http://www.diablo-3-forum.com/tags/diablo-3 Diablo 3 forum discusses features, announcements, and more en-US Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:20:59 +0000 bbpress 1.0-alpha-6 q http://www.diablo-3-forum.com/search.php http://www.diablo-3-forum.com/topic/diablo-3-screenshots#post-660 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:02:42 +0000 JakeConor 660@http://www.diablo-3-forum.com/ <p>Theres quite a few leaked now, they look brilliant! </p> http://www.diablo-3-forum.com/topic/diablo-3-deaths#post-659 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:41:57 +0000 admin 659@http://www.diablo-3-forum.com/ <p>Dying in Diablo is something of a tradition. I vividly remember my Diablo I corpse runs and my memory is forever etched with images of Duriel trumping over my dead Ice Sorceress in Diablo II.</p> <p>So what’s cooking in Blizzard’s lair when it comes to the death mechanic in Diablo 3? Listen to this:</p> <p> Before I get in to what we are doing let me go over some things we want to avoid with a death mechanic. We want to separate being in town and being out on a quest/adventure/dungeon as much as possible. Leaving the safety of a town should not be a decision you take lightly. We don’t want to remove the sense of suspense and danger by making town something you’re always going back to pretty much whenever you like.</p> <p> The intent is to create a greater separation from being in town, and not, and to make your time away from town a lot more tense. </p> http://www.diablo-3-forum.com/topic/diablo-3-screenshots#post-658 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:40:01 +0000 admin 658@http://www.diablo-3-forum.com/ <p>Diablo 3’s official site has been updated with new screenshots. As always this triggers the discussion, if Diablo 3’s art has taken a new direction, after the previous Art Director was sacked.</p> <p>I think the new screenshots speak for themselves. They’re definitely more contrasty and have plenty of dark areas. The outside areas (Act II?) are looking similar to Luth Golein, so Blizzard seems to have taken to heart the pleas of their fan base. </p> http://www.diablo-3-forum.com/topic/diablo-3-out-on-09-09-09#post-7 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:29:36 +0000 admin 7@http://www.diablo-3-forum.com/ <p>Now, prepare to be surprised by some of the reasoning behind this “news”. Diablo 3 release date has been a hot topic and we’ve all heard the usual Blizzard rhetoric that Diablo 3 will come out WHEN the game is ready.</p> <p>First, some background: a guy who played Diablo 2 for years got a DOL rune and experimented with it until it crushed the game. He got an error message … a series of meaningless numbers. Or are they?</p> <p> 64 69 61 62 6c 6f 20 33 20 20 30 39 2f 30 39 2f 30 39.</p> <p>So why is this significant in ANY way? OK, this is the geek part: 64 69 61 62 6c 6f 20 33 20 20 30 39 2f 30 39 2f 30 39 is hex for : Diablo 3 09/09/09. That means that if you translate the hexadecimal code, it gives you Diablo 3’s release date.</p> <p>Now, the critical part. How likely is that Diablo 2 developers knew in advance when Diablo 3 will be released? NOT LIKELY. At the same time, if I were head of development at Blizzard and I was a bit of a numerology freak… I’d pick EXACTLY this date. Why?</p> <p>Well, it’s pretty obvious. 09-09-09 represents 666 if you turn it upside down. The number of the beast! (cue the Iron Maiden song here) </p> http://www.diablo-3-forum.com/topic/diablo-3-class-wizard#post-6 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:26:15 +0000 admin 6@http://www.diablo-3-forum.com/ <p>Blizzard have finally revealed the third Diablo 3 character - a Wizard. As far as I can tell from the gameplay video and the class description, it looks like a copy&amp;paste of the good ole Diablo 2 Sorceress.</p> <p>The Wizard skills revealed thus far are:</p> <p> * Disintegrate - constant ray of energy going through multiple enemies<br /> * Electrocute - chain lightning<br /> * Teleport - blink about half a screen away<br /> * Magic Missile - single target damage spell<br /> * Slow Time - creates a sphere that slows down projectiles (very similar to the Protoss Mothership skill) </p> http://www.diablo-3-forum.com/topic/diablo-3-elixirs#post-5 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:17:31 +0000 admin 5@http://www.diablo-3-forum.com/ <p>Blizzcast Q&amp;A: During the gameplay video an “Elixir of Vitality I” dropped. Can you explain Elixirs and the benefits and roles they will play in Diablo 3?