I'll use a hypothetical example to illustrate. Let's say that the most powerful Wizard build in the game uses frost damage exclusively. It can easily kill most champion packs and named monsters, but if it runs into anything that's cold resistant it won't work.
The general idea is to prevent people from finding a pack, figuring out what combination of skills can best exploit any weaknesses that monster has, and immediately switching. If you just want to be able to kill the monsters, there's no real penalty, but if you're doing MF runs you'll need to stick with one, solid build to keep the buff. It's just designed to stop people from exploiting the ability to change skills whenever they want to by giving them incentive not to rather than just making some arbitrary restriction to changing skills.
You could change skills on hot keys. There was an option for it available to you. The only problem was trying to find it. Once the other skills open up though I don't know if you would want to.
Played beta for 3 months, and I never saw a hot key switch skill button.
Are you referring to the "Exception Mode"? Where you could put any skill in the keyboard button bind?
That's cool, I didn't like the witch doctor, he totally weirded me out! The way he crouches when he staggers across the screen, and his completely bizarre powers like the jar of spiders and the hands that come up out of the ground screaming LoL. It's really cool that the character has so much flavor that it can actually weird me out like that.
Yeah, definitely a "flavorful" character, even if I don't ever play him. Saw the character reveal trailer recently and he can rain down frogs from the sky as an AoE attack and summon a giant frog that eats enemies. Pretty sweet. haha
That's cool, I didn't like the witch doctor, he totally weirded me out! The way he crouches when he staggers across the screen, and his completely bizarre powers like the jar of spiders and the hands that come up out of the ground screaming LoL. It's really cool that the character has so much flavor that it can actually weird me out like that.
I haven't played Diablo 3 at any stage yet but that all sounds good to me.
I have most of my build planned too with that Character Builder on the official site. He's no Necromancer and for that I dislike Blizzard... but he certainly appears to have a unique charm.
What kind of build were you going with? I didn't play too much of the WD during the beta so I don't feel like I completely got the class.
Played beta for 3 months, and I never saw a hot key switch skill button.
Are you referring to the "Exception Mode"? Where you could put any skill in the keyboard button bind?
That's cool, I didn't like the witch doctor, he totally weirded me out! The way he crouches when he staggers across the screen, and his completely bizarre powers like the jar of spiders and the hands that come up out of the ground screaming LoL. It's really cool that the character has so much flavor that it can actually weird me out like that.
I am the opposite, fell in love w/ Wdoc right away, the wiredness is awesome, no weapons but a jar of spider to freak out your foes is definitely the way to go. Their tombstone says, "died of extreme fear!" awesome!
I haven't played Diablo for over a decade and am wondering what class would be best to choose for my first playthough of Diablo 3. I wouldn't touch the witch doctor to begin with and probably not the demon hunter either. It looks like the barbarian would be the most newb friendly class but I'm wondering if the monk or wizard would be more fun to play as. Any suggestions?
looks like Inferno is going to be balls to the walls hard
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I'm guessing that they set it up that way for people who've never really played Diablo before or are relatively new to the genre. It seems as though it's build around primary skill that generates resources on the left mouse button, secondary resource spending skill on the right mouse button, defensive skill, utility skill, and then two others that vary based on class.
That ensures that most people get what they need (and probably what Blizzard made balance assumptions around) and that anyone who's smart enough to dig through the options can do whatever they want to do.
Wow... Going to need a lot of damage reduction or to just stay the hell away from things.
Should be a lot of fun.
So will PvP be patched in at some later point or will it be a part of some expansion?