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Great news post! But not enough guns to the head! More pictures of guys with guns to the head please!

To people that like to be diffucult; there are enough readers out in the world to come to this website if you all piss off, which is what I'm assuming you're threatening with.

Guess what, I have both been suicidal and know someone that hung themselves. I can manage to come to this site just fine. If you can't don't come here, but stop telling people what to do. You're not the government, you're not police. Your feelings really don't matter to the rest of us.

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Life Steal is broken because all you have to do is add more DPS and you get more survivability for free. The idea is that survivability is a tradeoff you have to make.

Quote from JohnnyDesolation

A ton of awesome items, I just don't understand the replacing of lifesteal with life on hit. It's not like they don't know how to do math and scale it to a reasonable level. that said, other than all the BOA nonsense, I'm still really excited to get my hands on this.

I think it's the actual mechanic of life steal they disapprove of, not the tuning of the numbers. Someone talked about "think a million dps and % life steal" but that argument falls flat when you factor in higher health pools. If our DPS is doubled by four in RoS, and Blizz intend to have the same relationship between damage dealt and health pools for player characters, it is fair to assume that health pools will be proportionally expanded along with damage dealt. That's not why life steal is a problem. It has more to do with what the dude said about survivability coming as a property of damage rather than a choice of either/or. And because it trumps any other healing stats once you exceed a certain damage threshold.

With only LoH, LoK, life on resource spent and health globe+ remaining, all healing numbers are static. Which first and foremost makes survivability stats a bigger deal, which in turn means players should want to gear for survivability to maximize the effectiveness of their healing affixes. You open up scenarios where you have to think along the veins of "Once I reach 9000 armor I'll have enough damage reduction that I'll only need LoH on two items instead of three" and suddenly you are presented with the choice of wanting more survivability to make your healing even more effective, or more damage. It just creates a meta-game with less obvious choices and more niches. Which goes to make the whole item game more interesting, which I think is the core aim of this change.

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Of course! But we already knew cow level was in the game from datamining months ago. KingKongor is saying (and others are under the impression) that this is the actual cow level, I'm just saying I don't think that's the case.

I think you're on the money. What's more, I bet the fact that the bovines spawned in a rift is a bug that'll be ninja fixed, and that this can be considered an unintended leak. For it to be a true cow level, like you said, it'd have to be a contained area with its own theme.

I wonder that too. Also, earlier this post had a disclaimer at the top saying something like "Important: For the next hour, diablofans is going into read-only mode! Stay tuned!". It showed up until five minutes ago, then I rebooted my router and after refreshing the page it was gone, so must've been a cache bug... but when did the post actually say that and what was it that we were staying tuned for?

I wonder what "Nephalem Trials" are...

No cap on paragon? So that means infinite paragon levels? Lawl

@DamienJohn how were you able to retrieve the full picture? I looked in the source code but couldn't figure it out :/

So it's Imperius and someone else. The soulstone is in heaven. Didn't it fall down from the heavens when Diablo was tossed over the edge? So it's never been in heaven at any point during Diablo 3 (other than inside Diablo). That alone means the story has progressed, and either one of the angels caught it as it fell and brought it back up there, or.... Malthael found it, and is recruiting Imperius...

edit: I was looking at an older version of the pic. So the part about Malthael doesn't seem probably at this point, but the point about the Soulstone being in heaven showing story progress (and thus, the teaser *must* be real) does.

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I may be sitting with a tin foil hat on here , but why would anyone imply that something that is not directly from Blizzard?? is a "Expansion Teaser"
Why would it show on a fansite and not the official Blizz site?
Source that actually shows it's from Blizzard itself , and not just user made? .... I mean after all ... it's "Just" a fansite , even though it might be the biggest fan site they have.

Well this is only my take on it, but I'm taking from the news post here on Diablofans (I don't know how to read chinese) that the site has claimed that it is a teaser. So that then begs the question, if they are indeed the biggest D3 site in China, why would they risk their credibility for something that isn't real. Or simply, why would they lie?

With how Blizz treats the Asian WoW crowd, it's not far fetched that they would give the teaser to a news site over there.

Moreover, doing so starts this big ol' internet-wide hunt for answers, which is ultimately damn good PR. We already got a teaser on the EU/US sites ("Reaper of Souls"). Viral campaigns like these create hype and debates, which again, is good PR.

But that's just my take on it.

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Teaser Image updated! This is the 7th in the sequence so far;

http://img3.cache.ne...s/d3-1-7-bg.jpg

Here is a rundown of what I think I can see;

http://i.imgur.com/Tf85U95.jpg

LOL. Are you being serious? This image could be anything. It could just be smoke coming out from recently put out candles.
Behind the last paper bit there is probably a trollface.

It is, however, interesting that what does seem to be something halo-shaped, wasn't blurred, but now is. I'm not saying it has to be Imperius, but it's something.

The structure looks heavenly, whatever's in the lower right corner looks more hell-ish. But Diablo already attacked the high heavens, so maybe this time, the angels attack hell...? Or maybe it will show a corrupted Imperius