885
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get David Kim fantastic the one the only
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00:47:23,210 --> 00:47:25,490
David Kim folks if you follow my videos
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00:47:25,490 --> 00:47:26,869
on my streams you know I've spoken a lot
888
00:47:26,869 --> 00:47:29,869
about him and now he updated his
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00:47:29,869 --> 00:47:32,660
LinkedIn a few years ago to say that he
890
00:47:32,660 --> 00:47:35,720
moved over to team three and you can
891
00:47:35,720 --> 00:47:37,539
finally talk about that now right yeah
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00:47:37,539 --> 00:47:39,049
awesome
893
00:47:39,049 --> 00:47:41,960
so the speculation was it was gonna be
894
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:43,970
for PvP time balance because you have
895
00:47:43,970 --> 00:47:46,220
you're like you didn't play as a pro
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00:47:46,220 --> 00:47:47,029
player because you couldn't feel
897
00:47:47,029 --> 00:47:48,289
conflict of interest but you were going
898
00:47:48,289 --> 00:47:49,400
on a professional level you play
899
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,230
Starcraft 2 on a professional level you
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00:47:51,230 --> 00:47:53,599
were huge in the starcraft seen a major
901
00:47:53,599 --> 00:47:55,880
balancing guy like you were a hero there
902
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:59,500
Oh is he not really but I did my best
903
00:47:59,500 --> 00:48:03,529
yeah and so hearing that you were coming
904
00:48:03,529 --> 00:48:06,980
to d3 I was like oh man okay either yeah
905
00:48:06,980 --> 00:48:08,390
before sorry yes
906
00:48:08,390 --> 00:48:10,010
Diablo before either you want to do
907
00:48:10,010 --> 00:48:12,470
something completely different or you
908
00:48:12,470 --> 00:48:14,299
came to fix PvP in jail because they
909
00:48:14,299 --> 00:48:15,710
tried to do it in d3 and it they
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00:48:15,710 --> 00:48:17,869
couldn't get it into a state where they
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00:48:17,869 --> 00:48:20,150
were happy with it so now that you able
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00:48:20,150 --> 00:48:22,250
to talk about things what what happened
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00:48:22,250 --> 00:48:22,940
what's the story
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00:48:22,940 --> 00:48:25,609
oh so around the time when I was
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00:48:25,609 --> 00:48:28,640
finishing up my responsibilities on the
916
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:30,500
Starcraft 2 team I looked at my options
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00:48:30,500 --> 00:48:32,750
and yeah below for sounded so exciting
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00:48:32,750 --> 00:48:36,170
so I moved over so I'm the lead system
919
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designer on the team so I work
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00:48:38,059 --> 00:48:40,549
me and my team works on things like
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00:48:40,549 --> 00:48:43,549
class design items progression systems
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00:48:43,549 --> 00:48:45,640
PvP like you said things
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those lines says not to attract guests
924
00:48:50,670 --> 00:48:53,349
it's just not to just but I had noticed
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00:48:53,349 --> 00:48:55,420
this before that one of the mics is a
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00:48:55,420 --> 00:48:58,779
lot louder man Oh - yeah okay I think
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00:48:58,779 --> 00:49:01,269
it's peaking um it's just not to adjust
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00:49:01,269 --> 00:49:05,250
should we adjust it it's your scream Oh
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00:49:05,250 --> 00:49:07,779
labels as they don't adjust oh man yeah
930
00:49:07,779 --> 00:49:09,700
I don't know how to individually Shay
931
00:49:09,700 --> 00:49:11,920
pull this out a little bit oh yeah maybe
932
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:14,589
as a hack yeah just try that okay cool
933
00:49:14,589 --> 00:49:18,190
awesome sorry about that awesome so yeah
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00:49:18,190 --> 00:49:20,680
head yeah lead system designer he saw
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00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:22,809
the opportunity how's it been Hausman
936
00:49:22,809 --> 00:49:24,130
the transition because they're two very
937
00:49:24,130 --> 00:49:27,460
different jobs of game yeah yeah so I
938
00:49:27,460 --> 00:49:28,900
thought it would be much harder than I
939
00:49:28,900 --> 00:49:32,799
expected but I think a lot of the game
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00:49:32,799 --> 00:49:35,940
design philosophies kind of transcend
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00:49:35,940 --> 00:49:38,950
genres plus there's a lot of great
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00:49:38,950 --> 00:49:41,079
people that I can learn from and also I
943
00:49:41,079 --> 00:49:43,000
did interview for the team I applied got
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00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:44,859
the job so that gave me a little more
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00:49:44,859 --> 00:49:46,089
confidence too so I think that's just
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00:49:46,089 --> 00:49:49,539
how to so many Blizzard teams work this
947
00:49:49,539 --> 00:49:51,279
way like if you want to switch teams you
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00:49:51,279 --> 00:49:52,329
actually go through the interview
949
00:49:52,329 --> 00:49:54,609
process get approved and then you can
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00:49:54,609 --> 00:49:56,140
join the team right so that also gave me
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00:49:56,140 --> 00:49:57,940
some confidence and I've been here for a
952
00:49:57,940 --> 00:49:59,819
few years now so yeah that's great
953
00:49:59,819 --> 00:50:01,119
awesome
954
00:50:01,119 --> 00:50:03,339
what are you most excited about in
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00:50:03,339 --> 00:50:09,130
Diablo 4 so for me I am the most excited
956
00:50:09,130 --> 00:50:11,829
about adding more replayability two
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00:50:11,829 --> 00:50:14,230
seasons so for example on the item side
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00:50:14,230 --> 00:50:16,839
we want to make sure that legendary
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00:50:16,839 --> 00:50:19,180
items are on equal or greater power
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00:50:19,180 --> 00:50:21,339
level compared to set items in the habló
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for that way you can customize every
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single slot and also I think we can do
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00:50:25,180 --> 00:50:28,059
more for example in a given season what
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if we make some subset of legendary
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items really stand out over others right
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and also introduce brand new legendary
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items into the game so this way every
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00:50:36,670 --> 00:50:38,710
season you have brand new builds explore
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00:50:38,710 --> 00:50:40,420
and brand new combinations to kind of
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00:50:40,420 --> 00:50:42,430
figure out like which ones are the
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00:50:42,430 --> 00:50:45,749
strongest possible combinations right
972
00:50:45,749 --> 00:50:47,649
well if they want to talk about room
973
00:50:47,649 --> 00:50:52,569
words I guess okay oh yeah so there are
974
00:50:52,569 --> 00:50:54,969
two types of runes in Diablo 4 condition
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runes and effect rooms so you can take
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any condition room and combine it with
977
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:03,069
any effect room to form a reward right
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00:51:03,069 --> 00:51:06,609
so have you seen the reward in one of
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00:51:06,609 --> 00:51:08,229
the dungeons yeah yeah we picked up to
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00:51:08,229 --> 00:51:11,109
it one potion effect yeah then the
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00:51:11,109 --> 00:51:13,779
critical yeah yeah yeah so for example
982
00:51:13,779 --> 00:51:17,469
say you don't want the trigger to happen
983
00:51:17,469 --> 00:51:19,269
on push in use right what if you want it
984
00:51:19,269 --> 00:51:21,699
to happen on every time you stun
985
00:51:21,699 --> 00:51:23,319
something because you're going for a
986
00:51:23,319 --> 00:51:24,759
stun build you can change out that
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00:51:24,759 --> 00:51:26,319
condition room and have that exact same
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00:51:26,319 --> 00:51:28,809
effect happen on that condition right
989
00:51:28,809 --> 00:51:31,239
and if you don't like that effect if you
990
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:34,709
want say like I want life leech after I
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00:51:34,709 --> 00:51:36,759
spend something then I could do that to
992
00:51:36,759 --> 00:51:37,779
you right so you have that full
993
00:51:37,779 --> 00:51:39,640
customization so it's pretty exciting
994
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:44,109
what's the biggest chain of pull six
995
00:51:44,109 --> 00:51:47,169
like in the B 2 or 0 minutes a 2 3 right
996
00:51:47,169 --> 00:51:49,989
now we're thinking of the two we haven't
997
00:51:49,989 --> 00:51:51,849
added progression to it yet but that's
998
00:51:51,849 --> 00:51:52,989
also something that we're discussing
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00:51:52,989 --> 00:51:57,369
right now now with regards to
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00:51:57,369 --> 00:51:58,989
atomization I know that some of the
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00:51:58,989 --> 00:52:01,269
legendaries will be altering the way
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00:52:01,269 --> 00:52:04,539
some skills could operate yeah are we
1003
00:52:04,539 --> 00:52:06,819
gonna see like massive multipliers like
1004
00:52:06,819 --> 00:52:08,739
this legendary makes this skill do five
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00:52:08,739 --> 00:52:12,399
hundred percent more damage no the plan
1006
00:52:12,399 --> 00:52:14,739
so the reason why I think that happened
1007
00:52:14,739 --> 00:52:17,169
was because the Diablo 3 team didn't
1008
00:52:17,169 --> 00:52:19,899
want to do nurse 2 items because for
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00:52:19,899 --> 00:52:22,689
various reasons but where we're at right
1010
00:52:22,689 --> 00:52:24,729
now is we do want to do the nerves but
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00:52:24,729 --> 00:52:27,009
strategically so that it doesn't mess
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00:52:27,009 --> 00:52:28,170
with
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00:52:28,170 --> 00:52:31,260
the pills so the plus side of being able
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00:52:31,260 --> 00:52:33,960
to do nerfs is we can make sure that
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00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:35,990
such crazy bonuses don't happen right
1016
00:52:35,990 --> 00:52:38,400
which i think is a good thing because
1017
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:40,650
it's gonna make more builds much more
1018
00:52:40,650 --> 00:52:43,410
viable awesome I think a lot of people
1019
00:52:43,410 --> 00:52:44,310
are happy to hear that
1020
00:52:44,310 --> 00:52:49,170
yeah oh really interesting I want to
1021
00:52:49,170 --> 00:52:51,360
talk a bit about dungeon keys oh yeah
1022
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:52,680
how'd you hear about it already
1023
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:55,380
oh god where was it we see they're in a
1024
00:52:55,380 --> 00:52:57,750
panel or the interview dev interview oh
1025
00:52:57,750 --> 00:52:59,850
I see yeah so it's a system it's
1026
00:52:59,850 --> 00:53:01,650
inspired by the greater rift key system
1027
00:53:01,650 --> 00:53:02,880
whose judges in the world you can find
1028
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,610
keys and that will upgrade and modify
1029
00:53:05,610 --> 00:53:07,830
these these dungeons into higher
1030
00:53:07,830 --> 00:53:09,960
difficulty things yes stack different
1031
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:10,740
things to make it even more difficult
1032
00:53:10,740 --> 00:53:12,180
yeah there's anything you want to expand
1033
00:53:12,180 --> 00:53:14,820
upon today yeah so there are the
1034
00:53:14,820 --> 00:53:16,650
difficulty levels kind of like Gryff
1035
00:53:16,650 --> 00:53:18,720
levels on the keys themselves
1036
00:53:18,720 --> 00:53:20,700
there are dungeon affixes that make the
1037
00:53:20,700 --> 00:53:23,430
dungeon more difficult and different but
1038
00:53:23,430 --> 00:53:25,140
I think what's cool about dungeon Keys
1039
00:53:25,140 --> 00:53:28,080
compared to greater rifts is you can see
1040
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:30,030
some of the things on it right you can
1041
00:53:30,030 --> 00:53:32,010
you can know like what exact ethics
1042
00:53:32,010 --> 00:53:34,440
there is you and because it says the
1043
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:36,270
dungeon the specific dungeon that you're
1044
00:53:36,270 --> 00:53:38,790
going to you can know the monsters that
1045
00:53:38,790 --> 00:53:40,470
usually show up in those dungeons right
1046
00:53:40,470 --> 00:53:41,970
so because of these things you can
1047
00:53:41,970 --> 00:53:44,070
pre-plan and strategize a little bit so
1048
00:53:44,070 --> 00:53:46,440
you can change out say like it's like a
1049
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:48,600
dungeon where mobility is preferred
1050
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:50,100
maybe I can switch out one of my
1051
00:53:50,100 --> 00:53:53,370
abilities with teleport and I can kind
1052
00:53:53,370 --> 00:53:55,350
of think more before I go in so that
1053
00:53:55,350 --> 00:53:57,240
added strategic depth I think is
1054
00:53:57,240 --> 00:54:00,300
something that's very cool your skills
1055
00:54:00,300 --> 00:54:04,140
individually as you level points but you
1056
00:54:04,140 --> 00:54:06,090
also find skill tomes in the world yeah
1057
00:54:06,090 --> 00:54:07,710
and then so you're able to swap between
1058
00:54:07,710 --> 00:54:10,350
these okay oh so these are permanent
1059
00:54:10,350 --> 00:54:13,260
choices limited choices yeah and then
1060
00:54:13,260 --> 00:54:14,850
you'll get one or more skill points when
1061
00:54:14,850 --> 00:54:16,380
you level up and like you said you can
1062
00:54:16,380 --> 00:54:18,510
get skill point tomes and then you can
1063
00:54:18,510 --> 00:54:20,970
pick your choices that way okay and then
1064
00:54:20,970 --> 00:54:23,760
there's the talent Keys you can reset
1065
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:28,320
and redo as as you see fit and then
1066
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:29,970
every classes talent tree is very
1067
00:54:29,970 --> 00:54:31,800
different have you had a chance to take
1068
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:35,190
a look at Oasis no we didn't I see yeah
1069
00:54:35,190 --> 00:54:37,050
we don't dig into that yeah I think that
1070
00:54:37,050 --> 00:54:38,220
would be something that is interesting
1071
00:54:38,220 --> 00:54:40,460
to look into in your stream because
1072
00:54:40,460 --> 00:54:42,140
in tomorrow's panel for example we're
1073
00:54:42,140 --> 00:54:43,520
not gonna be able to go over every
1074
00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:45,800
single note or anything like that yeah
1075
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:48,530
so like this one is two trees and then
1076
00:54:48,530 --> 00:54:50,090
at the end you have one of four choices
1077
00:54:50,090 --> 00:54:52,760
these are kind of the stronger talents
1078
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:54,980
in the tree right but if you look at the
1079
00:54:54,980 --> 00:54:56,630
sorceress one it's completely different
1080
00:54:56,630 --> 00:54:58,820
it starts with one elemental kind of
1081
00:54:58,820 --> 00:55:00,650
node and it branches off into three and
1082
00:55:00,650 --> 00:55:03,860
she has a one of six choices right okay
1083
00:55:03,860 --> 00:55:05,960
yang specializes in one of the three
1084
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:09,890
elements yeah and for the true it looks
1085
00:55:09,890 --> 00:55:11,210
kind of like this right now but what
1086
00:55:11,210 --> 00:55:14,300
we're exploring is hybrid nodes so you
1087
00:55:14,300 --> 00:55:16,370
can imagine like going down one of the
1088
00:55:16,370 --> 00:55:17,960
sides and you can transfer over to the
1089
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:19,850
other side which makes it very powerful
1090
00:55:19,850 --> 00:55:21,770
for the druid right okay so they're all
1091
00:55:21,770 --> 00:55:23,210
very different but the druid is are like
1092
00:55:23,210 --> 00:55:25,430
one tree one branch is shape-shifting
1093
00:55:25,430 --> 00:55:28,340
and one is more of a nature magic okay
1094
00:55:28,340 --> 00:55:32,240
so earth and storm magic yeah I see
1095
00:55:32,240 --> 00:55:34,730
people asking about hardcore oh yeah of
1096
00:55:34,730 --> 00:55:35,990
course we're gonna have hardcore in
1097
00:55:35,990 --> 00:55:38,030
Diablo for ya operators it's always
1098
00:55:38,030 --> 00:55:40,130
operated yeah yeah all right yeah so
1099
00:55:40,130 --> 00:55:41,630
when you die you'll die forever
1100
00:55:41,630 --> 00:55:46,310
I personally don't understand but yeah I
1101
00:55:46,310 --> 00:55:48,380
don't want to lose all my progress over
1102
00:55:48,380 --> 00:55:50,360
the past two years or whatever but we
1103
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:51,650
know that there are so many people and
1104
00:55:51,650 --> 00:55:52,550
it wouldn't be at the a blow game
1105
00:55:52,550 --> 00:55:55,220
without our core so yes baron do you
1106
00:55:55,220 --> 00:55:56,720
want to talk a bit more about the
1107
00:55:56,720 --> 00:55:58,760
actually I should yeah I think we want
1108
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:00,290
to get you a bit more policy
1109
00:56:00,290 --> 00:56:01,670
I just noticed yeah sorry about it all
1110
00:56:01,670 --> 00:56:04,910
right so the PPP systems yeah can you
1111
00:56:04,910 --> 00:56:06,170
talk a little bit more about how that's
1112
00:56:06,170 --> 00:56:08,450
gonna work it's gonna be similar to d2
1113
00:56:08,450 --> 00:56:09,740
where you could just past all and then
1114
00:56:09,740 --> 00:56:13,340
go cool so there will be specific areas
1115
00:56:13,340 --> 00:56:15,500
of the world where you can do that so
1116
00:56:15,500 --> 00:56:16,910
you can just go hostile and kill people
1117
00:56:16,910 --> 00:56:19,850
maybe there are some objectives that PvE
1118
00:56:19,850 --> 00:56:22,370
players would go there to do and things
1119
00:56:22,370 --> 00:56:25,250
like that so that's where we're at with
1120
00:56:25,250 --> 00:56:28,970
the world PvP and we are also exploring
1121
00:56:28,970 --> 00:56:31,040
some PvP modes that could be fun for
1122
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:34,220
Diablo for needs it's going decently
1123
00:56:34,220 --> 00:56:36,050
well but we haven't found something that
1124
00:56:36,050 --> 00:56:38,150
we really love so we'll have more info
1125
00:56:38,150 --> 00:56:40,400
to share on that in the future okay so
1126
00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:41,750
something like so
1127
00:56:41,750 --> 00:56:42,980
for instance in d3 you know they were
1128
00:56:42,980 --> 00:56:46,070
making the VP VP team based I guess Team
1129
00:56:46,070 --> 00:56:47,810
Deathmatch sort of stuff is that the
1130
00:56:47,810 --> 00:56:49,880
kind of potential idea where we're
1131
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:51,680
looking at so what we're looking at is
1132
00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:56,090
modes PvP modes that are more mixed pvp
1133
00:56:56,090 --> 00:56:59,600
and PVE because we feel that Diablo at
1134
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:01,430
the core of it the most fun thing is
1135
00:57:01,430 --> 00:57:03,560
killing like mobs and monsters right and
1136
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:06,110
getting more powerful so in a PvP match
1137
00:57:06,110 --> 00:57:07,760
we want to kind of capture that - and
1138
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:10,990
have you killed players - yeah awesome I
1139
00:57:10,990 --> 00:57:14,840
know some ideas were like two different
1140
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:16,280
teams racing through two different
1141
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:17,900
Raider rips and whoever can you know
1142
00:57:17,900 --> 00:57:23,600
beat the other that's sort of PD said
1143
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:25,660
you can also kill that other team yeah
1144
00:57:25,660 --> 00:57:29,060
yeah his eSports is an eSports angle
1145
00:57:29,060 --> 00:57:31,280
potentially on the table not for us but
1146
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:33,260
you never know what the players will do
1147
00:57:33,260 --> 00:57:41,390
with the game once it's out right it's a
1148
00:57:41,390 --> 00:57:43,790
simple reward but once we add like
1149
00:57:43,790 --> 00:57:45,800
progression to it - it's gonna be much
1150
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:48,080
more yeah customizable lightning yeah
1151
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:50,000
and if the panel tomorrow we're going to
1152
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:53,150
be showing off some more rooms so yeah
1153
00:57:53,150 --> 00:57:55,790
be sure to check that out right is there
1154
00:57:55,790 --> 00:57:58,370
a like a character stat window that
1155
00:57:58,370 --> 00:57:59,570
we're missing like what would have like
1156
00:57:59,570 --> 00:58:01,180
strength
1157
00:58:01,180 --> 00:58:06,530
for item stats and items can you click
1158
00:58:06,530 --> 00:58:10,190
on the details probably not okay it's
1159
00:58:10,190 --> 00:58:11,720
fine if you mouse over one of the items
1160
00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:14,690
yeah it has like attack and defense and
1161
00:58:14,690 --> 00:58:16,790
ethics on it right uh-huh so what we're
1162
00:58:16,790 --> 00:58:19,660
trying to do is attack generally means
1163
00:58:19,660 --> 00:58:22,340
damage defense generally means that
1164
00:58:22,340 --> 00:58:25,100
damage reduction we want to simplify
1165
00:58:25,100 --> 00:58:27,470
some of the math choices into these
1166
00:58:27,470 --> 00:58:30,110
stats and keep only the playstyle
1167
00:58:30,110 --> 00:58:31,730
choices and add to the play style
1168
00:58:31,730 --> 00:58:33,950
choices right so what I mean by that is
1169
00:58:33,950 --> 00:58:35,960
like say if you have a choice between
1170
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:39,560
two items one says ideal hundred damage
1171
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:41,600
plus hundred damage and then the other
1172
00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:43,820
one says plus ten percent damage I don't
1173
00:58:43,820 --> 00:58:45,740
really know which one actually does more
1174
00:58:45,740 --> 00:58:47,210
damage and unless I work out the math
1175
00:58:47,210 --> 00:58:49,340
problem right so we kind of simplified
1176
00:58:49,340 --> 00:58:50,540
those two
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00:58:50,540 --> 00:58:54,290
attack but we have more damaging fixes
1178
00:58:54,290 --> 00:58:56,960
as well so for example we have like an
1179
00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:59,210
ethics that says more damage against
1180
00:58:59,210 --> 00:59:02,510
faraway enemies or something okay or we
1181
00:59:02,510 --> 00:59:05,480
have +2 talent notes as affixes which
1182
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:07,250
gives you a lot more damage to your
1183
00:59:07,250 --> 00:59:09,290
choice and that second one is very cool
1184
00:59:09,290 --> 00:59:10,580
because if you look at the talent tree
1185
00:59:10,580 --> 00:59:12,890
say you went down the left talent all
1186
00:59:12,890 --> 00:59:15,260
the way you don't have a lot of points
1187
00:59:15,260 --> 00:59:16,940
to spend on the other side remaining
1188
00:59:16,940 --> 00:59:18,800
right but you can grab like one of the
1189
00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:21,470
tier 4 talents through items which is
1190
00:59:21,470 --> 00:59:23,210
very cool right and we're also exploring
1191
00:59:23,210 --> 00:59:26,390
+2 skill points as affixes too so we
1192
00:59:26,390 --> 00:59:29,180
want to add as many playstyle choice
1193
00:59:29,180 --> 00:59:32,990
affixes as possible and make sure that
1194
00:59:32,990 --> 00:59:35,870
those are not math choices as much as we
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00:59:35,870 --> 00:59:37,990
can
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00:59:40,849 --> 00:59:47,970
that's some haunting music so your when
1197
00:59:47,970 --> 00:59:50,190
you played d2 back in the day yeah of
1198
00:59:50,190 --> 00:59:52,019
course we do have a favorite class I
1199
00:59:52,019 --> 00:59:55,559
think barbarian was my favorite like
1200
00:59:55,559 --> 00:59:57,599
whirlwind ding non-stop forever yeah
1201
00:59:57,599 --> 00:59:59,369
what was yours oh man
1202
00:59:59,369 --> 01:00:02,480
so my first favorite wasn't a group just
1203
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:05,130
getting to play them what's he's not a
1204
01:00:05,130 --> 01:00:07,019
bad guy but he's like a dark hero yeah
1205
01:00:07,019 --> 01:00:08,670
getting to play that vibe was really
1206
01:00:08,670 --> 01:00:10,470
cool I was my first experience I got
1207
01:00:10,470 --> 01:00:12,269
through normal as asked element sir and
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01:00:12,269 --> 01:00:14,369
then all my sculpt as soon as I got the
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01:00:14,369 --> 01:00:15,779
nightmare just all my skull was recently
1210
01:00:15,779 --> 01:00:17,430
dying I had that exact same experience
1211
01:00:17,430 --> 01:00:19,019
dude yeah so and then there was a
1212
01:00:19,019 --> 01:00:20,519
resetting of the points or anything like
1213
01:00:20,519 --> 01:00:22,680
that so we had to start over right exact
1214
01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:25,259
same thing I think it was an act 3 of
1215
01:00:25,259 --> 01:00:29,730
Nightmare right it could be yeah and
1216
01:00:29,730 --> 01:00:31,619
then my first successful character was a
1217
01:00:31,619 --> 01:00:34,380
druid shapeshifter Oh Airwolf yeah yeah
1218
01:00:34,380 --> 01:00:36,990
and then my most successful character
1219
01:00:36,990 --> 01:00:40,019
was a hammer down oh is it yeah so we
1220
01:00:40,019 --> 01:00:42,240
know there's will be five classes on
1221
01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:43,559
launch is that is I definitely
1222
01:00:43,559 --> 01:00:44,460
determined I know you can't speak to
1223
01:00:44,460 --> 01:00:46,109
what the other two classes will be yeah
1224
01:00:46,109 --> 01:00:48,359
is their plan to perhaps introduce more
1225
01:00:48,359 --> 01:00:50,519
down the line yeah of course through
1226
01:00:50,519 --> 01:00:52,940
expansions will have new classes and
1227
01:00:52,940 --> 01:00:54,960
when we're talking about expansions
1228
01:00:54,960 --> 01:00:56,099
everything about this sort of typical
1229
01:00:56,099 --> 01:00:57,750
Blizzard expansion we normally see or
1230
01:00:57,750 --> 01:00:59,670
maybe smaller scale things on a quicker
1231
01:00:59,670 --> 01:01:02,950
turnaround yes the current plan is to
1232
01:01:02,950 --> 01:01:05,290
go with the base game with the expansion
1233
01:01:05,290 --> 01:01:07,180
model like we've seen in the past with
1234
01:01:07,180 --> 01:01:09,940
goblin games I don't know if you're able
1235
01:01:09,940 --> 01:01:11,680
to talk to monetization but is that the
1236
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:15,700
only monetization in mind oh you are
1237
01:01:15,700 --> 01:01:17,800
trying to ask about are we gonna sell
1238
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:20,590
power in the game the answer is no okay
1239
01:01:20,590 --> 01:01:21,430
yeah
1240
01:01:21,430 --> 01:01:23,980
but potentially Cosmetics potentially
1241
01:01:23,980 --> 01:01:27,300
yeah and stash space for character slots
1242
01:01:27,300 --> 01:01:31,330
yeah like we want to try to give players
1243
01:01:31,330 --> 01:01:34,120
enough so that you're you don't like
1244
01:01:34,120 --> 01:01:35,830
need more especially the first few
1245
01:01:35,830 --> 01:01:38,650
months or more of the game but you never
1246
01:01:38,650 --> 01:01:40,180
know what's gonna happen in the future
1247
01:01:40,180 --> 01:01:46,230
right yeah can you talk a bit about
1248
01:01:46,230 --> 01:01:48,760
crafting we've heard that they want to
1249
01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:50,260
make crap you guys wanted wrapping a
1250
01:01:50,260 --> 01:01:52,600
bigger thing in before yeah I've heard
1251
01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:56,580
someone mention the crafting components
1252
01:01:57,360 --> 01:02:00,220
yes of crafting it's still work in
1253
01:02:00,220 --> 01:02:02,020
progress but what I can tell you is the
1254
01:02:02,020 --> 01:02:04,240
two goals that we have first is we want
1255
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:06,700
to make sure that crafting especially
1256
01:02:06,700 --> 01:02:08,890
the gathering component is fully
1257
01:02:08,890 --> 01:02:10,870
integrated to the open world of
1258
01:02:10,870 --> 01:02:13,990
sanctuary and the second is we want to
1259
01:02:13,990 --> 01:02:15,640
make sure that if you go out of your way
1260
01:02:15,640 --> 01:02:18,820
to collect all these recipes materials
1261
01:02:18,820 --> 01:02:20,500
things like that and spend your time to
1262
01:02:20,500 --> 01:02:22,240
craft something that it's worth your
1263
01:02:22,240 --> 01:02:25,450
while but outside of that yeah we're
1264
01:02:25,450 --> 01:02:31,300
still working on it make sure our people
1265
01:02:31,300 --> 01:02:37,810
fire up people awesome so max supply
1266
01:02:37,810 --> 01:02:40,360
here is 40 currently but that that could
1267
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:42,280
potentially change so is it that you get
1268
01:02:42,280 --> 01:02:43,870
to 40 and then there's like paragon
1269
01:02:43,870 --> 01:02:48,190
levels like or yeah we do want to have
1270
01:02:48,190 --> 01:02:50,590
an in-game progression system our main
1271
01:02:50,590 --> 01:02:52,180
goal for that is we want to make sure
1272
01:02:52,180 --> 01:02:55,390
that players pick meaningful choices
1273
01:02:55,390 --> 01:02:57,190
when they're trying to form a build and
1274
01:02:57,190 --> 01:02:58,630
when they're trying to form a completely
1275
01:02:58,630 --> 01:03:00,760
different build then you can change out
1276
01:03:00,760 --> 01:03:02,650
those choices that you made with another
1277
01:03:02,650 --> 01:03:04,870
meaningful set of choices that fit the
1278
01:03:04,870 --> 01:03:07,000
new build much better and outside of
1279
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:08,070
that
1280
01:03:08,070 --> 01:03:10,950
no real hard decisions haven't made yet
1281
01:03:10,950 --> 01:03:12,990
but that's the one thing that we want to
1282
01:03:12,990 --> 01:03:17,430
