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Diablo III skill calculator now live
Posted: 14.09.2011 17:28 by JonahFalcon Comments: 11
Diablo III may not have a release date yet, but you can start experimenting with your skill trees as Blizzard has posted a skill calculator that allows you to choose six "active" skills, which are the abilities you manually use in combat.


You can then pick runestones that act as modifiers on each skill, allowing you to tailor your characters abilities much like you could tailor your socketed items in Diablo II. Crimson runestones, for example, make your timed skills last longer. Every player also gets a passive skill every 10 levels that puts a bonus on your stats.

You can then post your finished character to Facebook and/or Twitter to show it off. If that weren't enough, a game guide is now on the official Diablo III website which gives detailed info on each of the five classes in the game.

This is ample evidence that a release date announcement is coming soon, so stay tuned.
Source: CinemaBlend
Related games: Diablo III (PC)

Comments

By Kres (SI Elite) on Sep 14, 2011
Kres
Skill calculator lol. Well, ok they put effort in making that so cool.
By djole381 (SI Elite) on Sep 14, 2011
djole381
Meh. Diablo 3 ain't coming out anytime soon so they released this gimmick to keep people hyped up.
By MindCoil (SI Veteran Member) on Sep 14, 2011
MindCoil
Without actually playing the game, a skill calculator at this point is... Worthless. You get to see all the spells and abilities, sure that's cool.

It's all hype, they announced D3 way too soon IMO.
By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Sep 14, 2011
SirRoderick
A skill "calculator"?

Sheesh.
By PowerJack (SI Elite) on Sep 14, 2011
PowerJack
LOL!!!
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Sep 14, 2011
herodotus
Just release the damn thing, Gahd Dammitt!!!
By ansigar (SI Veteran Newbie) on Sep 14, 2011
ansigar
i agree with the MindCoil to take a look to the game skills is cool but worthless an also agree with the herodotus JUST RELEASE IT ALLREADY!!!! :D
By SiyaenSokol (SI Elite) on Sep 15, 2011
SiyaenSokol
Damnit, this is taking forever!
By FoolWolf (SI Elite) on Sep 16, 2011
FoolWolf
Diablo 3 is starting to get a ludicrous stamp...
The developers are a bit full of themselves and the stupid always online crap and stuff...

Problem is that they may very well have a right to be full of themselves - but if it is nothing more then SC2 did vs SC - then there are many competitors out now for the action click fest RPG:ers...
By VHugoSama (SI Core) on Sep 17, 2011
VHugoSama
LOL. Indeed. The only Blizzard game that to me is a sure buy is "Starcraft".
By bosnian_dragon (SI Core) on Sep 18, 2011
bosnian_dragon
Hey people, how can I calculate a common logarithm of 150 in this thing?