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Diablo 3 Itemization and Stat Changes

During BlizzCon, 'Flux' from Diii.net sat down with Diablo 3 Lead Designer Jay Wilson who was on hand to answer questions about the upcoming Action-RPG. Topics included waypoints, autoparty, anti-griefing, player teleports, item info for stats/drops/quality, rares & uniques info, difficulty modes and more. He also goes into some detail on why they decided to remove assignable attributes, and how important it is to avoid having "hot-spots" that gives the most efficient experience, and letting people play however or wherever they want. Another interesting topic that he delves deeper into is the new runes system, and how they improve spells.

Wuushu6087d ago

Excellent interview, gotta love the last 3 questions

Leord6087d ago

Yeah, it's odd how all the good stuff usually ends up at the end of interviews =)

Perhaps devs and interviewers need time to warm up...

Leord6087d ago

I SOOO Love the t-shirt. Bastards for not printing out enough to sell in the Blizz shop.

Even for people unrelated to the art controversy, I still think it's funny.

kalos6087d ago

Diablo III: Only slightly inferior to girls - I'm honestly waiting for Blizzard to use this slogan, it rocks.

The itemisation sounds slightly WoW-ish though, perhaps a concern.

Leord6087d ago

Not 100% getting that statement. Why is it inferior to girls? o.O

Diablo 3 rocks!

Oh, nm, I get it, I thought you meant that the experience would be inferior for girls to play...

kalos6087d ago

I was referring to 'girls' as a subject of interaction, rather than as players in this sense. Bah, analysis should not be done on any statement intended with humour. But on the other hand, I'm sure that the seven or so girls that will play Diablo III will find it just as engrossing as the masses of boys.

Leord6087d ago

Haha! "Seven or so"... I guess that'd be Elly of Diii.net and 6 others then ;)

You're right, I should have just shut up and lol:ed =P

Leord6087d ago

Personally, I'm a bit negative towards the auto-assigned stats. They could just have it resettable, so people still can customize if they want to. Sure, majority of stat tweaking will be items, like wow, but there is no reason to disallow it, if it ISN'T a way to screw yourself over, as he say.

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Dudeson69d ago (Edited 69d ago )

Finally some love for diablo 3, I completely agree with its placing! Very nice coop on the ps3 back in the day, but solo was a good grind as well, very enjoyable.

The only thing that irked me was buying the complete or ultimate edition or whatever and suddenly introducing a dlc that's not included.

INMATEofARKHAM69d ago

Trash article. No way you should be listing the original as third beat.

anast68d ago

Also Immortal should have been left off. It's a whale machine not a game.

Pergele69d ago

Diablo 3 > Diablo 2. I tried D2 after playing D3 many times and didn't like that nearly as much as 3.

anast68d ago

Diablo 2
Diablo 1

After this Diablo died.

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