Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 2:43 PM PST
Scored a good seat. For the screens, anyway; good seats for the stage don't exist.Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 2:49 PM PST
Just to give you an idea of the SCALE of this place: http://flic.kr/p/8MrERG #BlizzConMalgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:01 PM PST
And we're opening up! Lots of info coming up. #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:04 PM PST
Q: How do you balance all possible builds? A: Part math, part playtesting, part setting realistic goals. #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:05 PM PST
Q: What is endgame post-Diablo? A: Don't know yet. Game first, then endgame. #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:06 PM PST
Endgame areas: PVP, alts, dungeons, etc. D2 did a bad job of catering to all playstyles, #D3 can do better.Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:07 PM PST
D3 seems much more focused than other Blizz games. Devs clearly know what kind of game they want to make.Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:08 PM PST
D3 guilds will be at battle.net level, and all battle.net coMalgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:08 PM PST
D3 guilds will be at battle.net level, and all battle.net contentis still up in the air. #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:09 PM PST
D3 will fight gold inflation much better than D2. Gold will have actual value. #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:10 PM PST
Lots of economic gold sinks through the crafting system. #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:11 PM PST
"Diablo 2 had the OCCASIONAL problem with item duplication..." #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:12 PM PST
There will not be PVP specific gear. Some abilities will do different things in PVP though. #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:13 PM PST
Also there will be little or no in-game rewards for PVP. It's not a way to earn gear. #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:15 PM PST
Detailed quest log descriptions will be spoken by the player, so same quest has different flavor for diff chars. #BlizzMalgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:18 PM PST
Game Director Jay Wilson is a griefer. You heard it here first. #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:19 PM PST
"There's story in everything, even in the tiniest decision." #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:21 PM PST
Plan is to avoid double/triple immunity monsters. High resistances are ok, but not immunities. #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:24 PM PST
D3 will hearken back to D2 the way D2 did to D1 with Tristram. #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:26 PM PST
Q: Will there be a cow level? A: The chat gem in D2 will tell you if you click it enough. #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:28 PM PST
Q: Dual specs? A: No. PVE is our focus, don't want PVP to distract us. #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:31 PM PST
"Boss fights should be about 50% Diablo 2 and 50% Zelda." #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:32 PM PST
"We hate bots and we want to stop them, and we have a lot more tools now than we did before." #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:34 PM PST
"We wont make you store the ears in your inventory." #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:36 PM PST
If you die in PVP arenas in Hardcore mode, you're dead. If you don't want to die, stay out. #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:37 PM PST
No Runewords. Runewords were a half-ass crafting system, and now we have a REAL crafting system.Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:39 PM PST
WASD movement? "We tried it and it doesn't feel right." #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:41 PM PST
Will we be able to download and play Diablo 1/Hellfire from battle.net? "Probably." #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:42 PM PST
D3 esports? "No. You can do whatever you want but we're specifically NOT incentivizing it." #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:43 PM PST
"If D3 is an esport, PVP game balance dictates EVERYTHING. We don't want that." #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:46 PM PST
D3 map creation will be even more random than D2. #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:50 PM PST
Male barbarian is actually the SAME barbarian from D2. Awesome. #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:52 PM PST
Someone came up to urge them to refocus on competitive PVP and the crowd shouted him down. #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:53 PM PST
"Blizzard knows a lot about esports and game balance...including when to give up." #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:54 PM PST
"We're working on chat channels for battle.net." #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:56 PM PST
Number of available chars in d3 will be MUCH higher, and the stash in MASSIVE. #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:57 PM PST
"The stash is so big that some people tell me it's TOO big. And then I hit those people." #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 3:58 PM PST
BlizzCon exclusive: the Stash will be consistent across characters. #BlizzCon #D3Malgayne @ 10/23/2010 at 4:00 PM PST
We're done! And I didn't get to ask my question. :( #BlizzCon #D3