Man... adding skill cooldowns is a pretty heavy blow to D2's combat system. It changes the game entirely.

yeah man I believe you 100%, I am for the return of fcr and ias and hitting the frame rate barriers. that stuff made the game pro.

this is true but he is just using a lot of stupid unnecessary jargon, too.  METAGAME.  who the fuck says that?

i'm pretty sure a lot of people who do mechanical design theory do!! (lol mechanical design theory I can't believe that's a real job somewhere) It's a term that's been around forever in math/military/politics use soooo. It gets used in competitive gaming a lot now too 

what do you want me to do, replace every instance of metagame with game inside a game, and every instance of metagaming with gaming inside a game. That's like the only thing you can replace it with, there is absolutely no other terms that mean the exact same thing, at all.

basically HL is one of those guys that gets suckered into STATGRIND games and takes them really seriously and gets pissed off at anyone else how doesn't share his opinion or something. At least this is the impression I am getting. Just ignore all of HL's posts in this topic pretty much.

naw, Diablo is actually the only "statgrind" I can honestly say I play competitively at all. The rest of the games I play don't actually have stats at all and are just about skill or do have stats but they mean nothing. I'm just a competitive gamer who enjoys competition and going into everything with my all, thats all.

i'm no raz tho, it's not like I call people scrubs for sucking or some shit. I understand there are casual people and people who don't "get it", and that's cool. A lot of em posted in this topic and just didn't really seem to know what the majority of the Diablo community is about, so yeh.

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i think we just want you to be a little less offensively nerdy and obsessive about this kind of thing tbh

its what i do, and I don't really care.

It's a term used in a lot of things so I don't really see your point anyways.

its what i do, and I don't really care.

It's a term used in a lot of things so I don't really see your point anyways.

you like something he doesn't and thats not okay with him

why can't you just learn to be cool like headphonics, HL?

To try to get this back on topic (it's the d3 topic guys okay.) and because I missed it

Man... adding skill cooldowns is a pretty heavy blow to D2's combat system. It changes the game entirely.

Completely agree...it's supposed to be fast paced as hell not WAITIN FOR MY COOLDOWN. ;/

I don't like the rune name system either. :/ I much liked it when it was easier to just say what rune you wanted instead of having obscenly long ones. What am I gonna have to do say I want a MPR? (Minor Power Rune) or some shit now? That's lame. wtb old rune naming system. Farrrr easier for trading.

Also I don't like the change in damage displayed not including your total damage. That bites. More math for people who want to push damage to the limit with glass cannon builds.

EDIT: Though I'm sure the rune name change is probably easy on casual players so idk. I think it would be annoying if they decided to trade someone. The damage thing is just silly tho.

Skill cooldowns, so what? You can still fuck your normal attack button as hard as you want. And if the cooldowns are anything like the ones on the gameplay movie they're very short. And why should you be able to use that instagib aoe ability all the time (effectively replacing your normal attack)?

Runes. Maybe if you were super hardcore Diablo 2 metagame certified professional you'd like the old system with silly names that make no sense. I like the DESCRIPTIVE names instead of random three letter combinations.

Yeah, I agree with Verne. Cooldowns will also increase game performance. I'm sure as hell hoping this is going to mean no more screens full of FIRE WALLS. Ugh.