The Secret World gives players the freedom to develop their characters the way they want, without the constraints of classes and levels. Players can acquire any of the game’s over five hundred unique abilities, and through them play exactly as they like.

The swarm of abilities makes up the Ability Wheel, and organizes each of them into helpful groups. These main groups are Ranged, Melee and Magic. They divide further into Assault Rifles, Pistols, Shotguns, Blades, Hammers, Fists, Elementalism, Chaos Magic and Blood Magic. All abilities in the wheel are tied to one of these nine weapon groups, and each weapon offers a wide array of different play styles and tactics.

A character can learn any, and potentially all (after playing for a very long time), of the abilities in the Secret World. This is done through playing and earning experience points from doing missions, defeating enemies, crafting and player versus player combat. The player starts near the center of the wheel and acquires more and more abilities as he progresses outwards towards the outer layer. 

the exciting moment for revealing of diablo 3 wll bring too much brilliant memorization to the player who waitting it for nearly 10 years sine the diablo 3 , furthermore, To complete the journey from knockabout battle racer – developed under Blizzard’s earlier name of Silicon & Synapse – to World of Warcraft, the studio decided to largely jettison support for the consoles

For you Diablo 3 hardcore mode fans out there blizzard ave confirmed that you will have to play through normal mode first before you can “unlock” hardcore mode. This is because they believe that you should first experience what the game has to offer in terms of monsters, toughness and what to do before gambling your character on a  single death. For those of you who aren’t aware of what hardcore mode is, it is exactly the same as regular mode apart from your character is mortal, so when your character dies they stay dead and you have to start again.

“Zarhym – ”This is the way it worked in Diablo II and we like it. We want players to give the game one play through to experience the story, the flow, the boss fights, and the baseline difficulty before risking a whole character on a single death. Players interested in Hardcore mode will have plenty of time for that. But we’re happy with it being a setting you have to unlock first.”

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blizzard has been obtained  reputation  for balance,fairness ,if not speed for development, that gives any Blizzard title a level of polish unseen beyond top-tier studios such as Valve.But why bring its games to consoles now, at the end of their lifespans? The short answer: because it can. Blizzard’s success, as well as their merger with publishing monster Activision, has left the studio incredibly buoyant financially

 

  

 

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, I hope I find you enlightened by yesterday’s mini Diablo 3 RMAH Guide (information posted in Diablo 3 RMAH Mini Guide) or at least amused by my design ‘skills’ illustrated by that guide… Remember to get your hands on that guide, just sign up on the right of this post!  It’s a fine, sunny day here in Ireland. Normally the even of the sun appearing in this isle of rain would be news worthy in itself but today there is better, more important information to digest! Information relating to Diablo 3 Difficulty Levels and Loot Quality. Bashiok posted this information within the past 24 hours in the official forums
This is may be a good a time as any to REVEAL TEH SEKRITS! that Inferno monster levels aren’t linear any longer. They get progressively more difficult. This was really a reaction to Inferno playtesting. Our original intent was to have a flat difficulty level where you could go wherever you want, farm for items, and it’d be no more or less difficult than any other area in Inferno. This caused a few inherent issues for us, though:

It just felt wrong. It didn’t feel right to be progressing through the game and have it stay pretty much the same difficulty the whole time. It felt like a letdown to get to the final boss of the game and it be no more difficult than the first.
There’s a wide variety of players out there and we wanted to make sure everybody had something to sink their teeth into. We expect that anybody with enough time and dedication will reach level 60. But the jump in difficulty to Inferno needed to be different amounts for different people. For the crazy people they need a HUGE ramp in difficulty, for a more “casual but still hardcore” audience you want an obvious but milder increase in difficulty. So for the crazy people who play non-stop they’ll hit Act I and get a challenge, but 1 month later they’ll still have something to work on (Acts II, III and IV). For the “hardcore-casual” they will reach level 60 later and not get brick walled when they reach Inferno. They can experience some “small victories” working on Act I with the dream of maybe someday reaching the later acts. 

