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It's not rly Blizzard style to run for the "new" technology. Plus, DX11 features woulnd't make a big difference in the end.

Quote from "Umpa65" »

I think your not open minded for thinking I'm not open minded for choosing to dislike the skill.:O
Frogs are lame. Therefore, the skill is also pretty lame.

"Witch doctor! It's up to you I can't go on! What will you do to defeat Diablo?!?!"

"I'm gonna throw some frogs at 'em!That should do the trick right?!"

Diablo: "Not even Death can.....Ooooohhhh nooeezzz...My one weakness, frogs, how did you know??"

Frogs are lame, yes, but Diablo 2 Twister, Find potion, Teeth, Poison Dagger were all pretty lame imo. But when I didn't want to use a lame skill, I didn't use them.

Yes, toads are a bit weird. But it simply because I think some people here (and alot on Bnet forums) still believe the WitchDoctor is a renamed Necro. When I hear Witchdoctor, I think about african shamans that do potions with snakes, toads and bats. Just give the witchdoctor a chance to prove his worth.

Quote from "Daemaro" »

Doesn't LAN depend on who's hosting it? So like if someone using AOL dialup is hosting of course it won't work very well.

Anyway I prefer either single player or online anyway. Although I'm sure a modded LAN support isn't beyond reach. Just like there is private servers of every game it's just a matter of redirecting the IP your connecting to from the companies to a private one. And since the game is single player which means it's all possible client sided it won't be hard to do.

First: Lan depends on the host, but if it's really LAN, then the connection has nothing to do with the speed, only the CPU is working more, but it's nearly nothing. If it's a fake lan like with Hamachi, then yes, internet connection of the host can be a problem.

Though, I am not sure but, I think it's kind of the same thing for Battle.net... Battle.net do not HOST games, they just manage them and annouce them on their list. Which means, if a player creates a game, he is by default the host, then if he leaves, battlenet holds it or give it to another player ingame. After a few mins, if bnet didn't find a new host, it drops the game. I am not 100% sure tho. But for Starcraft, this is exactly the case.

Quote from "Lydeck" »

If your kids are old enough to play the damn game, then they should be old enough to play on battle.net. In fact, if your kids can't handle being called a bitch over the internet then there's problems to begin with.

Your point is weak, game ratings are just valid during the sale/buy. If a parent buy a M (ESRB) or MA15+ game, the responsability are now with the parent. Which means that a 12 yrs old kid CAN play Diablo 3 legitimatly (he just cant buy it). And if he is 12 yrs old, I would probably think twice before sending my child on Bnet. Ya, definatly wouldn't let him/her.

Quote from "italofoca" »

It may not be different for the programmers.
But no doubt it is really different for the players (the lag is drastically reduced on LAN).

I think YOU NAILED IT COMPLETLY!!

I don't play on Battle.net on StarCraft, Diablo II and WarCraft 3 BECAUSE ITS SO FREAKING LAGGYYYYYYY. They now want to FORCE us to go on their online servers while they perfectly know that the first version didn't worth a ?$%?%.

And I got a good connection, in fact, very good connection. But who here NEVER tried to join a game that is 20 hours OLD?! I know EVERYONE did because this is Bnet 1.0 crap! IT happens in SC, D2 and WC3. In SC its even worst, you are lucky if you can find 1 working game, and of course there is nearly no way to be able to host a game, even if you play with you're friend in the SAME house!

Of course everyone wants to play on lan, ME FIRST! I mean, I don't care about people langage or anything on Bnet, I do care about:

Join game, loading screen, the door won't open, 5 mins later, The game is unavailable, damn Bnet, did you rly took 5 mins to find this out?

Ya, LAN allllll the way. I support you for your kids.

Quote from "Ivaron" »

Okay guys, we got a fake fan on our hands. Someone ban him.

j/k

Yeah, get the game. It's just as good as D2, if not better.

If you played it lately, and enjoyed it, I respect you cause I can't hold long enough to even see the butcher. The game is sloowwwwwwww...........

5 mins later, oh cool i finaly got out of town. 5 mins later, oh cool i got in another room. etc...

The game was awesome when it came out, but seriously, the game got rly old after D2.

Quote from "lordrdx666" »

lets hope like hell that we get a beta key for d3

maybe keys, but no beta date. This won't go until next year's blizzcon. SC2 beta should be announced tho,

I am also looking for some preview of next acts and 1 other class at least. I would like to see some gameplay as well. I just can't get enough of the gameplay previews. More, moreeeee

WoW, I just loveee the UI, it's even darker than D2. Statues on the Mana/Rage Pool are just awesome and the color is so much realistic compared to the grey colors of DII. Much respect for the "UI guy". The only thing I would change would be the slot of Gloves. I would put it to the left how we got used to it. The way it's right now I just feel like the shadow of the body behind does not fit with the hand slot position.

I love the new names for the runes, make them more Diablo.

The item colors have been confirmed by Bashiok that Uniques won't be purple as the technical director said. Good news cause I also think that the Gold color is a classic. I understand that it was a problem for colorblindness. Myself, even if not color blind, I had myself some problem scanning between Rares and Uniques when I was on my old Monitor where I needed to boost the gamma. It was very annoying. So switch rare's color and keep unique gold, it's so epic!

Now what I think is not a good thing right now. I read alot about the skill trees and I saw alot of skills that were only upgrades. I compared Diablo 3 Trees with WoW Talent Trees. Some of the skills inside the tree are new unique skills, some are there to upgrade other skills. But I thought that few skills were given to the class at start or at a certain level nomatter which spec you are. But right now, I think I was wrong.

