1. Downloading the character cards and using the app I can still play with these 3 and i can use proxy miniatures from Gloomhaven or Talisman. But , what else do i need to make them viable. Do I need to download and print their armour card sets? Special artefacts and card weapons? New Spells? A step guide on what you need to to do would be good! If one exists!
2. I would like to add in the 9 spells from the old 1993 Wizards of Mordercar ( I would buy this in a heartbeat if I could.) Are there any HB spells sets that are generally recognised as being balanced and inline with the OG game and used regularly.
3. I would also like to apply item 2 to the Druid, bard and Warlock Spells to give variety.
4. In the app, when you choose a hero, there is an image of both the Male/Female Wizard and then a third image of the grand wizard/mentor! How do i get my hands on the mentor figure? THAT is a proper wizard to me! ( in my very humble opinion!) what I would like to play as. Saruman and Gandalf, Evil Lynn Mesmera were my heroes growing up, along with the emperor from Star Wars! Old wizards/evil queen sorcerers are my jam!
5. I will get into Homebrewing after trying the existing classes and spells :)

Overall rating: 7/10

• Excellent graphics and dark atmosphere
• Solid responsive combat
• Good story so far
• The return of skill trees (maybe a little too simple)
• Questionable class balance - but its end game where this matters most
• Melee punishing mechanics
• Messy UI system
• Frustrating dungeon mechanics

1. The final game will have better balance and a higher degree of polish
2. The most egregious bugs will be fixed
3. Server stability is always a short-term problem
4. Some player feedback will be implemented

Classes (rated individually)

• All three elements (Fire, Ice and Lightning) felt solid
• Basic builds felt well thought through and smooth to play
• Simple but powerful build defining class mechanic system
• Meteor and Flame Shield didn't feel great to use
• Not much to dislike so far

• The most dynamic class (I can see why the Developers like this class)
• The combination of melee and ranged attacks make the class versatile and able to adapt quickly
• Even with melee builds you don't get bogged down like the Barbarian due to numerous movement skills
• The class looks awesome with two melee weapons and a bow
• Some of the buffs don't look great aesthetically (Shadow Orbs - weird floating purple orbs)

• My favorite class so far on Beta but has some tweaks that could be made
• The class looks and feels great (summons aside)
• Skeletons and Corpses need new graphics as currently they have that D3 cartoon vibe
• Much like the Sorcerer, abilities fit together well with basic builds and rotations flowing easily
• The ultimate Blood skill is very 'meh' and IMO could be replaced with something more vampire like - it Just feels like they rushed this one to complete the class
• Very few if any minion options in the skill tree (moved to book of the dead)

• Attacks feel powerful mechanically
• Really like the concept of the arsenal system
• Automictic weapon swapping is cool
• Struggled on the Beta until around level 17
• Punished by bosses that appear to have numerous anti-melee abilities (biggest issue)
• Feels a little clunky and gets bogged down easy (unlike the Rogue, stuff just gets in your way)

• Much improved but would like to see a few additional body shapes and sizes available for each class

Skill trees (6.5/10)

1. Class skill tree
2. Class mechanic
3. Dynamic Paragon skill system

Game difficulty (4/10)

• Veteran was far too easy and there should an option from the start of the game to make it a challenge
• No doubt the end game stuff will be a challenge but I want that feeling from the beginning
• The Butcher was much appreciated
• Hardcore has the same always on-line issues as D3 (this will never change).

Game scaling system (5/10)

• 'Meh" I can see why its needed...doesn't mean I love it
• The key is tweaking it so you don't feel like your power level diminishes and lower level characters feel more powerful in certain scenarios
• Once again items really don't matter all that much until you get into the end game (is what it is I guess)

UI (5/10)

• Its serviceable but not great
• Feels like its designed for console players
• Could be more on theme (dark and grim)
• Requires multiple clicks to access basic information
• Map system and quest tracking needs improvement to allow to be easier to use and track multiple things at once.