 

I’ve been very busy these past two weeks working on a project for my subscribers. I’ve been asking folks to sign up with the promise of a free Diablo 3 RMAH mini guide and today I put the finishing touches to that guide. I’m no big shot so I had to do all the work myself (I learned – sorta – inDesign and crafted it lovingly with my own two hands) and that took a bit of time together with all the other things I have on the go at the moment.

It was a fiddly task that put my other projects, such as documenting and recording patch 15 class runs (á la Diablo 3 Witch Doctor Gameplay Video Patch 15 and Diablo 3 Wizard Gameplay Video Patch 15) but the task is now complete! I just wanted to let you guys who have already signed up know that I appreciate it. I didn’t think when I started this blog that so many would want to read what I muse. Thank you all.

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And if any of you lucky, already signed-up, sweet folk have feedback on the Diablo 3 RMAH Guide in it’s miniature form, then please do contact me and let me know! I know it’s free and everything but I love feedback! 

 
The studio has a reputation for producing phenomenal PC adventures, but can’t say the same for console creations. “StarCraft: Ghost” was intended to be ported as a console title as well, but the project failed. The game was scrapped early during its development stages. “People don’t want to believe us when we say we’re going to make a console game,” game director Jay Wilson told GameInformer in November. “I understand why they don’t believe us, because we’ve tried this before.

We’ve also never invested in it to the degree that we’re doing now, and we’ve never had a product that we felt was appropriate for it.”
 In addition to controls, graphics and aesthetics are just as vulnerable when it comes to porting titles. “The PC has been happily running games at 1080p and above for yonks,” writes TechRadar’s Ed Ricketts when comparing PC and console gaming. Let’s also not forget one of the most important aspects in RPG gaming: customization. And the PC is full of it, with mods and add-ons galore that aren’t available on gaming systems.

  

 

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it looks like the wait is over! Blizzard has officially announced the release date of the highly-anticipated action RPG game for the 15th of May 2012. If you’re the extremely competitive player, you’ll be pleased to hear that Blizzard is accepting pre-purchases of the digital version of the game today, meaning when the game goes live, you will be one of the first to log on and start your adventures.

For those who plan to purchase physical copies of the game, expect it to retail for $59.99 and will be available on both PC and Mac, while the Collector’s Edition will go for $99.99 which includes the full game on DVD-ROM, a behind-the-scenes Blu-ray/DVD two-disc set, the Diablo 3 soundtrack CD, a 208-page Art of Diablo 3 book, a 4GB USB Soul Stone which includes full versions of both Diablo 2 and the expansion, Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction, a Diablo skull base along with exclusive in-game content for Diablo III, World of Warcraft, and StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. So who else is excited?!

Diablo 3’s release date is just over a month away, and to celebrate Blizzard has revealed new videos of some of the game’s more destructive skills.

“Doing battle with the Burning Hells means fighting fire with fire, and this week’s videos are all about destruction. We’ve got skills to tear through demonic invaders with summoned zombies and locusts, pepper them with knives and arrows, warp their minds, blow their bodies apart, and more,” reads the Diablo 3 blog. Click the link to see the skills below in action. 

 

As most you Diablo 3 fans out there have probably realized by now, the game has been delayed, and it looks like Blizzard does not want to delay it any further than necessary which is why they have announced that the PvP aspect of Diablo 3 will not be shipped with the game upon its release. Instead, Blizzard will be introducing the PvP system in a patch following the game’s launch.
According to the Diablo 3 blog, Jay Wilson has acknowledged that the PvP system is not up to their standards, but instead of delaying the entire game for one aspect of it, which would not be fair to everyone else who may just want to play multiplayer or solo, Blizzard has decided to ship Diablo 3 sans PvP. We have to admit that PvP content isn’t for everyone, especially those who are more inclined to questing with friends and exploring the game rather than going head-to-head against other players.

While this move seems to go against Blizzard’s tradition of releasing games only when they have perfected it, but we guess they did not want to disappoint the legion of Diablo 3 fans out there. In any case, PvP fans out there might find solace in knowing that when Blizzard finally releases the PvP patch it will have been “perfected” with a ton of content for you guys.

