Den før så meget omtalte og indtil for nyligt hemmeligholdte Talisman, har netop fået 'sparket', således at den sandsynligvis ikke vil være at finde i den endelige udgivelse af Diablo 3. Udviklerholdet har indset, at dens funktion ikke var optimal og ikke bidrog til det 'gode gameplay'.

Der åbnes dog op for muligheden, at Talisman vil se dagens lys efter udgivelsen. Om der så menes i en patch eller en senere udvidelsespakke, er svært at vide.

Se quote fra Bashiok nedenfor.

Well, I can say from feedback and testing we’ve made the decision to pull the Talisman from the initial release of the game.
It was a cool idea at its core, but right now it’s just really too basic and doesn’t provide anything you can’t get from the armor and weapons you’re equipping. It requires a lot of the player to invest time and energy into finding and storing yet another type of item just to add player stats. When they do all that, it’s just to do something pretty boring that they can already do with awesome things like armor and weapons. Originally the Talisman had a much deeper design, but it proved very ambitious and it got whittled down over the years to a very basic +stat per single square. We like simplicity in our designs, but charms became superfluous in their purpose.

We really like the core idea, but we don’t want to stop everything and spend a large amount of time trying to fix the Talisman, although we do have some great ideas already. So, it’ll very likely come back in some form or another after the game ships. And be awesome.

Kilde: http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?sid=3000&topicId=27810240882&forumId=12007&postId=278054184421#2

Ja, det lyder ret lavt... også som noget man skulle bruge alt for meget tid på at forsøge at gøre til noget godt hvis den skulle fungere som samlet charm..

Kommer dog til at savne individualiteten i stats, men jeg tror nu ikke det bliver et problem... Vi får at se om den dukker op senere hen..

Ja, jeg havde også håbet på at det var lidt ligesom med runestones i skills, så kunne man kombinere dem i den talisman til større effekt.. men pt virker det jo bare mere som et inventar til charms