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Blizzard hat heute das Transskript eines Q&A<\/a> (Questions and Answers \/ Fragen und Antworten), das sie vergangenen Woche bei Reddit<\/a> durchgef\u00fchrt haben, ver\u00f6ffentlicht. Leider liegt dieses aktuell nur auf englisch vor, ist aber sehr umfangreich und es lohnt sich, es sich durchzulesen.<\/p>\n Zum Ende springen<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n We were asked some great questions at our Reddit Q&A<\/a> on Tuesday, September 1st. In case you missed them and the answers provided by our team, we’ve included a recap below, complete with handy links to each topic of discussion for your reading convenience!<\/p>\n Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n Items<\/strong><\/span><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n Whimsybandit<\/strong>: Is a proper gem sink being considered, maybe via a cube recipe or whatnot? As it stands, gems are in high demand early into a Season and then they become more inflated than gold.<\/p>\n jcooper1876<\/strong>: Diablo III has been quite the ride. Since its release, we’ve had a new act, a new class, a new play mode, new character skills, new sets, changes to old sets, new bounties, new rifts, a new rift type, new gems, Seasons, new difficulties… everything has changed, except for one thing: the ONLY option for a weapon socket is an emerald. Will this ever change?<\/p>\n For the case of gems in weapons, buffing Amethyst is a great idea, because the benefit it provides (+Life on Hit) is a completely different choice from the current leading gem: Emerald = Critical Hit Damage. Buffing Diamonds (+Elite damage) and Rubies (+Flat damage) is slightly less interesting because it will probably come down to one mathematically correct answer depending on the weapon and build. Lastly, our goal is to have Topaz be the gem to use for the Thorns of the Invoker set.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n OtterAbsurdity<\/strong>: Now that each class has a couple of decent sets, can we get a small balance pass on them to even them out? I love the playstyle of full 6pc Delsere and Marauders, but I feel like I’m gimping my friends by using them and it’s frustrating.<\/p>\n TyphoonCane<\/strong>: Currently there are a few classes that can mix sets getting six pieces of one set and four pieces of another, is this something you want to see more of or is it something that you’d rather not happen more often?<\/p>\n goykasi<\/strong>: Is anything being done about the Arachyr 4pc bonus? All feedback and complaints on PTR were seemingly ignored.<\/p>\n Nazgren<\/strong>: Any chance for a „close-quarters“ DH build? They have plenty of knife based skills.<\/span><\/p>\n 2pc – While equipped with a melee weapon, all damage is increased by 1000%.<\/span><\/p>\n 4pc – Shadow Power gains all runes and lasts forever.<\/span><\/p>\n 6pc – Impale deals 30000% weapon damage to the first enemy it hits.<\/span><\/p>\n The idea is that the set is extremely strong on single-target damage, but weak on AoE. To help with that, a new dagger will have the power „Every second, the damage of your next Fan of Knives is increased by 250-300%.“ To help with movement, a pair of bracers has the power: „After using Impale, Vault costs no resource for 2 seconds.“ That item will allow you to Vault into position to Impale the high-value targets.<\/span><\/p>\n Additionally, we’re also allowing Demon Hunters to use melee weapons with quivers because the fantasy of this quick-moving assassin build is about speed, not walking around with a shield \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n OwenLantos<\/strong>: With so many newer and stronger class sets, some of the old class sets (e.g. Firebird’s Finery, Jade Harvester) became extremely weak. Are there any plans to rework these sets in the near future? Possibly in 2.4? I really like Firebird Wizard, but it is just so underwhelming right now…<\/p>\n You all will see these updates in the near future in patch 2.4.0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Iwillforgethisacc<\/strong>: I have two questions regarding Kanai’s Cube: When I reroll a Legendary item, can it roll Ancient? And if I use a Ramaladni’s Gift and then reroll it, will the socket from the gift be lost?<\/p>\n aeclasik<\/strong>: Can we see more \/ improved Kanai recipes down the road? Such as removing the nine gem limit, or reforging Ancients?<\/p>\n OBrien<\/strong>: Is the Hope of Cain recipe about as powerful as you guys intended? Did you mean to put it in in order to make Torment 10 rift farming competitive with Greater Rift farming?<\/p>\n CarbonatedFalcon<\/strong>: Any chance that the reforge legendary recipe „Law of Kulle“ gets re-costed? As it stands, it’s kind of ridiculously priced. Even if it is powerful.<\/p>\n Syntaire<\/strong>: The ability to change one Set item into another with the cube is great, but it only works on sets with three or more pieces. I understand that this was partially in response to the relatively cheap cost of the recipe being exploited to get perfect rolls on various items. However, because of this limitation I’ve been attempting to get Shenlong’s Fist of Legend with the upgrade rare recipe for several days and only have about six or seven Relentless Assaults to show for it. It’s getting a bit demoralizing.<\/p>\n Is there any possibility of a new recipe that works specifically for the two piece sets? Perhaps something like three of the same piece and some Forgotten Souls \/ Death’s Breaths will give the other piece?<\/p>\n We removed the ability to do small sets because the intent of this recipe was not „create Focus“ „create Restraint.“ Also, players were using this recipe to make class sets Ancient. In both of those cases the question we had to answer was „Do we cost it around what they are using it for, or do we restrict it to the purpose it was designed for?