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Diablo is certainly about the items, but later in the game, having to juggle all of those various runes was not only un-fun, it was a serious and tedious inventory problem.

We went through a number of different iterations, some of which we fully implemented and tested,

to try to solve these fundamental issues while still keeping the customization intact.
Items
Pages of Training will now drop starting at level 6, down from level 8
The chance for Magic and Rare items to salvage into higher quality crafting material has been increased from 1% to 5%
Salvaging blue items now has a 1% chance to salvage into Legendary crafting material
Ultimately we developed, implemented, and have been playing and testing a new system which we’re confident hits all of the desired mechanics and solves all of the related issues – and that’s what I’m going to talk about today and what you’ll see in Beta patch 13.

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Our goal with the rune system has always been to provide additional character customization by allowing players to augment or completely alter their skills in new and significant ways. Originally, we tied this in to the itemization system because it felt like a good fit, as Diablo is all about the item drops.

But with around 120 base skills, that meant there were around 600 rune variants; on top of that, each variant had five quality levels each, meaning ultimately there would be something like 3,000 different runes in the game… and we knew we were heading toward a problem.

Weapons
Several significant changes have been made to weapons and weapon damage affixes
The damage variance between weapons of the same type has been reduced.
Artisans
Blacksmiths now start with a Fist weapon and a Dagger weapon option to craft
Blacksmith leveling and crafting recipes have received a tuning pass

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While the skill system is largely unchanged save for some UI improvements and the helpful new (but optional) skill categories, we’ve been working to make some rather intense changes to the runestone system.

Before we get too far, it’s probably best to clarify our terms: First, they’re now called skill runes, and they’re called skill runes because they’re no longer a physical item, but built directly into the skill system. Let’s back up, though, and go through some of the problems we were encountering and how this final design is intended to resolve those issues.
Items
Players now start with 5 health potions
Health globes now heal you over 1.5 seconds rather than over 5 seconds
The number of chests, shrines, and other interactable items (e.g. bookcases and loose stones) has been greatly reduced across the entire game
Items sold from vendors will now be at least one item level lower than those that are currently available to a player via drops from monsters
The level of an item is now much more likely to match or be close to the level of the monster from which it dropped, and the affixes that appear are much more likely to be from the upper range

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You may already be fuming because you’re a “difficult to master” type of person, but before you run to the forums, we have you covered. In the Gameplay options, we’ve added an ‘Elective Mode’ for the skill system. With this checkbox ticked you’ll be able to place any skill in any skill slot, as freely as you could before. The Elective Mode option is available at any time with no requirements or need to unlock it. We hope the new, more guided interface will give you an in-game heads up as to the intent of each skill -- and maybe even be the way you play through the game in Normal -- but if you eventually have a build that simply can’t be accomplished the way we’ve laid things out, you’re free to pop on Elective Mode and take the skills you want.

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One of our other goals is to ensure our game controls and interfaces are easy to use so that players spend their time trying to master game mechanics rather than fighting an interface. Giving players complete freedom to choose “anything” with no direction as to how our systems are intended to work was a failure in our design. There was also a detached relationship between the bottom-bar UI and the skill system. We have six skill slots, and six spots to put skills, but the two interfaces didn't really interact, and stocking abilities in your interface felt awkward.

To fix these issues, we focused on two core changes: (1) exposing the skill design intent by categorizing the skills and (2) linking skill selection directly to the bottom-bar UI to make assigning skills a clearer process. When viewing the skill screen, you’ll be presented with your six skill selection slots;

each of these correspond directly to your bottom bar, and each will provide a specific list of skills from which to choose.

By providing a clear-cut guide on how to best maximize your build potential, we hope to cover that “easy to learn” half of the mantra.

Each character is brimming with possibilities. Which potent combination of skills, weapons, armor, and enhancements will you assemble? With countless ways to customize each hero, players will definitely get a taste of what it means to be unique in the Diablo III beta test.

