Addiction Starts Early, As Blizzard Launches Diablo III Skill Calculator

Guys, you completely forget the origin of WoW. While set in the Warcraft universe, it was definitely inspired by Diablo for its gameplay. So it's only natural that D3 shares a lot with WoW.

I'm going to wear out so many mice playing this game.

I recognize some of these abilities from another Blizzard game.

I am staying away from all diablo 3 skill trees and videos till the game releases, i want to go in straight D3 virgin so it will be a magical experience.

@Xehalus said:

I recognize some of these abilities from another Blizzard game.

Yeah, Diablo II.

I'm a wizard!

@Forum_User said:

@Kookro said:

That wasn't much of a skill calculator...

Seriously, this is shaping up to be WoW: Diablo addition. Blizzard doesn't know how to make a Diablo game and now they're just going to ruin it for the real fans of the series.

Poor Blizzard North, I miss them so much.

Inb4 someone who doesn't know the difference between Blizzard and Blizzard North tries to convince me that I don't know what I'm talking about.

Oh, you mean hoarding points that you get in early levels for later skills since they are generally way more useful? Yeah, that was a great system. (Yes, I know they added the passive bonuses way after launch to try to make it a little more interesting. I don't think it changed things that much in all practicality.)

As much as I love Diablo II, putting one more point in primary damage skill of choice was not a terribly interesting gameplay mechanic. Hard to say if I'll end up finding any glaring issues with the new skill system, but it certainly sounds better than what they had before. In particular, I like that every single skill can be useful at high levels, instead of them simply becoming worthless when you get new ones. There should be a much larger range of viable builds and playstyles. (Note I said viable, not optimal.)

I think there were a whole lot of viable builds in D2, in addition to many that sucked if you didn't know what you were doing, which means you needed to actually think a little. And if you wanted a really good build, you had to read up, crunch some numbers, do some math and combine some tables, which was the fun part for me (as the gameplay itself wasn't that deep).

Seems like they got rid of all that. Which might be a smart thing to do in today's market, but might also mean that this game won't be for me. So far it reads like the WoW skill system, but without talent trees, 6 quickbar slots instead of up to 120, and you only get skills up to lvl 30. Which would be completely ridiculous, in a bad way.

But those runes being the only way of individualising your character and also coming in multiple quality levels will sure be a nice bump for their RL money item shop where they get a cut on every transaction.