Mysteries of the Mighty Barbarians.

**Uzor** · 2011-09-02 12:08

I'm not sure; They said the first 1/4 of Act 1 will be accessible, which is up to the Skeleton King.

**aurik** · 2011-09-02 12:22

Apparently, no pvp (or limited pvp at best) in the beta.

**Maaglin** · 2011-09-02 16:49

Purpose of beta is stress / feature test of the battle.net servers. Only about 1 hour of gameplay and no runestones.

**avelle** · 2011-09-04 22:25

Posting a recent quote from Bashiok since I know some people wonder about beta duration and what they'll be testing.

Source: Blizzard

Originally Posted by Bashiok

It's a couple hours of content, times five classes (times two genders if you want).

The intent of the beta is purely to test hardware, server stability, the launcher, patcher, and other very technical bits. We frankly have more than enough testers in-house to test a game like Diablo III for bugs and balance (I fully expect someone to quote this when the game releases with bugs or imbalance). We really need help from the beta to see how it runs on a wide variety of systems, and how the servers hold up with a large amount of people.

Cutting it off at the Skeleton King gives enough gameplay to hit those intents of the beta, and it's a great place to stop as it's also right before some huge spoilers. The game has a fairly straightforward campaign, and so keeping that under wraps is extremely important to us, and we think you'll ultimately appreciate us protecting the sanctity of the release experience.

**Gokulo** · 2011-09-05 05:29

http://news.mmosite.com/content/2011...leaked_1.shtml

http://img3.mmo.mmo4arab.com/news/20...3/diablo10.jpg

**djzombie** · 2011-09-05 12:02

any idea what blizzard dota is?

**Uzor** · 2011-09-05 12:17

À blizzard version of DOTA?

**djzombie** · 2011-09-05 13:09

Obviously looking for more information than what is on the powerpoint slide.

**Gokulo** · 2011-09-05 13:16

I doubt there is much if any.

**avelle** · 2011-09-05 13:35

Originally Posted by djzombie

Obviously looking for more information than what is on the powerpoint slide.

I think they announced it at last Blizzcon, you might be able to find more information if you search around that time.

**geno** · 2011-09-05 18:12

It was originally a Starcraft 2 map. There was some info about it being rebooted recently, let me find the link.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...etely-rebooted

I'm not particularly excited about it though, for this reason:

Ebbert agreed: "DOTA's a very addictive game that chases the vast majority of people off because their team mates are screaming at them. We've always felt DOTA has a very accessible, easy to approach fun game deep down inside that's just waiting to come out.

"We've just been basically carving around that and trying to knock off all the rough edges and really make it more user friendly."

Admittedly, accessibility and learning curve is a pretty big flaw in dota. Still, I can't help but be turned off by the wording used here that just makes it seem like they are trying to ez-mode the shit out of the game to an angry birds level.

**Andalusian girls** · 2011-09-05 18:49

is the September beta going to be open ?

**avelle** · 2011-09-05 19:04

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6192/...3fbbfd0d_b.jpg

Gimme.

**Rulke** · 2011-09-05 21:25

^ aljfejdflawjelfjawhefwj! want!

**avelle** · 2011-09-05 22:09

I'm feeling a beta announcement this week. Or at least I really hope so. :/

**Tajin** · 2011-09-05 22:19

Fucking teases, die in a fire.

**Sonomaa** · 2011-09-05 22:26

blizzard dota wasnt rebooted as much as it was a decision to take it from a normal dota map to something special. the reason this happened was valves announcement of their dota game, which took blizzard a little by surprise.

basically treat it as a way for blizzard to tell valve that they will not be beaten by another company at making a game that originated with them. that and it will encompass all of blizzards worlds for the characters in the game, not just SC2 or Wc3 but everything, expect it to be crazy epic in scale and power as well as built on a template so people can expand it easily.

**arus2001** · 2011-09-06 00:03

Didn't really follow Blizzcon and the like, but what's this DOTA stuff?

**Ksandra** · 2011-09-06 00:15

Originally Posted by arus2001

Didn't really follow Blizzcon and the like, but what's this DOTA stuff?

What it actually was:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_the_Ancients

What it became:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dota_%28genre%29

**Gokulo** · 2011-09-06 06:30

Player Titles:
http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/s...d.php?t=809699

WD Runes:
http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/s...d.php?t=809680

Sets:
http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/s...d.php?t=809694

Act names:
http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/s...d.php?t=809689

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