Well solo sounds nice and all but I like to quickly try to be the best in a new game so I would solely put all effort in coop and get my decked out characters and gear and be golden. Then ill move to solo to enjoy the game without competition. :]
The news was not surprising since it made sense that the beta would be Q3 of this year and then early 2012 would be the release date of D3. The Live coverage I think was pretty cool and you guys did a good job! only thing I would not like about it was the constant trolls in the Live Comments part of the youtube page. Also when Blizzard had a Q&A ... nobody had any questions for D3 it was all about WoW and COD!? Like who gives a crap about those games lol
Has been conformed that Necro will return as a NPC in D3 already. If the Necro were to return to D3 as a playable class it wouldn't mean anything different for the WD. There will be just two pet summoners and two kinds of races to choose from and then they might have some different skills but it would be close to the same.
Just for the hell of it I would try a WD first since he has a lot of interesting and cool skills that ive been dieing to try out. But until I make my FINAL decision on the first class I want to try I will need to play the beta when it comes out.
I know the Wizard already uses Arcane power, but last time I checked Blizz said they were not quite happy with it. Give her Mana and change the Doc instead. I thought Mana was much too 'clean' for the Witch Doctor anyway.
My idea was that the WD would use his hit points as his resource, but not as permanent damage. The way this would work is: his energy globe would be able to hold some percent of his maximum hit points (like 10-25% or so) and whenever he cast a spell, his life would drain by the cost and the energy globe would fill with it. once full, you couldn't cast further (he is only able to use some of his max life force, and can't kill himself.) His life would slowly fill back up from this pool as it drains to allow him to cast again. This would not result in healing or permanent damage though.
An example: so Doc 'Holiday' has 50 HP max and summons a zombie dog. Doing so costs 5 HP which transfers into his energy globe. over the next 10 seconds his energy globe drains that 5 HP and Holiday restores the 5 HP. Then he gets into combat. Holiday has a player who is not very observant and gets hit by a skeletal Archer for 8 dmg. As a response he summons another dog. His Current HP is 37 and his energy globe has 5 HP in it. He gets hit for another 8 dmg from the Archer and Sacrifices one of his dogs which costs 6 hp, killing the Archer. His energy globe had drained 1 HP in this time so his current health is 24 (50 -(8+8) -(5+6-1)) and his energy globe has 10 HP. His energy globe is full, so when he tries to summon another dog, Holiday yells at him "What??? You want to kill me!" He waits 20 seconds for his energy globe to empty leaving 0 HP in his energy globe and leaving him with 34 HP. Good thing too as if he hadn't waited the siege beast would have dealt 25 damage when he had 10 HP in his energy globe and bitten his head off.
This does have the problem that you can't cast when you are at really low health but I was thinking 3 things:
1: when you're that low you should be running!
2: Escape spells like Spirit Walk could let you cast it when it would kill you, because you cant take damage and are a ****ing Spirit. Also, your HP would recoup from the casting during its duration
3: It really fits his flavor (See the wiki entries for his traits things like "The spirits take their toll. Best to be ready to pay." and "My blood knows where it must be. I tell it, it goes")
I know it's kinda late for this sort of topic, but I felt it needed to be shared and I didn't see anything like it when I did a search. Tell me what you think!
Edit to clean language
Only problem is that yes he would die a lot quicker. Thus don't use him in pvp arenas lol
Don't think it would happen anyways ... the armor slots are already made up so I don't see how a cape/cloak fitting in there would work unless it was combined with the helm/hood for example for a Demon Hunter.
I mean WoW is okay to hear about but seriously enough of that crap. I want more Diablo related podcasts ... plz Hopefully Blizzard will release more smaller podcasts that are all about D3 like you said.
If anything it would be really cool to have Diablo3 on Xbox 360 and Xbox Live and PS3. These consoles have next-gen technology and to have a D3 on to would be INSANE!!!!! PC is fine but I think the environment could fully expand to a great universe with these console systems. I would say if they want their company to grow and become stronger and more fun they would have all Blizzard games on console aswell as PC. Yet again D3 was always the hack N slash rpg for the PC not for the console.
This news did nothing else but mostly dissappointment. But it is a huge step in the right direction. I think it should of deserved a few days of a countdown and not a full 2 weeks. Blizzard will surprise us all at WWI with some Diablo-related things I hope. The people that got dissapointed will think otherwise in june.
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Oh and whirlwind with a indigo runestone makes it look like a classic druid spell from D2 lol
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great job :]
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Only problem is that yes he would die a lot quicker. Thus don't use him in pvp arenas lol
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Regardless of the name of the class you will be able to create your own name for your own character. duh! lol don't like it? that's tough crap
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