Diablo III Kore

• Beginning of Jay Wilson's Interview

Diii.net: Are there going to be any completely new item types?

Jay Wilson: Will there be any completely new item types?... Yes. *laughs* That’s all I’m going to say.

Diii.net: Does that mean the Monk’s fist items? Or something else.

Jay Wilson: *pauses* That’s all I’m going to say. You asked the question. “Are there going to be any new item types?” That’s allI’m going to say.

Diii.net: Skill runes?

Jay Wilson: Yes. We will have skill runes.

Diii.net: They’re still being reworked and you don’t have any further comment?

Jay Wilson: They’re not being reworked, we had tons of skillrunes on the Wizard and the Barbarian but they were so spotty acrossthe entire class we thought it would be more confusing to show them off than to not. So we just disabled them all for the blizzcon build. Butthey’re all still there and they work just fine.

Diii.net: Are we going to see returning set or unique items from Diablo 1 or Diablo 2?

Jay Wilson: *pause*  Uh… probably. The game’s itemization isdone fairly late in development. The itemization in general is donefairly late in development. So at that point we’ll be building uniqueitems and looking all over the world for ideas and I’m sure we’ll lookat the previous games.

Diii.net: Any changes in your plans about the red outline around targeted monsters?

Jay Wilson: No.

Diii.net: So it’s still in?

Jay Wilson:  It’s still in and it’s not going anywhere.

Diii.net: Ahh. That was one of Chris Haga‘s big questions of we fans at Blizzcon. If we liked it or thought it was too obtrusive.

Jay Wilson: I consider it absolutely essential for targetselection. We tried tons of other systems, and that’s the one thatworked really well. The complaint we get is that it makes the monsterspop out from the world, and our response is that’s exactly what it’ssupposed to do.

Diii.net: Just as an FYI, our readers seem fairly unanimousin preferring “mongrels” to “zombie dogs” if you guys are still debating that name choice.  I think you said it had gone back to Zombie Dogs at Blizzcon, so of course fans then preferred Mongrels instead.

Jay Wilson: I like Mongrels better too, so I’ll use that as a weapon to try to convince the team.

Diii.net: I can send one of the PR guys the link.  Look, fans said that!

Jay Wilson: *laughing* Well that’s great.

Diii.net: Because if someone says something on an internet forum, it must be true.

Jay Wilson: Yes.

• Jay Wilson Interview: Skills & Attributes
  

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Written by Flux @ Diii.net