Changes

Here's short video showing some of the barb and WD skills. (The same ones that can be viewed on the official site's character pages. Cleave is fun barb skill. It's a sweeping attack that hits everything. It's been our goal to make incredibly kick ass player chars that you really want to play. We felt like we needed to make a lot of improvements to the game controls. What we call "less spam, more depth." Not to say you won't break some mice playing d3, since it's a mouse killer, but not as clicky as d2. Allow you to get more skill diversity.

Control improvements. Hot bar. The hot bar promotes what we call skills over potion use. In D1 and D2 the primary focus for escaping problems was potion use. When you ran into tough monsters you drank potions until you won. We didn't think that made for great combat, since it turned most combat into battles of attrition and that's not the most fun way to play. We wanted the player to use more diverse skills. The D3 hot bar allows the player to use many skills very quickly. Occupies the space the belt used to use. Not any more complex. Actually a lot easier. Not need to use the complex function keys d2 used. We don't use those anymore to switch skills because you can access skills on the hot bar and you don't want hot keys. Also you can use the mouse wheel or tab key to swap between skills.