Items and associated systems 7/10 (so far)

• Drop rate was too high but that should only be a Beta thing
• What is the purpose of common and magical items in the game?
• Affixes need to have a hierarchy make them easier to evaluate (right now they can appear anywhere on the item)
• The ability to hover over items on the ground and see their affixes is a needed addition
• Extracting legendary powers is a fun mechanic but I don't love having three tiers of legendary items
• More time should go into mechanics to help players quickly compare two items
• Its hard to evaluate the actual legendary powers until we have pumped a few hundred hours into the end game
• The transmog system requiring you to salvage items. It should trigger on simply finding the item.

Graphics 8.5/10

• The direction is dark and grim, something that was needed
• Playing at 4k the game looked excellent
• Not well optimized yet (pushes hardware excessively hard)
• Compared to D3 and POE they are superior in everyway (as to be expected)

Story 8/10

• Light years ahead of D3 and very good so far
• Would like to see more references to previous Diablo games to link the story together a little more
• This assumes the story continues to deliver.....

Dungeons 6.5/10

• Graphics are awesome
• Too much downtime and mechanics that are inherently frustrating but I don't see these things as hard to resolve
• With the end game mapping system and 4 more ACTS to follow this could easily improve to 7-8/10

Combat 8/10

• Blizzard smooth
• At least right now you have to consider mechanics and avoid powerful attacks. One thing I really dislike about POE is the extreme density and characters basically moving at light speed from screen to screen. Similar thing happened in D3 where you basically just blowup an entire room in a giant fireworks display
• The slower more considered combat ais also more couch-coop friendly
• As mentioned before, ranged attacks feel much stronger and have higher uptime due making melee feeling like harder work.

Open world (7/10)

• I personally like it and am happy to live with the scaling mechanic t make it all work - some people won't
• love the ability to climb up and down terrain

Monsters and Bosses (6.5/10)

• They actually have mechanics that move them beyond being just punching bags
• There still feels like too much repetition but the direction is solid and I will assume ACT I is intend to be a little new player friendly
• I hope we get 'gear check' boss fights like POE rather than simply dungeon bosses (time will tell)
• Demon variety was on the lower side
• Didn't really feel the monster family mechanics Blizzard talked about in their developer interviews and updates

General stuff

• 6 abilities is not enough, adding a 7th would go a very long way (especially from a PC perspective)
• The ability to use movement skills in town (less relevant if you can use mounts)
• ESC doesn't always work when trying to skip dialogue
• Balance wasn't great between classes at lvl25 (why would it be?) but more importantly internal balanced within skill trees seemed way, way off (maybe its a legendary power thing?)
• The tronsmog ability to hide weapons on the Barbarian was bugged
• The game does need some polish and its fairly rough around some of the edges (probably just a Beta thing)
• Huge relief that Paragon is capped (50) and we won't have the endless treadmill that was the Paragon and Rift grind

Something I am expecting (controversial)

• Cosmetics that alter animations, why?
  • Many of the class skill animations looked 'too basic' particularly' in relation to the Barbarian. My expectation is that some of these cosmetic item packages will include skill animation upgrades - maybe not in year one but certainly down the line.

Final thoughts

1. The main rule: Fainted Pokemon are considered dead and must be released. (or permaboxed if you are a wimp which I am a wimp who boxes my Pokemon)
2. The first Pokemon you see must be caught. If you kill it or accidentally run away then too bad for you! :D
3. A male and female Pokemon are partnered and you can only switch to that partner and if one of two Pokemon dies then you must switch to the other Pokemon and you cannot switch to something else. If both Pokemon die then you can switch to any pokemon if you want.
4. You can't deposit Pokemon unless they die. Or you could release a Pokemon to have an empty space but you are required to feel bad afterwards. :D
5. If you have a pair that is not actually a pair and just one Pokemon then get the Pokemon that has the opposite gender. (You can make it so that there are same-gender relationships in your Wedlocke which is called a Rainbow Wedlocke. Marilland acknowledged the existence of that and he even did one himself in Sapphire.)