Where is Brandy when you don't want her? That's right....No where! Because THE HYPE IS REAL.
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Aerisot posted a message on Wait i'm confused thought diablofans shut down like 6 months or more ago?Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion -
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Holyknight3000 posted a message on Fiery Runes II: Belial - Lord of Lies
Featuring the amazing artwork of Diablo3-Belial by secret-schwarz.
This artists work is stunning. This just pops so well. I wanted to capture their work but also change the lighting to match the setting of the essence runes.
There aren't to many Belial fan arts and I'm glad I found this one. Plus Secret's original version is so under viewed and deserves so much more. I hope people find their work through this wall.
That's all for now. Brace for BlizzCon people the Hype-trains flooring it now.
HK
Art (C) Secret-Schwarz
Belial & Diablo 3 (C) Blizzard
Fiery Essence Runes by me
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Zooheaded posted a message on ‘Diablo 2 Remaster and Diablo 4 will be announced at Blizzcon’Posted in: Diablo IV: Return to DarknessI want both of these games. I'm afraid to hope for anything so I'll wait til Blizzcon and believe it when I see it.
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Bagstone posted a message on ‘Diablo 2 Remaster and Diablo 4 will be announced at Blizzcon’Posted in: Diablo IV: Return to DarknessYeah, this was posted elsewhere earlier, but thanks for the picture. It's an ad in Gamestar, right?
For those who can't read German and want to know - it's a full-page ad in a German monthly game magazine (most likely Gamestar) for the post-Blizzcon release of a Diablo artwork book. The part in red simply says "With over 500 artworks from Diablo, Diablo II, Diablo III, and Diablo IV this book presents various remarkable pieces of art that were created for the iconic ARPG of Blizzard Entertainment."
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Bagstone posted a message on Diablo 4 - What we know (or assume to know) so farPosted in: Diablo IV: Return to DarknessAs the silence seems to make way to occasional news about Diablo 4, I thought it would be good to have a thread that offers everything in one place. I'll add stuff to it in reverse chronological order, so the most recent info is always to be found at the top. If there's anything I'm missing, just reply to this thread and I'll add it.
June 20, 2019: Diablo 4 allegedly shown to Blizzard France employees
Source: LeMonde (french). Article talks more about the internal struggle after the massive layoffs, no new gameplay insight.
June 6, 2019: StarCraft FPS cancelled, focus on developing Diablo 4
Source: Kotaku. A first person shooter in the StarCraft universe was cancelled to shift more development onto Diablo 4 and a Left 4 Dead-style Overwatch 2. Blizzard took the time for an official response, semi-confirming it.
November 21, 2018: Diablo 4 internally first codenamed "Hades", then "Fenris"
Source: Kotaku. For a nice summary of a few bullet points, I'll just cite this thread by KainneAbsolute on MMO:
Project Hades: Diablo IV
- Team 3 (Diablo team) was going to start the development of the second expansion of Diablo 3 after the release of Reaper of Souls, but they received the order to stop. It really surprised them because RoS recovered some of the lost faith of the players in the franchise and they have a few things planned.
- Seems weird because after all, D3 and ROS are successful games.
- Team 3 was scattered. Some people went ot other franchises.
- Project Hades: They were asked to start Diablo IV development immediately. They didnt understood the reasons: they didnt wait to look the performance of RoS in the following months. Maybe they considered that Diablo III was already a failure and RoS was a good moment to leave
- Diablo 4 has some development. The idea was a third person Dark Souls Style game.
- The change in style was so big, they started to think if it was ok to call it Diablo 4.
- However it was cancelled and rebooted in 2016. They dont know if it was because Mosqueira left the company in the same year. Mosqueira denied to declare for this article.
- The Rise of the Necromancer was a way to appease the fans.
- ‘Man, if we had just done that second expansion instead of losing half the team as a result of the cancellation, and then all of the personnel changes, management changes, then this walk down the road of Hades… If we hadn’t done any of that and had just focused on doing a solid third act for Diablo, it’d be out by now.’”
everything in a well manner.
Project Fenris: Diablo IV reboot
- Really early in development.
- "They want to make this gross, make it dark, [get rid of] anything that was considered cartoony in Diablo III… Make what people were afraid of in Diablo II, but modern."
- Principles: embrace the Darkness and More social.
- More social? Hub cities and instanced dungeons.
- Team feels enthusiastic and optimistic for the new concept, however it wont see some light until 2020. They want to announce it with a playable demo.
- Isometric camera angle game...for now. They are not sure.
