron "Holyknight" Williams
The Runeweaver
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Jun 5, 20181
CherubDown posted a message on Forbes Article: New Unannounced 'Diablo' Game Confirmed By Blizzard Job ListingPosted in: Diablo IV: Return to Darkness
https://careers.blizzard.com/en-us/openings/oNiH7fwD
From the job listing, "We're working on a new, unannounced Diablo project. "
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May 15, 20182
Metropolis_Man posted a message on Happy anniversary!Posted in: Diablo III General DiscussionActually, it's D3's 6th birthday.
(and my 54th birthday hehe). Happy Birthday, Diablo! -
May 13, 20181
hax0r77 posted a message on KEEP DIEING ON RATHMA BUILDPosted in: Diablo III General DiscussionYou keep getting hit
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May 10, 20181
meth68 posted a message on Bored out of my mind this season and of course this drops...Posted in: Diablo III General DiscussionWish I could carry it over to next season.
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Apr 23, 2018
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Metropolis_Man posted a message on Any News for Diablo 3........Ever?Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion
Unquestionably. I get tired of the "Diablo is dead" trolls when they cannot take the time and look and see for themselves that something is clearly in the pipeline...
https://careers.blizzard.com/en-us/openings/oDSe5fwy -
Apr 18, 2018
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CherubDown posted a message on Any News for Diablo 3........Ever?Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion
This.Quote from Magistrate»
Weren't they hiring for a new Diablo project of some kind, and then filled/closed the applications?
Some people here need to calm down a bit
We waited years without even the books/toys/marketing stuff/Blizz gear/etc. Diablo III got afterwards while we waited from D2 to 3 (well, there was Moon of the Spider but that was it). There was even *less* of a Diablo presence at each event between the two installations than there was for D3 at last BlizzCon--there were at least discussion panels for D3. We mostly just got chat gem jokes.
For like more than a decade we were pretty much just a social board that posted conspiracy theories as news now and then and played random forum games. We created a new wiki just to have something to do.
Something will come. Just need to be patient.
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Sep 5, 20177
DopeItUp posted a message on So I made a real-life Diablo 2 axe -Posted in: Fan ArtNot sure if this qualifies as "art" but why not?
Comparison with the source material:
My fat ass holding it for scale:
All the rest of the pics are here:
https://imgur.com/gallery/EEy4d
Fun project, it's actually a semi-usable weapon instead of the obnoxious monstrosities I usually make.
Dope
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*mounts the getaway mobile*
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(And anything else you can think of?)
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I think that's true in this case, but nowadays, especially with steep police/fireman/etc. firings all over the US, it should be taken in to consideration what this does for the police. It gives them a job to keep up appearances so that they don't get cut.
Around here, we now have DUI roadchecks every other night. I've never heard of so many people getting speeding tickets in so short a time, either. While there is a bit of money that comes from both of these things, it's not nearly enough to counteract dwindling budgets. These things are for appearances.
But, again, I think that in this case it's different.
There are, however, some alternative things to consider here. For instance, homelessness has a direct relation to crime. While the premise seems very inhumane, and while the true motives behind the legislature may be so, there are some positive outcomes. The reason I bring this one up, specifically, is to counteract the point of my second paragraph : if homelessness = higher crime, then police would have more to do, so they would not need to keep up appearances. So, at least that argument can be proven a moot point here.
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Having a 'perfectly specced' character in Diablo II proved nothing more than that the player had lots of free time. Rushing a character proved nothing of the rushee: it did not prove that the player has some font of playing skill or prowess. It just proved he/she had tons more free time and that he/she is so bored and disgusted by the acts/quests/difficulties that he/she is willing to skim through all of it while another player does all the work.
The game did not offer a ton of character customization because the in-game mechanics essentially forced characters to invest stat points in pre-defined ways and areas. STR for gear and everything else in VIT, unless you need some DEX for max block. That is not a huge amount of customization. It's making every character the same.
Just because the choice was there did not mean that it was viable, and therefore the mechanic, itself, was superfluous. The rest of the game was not designed well enough to adhere to the stat customization mechanic.
Skills were the better half of that system, but not anywhere near perfect or awesome. Builds, by and large, rely entirely on the same roughly three total skills that have been being maxed for use by players for the last decade. In some cases, players might not even use three skills. The rest were maxed for synergy bonuses and then never, or rarely, used.
Was it still fun? Yes. Was it still challenging? Yes. But it does not need to be lauded. The mechanics behind skill selection and stat allocation were and are broken, flaunting creativity to new players while, in all actuality, suppressing it.
Respeccing has a number of distinct advantages. First is that you don't need to redo the entire game just to fix a few skill points. That does not create fun. That's called grinding and is loathed by many. Second is that it helps new players learn from their mistakes and lets them experiment. Third, it greatly limits the amount of excess characters in our accounts, and lowers demand on the servers and server space. These are all logical and verifiable reasons. To deny them out of hand is to dismiss them with opinion.
What does respeccing mean for players in Diablo III, then? More playing the areas you actually find fun and engaging. More killing newbs instead of mindlessly rushing, which defeats the purpose of the act/quest structure of the game, anyway. More playing the end-game features or simply progressing through the difficulties instead of having to backtrack for no reason more than bad gameplay mechanics.
