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looks like a few finishing touches. so, 2.5 in a few weeks, eh? i am sure there is nothing primal to be tested.

Demonmonger: paragon is at the very least grindable. a real upgrade like a primal ancient legendary with the correct stats and 1.200+ for the right slots is a lot more luck and ANOTHER RNG based thing. bad design.

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Haters gona hate, the content is free and some people are still flaming, in other companies you pay for new content. I was looking for things like special place for crafting material and even the armory is a good idea, anyway more power, that is fantastic. (>'-')> take my energy blizz (>'-')>

started the current season asap when it went live. got to 70, did a few things and couldn't bring myself to log in after i saw what happened at blizzcon.

i really thought the game would be shaken up quite a bit with many mechanic changes to rifts, grifts, paragon and talents plus maybe a new system like runes for rune words, so i saw S8 as one of the last seasons with the "old" systems in place. but it seems to be seasons all the way from now on forward. there already was talk about consoles getting in on the "fun" with season 10 (!). and nothing exciting along the way.

it is very sad to see the game being this dull. :/

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Awesome, this is a lot of changes for an initial PTR patch, looking forward to see what else is in store for us in 2.4.3

Were you paid to say that? That was like....mega corny.

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Seeing all this stuff together in one page, don't you think this could have been enough to call it an expansion?

- new class

- new areas

- new monsters

- new game mode (challenge rift + D1)

- mechanical changes (grift density, gem upgrade, material UI, dye merchant)

- armory

If they also added cube to this list and the earlier added areas (which make it 5 areas = a small Act 6). It could definitely be sold as an expansion.

those are almost patch notes.

those guys, man. they have the nerves. when i look at all their other games and how the devs talk about so much and build and do so much and plan so much and give fans things they get excited about and then, the diablo devs. they really think they got us, but they are even more disconnected from the player base then they were ever before.

it is time to kill this game off, remake a glorious diablo 4 and try to evolve the hack n slash genre. which is really the biggest gripe i have about most of the people (AND THE DEVS) who always say: "but diablo is an hack n slash. you aren't supposed to play it too much. you are supposed to enjoy it in between. you should only play it for a week in a new season."

fuck that. i started vanilla with the reputation of blizzard in mind, that their games always capture that typical blizzard magic art- and lore-wise while still maintaining a game well beyond it's prime. see diablo 2. and for real content and constant evolution look for WoW. and i thought "hey, they wouldn't let diablo go a year without signifcant and cool changes!". boy, was i wrong.

the current devs suck, they began to work for blizzcon 2016 only THIS YEAR. while still tweeting back in november 2015 about fans losing their sh*t about diablo for the next blizzcon. you cannot honeycoat the massive failures of this game and it's development team anymore.

anniversary dungeon sounds good at first, but how does it play out with retro visuals / 8-directional movement? it sounds far too gimmicky to be anything more than a small diversion. after that we get two zones, which are most likely more scrapped content and only quest properly for about half an hour and we see it only as a bounty we have to do.

necro. i think it is interesting to see a new class, although it was hinted at since vanilla. but the way to implement it via a character pack has to be the worst way. i don't think they will do a 4.99 thing, which would be enough for a new character (do we get more character slots?). although we all know it will probably be 14.99.

anyway, much build-up for a niche player base. sure, diablo 1 was great and all. but damn, i have seen it often enough NOT wanting to go back there..

okay, i think few anticipated that move. why two weeks before blizzcon? why no patch? and a PTR for two weeks with nothing to show, yet not much time to test any meaningful things?

jeez blizzard..

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now, what did i said before? nothing will be at gamescom, and a big announcement at blizzcon. my words, again, proved itself true.

i also said making d3x2 is a stupid idea, and it will be surely something not-related to d3. also not a card game, not hd remake, not anything connected to those simple things. it will be a BRAND NEW GAME. you will see that i ll be proven right again.

atleast the rest of the team is proceeding as usual: http://www.diablofans.com/blizz-tracker/topic/62859-play-your-way-thursday-gronds-protoss-carrier-crusader

and hey, it's other-game-themed! oh the irony.


why do they do that? why do they go at such a great length just to avoid our legitimate concerns about this franchise?

how on earth can a company as big and popular as blizzard NOT celebrate 20 years of one of their cornerstones with some very big news? i just can't understand this neglect we receive. will they remain silent until blizzcon? and then, what? big announcement of x2/d4/d2hd/all of the above and a line like "but we wanted to see how you guys try to guess what is happening" / "wanted to build suspense" or whatever bullcrap there is?

fed up.

either they are hiding a serious hint until they reveal it here at the gamescom and present something new at the blizzcon, or they simply abandoned the whole franchise and keep it on life support.

but if blizzard treats one of their pillars that way for a 20th anniversary..

after starcraft hd and it's incoming announcement / release i fully suspect to make this year a diablo year. like they promised.

by releasing diablo 2 hd. or maybe even 1. but that will be it.

us diablo 3 players await three or four years of seasons and then they will kill the servers.

loving the UI changes.

once i thought it would be nice to have not that hard-coded windows which have exclusive appearance rights and rather be able to see how much crit% or critd you are assigning and how it affects your current percentages. or a better system for organizing the 300+ item dump in the mail after each season. or maybe doing it like they did with addons in WoW and include options from turbohud like they did to their vanilla client.

but i guess a hide ui button and some icons are nice too.

ahh, i cannot await the rumours and first little teasers about the next expansion. they will come here and there in datamined patches, on ominous pages or in trademarks. and when blizzcon is finally upon us, they will unleash the biggest reveal of all diablo reveals. we rejoice, we name our kids after the devs and await the then layed out roadmap for two more expansions and sometimes in 2021 a successor.

and sometimes i wish i had the gift of precognition.