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• Will there be Magic Find in Diablo III, if so, how will it be different/similar? If not, how will the dropping of super rare items be dictated?

- AcidReign - #14

• Are lower level skills still going to be useful when we have higher level skills later on in the game? Or will we feel like we need to save our skill points for higher level skills?

- jwest88 - #53
- jwest88 - #10


Basekick #8

1. How similar will the skill tree be to Diablo 2? For example, will all characters be using Mana to cast our spells? Will we be having the same progression-type skill tree as in Diablo 2? And will synergies make a return?

USNSEALS #31
In Diablo II, if you took the time to really enjoy every detail, playing it the second time around, there was a feel of 'I know what to do next. I remember this guy was here, I know I have to do this to get to this.' It didn't even take 3 or 4 completions.
How is Diablo III going to improve upon that if at all?

Decay #85 (quote/response to D3nick) (I would try to form a more concise question that encompasses these ideas)
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Originally Posted by d3nick
Is is possible to move to previous world locations in Diablo III, even though your player character has progressed to another act? Or is one limited to staying within the zone the act is focused on?

For example:

- I just completed A1, A2. In A3 (assuming there is one), can/will a player visit A1 again in addition to being able to access a new area?

Oooh ooh ooh, even cooler, once they go back to act one, might they find a bunch of new quests that weren't even available yet due to things happening in the story in act 2/3 causing quests/etc to appear in act one that weren't there originally ...

What will occur when you get a level up? How many stat points and skill points?

Can you elaborate on the skill tree system planned for Diablo 3?

Are lower level skills still going to be useful when we have higher level skills later on in the game? Or will we feel like we need to save our skill points for higher level skills?

Quote from "USNSEALs" »

Two questions:

In Diablo II, if you took the time to really enjoy every detail, playing it the second time around, there was a feel of 'I know what to do next. I remember this guy was here, I know I have to do this to get to this.' It didn't even take 3 or 4 completions.
How is Diablo III going to improve upon that if at all?

This is a good question, I would like to also know how they will make replaying not be too similar to the first time so it doesn't feel like the same exact thing.

In diablo 2 I mostly played singleplayer, it has been said that there will be an emphasis on multiplayer in D3, will singleplayer be just as rewarding and fun as multiplayer?

I do not like how most games rated M have a lot of profanity and nudity, will diablo 3 have about the same amount as diablo 2, or will it have more adult content?

I loved to collect set items in Diablo 2, but sometimes I never found a whole set, or the set was not as effective as having unique or runeword items, will having full sets be more rewarding in Diablo3? Will sets and the other kinds of items be more ballanced in power?

These aren't very good, but couldn't think of better right now.

I don't want to ask lore or story questions, because I want to experience the story for the first time when I play it, not know too much about it beforehand.

I like basekick's first question about items.

Hopefully this just applies to death and there will still be town portals, but probably not as freely.

The reason it worked in D1 was because books were the only source of skills. This basically made it so books were only useful for those with high enough energy to use them, usually sorcerer. Besides books, in D1 you just used items and stats, and either shot your bow or swung your weapon. There were some convenient spells to have like town portal, but most were not used or just sold.(warrior/rogue) I like the setup where you add to a skill as well as stats every level, so I prefer D2's setup, but in my opinion books worked in D1 because they did not have this system. Overall in D3 no books is best, Books of lore to read along the way would be cool though, like in D1.

That Barb with the guns was hilarious!

Yeah I saw this also, thats a huge relief! Guns do not belong in Diablo. I'm glad that it has now been confirmed they will not be in D3.

Triune is the 3 prime evils church on sanctuary, they created it to gain control over humans to help them destroy the heavens. So a triune cultist is an initiated who knows exactly what the Triune is but willingly serves the prime evils or just one of them.

Read the Sin War for more information on Sanctuary and other lore that may be used in D3(bosses, etc.), they're good books, half way done with the last(3d) one.

EDIT: Probably already said, only looked at 1st page.

I like the authors Kate Forsyth and Tamora Pierce. I own two sets written by Kate Forsyth, One begins with an apprentice witch who lives in a land where witches are burned and tortured, but it was not always that way. The main character departs on a journey in which she has no clue as to what is in store for her or the direness of the situation. She is naive and innocent, at first.. She is a key in restoring the coven of witches back to power. What's left of them. Even when the world seems more at peace all is altered irrevocably.

I checked out the first book in this series from the library, and after that needed to read them all, so I bought all of the next books in the set(without previewing them). Then bought her next set(Rhiannon's Ride) (without previewing them)when I finished that one(Witches of Eileannan). This set was also good.

