Diablo 3 Character Profiles Coming Soon
Posted 12 May 2012 by NizarisWe all knew it was coming, and it will be here soon. The Diablo version of the 
Armory, previously seen in WoW, will be coming to a battle.net site near you! The profiles are rather extensive, so people can peek at all of your goodies while you’re not looking. The interface is actually quite handsome, and it’s well organized so you can see a snapshot of each of your characters and flaunt your ethereal prowess on the internets.
You’ll be able to look at your heroes (or your friends’ heroes) from any page on the Diablo III site through our personalized menu. If you’re curious about the exploits of your fellow forum posters, it’ll be a simple matter to click over to their profiles and feel envious of their gear or how long they’ve managed to keep their Hardcore characters alive.
Our first profiles release will include these two elements:
- A career tab that displays all of your heroes, how far you’ve progressed in the Diablo III campaign, how many foes you’ve slain, the names and playtimes of your fallen Hardcore heroes, and more.
- A heroes tab that shows off your equipment (including dyes, socketed gems, all equipment bonuses, etc.), your attributes and skills, the skills and equipment of your Followers, and more.
We’re planning to add tabs that’ll show off your artisans and achievements as well. Profiles will be available on the site sooner rather than later, but you should feel free to share your suggestions and thoughts in the comments section below or in the Website Features forum.
We’ve also been hard at work on a ton of other website content, available to help you sharpen your knowledge and prepare to face the forthcoming onslaught. On Monday, May 14, you’ll be able to browse an updated Items section, which will include Legendary and Set items, as well as some specific hand-crafted items.
See you in Sanctuary!
- Blizzard Web Team
Update by Flux: If you’re wondering about privacy, because you don’t want other people to be able to see all of your hours played, characters, achievements, equipment, skills, etc… don’t play, don’t Friend anyone, or don’t tell anyone your BattleTag. Those are your 3 options, since Blizzard refused to offer opt-out or privacy options of any kind when the Armory was introduced to WoW back in 2006, and made their attitude doubly-clear by ridiculing privacy advocates with an April Fool’s Joke in 2007.
In 2010 WoW added a “Recent Activity” log that shows exactly what a WoW player has done in game; quests completed, monsters killed, items found, etc — these can not be blocked or restricted to Friends Only, and they’re even available on RSS feeds, so anyone who knows your character name can watch everything you do in-game.
Numerous gaming journalists have written about the privacy concerns of this issue, and there have been numerous fan forum protests, all to zero avail. Blizzard hasn’t budged an inch on the “mandatory benefits” aspect of this feature, and there’s no reason to think they’ll change their behavior when it comes to Diablo III’s Armory.
I think thats kind of whack that you can see what skills and runes people decided to go! But I cant judge it until its out so who knows
They must add an option to hide what you want. At least I hope so.
well… considering in WoW armory you can see the talent/glyph build of anyone.. i doubt u can hide it
…why?
I could kinda understand for PvP, but that isn’t even in the game yet.
They will not add any such privacy options.
I added an update on that issue, since it’s been a big controversy for WoW players since the Armory started back in 2006. Blizzard hasn’t budged an inch. The Armory is a mandatory benefit. You will show everyone all your gear, time played, achievements, etc,, and there’s no avoid it except by not playing or not telling anyone your battletag.
Well, it’d be a PITA to be sure, but I’m assuming you can’t look into someone’s Stash. So you could just take off all your gear when you’re not using it and put it in the stash. And builds are changed easily enough, you could just swap out your skills to something else.
Well you could always just dye your gear invisible.. lol
It wasn’t that big of a controversy. A vocal minority got up-in-arms about it due to pvp balance and such, but they got over it. Now everyone is used to the major convenience of it and don’t really care. Also you can change your stuff before logging out to hide it as MRR said if you are really that concerned about it. Besides, fan sites and databases like wowhead were doing it long before Blizzard.
It’s the same in sc2. Anyone can access anyones match history if they know their id and there it’s actually a quite valid complaint since pros don’t want people to check their match history when they are training, getting to know their openings. “Shockingly” Blizzard couldn’t care less. If you want privacy you might as well buy two copies of the game… It’s stupid. It’s no effort to implement an opt-out option or a hidden feature, it doesn’t hurt anyone.
If you end up not wanting other people to see your stuff, re-select all of your skills (and un-equip all of your gear) before you log out. The information gathered for the WoW armory is taken when you log out, so it’s reasonable to assume that this will work on a similar basis. Putting in nonsense skills and emptying your equipped gear would effectively make your information hidden.
Just great. Another means to show the awesomeness of my ‘One of the Chosen’ Feat of Strength.
I like the idea, I hope they execute it well.
Actually I liked this interface better than WoW armoury.
Wow, it must be boss. I haven’t seen the armory, but this is the ABSOLUTE SEXIEST web design work I’ve ever seen in my life.
It’s not really that different from WoW’s armory layout. Obviously there has to be some differences due to the differing nature of the games.
Nice! The radio button beneath “Gear bonuses” to show you which pieces of equipment are contributing to a particular stat is a nice touch. The online character sheet looks really good.
that’s a very wild MF barb…lvl59 on nightmare act3? maybe he just running NM mephi(act3boss) 24/7?:D
and those weapons :O
and 800 dex with 400 vitality… if this character is legit i will be so happy:D
I think the stats are a bit of fluff and might not be representative for a character of that progression. For the gem tiers, for example, they simply went up from level 1-14 (omitting 13, perfect star) for what is socketed in the equipment.
Yep, and look at the weapon DPS versus the DPS value for the character listed below. Obviously just a mock-up with fake data.
Looks really nice. I guess super into it people might whine about others seeing their skills and equipment, but meh, if you’re relying on a secret build to be the best, I don’t think you are the best.
Yep. I’m not vain enough to think that people will be poring over my character to gain some kind of edge over me. I expect a lot of higher-level strategy will revolve around group strategies and synergies anyway, not just individual builds.
I have not been a fan of many of their odd choices and/or implementations; however, I must say, this looks really nice. Here’s hoping that everything UI related someday gets tweaked to look this good.
Do we have to? I mean: I’m not on facebook for a reason…
Well, contrary to Facebook these are all fictional characters and actually don’t reveal anything of you.
Except for how little of a life you actually have, of course. *also guilty*
Privacy is privacy: Doesn’t really matter, if it concerns the real-id or the virtual one.
If you keep your ‘Batman personá’ just to yourself noone will ever know it’s you… Your Privacy is still intact.
And what with my ‘Power Puff Girls persona,’ or my ‘Hobo wheed junkie persona,’ or my …
lol, one of his hardcore characters died at level 1 in 27 secs! No doubt a test character but still pretty funny …
I think those are just ‘shopped mock ups, like his items. Late in the beta at least, it was actually impossible to die at level 1 in 27 seconds; the zombies outside of town would actually stop hitting you if you got low on hps. They’d just shamble away..
Though I guess you could join someone else’s game and take their banner to a more dangerous location?
Or better yet, someone else in teh game could lure some more dangeorus monsters all the way back along Old Tristram Road and put them right at the new character spawning point, thus enabling you to die in just a few seconds and earn some sort of negative achievement.
I think from now on I will call noobs “Archy”.
Interesting, didn’t know about them not attacking if you got low!
I guess you didn’t bother doing the Life Saver achievement very often…
Inspiring presence passive, with no war cry, or battle rage? Makes sense…………….
I’m looking forward to the implementation of achievements, and I’d also like to see them make use of the banner on the profile page. It’ll be nice to click someone’s profile on the forums to see if they actually have experience in Inferno to justify their claims, etc.