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For every class we essentially created three common types of abilities, and then a handful of class-specific ability types. All classes have skills that fit into categories we call Primary Attack, Secondary Attack, and Defensive. Primary Attack skills are frequently used abilities that typically generate resources. Secondary Attacks are more powerful attacks that are limited in use through resource cost or cooldown. Defensive abilities are used to escape or control the flow of combat. Beyond that, classes have unique categories, like armor spells for the wizard or mantras for the monk. We used this methodology to help us design the classes and their skills, but we weren’t exposing this to the player despite the fact that these categories would give the player, like they did our own team, a better understanding of how the classes work.

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Countless hours of consulting the ancient prophecies and poring over dusty tomes have resulted in the unearthing of new information about Diablo III. The upcoming Diablo III beta test will introduce a treasure trove of exciting new features, including a new Auction House that will provide a powerful new way for your characters to acquire the implements of war. Prepare yourselves!

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That goal and the system have been great successes, but the amount of customization we have available doesn’t mean anything if it’s not useful in combat situations. Combat depth is another one of our goals;

Diablo III is designed to be a modern action game, built on the mantra of “easy to learn, difficult to master.” What that means for the player is picking a set of skills and abilities that work together, and then executing them in ways that lead to success: the wholesale slaughter of the demonic invasion. With that combat-depth goal in mind, we’ve been internally categorizing the skills since the inception of the system. Many of you could probably identify what these categories were if we asked, and some players have even mapped out what they are fairly accurately.

The 3rd quarter reference in the earning’s call today was a calendar quarter, meaning that we’re aiming to launch the Diablo III beta between July 1st and September 30th. Keep in mind that it’s our current goal, and of course that can change as development continues.

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For every class we essentially created three common types of abilities, and then a handful of class-specific ability types. All classes have skills that fit into categories we call Primary Attack, Secondary Attack, and Defensive. Primary Attack skills are frequently used abilities that typically generate resources. Secondary Attacks are more powerful attacks that are limited in use through resource cost or cooldown. Defensive abilities are used to escape or control the flow of combat. Beyond that, classes have unique categories, like armor spells for the wizard or mantras for the monk. We used this methodology to help us design the classes and their skills, but we weren’t exposing this to the player despite the fact that these categories would give the player, like they did our own team, a better understanding of how the classes work.

We have tons of unique death types, the exploding palm effect you're talking about though is an effect of the skill itself though and not the makeup of the creature it's used against.

When you apply the bleed-DoT from Exploding Palm a beating heart appears over the creature it's applied to. After they take enough steps or are otherwise killed the heart explodes and deals AE damage. So it's not actually the skeleton exploding (although that happens too) that's causing the blood effect, but the skill itself.

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One of our other goals is to ensure our game controls and interfaces are easy to use so that players spend their time trying to master game mechanics rather than fighting an interface. Giving players complete freedom to choose “anything” with no direction as to how our systems are intended to work was a failure in our design. There was also a detached relationship between the bottom-bar UI and the skill system. We have six skill slots, and six spots to put skills, but the two interfaces didn't really interact, and stocking abilities in your interface felt awkward.

To fix these issues, we focused on two core changes: (1) exposing the skill design intent by categorizing the skills and (2) linking skill selection directly to the bottom-bar UI to make assigning skills a clearer process. When viewing the skill screen, you’ll be presented with your six skill selection slots; each of these correspond directly to your bottom bar, and each will provide a specific list of skills from which to choose. By providing a clear-cut guide on how to best maximize your build potential, we hope to cover that “easy to learn” half of the mantra.
We'd still like to see more monster variety-specific effects. There's no doubt, however, that the battle scenes of Diablo III are illustrated both gruesomely and beautifully (and we're not talking rainbows, unless you are referring to rainbows of blood).

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You may already be fuming because you’re a “difficult to master” type of person, but before you run to the forums, we have you covered. In the Gameplay options, we’ve added an ‘Elective Mode’ for the skill system. With this checkbox ticked you’ll be able to place any skill in any skill slot, as freely as you could before. The Elective Mode option is available at any time with no requirements or need to unlock it. We hope the new, more guided interface will give you an in-game heads up as to the intent of each skill -- and maybe even be the way you play through the game in Normal -- but if you eventually have a build that simply can’t be accomplished the way we’ve laid things out, you’re free to pop on Elective Mode and take the skills you want.