“<\/span><\/p>\n We decided that ensuring the recipe fulfilled its design goal, allowing players to finish class Sets, was more important to us than providing yet another way to make Ancient items or generate specific items because both of those already have recipes designed explicitly to that end.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n whimsybandit<\/strong>: Can we get a way to craft Ramalandi’s Gift via the cube? Even if its hyper expensive…<\/p>\n Larklen<\/strong>: Are there any hidden recipes with the Cube that have yet to be discovered?<\/p>\n Sargon16<\/strong>: What are your thoughts on the current situation with Death’s Breath? This one material is the sole limiting factor in progress, acquiring more has become the most important thing we do, and our primary goal in farming.<\/p>\n IdahoSciGuy<\/strong>: Hey guys! Thanks for this Q&A. This patch has been great, a real blast. Especially with the introduction of Kanai and Kanai’s Cube. It was incredible going through the Ruins of Sescheron in search of the cube, and coming upon a lore book that speaks of this legendary warrior. Then, I would get chills realizing that this was based on a real person, and their memory. My question is, what was the character creation process like with Kanai, and how were you affected during Kanai’s creation? Thanks again for an amazing patch!<\/p>\n The most important thing was to make sure that we were paying homage to him. For example we didn’t want players to click on Kanai while he was sitting on the throne, that didn’t feel right to us.<\/span><\/p>\n There is also a hidden event surrounding Kanai that is based on what month it is. That event really was a way for us to play one last time with him, to have him adventure with us again.<\/span><\/p>\n As to how it affected people on the team: there are no words I can use that would properly convey how important this was to us. The hole this has left in our team is one that cannot be filled and shouldn’t be filled.<\/span><\/p>\n Thank you for the kind question.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n TricksterClown<\/strong>: Will cubed Legendaries from Season 4 roll over to non-season once it’s over?<\/p>\n Davlok<\/strong>: The only Kanai cube missing is „Upgrade Legendary to Ancient“. Are there any plans to add that? Obviously it should be a substantial cost – like 5x Ramaladni\u2019s Gifts + 50 Forgotten Souls. Either that or any thoughts about having an Auction House return for non-season only?<\/p>\n TMSquared<\/strong>: Kanai’s Cube has introduced a fascinating branch of gameplay: legendary affix „combos“. Specifically, the interaction between Madstone, Uliana’s six piece bonus, and Gungdo Gear sets the mind ablaze with possibility. It reads and plays beautifully, and was a major incentive for me to dig through the game’s item trove to find additional „combo“ pieces. Is this a favored design facet, and will we see additional Legendary powers that interact so well together?<\/p>\n welshwizardd<\/strong>: Why has the number of lower level class specific items (Armor & 2-Handed Weapons) the Blacksmith can forge been reduced so drastically? The only things that seem to have escaped the cull are the one handed weapons and off-hand items for ranged classes [DH\/WD\/Wiz].<\/p>\n Itarie<\/strong>: Why did you reintroduce the crafting problems you removed from the game once with the Act-specific crafting materials?<\/p>\n aeclasik<\/strong>: Any plans for gold sink? I’m twenty hours into my Season 4 character with 600 million gold…<\/p>\n\n\n
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Travis Day<\/strong>: <\/span>We have been internally discussing ideas to provide appealing gem sinks in the game in an upcoming patch. No details to announce yet though.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/strong>John Yang<\/strong>: I am hugely in favor of this. In general, I love balance in all things because having more than one choice is good.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/us.media3.battle.net\/cms\/gallery\/HMQ0147RM5NN1338413380471.png\")
<\/p>\n<\/strong><\/span> Class Sets<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong>Travis Day<\/strong>: Set and Legendary item tuning continues to be an ongoing effort. Each patch we help bring more playstyles closer in line with each other and this will continue to be our goal moving forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/strong>John Yang<\/strong>: We gave the five legacy class sets a seventh piece because they all included a weapon, which is a very powerful item slot as far as legendary powers go. We didn’t feel that adding a seventh piece was needed for the other six piece sets.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/strong>John Yang<\/strong>: I’ve heard all of this feedback and I completely agree. I also dislike the fact that the Toad of Hugeness swallows monsters completely, making them unable to take damage for a short period of time. I want to change this in the next patch to be a simple Stun in the future, but I wanted to couple this change with some animation adjustments to the Toad to match. At the time this feedback came in during 2.3 PTR, it was a little too late to make the art changes in time for that patch.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/strong>Kevin Martens<\/strong>: That would be awesome! Geez, John Yang, why don’t you do something about that?<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong>John Yang<\/strong>: Done! The Shadow’s Mantle set is the redesign that I’m the most excited about for 2.4 so far. The idea of a melee-weapon oriented build that doesn’t involve bows \/ xbows has always been in the back of my mind. Here’s what it currently looks like:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong>John Yang<\/strong>: Yes, 100%, absolutely. Internally, we have already updated, revamped, or redesigned completely many of the six piece sets that are currently not seeing use. The ones that are already done include Shadow’s Mantle, Might of the Earth, Jade Harvester, Firebird’s Finery, Armor of Akkhan, Thorns of the Invoker, and Embodiment of the Marauder. Monkey King\u2019s Garb and Inna’s Mantra are also being worked on. The goal is to bring all of these sets up to the power level of the current top 2.3 sets\/builds.