5 Realistic things you'd LOVE to see Blizzard do

[Will]

1. Once a player enters town he has a 10 second timer before he may hostile another player.

2. OB Knights can no longer can cast iron maiden.

3. Fix the bug that doesn't factor in the 50% ethereal bonus on armors when upgraded.

4. All set items are now upgradeable and may spawn ethereal.

5. Tell us the damn combinations for the 23 new runewords. (I guess there saving this for when theres been a winner for every realm in the race to 99.)

Im sure im missing some great ones, but these are just 5 I thought up off the top of my head. Lets hear your ideas!

[Stimm]

I agree with all of those EXCEPT #2. Iron Maiden is a great curse to have to balance out the game. Without it melee characters really dont have anything to worry about.

[IamTheTest]

I enjoy your list. I agree with Stimm though, perhaps instead of having iron maiden on the list you could use mine.
2. The cow in the barn in act 1 blood moor should be killable along with all of the other animals in the game.

[RedWall]

Instead of removing iron maiden from their list, perhaps make it do only like 25-50% of damage back, so its not like you hit them and your doomed.

[rachil0]

Yeah, nerf IM but keep it. Something like strong poison, your bulb will do down fast but not 1-hit yourself. Or maybe, a hit does a percentage of your current life, intead returning the applied damage? Then it would hurt less the more you got hit, but still be plenty dangerous by weakening you for neighboring monsters to squash.

[jiansonz]

In preferred order:


1. When you start a character in Single Player, you are given the choice of saving system. Either as it works now, or the D1 way (dead monsters stay dead, all items still where you left them) for us who want to play each area once and only once.

2. Add uniques for all the normal and exceptional throwing weapon types and class-specific item types. We untwinked players would have much better chances to find good stuff to use early- to mid-game

3. Allow all the affixes that currently are magic-only to spawn on rares. Come on, there would still be bad odds to find top-quality ones.

4. Upgradable set items, that was a good idea.

5. Fix the bug that doesn't factor in the 50% ethereal bonus on armors when upgraded, and the bug that rerolls the base defense on upgraded +% Defense uniques. Any other armor item that has +% Enhanced Defense (even simple Superior items) uses the top base defense +1 for the calculation.

[STINGER]

You realize what Artic Furs would be upgraded?
Or posible Angelics Armor with 3 pcs......sounds interesting BUT

Only thing I want Blizz to do is stop TPPK.........its very possible

[TheCerberus]

1) Give Classic players more items. Maybe have something drop for them from D-Clone, like a nice belt maybe? I can do without charms. But for now its a pain to kill him and nothing drops. It sucks.
2) Make a light-weight armor look nice on a Paladin please. People like Mage Plates, I can't stand them. Field Plate looks nice.
3) Bring back Holy Shield on scepters please. It's going to be a pain to find one for my dueler on non-ladder.
4) Ban actively for all hacks. I'm not a big fan of the "MH is a lesser evil than TPPK" idea, so ban for everything.
5) Get rid of that game-making time limit. Instead have a picture of some distorted word, where you need to type that in to make a game. Slows down runs, yes, but are they going very fast right now?

All this would be excellent if I start playing again.

[Metroid_01]

1. a WORKING hostillity timer. i like the 10 sec from when ur in town. get rid of the stupid waiting thing if u accidentally double click hostility and then....to reapply click it a third time. make it 4.
2. metroid class monster.....come on we all want it, some just wont admit it yet!
3. make boss drops and ALL superuniques drops worse, make random unique drops better
4. antihack methods would own...doubt its coming though. something i did with starcraft maps i made..that never actualy got anywhere was put in a little antimaphack "curiosity killed the cat" bit. put something interesting looking in a corner, that when its looked at crashes your client. obviously in d2 what has to be done rather is just when viewed on the minimap itself crashes d2. i can think of 100000 ways to do it. my favorite is endless....laggy....loops. (ok thats not a crash..but nobodys playin when you move you can physically reach into ur comp and move those little packets faster than your computer can eh?)
5. just make this game rare item focused again!!


Edit: 400 posts.....YAY!

[0takuPryd3]

something i did with starcraft maps i made..that never actualy got anywhere was put in a little antimaphack "curiosity killed the cat" bit. put something interesting looking in a corner, that when its looked at crashes your client. obviously in d2 what has to be done rather is just when viewed on the minimap itself crashes d2. i can think of 100000 ways to do it. my favorite is endless....laggy....loops. (ok thats not a crash..but nobodys playin when you move you can physically reach into ur comp and move those little packets faster than your computer can eh?)



