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Potions in PvP
::'''Jay Wilson: '''We did put health potions back in, but they play a very different role. You can't spam them like you used to, you can only use them about once a map. The purpose of those is to take the edge off the loss of health. I don't have health, or I've got half health, do I want to use a health potion, or do I want to risk it? Ooh, I've got 10% health, it's not even a decision. That's a really interesting decision, and it makes potion use a fun part of the game.
::'''''IGN: '''Why not auto-cast a potion if you're down to 10%? ''
::'''Jay Wilson: '''Because it takes the choice away from the player and we wouldn't want to do that. We really want the player to make that choice. So the other side of it is, we deal with some of the harder monsters, like bosses and rares and champions, they don't just drop them like that. They would drop health globes at percentages of their health. Rares in particular are almost guaranteed to drop about every 25%. The other thing we did, because we design everything for cooperative play, if you pick up a health globe and you have a friend nearby, you both get the benefit. So that's something we did to make sure the system didn't favor people who are running forward, melee classes, who used to pull up all the health potions. Now they're actually helping the people in the back.
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==Potions in PvP==
Players have asked how potions will be handled in [[PvP]] play in [[Diablo III]]. This question is not one the [[D3 Team]] have answered yeryet. There were no healing potions in the Blizzcon 2010 PvP demo, but this might not indicate a design decision for the final game.
[[Jay Wilson]] did talk about healing potions in conceptual terms, during a [[BlizzCon]] 2008 Q&A session.[http://www.diii.net/blog/comments/blizzcon-press-conference-with-jay-wilson/]
==Potions in Diablo II==
See the {{iw|Potion Potions page}} in the Diablo II wiki for full details on potion use in Diablo II.
 
 
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