hate and the the one 240 so in d3 right
1283
01:03:17,430 --> 01:03:20,960
now getting 1 to 70 is pretty fast like
1284
01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:25,530
unless you're a new player you know yeah
1285
01:03:25,530 --> 01:03:27,810
so do you see it being like 1 to 40
1286
01:03:27,810 --> 01:03:30,000
could take months or Alice's or weeks
1287
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:32,340
yeah anything you're aiming for in that
1288
01:03:32,340 --> 01:03:33,750
regard yeah this is something that we're
1289
01:03:33,750 --> 01:03:35,580
actively discussing and it would be
1290
01:03:35,580 --> 01:03:37,290
great if you can get some feedback from
1291
01:03:37,290 --> 01:03:39,150
people too
1292
01:03:39,150 --> 01:03:41,609
yeah but we're not sure yet so the
1293
01:03:41,609 --> 01:03:44,220
factors that go into this decision oh of
1294
01:03:44,220 --> 01:03:45,330
course it's not gonna be as fast as
1295
01:03:45,330 --> 01:03:46,800
Diablo 3 though right it's gonna be much
1296
01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:49,530
longer but how long exactly things like
1297
01:03:49,530 --> 01:03:51,840
how long is the campaign experience how
1298
01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:54,300
long is the level of systems to say like
1299
01:03:54,300 --> 01:03:56,010
we have the skill point system and the
1300
01:03:56,010 --> 01:03:57,990
talent tree system if that's used for
1301
01:03:57,990 --> 01:04:00,210
like 500 hours that's probably way too
1302
01:04:00,210 --> 01:04:03,390
much so we have to calculate what we
1303
01:04:03,390 --> 01:04:06,150
have and see if the leveling time is
1304
01:04:06,150 --> 01:04:08,670
enough if it's not then we have to make
1305
01:04:08,670 --> 01:04:09,840
some changes right like we have to
1306
01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:11,940
either shorten the time or introduce
1307
01:04:11,940 --> 01:04:14,010
more systems during level up to make the
1308
01:04:14,010 --> 01:04:16,200
extra time useful so it's something
1309
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:18,480
that's very difficult to say this early
1310
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:19,830
on but it is something that we are
1311
01:04:19,830 --> 01:04:21,960
paying close attention to and discussing
1312
01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:23,550
internally but we would love to hear
1313
01:04:23,550 --> 01:04:25,500
people's feedback right so if you gather
1314
01:04:25,500 --> 01:04:27,720
and then let us know that would be great
1315
01:04:27,720 --> 01:04:30,540
too right sounds great yeah so guys 25
1316
01:04:30,540 --> 01:04:32,400
seconds here real quick here is there's
1317
01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:33,900
there's five open-world areas is this
1318
01:04:33,900 --> 01:04:36,450
just one of them versus all five I am
1319
01:04:36,450 --> 01:04:40,470
pretty sure up to here is the is all of
1320
01:04:40,470 --> 01:04:42,570
the Diablo four that we are planning so
1321
01:04:42,570 --> 01:04:45,300
far sure so you can see it's a very
1322
01:04:45,300 --> 01:04:49,010
small part so we have a long ways to go
1323
01:04:53,869 --> 01:04:57,570
any beta plans probably despite - really
1324
01:04:57,570 --> 01:05:00,270
- yeah we - early yeah we have a lot of
1325
01:05:00,270 --> 01:05:02,970
work remaining to go like we are showing
1326
01:05:02,970 --> 01:05:05,130
everything that we can so if you open up
1327
01:05:05,130 --> 01:05:07,550
like a skill tree
1328
01:05:07,550 --> 01:05:09,830
then the grayed out ones we would have
1329
01:05:09,830 --> 01:05:11,540
loved to show them but like the effects
1330
01:05:11,540 --> 01:05:13,250
are not ready or animations not ready
1331
01:05:13,250 --> 01:05:15,170
and things like that right so we have we
1332
01:05:15,170 --> 01:05:18,220
do have a long ways to go all right yeah
1333
01:05:18,220 --> 01:05:21,530
was your favorite class so far so far I
1334
01:05:21,530 --> 01:05:24,530
think the Drude part of it is that it's
1335
01:05:24,530 --> 01:05:26,450
it feels powerful part of it is having
1336
01:05:26,450 --> 01:05:27,890
you know it's been it's been a long time
1337
01:05:27,890 --> 01:05:29,270
since I played the druid yeah yeah I got
1338
01:05:29,270 --> 01:05:30,500
love the Barbarian
1339
01:05:30,500 --> 01:05:32,750
but I can play barbarian in d3 the same
1340
01:05:32,750 --> 01:05:34,220
thing with the sword yeah the true it is
1341
01:05:34,220 --> 01:05:35,840
like it's it's something people they
1342
01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:37,370
know that for there was a time when
1343
01:05:37,370 --> 01:05:38,510
people thought that it was gonna come to
1344
01:05:38,510 --> 01:05:41,150
d3 as a as a character back like row
1345
01:05:41,150 --> 01:05:43,340
yeah and then it seems like it didn't
1346
01:05:43,340 --> 01:05:44,870
happen so there's been a big demand for
1347
01:05:44,870 --> 01:05:46,310
the Droid I think this is a big win yeah
1348
01:05:46,310 --> 01:05:48,740
to include the trade but the wolves
1349
01:05:48,740 --> 01:05:55,820
looks so we spoke about hardcore there
1350
01:05:55,820 --> 01:05:57,710
will be hardcore yeah I don't know what
1351
01:05:57,710 --> 01:05:59,120
more we want to say this an act like it
1352
01:05:59,120 --> 01:06:02,270
it acted in detail yeah yeah because you
1353
01:06:02,270 --> 01:06:03,710
know other games do it that if you dine
1354
01:06:03,710 --> 01:06:05,450
hardcore you become a softcore character
1355
01:06:05,450 --> 01:06:07,280
yeah we don't currently have plans for
1356
01:06:07,280 --> 01:06:09,950
that but yeah we'll see what the players
1357
01:06:09,950 --> 01:06:12,020
want right but currently the plan is to
1358
01:06:12,020 --> 01:06:14,540
make it as true that the habló hardcore
1359
01:06:14,540 --> 01:06:16,610
as possible all right do you want to
1360
01:06:16,610 --> 01:06:18,740
speak a little bit to your plants on
1361
01:06:18,740 --> 01:06:20,960
difficulties so currently d3 for
1362
01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:22,910
instance has you know 20 difficulty
1363
01:06:22,910 --> 01:06:25,490
settings from up to torment 16 and then
1364
01:06:25,490 --> 01:06:27,220
greater rifts have that infinite scale
1365
01:06:27,220 --> 01:06:30,470
do you envision a d4 being more like say
1366
01:06:30,470 --> 01:06:32,060
D to where you have normal nightmare
1367
01:06:32,060 --> 01:06:34,580
hell or what kind of difficulty system
1368
01:06:34,580 --> 01:06:36,110
do you think you're looking at yeah so
1369
01:06:36,110 --> 01:06:38,420
that's an interesting one because for
1370
01:06:38,420 --> 01:06:41,600
the level of experience surprisingly we
1371
01:06:41,600 --> 01:06:43,700
we aren't sure what the exact answer is
1372
01:06:43,700 --> 01:06:46,880
yet but for the end game the key
1373
01:06:46,880 --> 01:06:49,220
dungeons will act similar in that sense
1374
01:06:49,220 --> 01:06:50,510
to rifts
1375
01:06:50,510 --> 01:06:53,350
so you have that infinite kind of
1376
01:06:53,350 --> 01:06:55,340
challenge that you can keep going up
1377
01:06:55,340 --> 01:06:58,010
right and in the open world in the end
1378
01:06:58,010 --> 01:06:59,810
game we want to make sure that there are
1379
01:06:59,810 --> 01:07:02,120
difficult challenges there too to add to
1380
01:07:02,120 --> 01:07:04,700
the replayability but outside of that
1381
01:07:04,700 --> 01:07:06,350
it's something that we'll have to figure
1382
01:07:06,350 --> 01:07:10,450
out so we'll see in the future
1383
01:07:12,160 --> 01:07:14,930
yeah so the druid if you check out some
1384
01:07:14,930 --> 01:07:16,790
of the talents you can actually attach
1385
01:07:16,790 --> 01:07:24,770
some bonuses to shape-shifting I think
1386
01:07:24,770 --> 01:07:29,360
it's one of one of you somewhere should
1387
01:07:29,360 --> 01:07:32,500
say whenever you shape-shift into a form
1388
01:07:32,500 --> 01:07:36,140
yeah so this is very interesting because
1389
01:07:36,140 --> 01:07:39,830
the bonus persist so you can actually
1390
01:07:39,830 --> 01:07:42,140
stack up these bonuses at the exact
1391
01:07:42,140 --> 01:07:44,150
right moment that you want so I think
1392
01:07:44,150 --> 01:07:45,470
that's one of the coolest things about
1393
01:07:45,470 --> 01:07:47,540
rapid shape-shifting because you can
1394
01:07:47,540 --> 01:07:49,220
choose your bonuses and items of you
1395
01:07:49,220 --> 01:07:50,780
obviously will have even more choices
1396
01:07:50,780 --> 01:07:53,150
right so when you cook legendary is you
1397
01:07:53,150 --> 01:07:55,370
can spew some crazy stuff and the timing
1398
01:07:55,370 --> 01:07:57,890
of when you change will matter a lot
1399
01:07:57,890 --> 01:08:00,800
right so it visually looks awesome but
1400
01:08:00,800 --> 01:08:02,510
on the system design side it's cool
1401
01:08:02,510 --> 01:08:03,920
because you have that full customization
1402
01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:06,470
of I'm choosing what happens and I'm
1403
01:08:06,470 --> 01:08:10,270
choosing when it happens to right yeah
1404
01:08:10,270 --> 01:08:13,430
now party size has that been determined
1405
01:08:13,430 --> 01:08:16,160
yet isn't it before yeah party size is 4
1406
01:08:16,160 --> 01:08:19,250
but as you saw from oh maybe you have
1407
01:08:19,250 --> 01:08:22,130
played it we did yeah yeah so the robots
1408
01:08:22,130 --> 01:08:23,630
requires like multiple parties there
1409
01:08:23,630 --> 01:08:24,859
will be other activities that require
1410
01:08:24,859 --> 01:08:27,500
multiple parties as well but yeah the
1411
01:08:27,500 --> 01:08:32,359
party size is 4 so we heard about
1412
01:08:32,359 --> 01:08:34,910
trading that there will be trading is it
1413
01:08:34,910 --> 01:08:38,170
only the town hub so that can happen oh
1414
01:08:38,170 --> 01:08:40,760
no but trading is very interesting
1415
01:08:40,760 --> 01:08:43,760
because we have a specific goal for
1416
01:08:43,760 --> 01:08:46,069
trading which is we want to make sure
1417
01:08:46,069 --> 01:08:48,200
that there is trading in the habló for
1418
01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:51,319
but not completely open-ended trading so
1419
01:08:51,319 --> 01:08:53,689
that players can't just get all the best
1420
01:08:53,689 --> 01:08:55,580
items by like not even playing the game
1421
01:08:55,580 --> 01:08:57,590
right so where we're at right now is
1422
01:08:57,590 --> 01:09:00,500
there are items that are tradable all
1423
01:09:00,500 --> 01:09:02,300
the time so we can maybe use that flag
1424
01:09:02,300 --> 01:09:04,149
as
1425
01:09:04,149 --> 01:09:06,170
anything that's common in the game maybe
1426
01:09:06,170 --> 01:09:09,290
we can use that flag for bind on trade
1427
01:09:09,290 --> 01:09:11,810
items I can find something very cool and
1428
01:09:11,810 --> 01:09:13,790
then I could use it for as long as I
1429
01:09:13,790 --> 01:09:15,620
want and I can give it to you or
1430
01:09:15,620 --> 01:09:17,300
something like that but once I give it
1431
01:09:17,300 --> 01:09:19,040
to you you can't trade it anymore so
1432
01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:21,560
this flag we can use it for even the
1433
01:09:21,560 --> 01:09:23,359
some of the best items in the game but
1434
01:09:23,359 --> 01:09:25,819
not all obviously right and then finally
1435
01:09:25,819 --> 01:09:27,859
we have the bind on pickup which ever as
1436
01:09:27,859 --> 01:09:29,540
you know how that works right so
1437
01:09:29,540 --> 01:09:31,550
something like this I think is a good
1438
01:09:31,550 --> 01:09:34,520
example of where a solution that fits
1439
01:09:34,520 --> 01:09:37,399
our goals but I don't think this is the
1440
01:09:37,399 --> 01:09:39,649
end-all and it's something that we'll
1441
01:09:39,649 --> 01:09:41,359
have to iterate more on so this is
1442
01:09:41,359 --> 01:09:42,500
another one of those things that I
1443
01:09:42,500 --> 01:09:44,180
really want feedback from people on is
1444
01:09:44,180 --> 01:09:47,680
why I'm so like detailed with this I
1445
01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:49,580
know that a lot of people in the
1446
01:09:49,580 --> 01:09:51,470
community would love to see more more
1447
01:09:51,470 --> 01:09:53,540
interaction from the devs love more open
1448
01:09:53,540 --> 01:09:55,070
communication oh I see I don't know if
1449
01:09:55,070 --> 01:09:58,160
you can speak to that but just a passive
1450
01:09:58,160 --> 01:10:00,380
lon people love when they can interact
1451
01:10:00,380 --> 01:10:02,750
with devs yeah so the forums being on
1452
01:10:02,750 --> 01:10:05,270
reddit yeah so it kind of depends on
1453
01:10:05,270 --> 01:10:06,920
which state the game is in right like
1454
01:10:06,920 --> 01:10:08,450
obviously we just announced for the
1455
01:10:08,450 --> 01:10:10,520
first time so it's it's not gonna be the
1456
01:10:10,520 --> 01:10:13,790
same as say like in a live game but I'm
1457
01:10:13,790 --> 01:10:16,460
I think the current plan is after this
1458
01:10:16,460 --> 01:10:18,260
announced we will kind of check back
1459
01:10:18,260 --> 01:10:20,810
with the community and give some kind of
1460
01:10:20,810 --> 01:10:22,490
media updates on various different parts
1461
01:10:22,490 --> 01:10:26,030
of the project in kind of a more regular
1462
01:10:26,030 --> 01:10:29,090
way right so I think last Louise talked
1463
01:10:29,090 --> 01:10:31,130
about it it was maybe four times per
1464
01:10:31,130 --> 01:10:33,110
year to start off with and then see how
1465
01:10:33,110 --> 01:10:36,350
adjust as we go right all right I'm not
1466
01:10:36,350 --> 01:10:38,450
missing the ability to use a mouse right
1467
01:10:38,450 --> 01:10:42,440
I haven't just found the button sir it's
1468
01:10:42,440 --> 01:10:45,170
very early in the development so what
1469
01:10:45,170 --> 01:10:47,270
you see is pretty much all we have so
1470
01:10:47,270 --> 01:10:49,130
far okay yeah but more to come in the
1471
01:10:49,130 --> 01:10:53,230
future yeah check out what superhero
1472
01:10:53,230 --> 01:10:56,030
have you checked out the Garen hold it's
1473
01:10:56,030 --> 01:10:58,130
like a more difficult it's on that site
1474
01:10:58,130 --> 01:11:00,860
I didn't know oh I see yeah yeah it's a
1475
01:11:00,860 --> 01:11:04,280
similar difficulty so your level 20 but
1476
01:11:04,280 --> 01:11:05,730
the dungeon is level 20
1477
01:11:05,730 --> 01:11:12,540
all right and people are mentioning the
1478
01:11:12,540 --> 01:11:14,700
possibility of doing you guys can do
1479
01:11:14,700 --> 01:11:17,070
live streams where you can have people
1480
01:11:17,070 --> 01:11:20,820
ask you questions and chant oh yeah I'm
1481
01:11:20,820 --> 01:11:23,730
not sure yeah we'll have to work out the
1482
01:11:23,730 --> 01:11:25,770
details like where we go from here right
1483
01:11:25,770 --> 01:11:29,430
but yeah me personally I love the idea
1484
01:11:29,430 --> 01:11:31,350
of getting the community see back more
1485
01:11:31,350 --> 01:11:33,690
aggressively and working with the
1486
01:11:33,690 --> 01:11:36,120
community but that's very hard to do if
1487
01:11:36,120 --> 01:11:38,520
there is no playable game out in the
1488
01:11:38,520 --> 01:11:42,150
public so yeah so we'll see how it goes
1489
01:11:42,150 --> 01:11:43,620
right because when I was on like
1490
01:11:43,620 --> 01:11:45,300
Starcraft for example we had very heavy
1491
01:11:45,300 --> 01:11:47,460
community interactions but that was
1492
01:11:47,460 --> 01:11:49,680
because we can we have a live game we
1493
01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:51,480
can put out the balanced test maps all
1494
01:11:51,480 --> 01:11:52,830
this stuff right so it'll be a little
1495
01:11:52,830 --> 01:11:54,320
bit of a different situation here right
1496
01:11:54,320 --> 01:11:57,510
okay so we know that clients will be in
1497
01:11:57,510 --> 01:11:59,190
the game and I think that as a feature
1498
01:11:59,190 --> 01:12:04,560
you can trade I think oh yeah like a
1499
01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:05,700
clan bank or something like that
1500
01:12:05,700 --> 01:12:08,790
right right right any other client
1501
01:12:08,790 --> 01:12:10,170
integrations are considering or
1502
01:12:10,170 --> 01:12:11,280
universities
1503
01:12:11,280 --> 01:12:15,720
Oh for example plan leaderboards is
1504
01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:17,400
something that we're considering but
1505
01:12:17,400 --> 01:12:19,350
plans is also very early like we'd
1506
01:12:19,350 --> 01:12:21,090
probably have to build a lot of more the
1507
01:12:21,090 --> 01:12:22,830
game first before we discuss the social
1508
01:12:22,830 --> 01:12:24,180
features but we definitely want to do
1509
01:12:24,180 --> 01:12:25,950
plans and we definitely want to have
1510
01:12:25,950 --> 01:12:28,470
features in the game that promote social
1511
01:12:28,470 --> 01:12:30,450
play and allow any players to make
1512
01:12:30,450 --> 01:12:37,020
friends if they want to oh it is getting
1513
01:12:37,020 --> 01:12:41,580
harder from here too so we heard that
1514
01:12:41,580 --> 01:12:44,490
the weather system is really deep that
1515
01:12:44,490 --> 01:12:45,750
like if it rains certain character will
1516
01:12:45,750 --> 01:12:47,340
get wet and against will get wet is that
1517
01:12:47,340 --> 01:12:48,780
just a visual thing or will there be any
1518
01:12:48,780 --> 01:12:50,550
gameplay mechanisms like lightning and
1519
01:12:50,550 --> 01:12:53,340
damages wet people I think that kind of
1520
01:12:53,340 --> 01:12:55,920
stuff just went in so currently it's
1521
01:12:55,920 --> 01:12:58,380
just visual but we'll see how that turns
1522
01:12:58,380 --> 01:13:00,870
out right and where those things up here
1523
01:13:00,870 --> 01:13:03,360
and depending on that answer
1524
01:13:03,360 --> 01:13:05,190
we'll be able to do more or less with it
1525
01:13:05,190 --> 01:13:07,650
right yeah but it would be pretty cool
1526
01:13:07,650 --> 01:13:09,870
if you can interact with the weather in
1527
01:13:09,870 --> 01:13:11,880
specific ways especially in life and
1528
01:13:11,880 --> 01:13:13,170
game dungeons or something like that
1529
01:13:13,170 --> 01:13:17,850
right any word on increasing client size
1530
01:13:17,850 --> 01:13:20,430
from d3 from 150 you're probably oh yeah
1531
01:13:20,430 --> 01:13:21,660
we haven't talked about the client size
1532
01:13:21,660 --> 01:13:24,300
yet at all but yeah any feedback would
1533
01:13:24,300 --> 01:13:26,580
be welcome there I know a lot of people
1534
01:13:26,580 --> 01:13:29,180
would like it to be bigger
1535
01:13:31,100 --> 01:13:33,330
speaking of technological limitations
1536
01:13:33,330 --> 01:13:35,760
someone noted that the demos running on
1537
01:13:35,760 --> 01:13:37,890
2080s and they're asking about rate
1538
01:13:37,890 --> 01:13:41,250
racing I would not be the right person
1539
01:13:41,250 --> 01:13:44,780
to ask for something like that but yeah
1540
01:13:44,780 --> 01:13:47,400
another dev also mentioned that yeah
1541
01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:52,290
they don't know oh yeah so you guys
1542
01:13:52,290 --> 01:13:53,460
didn't mention though that it's coming
1543
01:13:53,460 --> 01:13:56,310
to ps4 and Xbox one yeah I don't know if
1544
01:13:56,310 --> 01:13:58,440
you know that I mean I guess who would
1545
01:13:58,440 --> 01:14:00,060
eventually be ported to the next-gen
1546
01:14:00,060 --> 01:14:01,740
consoles - I think some people are
1547
01:14:01,740 --> 01:14:03,600
surprised that it wasn't the default to
1548
01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:05,250
be for the next-gen consoles
1549
01:14:05,250 --> 01:14:07,530
oh I see I mean those aren't not out yet
1550
01:14:07,530 --> 01:14:10,200
and then like even we don't know when
1551
01:14:10,200 --> 01:14:12,360
the ship date is so depending on the
1552
01:14:12,360 --> 01:14:14,280
ship date anything can happen god
1553
01:14:14,280 --> 01:14:16,920
yeah currently because those are the
1554
01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:18,630
ones that we know we're developing for
1555
01:14:18,630 --> 01:14:20,099
those
1556
01:14:20,099 --> 01:14:21,929
okay all we know about release state is
1557
01:14:21,929 --> 01:14:23,969
that one said it's not gonna be soon
1558
01:14:23,969 --> 01:14:26,040
not even blizzard yeah yeah cuz I mean
1559
01:14:26,040 --> 01:14:28,860
like ten years hopefully not right
1560
01:14:28,860 --> 01:14:31,440
because we've been developing for a few
1561
01:14:31,440 --> 01:14:36,810
years now and yeah hope not yeah but
1562
01:14:36,810 --> 01:14:39,469
we're see yeah
1563
01:14:40,219 --> 01:14:44,090
a lot of these storm skills so like we
1564
01:14:44,090 --> 01:14:46,400
want to make sure each class is very
1565
01:14:46,400 --> 01:14:48,380
distinct and different in as many ways
1566
01:14:48,380 --> 01:14:50,239
as possible so you know that the
1567
01:14:50,239 --> 01:14:52,400
sorceress uses lightning magic and then
1568
01:14:52,400 --> 01:14:54,800
the druid uses storm magic right so one
1569
01:14:54,800 --> 01:14:56,270
of the mechanical ways that we're
1570
01:14:56,270 --> 01:14:58,880
differentiating the two is we're making
1571
01:14:58,880 --> 01:15:01,070
we're trying to make it so that a lot of
1572
01:15:01,070 --> 01:15:03,530
the storm skills are persistent effects
1573
01:15:03,530 --> 01:15:07,280
so you can cast that spell and then do
1574
01:15:07,280 --> 01:15:08,480
whatever else you want right
1575
01:15:08,480 --> 01:15:10,489
first is lightning can't do that so it's
1576
01:15:10,489 --> 01:15:13,070
like a it's like a very clear mechanical
1577
01:15:13,070 --> 01:15:15,739
difference right so we want to try to do
1578
01:15:15,739 --> 01:15:18,410
more of that in yeah platform so I know
1579
01:15:18,410 --> 01:15:20,780
that this effect is the Manas sorcerer
1580
01:15:20,780 --> 01:15:22,489
only but the hit effect of the Hydra
1581
01:15:22,489 --> 01:15:24,890
also applies to me or also sorcerer only
1582
01:15:24,890 --> 01:15:27,199
yes a hit effect is I don't know if
1583
01:15:27,199 --> 01:15:30,560
you're aware of prop scalars okay yeah
1584
01:15:30,560 --> 01:15:33,880
so we're visualizing what that is a
1585
01:15:33,880 --> 01:15:36,650
little bit more so so each skill should
1586
01:15:36,650 --> 01:15:39,770
have a hit effect chance huh so it's
1587
01:15:39,770 --> 01:15:42,969
gonna allow players to exactly know the
1588
01:15:42,969 --> 01:15:45,560
exact numbers before they plan the
1589
01:15:45,560 --> 01:15:47,630
builds which is different from Diablo 3
1590
01:15:47,630 --> 01:15:50,030
because in Diablo 3 it was a little bit
1591
01:15:50,030 --> 01:15:52,610
hidden so it looks like oh I'm gonna get
1592
01:15:52,610 --> 01:15:54,440
so many props off of this skill but you
1593
01:15:54,440 --> 01:15:56,449
actually didn't get that right so that's
1594
01:15:56,449 --> 01:15:57,080
what that is
1595
01:15:57,080 --> 01:15:59,690
and then here yeah like Hydra is spawned
1596
01:15:59,690 --> 01:16:02,180
whenever you with a 5% chance or
1597
01:16:02,180 --> 01:16:04,640
whatever right awesome someone note it
1598
01:16:04,640 --> 01:16:06,140
right away that there's no shoulder slot
1599
01:16:06,140 --> 01:16:09,620
is that is that definitive nothing I
1600
01:16:09,620 --> 01:16:11,930
would say is definitive but the current
1601
01:16:11,930 --> 01:16:16,310
thought for it is visually we wanted to
1602
01:16:16,310 --> 01:16:19,040
make sure that we have that visual
1603
01:16:19,040 --> 01:16:21,560
variety of like some armor pieces having
1604
01:16:21,560 --> 01:16:23,239
really awesome shoulder pieces some
1605
01:16:23,239 --> 01:16:25,940
armors having no shoulder pieces say
1606
01:16:25,940 --> 01:16:28,250
like the Barbarian if an in-game look
1607
01:16:28,250 --> 01:16:31,190
was half West for example that'll be
1608
01:16:31,190 --> 01:16:34,040
pretty cool right so it's a it's a
1609
01:16:34,040 --> 01:16:37,370
visual change and if we need more item
1610
01:16:37,370 --> 01:16:39,170
slots for mechanical reasons we can of
1611
01:16:39,170 --> 01:16:41,660
course do that separately so I get it
1612
01:16:41,660 --> 01:16:43,130
with a bar with the Arsenal so yeah
1613
01:16:43,130 --> 01:16:45,020
right do you want to explain this with
1614
01:16:45,020 --> 01:16:46,639
some a little bit oh yeah so
1615
01:16:46,639 --> 01:16:49,100
the Barbarian can equip two two-handed
1616
01:16:49,100 --> 01:16:51,230
weapons and two one-handed weapons so he
1617
01:16:51,230 --> 01:16:54,230
actually gets to use more items than any
1618
01:16:54,230 --> 01:16:57,739
other class and why that's cool is
1619
01:16:57,739 --> 01:17:00,530
because for example there's a talent
1620
01:17:00,530 --> 01:17:03,469
that says every time you swing a
1621
01:17:03,469 --> 01:17:05,510
different weapon you get this buff and
1622
01:17:05,510 --> 01:17:07,369
then you can stack this Bob right so it
1623
01:17:07,369 --> 01:17:09,110
just gives us more hooks for the
1624
01:17:09,110 --> 01:17:10,610
Barbarian to play very differently
1625
01:17:10,610 --> 01:17:11,960
compared to any other class in the game
1626
01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:13,909
right so we can do stuff like whenever
1627
01:17:13,909 --> 01:17:16,940
you swing to the handed weapon after
1628
01:17:16,940 --> 01:17:19,280
dual wielding something cool happens
1629
01:17:19,280 --> 01:17:20,869
things like that right so it just gives
1630
01:17:20,869 --> 01:17:24,770
us a lot more I guess cool mechanical
1631
01:17:24,770 --> 01:17:26,780
hooks for the Barbarian builds to be
1632
01:17:26,780 --> 01:17:28,850
very different from other classes in the
1633
01:17:28,850 --> 01:17:32,090
game I know that some people were asking
1634
01:17:32,090 --> 01:17:36,800
about skill synergies like Andy - of
1635
01:17:36,800 --> 01:17:40,010
course especially on the legendary item
1636
01:17:40,010 --> 01:17:41,449
sign I'm gonna try to do as many
1637
01:17:41,449 --> 01:17:43,760
synergies as possible and with that
1638
01:17:43,760 --> 01:17:45,440
change of legendaries being more
1639
01:17:45,440 --> 01:17:47,960
powerful than that set items in Diablo 4
1640
01:17:47,960 --> 01:17:49,810
you will be able to fully customize
1641
01:17:49,810 --> 01:17:52,400
exactly what you can do on every single
1642
01:17:52,400 --> 01:17:54,949
flat and every on every single skill
1643
01:17:54,949 --> 01:17:58,400
slot - right all right now I think
1644
01:17:58,400 --> 01:18:01,159
itemization wise someone I believe was
1645
01:18:01,159 --> 01:18:03,810
Joe Shelley was talking about how
1646
01:18:03,810 --> 01:18:05,430
there is gonna be that progression of
1647
01:18:05,430 --> 01:18:09,330
magic to rare to legendary and some
1648
01:18:09,330 --> 01:18:11,190
people feel like okay well I kind of
1649
01:18:11,190 --> 01:18:12,510
like the idea of that may be a rare
1650
01:18:12,510 --> 01:18:15,140
could be an endgame item is that at all
1651
01:18:15,140 --> 01:18:16,950
possibly on the table or do you feel
1652
01:18:16,950 --> 01:18:18,810
that endgame will be either sets or
1653
01:18:18,810 --> 01:18:21,510
probably Legendary's yeah so if many
1654
01:18:21,510 --> 01:18:23,550
players feel like it's too much choice
1655
01:18:23,550 --> 01:18:26,310
to have to have to decide legendary
1656
01:18:26,310 --> 01:18:28,470
powers on every single item slot then
1657
01:18:28,470 --> 01:18:30,120
that could be a possibility but where we
1658
01:18:30,120 --> 01:18:32,490
want to start where we think we want to
1659
01:18:32,490 --> 01:18:33,840
start of course anything can change
1660
01:18:33,840 --> 01:18:37,350
until until release the game is we want
1661
01:18:37,350 --> 01:18:39,240
to try giving players the full control
1662
01:18:39,240 --> 01:18:41,490
and in as many slaps as possible first
1663
01:18:41,490 --> 01:18:44,040
and if for some reason testing doesn't
1664
01:18:44,040 --> 01:18:45,450
go well then that is a definite
1665
01:18:45,450 --> 01:18:52,110
possibility that we can switch to any
1666
01:18:52,110 --> 01:18:56,310
plans for leaderboards yeah yeah so we
1667
01:18:56,310 --> 01:18:59,040
love the idea of especially the
1668
01:18:59,040 --> 01:19:00,660
leaderboards where you can compete with
1669
01:19:00,660 --> 01:19:02,700
people you know so we'll definitely do
1670
01:19:02,700 --> 01:19:03,120
that
1671
01:19:03,120 --> 01:19:05,640
and aside from that yeah it's I think
1672
01:19:05,640 --> 01:19:07,170
it's a little too early to talk about
1673
01:19:07,170 --> 01:19:11,580
the exact plans for yeah like a social
1674
01:19:11,580 --> 01:19:13,880
system
1675
01:19:16,600 --> 01:19:18,910
I think the right answer is there a
1676
01:19:18,910 --> 01:19:23,010
there is no if there hasn't been right
1677
01:19:23,010 --> 01:19:25,570
I'm not the best person to describe that
1678
01:19:25,570 --> 01:19:32,050
in any plan for support bill so for
1679
01:19:32,050 --> 01:19:34,300
instance d3 was designed that explicitly
1680
01:19:34,300 --> 01:19:35,620
without support built in mind they want
1681
01:19:35,620 --> 01:19:37,630
every bill to be a dps is that same
1682
01:19:37,630 --> 01:19:39,220
philosophy in mind here where you want
1683
01:19:39,220 --> 01:19:42,220
there to be actual like you want some
1684
01:19:42,220 --> 01:19:43,810
more bill to you thing yeah we want
1685
01:19:43,810 --> 01:19:46,480
support we are building and trying out
1686
01:19:46,480 --> 01:19:48,040
different types of legendaries that
1687
01:19:48,040 --> 01:19:51,489
support support builds but at the same
1688
01:19:51,489 --> 01:19:53,350
time what we want to try to do if we can
1689
01:19:53,350 --> 01:19:59,500
is make it so that you are actually
1690
01:19:59,500 --> 01:20:01,090
doing something against the monsters to
1691
01:20:01,090 --> 01:20:03,130
write like for example say you have this
1692
01:20:03,130 --> 01:20:05,320
skill that pulls everything together and
1693
01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:06,610
then you can combo that with a different
1694
01:20:06,610 --> 01:20:08,020
skill that like stuns everything in
1695
01:20:08,020 --> 01:20:09,790
place or something like that right and
1696
01:20:09,790 --> 01:20:11,980
maybe we can attach something like every
1697
01:20:11,980 --> 01:20:13,989
time you hit with this other skill it
1698
01:20:13,989 --> 01:20:15,400
reduces the cooldown of those two
1699
01:20:15,400 --> 01:20:16,840
critical skills that you need to use
1700
01:20:16,840 --> 01:20:19,180
right so we want to make sure that
1701
01:20:19,180 --> 01:20:20,560
everyone is playing the game and
1702
01:20:20,560 --> 01:20:22,720
fighting the monsters and at the same
1703
01:20:22,720 --> 01:20:25,480
time still have those options for if I
1704
01:20:25,480 --> 01:20:27,280
want to play a lot more support I can do
1705
01:20:27,280 --> 01:20:29,080
that if I don't play a lot more damage
1706
01:20:29,080 --> 01:20:32,410
than I can do that - what did you think
1707
01:20:32,410 --> 01:20:35,800
of charms in Diablo - oh the inventory
1708
01:20:35,800 --> 01:20:39,520
space was difficult right yeah I think
1709
01:20:39,520 --> 01:20:41,890
the upside is it's cool collecting these
1710
01:20:41,890 --> 01:20:45,220
poor bonuses to items and that interacts
1711
01:20:45,220 --> 01:20:47,980
with a kind of item Tetris of it all but
1712
01:20:47,980 --> 01:20:49,820
what's a little bit
1713
01:20:49,820 --> 01:20:54,770
that is ideal I guess is making a system
1714
01:20:54,770 --> 01:20:59,480
so that you sacrifice convenience for
1715
01:20:59,480 --> 01:21:02,060
power so it's like if I want to if I'm
1716
01:21:02,060 --> 01:21:04,700
okay with going back to town like 100
1717
01:21:04,700 --> 01:21:06,260
times more than you then I can be more
1718
01:21:06,260 --> 01:21:08,840
powerful that I think we can improve if
1719
01:21:08,840 --> 01:21:11,210
we did something like that definitely
1720
01:21:11,210 --> 01:21:14,720
agreed there so early d3 they stated
1721
01:21:14,720 --> 01:21:16,280
that there was to be the talisman system
1722
01:21:16,280 --> 01:21:18,290
to store like a separate inventory just
1723
01:21:18,290 --> 01:21:20,240
for charms I say any thoughts on
1724
01:21:20,240 --> 01:21:21,500
something like that potentially coming
1725
01:21:21,500 --> 01:21:22,610
back that you don't have to do that
1726
01:21:22,610 --> 01:21:24,050
inventory Tetris with noisy
1727
01:21:24,050 --> 01:21:25,430
yeah just and we do have different
1728
01:21:25,430 --> 01:21:26,930
inventory slots now to the right yeah
1729
01:21:26,930 --> 01:21:30,650
yeah yeah but yeah we didn't currently
1730
01:21:30,650 --> 01:21:31,970
have you don't currently have plans for
1731
01:21:31,970 --> 01:21:33,110
that but it's something that we can
1732
01:21:33,110 --> 01:21:34,700
definitely discuss so I'll take it back
1733
01:21:34,700 --> 01:21:37,010
to the team and discuss next week yeah
1734
01:21:37,010 --> 01:21:39,740
will the garage IQ or some incarnation
1735
01:21:39,740 --> 01:21:43,280
of it returns yeah I I also think the
1736
01:21:43,280 --> 01:21:44,930
cube is one of those things that is very
1737
01:21:44,930 --> 01:21:48,620
Diablo defining so we do want some of
1738
01:21:48,620 --> 01:21:52,070
those effects we I don't think we've
1739
01:21:52,070 --> 01:21:53,900
talked about mythic items yet we will in
1740
01:21:53,900 --> 01:21:55,940
the panel briefly so mythic items are