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/strong><\/span> Kanai’s Cube<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong>Travis Day<\/strong>: When you use the reforge recipe the result can be Ancient. It’s important to note that the chance to be Ancient is unaffected by whether or not you put an Ancient in. Effectively you are destroying and creating a completely new version of the item which means it will always have the same chance to come out as Ancient regardless of what went in. This also means that if you used a gift on the item that will not be on the new item.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/strong>Travis Day<\/strong>: The cube has been incredibly well received and we are very happy with it. We plan on adding more recipes over time, but there are no plans to change any of the existing recipes as they each have a very unique purpose that we are happy with.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/strong>Travis Day:<\/strong> The goal of Hope of Cain was both to give players more control over what items they were pursuing and also to ensure that Deaths Breath would always be a desirable material. It’s doing both of these things quite well and we are very happy with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/strong>Travis Day<\/strong>: Different recipes are intended for different audiences, and this recipe in particular is intended for the most avid players. It’s primary purpose is to provide players who are only looking for incredibly rare ancient upgrades a very expensive way to do that. It’s very expensive, but it is effectively generating a brand new item of the Legendary of your choice with the standard chance to be Ancient.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/strong>Travis Day<\/strong>: The intent of this recipe was to provide players a way to complete their class sets if RNG was being unkind to them. If you keep getting duplicate pieces instead of that elusive sixth piece this recipe is meant to give you a way to solve that.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong>Travis Day<\/strong>: This is a popular request, but we have no plan to do anything of this sort. Ramaladni’s Gift is a very useful item and also completely unique in what it does; it’s great that players want them and I would prefer to have more things like the gift that are totally unique and exciting to find.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/strong>Kevin Martens<\/strong>: No comment. (This is technically a comment but does it mean anything about recipes? Does it???)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/strong>Travis Day<\/strong>: We are mostly happy with the current state of Death’s Breath. The goal of any resource is that it is valuable, we added a lot of recipes to the cube that are meant to serve as sinks for different materials. Before the addition of the cube people largely considered them useless, after we added recipes to make them appealing people say they want more than they have, my response to this is usually „Awesome!“<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/strong>Matthew Berger<\/strong>: Thanks for the kind words.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong>Roger Hughston<\/strong>: Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong>Travis Day<\/strong>: There is no plan to add an „Upgrade to ancient“ recipe. Ancient items were added to provide players long term goals to pursue while allowing the drop rates to be generous enough for the average Seasonal player to have a great experience.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong>Travis Day<\/strong>: The cube has certainly opened up more build possibilities than before which is really exciting. Our goal is to continue introducing items that will expand on or enable builds.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/strong><\/span> Crafted Items<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong>Matthew Berger<\/strong>: We thought that there was too much overlap and redundancy in the crafting choices and we wanted to make each choice more meaningful and be clearer to the player. We also wanted certain weapon and armor types to be only discoverable in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/strong>Travis Day<\/strong>: Targeted materials serve a great purpose in giving players more direct control over their ability to earn or attain something they want. The reason we removed them initially wasn’t because we didn’t like them, it was because the way in which they were implemented was causing players to do un-fun things (like flipping a game repeatedly to kill one monster). We are very happy with the new version of those materials and contribute to giving players more diverse activities for distinct rewards. If you want to upgrade your gems run Greater Rifts; if you want Deaths Breath, normal rifts are a great source; if you want to extract powers via the cube, run bounties.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/strong><\/span> Gold<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong>Travis Day<\/strong>: We want gold to be a more valuable resource to players and have some designs in the works to this end in our next patch.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong>Wyatt Cheng<\/strong>: So the tricky thing about a gold sink is that we don’t want to add a gold sink that causes people to feel like they need to drop everything to farm gold for hours on end. A good gold sink will pull gold from the economy without making you feel like you need to completely change what you’re doing and spend hours upon hours doing it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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