- The team expected and announcement and teaser this year or during Blizzcon. Blizzard heads changed their minds. Blizzards other department and Blizzcon planner said there wasnt going to be a Diablo 4 announcement. Lack of communication.
- They didnt talk about how to monetize it. Blizzard looks to the example of HS and OW.
(Below: posts before or just shortly after Blizzcon that do not directly hint at "news".)
November 7, 2018: A Quick Word from Blizzard
Source: Official forums
Nevalistis: "Since the moment we stepped into the office on Monday, we have been discussing everything Diablo non-stop. We’re fully committed to listening and engaging—so please keep the constructive feedback coming. Our primary focus right now is poring over that feedback to inform internal discussions, and we’ll follow up with further thoughts as soon as we can."
"We continue to read feedback and our internal discussions are ongoing. We have many plans for Diablo across multiple projects which we’ll be revealing over the course of the coming year. We are eager to share more about all of our projects, but some will have to wait as we prefer to show you, rather than tell you, about them. It's going to take some time as we strive to meet your expectations, but now, more than ever, we are committed to delivering Diablo experiences the community can be proud of.
- The Diablo Teams -"
August 8, 2018: Multiple Diablo projects in the works
Source: Youtube
Nevalistis: [...] We’d also like to let you know that the forges here at Blizzard are burning hot. And we have multiple Diablo projects in the works. Some of them are going to take longer than others. But we may have some things to show you later this year. We hope you stay tuned, while we work to bring these Diablo experiences to life. None of this would be possible without the support that you have shown us for over 20 years.
So whether you first joined us in Diablo 3 or you are a seasoned veteran, thank you. Diablo is, and always will be, part of Blizzard’s identity, and we can’t wait for the future.
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Holyknight3000 posted a message on The Final Farewell to Diablofans...Posted in: Diablo Wallpaper and OS ArtBack in 2008 the week building up to the World Wide Invitational 2008 was a fun one. This website was originally Diablo3.com and then blizzard approached them for the name and then we got diablofans.com in the end. That helped people set the rumor mill on high alert. As the week progressed the new teasers each day adding a new clue as the ice slowly broke away revealed many things.
MMO Champions post on the teasers: WWI Schedule and Live Stream
Each day the community speculated over what they meant. I remember seeing a protoss glyph and then eventually a Diablo 2 rune. Then a circle with 3 rings. People then thought it was like a solar system with the then 3 blizzard universes. Then the near final image showed eyes glowing and and then a feint tusk. People thought at one point it was a hydralisk or something.
Then the day finally came and then the new incarnation of Diablo came into view with the Reveal trailer the day the WW:08 started. It was practically a mini Blizzcon really. I still remember the live stream was on a link that popped up the stream. The streams lag was pretty bad and it wasn't even widescreen.
Here's 2 videos of the reveal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvAxEnNik8s
When the lag finally subsided then I could see the trailer. That day I started making wallpapers for the game.
I posted it here and on diabloii.net (then called diii.net when d3 came about.) From there I decided to break outta my then comfort zone and started painting the diablo 2 runes larger and trying to give them a fiery feeling. At first I added them to my early profile art.
Then later I did the same to all 33 of them. Then used a fireworks 4 effect that allowed me to make a star with 33 points and made an evenly spaced rune circle that made the runes where they would be. Then I'd use the warp tool and made them lay at a nice angle then started putting the denizens of that world in the middle helping me make the Fiery Runes Series.
Over the years I'd make many wallpaper series. Sometimes with concept art, line art to give an old feeling like the Book of Cain would eventually give us.
Other times I'd remake D3 artwork that was in screenshots and like some of the Monks early runes and glyphs.
As well as the wallpapers that would come from them:
I was very proud of those. I tried to reproduce them so hard and then when the then computer I had; the hard drive would fail and I lost that artwork and would have to remake one of them again from scratch Hell here's the WIP i posted on diabloii.net.
I would also make my own fan art for Diablo as well. It may not be as good as others but I'm still proud of it.
Later I would make Calendars for each month that I could and also make them for that current year AND eventually for the EU. But at one point I started making uni-calendars that would have the month and the days but those days and months would neither have the years nor the weekdays on them so people could use them more than once. That way the wallpaper and calendar wouldn't become dated by the end of that month.
Then eventually in march Reaper of Souls would come out but for me unfortunately my biological father would pass on from this world as I posted the final wallpapers of the first part of the Acts 5 series.
That would also garner a change in the fiery runes into one of my favorite changes the runes would be called The Soulfyre runes, Still keeping the moniker of Fiery Runes. This time with a more "souly" look. That series became the largest one spanning 55 wallpapers.
