Diablo III Wild Speculation and Rumor Mongering Abounds

[Hindenburg]

Something with a shield.

[Teleku]

Monk gameplay

Looks like the class I'd like to play but it's probably going to be the most popular one.  It's like a jedi class.

What's the last class? Assassin, cleric or druid?  Is a bow and crossbow class mandatory?

Ah, good point, no bow class put in yet.  And yes, I'd say a bow class is mandatory at this point.  Both of the previous games had one, and people will be screaming for blood if they can't play one.

Maybe they'll put in the Ranger class.  Have it be a cross between the amazon and the druid.

[MrHat]

Demon Hunter probably.

Let you trap, bow, whatever.

[Yegolev]

Repeating crossbow, fedora, duster?  I've seen that movie.

[Goreschach]

Isn't a character based around unarmed combat and not using armor pretty much the worst idea for a Diablo class, ever?

I'm not saying it won't be popular, if nothing else then due to the massive weeaboo demographic on the internet, but couldn't they have come up with something a bit more fitting?

[ezrast]

Trailer shows him using staves; I wouldn't be surprised if they say "fuck convention" and have monks wandering around in plate.

I would love love love to see the rogue return - every other class has pretty much been a rehash of a class that's been in the series before (yeah, monks were in Hellfire), so I could see it.

At this point calling a Diablo class "demon hunter" would be a tiny bit silly. It would be like calling a Team Fortress class "gun firer".

If there's a ranger class and its primary damage comes from archery I will choke a kitten. That is not what the word "range" means.

[WindupAtheist]

Witch Doctor and Monk feel totally out of place to me. They may as well make the last class Cowboy.

[ezrast]

I kind of felt that way about paladins and all their valor and redemption and justice nonsense. This is Sanctuary, here there be demons. Leave the holy light business to Tyrael.

Until he turns evil, I mean.

edit: I really hope the box art for this game says "Compete FREE over the INTERNET" in the corner.

[Megrim]

Witch Doctor and Monk feel totally out of place to me. They may as well make the last class Cowboy.

You'll need to highlight the part which is bad.

[WindupAtheist]

I kind of felt that way about paladins and all their valor and redemption and justice nonsense. This is Sanctuary, here there be demons. Leave the holy light business to Tyrael.

I know right? Who'd expect a class with those religious trappings in a game about a war between men, angels, and demons?

 

[Hawkbit]

I read on one of the boards that Morhaime was asked how many games were launching in 2010 and he answered:  Two, with one of them being Cataclysm. 

If that's true, then either D3 launches late this year, or one of SC2/D3 gets pushed into 2011.  Seems unimaginable that either are 18+ months away seeing the footage we have so far. 

Makes me think the quote is a fake.

[MrHat]

I read on one of the boards that Morhaime was asked how many games were launching in 2010 and he answered:  Two, with one of them being Cataclysm. 

If that's true, then either D3 launches late this year, or one of SC2/D3 gets pushed into 2011.  Seems unimaginable that either are 18+ months away seeing the footage we have so far. 

Makes me think the quote is a fake.

SC2 was confirmed pushed back to 2010.

So SC2 and Cataclysm 2010.  Diablo 3 release date 12/12/2012.

[K9]

Cowboy.

 

[Merusk]

Yeah, at the opening interviews this morning they were talking about taking on too much and losing focus when asked about expanding to some other genre/ game.  In that response they said right now they're focusing on Cat and SC2 for next year, D3 after that and the new MMO after that.   

Also, there was a hell of an interesting peek into the Blizzard process by Pardo at his interview this morning.  Hopefuly someone's recording it so other designers can watch and listen to it and learn.

[Hawkbit]

I'd trade all three copies of SC2 I'd need to play, and all the people playing it for D3 to take it's place. 

D3 in 2011?  Seriously, that's fooked.  They announced it what, a year ago almost?

[Teleku]

Yes, but they announced StarCraft 2 a year before that even.

[Simond]

I'd trade all three copies of SC2 I'd need to play, and all the people playing it for D3 to take it's place. 

D3 in 2011?  Seriously, that's fooked.  They announced it what, a year ago almost?

It's a Blizzard game. What, exactly, were you expecting?

[Daeven]

I'd trade all three copies of SC2 I'd need to play, and all the people playing it for D3 to take it's place. 

D3 in 2011?  Seriously, that's fooked.  They announced it what, a year ago almost?

It's a Blizzard game. What, exactly, were you expecting?

2014. This is good news.

[fnddf2]

Trailer shows him using staves; I wouldn't be surprised if they say "fuck convention" and have monks wandering around in plate.

I would love love love to see the rogue return - every other class has pretty much been a rehash of a class that's been in the series before (yeah, monks were in Hellfire), so I could see it.

Well, if you have seen a lot of kung-fu and chinese martial arts movies, there are a lot of characters that wear heavy armor and still do lots of martial arts.  Recent movies include Curse of the Golden Flower and the Forbidden Kingdom to name a few.  Asian military personnel did wear heavy armor to some extent in those days.  I imagine that "monk plate" will basically look something like that.  It could be similar to how they gave the Assassin plate in D2.

You also see them using weapons like two-handed swords, broadswords, and polearms in those movies too, so it's not a stretch to say that the dev team could draw inspiration from those movies and make those available for the monk as well.  I don't think they will, just to make the monk unique, but they COULD do it and not have it look so far-fetched if they wanted to.

Also, I got the idea that the monk would be the fast and agile melee character of D3, so I don't expect to see a rogue class myself.

[Musashi]

Did they announce a date for the D2 1.13 patch?  I read all the previous crap about some warcraft patch fucking it over.  Yet somehow the internet seems to have missed this announcement, if it was made at Blizzcon, as was postulated.

[Hawkbit]

Not that I am aware of. 

True Blizzard fashion regarding Diablo.  The patch was officially announced four months ago. 

[fuser]

Did they announce a date for the D2 1.13 patch?  I read all the previous crap about some warcraft patch fucking it over.  Yet somehow the internet seems to have missed this announcement, if it was made at Blizzcon, as was postulated.

They shelved it for WC3 patch (source). Oh well the 1.24 went live earlier this month, so perhaps we should see some testing news soon.

[Musashi]

Yea, I read that post.  It's from June.  The working theory was that they would announce it at Blizzcon.  Apparently not.

I guess there's some noob PR people at Blizzard who don't realize that when they say Diablo patch, the internet goes  .

[fuser]

Yep they said squat at blizzcon that was the last "official" 

[Ingmar]

Witch Doctor doesn't fit?



The monk plays totally awesome. There's no armor restriction that I noticed, its Diablo, you just have to have the right stats to wear it or whatever. And he does use at least 'combat staff' weapons. Some of the attacks are unarmed, but they seem to get all the weapon bonuses or whatever anyway.

[Sjofn]

Diablo 3 release date 12/12/2012.

My birthday! 

[UnSub]

They may as well make the last class Cowboy.

Special armour type: rhinestones.

[NiX]

Special armour type: rhinestones.

Gem slotting would make more sense.

[IainC]

From the 'no shit; really?' desk comes this reveal

Diablo will apparently be the end boss to D3.

Sorry if I've ruined the ending for you.

[Musashi]

It doesn't matter if he's purple and wears a beret, as long as he drops sweet loot.

[Yegolev]

/xibit_joke

[Hawkbit]

Well shit, there's no reason to play it now that I know how it ends.

[Malakili]

Wouldn't have been awesome of Diablo wasn't in the game at all.

[Paelos]

I knew that whole smashing soulstones thing was a crock of shit!

[Ratman_tf]

In-between games Diablo hangs out with Ganon and Bowser.