Comments on: Daily Poo-Stirring: No Skill Trees In Diablo?

By: Fenix

Fenix — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:44:52 +0000

This is rather hilariously foolish, considering Torchlight is essentially a stripped down clone of the Diablo games.

By: Pappy13

Pappy13 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:11:17 +0000

Anonymous Coward said:
I wonder what Blizzard’s going to do to counter Torchlight’s pet seller? In fact, I wonder if there’s any modders who could put that sort of mechanic into Diablo II?

I thought that Torchlight offered a solution there as well…vendor NPC’s in the dungeons themselves. Perhaps rather than a town portal spell you could have a town vendor spell that simply warps in a vendor at the current location or perhaps summons a carrier pidgeon that you can offload what you don’t want and takes it to the vendors. What the pidgeon can’t carry enough for you? Ok maybe a carrier pterodactyl.

By: Tye The Czar

Tye The Czar — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:56:56 +0000

I wonder what Blizzard’s going to do to counter Torchlight’s pet seller? In fact, I wonder if there’s any modders who could put that sort of mechanic into Diablo II?

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:45:00 +0000

Sounds interesting. I trust Blizzard so no doubt they will do a good job. Kinda concerning that they are changing things so radically now when the game looks so finished… still, we’ve got about 2 years before it comes out so it’s not like they’re in a rush…

By: Steven Hutton

Steven Hutton — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:13:06 +0000

All I want is Diablo’s gameplay with Eve online’s skill system.

And 500,000 concurrent players.

By: Flint

Flint — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:59:10 +0000

I’m still waiting this game like a raving fanboy but damn, there is something bizarrely enjoyable in climbing up the skill trees :(.

By: Pappy13

Pappy13 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:26:25 +0000

Anonymous Coward said:
“Oh, I do say, chaps, that there Torchlight has a bit of a tasty skills system, wot! Why yes, it’s really quite brilliant, quite brilliant, a marvel of modern gaming engineering, stupendous, superlative… truly quite, quite smashing! A jolly good show! You see, old bean, instead of our system where if you decide to take a bit of a dip into the other trees, you have to begin anew, their system only limits what you pick by level, and you can hop from tree to tree like a jolly cute little monkey, to put it in the vernacular, wot! Why, I t hink we should feel threatened by this, chaps, as it makes our system look all outmoded and utterly archaic, and we aren’t anything if we aren’t modern, so let’s jolly well nick it, eh? Yes? Jolly good!”

I’m pretty sure this was the conversation verbatim. Another reason to like Torchlight. :)

By: Vandell

Vandell — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:41:21 +0000

So it’s going the Warhammer route then?

By: cullnean

cullnean — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:11:57 +0000

indeed

By: cullnean

cullnean — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:10:10 +0000

blizz internal memo

SC2′s price plan is both new and interesting, and should be applied to diablo 3.
also wheres my new money hat.

By: Arathain

Arathain — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:22:16 +0000

It’s definitely true that the lower level skills in Torchlight are just as useful as the higher level ones, which tend to be more specialised anyway. There were a couple of characters that wanted to hold a skill point back for a single level, but for the rest of the time there were plenty of useful passives to invest in at all points of levelling. Anyway, since it’s only really practical to work with a smaller number of active skills (just from a control standpoint, anyway) I thought the general design worked brilliantly- a diverse but not over numerous group of skills, and a range of powerful passives.

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:04:04 +0000

…clever girl