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 ==Skill Runes==
 We haven't talked about [[Runes]] for quite a while, in fact we gave them the year off last year to let them percolate a little bit but they are back and they are in the game and you can play them here at the show. They are fully implemented in the Witch Doctor, the Wizard and Barbarian and I urge you to play the game and give Skill Runes a try.<br><br>
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 To give you an example here. The Witch Doctor's new skill called [[Poison Dart]] and that kind of fit with the Power Rune before but then we changed the skill so we had another version that would make it a rapid-fire skill and then it worked really well with Multistrike but then we had this wacky idea of the Witch Doctor being able to shoot a live snake that would attach itself to monster's faces and stun them. Where does that fit? It doesn't fit anywhere so we just changed the names of the runes then we can come up with as many kinds of wacky ideas as we want. <br><br>
 ==Specific Skill Rune Examples==

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 That was a good starting point. We really liked stuff.  We said to ourselves that it still read a little bit on the swifter side and also a little bit more deadly so we added a bit more of an edge to the character but that still wasn't where we wanted the character to be.<br><br>
-[[Image:Melee aspects.png|left|thumb|250px|Adding melee]]Whilst we already liked it a lot and thought there was some really good concepts going on with it already there was something missing. We didn't quite know what we needed to add to it. We started to added elements to give it a little bit of a twist. Most of the Diablo classes we do, we always give it a little bit of a twist, a little bit of a angle, a little extra something. In this case we started adding certain melee aspects, adding short daggers, short swords, even fist weapons and you can see some armour on the chest there.
+[[File:Dh-concept-melee.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Early ranger/malee concept.]]Whilst we already liked it a lot and thought there was some really good concepts going on with it already there was something missing. We didn't quite know what we needed to add to it. We started to added elements to give it a little bit of a twist. Most of the Diablo classes we do, we always give it a little bit of a twist, a little bit of a angle, a little extra something. In this case we started adding certain melee aspects, adding short daggers, short swords, even fist weapons and you can see some armour on the chest there.
 As we iterated on this we added even more of that. We added cowls and a lot of different elements like that. As you can see our products take a lot of development and one of the things we started to realise as we went through all these concepts was that it really didn't start to read Ranged any more, it started reading more and more like an assassin, a little bit like a melee class and so at that point we said to ourselves that we need to take a break. We need to slow down, rethink what we are doing.<br><br>
 ==Demon Hunter Evolution==