1741
01:21:55,940 --> 01:21:59,060
the strongest items in Diablo for you
1742
01:21:59,060 --> 01:22:00,800
can only equip one of those items but
1743
01:22:00,800 --> 01:22:02,300
they have four legendary powers on them
1744
01:22:02,300 --> 01:22:04,900
oh so naturally you can kind of imagine
1745
01:22:04,900 --> 01:22:07,460
the chances of getting the four exact
1746
01:22:07,460 --> 01:22:09,320
powers that I want is not that high
1747
01:22:09,320 --> 01:22:11,330
right right so if we had something like
1748
01:22:11,330 --> 01:22:13,520
the cube of course it makes sense for
1749
01:22:13,520 --> 01:22:16,150
that system right
1750
01:22:19,390 --> 01:22:21,980
so I heard that you definitely want the
1751
01:22:21,980 --> 01:22:23,930
endgame itemization yeah and game build
1752
01:22:23,930 --> 01:22:25,880
an authorization to be in the players
1753
01:22:25,880 --> 01:22:29,330
hands that customization yeah the the
1754
01:22:29,330 --> 01:22:31,610
design philosophy almost for the d3
1755
01:22:31,610 --> 01:22:33,140
builds is almost like the dev sort of
1756
01:22:33,140 --> 01:22:34,280
dictate what the bolts are going to be
1757
01:22:34,280 --> 01:22:37,130
based on the set bonuses feels like that
1758
01:22:37,130 --> 01:22:40,310
right yeah yeah of course players always
1759
01:22:40,310 --> 01:22:42,050
find certain combinations but it still
1760
01:22:42,050 --> 01:22:44,150
feels like there's there's a direction
1761
01:22:44,150 --> 01:22:45,410
that the devs are pointing you in yeah
1762
01:22:45,410 --> 01:22:46,490
and it sounds like that's not the
1763
01:22:46,490 --> 01:22:47,960
approach you're taking pretty far yeah
1764
01:22:47,960 --> 01:22:50,240
we want to create as many legend areas
1765
01:22:50,240 --> 01:22:52,070
as possible so that people feel like
1766
01:22:52,070 --> 01:22:53,630
they have enough options and of course
1767
01:22:53,630 --> 01:22:55,310
like I talked about before but we want
1768
01:22:55,310 --> 01:22:57,770
to create the scenario where we can
1769
01:22:57,770 --> 01:22:59,960
introduce new items to the game three
1770
01:22:59,960 --> 01:23:03,980
seasons so that way so you're not so
1771
01:23:03,980 --> 01:23:05,480
like the most hardcore players out there
1772
01:23:05,480 --> 01:23:08,390
they'd love to discuss various topics
1773
01:23:08,390 --> 01:23:11,800
online so what we can do is if there is
1774
01:23:11,800 --> 01:23:15,560
ideas on like this pill will be really
1775
01:23:15,560 --> 01:23:17,510
awesome if there was just this one type
1776
01:23:17,510 --> 01:23:20,420
of item then we can actually explore
1777
01:23:20,420 --> 01:23:21,740
that and add that to the game and stuff
1778
01:23:21,740 --> 01:23:23,720
like that too right so it's kind of
1779
01:23:23,720 --> 01:23:25,880
going beyond you'll have full
1780
01:23:25,880 --> 01:23:28,130
customization in game and also we can
1781
01:23:28,130 --> 01:23:30,770
kind of work together to figure out what
1782
01:23:30,770 --> 01:23:32,690
are some new types of builds that you
1783
01:23:32,690 --> 01:23:34,040
can play in future seasons kind of thing
1784
01:23:34,040 --> 01:23:46,340
right honestly surprise we beat the
1785
01:23:46,340 --> 01:23:48,290
eviction spawn Sapir that that world
1786
01:23:48,290 --> 01:23:50,810
boss we were a ton of people it was cool
1787
01:23:50,810 --> 01:23:52,310
to see oh yeah well come together yeah I
1788
01:23:52,310 --> 01:23:54,890
have to admit that I previously
1789
01:23:54,890 --> 01:23:56,630
expressed before the reveal happened
1790
01:23:56,630 --> 01:23:59,180
concerns about the open world going the
1791
01:23:59,180 --> 01:24:00,800
open world route that one thing I
1792
01:24:00,800 --> 01:24:02,390
dislike about mmo's and this is a
1793
01:24:02,390 --> 01:24:04,490
personal reference is running into other
1794
01:24:04,490 --> 01:24:06,740
people and like you know this respawning
1795
01:24:06,740 --> 01:24:08,930
monsters and it just feels like a docile
1796
01:24:08,930 --> 01:24:10,790
world because players run amok and
1797
01:24:10,790 --> 01:24:12,800
you're almost competing for the resource
1798
01:24:12,800 --> 01:24:14,540
of monster kills yeah just waiting for a
1799
01:24:14,540 --> 01:24:17,200
boss to respond kind of thing yeah and
1800
01:24:17,200 --> 01:24:19,460
so that would be a concern because what
1801
01:24:19,460 --> 01:24:21,290
I like about Diablo is the feeling of it
1802
01:24:21,290 --> 01:24:24,470
being a hostile world yeah obviously
1803
01:24:24,470 --> 01:24:26,120
have a limited play experience but so
1804
01:24:26,120 --> 01:24:27,500
far I'm not getting the vibe of what
1805
01:24:27,500 --> 01:24:30,020
concerned me some yeah so far I'm okay
1806
01:24:30,020 --> 01:24:30,800
with the
1807
01:24:30,800 --> 01:24:32,869
open-world nature of it yeah even though
1808
01:24:32,869 --> 01:24:34,699
it's open-world in a shared shared open
1809
01:24:34,699 --> 01:24:36,380
world we want to make sure to keep that
1810
01:24:36,380 --> 01:24:40,550
kind of dark kind of barren like a harsh
1811
01:24:40,550 --> 01:24:42,889
world vibe and in order to do that I
1812
01:24:42,889 --> 01:24:44,449
think one of the most important things
1813
01:24:44,449 --> 01:24:46,820
is to not have you run around and run
1814
01:24:46,820 --> 01:24:50,030
into like 20 people 30 people right so
1815
01:24:50,030 --> 01:24:52,429
we want to make sure that unless it's in
1816
01:24:52,429 --> 01:24:54,679
a specific activity like killing the
1817
01:24:54,679 --> 01:24:56,360
world boss you're not running into too
1818
01:24:56,360 --> 01:24:58,880
many people at once yeah that has been
1819
01:24:58,880 --> 01:25:00,020
my experience before I bumped into
1820
01:25:00,020 --> 01:25:01,429
that's great one or two people yeah
1821
01:25:01,429 --> 01:25:03,230
they're running along but it was only at
1822
01:25:03,230 --> 01:25:05,090
the world event because it calls out you
1823
01:25:05,090 --> 01:25:09,349
know for people to come do it how do you
1824
01:25:09,349 --> 01:25:20,599
read the chat like it goes up so fast so
1825
01:25:20,599 --> 01:25:22,790
I think cross play was something that so
1826
01:25:22,790 --> 01:25:24,500
far is not implemented but they like the
1827
01:25:24,500 --> 01:25:28,219
idea yeah I heard about controller
1828
01:25:28,219 --> 01:25:29,929
support on PC though yeah
1829
01:25:29,929 --> 01:25:31,670
no plans for keyboard mouse support for
1830
01:25:31,670 --> 01:25:34,040
console though yeah I didn't know that
1831
01:25:34,040 --> 01:25:35,960
actually but good thing that you heard
1832
01:25:35,960 --> 01:25:38,420
from somewhere else is magic fine coming
1833
01:25:38,420 --> 01:25:42,170
back oh so thing like magic fine or
1834
01:25:42,170 --> 01:25:45,050
increased gold we want to do so right
1835
01:25:45,050 --> 01:25:47,449
now we have them in gems but what we
1836
01:25:47,449 --> 01:25:49,760
don't like is we don't like when they
1837
01:25:49,760 --> 01:25:53,239
compete against like damage affixes
1838
01:25:53,239 --> 01:25:55,460
right so like now the player choice is
1839
01:25:55,460 --> 01:25:58,250
do I want to kill so faster which makes
1840
01:25:58,250 --> 01:25:59,960
me stronger so I'm having more fun with
1841
01:25:59,960 --> 01:26:02,929
the game but in reality magic find is
1842
01:26:02,929 --> 01:26:05,210
the way to go so I'm actually playing a
1843
01:26:05,210 --> 01:26:07,550
weaker build then I can right so what
1844
01:26:07,550 --> 01:26:09,619
we're doing in gems is when you socket
1845
01:26:09,619 --> 01:26:12,469
gems into jewelry those are all kind of
1846
01:26:12,469 --> 01:26:14,599
utility bonuses including like magic
1847
01:26:14,599 --> 01:26:17,809
find right so we are having those things
1848
01:26:17,809 --> 01:26:19,639
in the game but they won't be in
1849
01:26:19,639 --> 01:26:23,469
contention with making you stronger okay
1850
01:26:23,469 --> 01:26:27,110
because I the d3 dev said the same thing
1851
01:26:27,110 --> 01:26:28,190
about didn't want to have that
1852
01:26:28,190 --> 01:26:29,780
competition but their solution was just
1853
01:26:29,780 --> 01:26:32,840
was let's get rid of it oh yeah the cool
1854
01:26:32,840 --> 01:26:34,489
thing about the habló right so yeah we
1855
01:26:34,489 --> 01:26:35,900
do want to bring those back yeah
1856
01:26:35,900 --> 01:26:36,980
because one thing that was happening as
1857
01:26:36,980 --> 01:26:38,989
well as in group play you'd have like
1858
01:26:38,989 --> 01:26:40,489
one person you know be the magic fine
1859
01:26:40,489 --> 01:26:42,500
dude yeah for the whole party which was
1860
01:26:42,500 --> 01:26:43,950
like okay one dudes having less
1861
01:26:43,950 --> 01:26:45,990
fun in order for the whole party benefit
1862
01:26:45,990 --> 01:26:50,220
yeah yeah oh man there's a question that
1863
01:26:50,220 --> 01:26:54,180
I saw that I forgot about now but I'll
1864
01:26:54,180 --> 01:26:55,740
bring it up yeah so you do plan to have
1865
01:26:55,740 --> 01:26:58,260
seasons oh yeah of course and the goal
1866
01:26:58,260 --> 01:27:00,210
for seasons is to change up the play
1867
01:27:00,210 --> 01:27:02,790
experience as much as possible so like
1868
01:27:02,790 --> 01:27:05,040
the item sign I talked about but we want
1869
01:27:05,040 --> 01:27:07,050
to try to do that across as many angles
1870
01:27:07,050 --> 01:27:09,270
as possible so for example new types of
1871
01:27:09,270 --> 01:27:11,880
challenges in dungeons new types of
1872
01:27:11,880 --> 01:27:13,710
maybe monster affixes things like that
1873
01:27:13,710 --> 01:27:15,690
but we want to do as much as we can to
1874
01:27:15,690 --> 01:27:17,310
make sure that when you come back for a
1875
01:27:17,310 --> 01:27:20,040
season it's a it's a new experience and
1876
01:27:20,040 --> 01:27:23,990
you can have new things to explore right
1877
01:27:23,990 --> 01:27:27,060
you're probably familiar with a little
1878
01:27:27,060 --> 01:27:29,160
game called path of Exile oh yeah if you
1879
01:27:29,160 --> 01:27:31,200
plan on well what are your thoughts on
1880
01:27:31,200 --> 01:27:34,260
the the magnitude of their leads just
1881
01:27:34,260 --> 01:27:36,300
when they do their major like complete
1882
01:27:36,300 --> 01:27:41,610
game changing oh yeah yeah it's similar
1883
01:27:41,610 --> 01:27:43,950
in some ways different in others so
1884
01:27:43,950 --> 01:27:45,330
we're gonna have very different types of
1885
01:27:45,330 --> 01:27:47,160
challenges I think it's a great game a
1886
01:27:47,160 --> 01:27:48,570
lot of the people on the team really
1887
01:27:48,570 --> 01:27:51,690
enjoy it too but I think for Diablo the
1888
01:27:51,690 --> 01:27:54,570
most important thing is try to figure
1889
01:27:54,570 --> 01:27:56,850
out like not just path right look at the
1890
01:27:56,850 --> 01:28:00,360
a RPGs look at open-world single-player
1891
01:28:00,360 --> 01:28:03,000
games look at maybe even mmo's and take
1892
01:28:03,000 --> 01:28:05,550
the elements that fit and work very well
1893
01:28:05,550 --> 01:28:07,500
in Diablo 4 so that's something that
1894
01:28:07,500 --> 01:28:11,730
we're doing a lot of yeah so well I
1895
01:28:11,730 --> 01:28:14,430
guess the short way of saying that is no
1896
01:28:14,430 --> 01:28:16,140
matter what game it is we're gonna try
1897
01:28:16,140 --> 01:28:21,680
to make Diablo 4 with kind of every cool
1898
01:28:21,680 --> 01:28:25,980
detail and cool system in mind I heard a
1899
01:28:25,980 --> 01:28:27,840
rumor that there's a treasure goblin in
1900
01:28:27,840 --> 01:28:29,640
a specific place in the map is that true
1901
01:28:29,640 --> 01:28:31,890
there are treasure goblins but I didn't
1902
01:28:31,890 --> 01:28:34,230
think it was in a specific place ok but
1903
01:28:34,230 --> 01:28:35,430
as you're running around you'll
1904
01:28:35,430 --> 01:28:38,310
encounter it yeah cool have you seen the
1905
01:28:38,310 --> 01:28:42,930
unstoppable mechanic the barbarian had
1906
01:28:42,930 --> 01:28:49,470
it oh yeah so unlike many RPGs Diablo 4
1907
01:28:49,470 --> 01:28:51,760
doesn't have diminishing returns on
1908
01:28:51,760 --> 01:28:54,710
so it's full duration all the time but
1909
01:28:54,710 --> 01:28:57,830
instead we have specific skills that you
1910
01:28:57,830 --> 01:28:59,750
can use that make you unstoppable and
1911
01:28:59,750 --> 01:29:01,580
that just means you can break out of CCS
1912
01:29:01,580 --> 01:29:03,860
and you're immune to that CC for that
1913
01:29:03,860 --> 01:29:05,570
duration right so some skills just break
1914
01:29:05,570 --> 01:29:07,280
you out other skills make you
1915
01:29:07,280 --> 01:29:09,410
unstoppable for a really long time so
1916
01:29:09,410 --> 01:29:11,660
you'll be able to kind of customize your
1917
01:29:11,660 --> 01:29:13,400
own character so if you're struggling a
1918
01:29:13,400 --> 01:29:14,900
lot against cc's you can build your
1919
01:29:14,900 --> 01:29:17,360
character more resistant against that if
1920
01:29:17,360 --> 01:29:19,370
you're not struggling that much then you
1921
01:29:19,370 --> 01:29:20,570
don't have to worry about a stopover as
1922
01:29:20,570 --> 01:29:22,850
much right so I think it's a pretty cool
1923
01:29:22,850 --> 01:29:24,949
system because it's always difficult to
1924
01:29:24,949 --> 01:29:27,170
remember when I use that TC if it's
1925
01:29:27,170 --> 01:29:28,760
gonna have like little effect or no
1926
01:29:28,760 --> 01:29:30,679
effect things like that but now you know
1927
01:29:30,679 --> 01:29:33,410
you'll have full effect unless the enemy
1928
01:29:33,410 --> 01:29:34,699
has something that he can counter with
1929
01:29:34,699 --> 01:29:38,140
right awesome what are your thoughts on
1930
01:29:38,140 --> 01:29:41,239
farming bosses for specific items is
1931
01:29:41,239 --> 01:29:42,770
that something you see happening or more
1932
01:29:42,770 --> 01:29:44,600
just drops can happen anywhere yeah we
1933
01:29:44,600 --> 01:29:46,100
give that feedback a lot internally too
1934
01:29:46,100 --> 01:29:49,790
but across the board I think Diablo is
1935
01:29:49,790 --> 01:29:52,429
about being able to kill like the
1936
01:29:52,429 --> 01:29:53,690
weakest monster or maybe and kill a
1937
01:29:53,690 --> 01:29:55,760
barrel and get like the strongest item
1938
01:29:55,760 --> 01:29:57,830
in the game right so baseline I think
1939
01:29:57,830 --> 01:30:00,110
it's important to keep that vibe but
1940
01:30:00,110 --> 01:30:03,350
that's not to say hundred percent of
1941
01:30:03,350 --> 01:30:05,270
those of everything doesn't need to work
1942
01:30:05,270 --> 01:30:06,860
like that right so it is something that
1943
01:30:06,860 --> 01:30:08,960
we can definitely explore and we should
1944
01:30:08,960 --> 01:30:12,590
explore internally yeah has any thought
1945
01:30:12,590 --> 01:30:14,360
been given to mercenaries or followers
1946
01:30:14,360 --> 01:30:17,870
oh uh not much thought on that yet we're
1947
01:30:17,870 --> 01:30:20,330
still very busy building the rest of the
1948
01:30:20,330 --> 01:30:22,940
game first yeah so yeah we'll see what
1949
01:30:22,940 --> 01:30:25,880
happens in the future yeah so as you can
1950
01:30:25,880 --> 01:30:27,679
see there's like three different so it
1951
01:30:27,679 --> 01:30:29,210
starts with one and then three different
1952
01:30:29,210 --> 01:30:30,320
variant which is different from the
1953
01:30:30,320 --> 01:30:33,380
other classes right yeah yeah and she
1954
01:30:33,380 --> 01:30:35,030
also has more choices than other classes
1955
01:30:35,030 --> 01:30:37,250
in the game yeah which speaks to the
1956
01:30:37,250 --> 01:30:40,000
asymmetrical
1957
01:30:40,900 --> 01:30:44,240
any plans to have achievement systems oh
1958
01:30:44,240 --> 01:30:47,690
yeah of course yeah how about player
1959
01:30:47,690 --> 01:30:50,810
housing or clan housing oh yeah we
1960
01:30:50,810 --> 01:30:52,070
definitely haven't talked about that one
1961
01:30:52,070 --> 01:30:57,410
but yeah we'll see write some question
1962
01:30:57,410 --> 01:30:59,780
if you plan to extend or expand the
1963
01:30:59,780 --> 01:31:03,230
talent tree at any point oh yeah or for
1964
01:31:03,230 --> 01:31:05,840
now our thought is we will add more to
1965
01:31:05,840 --> 01:31:06,170
it
1966
01:31:06,170 --> 01:31:08,720
in expansions but to what degree we're
1967
01:31:08,720 --> 01:31:11,120
not sure yet okay yeah so sort of like
1968
01:31:11,120 --> 01:31:13,460
max level is 40 then first expansion
1969
01:31:13,460 --> 01:31:15,200
will give you another 10 20 levels yeah
1970
01:31:15,200 --> 01:31:18,550
something like that right yeah any
1971
01:31:18,550 --> 01:31:21,410
potential dual resource classes like the
1972
01:31:21,410 --> 01:31:27,340
demon hunter oh yeah we do want to make
1973
01:31:27,340 --> 01:31:29,990
different classes as different as
1974
01:31:29,990 --> 01:31:30,560
possible
1975
01:31:30,560 --> 01:31:33,620
so one of the like easy hooks I guess is
1976
01:31:33,620 --> 01:31:35,870
to have multiple resources right so I
1977
01:31:35,870 --> 01:31:38,770
think you can safely assume that we will
1978
01:31:38,770 --> 01:31:42,320
explore that very hard but as to what
1979
01:31:42,320 --> 01:31:43,910
the remaining classes will exactly do
1980
01:31:43,910 --> 01:31:47,630
I'm not sure yet okay in d2 certain
1981
01:31:47,630 --> 01:31:50,780
skill runes like enigma could allow a
1982
01:31:50,780 --> 01:31:52,940
non sort to have teleport for instance
1983
01:31:52,940 --> 01:31:55,760
you can have a different class of skill
1984
01:31:55,760 --> 01:31:57,740
equip and a Hydra that you saw right
1985
01:31:57,740 --> 01:32:00,230
yeah yeah so again d3 it was a design
1986
01:32:00,230 --> 01:32:01,430
choice oh they definitely did not want
1987
01:32:01,430 --> 01:32:05,840
that Tyson yeah and before your I guess
1988
01:32:05,840 --> 01:32:08,210
the time right now oh yeah yeah all
1989
01:32:08,210 --> 01:32:10,640
right yeah so in d4 are you open to
1990
01:32:10,640 --> 01:32:13,910
cross class skills yeah so it kind of
1991
01:32:13,910 --> 01:32:15,530
goes back to the same topic that we just
1992
01:32:15,530 --> 01:32:17,690
talked about of this distinguishing each
1993
01:32:17,690 --> 01:32:20,450
of the classes and we do think some
1994
01:32:20,450 --> 01:32:22,850
crossover especially in the end endgame
1995
01:32:22,850 --> 01:32:25,010
through legendary items is a good thing
1996
01:32:25,010 --> 01:32:28,100
but too much is probably hurtful to the
1997
01:32:28,100 --> 01:32:30,350
class identity right so we need to find
1998
01:32:30,350 --> 01:32:33,860
the right balance of the event and yeah
1999
01:32:33,860 --> 01:32:35,870
I guess I can't say exactly how it's
2000
01:32:35,870 --> 01:32:37,970
gonna be it's too early but as we
2001
01:32:37,970 --> 01:32:39,830
explore legendary items it's something
2002
01:32:39,830 --> 01:32:42,190
that we'll definitely keep an eye on
2003
01:32:42,190 --> 01:32:46,270
when it comes to balancing drop rates
2004
01:32:46,270 --> 01:32:48,800
which game theater diabla game did
2005
01:32:48,800 --> 01:32:50,360
another do you feel like best sort of
2006
01:32:50,360 --> 01:32:53,150
represents the sort of drop rates your I
2007
01:32:53,150 --> 01:32:58,280
see so so what we're doing in Diablo 4
2008
01:32:58,280 --> 01:33:01,250
is quite different from previous Diablo
2009
01:33:01,250 --> 01:33:05,120
games because you can get more powerful
2010
01:33:05,120 --> 01:33:07,310
versions of the same item as you play
2011
01:33:07,310 --> 01:33:10,610
play the game even in the end game which
2012
01:33:10,610 --> 01:33:12,830
means we don't have to increase the drop
2013
01:33:12,830 --> 01:33:16,160
rate of legendaries for example right so
2014
01:33:16,160 --> 01:33:18,590
we can find that perfect and ideal kind
2015
01:33:18,590 --> 01:33:21,410
of drop rate for the level experience
2016
01:33:21,410 --> 01:33:23,120
and then maybe have a different one for
2017
01:33:23,120 --> 01:33:25,910
the next level experience and because
2018
01:33:25,910 --> 01:33:30,680
the power grows too we can keep so what
2019
01:33:30,680 --> 01:33:32,390
that ideal is but we don't know exactly
2020
01:33:32,390 --> 01:33:34,190
what that number is yet but through
2021
01:33:34,190 --> 01:33:35,600
testing we'll be able to figure that out
2022
01:33:35,600 --> 01:33:38,270
right and three iteration yeah so we'll
2023
01:33:38,270 --> 01:33:41,810
see and I am very worried and curious to
2024
01:33:41,810 --> 01:33:44,030
see how this kind of major change plays
2025
01:33:44,030 --> 01:33:45,860
out in Diablo 4
2026
01:33:45,860 --> 01:33:47,840
I'm guessing for the demo the drop rates
2027
01:33:47,840 --> 01:33:51,020
are boosted Oh for the demo actually the
2028
01:33:51,020 --> 01:33:53,960
secret is legendary items are trapping
2029
01:33:53,960 --> 01:33:56,480
at very specific places interesting that
2030
01:33:56,480 --> 01:33:57,590
you didn't notice even though you played
2031
01:33:57,590 --> 01:34:03,650
I know right now it's a secret so don't
2032
01:34:03,650 --> 01:34:06,440
tell anyone but it's in the dungeon from
2033
01:34:06,440 --> 01:34:08,510
the ghouls and then the see hank traps
2034
01:34:08,510 --> 01:34:10,280
one and the world boss drops one and
2035
01:34:10,280 --> 01:34:12,110
that's it no other place yeah but
2036
01:34:12,110 --> 01:34:13,400
obviously it's not gonna be like that in
2037
01:34:13,400 --> 01:34:18,850
the real game right how do you like the
2038
01:34:18,850 --> 01:34:22,250
yeah so this is like an example to show
2039
01:34:22,250 --> 01:34:25,490
the quality of in-game cinematics
2040
01:34:25,490 --> 01:34:28,700
cutscenes that we're gonna do and of
2041
01:34:28,700 --> 01:34:29,780
course there's gonna be like action
2042
01:34:29,780 --> 01:34:31,370
scenes to things like that
2043
01:34:31,370 --> 01:34:33,749
so I'm very excited for them
2044
01:34:33,749 --> 01:34:38,499
Oh in this area everything you see you
2045
01:34:38,499 --> 01:34:40,300
can actually go there in Diablo flora
2046
01:34:40,300 --> 01:34:42,219
which is a huge change as well so that's
2047
01:34:42,219 --> 01:34:43,599
actually the talent that you can walk
2048
01:34:43,599 --> 01:34:47,199
into and so on yeah it's something
2049
01:34:47,199 --> 01:34:48,760
that's easy to miss but I think it's one
2050
01:34:48,760 --> 01:34:50,499
of the coolest things because anything
2051
01:34:50,499 --> 01:34:52,179
you can see you can actually go there
2052
01:34:52,179 --> 01:34:55,749
which is a huge improvement right oh you
2053
01:34:55,749 --> 01:34:58,800
got the lightning yeah
2054
01:35:00,359 --> 01:35:08,019
so forth no so we said no charms are not
2055
01:35:08,019 --> 01:35:08,949
currently in the works
2056
01:35:08,949 --> 01:35:12,090
stash space oh yeah so are we gonna have
2057
01:35:12,090 --> 01:35:14,289
individual so in d2 you had your
2058
01:35:14,289 --> 01:35:15,639
individual stash Kappa than the shared
2059
01:35:15,639 --> 01:35:17,499
stash have amongst your characters in d3
2060
01:35:17,499 --> 01:35:19,749
you just have this shared stash tab any
2061
01:35:19,749 --> 01:35:23,039
decisions being made there Oh currently
2062
01:35:23,039 --> 01:35:25,419
because we have that very specific goal
2063
01:35:25,419 --> 01:35:28,749
for trading your stash tabs will like
2064
01:35:28,749 --> 01:35:30,849
how they function will depend heavily on
2065
01:35:30,849 --> 01:35:32,709
what type of trading system we land on
2066
01:35:32,709 --> 01:35:34,959
because what we want to avoid is a
2067
01:35:34,959 --> 01:35:37,179
situation where you have to trade your
2068
01:35:37,179 --> 01:35:39,099
items between your own characters like
2069
01:35:39,099 --> 01:35:40,389
if you own the item you should be able
2070
01:35:40,389 --> 01:35:42,879
to use it on any class any character of
2071
01:35:42,879 --> 01:35:45,579
your choice right so currently because
2072
01:35:45,579 --> 01:35:47,679
the example of the trading that I said
2073
01:35:47,679 --> 01:35:48,789
is that way
2074
01:35:48,789 --> 01:35:51,369
we have shared stash tabs to get around
2075
01:35:51,369 --> 01:35:52,749
the trading for your own character so
2076
01:35:52,749 --> 01:35:54,369
you can feed your alts and level that up
2077
01:35:54,369 --> 01:35:57,070
quickly if you want to and things like
2078
01:35:57,070 --> 01:35:59,979
that right but if trading changes that
2079
01:35:59,979 --> 01:36:02,919
will change too any thoughts to the role
2080
01:36:02,919 --> 01:36:05,079
Gold will play in either trading or in
2081
01:36:05,079 --> 01:36:06,760
the game is it gonna be a gold sink or
2082
01:36:06,760 --> 01:36:08,469
are we just enough by the end game have
2083
01:36:08,469 --> 01:36:10,359
gold and gold to be irrelevant yeah so
2084
01:36:10,359 --> 01:36:12,849
currently we're trying to be more strict
2085
01:36:12,849 --> 01:36:15,999
with gold at a personal level for
2086
01:36:15,999 --> 01:36:18,729
players so the gambler kind of like you
2087
01:36:18,729 --> 01:36:21,579
- how it works is you can spend coal to
2088
01:36:21,579 --> 01:36:24,449
gamble so it's gonna be kind of a like a
2089
01:36:24,449 --> 01:36:27,550
improvement off of Eid and all that kind
2090
01:36:27,550 --> 01:36:30,399
of thing but he takes gold right so if
2091
01:36:30,399 --> 01:36:33,039
you can kind of imagine if I can gamble
2092
01:36:33,039 --> 01:36:35,900
for the best items in the game
2093
01:36:35,900 --> 01:36:38,849
then gold will be meaningful at all
2094
01:36:38,849 --> 01:36:40,830
times right so that's kind of our plan
2095
01:36:40,830 --> 01:36:45,389
with gold psychoses our zones
2096
01:36:45,389 --> 01:36:49,290
level-specific or do they scale with oh
2097
01:36:49,290 --> 01:36:52,500
so currently we're trying various
2098
01:36:52,500 --> 01:36:55,679
versions we do currently have level
2099
01:36:55,679 --> 01:36:58,949
scaling in the game but one of the main
2100
01:36:58,949 --> 01:37:02,400
goals so the reason why we have it is
2101
01:37:02,400 --> 01:37:03,840
because we have that shared open world
2102
01:37:03,840 --> 01:37:05,520
we want players to play together right
2103
01:37:05,520 --> 01:37:08,940
but the main thing there are many things
2104
01:37:08,940 --> 01:37:10,290
we want to avoid but one of those things
2105
01:37:10,290 --> 01:37:13,679
is we want to make sure that every time
2106
01:37:13,679 --> 01:37:17,070
you equipment upgrade it's always making
2107
01:37:17,070 --> 01:37:19,889
you stronger and never weaker never even
2108
01:37:19,889 --> 01:37:21,840
against the monsters so we want to make
2109
01:37:21,840 --> 01:37:23,369
sure that your power progression is
2110
01:37:23,369 --> 01:37:25,560
always felt and at the same time we have
2111
01:37:25,560 --> 01:37:27,060
level scaling so that you can play with
2112
01:37:27,060 --> 01:37:31,909
anyone of your friends at any time right
2113
01:37:35,010 --> 01:37:36,760
interesting that you asked that by
2114
01:37:36,760 --> 01:37:38,679
playing with them or you there's no way
2115
01:37:38,679 --> 01:37:40,870
to know yeah right well I mean we do see
2116
01:37:40,870 --> 01:37:42,969
that this is a level whatever yeah the
2117
01:37:42,969 --> 01:37:44,890
dungeons seem to have the clear levels
2118
01:37:44,890 --> 01:37:46,390
yeah so what we're currently playing
2119
01:37:46,390 --> 01:37:48,250
around with is we do have level scaling
2120
01:37:48,250 --> 01:37:49,570
but it's not completely fixed level
2121
01:37:49,570 --> 01:37:51,370
scaling we do have some areas that are
2122
01:37:51,370 --> 01:37:54,010
more difficult that have like floors I
2123
01:37:54,010 --> 01:37:56,170
guess right so until you get to level 30
2124
01:37:56,170 --> 01:37:58,570
that area monsters are always level 30
2125
01:37:58,570 --> 01:38:01,480
kind of thing and we also are exploring
2126
01:38:01,480 --> 01:38:04,000
with feelings as well to make stuff a
2127
01:38:04,000 --> 01:38:07,870
little easier if necessary are you
2128
01:38:07,870 --> 01:38:10,690
familiar with the last epoch it's an RPG
2129
01:38:10,690 --> 01:38:16,600
and an alpha not super familiar but to a
2130
01:38:16,600 --> 01:38:18,910
couple of our system designers are
2131
01:38:18,910 --> 01:38:21,760
playing yeah so one main thing about
2132
01:38:21,760 --> 01:38:23,830
that is that their skill system and it
2133
01:38:23,830 --> 01:38:27,850
sort of it mixes d2 and d3 so that you
2134
01:38:27,850 --> 01:38:30,400
have every skill similar you know you
2135
01:38:30,400 --> 01:38:31,929
can level up every individual skill but
2136
01:38:31,929 --> 01:38:35,370
every school has its own skill tree yeah
2137
01:38:36,330 --> 01:38:40,000
yeah yeah I played a little bit of Lost
2138
01:38:40,000 --> 01:38:42,790
Ark and that game has something similar
2139
01:38:42,790 --> 01:38:44,949
to yeah which is very cool to write but
2140
01:38:44,949 --> 01:38:47,260
I think at the core of it the more
2141
01:38:47,260 --> 01:38:49,630
important thing is how much choice and
2142
01:38:49,630 --> 01:38:51,610
customization players have and because
2143
01:38:51,610 --> 01:38:53,230
we have the skill system as well as the
2144
01:38:53,230 --> 01:38:57,520
talent system we believe that's quite a
2145
01:38:57,520 --> 01:38:59,320
bit more choice but if we need more
2146
01:38:59,320 --> 01:39:01,480
choices in the game of course we'll try
2147
01:39:01,480 --> 01:39:03,550
to explore more systems during level up
2148
01:39:03,550 --> 01:39:07,449
right any plans for more so one thing I
2149
01:39:07,449 --> 01:39:09,580
realize is you guys have never said
2150
01:39:09,580 --> 01:39:13,270
anything you know three letters MMO this
2151
01:39:13,270 --> 01:39:16,000
might some of it like feels like there
2152
01:39:16,000 --> 01:39:17,380
are definitely some and more elements
2153
01:39:17,380 --> 01:39:19,000
right but it kind of goes back to what I
2154
01:39:19,000 --> 01:39:21,550
was talking about we want to take
2155
01:39:21,550 --> 01:39:24,670
elements from different games that work
2156
01:39:24,670 --> 01:39:28,719
really well for Diablo 4 but like saying
2157
01:39:28,719 --> 01:39:30,640
like is this game like an MMO or not is
2158
01:39:30,640 --> 01:39:32,980
very difficult because there are some
2159
01:39:32,980 --> 01:39:34,449
cool things that will work really well
2160
01:39:34,449 --> 01:39:36,300
in Diablo 4 how do those
2161
01:39:36,300 --> 01:39:38,369
and there are others that would make it
2162
01:39:38,369 --> 01:39:40,530
so like a like if you ran into so many
2163
01:39:40,530 --> 01:39:42,119
people as you're running around that
2164
01:39:42,119 --> 01:39:43,590
feels like an MMO but I don't think
2165
01:39:43,590 --> 01:39:45,679
that's correct for Diablo 4 right so
2166
01:39:45,679 --> 01:39:49,770
what we're trying to do is create a pure
2167
01:39:49,770 --> 01:39:53,369
Diablo game at its core but explore and
2168
01:39:53,369 --> 01:39:54,929
try out different elements from
2169
01:39:54,929 --> 01:39:56,909
different types of games and if it works
2170
01:39:56,909 --> 01:39:59,489
really well keep it if it doesn't then
2171
01:39:59,489 --> 01:40:03,300
don't keep it kind of mentality right is
2172
01:40:03,300 --> 01:40:05,909
it possible to remove things from
2173
01:40:05,909 --> 01:40:08,840
sockets or will it be oh yeah of course
2174
01:40:08,840 --> 01:40:14,190
I want to say at a cost but that could
2175
01:40:14,190 --> 01:40:20,639
of course change and we know about yeah
2176
01:40:20,639 --> 01:40:22,440
you can respect your talents is that
2177
01:40:22,440 --> 01:40:24,150
free or at a cost
2178
01:40:24,150 --> 01:40:26,159
currently the thought is that that one
2179
01:40:26,159 --> 01:40:29,070
is free because like say Diablo is all
2180
01:40:29,070 --> 01:40:30,840
about the legendary items and that that
2181
01:40:30,840 --> 01:40:32,610
cool moment that it brings right so
2182
01:40:32,610 --> 01:40:34,260
you're leveling up letting your item
2183
01:40:34,260 --> 01:40:35,969
drops it's like oh do I want to spend
2184
01:40:35,969 --> 01:40:37,590
the gold to try this out or can I just
2185
01:40:37,590 --> 01:40:39,809
Reese pick and try it out I think the
2186
01:40:39,809 --> 01:40:42,929
latter is much more Diablo so that's the
2187
01:40:42,929 --> 01:40:46,050
reason for that decision I notice items
2188
01:40:46,050 --> 01:40:48,960
don't have a durability so it's not just
2189
01:40:48,960 --> 01:40:52,260
the system you felt was redundant so we
2190
01:40:52,260 --> 01:40:54,869
want systems that take you back to town
2191
01:40:54,869 --> 01:40:58,710
at specific intervals so durability
2192
01:40:58,710 --> 01:41:00,920
isn't cut it's not in this build and
2193
01:41:00,920 --> 01:41:03,690
we're trying out both versions of it at
2194
01:41:03,690 --> 01:41:07,590
different times but yeah what do you
2195
01:41:07,590 --> 01:41:11,070
think about the durability so it depends
2196
01:41:11,070 --> 01:41:12,719
on the implementation so in two it
2197
01:41:12,719 --> 01:41:15,150
mattered because of ethereal items but
2198
01:41:15,150 --> 01:41:17,130
outside of that like in d3 it it just
2199
01:41:17,130 --> 01:41:19,349
just like sank right yeah it's a gold
2200
01:41:19,349 --> 01:41:20,699
ticket matters
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01:41:20,699 --> 01:41:23,010
early and then it stops mattering it's
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01:41:23,010 --> 01:41:24,929
just a button to press and it doesn't
2203
01:41:24,929 --> 01:41:27,570
really dig into your fold so I like it
2204
01:41:27,570 --> 01:41:28,979
deep three if it didn't exist it
2205
01:41:28,979 --> 01:41:30,989
