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An additional feature, which was a pleasant surprise to some, is the ability to select which class to view the stash as. Selecting a different class will make the [[armor]] items appear different: each [[class]] has their own unique icons for armor.
===Hardcore Death & The Stash===
Hardcore characters do not have access to nor can trade with any softcore characters on the same account. If a Hardcore character dies any items they have placed in the shared stash will not be lost. All items on their person and inventory will however be lost with the character when it dies. <ref>[http://blues.incgamers.com/Posts/11/1/45/850/124329/hardcore-and-stash#postId_324360 Hardcore and stash] - Blizzard, 19/10/11</ref>.
==Previous Development==
Finding and collecting items is a big part of the Diablo franchise, but storing and transferring those items has not always been easy. [[Jay Wilson]] spoke to this problem in BlizzCast Episode 5, August 2008. <ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/blizzcast-episode-5-transcript/BlizzCast Episode 5]- Jay Wilson, Blizzard, 28/08/08</ref>
::"'''Jay Wilson:''' ...we really want to make it easier for you to be able to share and trade items with other people and other characters on the same account. We’ve talked about ideas like a shared stash, or a mail system like World of Warcraft has, and we haven’t nailed down exactly which one of those we want to do, but we’re definitely going to do something like that, that’s going to make it really easy for you if you’ve got, a Witch Doctor and a Barbarian character, and you find that awesome Witch Doctor drop and you want to share it, it’ll be super-easy to do that."
===July 2010===
The system remained undeveloped nearly two years later, as Bashiok explained in a forum post in July 2010. <ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/shared-stash-still-just-a-dream/Shared Stash Still Just a Dream]- Blizzard, 14/07/10</ref>
::"No update, it’s something we hope to do, it’s not designed or in any sort of implementation phase so until we reach that point and either hit a revelation of it working or not we won’t know for sure. But yes, still hope to have some sort of easy way to share between characters. “Drop games are dumb.” - Bashiok"
===August 2010===
Jay Wilson spoke again about the shared stash at Gamescom in August, 2010. <ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/jay-wilson-interview-g4tv/Jay Wilson Interview @ G4TV]- Jay Wilson, Blizzard 28/08/10</ref>
::Including a shared stash in Diablo III is, I think, everyone’s first choice. A shared stash is very easy to deal with for the player, and having it in the game creates a nice common area where characters can gather in a game. It does create a few problems, though. For one thing, it really encourages players to [[mule]] items on multiple characters. Which may just be something we have to deal with. Players who like to mule really like doing it. We kind of feel, well, we wish you didn’t have to mule. We wish there was a better way to store away spare items.
Also from Gamescom, Jay described the stash getting larger over the course of the game.<ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/jay-wilson-interview-pcgamespc-games-de Jay Wilson Interview @ PC Games.de] - Jay Wilson, Blizzard 20/08/11</]ref>
::The stash starts off small, but grows “ridiculously huge” over the course of the game, when gold is spent to enlarge it.
===January 2011===
Shared stashes are confirmed as in the game and working, by an @Diablo tweet. <ref>[http://twitter.com/Diablo/status/25339141738729472Stash Tweet]- Blizzard 12/01/11</ref>
<blue>Shared stashes are in and working. </blue>
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