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 Part One covers the initial ranged character concepts, from various types of [[archer]]s to the early looks of the Demon Hunter, as they design progressed towards the final finished model.
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 Part Two covers the sexy nature of the class, 3D modeling, the Demon Hunter's [[lore]], her skills, and the redesigned [[skill tree]] system in general.
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 '''Jay Wilson - Game Director'''
-Battle Arenas are our first approach to PvP and hopefully
+[[Image:Arenas team based.png|right|thumb|150px|Team-based Battles]]Battle Arenas are our first approach to PvP and hopefully not our last. The vision for Battle Arenas is a dedicated place for all your dueling needs. Dueling was a massive part of Diablo 2 and a lot of people really loved to duel. We know you like to kill each other and Diablo 2 didn't support it very well, so were really focused from the very beginning to make sure we corrected that mistake. It's focused on team-based play and the reason for this is, as Julian mentioned, we had 97 billion builds and the idea that every build is perfectly balanced versus every other build is not going to happen. We definitely want to get all the class balance a lot better than it was in Diablo 2 but the idea is that some of the builds are supposed to be better than others, that's the point, you're supposed to try and find the best PvP build. So focusing on more team-based play softens that issue a little bit, that issue of balance. Maybe if you go into the Arena and you face a build you are weak to your team mates can help you make up for that. It becomes more than just about your own build but your teams' build.
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 This is a transcript of the Gameplay Panel held at [[Blizzcon 2010]] discussing the newly revealed [[Demon Hunter]] and changes made to the other four classes during the year.
-The remit read "How does the Diablo III team go about creating a class fit to fight the legions of the Burning Hells? The designers and artists delve into the creative process." c
+The remit read "How does the Diablo III team go about creating a class fit to fight the legions of the Burning Hells? The designers and artists delve into the creative process."
 On the panel was:
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 '''Skills Runes on Barbarian Skills'''
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 Next up is the [[Wizard]] and we brought back [[Hydra]] for the Wizard and it works just like the skill in Diablo 2. Crimson Rune changes them to Frost Hydras with a short range breath attack. Then we brought in a [[Lightning Hydra]], lightning hydras never miss. Next up we have an [[Arcane Hydra]] (with Alabaster rune) which shoots miniature arcane orbs for AoE damage. Then we did an [[Acid Hydra]] (Obsidian rune) because melting monsters is a lot of fun and finally one big hydra head but with the firewall attribute
-Crimson - Chilling breath
+'''Skills Runes on Wizard Skills'''
 Indigo - Lightning
-Alabaster - Arcane
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-Obsidian - Acid
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-Golden - Fire Walls
+File:Crimson frost hydra wiz.png|Crimson - Chilling breath
-Next up let's look at [[Plague of Toads]] on the Witch Doctor. The Crimson Rune makes all of your frogs on fire and then something a little more gameplay oriented, you've got mana reduction (Golden rune) so you can have a lot more frogs and then Alabaster rune will blind monsters which gives you some crowd control ability and then we change the skill completely and make a toad blizzard (Indigo rune) then finally we wanted to have a giant toad (Obsidian rune) but what's he going to do? He's going to eat monsters and he digests them but he doesn't digest the loot.<br><br>
+Next up let's look at [[Plague of Toads]] on the [[Witch Doctor]]. The Crimson Rune makes all of your frogs on fire and then something a little more gameplay oriented, you've got mana reduction (Golden rune) so you can have a lot more frogs and then Alabaster rune will blind monsters which gives you some crowd control ability and then we change the skill completely and make a toad blizzard (Indigo rune) then finally we wanted to have a giant toad (Obsidian rune) but what's he going to do? He's going to eat monsters and he digests them but he doesn't digest the loot.<br><br>
 '''Jay Wilson - Game Director'''

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 Leonard Boyarsky - Lead World Designer<br>
 Paul Warzecha - Lead Character Artist.
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 [[Image:Skill_rune_effects.JPG|right|thumb|150px|Skill Rune effects]]Originally we weren't thinking about having different graphics for every skill rune choice because it's a tonne of work so we thought we'd just do the ones that sound interesting. What we found along the way was that if we didn't have a graphical change the skill rune just felt weak or even broken and we found that everyone at the office would gravitate toward the skill runes that had graphic changes. This really comes down to a fundamental question which is that we could just change all the numbers underneath, give you a numerical change or we could have the screen filled with zombie bears and which would you rather have? Zombie Bears of course.<br><br>
-[[Image:Rune types.png|right|thumb|150px|Skill Rune Types]]We still have five times the skill Runes only they have now changed their names. They are now called Crimson, Indigo, Obsidian, Golden, Alabaster. We had a system before where we named the runes according to the concept attached to them like Multistrike or Energy and Multistrike Runes did Multistrike things and Energy Runes did stuff with your resources. What we found was that we kept coming up with ideas that didn't fit with those concepts very well. At first we would have some concepts that would fit really well, we'd get some things that did a multishot and they would fit but when you started coming up with wacky ideas it became harder to shoehorn them into that system.<br><br>
+[[Image:Rune types.png|right|thumb|150px|Skill Rune Types]]We still have five times the skill Runes only they have now changed their names. They are now called [[Crimson]], [[Indigo]], [[Obsidian]], [[Golden]], [[Alabaster]]. We had a system before where we named the runes according to the concept attached to them like Multistrike or Energy and Multistrike Runes did Multistrike things and Energy Runes did stuff with your resources. What we found was that we kept coming up with ideas that didn't fit with those concepts very well. At first we would have some concepts that would fit really well, we'd get some things that did a multishot and they would fit but when you started coming up with wacky ideas it became harder to shoehorn them into that system.<br><br>