Charms are cool. Randomized item drops that give passive bonuses while held? That's a cool way for someone to actively change their character beyond just skills and armor/weapons. Making it an inventory space decision; however, isn't very cool. You were trading inventory space for character power, which is sort of an interesting trade but also one that is directly and immediately punishing. It's not like giving up ... say ... health to do more damage. You aren't deciding that your play style can overcome your decisions on how to balance your character. Everyone needs inventory space regardless of how they want to play, so it becomes a mandate that if you want to do X, you better get ready to throw down a lot of town portals. Fun? Eh.

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While the skill system is largely unchanged save for some UI improvements and the helpful new (but optional) skill categories, we’ve been working to make some rather intense changes to the runestone system.
Before we get too far, it’s probably best to clarify our terms: First, they’re now called skill runes, and they’re called skill runes because they’re no longer a physical item, but built directly into the skill system. Let’s back up, though, and go through some of the problems we were encountering and how this final design is intended to resolve those issues.

We don't have charms at the moment, but it's a mechanic we like the idea of as long as it doesn't become an inventory space vs. power decision. They're one of those things that certainly could come back but that we haven't fully explored yet.

Thus, while charms aren't currently in the game, we may see them appear as more progress is made. Like multi-player features, there are a lot of things yet to be conceptually and developmentally hammered out and polished.

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Our goal with the rune system has always been to provide additional character customization by allowing players to augment or completely alter their skills in new and significant ways. Originally, we tied this in to the itemization system because it felt like a good fit, as Diablo is all about the item drops. But with around 120 base skills, that meant there were around 600 rune variants; on top of that, each variant had five quality levels each, meaning ultimately there would be something like 3,000 different runes in the game… and we knew we were heading toward a problem.

Diablo is certainly about the items, but later in the game, having to juggle all of those various runes was not only un-fun, it was a serious and tedious inventory problem. We went through a number of different iterations, some of which we fully implemented and tested, to try to solve these fundamental issues while still keeping the customization intact. Ultimately we developed, implemented, and have been playing and testing a new system which we’re confident hits all of the desired mechanics and solves all of the related issues – and that’s what I’m going to talk about today and what you’ll see in Beta patch 13.

I’m looking forward to playing Diablo III co-op, and finding someone who is coordinated and has great communication skills is super important to me. I met him on Battle.net, and we immediately clicked. He's always on top of any situation, and I feel so safe when I'm with him. He's my best friend; I couldn't imagine a future fighting the Prime Evils with anybody else.

Beyond the great new multi-player match-making system being introduced with StarCraft 2 and Battle, Blizzard Entertainment revealed it's plans to take "matchmaking" to the next level with a new sort of dating service.

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With the new skill rune system, you’ll be unlocking new skills as you level up just like you always have… but in addition you’ll also be unlocking skill runes. Now, when you open the skill window, you’ll choose which skills you want in which slots, the skill rune variants you’d like, and your passives. All of this is done directly through the UI, and all of the options from the skill, skill rune, and passive systems are unlocked through character leveling progression, leading to a cleaner overall integration of these systems. Just as we set different skills to unlock at specific levels, skill rune choices unlock at different levels as well.

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Another thing we strive for in our games is “concentrated coolness,” and while rune quality levels made sense when we were attempting to itemize them throughout the game, they make far less sense as runes are unlocked through the UI. We didn’t want to get back into a situation where you’re clicking a button to pump points into skills. It’s far more concentrated (and cool) when your rune choices have a single and powerful benefit to your skill choice. The new skill rune system does not have ranks, and we’ve instead made each around the equivalent to what the rank 4 or 5 rune was previously. One click, you make your rune choice, and you get an explosive benefit to that skill. That feels a lot cooler.