wouldn't bother me obviously but if
2206
01:41:30,989 --> 01:41:33,329
there's reason like you know some
2207
01:41:33,329 --> 01:41:36,209
choices you got like a cool bonus above
2208
01:41:36,209 --> 01:41:37,709
a certain durability level or something
2209
01:41:37,709 --> 01:41:39,599
like that yeah yeah something that we're
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01:41:39,599 --> 01:41:42,139
talking about but yeah we'll see right
2211
01:41:42,139 --> 01:41:44,130
but it's good great hearing your
2212
01:41:44,130 --> 01:41:48,389
thoughts to the C heck death is pretty
2213
01:41:48,389 --> 01:41:53,670
crazy this reminds me of greed from d3
2214
01:41:53,670 --> 01:42:02,550
but like have you seen the like we
2215
01:42:02,550 --> 01:42:04,349
notice in the gameplay trailer but
2216
01:42:04,349 --> 01:42:06,599
there's Tyrael I did I was like was that
2217
01:42:06,599 --> 01:42:08,429
Duryea yeah girl was like the most
2218
01:42:08,429 --> 01:42:09,989
traumatizing experience for me and II to
2219
01:42:09,989 --> 01:42:12,360
the first yeah right and it's still that
2220
01:42:12,360 --> 01:42:15,269
like pulls you into his stomach it's
2221
01:42:15,269 --> 01:42:20,610
pretty awesome too it's like a Hydralisk
2222
01:42:20,610 --> 01:42:23,579
you just never stop lifted right yeah
2223
01:42:23,579 --> 01:42:25,709
and I think they encountered designers
2224
01:42:25,709 --> 01:42:27,329
one of their main goals for that is to
2225
01:42:27,329 --> 01:42:29,400
kind of bring that the feeling of kind
2226
01:42:29,400 --> 01:42:32,639
of I feel trapped in this place with his
2227
01:42:32,639 --> 01:42:34,800
boss kind of thing right so hopefully
2228
01:42:34,800 --> 01:42:38,699
yeah it's very it does
2229
01:42:38,699 --> 01:42:41,550
Diablo tutorial justice right yeah so I
2230
01:42:41,550 --> 01:42:43,110
know people keep asking about you know
2231
01:42:43,110 --> 01:42:44,519
it's a pal and it's the assassin gonna
2232
01:42:44,519 --> 01:42:45,869
come back obviously you can't talk to
2233
01:42:45,869 --> 01:42:48,150
that we know that we know three of the
2234
01:42:48,150 --> 01:42:49,289
class have been revealed we know there's
2235
01:42:49,289 --> 01:42:51,119
gonna be two others yeah and presumably
2236
01:42:51,119 --> 01:42:52,920
you're gonna try to well I guess I'll
2237
01:42:52,920 --> 01:42:54,300
ask are they gonna cover additional
2238
01:42:54,300 --> 01:42:56,519
archetypes like Diablo 1 had you know
2239
01:42:56,519 --> 01:42:58,289
the the three archetypes of marshal
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01:42:58,289 --> 01:43:00,959
warrior the ranged agile type and the
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01:43:00,959 --> 01:43:03,059
mage right now we're seeing the the
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01:43:03,059 --> 01:43:05,340
major marshal warrior the druid so we're
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01:43:05,340 --> 01:43:07,619
seeing the kind of bow arranged Marsha
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01:43:07,619 --> 01:43:10,619
you know non-magic type yeah now being
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01:43:10,619 --> 01:43:11,940
covered so people are speculating it a
2246
01:43:11,940 --> 01:43:15,059
demon hunter or Amazon um do you think
2247
01:43:15,059 --> 01:43:16,110
it's possible they were to see entirely
2248
01:43:16,110 --> 01:43:18,570
new classes by covering the archetypes I
2249
01:43:18,570 --> 01:43:20,190
guess makes sense but at the same time
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01:43:20,190 --> 01:43:22,139
it is the fourth game of the iteration
2251
01:43:22,139 --> 01:43:23,639
so we can break some rules too right so
2252
01:43:23,639 --> 01:43:24,929
it's really impossible to say right now
2253
01:43:24,929 --> 01:43:29,459
which are the last two classes but I we
2254
01:43:29,459 --> 01:43:31,530
are personally or I am personally
2255
01:43:31,530 --> 01:43:33,000
curious what people
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01:43:33,000 --> 01:43:35,460
as the last classes as well like do
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01:43:35,460 --> 01:43:37,410
people prefer returning classes do
2258
01:43:37,410 --> 01:43:39,120
people prefer a brand new classes and so
2259
01:43:39,120 --> 01:43:41,520
on right so that means something yeah
2260
01:43:41,520 --> 01:43:43,320
that would be great to know yeah and
2261
01:43:43,320 --> 01:43:44,970
it's one of the advantages of announcing
2262
01:43:44,970 --> 01:43:47,190
this game so we can ask questions like
2263
01:43:47,190 --> 01:43:50,640
these right seen a lot of Amazon's yeah
2264
01:43:50,640 --> 01:43:55,230
some monks and paladin necromancer if
2265
01:43:55,230 --> 01:44:01,260
you were if you were to bring back a
2266
01:44:01,260 --> 01:44:02,880
holy night do you think it would be in
2267
01:44:02,880 --> 01:44:04,230
the form of the paladin or the Crusader
2268
01:44:04,230 --> 01:44:06,780
or maybe even some some new some new
2269
01:44:06,780 --> 01:44:08,730
things like there was some opinion as
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01:44:08,730 --> 01:44:11,400
it's like an elite paladin abra paladin
2271
01:44:11,400 --> 01:44:14,310
yeah but in many ways it was the paladin
2272
01:44:14,310 --> 01:44:16,560
yeah yeah yeah it's really hard to say
2273
01:44:16,560 --> 01:44:19,590
just but just personally I personally
2274
01:44:19,590 --> 01:44:21,440
like the paladin and a little bit better
2275
01:44:21,440 --> 01:44:24,450
but yeah yeah we don't know yet right I
2276
01:44:24,450 --> 01:44:26,430
guess it's a it's a name that has a lot
2277
01:44:26,430 --> 01:44:28,050
more history to it yeah right
2278
01:44:28,050 --> 01:44:29,640
the Crusader it's a cool word about him
2279
01:44:29,640 --> 01:44:31,590
but like the paladin you know everyone
2280
01:44:31,590 --> 01:44:33,870
knows what a paladin is from from all
2281
01:44:33,870 --> 01:44:34,740
the way back from Dungeons and Dragons
2282
01:44:34,740 --> 01:44:36,810
the world of warcraft all the different
2283
01:44:36,810 --> 01:44:38,580
fantasy yeah I'm done Belle yeah but
2284
01:44:38,580 --> 01:44:40,020
anything's possible right like deep
2285
01:44:40,020 --> 01:44:41,220
through yet launched they didn't have
2286
01:44:41,220 --> 01:44:44,340
that that plate glass or whatever right
2287
01:44:44,340 --> 01:44:46,610
so yeah anything is possible like they
2288
01:44:46,610 --> 01:44:49,800
do you think well I guess if anything's
2289
01:44:49,800 --> 01:44:50,310
possible
2290
01:44:50,310 --> 01:44:54,570
has any concept of a dark knights like
2291
01:44:54,570 --> 01:44:57,020
an evil type of paladin then Tom I sound
2292
01:44:57,020 --> 01:44:59,340
if you can talk to that yeah like
2293
01:44:59,340 --> 01:45:01,710
there's just so many ideas so of course
2294
01:45:01,710 --> 01:45:04,080
like we we talked about that one too but
2295
01:45:04,080 --> 01:45:06,930
whether something's gonna make it or not
2296
01:45:06,930 --> 01:45:08,310
like we really don't know right we're
2297
01:45:08,310 --> 01:45:11,280
focusing on these three classes first so
2298
01:45:11,280 --> 01:45:14,550
yeah but it would be a good discussion I
2299
01:45:14,550 --> 01:45:16,350
think for the community too right
2300
01:45:16,350 --> 01:45:18,180
yeah what they would like to see yeah
2301
01:45:18,180 --> 01:45:20,220
yeah so we know that there's no offline
2302
01:45:20,220 --> 01:45:22,560
play and presumably there's no ability
2303
01:45:22,560 --> 01:45:24,330
to turn off the whole shared world thing
2304
01:45:24,330 --> 01:45:25,650
but we did hear that you could basically
2305
01:45:25,650 --> 01:45:27,390
play the game so you don't have to
2306
01:45:27,390 --> 01:45:29,040
interact you're encouraged to we don't
2307
01:45:29,040 --> 01:45:30,300
have to interact with other players is
2308
01:45:30,300 --> 01:45:32,160
the game more challenging if you play it
2309
01:45:32,160 --> 01:45:35,430
soul is is group play so in deep regroup
2310
01:45:35,430 --> 01:45:39,209
way is far more efficient
2311
01:45:39,209 --> 01:45:43,979
yeah so I guess for the first part just
2312
01:45:43,979 --> 01:45:46,799
to be really specific we're thinking
2313
01:45:46,799 --> 01:45:50,069
right now that the campaign the
2314
01:45:50,069 --> 01:45:52,979
experience is completely private so if
2315
01:45:52,979 --> 01:45:55,109
if you don't bring in someone within
2316
01:45:55,109 --> 01:45:56,909
your party it's gonna be solo in those
2317
01:45:56,909 --> 01:45:59,399
areas right and once you eat that then
2318
01:45:59,399 --> 01:46:01,469
it's gonna turn into the shared open
2319
01:46:01,469 --> 01:46:02,219
world part of it
2320
01:46:02,219 --> 01:46:04,289
dungeons of course majority will be
2321
01:46:04,289 --> 01:46:06,599
private so you can play it that way
2322
01:46:06,599 --> 01:46:09,149
and like you were saying to even in this
2323
01:46:09,149 --> 01:46:11,010
shared area you don't really run into
2324
01:46:11,010 --> 01:46:11,879
other people - right
2325
01:46:11,879 --> 01:46:13,530
so no one's really getting in your way
2326
01:46:13,530 --> 01:46:16,429
kind of thing and for your second part
2327
01:46:16,429 --> 01:46:20,159
we do want to make sure that group play
2328
01:46:20,159 --> 01:46:22,369
versus solo play is as even as possible
2329
01:46:22,369 --> 01:46:25,260
but we all know that's not how game
2330
01:46:25,260 --> 01:46:26,789
balance works right it's not gonna be
2331
01:46:26,789 --> 01:46:29,459
perfect so we are gonna try to error on
2332
01:46:29,459 --> 01:46:31,079
the side of group play a little bit
2333
01:46:31,079 --> 01:46:32,729
because if if not then everyone's just
2334
01:46:32,729 --> 01:46:34,979
gonna play solo and the shared open
2335
01:46:34,979 --> 01:46:36,209
world is not gonna be as cool right
2336
01:46:36,209 --> 01:46:38,579
right so we're gonna try our absolute
2337
01:46:38,579 --> 01:46:40,919
best to make it as even as possible but
2338
01:46:40,919 --> 01:46:43,019
at the same time if we can't get if you
2339
01:46:43,019 --> 01:46:45,269
can't hit that exact spot then working a
2340
01:46:45,269 --> 01:46:48,659
favor group play a little bit what sort
2341
01:46:48,659 --> 01:46:51,030
of death penalty
2342
01:46:51,030 --> 01:46:55,750
so right now it's very harsh so when you
2343
01:46:55,750 --> 01:46:58,660
die you have to run back from the last
2344
01:46:58,660 --> 01:47:03,130
checkpoint right and you drop like a
2345
01:47:03,130 --> 01:47:05,880
cold pile and you gotta go pick it up
2346
01:47:05,880 --> 01:47:09,970
it's something that were also there's
2347
01:47:09,970 --> 01:47:11,410
very different opinions on this
2348
01:47:11,410 --> 01:47:14,050
internally too so we'll see how that
2349
01:47:14,050 --> 01:47:14,530
goes
2350
01:47:14,530 --> 01:47:16,660
I have a digest I'm gonna go try to die
2351
01:47:16,660 --> 01:47:18,680
yeah
2352
01:47:18,680 --> 01:47:21,130
[Applause]
2353
01:47:21,130 --> 01:47:24,010
class specific items like basic item
2354
01:47:24,010 --> 01:47:28,390
types oh yeah of course yeah yeah of
2355
01:47:28,390 --> 01:47:31,480
course we'll have specific items and
2356
01:47:31,480 --> 01:47:32,950
item types like for example the
2357
01:47:32,950 --> 01:47:37,240
sorceress I think uses stabs off hands
2358
01:47:37,240 --> 01:47:39,490
and wands right now the Barbarian
2359
01:47:39,490 --> 01:47:41,770
obviously has access to the most item
2360
01:47:41,770 --> 01:47:43,510
types but does he really you have to use
2361
01:47:43,510 --> 01:47:48,550
stabs or wands probably not so yeah so
2362
01:47:48,550 --> 01:47:50,160
we've got our five-minute warning so
2363
01:47:50,160 --> 01:47:54,430
yeah let's see this is Death Note in PvP
2364
01:47:54,430 --> 01:47:55,720
are we gonna get to collect people's
2365
01:47:55,720 --> 01:47:58,270
ears like in the d2 days oh yeah that
2366
01:47:58,270 --> 01:48:00,910
would be fun but yeah we're not sure yet
2367
01:48:00,910 --> 01:48:03,490
but yeah of course it's something that
2368
01:48:03,490 --> 01:48:05,200
we'll have to discuss before yeah before
2369
01:48:05,200 --> 01:48:07,000
we ship the game right yeah so that was
2370
01:48:07,000 --> 01:48:08,260
your last checkpoint so you gotta run
2371
01:48:08,260 --> 01:48:10,210
back all the way to your yeah I notice
2372
01:48:10,210 --> 01:48:11,740
I'm bloody that that's a dynamic effect
2373
01:48:11,740 --> 01:48:13,780
right yeah is that some me taking damage
2374
01:48:13,780 --> 01:48:14,380
or for me
2375
01:48:14,380 --> 01:48:18,340
killing enemies oh I think it's both cuz
2376
01:48:18,340 --> 01:48:21,400
blood splashes when you yeah and then so
2377
01:48:21,400 --> 01:48:22,900
we talked about like potential cool
2378
01:48:22,900 --> 01:48:25,450
ideas of life as you get more and more
2379
01:48:25,450 --> 01:48:28,900
soap in blood maybe you get some oh yeah
2380
01:48:28,900 --> 01:48:30,580
right what a legendary item or something
2381
01:48:30,580 --> 01:48:34,270
like that right yeah but this game is
2382
01:48:34,270 --> 01:48:35,890
very bloody and barbarian I think it's
2383
01:48:35,890 --> 01:48:37,630
the best example of getting like blood
2384
01:48:37,630 --> 01:48:42,220
all over it yeah yeah any potential to
2385
01:48:42,220 --> 01:48:45,670
have UI customization like so in wow you
2386
01:48:45,670 --> 01:48:48,460
can customize your UI but in d3
2387
01:48:48,460 --> 01:48:52,210
at all any thoughts there yeah currently
2388
01:48:52,210 --> 01:48:56,010
we are leaning towards the fixed route
2389
01:48:56,010 --> 01:48:59,440
but yeah with that said though it is
2390
01:48:59,440 --> 01:49:00,969
still only the first announcement we
2391
01:49:00,969 --> 01:49:02,140
don't even know it's when the game's
2392
01:49:02,140 --> 01:49:04,390
gonna ship so anything I would say is
2393
01:49:04,390 --> 01:49:07,150
possible I'm pretty sure our UI the UI
2394
01:49:07,150 --> 01:49:09,550
designer is watching too or she'll watch
2395
01:49:09,550 --> 01:49:12,969
at some point too so yeah her team can
2396
01:49:12,969 --> 01:49:15,640
talk about it any potential for raid
2397
01:49:15,640 --> 01:49:17,170
like encounters I know that the
2398
01:49:17,170 --> 01:49:18,370
open-world bosses are a little bit like
2399
01:49:18,370 --> 01:49:19,900
that but any like mega dungeons where
2400
01:49:19,900 --> 01:49:21,040
you can bring your whole clan or
2401
01:49:21,040 --> 01:49:23,110
something like that so we want to make
2402
01:49:23,110 --> 01:49:25,480
sure that we stick true to that diablo
2403
01:49:25,480 --> 01:49:28,210
experience and I think the make one of
2404
01:49:28,210 --> 01:49:29,860
the main distinguishing factors of
2405
01:49:29,860 --> 01:49:31,989
Diablo is that you can play the game
2406
01:49:31,989 --> 01:49:34,120
solo no matter what stage you're at
2407
01:49:34,120 --> 01:49:36,250
right so we want to make sure that all
2408
01:49:36,250 --> 01:49:40,060
rewards and all power powerful items
2409
01:49:40,060 --> 01:49:42,310
that you're gaining are not gated by
2410
01:49:42,310 --> 01:49:44,380
multiplayer content but with that said
2411
01:49:44,380 --> 01:49:46,570
of course like because we have things
2412
01:49:46,570 --> 01:49:48,940
like the world boss I can kind of easily
2413
01:49:48,940 --> 01:49:50,860
imagine what if there was a more
2414
01:49:50,860 --> 01:49:52,360
difficult version of it where you do
2415
01:49:52,360 --> 01:49:54,100
have to go in and play with an arranged
2416
01:49:54,100 --> 01:49:56,170
party or something like that right so
2417
01:49:56,170 --> 01:49:57,880
it's it's also something that we're
2418
01:49:57,880 --> 01:50:01,060
discussing yeah and we love to hear your
2419
01:50:01,060 --> 01:50:09,550
thoughts as well right I probably missed
2420
01:50:09,550 --> 01:50:12,489
a lot of the stuff so if people check
2421
01:50:12,489 --> 01:50:14,500
out the system's panel tomorrow it's not
2422
01:50:14,500 --> 01:50:16,690
gonna be as in-depth so I recommend like
2423
01:50:16,690 --> 01:50:19,450
if your viewers are interested I check
2424
01:50:19,450 --> 01:50:20,920
out all the details of every single
2425
01:50:20,920 --> 01:50:23,200
skill on every single class every single
2426
01:50:23,200 --> 01:50:25,270
talent all this stuff right but the
2427
01:50:25,270 --> 01:50:26,920
systems panel will be a good kind of
2428
01:50:26,920 --> 01:50:29,050
high level overview of everything that
2429
01:50:29,050 --> 01:50:30,370
work concern me
2430
01:50:30,370 --> 01:50:33,130
currently doing so that would be good to
2431
01:50:33,130 --> 01:50:37,600
check out yeah David Kim lead system
2432
01:50:37,600 --> 01:50:40,090
designer on day four and that's about
2433
01:50:40,090 --> 01:50:41,380
our time so gonna thank about for
2434
01:50:41,380 --> 01:50:43,719
watching stay tuned for videos and I
2435
01:50:43,719 --> 01:50:45,370
probably put this up on YouTube as well
2436
01:50:45,370 --> 01:50:46,900
at some point but I'm gonna try to gonna
2437
01:50:46,900 --> 01:50:48,850
be up within the next hour or so on my
2438
01:50:48,850 --> 01:50:50,230
initial thoughts on d4
2439
01:50:50,230 --> 01:50:51,969
there's any more panels tomorrow we're
2440
01:50:51,969 --> 01:50:55,000
gonna cover those more for you to to
2441
01:50:55,000 --> 01:50:56,410
content and coverage come we might even
2442
01:50:56,410 --> 01:50:58,449
do a stream for a night just from those
2443
01:50:58,449 --> 01:51:00,010
I'll room if we get good enough Internet
2444
01:51:00,010 --> 01:51:01,989
to just talk about everything thanks so
2445
01:51:01,989 --> 01:51:03,699
much thank you so much for having me
2446
01:51:03,699 --> 01:51:05,500
yeah thanks for coming on yeah excellent
2447
01:51:05,500 --> 01:51:08,410
answers tons of useful wonderful info
2448
01:51:08,410 --> 01:51:09,940
yeah and if there's anything that people
2449
01:51:09,940 --> 01:51:11,739
don't like please let us know because we
2450
01:51:11,739 --> 01:51:13,480
do have a long ways to go right what's
2451
01:51:13,480 --> 01:51:14,920
the best way to get information to you
2452
01:51:14,920 --> 01:51:16,900
guys oh I think you have your contact
2453
01:51:16,900 --> 01:51:19,870
set please your drink yeah yeah I think
2454
01:51:19,870 --> 01:51:23,170
that we've the best yeah all right
2455
01:51:23,170 --> 01:51:26,230
yes cool thanks so much thanks and we'll
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01:51:26,230 --> 01:51:28,860
see you next time folks
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so wait I have literally a thousand
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questions I think we have very limited
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time
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just under 30 minutes oh my god okay so
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first of all can you introduce yourself
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Joe Shelley lead game designer oh my god
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okay this week so the question is
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paragon levels are there gonna be
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paragon levels we're looking at the same
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kind of philosophy that applied to
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Diablo 3 in terms of when you log in
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having and you just put maybe you play
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for 30 minutes when you play for an hour
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you 15 minutes and having that mean
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something like when you log out making
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some kind of progress that philosophy
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that underpins Paragon levels in Diablo
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3 continues to be important to us but in
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terms of the exact method by which that
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statement will be true we still have
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work to do we're not going to do exactly
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the same thing we did in Diablo 3 but
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we're going to do something that
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fulfills that same goal so at your the
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lead game designer on d4 there are two
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games on this - oh okay so say you have
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only get a lot of control of what
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happens my responsibility is to handle
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combat
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counters dungeons and you said you liked
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the way that power levels worked and DLR
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in terms of like people playing but you
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don't think there's another be exactly
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the same or anything right so on that
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question in-game like what is it and why
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would you keep playing it like in terms
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of what you know like you just obviously
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in d3 is grinding yeah just greatest
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forever and ever and ever
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yeah we have a lot of them game to build
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we want that we want when you reach
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endgame for you to participate in a
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variety of different activities so the
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world bosses Java is one activity by
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battalion but yeah available in the demo
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it's the first time you've been able to
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play bring many people together to take
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applause and it's it's so big that we
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have to pull the camera out on the wall
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Mike okay so well so world bosses well
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let me let me say that so we want to
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have a variety of activities the world
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boss is one activity key dungeons are
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going to be an activity keep dungeons
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are inspired by a greater rift so that
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you saying like onions is like so this
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is you st. Gia's we can say key tenet
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they're inspired by great herbs but it's
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a different systems and there'll be
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additional activities beyond that of
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heaven these key dungeons yes are they
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going to be infinitely scaling they will
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scale I don't know if they'll infinitely
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scale but they'll scale to an extent
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that there's no sekonic art about
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reaching the maximum yeah Oh what okay
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so the way that this works is we have in
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the world there are hundreds of dungeons
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and you can experience them at different
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levels leveling up and so
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at max level you can get a key and that
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key will be for a specific dungeon so
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let's say Garen hold from the demo okay
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the key when used transform scare and
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hold for you and your party you choose
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to go into the party into a max level
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dungeon and it has a rank on it all
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somewhat similar to greater rifts and
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that rank can increase it increases the
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difficulty of the dungeon okay so what
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maximum what's a Mixel the max level we
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don't know for sure yeah it's 40 right
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what are you ready to change we have a
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long way to go
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okay on top of that the key has a fixes
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Oh mythic plus it's really similar
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mythic blessings a lot of ways fixes add
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mechanics to the dungeon can add
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mechanics with the boss fights so it
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really changes how the dungeon plays oh
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and intends the mechanics is it gonna be
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like something that will really change
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it or screaming increased live by like
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Timson no I significant if you like Gang
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Gang the systems and features panel
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tomorrow the lead dungeon designers oven
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is going to talk a little bit more about
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that one of the affixes to give you an
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example is
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Lightning pulse it's like a obelisk of
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rock and lightning magic and it follows
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you through the dungeon you can't you
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can't kill it you can't stop it and it
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releases here at a claiming pulse god no
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moving you have to to play well I kill
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you is it like an is it like at time as
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it like it is it like it so it's not a
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wall of death it's an object offices you
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through the dungeon okay and it can
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releases pulses that do of wide area
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such as the Mavericks is how they as
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they going to be positive and fixes
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their baby yeah we're really trying to
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experiment with all kinds of different
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ways to change the way that the guns in
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place and make it be playable
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maybe speaking of positive and negative
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air fixes on wakeup some optimization is
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it gonna be like kiss with curse items
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attempts of like you know like a
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legendary which has some bad thing
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attached to it but then it gives you
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some really good thing okay I don't know
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I really like this out kiss purse items
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are really hard to design successful
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they tend to there tends to be a right
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answer or there tends to be a case where
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you can get really badly screwed over
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yeah by them but maybe right now maybe
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right now the the legendaries that we're
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that we have that we're ready to talk
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about are things that modify existing
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skills so for example your sorceress has
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teleport yeah and then you can get a
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legendary that say removes the cooldown
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on teleport you get another legendary
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that say allows it to do a nova area
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when you teleports you can combine those
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to change the way teleport works I say
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but they're also legendaries that our
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cocoa glow by variety of classes do
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other things like so far I haven't seen
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anything like this but I'm kind of
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worried in Diablo 3 this a lot of items
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for example that have multiplies on them
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which like if you're gonna use one skill
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then you force into basically using like
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every single multiplier item for that
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said skill is it gonna be multipliers on
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the items certainly legendary items make
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the item more powerful but what you're
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probably asking about is in d3 you'd see
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an item that would say you know 3,000
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percent in 10,000 yeah so we're not
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going in that direction
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the legendary items the idea of the
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legendary items is that you can further
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modify your skills beyond that which is
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allowed through the skill system through
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the talent system to really customize
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your play style ok building hundreds of
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those hundreds so this little engine
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areas in Diablo 3 but you basically have
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that you just equip a six here and then
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you have like two or three slots to to
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use it's like okay what's rank someone
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use or like you know I have to use this
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home because that's a multiplier on it
