Diablo III Interview, Part Six

Respecs, guild support, control systems, and more are the topics featured in the sixth and final round of questions from Diii.net’s multi-part interview with Diablo III lead designer Jay Wilson.

Diii.net: Weapon switch hotkey?

Jay Wilson: No. We took that out.

Diii.net: Oh, I loved that feature in D2.

Jay Wilson: Mostly we took it out because the only examples we could come up with of how people used it were somewhat exploitive. Most frequently people used it by accident and wondered where the freak my weapons went. So it didn’t seem a useful feature for anyone but a very small portion of the audience that used it to swap items for magic find purposes, which seemed not a great super fun reason to swap weapons. There were probably some other uses, which I’m sure I’ll be reminded of in the forums.