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Here's a nice screenshot displaying rewards in the achievement itself. The two rewards being displayed down there are 1 Banner background pattern and 1 Banner shape.

Just to add, while not different models, rare items actually add random colors to said gear. Like if you get a Tier 5 helm, it'll remain with the Tier 5 model but could be white, or yellow, or blue... And so on.

I got fat.

I'm sorry to say this:

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Didn't even flinch. You knew this all along, I've seen all the photos and videos and there is no difference between the CE dyes and their single-use counterparts. If you want a particle effect use your imagination.

The CE things are not implemented in the Beta. What you've seen are placeholder dyes. In this case - pale and rogue. CE dyes will be unique.
I thought this is general knowledge by now.

My insulin levels are heightened due to very long gaming sessions over the course of the last 15 years.
Eyesight - not too sure if it's caused by it, but I'm just slightly myopic. Doctors don't recommend glasses though.
Other then that - no. I've never liked what people refer to as "social life" to begin with. So games were more of the salvation, rather then the issue itself.

Edit: As it turns out I didn't read the topic of your paper correctly. Here are some of the good qualities that came out of gaming for me:

Observations and reactions - I can spot details and react to them quite quickly. Much faster then people I've seen around me. And most of the time I know what to do with said details almost instantaneously. Gaming helps people spot patterns, inconsistencies and learning how to react properly to them. It also helps plan things WAY ahead of time.

Through multiplayer I've met a lot more people that I would've if I simply went out as I child and all of them come from different cultures. That's great knowledge right there. Learning how to communicate properly with people that have grown in completely different backgrounds.

The brain is in constant activity opposite to watching TV. With TV you mostly just receive information. With video games you almost always have to also send information and of course interact with that information in your brain. You can't just sit inactive and play a game that way. That develops faster thinking, troubleshooting skills and general problem solving skills.

Science fiction and fantasy games and books are the sole reason I like science and technology. There was not a single interesting thing for me in school. I suppose I (like many others I suppose) am just not for this type of education. Reading and playing video games did so much more for my curiosity. Since before I graduated I started learning things on my own, while being pretty bad in school. Right now I love talking about all things science - physics, chemistry, astronomy, cosmology, geology, history, computers, technology in general. School was horrible for me. I received a generic computer diploma at 6th grade and since then there wasn't a single useful thing until university. Not to mention the kids at my age were busy partying and getting drunk, smoking weed and such other activities (and I do mean the majority of them), while I played video games and satiated curiosity while also having fun in my own way.

As a popular thing I've also learned English through cartoons, but mostly from video games. StarCraft was one of my better teachers back in the day. None of the English teachers I've had in school (way up to graduation) that knew words such as "jiffy" or "frankly" and such everyday English words. I don't know how I survived...

Enough for now. Gotta get back to work. I'll likely add a bit more later today or tomorrow.

Oh wow! We can give rep again! Woot! These things should on the main page, dammit!

Don't worry, we still haven't seen what set items look like. They might be tons better than Archon, which for now looks too detailed and slightly pompous.

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I like how they did not mention a single word about EU. Heh. Gratz US! I'd be surprised to find a lot of people that did _not_ get an invite over there.

I thought that it may have been implied here?

We’ll have more information about these global giveaways as well as regional betas in the coming weeks.

Implied yes, mentioned no. I would've been glad even for a cold straight "we don't want to invite EU players right now. Instead we'll invite every single person in the US and then think about it afterwards".

As apparent by SC2 and the last 2 WoW expansions Blizz make _plenty_ of CEs. They still have the Wrath CE at my local stores (Bulgaria).

Also to OP: Amazon can't "run out of stock" as they don't actually have stock yet. They're likely setting a realistic and small number that Blizzard will surely provide for them and keeping it safe until the game is actually out and they have like a million CEs in surplus (I'm being realistic with this number). Do not be worried OP, no one is going to miss out on the CE, unless you live somewhere where Blizz don't have intentions of making any money. US is not one of those places.

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