Diablo III - It's official

[KKRT]

Upwards of 250 items sounds like quite a lot to me. I dunno bout you, but the dozen or so you can fit into the D2 stash is NOT enough, but ~20 times as many, that feels better.

If you somehow still manage to run out, maybe you should be less of a packrat, eh?

Not, its not. Do some math. D2 had 88 slots per character and You can have 10 of them, so 880 per account and You could have multiple accounts, in D3 You cant because of BN 2.0.

Now runes, there are 5 type runes for every skill and every character has 24+ skills, so You need 120 slots just to store runes of one lvl [there are 7 of those!] for one char to have different builds.

Now gems, there are 6 type of gems and they drop only to lvl 6 and there are 14 [dont remember exactly] levels of gems and to make higher lvl gem You need 3 lower level.
http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/8822/gemlevels.jpg

Most items takes 2 slots.

Anyone who thinks that 350 slots/200 items for 10 characters are enough have never played loot based game. I can bet with anyone that after few days/week will be screaming for more slots in stash.

 

[John Reynolds]

Oh come on, it will be good game, but not that good. Support other devs with this cash, like Crate Entertainment, Runic Games, Grinding Gear Games [or Arenanet], the more hack and slash games ,the better.

I wasn't being serious. Though I would buy a $150 col ed, fool that I am.

 

[Dresden]

Edit: And, man, some of those videos are awesome. Bring on the $250 collector's edition, Blizzard. :/

Eff that. Wait until the Battle Chest comes out, after D3 inevitably spawns at least two expansions.

They will be leveling with You, so dont worry about their power.

Yeah. Most people have been countering the dead zone argument with the fact that you'll be receiving level-specific gear throughout the entirety of the game. So, while the skills stopped coming, the replay value relies on the lust for newer stuff. Not my top choice, but it's still going to be fun.

I need to beat the first two games. I never did and I feel there's some sort of void in my life that can only be filled by doing so. I was reading about the difficulty scale in the previous games and apparently it's based on a ladder system, where you're required to be, for example, normal to unlock Hell and Hell to unlock Nightmare, until finally you unlock Inferno (which is the latest addition to the third game), where monsters are at least level 60-61 and gear scales with each difficulty accordingly, whereas, obviously, the most powerful gear will be obtained from the Inferno difficulty.

 

[John Reynolds]

Eff that. Wait until the Battle Chest comes out, after D3 inevitably spawns at least two expansions.

Look, I already have a wife in my life who spits such "wait" nonsense at me, I don't need to get it from a fellow online gamer.

 

[Dresden]

Look, I already have a wife in my life who spits such "wait" nonsense at me, I don't need to get it from a fellow online gamer.

To be totally honest, I'm a sucker for such boxed sets, myself. I'd probably do the same thing. "You mean the Special Edition Diablo 3 comes with a poster for only an additional hundred dollars? SHUT UP AND TAKE MY GODDAMN MONEY, ALREADY."

We need to start a Beyond 3D Diablo 3 Steam group, come launch. So we can all play together and call in to work for weeks on end claiming to be afflicted by "Diablitis." I've already requested the paperwork for long term disability. I sense an ailment on the horizon.

 

[John Reynolds]

Yeah, I've got about 2 weeks of leave built up I could use. Wife expects me to take the family somewhere this fall, but they'll understand when daddy locks himself in the loft (hmm, need to wall off the railing so they can't yell up at me).

Blizz has generally made pretty good collector editions, but this $150 price point from other pubs here lately is a bit silly. The Skyrim one in particular is bad: $90 for an artbook and a pvc dragon.

 

[Malo]

Apparently all your wife needs to do is stomp around a bit and she'll ruin your Diablo-fest quite fast

 

[liolio]

I drool on the demon hunter and the witch doctor

 

[KKRT]

We need to start a Beyond 3D Diablo 3 Steam group, come launch. So we can all play together and call in to work for weeks on end claiming to be afflicted by "Diablitis." I've already requested the paperwork for long term disability. I sense an ailment on the horizon.

You mean battlenet group?

BTW i need to make finally topic about Path of Exile, because probably almost noone of You know about it existence.

 

[John Reynolds]

Apparently all your wife needs to do is stomp around a bit and she'll ruin your Diablo-fest quite fast

Heh, no shit. That woman is the bane of my existence.

 

[Dresden]

Fortunately, for you fine B3D members, I finally came to understand how the skills work, in terms of actives and passives. After much grueling research, and by that I mean perusing the new skills calculator, I finally figured it out. As your character levels, skills, active and passive, will be unlocked. By the time you reach level 30, you'll have access to 6 active skills and 3 passives. My concern, which I've asked about on the official forums, is the ability to save a skill profile and maybe even swap between two entirely different skill sets. I hope they'll add that feature to the final build.

 

[Malo]

I know that you can reset your skill allocations but it won't be as simple as swapping between sets. Their aim is to force specific decisions for a "build", like Guild Wars. From what I've read, there is planned to be a cost to reset your skills, and most likely a cooldown or something as well.

 

[Pressure]

I know that you can reset your skill allocations but it won't be as simple as swapping between sets. Their aim is to force specific decisions for a "build", like Guild Wars. From what I've read, there is planned to be a cost to reset your skills, and most likely a cooldown or something as well.

There is none of that in the beta however.

You can change skills mid-battle if you feel like it.

 

[Grall]

Do some math. D2 had 88 slots per character and You can have 10 of them, so 880 per account and You could have multiple accounts, in D3 You cant because of BN 2.0.

Now runes, there are 5 type runes for every skill and every character has 24+ skills, so You need 120 slots just to store runes of one lvl [there are 7 of those!] for one char to have different builds.

Now gems, there are 6 type of gems and they drop only to lvl 6 and there are 14 [dont remember exactly] levels of gems and to make higher lvl gem You need 3 lower level.

Surely gems and runes will have their own interfaces and won't be actual items you need to store in the stash, because with so many levels, just gems would overflow even the biggest of stashes very easily.

D2 may have 88 slots per character, but the biggest shields and weapons take up 8 slots each (and only wands and daggers use 2 slots, and NO weapons/armor use just one) so you end up with much less actually useful room than pure maths would suggest.

 

[Davros]

 

[KKRT]

Surely gems and runes will have their own interfaces and won't be actual items you need to store in the stash, because with so many levels, just gems would overflow even the biggest of stashes very easily.

D2 may have 88 slots per character, but the biggest shields and weapons take up 8 slots each (and only wands and daggers use 2 slots, and NO weapons/armor use just one) so you end up with much less actually useful room than pure maths would suggest.

Still You can create additional account. I've made some math and average items in D3 takes 1.5 slots and average item in D2 3-4 slots [it really depends], with 3-4 chars dedicated for mules in D3 You can get max 590 slots, with one account dedicated to mules in D2 You will have 720 slots, so You need max 1.5 D2' account to cover D3's stash + mules [that not many can afford] and we know that most players had 5-6 accounts made for mules.

There's no info about gems or runes, or charms to have other storage interface, we know only that charms used by character has different tab in character inventory, but not in stash.

 

[hoho]

Didn't they remove some category of items in D3, runes I believe? That too should free up quite a bit of inventory space.

 

[KKRT]

Didn't they remove some category of items in D3, runes I believe? That too should free up quite a bit of inventory space.

Charms has different inventory slot on chars, but not in stash.

 

[hoho]

I mean they completely removed them from the game, not just move to other tab in inventory.

 

[KKRT]

I mean they completely removed them from the game, not just move to other tab in inventory.

Runes are still there, 5 different types, with 7 levels and some others rare with prefixes.