I did this on open b.net. I made an amulet with a bunch of weird mods on it and if you looked at it, it would crash d2. Pretty funny idea.

And to whoever asked for items on classic... the point of classic is that you don't have good items.

[Will]

You realize what Artic Furs would be upgraded?
Or posible Angelics Armor with 3 pcs......sounds interesting BUT

Only thing I want Blizz to do is stop TPPK.........its very possible

Arctic Furs upgraded wouldn't even be half as good as Stone.

Edit - Now a Hydraskull Arcana's helm...man, I don't even want to begin to think about the uber 1337 overpoweredness of it.

Double Edit - Heres a list of the only items I could find someone would probally want to upgrade:

Arctic Furs
Griswold's Heart
Hwanin's Justice
Naj's Puzzler
Guillaume's Face
Whitstan's Guard
Trang-Oul's Scales

[Mcsaladshaker]

1) Get rid if this ridiculous 20 games an hour or r/d crap
2) get rid of the lobby
3) Sell dwarf stars instead of sojs for DC
4) Nerf hammerdins
5) More high runes drop

[LuckyDwarf]

Naj's Puzzler is already elite.

Lucky

[NightShade]

1) THe hostile timer is now 3 seconds. It works, but it is indeed 3 seconds. In that three seconds no one may leave the game, but they can TP to town.

2) Sheilds will never go over their max block rate. eg : If your spiked sheild can block 32% of the time..you could have a million dext bit it will never go to 33%...it will how ever drop if you don't keep your dext up.

3) To balance number 2, make sheilds with high% block less attractive stat/res/pdr wise. If you want a sheild with +30 all res and 75% max block..that'd be godly. a 49% block with 10% dr and +20 to all res and fbr, sure that sounds like a good trade.

4) No more KB on charge. It makes it far too easy to use in PvP and with it's already insane synergies there's no reason to really stop if you've got them in a lock.

5) Give WW a synergy. Anything....Or atleast make Increse speed work with it...or Outside ias....or SOMETHING....as is it's a fairly useless attack vs anything in a hell game

*6* - No more enigma, call to arms, oak sage or any other of these runewords that give other characters skills. I never, EVER, want to see a hammeradin with 75% block, 90% all res 6k life and 12k damage because he has bo and oak on.




Number 2-3 are just because of my profound hatred for the fact that everyone wants an SS because it's a damn good sheild. I think that blocking should be harder to accomplish because as is no one uses 2h wepons outside of specialized builds.

[mestre]

I'd say fix barbarians. They should just REMOVE the stupid BOTD and the attack speed influence. It's stupid that you reward dupers with 40 times more damage than players using regular elite weapons. 40 times, god!

As for IM, they should allow players do be able to do something. They could remove the curse, they could allow leech to work properly, they could nmerf it, I don't know, but this "you can't kill **** but can insta-die" thing is stupid.

They could also die, so that I'd feel like I had a revenge for all these years I've been playing the game and they did far less than necessary to guarantee a fair game for me. In fact they just reward the cheaters over and over in all possible ways.

[ZounceHC]

1. Patch tppk

2. Patch Botting

3. Patch Maphack

4. Nerf IM

5. Bring back leech for pvm but not pvp.

I know the first three aren't realistic but i'm an optimist. :)

[Bongo Fury]

As for IM, they should allow players do be able to do something.I agree. I'm dead set against nerfing it since it's one of the few things that can kill a high level character. And I like the way it forces players to think rather than just mindlessly wacking away. The problem as I see it is when it's cast on you in mid swing or mid zeal when you can't do anything about it. So I'd suggest keeping the sound and the animation of the skill, but allow a one or two second delay till the actual effect takes hold. That way a character will be able to react to it and change tactics, while still keeping it a deadly skill to fear.

[MoUsE_WiZ]

1) Patch TPPK
2) CAPTCHAs (IE distorted text) on game creation
3) Randomize the MH detection packet so it can't unload itself from the D2 memory space when that packet is sniffed so MHers will end up banned.
4) Make it so you only enter the lobby when entering b.net with a character, not after leaving a game (unless you haven't entered chat yet with the character in the first place)
5) Make the world event realm based rather than server based, obviously increasing the number of SOJs required to activate it.

