Diablo 3

[Provectus]

I know, when I found out I was pissed off, my g/f went mental though, we're both BIG fans of FF, but she especially loved FF7... I swear she'd of made me pay £1k for a PS3 if they cost that, just to play FF7 remade (and tbh, I probably would, I really did love the game, the graphics and lack of voices do my head in everytime I replay it though, FF10+ has spoilt me!).

Meh, I have a fair bit of free time over the next few days, will get around to it.

Maybe they're taking more of a WoW approach to Paladins, ie they're not that great on their own, but give awesome buffs to players (they kinda did on D2, but not like they do on WoW, D2 was only aura's if I remember correctly? WoW has both aura's and buffs), then giving them the melee abilities of Assassins maybe?

**** knows, sounds very odd indeed, considering a Paladin has always been a tank like character that isn't intended to do that much damage, but isn't intended to take much either. Assassins however have always been the opposite, quick, agile, weakly geared but hit like a truck (not sure if you know many WoW terms, but they were often known on WoW as glass cannons, for obvious reasons).

Yeah I saw WitchDoctors on a trailer AGES ago, they look ****ing awesome! Creating pets with rabies, WIN! They've clearly taken a lot of Necro abilities though, seems like they've basically renamed Necro's and updated them. :s I always did love my Necro though, even though I didn't play D2 much, hopefully the class hasn't changed TOO much.

Any word on whether it will be the same as D2 (buy game, play) or if it'll be P2P? Either way when it's out it'll only be a now and then thing for me, so hopefully it won't be P2P.

My g/f would know more about it than I would, when D2 and it's later versions were out I was on Euro Mir, a private Mir server or WoW... Played D2 a year or so ago and loved it, just had too short a life span to keep me entertained, after having played WoW to death I'm used to a much longer list of things to do. :P

[Sirblair]

Well theres been so much speculation on the whole Bnet being free or p2p, but I honestly think it will change to p2p following the success of previous diablo games and they know they have enough fans that will easily pay anything to play diablo 3 on Bnet,

Hmmm funny enough my strongest charc on d2 and expansion was a paladin ( using the combo of hammers and concentration aura, hammerdin i think they were named )

Thats actually makes alot of sense to have a paladin with aura's and then give them assas fighting abilities, never thought of it like that lol forgot assas's did those kicking stuff and all

I really hope it's not going to be p2p tbh, would just be another bill on top of everything else But will have to wait and see, one of my mates is one of those game testers and bug finder so will see if he knows anything lol

[Provectus]

I'd be surprised if they don't go P2P, if they're smart they'll do it for like £5 a month, considering almost all games charge between £8 and £10, they'd have a LOT of younger players gasping to swap over for half the cost. As I said, for me it'll only be a "Blowing off steam" kind of thing, as I'll be busy with Evo for a long, long time, so as long as it's not something silly (I highly doubt they'd even consider going past £10 a month), I'd be happy to play it, ****ing beats smoking, lol.

D2, at least later on, made Hammerdins ****ing OP, most of them got the teleport thing and they were INSANE lol. I made one, got to 19, couldn't work out how to keep aura on while using the hammer, so quit, after a few weeks worked out that holding shift and left clicking meant you used your left click spell, you didn't have to click a mob... Lol. -_-

It's mostly taking the idea from WoW, Retribution specced Paladins, aka Retadins ****ing rock on there now (in the deep past, on the early days of WoW, they had a sick skill called Reckoning, everytime they were critically hit, they stored a swing, the next time they hit a target all stored swings hit at once, there was a bug that didn't cap the swings, so people were able to get crit for an hour or whatever, then go one shot kill 40 man bosses, rofl - That got massively altered over the years though), it'll probably be something like that, which is cool.

If it means they put more time, effort and man-power in to it, £5-10 a month won't make me cry, lol. ^^