{"id":15622,"date":"2012-05-28T11:11:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T18:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=15622"},"modified":"2013-09-01T12:38:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T19:38:48","slug":"blizzards-state-of-the-diablo-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2012\/05\/28\/blizzards-state-of-the-diablo-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard&#8217;s State of the Diablo address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"15622\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/State_of_the_Diablo.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/State_of_the_Diablo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"State_of_the_Diablo\" width=\"600\" height=\"298\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15623\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So how is everyone else playing Diablo III?  Blizzard offers some stats:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>* On average players have created 3 characters each<br \/>\n* 80% of characters are between levels 1 and 30<br \/>\n* 1.9% of characters have unlocked Inferno difficulty<br \/>\n* 54% of Hardcore players chose a female character<br \/>\n* The majority of Hardcore deaths (35%) occur in Act I Normal<br \/>\n* The most common level 60 build in the game is only used by 0.7% of level 60 characters of that class (not including Passive diversity)<br \/>\n* The most used runes for each class at level 60 are Barbarian: Best Served Cold, Demon Hunter: Lingering Fog, Wizard: Mirror Skin, Monk: Peaceful Repose, Witch Doctor: Numbing Dart<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Blizzard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/us.battle.net\/d3\/en\/blog\/6018173\/Game_Design_Update-5_28_2012\">design update<\/a> explains what to expect in the next two patches.  It also has some comments on tuning inferno difficulty, legendary items, and this tidbit on balancing skills:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If any single skill or rune feels absolutely required to progress, it means that skill is working against our goal of encouraging build diversity &#8212; and those &#8220;required&#8221; skills need to be corrected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, that&#8217;s how I feel about pretty much every skill I&#8217;m using, but that changes as soon as I experiment with another skill.  I can&#8217;t begin to imagine what Diablo III&#8217;s balance looks like to Blizzard, from a high level looking down at the reams of data they&#8217;ve collected.  But from where I&#8217;m sitting, down in the trenches of nightmare mode, only starting to scratch the surface of the game&#8217;s tougher choices, one of my favorite things about Diablo III is its sense of tuning.  From my perspective, the most powerful class is whichever one I just got done playing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-15622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-diablo-iii"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blizzard&#039;s State of the Diablo address - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2012\/05\/28\/blizzards-state-of-the-diablo-address\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blizzard&#039;s State of the Diablo address - 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