{"id":31096,"date":"2012-01-20T12:44:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T10:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=31096"},"modified":"2012-01-20T13:42:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T11:42:05","slug":"blizzard-fiddling-with-diablo-iii-after-beta-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/31096-blizzard-fiddling-with-diablo-iii-after-beta-feedback","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard fiddling with Diablo III after beta feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, yes, yes, we all want Diablo III, like, yesterday already. Well, maybe you do &#8211; honestly, I&#8217;ve decided to forget about it until it launches, so it&#8217;ll be this big surprise. The thing is, it&#8217;ll be done when it&#8217;s done, and not a moment sooner. And it&#8217;s definitely not done yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our job isn&#8217;t just to put out a game, it&#8217;s to release the next Diablo game. No one will remember if the game is late, only if it&#8217;s great,&#8221; writes game director Jay Wilson in a blog post over on the official Diablo III site.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We trust in our ability to put out a great game, but we&#8217;re not quite there yet. In addition to finishing and polishing the content of the game we&#8217;re continuing to iterate on some of the core game systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He goes on to talk about a bunch of significant and not-so-significant changes being made to the game in response to beta feedback, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identification scrolls have been binned. &#8220;We love the double-discovery of finding a present and then unwrapping it, but we don&#8217;t think it requires a physical item you have to find and keep in your bags to get the same effect,&#8221; explains Wilson.<\/li>\n<li>The fifth quick slot button is being replaced with a dedicated potion button.<\/li>\n<li>The Mystic Artisan is no longer in the game, because he &#8220;simply wasn\u2019t adding anything to our customisation system&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The Cauldron of Jordan and the Nephalem Cube are out, and the blacksmith is now responsible for salvaging items. Also, white items are no longer salvageable.<\/li>\n<li>The Stone of Recall has been renamed Town Portal because that&#8217;s what it actually is.<\/li>\n<li>The Attack, Defense, and Precision attributes have been dropped, with the major character attributes now Strength, Dexterity, Intellect, and Vitality. &#8220;Armor is taking over for what Defense used to provide, +Physical Resist will take over for Armor, and +Chance to Crit will fill in for Precision,&#8221; says Wilson.<\/li>\n<li>Character stats are now shown on the inventory UI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;All of these are changes that will in one way or another be seen in the latest beta patch,&#8221; adds Wilson. &#8220;And so we hope that those of you with access please try them out and let us know what you think in the Beta Feedback forum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Or you can <a title=\"MyGaming forum\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/22449-Diablo-3-Major-delays-likely\">join in complaining with the guys on the MyGaming forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/eu.battle.net\/d3\/en\/blog\/3599257\/Systems_Changes_%E2%80%94_Jay_Wilson_-19_01_2012#blog\">Battle.net<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diablo_III_beta_Wizard_charging_in_933827823.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-23936\" title=\"Diablo_III_beta_Wizard_charging_in_933827823.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diablo_III_beta_Wizard_charging_in_933827823.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diablo_III_beta_Wizard_charging_in_933827823.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diablo_III_beta_Wizard_charging_in_933827823-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diablo_III_beta_Wizard_charging_in_933827823-80x45.jpg 80w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diablo_III_beta_Wizard_charging_in_933827823-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diablo_III_beta_Wizard_charging_in_933827823-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diablo_III_beta_Wizard_charging_in_933827823-170x96.jpg 170w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diablo_III_beta_Wizard_charging_in_933827823-297x167.jpg 297w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diablo_III_beta_Wizard_charging_in_933827823-530x298.jpg 530w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diablo_III_beta_Wizard_charging_in_933827823-625x351.jpg 625w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Diablo_III_beta_Wizard_charging_in_933827823-250x140.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;ll be done when it&#8217;s done, and not a moment sooner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":31107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[2071,665,2072,667,21],"class_list":["post-31096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-beta","tag-blizzard","tag-changes","tag-diablo-3","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31104,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31096\/revisions\/31104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}