Our friends at Diablofans has asked Jay Wilson a question about items, that we all care about:
Will there be items as rare in Diablo III that are as powerful from the start, or will players have to slowly improve the quality of their items, through crafting/runes/other systems?
Jay Wilson: Throughout the history of patches on Diablo II, there were a lot of updates to runewords and they really powerful from when they were introduced. At one time or another though all of the different item types were the most powerful, like unique items were the best, or rare items at some point.
Our general approach for Diablo III is to make sure that every type of item has a place to be useful. For example, maybe we’ll have a legendary item, which is the new name for our unique items, be the best helm, whereas rares will have the most powerful chest armor, and so on. Having a spread like that will allow for a more varied itemization system we hope.
I think we’ll still be stuck collecting exotic components but time will tell if Diablo 3 will be like Diablo 2 item-wise.
Hopefully they make it more similar to WoW than diablo 2
The thing i liked the most in Diablo 2 was that you could check all the unique(now legendary) and other items on Arreat summit + that they had variable preferences.I really hope they will make something similar to arreat summit in D3!
I don’t like the wow style of inventory – a small charm taking same amount of space as a colossus sword…come on. I know I did bitch a lot about the size of the inventory in D2 so i hope they will increase it + maybe make a separate inventory for charms and books etc.
so basically you want a Torchlight game. yeah that was fun for 5 hours then you beat it and the harder levels i didnt see any change in that. So basically it was a good afternoon game.
i dont like the first looks .. D2 is my fav game .. but D3 looks like WoW .. so many people are complaining about it .. i dunno why did they have to mix it up with wow ..
Well i really don’t care how the art work looks, i just want the gameplay, im pretty sure it will be JUST like WOW or JUST like DIABLO. In either case im pretty sure Blizzard would make MODS so it could change the lighting and things to better suit people who want Diablo3 to look like WoW and mods to make Diablo3 look more gothic or whatever they want it to look like.
yah, d3 supposed to be epic, not that cand-toyish wow style ; /
i just hope 4 the best; O
D3 will be and is better than wow.. Wow is a desease been thru it myself
D2 i played like 5 years ago.. eh good times 
Wat can i see i hope 4 the best but im going to miss pala and druid a lot 
Do not try to download those socalled ”Diablo 3 beta” shit because its a scamm and ull get a keylogger without u knowing it 
Not so good ;D Wait 4 diablo to relaease 
omg how dare you talk about diablo 4? its not coming out for another 20 years(but they are goona talk about it and start making it next year)
ummm he’s talking about diablo 3 but instead of “for” he put 4 not diablo 4