In this series I experimented on many ideas as well as unique and fun things.
I also did tributes as well for people effected by bad events as well.
I also made my first ultra-wide wallpaper during my 7th anniversary during this series.
Later the Necromancer Pack would come out and Then I decided to end the Soulfyre series and start Essence based on the Necromancer's resource.
Then During Blizzcon 2018 the much spirited reveal of Diablo: Immortal a mobile diablo game that has spurned so much vitrol in the community I still tried to make wallpapers for the game and will continue after Diablofans fades away...
The latter days of Diablofans was a somber one as we say good bye to one of the few remaining pillars of the diablo community. We say goodbye and thank those who gave us a website to speak our minds and let us post fan art/fan fiction/ and Diablo Wallpaper/OS art. Thank you guys for this website and the community that was here. We'll find a new place eventually. Either in r/diablo or elsewhere. Thanks guys for a place I could post my wallpapers. Especially back when you guys had a small gallery at one point before that was removed.
Forever Thank You.
Aaron Williams (Holyknight3000 aka The Runeweaver)
After this site goes you can find my works on:
deviantART: https://www.deviantart.com/holyknight3000
twitter: https://twitter.com/Holyknight3000
diabloii.net: https://www.diabloii.net/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/510
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Bixxy posted a message on DiabloFans sourcePosted in: Diablo III General DiscussionHowdy,
I was wondering if it would be possible to opensource the diablofans.com website on GitHub or something similar when it goes down. That way the community could host a website using the builder and maintain it as a joined effort.
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Abob posted a message on Help me out here ... totally confused!!!Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion
maybe partially the answer, because why would you want thank them? they were just farming and probably didnt care whoever joined.
in the process taking away the best part of the game. being a noob and experiencing everything by your own from scratch.
Being boosted and not knowing what it even meant is a bad thing and can ruin your overall experience.
Diablo does not automatically throw you into a group with horrible people that selfishly want to steal the experience of everything being new, it puts you into game by yourself and its your own choice to either experience the game as you wish or group with others and risk the experience being different.
If you cant bring yourself to thank others for the time they spend playing with you or just to be courteous, then youre just contributing to its toxicity and should rereconsider your choice of playstyle.
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Holyknight3000 posted a message on Diablo Immortal #5 Barbarian (w/ and w/o logos and mobile)
This weekend was a busy wallpaper based one. I posted more D3 Switch Commercial Wallpapers (up to 10 now) and Also a new one for Diablo Immortal.
Diablo Immortal #5: Barbarian: http://fav.me/dd01grd
DI #5 Barbarian (No Logos): http://fav.me/dd01hjc
DI #5 Barbarian Mobile: http://fav.me/dd01hp5
Hope you guys like.
I'll have the rest of the classes posted over the next few weeks.
Still made with love for the world and everything in it.
HK
Diablo & Diablo Immortal (C) Blizzard & Netease
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Metropolis_Man posted a message on [2019] Upcoming aRPGsPosted in: Diablo III General Discussion
while some of your statements might be true, that's a very pessimistic comment...
I still wish I could get into PoE. But I just can't. Gave it even a 3rd chance some days ago.
That D2 mod is promising. I will give that a shot.
It's funny how people mix up realism with pessimism.
Well, why talk about it if it's not even available in the West? Yes, I know you can jump through all these hoops to play it, but I cannot be bothered with that. Just like I refuse to play POE solely based on the fact that the developers make you jump through hoops to get a decent loot filter. No, I am not going to download a 3rd party whatever when that should be built right into the game UI.
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So the time has come to say GoodBye old friend...
Thank you for all the excitement moments you offered to myself, as well to the whole community, throughout the years.
Hope our roads cross again to the next Diablo journey.
Till then.. "stay a while, and listen".
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Since patch 2.4.2 EPs applied by U2 will proc Area Damage.
Take a look at Davlok's post here for confirmation.
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/d3/topic/16527322731?page=25
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It's getting really annoying to see ppl like you to polluting the forums.. Pls go play the actually game, not the forum game. That way you could have a more objective opinion. The threads all have different op's but one Demonmonger to post literally in all of them saying the same over and over. The only thing you do is to attack anyone that says something against blizz.
And the funny thing is that you havent spent the time in game to have the knowledge to comment and to say something that anyone can take seriously.
Give us a break pls....
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I wont follow you to your paralogism..
As i said before : "Nothing more to say. Really sorry d3 ends like that"...
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