Diablo III fan site, Diablofans.com, has an in-depth look at the press event festivities from last week's shindig at Blizzard.
There is a lot of text, but it provides great detail concerning the reveals of the game's item system, skills, and so much more. They even provided a lovely tl;dr version for you!
In addition to the three new items and stash information, we were told that the Skill system has gotten a complete revamp. Instead of 7 active skills, we now only have 6. In addition, the traits system was removed and turned into a "passive skills" section on the skill window, cleaning up the UI quite a lot, and allowing us to choose Skills and "traits" (passive skills) all in one window. That in mind, we can also only have up to 3 passive skills at one time. However, we begin the game with only 2 active skills and no passives. The last four active skill slots can be unlocked at levels 6, 12, 18, and 24, and the three passive skill slots are unlocked at levels 10, 20, and 30. So by the time we complete Normal, you should have unlocked all of the possible skill slots. Now, skill and trait points were also removed. Once you reach a certain level, you unlock X skill and/or X passive that you can swap in and out as you see fit. Again though, you can only have 6 actives and 3 passives at any given time.
There is a lot of text, but it provides great detail concerning the reveals of the game's item system, skills, and so much more. They even provided a lovely tl;dr version for you!
- D1 Warrior (the Dark Wanderer) was retconned, he is now King Leoric's eldest son.
- Fire reigns from the sky, dead arise from graves, bring heroes to Tristram.
- Book of Cain fills the 20-year gap between LoD and D3.
- Leah is Adria's daughter and Cain's adopted niece.
- 6 active skills instead of 7. Traits revamped into "passive skills," only 3 active at a time.
- Cauldron of Jordan: Allows you to sell items from battle.
- Nephalem Cube: Salvages items.
- Stone of Recall: D3's version of a hearthstone.
- Stash is huge! Larger than LoD's and has 5 pages, that you can purchase for gold.
- DH has 2 separate resources, Hatred and Discipline, both regenerate at a certain rate.
- Beta will only be a portion of Act 1 and will be relatively small.
- Real money auction house as well as a gold auction house and direct trading.
- Banner system to represent each person individually.
- Fire reigns from the sky, dead arise from graves, bring heroes to Tristram.
- Book of Cain fills the 20-year gap between LoD and D3.
- Leah is Adria's daughter and Cain's adopted niece.
- 6 active skills instead of 7. Traits revamped into "passive skills," only 3 active at a time.
- Cauldron of Jordan: Allows you to sell items from battle.
- Nephalem Cube: Salvages items.
- Stone of Recall: D3's version of a hearthstone.
- Stash is huge! Larger than LoD's and has 5 pages, that you can purchase for gold.
- DH has 2 separate resources, Hatred and Discipline, both regenerate at a certain rate.
- Beta will only be a portion of Act 1 and will be relatively small.
- Real money auction house as well as a gold auction house and direct trading.
- Banner system to represent each person individually.