Senin, 18 Juni 2012

Future Diablo 3 Patches to Promote Diversity and Improve Melee Characters


Blizzard has discussed the plans it has for the upcoming patches in Diablo 3, which are designed to promote build diversity and get more people to try out melee characters instead of just ranged ones.

Diablo 3 is out for over a month now and, while Blizzard has already released quite a few patches and hotfixes for the dungeon crawling RPG, this doesn’t mean that the studio is happy with the experience.

Speaking during a special session on Reddit transcribed on Battle.net, Blizzard’s Wyatt Cheng has revealed that one of the main problems currently being tackled by the studio is the disparity between melee and ranged characters.

“I'll state up front that I do think there's a disparity between melee and ranged, and I would like to see that closed. Changes are being made, and even if you disagree with the approach outlined below we can hopefully have the common ground that the current situation needs improvement.”

Cheng highlights that some of the changes included in the upcoming patch 1.0.3 for Diablo 3 should make life easier for melee players by lowering enemy health and damage, while reducing the bonus that enemies receive to damage when fighting against multiple players.

Another key aspect that’s being debated by Blizzard is build diversity, as the studio wants players to try out all sorts of skill and power combinations on their characters.

“We're keeping a close eye on build diversity for all the classes, looking at abilities that are over, and more importantly under-utilized,” said Blizzard’s Jay Wilson. “We'd like to take the approach, when we can, to buff under-utilized abilities over nerfing.”

“Yes, that hasn't been the case so far, but we haven't done a 'true' class balance patch, just hot-fixes on things we considered grossly overpowered. Class changes focused on improving diversity will be in an upcoming patch (not 1.0.3),” he added.

Do you agree with Blizzard’s current goals or do you think Diablo 3 has bigger problems?

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