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this very limited choice are you doing
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that same thing where it's like you know
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d3 week it's like the illusion of choice
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what's the point just go with sits all
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the way like cuz I heard there are since
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which is kind of excuse me because I
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hate I hate sits yeah we're not doing
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that so one of the things that so there
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are a couple places where sets are
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really cool one is the set look gives
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the ability to to really live out some
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kind of fantasy and there yeah really
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really cool semblance right the other
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thing is that when you initially reach
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max level and you want to sort of get
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into something and like get a sense of
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like alright what do I want to do let me
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get some build together that can be
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effective Sun News is also fit for new
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players
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yeah and so in Diablo for legendary czar
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as for more power so you say you look
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graduate up whether it be a point where
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a sip be the most meta thing where like
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you would have like since like so you're
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saying that you would start off with it
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and then you switch them out with
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legendaries so you basically students
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and just dipping Sun yeah and then
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they'll be face yeah what I'll face out
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but like almost face down there there
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might be some situations we're using a
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set for something that no the ideas Alka
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so you were saying they look
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aesthetically really cool can you if you
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really like the sin can't be transformed
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to that sin like on some of your items
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is it gonna be like transmog or anything
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like that we are looking at bringing
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transmog so you're considering it okay
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alright okay we have a million questions
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it's a sip this isn't really fun you
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could just like just say no okay if it's
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like there's like not happening or maybe
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your leg you know it's okay if so the
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self fountain oh oh so like a pile of
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Excel I mean people Leviathan is a bunch
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of other people don't deal this very
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well you just don't play with anyone
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else you can choose to play that way if
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you want we're not going to officially
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support it and my goods I feel like
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there's something got like no sort of
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game mode where you can sling that okay
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I don't think okay that's pretty big so
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letters and things in competitive
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systems is there going to be a like any
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any sort of like you sit with Keystone's
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like for example is it gonna be like a
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lead awarding game then we get anxious
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to see you as the highest like you know
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Keystone Claire or yeah we like
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leaderboards when they're meaningful to
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and the case where they tend to be most
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meaningful is when there's a fairly
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small group of people that are competing
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for that thing yeah we we find if you
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look at at Diablo 3 leaderboards yeah
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there are you know 100 or maybe 500
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people who care about yes 1s may and
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you're seen with me with the selfie and
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brought later and they're people who are
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40,000 yeah and the leaderboard isn't
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super useful to them yeah so the way
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that we've to the we're still figuring
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it out but the way that we want to
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approach leaderboards is to focus on
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specific aspects that where they can be
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really meaningful and less on like
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who's the peanut ever-ever person out of
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you know yeah yeah so so you saying most
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mingle does that mean what what does
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that mean suggest that they'll be forced
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sort of specific activities or a child
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it won't be a like I said we have a lot
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of a long way to go okay but if you look
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at the some of the leaderboards in
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Diablo 3 we have the seasonal conquests
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where you're doing some work more
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specific so more in that direction but
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it's it's pretty early to say really
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okay trading so you said it was gonna be
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trading in the announcement and
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everything yeah so as it like you have
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sold that it's just people in your group
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when an item drops like you know can you
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just trade thing can I clip an item and
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then trade is some other guy after I'm
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finish using it is it gonna be auction
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house there will not be an actual old
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the way that should so we haven't
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settled on a specific trading system yet
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okay we have a philosophy for how
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trading
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is that when you get the predominant
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source of getting items in the obligor
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should be propelling consoles that share
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the same philosophy that that was the
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reasoning
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the auction house Agathe
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however we want to integrate trading
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more closely into the other so we're
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exploring several different impossible
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systems
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and the one that we are
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currently leaving tour and we would like
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your feedback on how you guys feel about
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trading is one where there would be
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three three types of items okay
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a type of items that are tradable all
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the time okay
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with no restrictions so no but what kind
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of items at that base consumables
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crafting bats certain items a certain
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armorer perhaps there'd also be items
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that can be traded once and then become
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bound oh that's spicy and then some set
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of items that can never be true thereby
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bound which there's a relation dairy
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thing off possibly intimate likely the
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most powerful items but would be would
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be bound on pickup but the line of where
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that is in terms of just having those
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three categories we have a lot of
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flexibility in like well how many items
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does that mean that are buying a pickup
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right there's a two items is it 100 yeah
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500 items like where is that line so we
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have a lot of balancing within that that
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system but that may not be the system we
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go with that's really interesting
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to be honest of the year at the yeah
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that's okay okay I'm not going to waste
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time we've got a very limited time
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crafting so I play a little path of
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Exile and they have very like they have
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like five to bring in games for crafting
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and you go like all these different
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things you can do
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it's the elbe three for example it's
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just like you need X and then you craf Y
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and it's an item that's just kind of
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beginner item and it's not got any depth
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to it are you looking into doing it
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instead of crafting in-game like meta
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crafting anything like crazy yeah
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so we're definitely going to bring
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crafting forward into Diablo for and
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expand on it
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there will be opportunities to craft to
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create items through crafting a lot of
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the endgame is going to be about item
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modification oh and the crafting will
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also incorporate the world so a big part
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of having a huge seamless connected
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world is going out and getting things
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whether that's slaying monsters or
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finding some something rare in some
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corner of the world okay so does that
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mean there won't be some sort of system
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where you can like so you're saying can
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modify items and you can go and collect
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things to craft a certain item but will
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they'll be like any sort of you know
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thing where you can just sit there in
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town crafting for like five hours like
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some random item using like materials
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for example oh yeah if you collected a
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lot of materials you could craft all
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those materials into something and then
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sell it and then get more materials and
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just do like you know oh my
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I don't sprite you're asking if like
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it's crafting it getting player yeah you
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could be like raffle saying people do
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that like glue to just play crafting and
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that's it that's what they do i I think
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Diablos more about slaying monster fair
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enough
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okay so I can respect that it's there
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there's a there's certainly an element
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of crafting but I don't think you would
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be like I am a crafter and that's fire
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so this is kinda like for my I've seen
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it's almost more line a memo right well
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online as a bank they're gonna be
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seasons is there gonna be like leaks or
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there will be seasons
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and we're gonna have a lot more details
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to share about how those work at all and
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what the timing of the Marva yes okay
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question and I looked at Moe yo one
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thing I can't say about seasons is that
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we're
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the we're going to modify what the most
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powerful items are from season to season
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so that the metagame shifts oh I like
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that
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and now you're gonna add new legendaries
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in like so intensive content patching
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how how and are you guys gonna do it
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isn't it like every three months you're
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gonna patch the game with new stuff is
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it gonna be like Legendary's getting
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pumped into the system to really mess up
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the meta or is it gonna be more about
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balancing wood yeah so the the season
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the the system that I talked about where
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we're where we just sort of where we add
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mechanics to just the meta game from
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season to season
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we'll handle part of that but we'll also
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we're also going to be releasing content
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especially through expansions expansions
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oh wow that's huge
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okay a question a versus been asking
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spamming me to ask and I'm kind of
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interested in this challenge rewrite
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here yes
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is this like a concept or is just like
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what it's going is this fleshed out like
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what's because from what I can see this
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is you have two lines and then you just
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make you have to pick between certain
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things like it's just is this it this is
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what how the talent trees are going to
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look on like well he's similar to in on
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release so this is an the talent and
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skill trees are both in their areas
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where we
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want feedback from everybody in fact the
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reason that if you go to the skill tree
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for example you'll see that you can
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actually mouse over all the skills and
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you can also over all the talents here
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and the reason that even though it's a
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demo and you're you know the skills are
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yeah for the demo we want to give
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players to look at what we're planning
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for these three classes and get be
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better and so okay these are the
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countries as they currently as that
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careless and EU planning because because
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from me I mean I can't like to be even I
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mean I get that the you know it's one of
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those things where it's like an illusion
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like eventually will be something edible
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which everyone goes or whatever but like
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I really like having choices to make
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like stupid builds you know where stuff
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like is there gonna be any sort of like
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you know tributes or other things like
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passive trees they give you like okay
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it's kind like this but just white begin
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yeah so it's possible that will add more
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things like that but a lot of that kind
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of customization comes to vegetarians oh
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wow okay
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so for example
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pledget or Adams son of Jordan is in the
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demo and we have other legendary items
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that increase ranks of talents or skills
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beyond the
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in terms of the skills
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can you see it's got a number and a
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level do you get to like pick
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specialized like runes for the hit
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skills or as a modification of the skill
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done by items it's done by items so the
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skills when you level up you acquire
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skill points and you can use your skill
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points to unlock or increase the rank of
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skills and that can fix the skill more
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powerful and can add properties to it
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you cannot respect skills but you can
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acquire additional skill tomes through
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doing various activities in the game
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uh-huh more skill points so that you can
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you can build out that that skill tree
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and make the skills more and more
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powerful let's see a big one
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monetization is there any just sort of
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decision made in terms of how so is it
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gonna be like you just buy the game and
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then that's it or you can isn't gonna be
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microtransactions within the game or are
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you doing like subscription how are you
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planning to monetize it like keep
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getting funding I guess still I keep
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making content so Diablo 4 will be
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available as a base game and as I said
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we're going to have expansions
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you also will be able to buy our
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cosmetics in the game so MTX
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oh wow that's gonna be some sort of shop
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or kin
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it's very early oh okay but yes oh okay
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that's really interesting that I mean to
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be honest I really do like the the whole
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empty eggs the monetization scheme
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because I don't I feel like if they make
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if it's really successful it's making
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lots of money then you know that they're
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gonna keep making stuff for the game
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there's nothing to die well it's also an
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opportunity to have more options
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available than you would otherwise this
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is kind of a specific question but a lot
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of people are asking it hideouts so I
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don't even want to hide out as a PUA for
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example like it's like I could play a
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housing sort of thing way you can like
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go there and then you can do various
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things and invite your mates over to do
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whatever and craft stuff any plan screen
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to play housing hideouts that's an
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interesting idea we don't have anything
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to announce on them alright the pages
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pages equator to the proto working sorry
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I'm gonna pick my favorite questions
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yeah I got add-ons like DPS meters for
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example like you know look like UI
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add-on say way you can like basically
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modify your UI well like you know for
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example have like a devious meter has
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two chicks like your teeth logs so you
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know how you died for example it's
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important to us that you know how you
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died of course I think what often
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happens in games with DPS meters is you
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you end up feeling bad about how you did
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yeah I know you did all you feel good
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because you're the top sometimes yes we
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don't have anything to announce on that
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specifically I think our our goal would
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be to put everything that you need to
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play the game into the basement okay and
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what about customization over here
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interface like another question very
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good one
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so the key minds in the game that I had
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I think it's going to sleep whatever
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count how many skill skill bars is that
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the skill bars locked in can we like
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modify the key binds can we like change
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the left-click the forced move for
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example there's one really big thing
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which is not in d3 and it's really yes
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you can modify your old vines and so
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Diablo 3 had elective mode which was
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available through a checkbox in you I
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feel like new new players but in Diablo
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for we're building it from the ground up
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with the idea that yes by your skills to
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it's part of creating that the character
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and the build that you want absolutely
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brilliant absolutely brilliant cheat
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prevention so Diablo 3 there's a lot of
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people using like to party stuff but
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like automatic leaves and skills so
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there's you know to bahut it looks like
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you know some sort of map pack thing
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like and they fatally get away with it
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is it gonna be like more emphasis on
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cheaper mission at d4 yeah we take that
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very seriously and it's a big
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an item of very much importance to us to
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make sure that the game is pure and that
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everyone who's playing the game has a
