Hello, this is a drawing of the diablo 2 box i did during art class. I was trying out the tablet in the room and wanted a picture to draw that i thought would be realatively simple to do but still pertaining to my interests. This is the result.
I'm pretty sure that blizzard has changed it so they drop up to level 7 runes i think, i think i read that from a post on the main page. Also since you should be able to have somewhere close to 50 characters on one account i don't think that having one of each character with a specialized artisan will inconvenience you too much but having that many characters purely for the artisans does seem like a poor idea.
I don't know if this is how blizzard plans on doing it, but in my opinion, it would make sense for each artisan to specialize in only one things, such as axes, hence specialize. This would force you to max out your artisan for each character and drop more gold into each one (better for blizzard, sucks for us). If your main artisan can eventually specialize in everything i think it would become too easy to stack your new characters, although that may get rid of some tedious game play in the beginning. Dammit, i seem to be arguing both sides at the same time, i don't know whats going to happen.
those pictures aren't screenshots of a game that was almost completed, they're sketches/concept art, unless the style of the game was to look like it was all hand drawn.
I agree with you for your first point, it would kind of neat to see the same legendary helm for everyone that wears it but people would all look the same. It would be like everyone running around in purple Tal-Rasha's armor, which is exactly the opposite of what blizzard is going for in D3.
Your second point wouldn't really work, continuing your example, to make bigger tusks for legendary elephant armor they would still have to completely redraw the whole armor with the difference being the size of the tusks. The only thing that this style has going for it is that it would take a lot less work to make compared to a new armor but its still one more drawing to be done. I feel that if I was on the design team I'd rather design a completely new bad-ass looking legendary armor, compared to just altering armor that already exists. If you just alter existing armor its not really legendary, its just unique.
What they could do is reserve a colour (I'm Canadian, all you Americans spell colour wrong) for legendary items, say gold. So when you put on the legendary armor it becomes gold and its the only armor that will be gold. That save them from drawing 500 new pieces of armor.
For hardcore players in PvP, i'm not entirely sure on this, but i think i read in a blue post that there will be probably one round battles in PvP and its a great way to go out with a bang with your max level hardcore character. Again i'm not suire on this but the phrase was stuck in my head from somewhere.
I'm not *quite* sure what you're saying, but if you die once in PvP in hardcore, you're dead.
I was just playing 2v2 arena and, I have to say, even that can be a challenge to see through. Everything goes so fast, and there's so many skills going at once, that it's almost impossible to focus on more than two characters at one time. As I played it more, it became easier to follow different players and decide what I needed to cast on the spot.
Thats the whole point to hardcore PvP, when you dual someone else its the ultimate battle because when you lose, your character is literally dead.
For hardcore players in PvP, i'm not entirely sure on this, but i think i read in a blue post that there will be probably one round battles in PvP and its a great way to go out with a bang with your max level hardcore character. Again i'm not suire on this but the phrase was stuck in my head from somewhere.
The wave defense idea sounds awesome, they could turn it into a mini-game almost where you would set up defenses like walls and guard towers to help you defend the town. It reminds me of all the custom tower defense games from Warcraft 3 that i love to play. The dungeons also sounds really cool and for the sake of not taking up too much space on the map it makes sense, since its practically 99% underground but it would be nice for some variation to the dungeons. If they made an extension to the map they could put a massive mausoleum to go into or perhaps a huge tower.
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Your second point wouldn't really work, continuing your example, to make bigger tusks for legendary elephant armor they would still have to completely redraw the whole armor with the difference being the size of the tusks. The only thing that this style has going for it is that it would take a lot less work to make compared to a new armor but its still one more drawing to be done. I feel that if I was on the design team I'd rather design a completely new bad-ass looking legendary armor, compared to just altering armor that already exists. If you just alter existing armor its not really legendary, its just unique.
What they could do is reserve a colour (I'm Canadian, all you Americans spell colour wrong) for legendary items, say gold. So when you put on the legendary armor it becomes gold and its the only armor that will be gold. That save them from drawing 500 new pieces of armor.
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Thats the whole point to hardcore PvP, when you dual someone else its the ultimate battle because when you lose, your character is literally dead.
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