OK SO....

Anyone who plays D2 will know what I'm talking about and hopefully agrees.

Anyone else find that items like "ENIGMA" giving Barbs or whoever teleport kind of ruins the game? Like seriously, characters are unique because of their skills and I find that having items like enigma giving other toons those abilities just ruins the point. I'm sure there has to be better solutions to overpowered chars than that.

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The only reason these were implemented was to change things up, and add more playability to the already stagnant system that D2 had going.

That being said the only reason it was stagnant was because the game was what 6 years old at the time?

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3 1/2?

Still, that's quite a long time in game-years. I mean, it *IS* an exciting feature. Build items that give you other class abilities? Hell yes I'm going to start playing again, that sounds AWESOME. But which abilities were given determined the long-term effects. Also, in their defense, they're generally very difficult runewords to create under normal circumstances. It's fairly easy to justify creating some of these things with the idea that only a few people will be running around with these powers.

As it relates to Diablo III, I wouldn't say "never", but providing a way to gain access to other class abilities is not something we're looking to or planning on implementing in the foreseeable future. I think if at some point years after the game is released we need some way to spice things up, honestly it's one fairly easy way to do it. I also think we have enough knowledge and know how and experience to be able to intelligently control such things. But I would also hope that those smarts could maybe help us find better ways to keep things interesting.

Can you provide your source, because it would have been a misquote. We never promised "many updates within the next month" after announcing at WWI.

Now, it was said that we'll be announcing more in the months ahead, but that's an entirely different sentence. The originating text/video/etc of the words you're putting in between quotes would be helpful.

It was awesome, there's a lot to do still before I can get back in to the normal swing of things talking with you guys. Just another day!