Let the e-rage ensue.
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Exciting stuff, isn't it?
Welcome to the site. I share in your jubilation
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Extensive character customization is one of the primary design goals for Diablo III. Players will have many ways to customize and build each of the five character classes, including charms, traits, enhancements, gems, armor, weapons, dyes, skills, and the feature we're highlighting in this article: runestones.
The page comes complete with recaps and demonstrations for a select skill of each character. Here's a selection of other articles that you might be interested in if you haven't been reading up on these lil' guys:
Resurrections, Shrines, Poison Clouds and Rune Effects
Bashiok on Rune Levels and Progression
Working Skill Rune Names Disclosed
Of course, the most accurate and up-to-date information on runestones is now all on the official page. Special thanks to peign for posting this information first!
Talisman Gets Cut
The device essentially forced players to allot a specific amount of space for charms, a mechanic and item hold-over from the days of Diablo II, while simultaneously freeing-up real inventory space for everything else found on Sanctuary escapades. The decision between power and inventory space often left Diablo II players with conflicting desires to gather items and to become exceptional and efficient warriors, and so the talisman largely resolved this issue. Bashiok elaborates:
Well, I can say from feedback and testing we've made the decision to pull the Talisman from the initial release of the game.
It was a cool idea at its core, but right now it's just really too basic and doesn't provide anything you can't get from the armor and weapons you're equipping. It requires a lot of the player to invest time and energy into finding and storing yet another type of item just to add player stats. When they do all that, it's just to do something pretty boring that they can already do with awesome things like armor and weapons. Originally the Talisman had a much deeper design, but it proved very ambitious and it got whittled down over the years to a very basic +stat per single square. We like simplicity in our designs, but charms became superfluous in their purpose.
We really like the core idea, but we don't want to stop everything and spend a large amount of time trying to fix the Talisman, although we do have some great ideas already. So, it'll very likely come back in some form or another after the game ships. And be awesome.
So for now, no talisman. But perhaps we'll see one somewhere down the road, say, expansion one?
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Fan Art
Enkeria posted another nice fan take on the Demon Hunter (right), found on Deviant Art by the user evilflesh (see the entire portfolio here.) The comments following the deviation discuss not only the better parts of the piece, but also some of the challenges the artist faced.
Hammerli is working on his own version of the Demon Hunter while he dabbles in digital painting. His work-in-progress can be seen in the board thread here.
Last on the fan art front, but certainly not least, TheElderMoon posted a link to a special treat straight from the MooMoo Farm. His design showing the three epic ingredients to open the way to the
Wallpapers
Buried deep in the Fan Art forum lies the ever-popular Wallpaper and OS Art forum. Shown below are some of the latest wallpapers available for your geeking pleasure.
Caniroth's official wallpaper thread contains many additional excellent pieces to baddass-up your desktop (there were far too many to put in one post!), and the rest of Holyknight3000's Fiery Rune series can be found in individual threads in this forum (just look for Fiery Runes in the title.)
Top Left/Top Right: Holyknight3000
Bottom Left/Bottom Right: Caniroth
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPWoj58Xwqc
If there's any one game developing company known for delays...Well, let's just take a look at the facts. The
Did you know that Diablo II was originally slated for a 1999 release date? According to a very archaic passage from the reputed ShackNews game news network, the second installment was delayed an entire year.
But the delays don't stop there. The Starcraft franchise has had its share of shortcomings, even establishing a hallmark among ghosted games. Starcraft: Ghost has been on what Blizzard calls an "indefinite hold" since 2006, with a game announcement reaching as far back as 2002. Guess the game was dead before it even hit shelves.
For a more modern gaming audience, the delays of Starcraft II might be a source for more sorrow. In 2009, GossipGamer reported that the game was being delayed due to Battle.net conflictions (and the game still launched with Battle.net problems.) Before even that delay, it was further put off track due to the taskforce needed to push out Wrath of the Lich King.
As for the much-loved Warcraft RTS franchise, which is often differentiated by fans as being entirely separate from World of Warcraft, Warcraft III was delayed by as much as a year, with a purported release set for 2001 and later delayed to 2002.
Major game releases haven't been the only victims. The hit-or-miss Diablo II
How should these details factor in to our beta date hopes, if at all? To be fair, several things should be taken into consideration with regards to the past. Diablo II was, of course, being developed under a much smaller team than the more modern one led by Jay Wilson. In addition to creating an entirely new game engine from the ground up for Diablo III, Blizzard has undergone several employment revamps since Blizzard North's time, making their last ten years nothing to scoff at.
Starcraft: Ghost was being developed entirely by third-party developers until Blizzard simply bought out the latest company, Swingin' Ape Studios, in 2004. Maybe there's something to be said for it not being directly developed by Blizzard Entertainment. And perhaps to Starcraft II's credit, the game was entirely finished and ready for release, but structural details with the latest rendition of the Battle.net system caused some unforeseen problems.
Years later, Blizzard now boasts dedicated development teams for each franchise, as well as a Battle.net team and a budget that would make most developers envious. With relatively little else going on for Blizzard development-wise, perhaps we can place more faith in "targeted" dates. Let's hear what you think!