Bashiok har netop givet os en mængde informationer om det tidligere omtalte Nephalem Valor. Dette er første gang, vi hører nogen officielt fra Blizzard omkring aspektet.

We’re working hard on balancing and testing Diablo III, and one of the major components is making sure that the end game experience is fun and exciting. We’d like to share a few of our goals for end game:

- We have an enormous number of skill build combinations, and we want a lot of those skill builds to be viable and interesting
- While there are millions of skill builds available to players, we don’t want players swapping skills regularly to beat specific encounters as they come up
- We don’t want repeatedly running specific three-minute chunks of the game to be the most efficient way to acquire gear for your character
- While a three-minute run shouldn’t be the most efficient, we also don’t want you to feel like it’s a two-hour commitment every time you sit down to play
- Bosses should still feel worth killing

Nephalem Valor is one of the major new systems in Diablo III and it kicks in at level 60. Keep in mind that this is still in testing and we’re still working out the details. Here’s how it currently works internally: Rare and Champion packs already have great loot on them. By killing a Rare or Champion pack, not only do you get their loot, but you’ll also receive a buff granting you increased magic find and gold find. However, if you change a skill, skill rune, passive, or leave the game, the buff disappears. As an extra reward, if you kill a boss while this buff is active, you’ll receive extra loot drops from that boss.

The exact amount of magic find and gold find provided by the buff is still being reviewed, as is the amount of extra loot you get from a boss while the buff is active. We’re also playing around with whether or not the buff stacks, what the duration should be, and whether or not it should persist through death. We want to make sure the buff is strong enough to make staying in your current game more rewarding than creating a new game. At the same time, if the buff is too strong, it risks making shorter play sessions feel not worthwhile.

We expect this system will encourage players to stick with a skill build of their choice, select an area of the game they enjoy, and sweep it for rare and champion packs on their way to a boss, finishing off a run with a boss that’ll be worth killing. If you wanted a shorter play session you could be done at that point, but if you have more time, the path of least resistance would ideally be to stay in the same game and make your way towards the next boss.

Kilde: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/4241234476#1

Nephalem Valor vil altså være en mængde ekstra Magic Find og Gold Find, man kan opbygge, når man dræber Rare monsters og Champions. Denne mængde MF og GF bibeholder man, så længe man ikke ændrer sit build undervejs i sit spil. Dræber man dernæst et boss monster, vil man drage nytte af denne mængde ekstra MF+GF - og dertil vil der blive droppet endnu flere items. Nephalem Valor vil først tilgængeligt fra level 60.

En spændende feature som dog, som Bashiok påpeger, stadig er i et teststadie. Bashiok har dog taget tiden til at svare på nogle spørgsmål vedr. buffen:

When you say extra loot, do you mean, extra loot. Or do you mean extra loot that is on par with what elite/champs drop. I remember from the article before, bosses do not drop gear that is as good as champs/elites.
They will drop gear as good as champions and elites with this buff (because you have to kill champions and elites to get it, which was the point). With the buff active you’re guaranteed one extra item drop from the boss, and it’s likely that it’ll be 1 item per stack of the buff. Up to X stacks. We don’t know how many it’ll be, probably a handful.

How many stacks will there be if any?
We're not totally sure but probably a number you can count on one hand.

Do you lose the buff when you die?
It lasts through death currently, and we like it. I know some people will also want it to be a punishment for death, but repair costs are already extremely impactful.

Does the buff splits between players?
Like someone joins after you've been killing and they have less stacks? It's a direct increase to your MF/GF, so it uses the same mechanics.

Do you lose it on disconnect?
There's a small grace period, similar to WoW where you can get back into the game before your character is actually logged out (ie a timeout), but yes if your character times out you would lose the buff.

What is the Time limit on the stack, if any?
We're messing with times from about 15 minutes to an hour. We don't know yet.

Do Stacks get removed after a boss?
We don't really think it needs to. Your focus is still going to be seeking out champions and rares. If you want to get full stacks, kill a boss, and then try to rush to kill another boss before the buff falls off... have fun? It's not going to be the most lucrative way to play, so it's likely a non-issue hypothetical.

Så som det ser ud så kommer buff'sne til at stacke, og de kommer til at få en timer, som er mellemlang (15 min), men ikke ekstremt lang (over 1 time). Desuden mister man den ikke hvis man dør, som det står nu.
Men mere interessant, lyder det som om at man alligevel deler den ekstra MF/GF, da han jo siger til spørgsmålet om det bliver splittet at det bruger samme mekanisme.

Lyder MEGA fedt! Så får man noget ud af alt! Men mon ikke det bliver droppet ligesom Path of the Titans i WoW

Jeg synes det er ret fedt. Så behøver man ikke gå rundt med det sygeste MF gear for at få et nogenlunde drop. Med dette system kan man have et medium mf og et godt dps build og stadig få et godt drop

Lyder okay, men bliver det ikke bare D2 om igen mht boss runs?

Citat fra: hattemager efter Marts 21, 2012, 06:27:36 pm

Lyder okay, men bliver det ikke bare D2 om igen mht boss runs?

synes jeg da ikke? D2 var fx tit bare:

hen til meph så hurtigt som muligt -> nyt game

Lige præcis, med dette system gør det til en fordel at løbe næsten hele spilet igennem.

Det er rart nok at vide de gør lidt ud af og endelig for noget konkret på hvad det er for et system de har har overvejet.. Bliver da spændende at se hvordan det kommer til at fungerer

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Spændende. Det kunne vel egentlig godt gå hen og erstatte MF på items fuldstændigt?!

Vi må jo gå ud fra at NV (Nephalem Valor) bare er en bonus som stacker med den MF/GF man har i forvejen. Så tror skam stadig det kan betale sig at have godt med MF på sit gear. 

Devilrance - jeg har tilføjet og ændret i dit første indlæg, så det tager sig ud som en egentlig artikel, der egner sig til forsiden, hvor jeg nu har lagt den op

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Spændende. Det kunne vel egentlig godt gå hen og erstatte MF på items fuldstændigt?!

Helt iorden. Lagde den bare hurtigt op, så havde ikke lige tid til at skrive et velformuleret indlæg