</p> <p>Well right now elixirs are primarily to provide a short term benefit to the player. I can’t remember exactly how many off the top of my head, I think there’s maybe six different kinds of elixirs and they do things like give you health boosts or give you damage boosts, give you different stats, things like that. So whenever you find one you can essentially use it whenever you want to give you a short term buff. And then as you go through the game the ‘one’ indicates quality so the ‘one’ is kind of a low end, not very good item, it’s not bad – at low levels it actually makes a pretty big difference, at high levels it doesn’t matter that much but as you go through the game they become more and more powerful. So we have a variety of different kinds of items like that we have added in to give the player some interesting buffs. Some of them are something like that were it’s just a nice bonus to have, whereas some of them are actually game changing kind of things like you can fire them off in an emergency to be able to deal with a particularly tough encounter. </p> http://www.diablo-3-forum.com/topic/diablo-3-death#post-4 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:16:51 +0000 admin 4@http://www.diablo-3-forum.com/ <p>Blizzcast Q&amp;A: Will there be special player deaths in various situations? Like when the Siegebreaker bit the Barbarian in half during the gameplay demo.</p> <p>Well what we want to do with that, especially for particular bosses is have when essentially when the player is very low on health and they’re about to die the boss essentially checks like when it attacks you, did I just do enough damage to kill you? And if so then instead of just doing his normal attack he’d actually play some kind of special I pick you up and eat you or I throw you up in the air and knock you around like a baseball or something like that. It’s a system that really our announcement video we tested it for the first time, mainly just to see – can we actually do this kind of animation interaction between the characters but the actual system itself is still not in there but we do plan to do that and that’s primarily where. We might do some other things, we’ve talked about physics based deaths we’ve talked about having the characters if they like die to a cold monster he might completely freeze solid into a statue and then shatter or things like that but we haven’t decided at this point if that’s exactly what we’re going to do. </p> http://www.diablo-3-forum.com/topic/diablo-3-mini-map#post-3 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:16:03 +0000 admin 3@http://www.diablo-3-forum.com/ <p>Blizzcast Q&amp;A: Will we be able to use the old overlay map instead of the mini-map?</p> <p>Right now we don’t have any plans to do a fullscreen overlay. We really felt that the overlay was more there because the mini-map was not very usable as a small map. We feel like when you put that map and you cover it over the whole display it actually adds a lot of clutter but we are planning to do like a fullscreen map that just covers the whole screen so that you can kind of see an entire area like if want to check out if there are any areas of this dungeon that I haven’t explored yet, you can really see more of that. </p> <p>But right now we’re really focused on trying to make the mini-map is very usable at the size that it’s at and so we’ve put a lot of work and the maps are actually custom made. The ones in D2 were kind of auto-generated where as ours we literally we custom make every piece of it. We have an artist go through and draw out so we can make sure that they’re really visible and very usable and so far we’re finding that it’s working really well. </p> http://www.diablo-3-forum.com/topic/diablo-3-runes#post-2 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:14:15 +0000 admin 2@http://www.diablo-3-forum.com/ <p>The runes (thought not runewords) make a return to Diablo 3. They’ll still drop from monsters, however, they will be used in a way that’s VERY different from Diablo 2.</p> <p>OK, let’s go over how runes worked in Diablo 2. There are 33 runes that drop from monsters. Note that some runes drop often while others drop extremely (e.g. Zod rune). Also, there are items with sockets that are able to take runes (or jewels). Some rune combinations (called runewords) create Runic Items, which are among the most powerful items in the game.</p> <p>For example, socketing the runes Hel + Ohm + Um + Lo + Cham gives your axe or hammer a whole bunch of additional stats and it also adds the label “Doom”.</p> <p>OK, so what are the changes to the runes in Diablo 3? Runes will still be used to CUSTOMIZE your character, however, runes no longer modify ITEMS. Instead they’ll be added to skills (each skill has a single rune slot).</p> <p>Also, to make runes easier to use, rune names will be changed to reflect their effect, e.g. Rune of Multistriking. How does this affect gameplay?</p> <p> For example, a Minor Multistrike Rune attached to the Skull of Flame will make projectile skip along the ground once , but higher quality Runes like the Major Multistrike Rune may raise the amount of bounces and the distance traveled by the projectile. </p> <p>Jay Wilson, Diablo 3 Lead designer, expressed his strong desire to make each skill customizable while at the same time retaining the uniqueness of each class. In other words, he doesn’t want the Barbarian to be able to mimic the Wizard by adding certain runes to skills. </p>