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Diablo 3 Waiting Thread - Stay a while and glisten
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I love how people get caught up on this like it matters at all.
Blizzard's stance on arenas is that they are a fun competitive option. The mistake they admitted was that arenas became the only competitive option while battlegrounds languished to PUGs.
got more chains than the snow patrol every one razor thin like an insect stripper pole
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0OeJGkhLsQ
Things like Battlegrounds work so much better because there is an objective other than "kill everyone", and your skill can come through in how well you work towards objectives outside of how well you kill everyone.
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Maybe that's a good sign they're not going to fuck too much with the pve to make the pvp more "fair."
I still don't know why they can't completely separate nerfs/buffs to balance PvP from the PvE game. You've spent half a decade working on the PvE, why would you allow it to be modified for the PvP?
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The PvP is going to be based around skill counters. Or so they said.
They showed an awesome combo where the Wizard blinked out of CC, froze the opponent and then meteored them. So cool.
At least it isn't a Rogue.
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See? This man knows where its at. <3
Talisman is a dedicated inventory space for charms. Charms are pure core stats now.
Traits are basically a passive skill filled talent tree.
unless this fever is messing with my head and that didn't actually happen
Balance. In PvE.
This is still a Diablo game, isn't it?
Neal Stephenson
Also, dual repeating crossbows. Fuck Yeah! 8-)
This is also a good idea because when people like maxing their character's level cap, the level cap could probably be hit in an actual time that is actually convenient for people who actually have a job and not hours upon hours to PVE.
Look at it this way: instead of looking at a ladder which tells you who spends the most time with a bot at end game, people will be creating PVP teams with their friends and try and get to the top of the arena charts. Think reset the ladder without getting a new character.
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I loved it haha I'm surprised theres been such a backlash
"Well, as it turns out the Witch Doctor's Plague of Frogs ability is too powerful in PvP, so we've reduced the damage it does by 75%"
For those of you who never played WoW, that is pretty much exactly what happened when they introduced arenas (PvP as a whole was guilty of it in WoW, but it became a far more common occurrence post-Arenas). So yeah. Diablo or not, it's pretty shitty to have an ability (or whatever) you love in a PvE context be completely neutered/removed because of an ancillary portion of the game.
Nox was a Diablo clone with a super-awesome really fun PvP component
If Blizzard can capture part of that in Diablo 3's arenas, they'll be a lot of fun
You've articulated my thoughts exactly.
The balance of PvE is all about how fast you can kill huge groups of units.
WoW is successful in both PvE and PvP. Yeah, it took a while to get there but there are huge groups of people enjoying both aspects of the game, and honestly, Diablo should be easier to balance than a MMO where PvE balance is a delicate thing.
Bragging rights is taking down the big bad guy at the end of the game for WoW.
Bragging rights in Diablo is all about the cool equipment and max level. Now there's PvP ranking (which is less hardcore than WoW arenas, btw) and PvP achievments to add to that!
Nothing bad about the PvP announcement. It's better than "xXPwnballzXx has become hostile towards you!" or whatever the stupid message was. You were forced into PvP unless you played alone or in private games. Now it's (hopefully?) separated and optional. You don't ever have to touch PvP if you don't want to.
Have they specifically said anything about a reward system? I don't think it's appropriate to assume there will be one and panic over balance.
The sky is not falling! This game will be soul crushingly awesome and you know it.
I think Diablo 2 did a fine job. No rewards for PvP is perfect. Anytime you have rewards that can be used in PvE (even cosmetic things); the PvE becomes screwed up.
How do cosmetic things "screw up" PvE?
From a live blog
Pvp features tons of counters so players can break out of movement impairing skills.
Friday October 22, 2010 1:02
Lots of battle.net support. Matchmaking. They're trying to figure our how to implement custom games and 1 on 1
Friday October 22, 2010 1:03
There'll be a progression based ranking system. Titles, vanity awards, and achievements.
Friday October 22, 2010 1:04
The difference is that going to lvl. super awesome in D3 takes like three days, whereas in WoW it takes months.
Oh god we've gone full circle again.
And if PvP balancing makes it so that one class suddenly becomes significantly worse at killing huge groups of units as fast as possible, especially to the point where the players of that class feel they need to reroll to be useful, PvE balance is screwed.
The inverse is also true. PvE rewards screw up PvP.
Don't know if you ever played WoW or not, but the hardcore raiders used to dominate in PvP. Ever see a level 60 enhancement shaman with a Hand of Rag? It was the most terrifying thing of all.
which is fine
I'll be here, the giddy schoolgirl,
and you'll be there
the grumpy mcguss
and in 2059, when you kill your first fallen outside of Act 1: The Sequel and the joy lights up in your eyes, I will have won
Not a big deal, really.
All the classes will be fun to play, they'll all kill things at different speeds (even if there wasn't PvP), and they'll all be "balanced" as much as Diablo 2 can be balanced.
That happened in Diablo II, with Thunderstorm.
Neal Stephenson
The class you really like has been nerfed to the point of uselessness because of PvP and to be more than dead weight you need to take a class you like less from 1 to 60, but hey, not a big deal, really.
kick ass, this is almost exactly what I was hoping for. I hope she gets some close-quarters moves too, but I think this is the most appealing class to me.
I gotta say though, there's something about the pace of the game that doesn't look quite right. It's a little too slow and stiff, not very fluid. I think this game will have some real competition on the gameplay side of things from Torchlight 2.
And really, who didn't see arenas coming? What other form of PvP were they going to do?
This here is an epic overreaction.