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Runes have been by far the biggest design hurdle we’ve had in the game, and as you know we’ve been continually iterating on them. We fully expect that some of you will be disappointed that runes won’t be part of the itemization system. Internally, it took us a long time to let go of that notion too and stop trying to force them into being items, and instead embrace the intent of the system. Integrating runes with the skill system directly gave us a bunch of great benefits, and even without runes we’re launching with more item types than Diablo II had. We knew we were making the right choice by letting go of runes as items and focusing on the core objective of the system: to customize your skills in awesome ways.

Before I wrap up, I did want to cover that one of the added benefits of the new system is that you’ll be unlocking something every level all the way up to the level cap (60). Now, with each level you’ll unlock at least one new skill or rune, and in most cases you’ll be unlocking three or four.

The most immediately exciting part of that system is that skill runes begin unlocking at level 6, which means that players in the beta test will finally be able to play around with some rune variants.
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Well, there you have it -- the new skill and rune systems! We strongly believe that these changes are going to make for a better Diablo III, and we’re looking forward to you trying it out in patch 13, which should be live any minute now (if it isn’t already). As always, we’d love to hear your feedback on your experiences with these changes. To help center the conversation on these changes to a single location, we’re going to lock comments on this blog and encourage you to post in a thread we’re specifically making to discuss this: Skill and Rune Changes Discussion.

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While the skill system is largely unchanged save for some UI improvements and the helpful new (but optional) skill categories, we’ve been working to make some rather intense changes to the runestone system. Before we get too far, it’s probably best to clarify our terms: First, they’re now called skill runes, and they’re called skill runes because they’re no longer a physical item, but built directly into the skill system. Let’s back up, though, and go through some of the problems we were encountering and how this final design is intended to resolve those issues.

Our goal with the rune system has always been to provide additional character customization by allowing players to augment or completely alter their skills in new and significant ways. Originally, we tied this in to the itemization system because it felt like a good fit, as Diablo is all about the item drops. But with around 120 base skills, that meant there were around 600 rune variants; on top of that, each variant had five quality levels each, meaning ultimately there would be something like 3,000 different runes in the game… and we knew we were heading toward a problem.

We hope you head over and get acquainted with the new site, and return often. We've got a lot in store leading up to the release of Diablo III, including the launch of the Game Guide section featuring lore, characters, classes, maps, and more. Additionally, you’ll see us on the new Diablo III forums. We look forward to sharing and discussing all the latest Diablo III news, content, and updates with you for a long time to come.
Diablo is certainly about the items, but later in the game, having to juggle all of those various runes was not only un-fun, it was a serious and tedious inventory problem. We went through a number of different iterations, some of which we fully implemented and tested, to try to solve these fundamental issues while still keeping the customization intact. Ultimately we developed, implemented, and have been playing and testing a new system which we’re confident hits all of the desired mechanics and solves all of the related issues – and that’s what I’m going to talk about today and what you’ll see in Beta patch 13.

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You may already be fuming because you’re a “difficult to master” type of person, but before you run to the forums, we have you covered. In the Gameplay options, we’ve added an ‘Elective Mode’ for the skill system. With this checkbox ticked you’ll be able to place any skill in any skill slot, as freely as you could before. The Elective Mode option is available at any time with no requirements or need to unlock it. We hope the new, more guided interface will give you an in-game heads up as to the intent of each skill -- and maybe even be the way you play through the game in Normal -- but if you eventually have a build that simply can’t be accomplished the way we’ve laid things out, you’re free to pop on Elective Mode and take the skills you want.

I found the first 5 quests or so to be overly easy, almost laughable in fact. The Wretched Queen for example died in 2 hits from my Witch Doctor's poison dart. This is a far cry from the difficulty of the den of evil and Bloodraven in D2. Does the game get noticeably more difficult later on? Or will it perhaps be more difficult after release?

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Last August we held a Diablo III press tour, and it was with a small group of fansites that I first revealed significant changes were still in store for the rune system. Since then, we’ve been hard at work on the rune and skill systems, and today we’d like to share details on the changes you’ll see in Beta patch 13. We’re confident that these changes will make Diablo III a better game, and to help illustrate why, I'll start with a high-level explanation of our goals for these systems as well as the feedback we were responding to in making these changes.