  

 

There’s a reason the name evokes hallowed memories in any PC gamer over the age of twenty, and a reason a sequel to a game that came out twelve years ago has us desperate to delve into its depths: the Diablo games, like the soulstones and enchanted gems its players pick from its dungeons, are polished to an insane level.

The previous game saw a band of adventurers stomp the archlords Mephisto, Baal and Diablo, as well a host of their grotesque followers. But it’s been twelve real-life years and twenty pretend ones since those events of the PC-only Diablo II, and the people in the town of Tristram are forgetting their land’s troubled past. But just as society collectively decides all those stories from two decades ago were total myth, a new evil rises in the undercity beneath Tristram. Enter you, your weapon, and your insatiable desire to murder things by pressing buttons very quickly.

Fortunately for these forgetful folk, you’re handy in a fight. New technology and that twelve year wait hasn’t significantly altered the formula. Monsters – from lowly zombies to hell’s favoured lieutenants, via rotting, bloated aberrations and bleached skeleton warriors – swarm the screen, necessitating swift, tactical fighting to keep them away from your soft skin. Batting them back to the hole they crawled from is a case of whacking them with your favoured weapon or ability, and Diablo III amps both the number of enemies and the scale of enemies: the result is daunting, even if you’re not a weakling.

  

 

Fans are anticipating the newest addition to the “Diablo” series, which is set to be released on May 15 for PCs. However, there was one detail missing from the launch announcement earlier in March. Gamers were expecting the adventure RPG to come to consoles, but there was no mention of an Xbox or PlayStation debut.

But that could change very soon, according to a report from ComputerAndVideoGames.com. COO Paul Sams told the website that Blizzard is pursuing a console edition of the 16-year-old game.

“We’re continuing to explore [Diablo 3 on consoles],” he said to the website. “We think that the way we built it for the PC may need some tweaking, but it will ultimately be the type of game that can really make sense and be really fun, well-polished and a true Blizzard-level experience on a console.”

One of the primary reasons “Diablo” stuck with its PC origins is to emphasize the main priority at hand.

 

  

we’re working hard on balancing and testing Diablo III, and one of the major components is making sure that the end game experience is fun and exciting. We’d like to share a few of our goals for end game:
We have an enormous number of skill build combinations, and we want a lot of those skill builds to be viable and interesting
While there are millions of skill builds available to players, we don’t want players swapping skills regularly to beat specific encounters as they come up
We don’t want repeatedly running specific three-minute chunks of the game to be the most efficient way to acquire gear for your character
While a three-minute run shouldn’t be the most efficient, we also don’t want you to feel like it’s a two-hour commitment every time you sit down to play
Bosses should still feel worth killing
Nephalem Valor is one of the major new systems in Diablo III and it kicks in at level 60. Keep in mind that this is still in testing and we’re still working out the details. Here’s how it currently works internally: Rare and Champion packs already have great loot on them. By killing a Rare or Champion pack, not only do you get their loot, but you’ll also receive a buff granting you increased magic find and gold find. However, if you change a skill, skill rune, passive, or leave the game, the buff disappears. As an extra reward, if you kill a boss while this buff is active, you’ll receive extra loot drops from that boss.

The exact amount of magic find and gold find provided by the buff is still being reviewed, as is the amount of extra loot you get from a boss while the buff is active. We’re also playing around with whether or not the buff stacks, what the duration should be, and whether or not it should persist through death. We want to make sure the buff is strong enough to make staying in your current game more rewarding than creating a new game. At the same time, if the buff is too strong, it risks making shorter play sessions feel not worthwhile.

We expect this system will encourage players to stick with a skill build of their choice, select an area of the game they enjoy, and sweep it for rare and champion packs on their way to a boss, finishing off a run with a boss that’ll be worth killing. If you wanted a shorter play session you could be done at that point, but if you have more time, the path of least resistance would ideally be to stay in the same game and make your way towards the next boss.