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Apparently there's some issues with reading between the lines...of course it didn't take 10 years to make a remodel of 2D SC into 3D SC...Blizzard just had a better baby on the go. Can you guess what that game might be? What people PAY to play? WooooooooooooooW...As you can see from this blue's post how fast Blizzard can jump from one ship and pile onto another one, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that WoW has been their developmental and upkept time-waster. Why? $$$...

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I guess its blizzards own fault for being to nice to their player base as most players think they have some sort of obligation to go back to old and busted games. They have no obligation to even go back to D2 at all. They are working on SC2/ D3/ WoW and a new MMO. For them even considering going back to D2 really shows how much they want to please their players.

Of course they are gunna focus on games that are going to make them more money, why the hell shouldn't they? They are a publicly traded business and if they didnt focus on WoW they would be morons.

Yup...it also sucks that you can't actually talk about it because some people have sensitive eyes and temp ban for a week. Knew I kept those spare keys for a reason >.>. At any rate, with all the screwing around that's going on we might as well just wait for D3...it'd be here faster.

AND ON THE NEXT PATCH MAKE IT SO YOU DONT HAVE TO GET TEMP BANNED CAUSE YOU CHANGE CHARS TO FAST OR REMAKE GAMES!!!!!!! DUMBEST THING IVE EVER SEEN IN A GAME I KILL THE BOSSES SO FAST I GET TEMP BANNED CAUSE I RESTART SO FAST AND NO IM NOT BOTTING OR USING MAPHACK JESUS CHRIST BLIZZARD

"So once this goes live on the PTR, I expect some crazed-youruinedtheeconomy-testing. "

I lol'd

Yes D2s economy = paying real money or using njaguars fail creation that also revolves around real money and whether you are his friend.

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changes felt to be either necessary changes, or easily implemented

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Bashiok, are you still taking ideas? Here's 2 that are very easy to implement:

1. Decrease the 50% global physical resistance in Hell Difficulty a bit. Elemental damage is ridiculously more powerful.
2. Prevent power-leveling by making tiny level requirements to proceed to the next Act. Power-leveling by sitting through Baal runs isn't a healthy, intended part of the game, and it rewards the wrong approach. Going to Act2 could require being level 6, Act3 level 11, Act4 level 15, etc. Developers already demonstrated action against power-leveling with the level 20 requirement for The Ancients.

Remove synergies and make each skill valuable on its own merits!

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2nd idea SUCKS

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You're just a lamer who sits through Baal runs. Need more gamers, less lamers.

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2. Prevent power-leveling by making tiny level requirements to proceed to the next Act. Power-leveling by sitting through Baal runs isn't a healthy, intended part of the game, and it rewards the wrong approach. Going to Act2 could require being level 6, Act3 level 11, Act4 level 15, etc. Developers already demonstrated action against power-leveling with the level 20 requirement for The Ancients.

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Great idea actually they should increase the level req's to 10 for act2 15 for act3 20 for act4 25 for a5 and 30 for a1 nm
a legit player (I mean without help of higher chars or rushing) wouldn't have problems with this at all.
and it forces u more to play the game like it was intended to be.
baalruns make me sick btw

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No. Use your imagination to build your character and stop looking for cut and dry solutions for character design, its just lazy. Cause once they drop synergies, everyone and their mother will use only a specific set of skills. Which then lowers the level of customization possible in the game. Then 90% of the rest of the skills will be ignored, because their just not as important or overpowered.

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That's a skill balance problem because it means that 90% of the skills SUCK. Hence why each skill needs to be rebalanced to have a specific purpose it excels at, with something else it is horrible at.

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Great idea actually they should increase the level req's to 10 for act2 15 for act3 20 for act4 25 for a5 and 30 for a1 nm
a legit player (I mean without help of higher chars or rushing) wouldn't have problems with this at all.
and it forces u more to play the game like it was intended to be.
baalruns make me sick btw

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your idea still doesn't work...you haven't put any real thought into it obviously because say they did do that...what stops you from doing normal baal runs till you can do nm baal runs.... you didn't change anything.

In order for this fairly useless idea to make any sense there would have to be a level cap as well as a minimum level...which is just a bad idea all together.

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your idea still doesn't work...you haven't put any real thought into it obviously because say they did do that...what stops you from doing normal baal runs till you can do nm baal runs.... you didn't change anything.

In order for this fairly useless idea to make any sense there would have to be a level cap as well as a minimum level...which is just a bad idea all together.

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Hm, you want me to think something through before I post it? SACRILEGE!!

Thanks for the update.

Bring on the test realm, already!

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No. Use your imagination to build your character and stop looking for cut and dry solutions for character design, its just lazy. Cause once they drop synergies, everyone and their mother will use only a specific set of skills. Which then lowers the level of customization possible in the game. Then 90% of the rest of the skills will be ignored, because their just not as important or overpowered.

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The game was much funner when there weren't synergies. You either must not remember that or weren't around when characters were being played as was intended. There will always be weaker spells, most of which aren't even used today when all of their parent synergies are maxed.