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fair experience okay I say we're almost
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out of time
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I'm gonna ask one like stupid last
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question yo ETI twins the kid wins
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coming out estimate I mean I know you
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guys say it like ps4 right like which
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the still wants PS 5 coming out was uh
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so we we announced that it's coming out
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for PC and PlayStation 4 and Xbox one we
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don't have any other announcements in
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terms of yeah I thought of it again and
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if you listen to the lease at the
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opening ceremony he says it's not coming
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soon not even Blizzard soon that's about
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as much small case but hey this manga is
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I will I will say that if you look at
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the if you look at the world of
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sanctuary you can actually go into the
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game and bring up the map is huge you
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can see absolutely mess and look at how
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how much of the demo how small the demo
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area is compared to the world that we're
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building and it takes a long time to
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build oh yeah I can imagine
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I mean death it's absolutely I would I
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zoomed out I kind of like freaked out
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that's what it is thank you two minutes
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yeah okay thank you so much for your
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time and honestly I was expecting you to
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answer with like a lot of these
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questions just outright just huh no yeah
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it's like straight to the point which is
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absolutely amazing I love that you know
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the blizzard did being a little more up
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front I guess in like blah straight to
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the point instead of being super
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you know well thank you
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welcome to Diablo 4 systems and features
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welcome everybody to Diablo 4 systems
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and features panel I hope everybody's
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here to hear about our systems and
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features that is the only deck we have
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so that's what you get all right my name
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is Tim is main I am a senior producer on
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the Diablo 4 team I have a moderate
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amount of knowledge about all the things
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we work on not to worry I have a
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collection here of experts that have
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deep knowledge of all the things that we
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work on so they will be talking more
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than I will David Kim here is our lead
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systems designer next person down we
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have Angela del Priore she's our lead UI
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designer next to her is Zalman our to
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nyan he is our lead dungeon designer all
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the way the end there is joe shelley
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lead game designer now we have a ton of
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stuff to get into so i'm gonna jump
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right into it and hand this over to devi
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kim cool thanks
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first I want to say thank you for coming
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to our panel thank you for tuning in and
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thank you for all the questions that
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you've submitted so far let's get right
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into classes so as you can see up on the
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screen these are the three classes we
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just announced the sorceress the
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Barbarian and the druid so let's talk a
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little bit about each of these classes
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the sorceress is the master of magic she
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is your fragile castro class that deals
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high magical damage from a distance so
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as you can see there is a good mix of
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returning skills as well as brand new
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skills one of my favorites is this
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conduit skill whenever you use it you're
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invulnerable you'll deal damage and you
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can teleport as much as you want during
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the duration I also want to talk about
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the coat the chill mechanic in Diablo 4
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whenever the sorceress uses cold magic
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to attack enemies she chills she applies
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chill to the targets hit making their
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movement speed slower and slower and if
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you apply enough chill the enemies get
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frozen completely so let's check it out
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in this video it should be coming up
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soon she'll be using hoar-frost
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both
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and lizard skills to chill and then
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freeze the enemy as you can see the
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Barbarian is one of the main classes
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that everyone thinks of when they think
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Diablo and of course he's back if you
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like constantly jumping around and
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charging around the battlefield while
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dealing heavy physical melee attacks of
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course this may be the class of your
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choice again this is the Barbarian that
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you know and love but also he has some
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brand new things about him as well one
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of these things is the Arsenal system
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this system allows the Barbarian to
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equip for weapons to two-handed weapons
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and to one-handed weapons allowing him
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to use more item a fixes than any other
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class into the game and also he can
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equip more legendaries than any other
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class in Diablo for the truth is a
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shape-shifting class the jury can
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rapidly shape-shift into his human
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werewolf and wear bare forms at a
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moment's need so let's check out how
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that works so as you can see whenever
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you use a werewolf still you instantly
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transform into that form and whenever
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you use a wear bear form you instantly
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transform into that form when you use
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your earth or storm spells you instantly
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transform impact into the druid form so
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one of the reasons why I think this is
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so cool is because you can tie specific
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mechanics to the moment you transform so
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for example one of the talents it says
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something like whenever you shape-shift
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into a way or better form you gain
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damage reduction for a few seconds so
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not only can you pick the specific
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bonuses that you want you also control
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the exact timing when you activate these
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bonuses so you have that full control
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and that's what I think is so cool about
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the rapid shape-shifting
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okay so let's talk about the skill point
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system as well as the talent tree system
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these are two different systems that
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every class in Diablo 4 will be
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utilizing the goals for these are to
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have an increased sense of power
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progression during level up as well as
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great player choice and customization
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the skill point system is fairly
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straightforward as you level up you'll
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be gaining one or more skill points for
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you to spend and you can use it in two
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ways first is unlocking brand-new skills
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that you didn't have access to before
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and second is ranking up existing skills
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to make them more powerful and unlock
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new choices within that same skill Oh
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another way you can get skill points in
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the game is to find these skill point
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tome items and then you can use those
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items to have access to more skill
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points for the talent tree this is an
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example of the sorcerer assist talent
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tree each tree is unique to that class
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so this is just one example of one of
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the classes so you work your way from
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top to bottom making yourself more
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powerful as you go down the tree and not
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only that you will be able to make very
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specific playstyle choices to your
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liking so you'll have that full
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customization option and of course at
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the bottom of the tree are the strongest
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talents in the game this is one of six
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that the Sorcerer's can choose from and
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it's a fairly simple one but we have a
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lot of choices ranging from simple to
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more complicated play styles so this one
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increases the lightning damage against
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enemies within melee range so naturally
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this would combo very you all with a
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spell like chargebolt and you can
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because it is a returning skill in
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Diablo 4 so let's take a look at the
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flow of how you go about spending points
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and unlocking new tiers so as you can
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see this is how the talent tree system
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works and this time around I'm going
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down the coal tree so let's take a look
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at one of the options at the top or at
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the bottom so endless winter so instead
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of chills leading to freeze you gained a
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massive damage bonus instead so you can
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kind of imagine if I'm not going for
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that freeze play
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style I can choose something like this
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to get a different benefit instead so
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one last thing I want to mention about
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hot about classes is there are even more
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details about skills as well as talents
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in the demo so if you're here at
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Blizzcon please be sure to check that
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out if you're interested in that kind of
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thing if you're not here then please
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check out the streamers streaming live
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from Blizzcon to learn more about
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classes thank you and I'll hand it over
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to Angela for talking about all the cool
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stuff coming to the open world of Diablo
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ok thanks David
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okay so you've checked out the classes
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maybe you looked at their skills and
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your talents and you're about to enter
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the world of sanctuary again one of the
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biggest differences in Diablo 4 is this
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idea of a shared in contiguous world
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what does that mean in a Diablo game so
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to start with the share Bowl concept
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doesn't affect dungeons dungeons
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continue to be private from start to
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supporting you and optionally up to
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three other players which is our maximum
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party size and what about the campaign
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then because the campaign storyline is
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of course going to send you all around
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the continent into these private
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dungeons but also two parts of the
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overworld so you might think that means
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your campaign moments in the overworld
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are now going to be shared with a bunch
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of random people but campaign areas will
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also start as private meaning accessible
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only to you and your party until you've
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completed the campaign objective for
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that location it's only after that point
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that it becomes shared like the rest of
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the open world so when we talk about
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shared open worlds we mean you'll see
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players outside your party and you'll
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see different types of open world
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activities and activities like the
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public events that we showcase in the
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demo ranging anywhere from the more
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common ground' are attacking the
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coastline all the way up to a huge
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pestilence demon is clawing its way up a
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farm the overworld would have things
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like collectables lore books caches
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materials for crafting as well as
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dedicated spaces carved out for very
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specific activities like open world PvP
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or one of the many other open
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systems that we're still iterating on
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and we'll talk about more at a future
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date but I'm sure many of you are
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curious about the other players part
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right how many people are you going to
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be sharing this open world with and the
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number can actually be variable by
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location meaning we might make a place
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less or more populated depending on
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what's going on there so our guiding
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principle on this topic is the feeling
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we're trying to achieve and we did try
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to get this in the demo if you had a
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chance to play it but it's that
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sanctuary should feel like a bleak and
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dangerous place and while you're out in
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the overworld on occasion you might run
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into one or two other players but most
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of the time you're going to be alone and
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the exceptions to this would be
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something like the world boss event
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right that is a huge undertaking we want
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to allow more players into that space so
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they can tackle that challenge together
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and then there's towns for the opposite
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reason chance are safe places they make
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natural gathering spots for grouping up
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your party trading or just chatting and
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with all these ways to encounter other
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players we want to make sure it's easy
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to play with them too so I'm going to
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use one of our lead game designers Jesse
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as a way to illustrate what a social
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players experience might look like jesse
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was Ferriss campaign and throughout it
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he might jump into someone else's to
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help him out or he might invite someone
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to his to show them something cool or
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just for company and there should be no
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friction there right we take the party
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leaders state in the campaign area share
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it with the rest of the party and
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everyone will be able to contribute
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regardless of where they are in their
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own campaigns we didn't want people to
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feel like they were stuck in their own
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story modes just because they weren't a
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slightly different step from someone
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that they actually wanted to play with
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we'll have clans so just you'll probably
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form a clan make a cool clan banner and
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initiate a lot of different clan
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activities because that's the kind of
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thing that he does in real life you
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probably use our in-game voice chat to
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talk to his clan mates while he's out
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doing side quests or maybe he switches
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it to party voice chat because he
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grouped up with someone that he was
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doing a public event with and now
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they're going to go PEP together he
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might even be doing all this on a
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console on the couch
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friend because as you've probably heard
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alongside PC we're developing for
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console and we'll be supporting
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two-player couch co-op on consoles a lot
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of couch caught brick fans right okay
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but what if you're not the kind of
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person who likes grouping up with people
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to get your stuff done like me you could
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be a really good friend of mine
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you'd be my spouse I probably don't want
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to party up with you and it's nothing
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personal I just like to do things up on
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my own pace so you imagine it's a pretty
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big barrier for me when a multiplayer
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game gates content or progression behind
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a grouping requirement which makes me
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really happy to say that yeah before
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does not go in that direction and all
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the best items content progression will
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be available to all players regardless
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of whether they're playing solo or with
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a group and so
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so for me the campaign is really obvious
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right I love the fact that our campaign
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areas are going to be private I'm going
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to play through the entire thing solo
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and I might join a clan probably not
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participate in the clan activities I'd
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be more likely to engage with a clan
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bank system because I love crafting but
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crafting gets boring when you run out of
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reasons to make items so being able to
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donate items to my clan mates really
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appeals to me I would opt to use text
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chat voice chat or sorry I'd opt to use
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text chat or emotes over voice chat and
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I'd still go into the overworld for
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things like gathering more crafting
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materials probably avoid the PvP areas
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and target specific events with rewards
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that I need but once I'm all geared up
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I'm just gonna go straight into pushing
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those endgame dungeons because that's
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where I get my private quiet space back
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and so while Diablo 4 does open up
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sanctuary to a lot of new shared systems
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and hopefully more meaningful connected
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experiences the level to which you
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engage in those connected experiences is
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still up to you you could choose to play
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through the entire game solo from
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campaign all the way to endgame and that
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would be just as valuable and successful
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of a way to approach the game as someone
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who might choose to group up for the
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large majority of it so I've mentioned
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dungeons a few times now but we've
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barely scratched the surface on those so
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I'm gonna hand this over dissolve in our
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lead dungeon designer to go into those
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details next cool Thank You Angela hey
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Blizzcon alright let's talk about the
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dungeons of Diablo 4 dungeons are a
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foundational part of that Diablo series
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right and they're a critical part of
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that legacy
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randomly generated dungeons are a
