Diablo III Wild Speculation and Rumor Mongering Abounds

[Paelos]

What an odd way to disallow a class AND insult your gay customers at the very same time!

[Xanthippe]

Considering how popular Blizzard's other fairy classes are, you'd think a fairy class would be a plus.

Illusionist/shapeshifter would be so fun to play.

[Ingmar]

It wouldn't be Blizzard without the occasional foot-in-mouth about gay topics.

[Sjofn]

Man whaaaat?




EDIT: I should probably be grateful, another spellcaster would just mean another female model that forgot to put on pants that morning.

[Tannhauser]

Women can't wear pants since they breathe through their vajayjays.

SCIENCE FACT.

[Merusk]

The card thing makes it all clarify for me in a more sensible way.  Kudos, Ingmar.

Yes, Mal, the drop was the cash-value reward.

It wouldn't be Blizzard without the occasional foot-in-mouth about gay topics.

Hey, at least it's only the foot.  More often it's foot, calf and thigh.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Blizzards bad gay issues aside, illusionist doesn't sound very brutal or gritty, something they are obviously going for with the game.  Wizard already is stretching it because it's harder to make a caster "badass" I think a good pet class could have been a sort of monster tamer/demon warden character but "summons spectral fighters" is not very diablo.

[Paelos]

Conjurer would make sense though. Illusionist implies misdirection, but not dangerously so, I suppose.

[Sjofn]

Women can't wear pants since they breathe through their vajayjays.

SCIENCE FACT.

Ahahaha.

 

[lesion]

I want a necro-puppeteer who transfers souls and controls dead enemies like meatmechs.

[Merusk]

The Mechromancer?

[lesion]

How is that not the best idea ever?!

[Furiously]

Because it's not a tank. 

[Ghambit]

Because it's not a tank. 

... with railguns

[Ghambit]

Having thought it over, while initially I disliked the high fee I think in the long run it will be good to discourage or outright destroy any attempts to actually accomplish what Ghambit is describing, as well as general market manipulation. That and the $250 cap, good luck running your money laundering/currency exchange empire in $250 dollar increments.

The $250 cap is per auction and you're allowed 10 auctions at a time per currency RMAH (unclear yet if they'll cap it at 10 auctions/acct., but the language indicates it's per currency RMAH).  Commodities are also handled in bulk, so I can sell a tranche of gold and the system will parse out separately what multiple buyers purchase, with the tranche still only counting as 1 auction. Blizz seems to still be fooling with the language on that one too but I'll bet the buyout for the entire stack will have to stay <$250 and the per/unit price will fluctuate based on stack size, giving search preference to the cheapest/unit price.  People who want to get around the $250/item cap will simply sell uber-uniques in the gold AH (max is 100billion per unit?), then sell the gold in the RMAH in multiple $250 stacks.  In this sense, item rarity will directly effect the gold market.  Note, the GOLD AH allows complete region access (they share the same pool) as opposed to the RMAH only allowing local currency access.  Feel where this is goin?

Anyways, the Americas game region accounts for 5 currencies... so it's possible I could have 50 auctions running at a time with $250 max buyouts each (assuming we can even swap currencies to begin with w/o forfeiting the other AH).  Assume you only run 50 auctions/24hrs (and dont replace auctions that fall off the AH) I guess the max possible revenue/day is $12500/battle.net acct (not factoring currency differences).  If I hired a fleet of unique-item farmers obviously that revenue is more easily maintained long-term if the gold-based AH market supports items>$250 in RMAH currency.  You then manipulate the gold market using normal controls (don't flood the market, buy out the lowballers, etc.)

Lot of "?" and assumptions here.  I aint gonna do any of this stuff obviously, I just dont have the time.  But you're damned tootin' other people will.  All sorts of moneyhat algorithms will fall out of this auction mechanic.

[Quinton]

It's definitely going to be interesting.  I think this is the first publisher-sanctioned, cash-in/cash-out RMT system I've seen -- others allow you to inject cash into the system (buy game time cards in EVE, etc) but don't provide an "approved" method of extracting cash back out of the system.

I'm curious how the economy will evolve -- presumably gold:dollars will eventually settle to some representation of the time it takes to most efficiently extract gold from the RNG -- there's no limitation to just running the same quest over and over, as far as I understand it.

[Trippy]

Entropia allows you to do it.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Second life does as well.

[Lantyssa]

I want a necro-puppeteer who transfers souls and controls dead enemies like meatmechs.

Sounds gay to me, so we can't have that.

[tazelbain]

Don't be a necrophobe.

[Shatter]

So was thinking of picking this up for a time killer and I know its a multiplayer game but I would play solo so...is there any point?  Is it mostly group driven and solo unfriendly? 

[FieryBalrog]

You can play the whole game solo if you choose. It's not MMO style, you don't have to be in the same world as other people. It's more like a co-op game with drop-in at any time.

[Xanthippe]

You can play the whole game solo if you choose. It's not MMO style, you don't have to be in the same world as other people. It's more like a co-op game with drop-in at any time.

I'll play private solo games to max my enjoyment for exploring until I get sick of that (smashing every jar, exploring every cranny) and then I'll play with other people.

If you never ever want to play with other people, you don't have to.

[K9]

Is there any word on whether you can set a flag like /players X to overspawn mobs and loot in single player?

[ffc]

Is there any word on whether you can set a flag like /players X to overspawn mobs and loot in single player?

I have read that more players in a game does not affect loot drops or amount of monsters / xp.  The benefit of having real players in your game is the potential for trading since everybody is getting their own loot drops, and monsters should die faster since their health scales up slower than the full damage of multiple players.  So in a single player game, there is no benefit to artificially spawning players.

I also read a dev comment on the monk attack animations, addressing the monk's weapons disappearing during any skill use and instantly reappearing after the skill.  I commented earlier on how weird it looked and I'm surprised the animation was permitted in its current state.

[FieryBalrog]

Number of players affects monster HP and difficulty in the beta, so I would imagine it affects XP as well..

[Malakili]

Just for fun - a 10 minute speed run of the beta. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PO586PMgqU

[slog]

I suspect the $250 limit may have something to do with tax reporting requirements, but I have no way of proving that.

[Merusk]

Number of players affects monster HP and difficulty in the beta, so I would imagine it affects XP as well..

It may affect Xp per kill but that's minor. The real benefit from groups is speed as you'll complete quests faster, which is where the majority of your XP comes form anyway.

/players wouldn't affect dropped items. In D2 the command worked because everyone saw all drops so it would increase gold/ drops proportionally.  Not so under this system as it's a set rate and everyone only sees their own drops.   More players will drop more items, but, as FFC says, you'll have to trade them to get the effect.   Or learn to multi-account.

[apocrypha]

/players was removed from D2 ladder a long time ago. I seriously doubt it'll be in place for D3 live.

[K9]

Righty ho, thanks for the clarifications.

[Phred]

Is there any word on whether you can set a flag like /players X to overspawn mobs and loot in single player?

No you can't.

[Yegolev]

So was thinking of picking this up for a time killer and I know its a multiplayer game but I would play solo so...is there any point?  Is it mostly group driven and solo unfriendly? 

lol ?

[Hawkbit]

Will I be required to click on things to kill or loot?  I'm not a fan of that.

[Paelos]

Will I be required to click on things to kill or loot?  I'm not a fan of that.