I'll start with the skill system. Our high-level goal with this system has always been to give players a great degree of power to customize their characters. We believe we accomplished that early on by abolishing skill trees and moving toward an open-ended system where skills, rune variants, and passives are chosen at-will by the player in a flexible customization system.

That goal and the system have been great successes, but the amount of customization we have available doesn’t mean anything if it’s not useful in combat situations. Combat depth is another one of our goals; Diablo III is designed to be a modern action game, built on the mantra of “easy to learn, difficult to master.” What that means for the player is picking a set of skills and abilities that work together, and then executing them in ways that lead to success: the wholesale slaughter of the demonic invasion. With that combat-depth goal in mind, we’ve been internally categorizing the skills since the inception of the system. Many of you could probably identify what these categories were if we asked, and some players have even mapped out what they are fairly accurately.
Our new Diablo III community site has gone live! This will be your sanctuary for all the latest developments from New Tristram and beyond, featuring community forums and regular blog updates.[more] Just like this site, you can post comments and share Diablo III news items via Twitter, Facebook, and other popular social media outlets. You'll want to check out the new Diablo III news feed regularly. We’ll use it to share everything about Diablo III and to highlight recent community activity, including your most entertaining videos, art, comics, fansites, and much more.
For every class we essentially created three common types of abilities, and then a handful of class-specific ability types. All classes have skills that fit into categories we call Primary Attack, Secondary Attack, and Defensive. Primary Attack skills are frequently used abilities that typically generate resources. Secondary Attacks are more powerful attacks that are limited in use through resource cost or cooldown. Defensive abilities are used to escape or control the flow of combat. Beyond that, classes have unique categories, like armor spells for the wizard or mantras for the monk. We used this methodology to help us design the classes and their skills, but we weren’t exposing this to the player despite the fact that these categories would give the player, like they did our own team, a better understanding of how the classes work.

One of our other goals is to ensure our game controls and interfaces are easy to use so that players spend their time trying to master game mechanics rather than fighting an interface. Giving players complete freedom to choose “anything” with no direction as to how our systems are intended to work was a failure in our design. There was also a detached relationship between the bottom-bar UI and the skill system. We have six skill slots, and six spots to put skills, but the two interfaces didn't really interact, and stocking abilities in your interface felt awkward.

To fix these issues, we focused on two core changes: (1) exposing the skill design intent by categorizing the skills and (2) linking skill selection directly to the bottom-bar UI to make assigning skills a clearer process. When viewing the skill screen, you’ll be presented with your six skill selection slots; each of these correspond directly to your bottom bar, and each will provide a specific list of skills from which to choose. By providing a clear-cut guide on how to best maximize your build potential, we hope to cover that “easy to learn” half of the mantra.

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Now that Runestones are no more, I wonder, how about bringing back Diablo II's Socketed-items?
Now, don't get me wrong; I'm perfectly fine with the new Skill system, and truth be told, I prefer quite a lot more over the former system. But aside from that, since Runestones cease to exist, why not bring back the previous generation's system?
Diablo has always been about Loot, and Sockets made a huge difference in the value of items. Obviously, there were the typical Gems and whatnot, but the real strength, in mo opinion, was playing with Runestones.

At least, that's just my thinking. What are you guys' thoughts on the matter?

Countless hours of consulting the ancient prophecies and poring over dusty tomes have resulted in the unearthing of new information about Diablo III. The upcoming Diablo III beta test will introduce a treasure trove of exciting new features, including a new Auction House that will provide a powerful new way for your characters to acquire the implements of war. Prepare yourselves!

