While the kit sounds good, the model is genuinely pretty atrocious. It's radically different, very cartoony and lacks any actual menace. I don't particularly and do not expect to buy into the argument that it 'had' to be that way to fit into this game. The changes made, while they do make it a less horrifying figure, do so not through reducing skeletal elements (it still has a trailing spine, the face is skull-like as per the d2 model (which is very different to the d2 cinematic because he's still more human at that point in the story), but the face-shape, proportions, posture, movement etc ar…

The model looks about as different to d2 mephisto as it possibly could while maintaining the same *general* shape (because in fact the shape is quite different as well). It's far more fleshy and less skeletal, the face is radically different, the arms/tendrils are substantially different, in general it's very clearly a cartoon version that drops all the menace.

Honestly whatever the reason, it really is dramatically different to the d2 model in a way that completely fails to capture the feel of the thing. It is extremely cartoony.

It's far more cartoony than the d2 model, and indeed has a different shape in a number of ways. The D2 model has a very elongated skull, this one looks more like a mask. The D2 model looks like an undead demon with flesh draped over largely a skeletal figure, it doesn't come close to the ground either, it cuts off at the mid.The D2 model also doesn't have two arms connected at the shoulder, it has more of a set of tendrils descending from that general area.It certainly does fail to capture the essence of the character, whatever the challenges of the translation may have been. It looks dramatic…

08/06/2018 11:42 PMPosted by CheakyTurtle08/06/2018 11:29 PMPosted by RenideoI'm not sure why they have mana costs as a form of resource management, and then talent tiers where you have no option other than to invalidate the mana costs. Bearing in mind that as the game goes on mana costs dwindle relative to both total mana, and mana regen. There's a certain stage of any game where mana largely ceases to be relevant, and for some characters it just never is.Whether the tier is balanced or well designed is one thing, but why that design philosophy continues to operate is a mystery.Either mana sh…

Without getting into power or the details of the kit, and i think there's plenty to say there . . .What bothers me is that her E has an incredibly brief animation, and 90% of what you see is two rectangles coming down in a cross. It looks more like putting a plaster over the battlefield than actually using offensive magic. It has no weight to it, utterly unaesthetic.I love the core idea of dealing damage to heal marked targets (tyrande has that feature as well, albeit via a talent) but her abilities do feel rather lacklustre in implementation and it's hard not to see strong counterplay to her.…

Mana addict is basically always right. In fact the quest reward was often taken when it was a late game talent on its own, that plus the additional mana make it a superlative level one talent. Convection is certainly nice if you're feeling greedy, but it doesn't scale particularly well and doesn't give much until you actually complete the quest. Fel infusion feels like the sort of thing you'd only take to sustain in lane or in a game without a support, it's really not something that would save your life when the enemy team is trying to kill you in a team-fight and it doesn't add enough value o…

We still have generics, seasoned marksman for instance, follow through. Cleanse is certainly also an example of something that while no longer present as a generic, is pretty much present in the same way as the "momentum" talents, which are all the same but mildly differentiated for each character.The design philosophy of the game in relation to how significant the draft is, and how versatile the talent system lets an individual character be is a reasonable cause of consternation though, irrespective as to the side taken.

Most real time games have a burden of mechanical execution inherent in them. In starcraft you have to micromanage your units (including stutter stepping, splitting, target prioritisation etc) while also managing your economy and production (your macro) at the same time.One of the things people look to when identifying this game vs its competitors is a lack of tedious busywork, last hitting and so on. That's true. There is, and isn't a distinction between the two types of mechanical activity.On one level anything you have to do, and can do to differing degrees of efficacy and consistency in ord…

The tyrande rework managed to squeeze in most of the particularly deplorable design tendencies of its time. Full quest tier at level one which forces non-discretionary use of key abilities and creates perverse incentives? Check. Entire talent tiers with slight variations on the same thing? Check. Few meaningful choices? Check.Rather amusingly while tassadar's rework pushed him into a monomaniacal focus on synergy with carries tyrande's rework pushed her away from having any substantive interaction with her team at all. Even her offensive capabilities seem to have moved away from diablo-tyrande…