Diablo 3 - System revisions & Blue post discussion

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1)Scrolls of Identification are gone - players can now identify rares/legendary items without them.

2)Button '5' is now dedicated to potions.

3)The Mystic artisan has now been removed from the game.

4)The Cauldron of Jordan and Nephalem have been removed.

5)The Stone of Recall is now a button at the bottom and has been renamed "Town Portal".

6)The Blacksmith is now responsible for salvaging players' items.

7)Common (white colored) items are no longer salvageable.

8)Character Attributes have been changed. See below for details.

9)Character stats are now placed in the same place as the inventory panel and the old dedicated stats panel has been removed.

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The mystic's primary function is to enchant items, adding magical bonuses to them. She was initially said to craft spell-caster items such as wands and staves, but all item creation seems to have been passed to the Blacksmith. Here's a quote from her original description, taken from the Caravan FAQ in August 2010.

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The mystic creates scrolls, potions, magical weapons, spell runes, and charms, and can also enchant items. The full list of Formulas she will apply.

She's lost the ability to create scrolls or potions, she no longer crafts weapons or runes, and charms are out of the game. What does does is identify weapons, but primarily she enchants weapons, armor, and jewelery.
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Andrew Chambers: You specify the item you want, then you choose the enhancement you want, and that enhancement actually has a range. So say the plus experience might be 10 to 20 percent: when she applies it you might get +15% experience. You can reapply that and you’ll have a change of getting +16% or +17% experience, but it will never go beneath the current enhancement and you've always got a chance to improve to the maximum possible value.
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Enhancement was really just the socket and gem system with a different name, and it would prolong the release of the game even further to go back to the drawing board and differentiate it, so we’ll revisit the Mystic and enhancements at a later time.
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Drakenoog wrote:

Is it just me or is Blizzad doing radicle changes allot ? Iv never seen Blizzard change so much so often.

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lacalves wrote:

They are making the game simple. So simple the only thing you are going to do is point with your mouse and hack and slash. Face it, the world is getting dumber by the minute. They want more paid customers. Why complicate? I bet in the end, Diablo 1 will be more fun to play than Diablo 3.