The Diablo 3 Podcast #133: Diablo 3 Developer John Yang Livestream

[Mage Slayer]

I suppose it's easier to get good questions for Travis or Wyatt since they take care of such large, high focus game areas. A guy primarily responsible for two of the old classes isn't going to be as exciting. The Andrew Chambers one was quite good too, but again the Crusader and crafting are more interesting areas of the game.

 

[Turin]

Great to have another podcast with a dev to listen to, though I have to agree that the one with Travis from last week felt better, quality-wise.
Not only were there no weird sound-issues (esp. the guy who only asked two or three questions), but the regular streamers just did a better job at formulating their questions.
The other two guys besides Flux seemed to have a hard time asking clear, short questions, and often interrupted John Yang while he was answering their questions (ok, Flux did that as well ^^), to answer them theirselves ...

 

[Flux]

Ironically, it was the guy who streams all the time, and when we first started talking I was surprised how much echo there was on his end. I\'d guess he\'s got his desk facing into the corner of a small room with hard walls. Needed some tapestries or something as acoustic baffling. Not to mention his very noisy keyboard. I\'d have asked him to make some changes if he were a podcast guest, but it wasn\'t my show so not my place to object.

 

[tony iii]

The best fixed to make Dex comparable to INT (All Resist) & STR (Armour) for damage mitegation would be to gain some block chance along with dodge chance.

 

[tony iii]

To make 2-handed weapons more viable, when equipping one then double the proc rate of your skills to make up for the slower attack speeds & no off-hand weapon or item.

 

[Steven Hazani]

To make 2-handed weapons more viable, when equipping one then double the proc rate of your skills to make up for the slower attack speeds & no off-hand weapon or item.

This. One situation where doubling it (and a second socket) is an easy fix.

 

[Llama8]

For Monks possibly, but not many DHs use shields. And while that might encourage some to move over to a shield, it would still leave the rest of them out in the cold.

 

[tony iii]

The block chance increase would be to your base block chance no shield required. Equipping a shield would adds its block chance to your base block chance gained from DEX. A ratio of a hald of dodge chance would not be overpowered ie 30% dodgealso gives 15% block