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For those of you who replied to our email about the #DiabloBeta, you should hear back from us today. We know you want to slay some minions!

Quote from Molster

yep =P Thats why im occupying myself with programming something diablo related..

Great job on that, btw. It's very cool to see so many people using it for their sigs, and it's very interesting to see all the variations of how they plan to spec and rune choices. Every sig I see is different.

I think everyone on these forums are starting to short-circuit from all the straining to speculate when the game is coming out. Not a good thing when that is the only discussion to be had and everything else is old news.

I'm definitely calling in sick for release day. Grind out 9+ hours of gaming before the wife comes home and wrecks me.

@ Afkalmighty- Blizzard is hiring for a Korean PR position. I vote you as the Korean ambassador for Dfans and Blizzard!

Quote from BoredSilly

My guess is it won't come out till after the next wow expansion. They don't want to risk losing expansion sales because of newly entrenched diablo players simply losing interest in wow. The expansion is slated for the second quarter of 2012 there's no way in hell they'll release diablo 3 a few weeks before that.

This is the complete opposite of why the Annual Pass even exists. They want to lock people down to continue paying for a WoW account while they are away playing D3.

I personally hope they aren't wasting time and energy on HC pvp. No offense guys, I don't want to stretch out the release date because they need to figure out what to do with HC players who die in arenas but not in PvM. This is by far (IMO) the least important part of the game that needs to be thought through.. Introduce it in a patch afterwards for all I care. HC players will be spending time losing their chars in Inferno anyways.

I hope they talk about the rune system, class skills being finalized, the RMAH working like a champ, and light at the end of the tunnel.

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I got my assassin up to 73 now, but I've slowed down big time since SW:ToR. Been farming Baal, but the drops have been absolute crap. Tons of nice paladin weapons have dropped that I've been muling, but that's about it. I check every vendor and check every polearm drop praying for a 4 socket, but no luck yet.

D3 will probably come out before I get one!

I'm done feeding their hype machine over Twitter. I'll take my 3 entries and decrease my odds from 3/275,000 to 3/475,000.

Quote from Westicleez

Nobody talks about how getting good at LoL microing will make you a better pvper in D3

LoL is such garbage, I will be pissed off if D3 resembles it in any aspect besides the click to move.

Quote from Whenwilitbereleasedcomeon

Blizzard confirms the diablo 3 console project. Further proving my point, thank you blizzard!

6 posts, all pointless.

I think of Everquest when I see the D3 monks.

Quote from Grompha

Another spirit generators gave 8% dmg for 3 seconds, imo not worth it...

Why not worth it? If you constantly use deadly reach for spirit generation, won't a permanent dmg buff be a good thing?

Quote from BoredSilly

Diablo 3 won't be released before the next Wow expqansion, surely you guys have cottoned onto that by now ... It's about the money guys, and losing Wow sales to newly entrenced diablo fans is not part of the plan.

Why do you think Blizzard created the annual pass? It's so that you continue paying for a WoW account for at least a year in return for a free copy of D3 and some vanity stuff. They also assume people will use the RMAH, so they will only increase their profits, not decrease during the population shift from WoW to D3.

Not a bad change at all, if people do decide to play solo during the tougher difficulties.

Quote from Keiser

That's been one of my arguments against Daeity's argument of Korea holding it back in that the rest of the world could be earning RMAH profits, but you seem to be saying that they need to release it Q1 financially no matter what. This has NEVER been the case with Blizzard titles. If it's not as close to perfect as they think they can make it in a reasonable amount of time, it won't be released. If there's flaws that make it not a fun game, they will delay. Bean counters run our world, but bean counters also have their allstars, and they tend to let their allstars run around doing whatever they want. They kind of have to respect the talent that has made them so successful.

That's a fair perspective, too. I personally don't think SK GRB is the sole reason for any delay, but does contribute to some bumps in the road. I guarantee that if Blizzard didn't have the World of Warcraft, which makes that organization a financial all-star, the pressure to pump out D3 would be over the top.

I only compared it to my company because our investors demand a 20% increase to revenues and EBITDA on us each year. If we can't make it, they'll find people who can. I figured that Blizzard's investors would have some kind of financial goal that they have to hit before year's end.