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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 1866838" data-attributes="member: 259">ShadowX, admittedly I haven't played any MMORPGs before, unless you count the MUSHes and MOOs of the early nineties (which I hated, by the way).  However, if you're looking for revolutionary advances in Blizzard titles, you're looking in the wrong place.  They don't make revolutionary advances; on the contrary, they're famous for taking a cliched concept and perfecting the snot out of it.  I can't address your specific criticisms, since they're rather general, but I can say that I didn't experience any of these areas to be problematic.  Course I'm a Blizzard fanboy, so that that with a grain of salt <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. CrusaderX, the changes since the stress test include:-A durability System.  Armor and weapons now degrade, just as they did in Diablo.  You have to pay money to vendors to get them repaired.  Blizzard added this in as a money sink:  without it, they feared that endlevel players would accumulate a ridiculous amount of cash, and would drive up the prices at the auction house so that new players couldn't possibly afford  to buy anything on the open market.-The death penalty.  Capital punishment has been abolished.  Ha ha, just kidding!  Slaughter of one's enemies is still de rigueur, of course.  No, I mean that you no longer lose experience when you resurrect via the spirit healer.  Instead, you take a 25% hit to the durability of all weapons and armor you're wearing or carrying, and you suffer resurrection sickness (a 75% penalty to most stats and abilities) for a length of time dependant on level.  If you run back to your corpse, there's no resurrection sickness, and you suffer only a 10% durability penalty.-Only two tradeskills per character. In order to avoid having everyone specialize in every skill, you can only choose two skills per character to learn. You can drop a skill at any time in order to learn a different one, but if you ever decide to resume the first skill, you have to start from scratch.  Certain skills--fishing, first aid, and cooking--don't apply to the two-skill limit, meaning anyone can learn them.-Miscellaneous details.  There are now voices for most NPCs, although they're very brief--just greetings and farewells.  Every class has talents.  Abilities have undergone some changes.  Daniel</blockquote>

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