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It's possible to Javascript the whole thing up, and it's definitely a possibility for the future considering all the information already entered can be parsed and edited as is quite easily. It is, though, something I am not quite ready to struggle with the wiki with, as it contains a lot of restrictions on allowed tags (<script> one of them, although I'm only 99% sure it restricts them).

It is still a big possibility in the future. If anyone wants to take a stab at it, it is a freely editable wiki and I challenge anyone to try their hand at it :).

I'm not sure how much of an effect the elimination of skill trees will actually have. Since skills still have a level requirement, it's essentially forcing you to pick lower tiered skills, lest you suck at lower levels. In which case, some early skills may become useless when later skills are available and learned.

Both the current D2 system and the proposed system are almost exactly alike, with the exception that you don't have to learn prerequisite skills (which saves like, what, a few points total). I wouldn't be too assured that these changes are really all that dramatic.

I just hope there is a greater variety of equally potent builds.

Quote from Magistrate

For some reason I simply cannot recall DI shrines. Did they have multiple effects? Is that what you mean? And sometimes some of them were adverse?

A lot of Shrines in Diablo 1 permanently decreased stats by 1-3 points.

Yay! I love chat idling with Sixen and his sexy level 9 Paladin. This will definitely streamline that past time.

Everytime you press the gem, it pings Matt.J's IP

Press butan, DDoS Matt.J

/me goes to try that

edit - is it better if i have gem activated?

Dear god yes shave it off.

Ya ain't cool if ya ain't gay.

The new colors have been chosen for increased accessibility and readability. I admit they look a little... fabulous, but it's just good web design.

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God I hate april fools when it comes to Blizzard. Don't tweet some message just for it to turn out to be a joke =/.

You don't like jokes, bro?

If lame gets me wet with anticipation, hanging on to every detail of the image, publicly knowing that it was a WotLK reveal, but secretly hoping it was Diablo 3: then yes, very lame.

Siaynoq is the enemy of joy, though.

I'm scared. Damn you, April, why must you ruin otherwise hype worthy material.

The Diablo series is unequivocally the Tristram theme. Listening to it right now.

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This. Remove dupes, the economy is fine. Items naturally lose value as more of them exist.

There's a reason SoJ's are the currency of choice in Diablo 2 :|.

Removing duping from the game wouldn't solve the economy by itself (although it'd help a lot). Without BoE, unique and set items would simply be hoarded and would eventually lose all value as the game is played longer by more people.

If you find a great item, you must decide whether to keep it or trade it (just like any BoE in WoW). You can't just slap it on knowing you'll be able to pawn it off to the next newbie when you find something better. The destruction of items for gold is the only way to lower the amount of those items in circulation, thus keeping the economy relatively balanced.

You may not like it, but it's a good decision by Blizzard and they have way more experience with in-game economies than anyone here could possibly begin to lie about.

Blizzard has yet to make a single bad game. They will not screw up Diablo 3. BoE is an obvious method of encouraging players to simply play the game more, as well as managing the economy.