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critical part of that so sanctuary is a
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large and diverse place and we are
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filling it with lots of dungeons for you
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to explore slay and loot your way
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through so you know we want dungeons to
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be dark dangerous unpredictable places
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in the world even the holiest of places
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can fall to corruption like this
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zacchara monastery behind me now since
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they are randomly generated that means
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until you venture down that dark
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corridor you're not really sure what
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you're gonna find could be treasure
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could be death and this is that
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in between risk and reward that really
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defines that dungeon-crawling experience
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in Diablo 4 where anything can happen
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and also dungeons are not always random
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building are just like randomly
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generated buildings they're randomized
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exterior environments as well these
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exterior dungeons are randomly generated
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just like the interiors are so we can
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have like you know whispering woods here
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behind me as an example we want dungeons
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to feel like real explorable places in
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the world
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so we also build our dungeon system from
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the ground up with this idea that we
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call seamless exploration so what
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seamless exploration means is no more
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loading screens to go down to the second
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floor third floor 10th floor whatever
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any other area it all happens seamlessly
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in the game and with seamless
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exploration we can even blend these
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randomly generated tile sets together
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you can go from a randomly generated
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cave and walk straight into a randomly
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generated forest and this means dungeons
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can become sprawling interconnected
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places to explore and discover your
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reactions in one part of the dungeon can
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actually affect what happens in the
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other part so you know as you're
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crawling your way through these profane
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halls or stepping cautiously through a
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misty wood you know what are you doing
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what are you gonna do in these dungeons
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what can I find so well we have two
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major pieces of content systems to like
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talk about today one is random events
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and the other is dungeon objectives
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so first up random events are back and
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random events are a core part of that
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classic dungeon crawling feeling in
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Diablo 4 and one major change compared
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to the Past game is they are no longer
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restricted to a specific place in the
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world you know this is one of our new
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events the altar of Vichy Bosch and he
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Biswas founds out there I'm not sure
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yeah so this event can also show up in
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the Whispering Woods you know it's in
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Garen hold in the demo you can totally
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find it you got a good chance of finding
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it and this allows dungeons to actually
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have a much broader range of possible
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events every time you play you can
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actually find a different kind of event
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in it and those events can actually
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follow Mouse's around just you know just
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like elites can and makes it way more
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broad range of things to do so we have
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random dungeons and we have random
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events but for us it's also really
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important that dungeons have this sense
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of identity they have
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to help set them all apart from each
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other so the other thing there you go
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the other thing we're adding is the
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dungeon objective so the dungeon and its
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objective are designed together as two
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parts of a cohesive whole
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objectives are completed by doing
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specific things in the dungeon like
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killing a sea witch and progressing the
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objective also increases the danger and
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the rewards found inside that dungeon so
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as an example this is Dom hey in tunnels
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playable in the demo today the objective
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here is to slay lan meas we've seen that
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before but in Dom Han as you make
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progress in that effort the enemy
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responds they send powerful elites to
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hunt you down and kill you no matter
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where you are no matter what you're
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doing in that dungeon yes even during a
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random event yes even during a boss
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fight and since every dungeon has its
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own custom objective we can have varied
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gameplay across dungeons as a whole and
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memorable dungeons with a strong
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underlying identity now we're still
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exploring multiple other dungeon systems
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and features but we do have one more
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thing to talk about today you know let's
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talk about endgame dungeons in Diablo 4
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so you know what do we look for in a
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Diablo end game you know what would we
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be excited to play and we started
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thinking about this like okay varied
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content that's critical I don't want to
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just be doing one thing over and over
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again at endgame and you know making
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powerful unique builds as a core part of
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the habló and we need content that helps
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encourage that level of strategic depth
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and honestly you know player agencies
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super important
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random dungeons are awesome I love them
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but I don't want to just feel like I'm
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just reacting to what the game is giving
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me I don't want to feel like I'm in
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rails so how are we doing this we're
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adding a new type of item called a
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dungeon key how do they work well when a
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key drops in the world it drops for a
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very specific dungeon in the world using
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this key will upgrade that dungeon into
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an endgame dungeon the key also has a
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specific difficulty rank the higher the
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difficulty the higher of the quality of
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the drops that you get within that
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dungeon and finally dungeon Keys can
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roll specific dungeon affixes now this
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is an entirely new feature
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these are modifiers that increase the
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and complexity of the dungeons fell
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throughout the game they apply the affix
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to either the players the enemies the
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environment or any or all three of these
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so with a system like this you can
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imagine an affix that says something
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like all enemies are you know invisible
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unless they're in combat or something
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like that every time you walk in a room
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you're not sure where you're gonna find
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and you can also have another affix that
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says there are double bosses in this
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dungeon and how having both of those
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affixes on the same key come a very
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different outcome when you're playing
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any of the dungeons in a game so you
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know let's look at an example let's you
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know this is Garen hold has lightning
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pulse let's see what that looks like in
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the game so lightning pulse as this cool
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pillar of lightning energy and stone
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that hunts down the closest player and
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deals damage to them it can't kill it
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you can't stun it you cannot stop it
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until that dungeon objective is complete
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but this is still Garen hold the same
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dungeon we have playable a demo today it
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still has the same objective you still
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have the same enemies and you still have
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access the same randomized content
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within it yeah and this is how we get
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all three of our goals we could varied
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content or a very varied gameplay any
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regular dungeon can become an endgame
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dungeon by finding a dungeon key for it
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and the plan is to have hundreds of
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dungeons in the game we get strategic
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depth the key provides a lot of
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information for you to plan a specific
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build around you can customize your
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loadout your skills your talent your
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items to tackle that specific dungeon
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and we also get player agency you can
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decide whether you want to use a key and
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upgrade a dungeon or if you want to
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salvage it for crafting the plan is to
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drop lots of key so you guys actually
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have exact control over which game which
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dungeons are your endgame dungeons so we
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learned a lot about dungeons let's learn
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more about the monsters that you kill
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inside them and for that I'm actually
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gonna hand it over to Joe Shelly lead
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monster wrangler really
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thank you darling so this is my very
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close friend the fallen lunatic I know
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he's my close friend because he always
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wants to be really close to me but the
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following lunatic is a really
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interesting case because he's part of
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the fallen family this idea of families
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is really important to Diablo 4 in the
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case of the fallen the lunatic runs
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forward and tries to explode the fallen
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grunts try to surround the player while
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their shaman friends hang out in the
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back throwing fireballs and resurrecting
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the slain grunts let's take a look at
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another example of families in Diablo
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the skeleton family the great thing
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about the skeleton family is that like
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the fallen the members of the family can
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work together to do something greater
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than they could do by themselves so of
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course you've got skeletons with swords
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shields the shield skeletons can stun
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stun you while two-handed axe skeletons
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bring down their axe on your head you've
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got crossbow skeletons who are firing
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from the middle distance and in Diablo 4
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you've got my personal favorite the
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skeletal ballista this is an
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amalgamation of skeletons that have come
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together to barely hold up this giant
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bow they can fire from multiple screens
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away and we talked about how important
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legacy is to Diablo 4 this is a great
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example the inspiration for the skeletal
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ballista came from Diablo 2 where you
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could walk out of a doorway and be
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surrounded by skeletons and then be
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getting shot from off screen by range
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skeletons it creates this choice moment
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where do I stay engaged with the
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skeletons I'm fighting and try to dodge
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these arrows or do I go deeper into
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danger and lay the smackdown on those
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skeletal ballistas in Diablo for that
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gameplay is back
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thank you but of course the skeletal
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blissed is not the most dangerous thing
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you'll face in Diablo 4 there are also
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elite monsters and if you play Diablo 3
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there are some monster powers or affixes
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that are making a return like mortar or
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frozen but in Diablo 4 there are new
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category of affixes that we call
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enhancing affixes
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these affixes take the monsters base
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powers and improve on them in the case
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of a skeletal ballista he might have the
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multi shot affix so he's firing three
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ballista shots instead of the usual one
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and the cool thing about enhancing
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affixes
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is that when we apply that same multi
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shot affix to something like a fallen
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shaman he can resurrect multiple grunts
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or brutes instead of the usual one
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totally changing how the gameplay plays
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out now of course there are lots of
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bosses in Diablo 4 and if we go back to
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that previous slide with the skeletons
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you might see the tomb Lord standing
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tall and proud in the middle the tomb
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Lord is a master of necromantic magic
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and bone and he can resurrect his
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skeletal minions he can create walls of
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bone and shatter them and he can spin
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his magic into a storm of bone that can
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blind you but in Diablo 4 you have
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additional combat options to fight back
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one of these is the new evade ability
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every class can do a short distance -
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that gets you immediately out of danger
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and allows you to strike back very
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quickly and get back in the action it's
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perfect for getting out of something
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like this bone storm also many class
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skills in Diablo 4 grant the unstoppable
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status
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this status allows you to break out of
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any control and pairing effects so if
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you're stunned blinded slowed you can
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break out of it and grant immunity for
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the duration of the effect in the case
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of our barbarian friends who just
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doesn't want to deal with this bone
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storm anymore he can rallying cry
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becoming unstoppable and granting his
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allies unsolvable as well and
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immediately dish out more paint onto the
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bone tomb Lord now you've had a chance
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to play the demo you may have seen this
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one this demon a shava this is our first
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world boss in the Diablo series and it
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is so big that we had to pull the camera
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out just to frame the action and show
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everyone engaged with it a Chaba
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is a huge undertaking and looking at
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some of the stats already that we've
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come in I see that a lot of people have
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fallen to shava but the really cool
643
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thing about the boss isn't the elbow for
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and a shove is a great example of this
645
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is our new stagger system this means
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that you can bring your control effects
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into fights against bosses like your
648
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stuns your freezes chills and when you
649
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apply them to bosses it builds up the
650
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stagger bar when it's filled the boss
651
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becomes staggered and something really
652
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cool happens I came up with that term
653
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myself but basically what it means is
654
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for each boss that we design we build
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some unique behavior so when you stagger
656
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a shava you can break off its arm blades
657
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and this changes the whole fight because
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that's giant sweeping attacks that it
659
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performs are greatly reduced in their
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range in areas of the battlefield that
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we're dangerous become safer in fact if
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you stagger a shava multiple times you
663
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can break off both arm blades and this
664
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changes the remainder of the fight now
665
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of course to take on something like a
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00:27:05,660 --> 00:27:07,400
shava you're gonna need some legendary
667
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gear
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David's going to talk a little bit more
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about that
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okay so let's take a look first at the
671
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item qualities in Diablo 4 so as you can
672
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see up on the screen normal items are
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the weakest items and the mythic items
674
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are the strongest items that we're
675
00:27:29,309 --> 00:27:32,090
proposing for Diablo 4 so let's take a
676
00:27:32,090 --> 00:27:34,880
deeper look at each of these categories
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so for the first three categories normal
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00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,170
magic and rare of course if you play
679
00:27:40,170 --> 00:27:42,300
Diablo games in the past you'll notice
680
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that you have more item affixes the
681
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higher the quality and our main goal
682
00:27:46,650 --> 00:27:50,429
hole for item add fixes is to increase
683
00:27:50,429 --> 00:27:52,620
the number of play style choices and
684
00:27:52,620 --> 00:27:54,240
options for players when they're picking
685
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,240
item affixes so of course we'll have a
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good mix of returning affixes as well as
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brand new ones for example attack speed
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00:28:02,550 --> 00:28:04,740
critical strike chance critical strike
689
00:28:04,740 --> 00:28:07,070
damage damage against faraway enemies
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00:28:07,070 --> 00:28:10,350
cooldown reduction damage resistances
691
00:28:10,350 --> 00:28:13,050
damage bonuses to specific elements like
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00:28:13,050 --> 00:28:15,870
all these stuff and more but what I want
693
00:28:15,870 --> 00:28:18,660
to talk about on top of that is one of
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00:28:18,660 --> 00:28:20,700
the effects is on the screen it says +1
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00:28:20,700 --> 00:28:22,679
rank to master of arms on the rare
696
00:28:22,679 --> 00:28:25,040
amulet it's the bottom one that you see
697
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,900
what that's doing is it's giving me +1
698
00:28:27,900 --> 00:28:29,910
rank to one of my talent points so what
699
00:28:29,910 --> 00:28:32,400
that's gonna allow me to do is as I put
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00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,620
my talent points and pick a place tile
701
00:28:34,620 --> 00:28:36,420
I'm not gonna have enough choices to go
702
00:28:36,420 --> 00:28:39,270
down every single tree but with items I
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00:28:39,270 --> 00:28:41,280
can break some of these rules by getting
704
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,470
access to talents that I normally
705
00:28:43,470 --> 00:28:45,900
couldn't access before or I can use them
706
00:28:45,900 --> 00:28:48,929
to go past my maximum talent point
707
00:28:48,929 --> 00:28:52,050
through items as well so we want to add
708
00:28:52,050 --> 00:28:54,210
as many of these types of affixes as
709
00:28:54,210 --> 00:28:57,320
possible in Diablo 4
710
00:29:01,789 --> 00:29:04,919
for legendary items in sets the goal is
711
00:29:04,919 --> 00:29:07,010
to provide as much player choice and
712
00:29:07,010 --> 00:29:09,330
customization as possible when forming
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00:29:09,330 --> 00:29:11,429
your endgame build and in order to do
714
00:29:11,429 --> 00:29:13,950
that the most important change in the a
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00:29:13,950 --> 00:29:16,320
blow for is to make sure that legendary
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00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,990
items are on are on equal or greater