So here is my thought: Alright, we have runes to make spells customizable. But even there. If you take the Barbarian, right now there is 17 Active skills (where less than the half are attacks) in all 3 trees. This kind of tree setup invites the player to go the the bottom of one and stay at the top/middle of the 2 others. Which would mean like 9 active skills for each build. That is more than a D2 build, but D2 still had more possibility. The only problem in D2 was that they were'nt balanced to be all powerful. Runes will bring this in D3. But I already see website that show the best build for a Fury Barb. And some runes will be more useful in certain skills and everyone will head for the same build again...

As a question of lore. I think that fans from the 3 franchises got what they needed to live with for the next few years.

That been said. I wouldn't care to see a WC4. But I think that right now is the best timing to be working on something entirely new. I would love to see a new universe but allso a new type of game. Ghost was an exemple of something new for Blizzard style and if it had been made by Blizzard, it would have rocked, but no company on Earth can do Blizz job... So yea, I would love to see something completly new. FPS in a new universe or something like that. Just to let Blizzard reshape a genre and make their new game a classic for the genre they chose

Diablo II PVP was veryyyy boooring and dumb. And since Blizzard wants their games to become more like "sports" as for their watching/competition value. They will never stay to the fight outside of town - go back to town - get out teleport, nova, teleport back to town.. This was dumb and don't worry, they will change it. The fact is that Blizzard didn't bring this type of PVP. Players did. Now Blizz will put some "rules" and will make this official, prevent abuses and unbalancment.

Diablo 3 PVP must be better than Diablo 2's. Cause face it guys, D2 pvp was NOT a good pvp system.

Oh well, not a very popular idea after all

It's alright, but I don't think my idea should be a 3rd mode. This would just be wrong.

Anyway, HC was nearly Death proof at the beginning. Since people had their Esc - Quit Game button always ready.

If Blizz would block game quiting while in combat... 90% of people who just said : Death is Death in HC would just never play HC. I know what it is since I played hardcore alot and even tried in Ladders on the first roll. Died at level 89 barb, iron maiden...

Let's hope Blizz finds something to make HC more attractive...

Blizzard already confirmed that no map/game costumization would be supported. So of course player created custom maps won't be in the game for tons of reasons like balancement and a world map editor integration.

But a PVP system will probably (99%) be implemented. I would like to see this like the Arena from WoW. (Even if I think WoW is the worst game to have PVP on it because of how inacurate the packets are transmitted to the clients). Still, having some fighting grounds where you can find some destructible traps and closed environment (to counter the late D2 Enigma teleport spamming) so no class and no spell/equipement build is more viable than others.

I think Blizzard will implement the same Tournament system they recently added on WoW which would be one of the Bnet2.0 options (with a fee) avalaible to players. I wouldn't pay for this but I know alot of people would like to compete for money in Diablo 3.

I would like to see some way to spectate these players that are very talented and highly ranked in this system to give some good players some sort of ways to show themselves. Which is now possible in SC, WC and WoW.

And finaly, I would love a Team system. To officialize the team battles. That would be a new strategic game in Diablo PVP. ie: Fury Barbarian & Arcane Wizard vs Fire Wizard and WitchDoc. People could start to find strengths and weeknesses for each class and each class combinasions.

Quote from "reform" »

Nobody would play hardcore if you got your character back after a week, they'd all play normal to avoid the downtime.

A more realistic idea would be that your items are detroyed and you return to level 1.

But I prefer it how it is already.

Lolll, that would be a downgrade since people like to keep their character has proof of being level 99 and dead but still in the ladder.

And the idea is based only on the fact that people want to compete on Ladders. Going from 1 to 99 in Diablo II in normal mode (without power leveling or any help) used to take me maximum 2 weeks depending on how lucky i got with item drops and stuff. On hardcore. I would take more time (as it is on Diablo II LOD Ladders right now). People are playing a different way when dieing means something. And trust me, if I would want to be in top100 Hardcore mode level race, I would consider a 1 week penality just like losing him for good. Since a week is like 90 level when starting from the beginning.

So it would be the same for a competitive aspect. You STILL lose your character's "worth". But also, if you are 90 and you die. But you don't want to create the same character right now.. Well in 1 week, you will be able to play him again, even if he has no chance of being in the ladders. Competitive players like me will consider this character "lost" but also and for others, this could affect players decisions to play Hardcore mode where in Diablo II, they would never had.

That doesn't stop you from deleting your character when you die to make it just like Diablo II though ;).

That is exactly why i wasn't too sure about this one.. I just tried to find a way to attract people who would usualy not dare going Hardcore.

Hey, well, that's my first time here on Game Suggestions forum, i read some of the suggestions.

I am sorry if I repost a earlier suggestion but here it is:

- Dieing in Hardcore Mode might only "disable" your character for a few days. (a week)

Let me explain myself before bashing me

I loved the Hardcore mode in Diablo II and I was happy to hear that it should come back in Diablo III. I think this mode deserve a better popularity because I know that alot of people do not try this because they don't want to start over after a lag. It happened at least once for everyone. But just the fact of thinking that death is really the end brings the player to an whole new level of in the game.

I also thought about the leveling ladders races there was post 1.10, I think. This was very cool.

So I thought about merging these to make everyone "happy". In some Leveling races like in D2 where you needed to be leveling your character everyday for a week to make sure you could have a chance to be in the top 99 just rang me a bell. Why not, if the character dies, locking this character for a week (death penality). This would be enough to get this character out of the ladders. But at least, they could be able to play with their character again in few days if they enjoyed leveling him.


Not sure what you guys think.

EDIT: of course this would probably work only on BNET.