January 30, 2016
NPC Redundant Dialogue
July 1, 2015
Kanai’s Cube Hands-On Tutorial
June 26, 2015
Patch 2.3 Datamined, but Not Coming This Weekend
March 23, 2015
Diablo 3 Developer Live Chat: Full Transcript
As promised last week, three Reaper of Souls developers, Travis Day, Wyatt Cheng, and John Yang joined CM Nevalistis for a live chat this afternoon @ 4pm PDT. The whole chat went 90 minutes and covered more than 50 questions, and you can see the full transcript below.
August 16, 2014
Legendary Gems Have Changed Greatly: Blizzard Explains
November 26, 2013
Crafting Materials in Reaper of Souls are Unbalanced?
A fan brings up one of the obvious problems with the Reaper of Souls economy at this point; the imbalances of crafting mats and costs, and the fact that all current Diablo 3 materials are without value in Reaper of Souls. (You find Demonic Essences and Tomes of Secret frequently at low levels, Fiery Brimstone comes from low level legendaries you salvage, and none of them are required for high level crafting in RoS.)
October 26, 2013
The Mystic Was *Not* That Act One NPC After All?
Most fans know that the Mystic was revealed along with the other two Artisans and was functional in Diablo 3 during much of the development cycle. The devs shelved her shortly before release since they felt her talents at the time were non-essential and largely replicated by gem socketing. Dropping the third Artisan wasn’t that hard in terms of losing her talents (which had evolved over time, but were ultimately Identify All and Item Imbuing), but did require some story/quest revising.
October 24, 2013
Reintroducing the Mystic: Enchanting and Transmog Illustrated
Blizzard has posted a nice article showing off the Mystic NPC Artisan, who will be returning to the game in Reaper of Souls. She provides sage advice and monster lore in-game, along with item enchanting and transmogrification services. The Blizzard post goes a little into her clan lore, but mostly focuses on the enchant and transmog functions, with lots of screens showing off the new interfaces and functions.
September 6, 2013
DiabloWiki.net Watch #69: The Mystic’s Mysterious Past
Learn all about the upcoming/returning Diablo 3 NPC, and the Mystic’s Mysterious Past
September 5, 2013
More Details about the Mystic in Reaper of Souls
Blizzard has revealed a fairly straight-forward description of how they expect the “upgrade one affix” function to work for the Mystic in Reaper of Souls:
September 4, 2013
Can the Mystic Enchant/Upgrade Current Gear in RoS?
Interesting question from a fan about item levels and Mystic enchants. Since monster and item levels are increasing up to 70 in Reaper of Souls, and we’re going to see new and bigger affixes above those in the game today, there’s a question how that’ll work with existing gear. Can you reroll anything you own now and get a potentially bigger stat than you could today, in RoS? Such as via the Mystic?
August 30, 2013
Blizzard on Diablo 3 Item Binding and Useless Gear
A fan asked whether Loot 2.0 in the Expansion will will mean that more of what we find is useful. I think so, but mainly for a reason the CM’s reply doesn’t touch on: Diablo 3 item binding. Let’s discuss that, but first the Blue quote:
August 28, 2013
Judge Hype’s Diablo 3 Gamescom Interview Highlights
The French D3 fansite Judge Hype has done great work over the years and provided us with all the Crusader skills a few days ago. The Judge has now posted a write up about his interview with Josh Mosqueira and Christian Lichtner from Gamescom and it’s got good stuff as well. There’s no audio or video alas, just a bullet point list of the key details, but there are some new facts that I hadn’t heard in other interviews. Here are some quotes of the Google translation, and thanks to Koko for the tip and his own useful translations in the forum.
August 22, 2013
More Details on Shared Paragon and other RoS News
The Diablo CMs haven’t made many forum posts since the Reaper of Souls announcement, but they’ve answered some key questions, and Lylirra has been blowing it up on Twitter, though there’s only so much value anyone can manage with just 140 characters of explanation. From what the CMs have told us via email, they’re not going to be answering every last question just yet, to leave space for media interviews from Gamescom to have their moment. The show runs through the weekend after all, and we can’t expect to know everything just yet.
July 2, 2013
Act One Jeweler Location Change Requested
A fan points out something most of us have been annoyed by from time to time; how damn far away the Jeweler is from the rest of the NPCs and merchants, in Act One.