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I'm not going to lie, ever since the merger with Activision I have enjoyed your games less, and less, and less. There is just no passion in the games anymore. I feel NOTHING from your games. Neither in game play, visually, or story wise. WoW has become boring and stagnant with its lack of community, SC2 feels like a solo game even when playing on BNET 2.0 (which should be BNET 0.2). Now, Diablo 3 is just as bad if not worse than WoW. I have played the beta for many hours, but now I find myself playing Pokemon Black and watching Netflix to be more entertaining and more rewarding than all of your games combined.

My childhood growing up was filled with Rock n' Roll Racing, Diablo, Starcraft, Diablo 2, and Vanilla WoW. Of course there were other games, but these games are the ones I had the most fun with. I spent hours upon hours PvPing in Alterac Valley, Warsong Gulch, and Arathi Basin. I fought Protoss, Terran, and Zerg over countless battlefields. I conquered Diablo, Mephisto, and Baal while traveling across Sanctuary's lands. I braved the depths of the Cathedral, the Catacombs, the Caves, and Hell itself in search of Albrecht and Lazarus.
In Diablo III, your characters will wield their various skills to devastating effect. [more]But once you add a runestone to a skill, it’ll transform and become even more powerful. Runestones can alter nearly everything about a skill -- the way it looks, how many enemies it hits, and what happens to those unfortunate enough to be caught in its path.
Now, I can't even bring myself to log in for more than 10 minutes in the beta of Diablo 3. I can't bring myself to explore the galaxy in search of the Swarm, and my adventures across Azeroth are far behind me.

Blizzard, you are nothing more than nostalgia. Your games no longer have any soul or passion. So now I give you my final message.

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I honestly don't know what is going through your heads at the moment. I don't know what is even going on with Blizzard at the moment. Do you guys actually feel like you are making good games?

I'm not going to lie, ever since the merger with Activision I have enjoyed your games less, and less, and less. There is just no passion in the games anymore. I feel NOTHING from your games. Neither in game play, visually, or story wise. WoW has become boring and stagnant with its lack of community, SC2 feels like a solo game even when playing on BNET 2.0 (which should be BNET 0.2). Now, Diablo 3 is just as bad if not worse than WoW. I have played the beta for many hours, but now I find myself playing Pokemon Black and watching Netflix to be more entertaining and more rewarding than all of your games combined.

My childhood growing up was filled with Rock n' Roll Racing, Diablo, Starcraft, Diablo 2, and Vanilla WoW. Of course there were other games, but these games are the ones I had the most fun with. I spent hours upon hours PvPing in Alterac Valley, Warsong Gulch, and Arathi Basin. I fought Protoss, Terran, and Zerg over countless battlefields. I conquered Diablo, Mephisto, and Baal while traveling across Sanctuary's lands. I braved the depths of the Cathedral, the Catacombs, the Caves, and Hell itself in search of Albrecht and Lazarus.
Now, I can't even bring myself to log in for more than 10 minutes in the beta of Diablo 3. I can't bring myself to explore the galaxy in search of the Swarm, and my adventures across Azeroth are far behind me.
Blizzard, you are nothing more than nostalgia. Your games no longer have any soul or passion. So now I give you my final message.
Our new Diablo III community site has gone live! This will be your sanctuary for all the latest developments from New Tristram and beyond, featuring community forums and regular blog updates.[more] Just like this site, you can post comments and share Diablo III news items via Twitter, Facebook, and other popular social media outlets. You'll want to check out the new Diablo III news feed regularly. We’ll use it to share everything about Diablo III and to highlight recent community activity, including your most entertaining videos, art, comics, fansites, and much more.

We hope you head over and get acquainted with the new site, and return often. We've got a lot in store leading up to the release of Diablo III, including the launch of the Game Guide section featuring lore, characters, classes, maps, and more. Additionally, you’ll see us on the new Diablo III forums. We look forward to sharing and discussing all the latest Diablo III news, content, and updates with you for a long time to come.

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So as the description says, the images may cast some of the same spells as you, but those spells deal no damage. But what I want to know is whether they'll be able to cast spells like Slow Time or Frost Nova that have other effects (such as slow, knockback or stun) on enemies?

I doubt it.. if their spells aren't doing damage in the first place, I don't think they will let them cast utility spells.
They're just supposed to be meat shields.

