pstrongBlizzard has just announced a a href="http://www.blizzard.com/us/inblizz/contests/themepark/"theme park contest/a./strong If you’ve ever imagined taking a a href="http://www.maxfreak.com/diablo3/archives/diablo-theme-park/"Diablo ride/a, this is your chance to get acknowledgment for your imagination.br /a href="http://www.maxfreak.com/diablo3/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/diablo-theme-park.jpg"img src="http://www.maxfreak.com/diablo3/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/diablo-theme-park.jpg" alt="diablo-theme-park" title="diablo-theme-park" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-273" style="float: none;" width="500" height="288" //a/pdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/3385390097573427724-8978547665777853645?l=diablo-3.blogspot.com'//div
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The Eminence Symphony Orchestra has just released Echoes of War: The Music of Blizzard Entertainment, a comprehensive arrangement album of music from Blizzard Entertainment’s franchises, including pieces from the unreleased StarCraft II and Diablo III. The album comes on two CDs, and is available in both a standard edition and a special Legendary Edition packed with bonus materials. Visit the official Echoes of War website to hear samples, learn more, and order your copy today.
strongThe runes (thought not a href="http://www.maxfreak.com/diablo2/runewords.shtml"runewords/a) make a return to Diablo 3./strong They’ll still drop from monsters, however, they will be used in a way that’s VERY different from a href="http://www.maxfreak.com/diablo2/"Diablo 2/a. pstrongOK, let’s go over how a href="http://www.maxfreak.com/diablo2/runewords.shtml"runes worked in Diablo 2/a./strong There are 33 runes that drop from monsters. Note that some runes drop often while others drop extremely (e.g. Zod rune). Also, there are items with sockets that are able to take runes (or jewels). Some rune combinations (called a href="http://www.maxfreak.com/diablo2/runewords.shtml"runewords/a) create a href="http://www.maxfreak.com/diablo2/itemeditor.shtml"Runic Items/a, which are among the most powerful items in the game./p blockquotep For example, socketing the runes Hel + Ohm + Um + Lo + Cham gives your axe or hammer a whole bunch of additional stats and it also adds the label “Doom”./p/blockquote pstrongOK, so what are the changes to the runes in Diablo 3?/strong Runes will still be used to CUSTOMIZE your character, however, runes no longer modify a href="http://www.maxfreak.com/diablo3/diablo-3-items/"ITEMS/a. Instead they’ll be added to skills (each skill has a single rune slot).br /strongbr /Also, to make runes easier to use/strong, rune names will be changed to reflect their effect, e.g. Rune of Multistriking. How does this affect gameplay?/p blockquotep For example, a Minor Multistrike Rune attached to the Skull of Flame will make projectile skip along the ground once , but higher quality Runes like the Major Multistrike Rune may raise the amount of bounces and the distance traveled by the projectile. /p/blockquote pstronga href="http://www.maxfreak.com/diablo3/archives/diablo-3-announcement/"Jay Wilson/a, Diablo 3 Lead designer, expressed his strong desire/strong to make each skill customizable while at the same time retaining the uniqueness of each a href="http://www.diablo--3.com/diablo-3-classes/"class/a. In other words, he doesn’t want the a href="http://www.diablo-3-wiki.com/Main/Barbarian"Barbarian/a to be able to mimic the Wizard by adding certain runes to skills./pdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.com/tracker/3385390097573427724-4175567434260792385?l=diablo-3.blogspot.com'//div