Diablo 3

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Originally Posted by Lonskils

Wasn't calling it thieving. But you'd think there would be of just plain awesome names for spells that wouldn't over lap.

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Blizzard is going to rename all of Diablo 3 spells so they will not overlap with World of Warcraft's spells (even though they do the same thing):

Magic Missile -> Magic Arrow
Arcane Orb -> Arcane Exploding Ball
Shock Pulse -> Shock Zaps
Frost Nova -> Ice Explosion
Ray of Frost -> Beam of Ice
Diamond Skin -> Skin like Diamond (oh wait that overlaps with EQ)
Spectral Blade -> Ghost Dagger
Wave of Froce -> Energy Wave
Electrocute -> Lightning Zap
Arcane Torrent -> Arcane Volley
Ice Armor -> Armor of Frozen Waters
Energy Twister -> Energy Cyclone
Slow Time -> Warp Time
Storm Armor -> Armor of Electricity
Explosive Blast -> Burst of Explosion
Disintegrate -> Vaporize
Hydra -> Three Headed Snake-thing
Magic Weapon -> Weapon of Magic (hmmm...)
Teleport -> Blink (oh wait.. dammit) Zoom!
Meteor -> Flaming Ball of Destruction
Mirror Image -> Illusionary Images
Blizzard -> Rain of Frozen Waters
Familiar -> Little Me
Energy Armor -> Armor of Energy (shrug)
Archon -> Arcane Entity

Smart Ass!

Coke: Coke Zero stole our recipe!

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Originally Posted by Maegwin

Coke: Coke Zero stole our recipe!

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except in this its not abilities completely invented by blizzard. has nothing to do with names sucking and not doing/looking as the name would suggest. Regardless it still stands that acting as if your designing all these new abilities with the same name/rename makes them not new as they make it sound. No one is saying they stole anything. However it is not as though its written in stone that they must use the same names form previous games and onward.

Generics like fireball could be said to be obvious, yet I am sure there is something else they could name it. Again I will say I think they are doing so that their WoW players will be familiar should they never viewed or played within the Diabloverse. Not saying all, but I still maintain that they could of created completely new spells, and visuals that do not need to bear similarities to WoW abilities or even SOME previous Diablo abilities. Oh and with coke zero its still a different type of coke, not the same product with coke Zero written on it.

The problem is as we pointed out almost all of the abilities existed in Blizzard products prior to WoW. Hell the Warlock fire rain spell and the Mage water elementals appeared in the first Warcraft game. I mean sure they could come up with a new name for something that already exists in 90% of all fantasy universes but why waste the time.

I honestly believe it is for player familiarity and continuity. You don't want to have all your players needing to re-learn things, they all have a basic understanding of how Frost Nova should work - and it has a large impact at early levels of gameplay. People feel more comfortable working with something they know and understand, and I think they'll stick around longer and work through any difficulties if the game at least feels like they think it should.

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Originally Posted by Maegwin

I honestly believe it is for player familiarity and continuity. You don't want to have all your players needing to re-learn things, they all have a basic understanding of how Frost Nova should work - and it has a large impact at early levels of gameplay. People feel more comfortable working with something they know and understand, and I think they'll stick around longer and work through any difficulties if the game at least feels like they think it should.

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FU, I want Ice Explosion NAO!

No, you'll get Frost Nova and you'll like it.






oh okay you can have Icicle Burst.

edit: and Snow Storm!

Popsicle Lick?

Release should be coming soon.... Anyone with the WoW Annual Pass that looks at their battle.net account will see that their D3 game has been activated. This week I believe a bunch of press types are being showed all the Blizzard bells and whistles and sometime next week a major D3 announcement will be made.

Still cant start the DL :P

Nope.

blizzard needs to hurry up

Well that italian site had a rumor that april 20th would be it but late May would be my guess. Blizz said they would like to give a 2 month notice.

I just reinstalled diablo 2 for shits and giggles

Someone asked a Blizz rep on scale of 1-10, 10 being imminent release, how close were they. He answered 9. So yeah, I believe the mid-April date is probably correct.

Well to be fair they asked how close they were to the major D3 announcement not the release date.

Well they have cut the D3 PVP arenas so that the game can ship properly. Note they will be adding the arenas back in with a patch at a later date. Also I believe open world PVP may still be possible.

On another note for people like Wresh it looks like they have changed the hardcore requirement from completing the game on normal to merely hitting level 10.

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Originally Posted by Valdis

Well they have cut the D3 PVP arenas so that the game can ship properly. Note they will be adding the arenas back in with a patch at a later date. Also I believe open world PVP may still be possible.

On another note for people like Wresh it looks like they have changed the hardcore requirement from completing the game on normal to merely hitting level 10.

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Good...

Playing hardcore makes the game just that more intense and fun.

I played through a few more times this weekend. I haven't played since the last big update, but anyone else notice the dungeons seem to be smaller?