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00:29:18,990 --> 00:29:21,510
power level compared to set items in
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00:29:21,510 --> 00:29:22,230
Diablo 4
719
00:29:22,230 --> 00:29:23,640
this way you'll have that full
720
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,010
customization of picking every single
721
00:29:26,010 --> 00:29:28,830
slot which specific legendary power you
722
00:29:28,830 --> 00:29:36,299
want to use so yeah so let's take a look
723
00:29:36,299 --> 00:29:39,059
at a simple example of customizing your
724
00:29:39,059 --> 00:29:39,929
playstyle
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00:29:39,929 --> 00:29:43,950
through one specific simple skill in
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00:29:43,950 --> 00:29:46,110
Diablo 4 as well as items that only
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00:29:46,110 --> 00:29:48,360
modify that specific skill but of course
728
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,789
we'll have a wide range of legendaries
729
00:29:50,789 --> 00:29:54,659
in the game so this is teleport as you
730
00:29:54,659 --> 00:29:56,760
can see pretty straightforward you turn
731
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,770
teleport to the target location like you
732
00:29:58,770 --> 00:30:00,870
just saw say you're struggling on the
733
00:30:00,870 --> 00:30:02,340
defense then you can pick something like
734
00:30:02,340 --> 00:30:03,899
this up every time a teleport again
735
00:30:03,899 --> 00:30:08,130
damage barrier and this one whenever I
736
00:30:08,130 --> 00:30:09,809
teleport I create this rift on the
737
00:30:09,809 --> 00:30:11,520
ground when I whatever I stand in it
738
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,490
again increased critical strike chance
739
00:30:13,490 --> 00:30:16,770
this next one I can use teleport as much
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00:30:16,770 --> 00:30:19,470
as I want now it has no cooldown but
741
00:30:19,470 --> 00:30:21,720
it's random and I need mana to use it in
742
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,270
this last one I think has damaging light
743
00:30:24,270 --> 00:30:26,490
lighting Nova whatever I teleport so
744
00:30:26,490 --> 00:30:29,549
let's check that out so pretty
745
00:30:29,549 --> 00:30:31,860
straightforward let's try to equip the
746
00:30:31,860 --> 00:30:33,779
one that lets me teleport as much as I
747
00:30:33,779 --> 00:30:36,270
want and now I've kind of turned my
748
00:30:36,270 --> 00:30:39,630
mobility skill into damaging skill at
749
00:30:39,630 --> 00:30:40,860
the cost of it being a little bit random
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and I just want to stress once more that
751
00:30:43,020 --> 00:30:45,510
not all legendaries will work so
752
00:30:45,510 --> 00:30:48,240
specific to one skill will have a wide
753
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,820
range of skills ranging from legendaries
754
00:30:50,820 --> 00:30:52,620
are generic and good for every type of
755
00:30:52,620 --> 00:30:54,919
build legendaries are good for specific
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00:30:54,919 --> 00:30:57,539
categories of skills and legendaries
757
00:30:57,539 --> 00:30:59,190
such as the ones that you see here
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00:30:59,190 --> 00:31:02,640
and finally mythic items are the
759
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:04,590
strongest items in Diablo 4 they're
760
00:31:04,590 --> 00:31:06,360
equipped limit 1 but they have 4
761
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,340
legendary powers on them this is a
762
00:31:08,340 --> 00:31:10,960
simple example of barbarian legendary
763
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,650
or barbarian mythic amulet so you can
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00:31:14,650 --> 00:31:16,270
look forward to more info coming in the
765
00:31:16,270 --> 00:31:20,410
future on the mythic items and there are
766
00:31:20,410 --> 00:31:29,830
rooms and rune words in Diablo for how
767
00:31:29,830 --> 00:31:31,900
they work is quite straightforward you
768
00:31:31,900 --> 00:31:33,760
have two different types of rooms in the
769
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game condition runes and effect runes
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00:31:35,650 --> 00:31:38,470
you can take any condition rune combine
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00:31:38,470 --> 00:31:40,480
it with any other effect rune in the
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00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:43,420
game to form a rune word so the example
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00:31:43,420 --> 00:31:45,670
on the screen is it says the condition
774
00:31:45,670 --> 00:31:48,280
rune whenever you freeze an enemy and
775
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,530
the effect is reduced a randoms he'll
776
00:31:50,530 --> 00:31:53,590
pull down by 15% and as you can see from
777
00:31:53,590 --> 00:31:56,200
the item I have formed my room word so
778
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,450
let me show you some more examples of
779
00:31:58,450 --> 00:32:00,790
condition runes and effect runes one
780
00:32:00,790 --> 00:32:02,740
thing that is not displayed here that
781
00:32:02,740 --> 00:32:04,090
we're currently working on is we're
782
00:32:04,090 --> 00:32:05,860
working on adding progression to runes
783
00:32:05,860 --> 00:32:08,860
as well so you can look forward to more
784
00:32:08,860 --> 00:32:10,810
info on that in the future as well so
785
00:32:10,810 --> 00:32:13,030
I'll hand it back to Tim for Q&A so you
786
00:32:13,030 --> 00:32:15,430
can quickly read this before he goes to
787
00:32:15,430 --> 00:32:20,640
the next slide thanks David
788
00:32:22,380 --> 00:32:24,770
everybody memorize everything you got it
789
00:32:24,770 --> 00:32:27,990
alright next slide okay
790
00:32:27,990 --> 00:32:33,299
QA so over the past 24 hours or so since
791
00:32:33,299 --> 00:32:35,160
we announced this game you guys have
792
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,470
been submitting questions some of you
793
00:32:37,470 --> 00:32:39,059
right here on the floor there have been
794
00:32:39,059 --> 00:32:40,799
places for you to hand in your questions
795
00:32:40,799 --> 00:32:43,320
we've also been looking online we got
796
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,360
Twitter sending us questions reddit
797
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:46,410
sending questions
798
00:32:46,410 --> 00:32:48,419
the Internet has many questions as usual
799
00:32:48,419 --> 00:32:51,419
I have taken a list of some of the most
800
00:32:51,419 --> 00:32:54,360
asked questions that we got and now I'm
801
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:57,390
going to ask our panel so starting right
802
00:32:57,390 --> 00:32:59,669
in one of those common ones that we gots
803
00:32:59,669 --> 00:33:02,210
a lot of people want to know about
804
00:33:02,210 --> 00:33:06,030
monetization or business model or how do
805
00:33:06,030 --> 00:33:09,030
I buy this game so question of how do i
806
00:33:09,030 --> 00:33:12,330
buy dîablø form I will divert that one
807
00:33:12,330 --> 00:33:17,490
over to Joe Shelley thanks so of course
808
00:33:17,490 --> 00:33:20,520
it's very early days here but what I can
809
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:22,590
confirm is that we will sell a base game
810
00:33:22,590 --> 00:33:26,159
and expansions and I can also confirm
811
00:33:26,159 --> 00:33:29,360
that we will not sell power
812
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,240
I think that's the answer they wanted to
813
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,060
hear okay on to the next one all right
814
00:33:40,060 --> 00:33:42,160
lots of questions here we saw from
815
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:46,330
various sources customization of my bill
816
00:33:46,330 --> 00:33:47,680
people want to know am I only
817
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,630
customizing my build through the
818
00:33:49,630 --> 00:33:51,760
legendaries that I choose or are there
819
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,070
other options that seems like a good
820
00:33:54,070 --> 00:33:56,650
question for David Kim yeah so
821
00:33:56,650 --> 00:33:58,600
customization is a main one of the main
822
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,360
biggest goals in Diablo 4 so of course
823
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:03,730
we'll have more options outside of just
824
00:34:03,730 --> 00:34:05,800
legendaries so for example I talked a
825
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:07,630
little bit about the skill point system
826
00:34:07,630 --> 00:34:10,510
as you put points into the specific
827
00:34:10,510 --> 00:34:12,699
skills they will unlock brand new things
828
00:34:12,699 --> 00:34:15,280
for example the unstoppable that Joe
829
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,320
talked about it doesn't appear from Rank
830
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:20,050
1 of that shout but as you rank it up
831
00:34:20,050 --> 00:34:24,070
new parts of the skill are not brand new
832
00:34:24,070 --> 00:34:25,810
components are unlocked as well as the
833
00:34:25,810 --> 00:34:28,149
power goes up so that's one example on
834
00:34:28,149 --> 00:34:31,899
the challenge free side you can check it
835
00:34:31,899 --> 00:34:33,610
out in the demo to get a feel of where
836
00:34:33,610 --> 00:34:36,340
we're at currently but the hope is even
837
00:34:36,340 --> 00:34:38,168
if two players are going the same sort
838
00:34:38,168 --> 00:34:40,780
of build say like we're both going a
839
00:34:40,780 --> 00:34:43,449
lightning build then we have enough
840
00:34:43,449 --> 00:34:45,190
choices within the talent tree system
841
00:34:45,190 --> 00:34:48,460
for us to make our kind of adjustments
842
00:34:48,460 --> 00:34:50,918
that caters specifically to me and to
843
00:34:50,918 --> 00:34:52,929
the other person right and then on the
844
00:34:52,929 --> 00:34:55,300
item side item ethics is we of course
845
00:34:55,300 --> 00:34:57,310
want to have even more choices and even
846
00:34:57,310 --> 00:34:59,530
more play style choices specifically so
847
00:34:59,530 --> 00:35:01,000
we're gonna be looking for opportunities
848
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,460
to add as much as much customization as
849
00:35:03,460 --> 00:35:07,060
possible across the board awesome all
850
00:35:07,060 --> 00:35:09,220
right diverse answer uh on to the next
851
00:35:09,220 --> 00:35:11,710
one all right so we got a lot of
852
00:35:11,710 --> 00:35:14,380
questions along the lines of will I be
853
00:35:14,380 --> 00:35:16,720
able to solo in this game but also will
854
00:35:16,720 --> 00:35:20,170
it support a full offline mode a tricky
855
00:35:20,170 --> 00:35:21,940
question I'm gonna send that one to
856
00:35:21,940 --> 00:35:25,240
Angela so we are not going to support an
857
00:35:25,240 --> 00:35:27,580
offline mode but as I said before
858
00:35:27,580 --> 00:35:29,200
nothing in Diablo 4 is gonna require
859
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:32,580
partying up you can play solo and
860
00:35:32,580 --> 00:35:35,380
dungeons are private and campaign quest
861
00:35:35,380 --> 00:35:37,170
areas will remain private
862
00:35:37,170 --> 00:35:42,960
ok solo some amount offline not the case
863
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:46,420
next question we had ok we saw a million
864
00:35:46,420 --> 00:35:49,210
questions about trading we have
865
00:35:49,210 --> 00:35:52,060
people asking is there treating some
866
00:35:52,060 --> 00:35:53,470
people in the audience agree they want
867
00:35:53,470 --> 00:35:54,640
to know is there trading they want to
868
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:56,800
know how is it implemented how does it
869
00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,160
work is it like t2 is it like d3 I will
870
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,220
send this difficult question to zabun
871
00:36:03,220 --> 00:36:07,180
thank you so uh you know our underlying
872
00:36:07,180 --> 00:36:09,520
philosophy here is we think it's the
873
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:11,950
best when you can kill a monster and get
874
00:36:11,950 --> 00:36:13,810
loot that way so we want to make sure
875
00:36:13,810 --> 00:36:15,430
for you know whatever we do we kind of
876
00:36:15,430 --> 00:36:17,080
respect that part of the habla its core
877
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,330
to Diablo but with that in mind we also
878
00:36:19,330 --> 00:36:21,910
do want to allow trading so our current
879
00:36:21,910 --> 00:36:23,830
strategy is this and you know it's still
880
00:36:23,830 --> 00:36:25,330
early days so we really want to hear
881
00:36:25,330 --> 00:36:27,700
your feedback on this in particular so
882
00:36:27,700 --> 00:36:29,200
the idea is that we have kind of three
883
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,920
different types of tradable item so to
884
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,530
say so to speak so there is a class of
885
00:36:35,530 --> 00:36:37,210
item a bunch of items that can always be
886
00:36:37,210 --> 00:36:39,070
traded no matter what freely I can give
887
00:36:39,070 --> 00:36:40,570
it Angela she can give it a David you
888
00:36:40,570 --> 00:36:42,310
can give it a Joe so on and so forth and
889
00:36:42,310 --> 00:36:45,160
then we can also have a a class of items
890
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:48,580
that are trade are trainable one time so
891
00:36:48,580 --> 00:36:50,980
I have an item I use it for a year and
892
00:36:50,980 --> 00:36:52,030
then I'm like I don't want this item
893
00:36:52,030 --> 00:36:54,430
anymore and I give it Angela but now she
894
00:36:54,430 --> 00:36:56,080
can't trade it anymore it's bound to her
895
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:57,610
so things like only be traded one time
896
00:36:57,610 --> 00:36:59,230
and then we're also thinking that
897
00:36:59,230 --> 00:37:01,720
probably the the highest quality most
898
00:37:01,720 --> 00:37:03,190
powerful things in the game especially
899
00:37:03,190 --> 00:37:05,410
in that area there should be items that
900
00:37:05,410 --> 00:37:06,760
you can't trade at all that you have to
901
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,320
earn yourself that you have to you know
902
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:09,760
go do those endgame dungeons kill
903
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:16,050
monsters etc get that loot so cool so so
904
00:37:16,050 --> 00:37:18,460
you can kind of see just like with these
905
00:37:18,460 --> 00:37:20,740
very simple kind of gradient of things
906
00:37:20,740 --> 00:37:22,630
and options here where we kind of do the
907
00:37:22,630 --> 00:37:24,160
cutoff of when does something become a
908
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,560
one-time trade or a never trade we have
909
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:28,300
a lot of flexibility there and we're
910
00:37:28,300 --> 00:37:29,620
gonna be listening to you guys and kind
911
00:37:29,620 --> 00:37:30,760
of getting that feedback as well so
912
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,600
please let us know what you think cool
913
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,950
complicated answer but the important
914
00:37:35,950 --> 00:37:37,540
part at the tail there let us know what
915
00:37:37,540 --> 00:37:38,890
you think so if you have opinions on
916
00:37:38,890 --> 00:37:40,930
that make sure they're coming our way
917
00:37:40,930 --> 00:37:43,060
I mean you can yell at us it's one way
918
00:37:43,060 --> 00:37:44,620
but it's even better if you go online
919
00:37:44,620 --> 00:37:46,510
talk about it we're gonna be reading
920
00:37:46,510 --> 00:37:50,020
that all right next up alright big
921
00:37:50,020 --> 00:37:52,330
question around PvP we mentioned that
922
00:37:52,330 --> 00:37:55,420
it's going to be in the game people are
923
00:37:55,420 --> 00:37:57,400
curious though what does that do to
924
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,800
balance are we gonna have separate rules
925
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,540
for PvP is this gonna affect the balance
926
00:38:02,540 --> 00:38:05,630
the PvE experience that is a tricky
927
00:38:05,630 --> 00:38:09,680
question perfect for David yeah so we're
928
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:11,570
trying to it's a great question I think
929
00:38:11,570 --> 00:38:13,880
because I many people must have noticed
930
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,010
that we have the same sort of skills
931
00:38:16,010 --> 00:38:18,620
same talents and same items in both PvP
932
00:38:18,620 --> 00:38:20,540
and PvE so I guess that's the natural
933
00:38:20,540 --> 00:38:21,920
question that you would ask right
934
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:25,340
but our goal is to have enough choices
935
00:38:25,340 --> 00:38:27,770
and options available for players and
936
00:38:27,770 --> 00:38:30,890
what that means I think is the best
937
00:38:30,890 --> 00:38:32,780
skills the best talents and the best
938
00:38:32,780 --> 00:38:35,000
items in PvP will be very different from
939
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,400
the set of skills items and talents in
940
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:40,340
PvE that are the best so I think so the
941
00:38:40,340 --> 00:38:43,160
current plan is to make sure to locate
942
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:47,120
issues as they arrive and strategically
943
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:49,160
make the right tuning choices to make
944
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,240
balance good in both formats right so
945
00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:54,680
every balance problem is so different so
946
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:56,510
we'll have to see what the problem is
947
00:38:56,510 --> 00:38:58,790
and then fix it that way but we will
948
00:38:58,790 --> 00:39:01,640
have enough tuning knobs across these
949
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,190
three systems to be able to only soon
950
00:39:04,190 --> 00:39:07,910
properly okay all right next big one
951
00:39:07,910 --> 00:39:10,970
from the Internet's they really wanted
952
00:39:10,970 --> 00:39:13,610
to know legendaries these are important
953
00:39:13,610 --> 00:39:15,950
to the game but as varied a bit across
954
00:39:15,950 --> 00:39:17,830
the different Diablos of how they drop
955
00:39:17,830 --> 00:39:21,170
how common are they gonna be some people
956
00:39:21,170 --> 00:39:23,450
even commented is it gonna be like d3
957
00:39:23,450 --> 00:39:26,810
where they basically fall from the sky a
958
00:39:26,810 --> 00:39:28,970
good question Legendary's how much are
959
00:39:28,970 --> 00:39:30,290
they gonna drop how big are they in my
960
00:39:30,290 --> 00:39:34,070
lutes Joe can you answer that for us so
961
00:39:34,070 --> 00:39:35,930
legendaries will not rain from the sky
962
00:39:35,930 --> 00:39:41,780
in Diablo 4 and when you are playing
963
00:39:41,780 --> 00:39:44,420
through Diablo for and you're playing
964
00:39:44,420 --> 00:39:46,850
harder and harder content you're going
965
00:39:46,850 --> 00:39:48,860
to be getting better and better items
966
00:39:48,860 --> 00:39:52,790
and because of this we don't think that
967
00:39:52,790 --> 00:39:55,460
there's any need at least currently to
968
00:39:55,460 --> 00:39:58,160
modify the drop rates of legendaries as
969
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:01,600
you get farther and farther into endgame
970
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:06,710
cool alright next one alright this
971
00:40:06,710 --> 00:40:08,930
question about speed of combat so you've
972
00:40:08,930 --> 00:40:11,600
got a few people asking us in various
973
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,090
different ways what is the speed of
974
00:40:14,090 --> 00:40:15,920
combat going to be in Diablo
975
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:18,770
for is it going to be as fast-paced as
976
00:40:18,770 --> 00:40:20,960
it was in the hablo three are you guys
977
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:22,280
gonna try and slow it down a bit
978
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,730
is it more tactical good question
979
00:40:25,730 --> 00:40:29,450
I'm gonna send this one to zabun so you
980
00:40:29,450 --> 00:40:31,310
know for those who of you who have
981
00:40:31,310 --> 00:40:33,710
played greater rifts in Diablo 3 you
982
00:40:33,710 --> 00:40:34,940
might know that there's like a timer
983
00:40:34,940 --> 00:40:37,040
there and you know one of the side
984
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:38,570
effects of doing things like that and
985
00:40:38,570 --> 00:40:40,130
we've learned a lot about this is it
986
00:40:40,130 --> 00:40:41,330
makes you kind of want to rush through
987
00:40:41,330 --> 00:40:43,280
skip things you start getting very like
988
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:44,810
you know it's specific about what you
989
00:40:44,810 --> 00:40:46,370
want to kill him what you want to do so
990
00:40:46,370 --> 00:40:48,470
for the key dungeon experience you see
991
00:40:48,470 --> 00:40:49,790
it's the only endgame experience we can
992
00:40:49,790 --> 00:40:50,990
talk about right now but for that in
993
00:40:50,990 --> 00:40:53,120
particular the plan is that since we
994
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:54,680
have all these various dungeons and they
995
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,300
all have very different objectives you
996
00:40:56,300 --> 00:40:57,560
need to do a different thing to complete
997
00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:59,930
each one of those dungeons it's gonna
998
00:40:59,930 --> 00:41:02,150
it's gonna mean that the pace of combat
999
00:41:02,150 --> 00:41:03,620
and the exact thing you're really
1000
00:41:03,620 --> 00:41:05,180
valuing and every one of those dungeons
1001
00:41:05,180 --> 00:41:06,440
is gonna be very different
1002
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:08,450
particularly when you add dungeon
1003
00:41:08,450 --> 00:41:11,120
affixes so for example in Dom hain
1004
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:12,590
tunnels it's you know kill all monsters
1005
00:41:12,590 --> 00:41:14,930
having the lightning pulse chase you
1006
00:41:14,930 --> 00:41:16,760
through that dungeon there's constant
1007
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:18,560
pressure you have to kill everything to
1008
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:20,330
complete the objective comparing that to
1009
00:41:20,330 --> 00:41:21,890
Garen hold where you have to find the
1010
00:41:21,890 --> 00:41:23,570
Fallen idols you know you have a bit
1011
00:41:23,570 --> 00:41:25,490
more leeway so even just that one ethics
1012
00:41:25,490 --> 00:41:26,960
in two different dungeons can yield a
1013
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,150
very different experience and on top of
1014
00:41:29,150 --> 00:41:30,800
that we have that short distance evade
1015
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:32,630
that Joe mentioned and what that does is
1016
00:41:32,630 --> 00:41:34,970
it really helps make a lot of the combat
1017
00:41:34,970 --> 00:41:36,890
very intentional particularly at higher
1018
00:41:36,890 --> 00:41:38,900
levels of play so you have to be very
1019
00:41:38,900 --> 00:41:41,450
careful very good at timing your combat
1020
00:41:41,450 --> 00:41:43,220
and your evade skills when you're doing
1021
00:41:43,220 --> 00:41:45,110
this stuff so the plan is to really you
1022
00:41:45,110 --> 00:41:46,310
know make it a bit more intentional
1023
00:41:46,310 --> 00:41:49,130
experience awesome I guess one thing to
1024
00:41:49,130 --> 00:41:50,840
add is it's kind of related to what Joe
1025
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:52,880
was talking about of more powerful
1026
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,610
monsters drop more powerful loot so
1027
00:41:55,610 --> 00:41:58,190
naturally you're gonna be wanting to go
1028
00:41:58,190 --> 00:42:01,700
and take on these like really tough
1029
00:42:01,700 --> 00:42:04,100
challenges right but at the same time we
1030
00:42:04,100 --> 00:42:07,040
believe that replayability is best when
1031
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:09,110
you have a very play experience like
1032
00:42:09,110 --> 00:42:10,400
that vine was talking about one of the
1033
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:12,350
other hooks is we're going to make sure
1034
00:42:12,350 --> 00:42:15,110
that players at least have some hooks to
1035
00:42:15,110 --> 00:42:18,620
be able to play a different very the
1036
00:42:18,620 --> 00:42:20,810
difficulty content in the end game to
1037
00:42:20,810 --> 00:42:22,780
help with the replayability as well
1038
00:42:22,780 --> 00:42:25,790
alright so it's gonna take a variety of
1039
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forms but intentional combats all right
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next up ah there were a number of
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questions about item randomization are
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we going to have random stats on the
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items that are dropping or will each
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item actually have static stats on it
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say that roughly accurate anyway sending
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that one over to Angela
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all right so ethics is will be
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randomized values within a range which
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means you aren't just comparing attack
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and defense on an item you could have
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two items that contain the same ethics
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effect but they could have completely
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different values and we're also looking
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into or we're planning to support
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modifying customizing your affixes we
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just don't know exactly what form that
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will take you oh all right
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next question up all right number of
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questions around how we're gonna support
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the game once it's live so people
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mentioned that they really enjoyed
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playing seasons other people said they
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wanted to see more questions about are
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there gonna be major content drops
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what is that loop gonna look like so
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host game support seasons that kind of
1067
00:43:36,490 --> 00:43:40,750
stuff broad weird question David yeah of
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course we're gonna have seasons in
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Diablo for the main goal for seasons
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00:43:44,260 --> 00:43:46,870
will be to change up the player
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00:43:46,870 --> 00:43:48,760
experience whenever they play from
1072
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season to season so we don't have all
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the details worked out yet in order to
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achieve that goal but I want to give you
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a very kind of slight example for it
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right so if we look at just the
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legendary item slice then we can maybe
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talk about we are planning on
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introducing brand-new legendary items
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two seasons on top of that we want to
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kind of spotlight subsets of different
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legendary items from season to season
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so best built and what you're exploring
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00:44:17,230 --> 00:44:19,660
can change a little bit so I'm not
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saying this is the only thing that's
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gonna change out the player experience
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00:44:22,450 --> 00:44:24,220
of course we're gonna try to hit it at
1088
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all different angles across the whole
1089
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game but that is our goal and will of
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00:44:28,330 --> 00:44:29,830
course have more information to share in
1091
00:44:29,830 --> 00:44:30,250
the future
1092
00:44:30,250 --> 00:44:32,440
on the specifics are we have time for
1093
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just one more question I'm gonna go to
1094
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this one because it was heavily asked
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00:44:36,690 --> 00:44:39,130
everybody wants to know
1096
00:44:39,130 --> 00:44:43,259
will we have hardcore in Diablo for
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00:44:43,259 --> 00:44:45,789
zabun do we have a hardcore mode of
1098
00:44:45,789 --> 00:44:47,920
course we're gonna have hardcore mode it
1099
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:49,390
wouldn't be at the hablo game without it
1100
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you know hardcore is actually you know
1101
00:44:52,210 --> 00:44:54,039
is basically invented by the community
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00:44:54,039 --> 00:44:56,019
in Diablo 1 it was officially supported
1103
00:44:56,019 --> 00:44:57,609
starting to be able to we're gonna carry
1104
00:44:57,609 --> 00:44:59,140
on that legacy we're absolutely gonna
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support hardcore Lord and Al before
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there you go hardcore mode is a yes all
1107
00:45:03,849 --> 00:45:05,859
right that unfortunately is all the time
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00:45:05,859 --> 00:45:07,539
we have but it doesn't mean you should
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00:45:07,539 --> 00:45:10,269
stop sending us your questions we have
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just started the efforts of learning how
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00:45:12,700 --> 00:45:14,470
to make a better Diablo 4 game there's
1112
00:45:14,470 --> 00:45:16,779
still a lot more game to make we want to
1113
00:45:16,779 --> 00:45:19,660
see you posting online telling us what
1114
00:45:19,660 --> 00:45:21,099
it is you expect to make this game
1115
00:45:21,099 --> 00:45:23,079
amazing we're going to be reading it and
1116
00:45:23,079 --> 00:45:24,700
we're going to be responding to it in
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the future so thank you everybody for
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coming if you're here on the floor you
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can go play more Diablo 4 right now
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behind you if you are watching from home
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there are two more panels coming up
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later today thank you everybody
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]