October 22-23, 2010, Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.
Pack your bags and remember to sprinkle some food for your fish before you leave because this is the place to be where all of our patience pays off and questions will be answered… hopefully. Take a look at these 10 top questions Blizzcon must answer and why!
10. The New Acts.
We’ve been taken to a journey through the Caldeum, New Tristram, and recently the Borderlands and all of these environments are epic. Which parts of the Diablo world can we expect to make a return and which new ones are we going to see? The Diablo world is a vast one with varied places such as the swampy Marshlands, the dark Dreadlands or to the icy Arreat Crater and these sceneries will possibly make its way in the upcoming acts. Besides, all of this will give us a feel of how close of a finished product Diablo really is.
9. New Bestiary & Bosses.
What is the Diablo world without something to smash and loot? The Thousand Pounder, the Siegebreaker Assault Beast and King Leoric were all brand spanking new and excitement filled baddies that we just can’t wait to beat the living or non-living crap out of. And if this is just a sample of things to come, it’s a safe bet to say that we have awesome bosses and bestiary stored for us in the oh so near future. I, for one, would like to see the return of zombified Griswold!
8. The Respec System.
Bashiok gave us the general idea of the respec system but he didn’t really go into detail as to the requirements and how to accomplish a respect. Will it be easy or will it be hard to gain a respect? Is there a cap as to how many times you can respect? What is the cost and are there any penalties?
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For Diablo III we don't have it really nailed down yet but some of the main points we do want to hit are that it's more than just a gold cost for changing your mind. Although that will be a major component of it. That it's targeted for specific skills so you're not resetting your entire skill tree, but you're able to target specific skills to reset those ones specifically. To also scale the cost of respecing so early on in the game it's cheaper and easier to respec and as you go farther into the game it will be harder and more expensive.[Source]
7. Character Resource Systems.
Blizzard announced that each character will have a unique resource system. The Barbarian will have Fury; Witch Doctor, Mana; Wizard, Instability; Monk, ______; and ______, ______. The Barbarian’s Fury system has went through different systems such as the Rage system, the Damage Increasing system and finally to the Endless Fury system which we did not get to see a demo of in last years Blizzcon.
Rage system
Damage Increasing system
But to get an idea of this Endless Fury system, here is what Jay Wilson had to say:
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The Barbarian can essentially just recycle his fury so fast that he was hitting dudes with Leap Attacks or Seismic Slams and stuff like that. If he hits a lot of targets, he generates a lot of Fury and he can just instantly just do another skill again. But if he wastes like a really big AOE skill on one dude, then he wastes a lot of his Fury and then he has to kinda start over a little bit. It’s a really fast pace system, it doesn’t kinda get in the way of his fun and hold him back but it does make him think about where/what he’s going to hit and what kind of skills he’s going to use on what type of monsters. And that makes it a lot more fun to play him.[Source]
Neat. The Endless Fury system feels like the right system for the Barbarian and hopefully this particular system will not get scrapped but it is still being worked on.
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Fury is going through some further iteration. The orb system wasn't really working out like we had hoped and was creating some roadblocks. The other resource systems, nothing really to share. The wizard instability is reworked as well. More about all those at BlizzCon.[Source]
Flash back to January and a tweet stated that the monk resource system early implementation is complete; therefore, we can expect a finished or near finished resource system for the monk and perhaps all classes.
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The monk resource system early implementation complete. A resource certainly fitting of a holy warrior. [Source]
6. Crafting.
Nothing has been revealed about crafting except that the Horadic Cube will not be returning (no exact source could be found for this). So what cube-like structure will we be using this time to fulfill our needs to mix in Wirt’s leg and make things mysterious doings appear? Not a Rubix cube that's for damn sure! Hopefully, a completely new crafting system that is more effective with tons-o-recipes.
5. The Unannounced.
There are several aces in the magician-like sleeves of Blizzard just waiting for the right timing to dish out a magical spectacle that will strike us in awe. Will there be a new system relating to questing, gambling, banking, guilds, etc? The unknown is sooooo titillating!
4. Player Versus Player
How will it work and what features will it have? No information has been given and we are all dying to know if Blizzcon will be the event that tells us this info.
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...That doesn't mean that PvP won't have its own focus, but those are details and features we aren't yet discussing.[Source]
3. The Rune system.
Last year, we got a taste of how l33t the Rune System can dramatically change your character’s skills to further customize your character. But this year we want to see any new changes and more in-depth information on its possible uses. Also in the last year’s playable demo, runes were not droppable so we’re hoping this year that it is droppable and that we can tinker around with it.
2. The Fifth Class.
A lot of speculation has been building up to what exactly the next class will be ranging from the common guesses such as the Ranger or the Bard and to most unlikely such as the Vampire or Werewolf. So, let’s end this forever long speculation and announce us the last class during Blizzcon 2010!
1. A Release Date.
Blizzard keeps giving us the run around on when we can see Diablo III on the shelves by telling us ‘Soon’ or this recent comment from Bashiok:
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Stupid amounts of progress have been made. It's stupid. The amounts. They're just silly in the enormity of them. And the progress.[Source]
All of this of course, leaves us to cross our fingers and pray on our beds at night for the day we get to hear an actual release date!
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Honorable mentions.
System Requirements.
Beta Demo.
Easter Eggs (secret cow level).
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Lmao I'm not changing the game. I'm making things easier. I said just copy and paste it so we can read the entire story.
Changing the game would be like:
Zhar: Let's make up a story one word at a time.
deathMars: FUCK YOU! Let's play hide and go seek.
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Also, this is the second time where I left and came back, so go ahead and post hate words and a nice picture of a mutated penis monster with a nice "FUCK YOU" attached on its head because I really don't care. I'm just glad to be back and I want to say that I missed you all
Please tell me what happened in the time that I missed as well (approximately 2-3 months). I will try to be a more frequent poster but my computer time is limited so I'll probably get a good 8-10 posts a day.
Anyway, I missed you all very much. Glad to be back!!!!
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Lol. I have a mental image of you already, and it kind of relates to what Kyle's mom looks like in South Park.
Creating a taboo over such material will only make it worse. What you should really do is to tell them it's not really a big deal. Why do kids start to drink in high school? Because they want to be a rebel and show it by doing something "bad".
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Megan Fox needs to shot for being so hot.
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Hmm... Makes sense. But, like you said, I guess most of it is also based on how the moderators thinki about the offense, meaning if you make an April Fools joke about hacking the site it won't really be bannable. Or is it?
I noticed that starting fights wasn't there. Can trolling or "flaming" someone get you a ban? or is it one of those things you have to do a lot of to get a ban?