Tamora Pierce is another fantasy author who is more for teen readers (which I am fine with, I'm not trying to read pornography just to stay away from Teen books) I believe, I like her books also. Good sets include Protector of the small, the wildmage set, the circle of magic, the circle opens, and song of the lioness.

My taste in books may be different than others though, because I grew up with two older sisters. This subsequently led to me reading some of the authors they read and being possibly more comfortable with female main characters as well as authors. I also do not mind some romance in a novel as long as it does not consume the whole story and as long as it is not graphic.

I also enjoyed the Diablo Archive, and am now reading Roger Zelazny's amber series as well as the Sin war trilogy.

I am not suggesting straight out buying these, I would not want you to waste your money on something you might not like, it would be better to check them out from a library if you can.

I have not read the wheel of time series, but have heard it is one of the best fantasy sets around, so I may try to check that out at some point in time.

Hope this helps and doesn't waste your time,

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The 8600 is probably adequate, however for optimal gaming, one would find it to be sorely lacking in every area.

Perhaps one such as yourself might consider the accumulation of monetary assets such that the affordability of powerful video cards pose no troublesome conundrum? Should the credibility of the supposed release date in a timeframe of no more than two years be palatable, one should find it exceedingly effortless to reserve a small amount for upgrading purposes. Let us consider your situation. $60 is unfortunately merely adequate for video cards in the computing world. One would consider $200 to be perfectly suited for the purpose, allowing oneself a level of gameplay surpassing that of sufficient, from a tremendous range of titles. Let us consider the mathematics involved:

($200-$60) / 24 months = ~$6 per month

Thus, one such as yourself, would be required to save $6 every month, or 20 cents per day, over the course of two years for one to afford a powerful video card beyond the one selected. The question thus, is does one find such a reasonable solution to ones issue?

I am going to school full time, not working at all, so do not have an income(besides financial aid, which I try not to spend on anything besides school). But intend to be working after this semester. Even though it will be easy to save up enough money until the release to buy a better GPU I would rather spend less and save the rest of the money I would have spent. My computer only cost about 400 with the three year warranty I paid for, and a graphics card costing half as much as an entire computer OS included just does not seem logical to me.

In short I see spending hundreds of dollars on a GPU wasteful, and at best would get a 8800GT which costs a little over 100.

Thanks for the response, but forget I asked. I am worrying about getting a new card far too early and should be much more worried about other things. I will worry about upgradnig at a later date, and hope I will show enough control to not use the labor day sale as an excuse to by a card.

Thanks for the advice though, it helped out in the sense that it reminded me that I don't need to worry about D3 for a while and to wait a while longer to upgrade. I don't play first person shooters or RTS's so I am not worried about not being able to play newer games up until the release. I somehow only really like Action-RPG's like Diablo on PC, and games like secret of mana and other RPG's on the snes, my newest console is an N64 and PS1. Basically I am not worried about being able to play the newest most popular games.

Would someone please tell me their opinion of the 8600gt graphics card. I would like to update from my on board graphics of 6150 nforce 430 (HP a6200n, 3 gigs ram). I however do not want to spend a lot of money.

I could get a 8600gt for about 50-60 dollars with a mail in rebate and would like some opinions as well as a suggested brand. It seems eVGA is supposed to be good. According to what I read this card would be good. As it is I may just wait it out until D3 is released or closer to when it is released. The demo (when it comes out) will also be a huge decider for me whether I will upgrade. Maybe cards will be cheaper by then also?

Thanks.

EDIT: NEVER MIND I'M NOT GOING TO UPGRADE YET.

Reading bird by bird by Anne Lammott for English 280, and have ordered the Sin War Trilogy, as well as the Great book of Amber(books 1-10 of the amber series) by Roger Zelazny. Besides that I should be reading my History book, and suppose I'll read chapter 2 like I am supposed to by tuesday. Look forward to the Sin War as well as amber series, they should arrive next tuesday or wednsday.

Only book I have read from him was first king of shannara. I liked it, and will try to check out the sword of shannara series if they are at the library.

I may be repeating myself but...

I almost solely like to play single player, so if they made unique items really rare it would take forever to find good drops. This is because there is no trading involved, and rarity matters less on single player also because many people are concerned about having unique equips compared to other people, or that everyone will have the same gear if drops are not rare enough. In single player it is just you, it doesn't matter if someone else may have the same equips, or if many people have the same equips. So if blizzard made better items rarer it should only apply to multiplayer because you can trade, but personally for me in D2 it was really hard to get the rare advanced drops including set items and unique, so in my opinion making drops even rarer would be horrible.

I think duping or some other form of cheating may have influenced the rarity of items online, but since I do not really play on Bnet I am not sure.