vlad321 said:
I thought some of the WC talent left as well with that "exodus," not just the diablo team. |
I don't know, to be honest. Always paid much more attention to diablo related news.
@shio: you don't get it, at all. The fact that you are allowed to assign your stats means jack-n-shit concerning "character builds" related to stat-based modifiers, of course... but it allowed you to equip any item on any character. Many character builds depend on specific pieces of equipment that the character wouldn't be able to use if it followed a "normal" stat progression.
There was an strategy in stat allocation - you wouldn't realize because that work had been done previously and all you saw were guides on the internet. But there was some thinking behind the "if I made a baba that could use that java weapon" or the "if I made a sorc that could use that sword/shield combo".
Heck, builds like the singing baba (that's a baba that can solo the game in hell mode only using skills from the support tree) wouldn't be possible without free stat allocation.
The issue with D2 is that mana/rejuv pots are easily available and thus render the energy stat useless. Crippling the use of manapots or making the energy statistic more desirable by it affecting the character in other ways there'd be a trade-off involved.
Crippling stat-assignment is not to remove hassle - that was their official PR reason. The real reason is that they need to control the relative power of every character build like they do in WoW.
Current-gen game collection uploaded on the profile, full of win and good games; also most of my PC games. Lucasfilm Games/LucasArts 1982-2008 (Requiescat In Pace).