[queenlatifah]

Fix common bugs such as patching tppk, FE, marrowalk, tankazon, etc..

Randomize bot, mh, chicken hack detection with image security, similar to creating accounts on yahoo mail, they ask you to type out the word by looking at a jpg/gif format.

Change IM damage into a percentage that's less than 100%. 95% would be ideal for me. Just for the thrill of seeing your red ball drop to a pint, but knowing you survived it :lol: .

Make casting characters less powerful by increasing Blood Mana damage and make them spawn more often. Have it as an ability a Unique monster could spawn.

Customizable AI for minions and hirelings. You can write your own codes to have a better control over them. For example,


If "range monster" is in a proximal range of 3 radius, then "dessert warrior" engage in combat. But, if takes more than "3 seconds" to reach "range monster", then engage in combat with "monster with most proximity".

If "iron maiden" is casted, then "dessert warrior" engage in defense mode.

If life<25%, then "dessert warrior" engage in defense mode.

If "master" is running, then "desert warrior" engage in running/protection mode and staying within a proximal range of "1" of the "master".

[shertown]

ed/max bug in armors

maphack item view

chicken hack

dupers

Hell pindleskin doesnt give exp past level 75

[Omikron8]

Freakin hell please fix the nightmare fire enchantment bug so that we don't have level 80+ barb dying in two hits with 3k+ life and max res to some random FE council member.

[jiansonz]

Double Edit - Heres a list of the only items I could find someone would probally want to upgrade:

Arctic Furs
Griswold's Heart
Hwanin's Justice
Naj's Puzzler
Guillaume's Face
Whitstan's Guard
Trang-Oul's Scales

I would add a lot more (at least for untwinked players), most notably Death´s Guard, Hwanin´s Blessing and Arctic Binding.

[Mcsaladshaker]

oooh I'd prolly get flamed for this, but how bout bring back teh cows?? I miss them moos, a lot better than baaling IMO.

[Edeas_Knight]

I did this on open b.net. I made an amulet with a bunch of weird mods on it and if you looked at it, it would crash d2. Pretty funny idea.



yeah lol same thing happened to me...got bored and made some stuff, and i had a pally sheild that whenever i looked at it it froze d2, on SP and on open.

[mestre]

I agree. I'm dead set against nerfing it since it's one of the few things that can kill a high level character. And I like the way it forces players to think rather than just mindlessly wacking away. The problem as I see it is when it's cast on you in mid swing or mid zeal when you can't do anything about it. So I'd suggest keeping the sound and the animation of the skill, but allow a one or two second delay till the actual effect takes hold. That way a character will be able to react to it and change tactics, while still keeping it a deadly skill to fear.I don't think there are just few things that can kill barbarians at all. In fact I am much more worried about multiple enchanted scarabs and extra fast cursed death lords. WWing into a patch of multiple mods/auras death lords is basicaly certain death, even with 2k defense armors. There are other dangerous situations also, like WWing a pack of undead fettish with fast and high damage weapons, killing them all and dying because of the corpse explosion. But I'd need those weapons to worry about that :)

The point is one gotta stop hitting as soon as you enter chaos sanctuary, worldstone keep level 3 and throne of destruction untill you count three different kinds of enemies, so you can be sure they haven't been loaded. Damn, I am already weak for choosing to make a barbarian, and they also make that I can't even attack for some time for I can be instantly killed. I really can't see a point.

[det]

-Remove the bug on Vipers down at Nihlatak
-Anya gives out items that actually fit your build (i.e. no spears to bowazons)
-and of course fix the hacking, duping, botting issue.

Only have 3 wishes :)

[Corndog]

1. Patch TPPK
2. Patch TPPK
3. Patch TPPK
4. Patch TPPK

And here is one that might surprise you.

5. Patch TPPK

[mestre]

I think it was clear in the poll (http://forums.rpgforums.net/showthread.php?t=212127&highlight=ruins) that most people feel the tppk was the wortst thing that's happened to this game.

I have always hated maphack but I know they won't fix it. As for the tppk, I'm amazed by Blizzard's lack of action: it should be easy to fix that and now it's clear that they are not doing it. Not in time anyway, these last seasons are already ruined.

[cougar]

yeah, pub hell games are basically non existant except for trade games.

[w.t.g]

I think one think should be "repaired" : those hammerdins do way too much damage!!!!!!! i think max with good equip should be 6k instead of 15k!!!

This is just what i think tho :cheesy:

-w.t.g