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my teleport has reversal for slow time trap
my layzor is a void ray
have familiar for mana recharge, dont have astral cuz i figure i'll have to walk to reposition my layzors, so i'm just gonna reload ma power hungry layzors on teh moove.
glass cannon is a risk in HC, evocation gives my a new slowtime/teleport trap sooner
lastly i preffer snaring layzor to Aoe Knowback, cuz that knockback is not helping to Liiiine em up...

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The basics haven't changed, the mana and health spheres have become iconic to Diablo games and have been included in Diablo 3 as well. However, gone is the quick potion menu, in its place is the quick menu for skill/spell selection. The orange line near the bottom is the experience bar and hasn't been changed from previous Diablo games. Gone however is the stamina bar. I never liked that thing anyways, who wants to walk when you can run.

Game features are included or excluded from demos depending on what the development team wants to show off at that point. For instance, Runestones were in the 2008 demo, but they were only enabled for Wizard skills. Runestones were not included in the 2009 demo at all since they were under heavy remodeling, but they were a major feature in the 2010 demo, though only for the Wizard, Witch Doctor, and Barbarian.

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Diablo III was not playable at the WWI debut event in June 2008, but a lengthy gameplay movie was released, with much gameplay action and explanatory narration by Jay Wilson. The demo introduced the Barbarian and Witch Doctor characters, as well as memorable monsters like the Thousand Pounder and the gigantic Siegebreaker.

Further demolishing the expectations and hopes of Diablo fans worldwide, Blizzard has stated that Diablo 3 will not be out before StarCraft 2. In fact, according to Blizzard's Rob Pardo, Diablo 3 definitely won't see a release at all next year - confirming rumours that a 2010 release date for Diablo 3 is out of the question. "We always announce all of our games too early," Pardo said to TechLand. "I think it's safe to say that, yeah, is not going to be out next year."

Diablo iii pc game

Diablo iii pc game

The 2008 demo was the first playable build of Diablo III. It introduced the Wizard class, and she was playable in the demo, along with the Barbarian and Witch Doctor. The demo began in the gloomy ruins of New Tristram, before players descended into the Tristram Cathedral and down to the dungeons below, where the Skeleton King awaited as the end boss of the demo.

Starting characters were level 6, the demo was PvM only, and fans on the show floor had 20 minutes per play session.

Speaking about the fact that Blizzard frequently announces games long before they are ever released, Pardo said the following: "We’ve been wrong [on release dates] for as long as I can remember. Now when we announce [a game] we just go, 'Here's the game we’re working on, we're going to start talking about it and who knows when it ships." Sounds like he was half joking when he said it...clearly Blizzard has an approximate sense of when the game will come out, but in terms of telling the public, sorry, you get nothing. In the meantime, play "Torchlight." It's basically "Diablo 2.5."

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2009 Blizzcon Demo!!!

The 2009 demo introduced the Monk, who was playable along with the Wizard, Witch Doctor, and Barbarian. The demo was set in Act Two, in the scorching sandy wastes outside of Caldeum. Players fought through the wastes and several random dungeons, dealing with a wide variety of new monsters on their way to Alcarnus, a ruined, Cultist-infested city at the end of the demo.
The male Monk.

This demo contained numerous quests, but almost no plot or story, with only a few NPCs who spoke only of non-story quests. New characters were level 12, and began the demo just outside the gates of Caldeum, just after they would have received a great deal of story and quest information (in the final game). The ending town of Alcarnus was modified for the demo as well, with much of the town unreachable.

Further demolishing the expectations and hopes of Diablo fans worldwide, Blizzard has stated that Diablo 3 will not be out before StarCraft 2. In fact, according to Blizzard's Rob Pardo, Diablo 3 definitely won't see a release at all next year - confirming rumours that a 2010 release date for Diablo 3 is out of the question. "We always announce all of our games too early," Pardo said to TechLand. "I think it's safe to say that, yeah, [Diablo 3] is not going to be out next year."