Diablofans.com has picked up some new posts by Bashiok on their Diablo 3 Dev Tracker. Bashiok answers a question about key drops in Diablo 3 and if they will be as random as they were in D2. The second post is a response to a player asking if there will be more than three classes in Diablo 3, as that's all that has been released to date. To keep updated on Diablo 3 and the Diablo series in general be sure and bookmark Diablofans.com, The Diablo Wiki, and the Dev Tracker!

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Quote by Bashiok:
Having keys that are dropped for specific uses, that have more story and questing elements tied to them are definitely possible. In a general 'designery' way Leoric's crown was essentially a key used to unlock the boss fight in the BlizzCon demo. So I don't think it's out of the question to then have a literal key be used for more quest-centric chest unlocking purposes.

That's of course completely separate from the generic dropped keys and their ability to open randomly spawned 'locked' chests. We don't currently have keys and locked chests, but... we're not completely opposed to them either.

Something I posted about a long time ago, which were just ideas being thrown around internally, is the idea of having multiple tiers of chests with subsequently lower spawn rates, and subsequently increased chances for dropping better and better items. At that point keys sort of become this unnecessary burden, because you already had the amazing luck of having the rarest chest type in the game spawn, it's probably not all that cool to then also say "Now find a key for it!"

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Quote by Bashiok:
There are five planned character classes. Two are still unannounced.

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Here's a question

Do you think you've alluded to any of the two unannounced classes anywhere on this forum?

Haha, well that would ruin all the fun if I told you.

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but it's only fun for you...it's agony for us

Ah right, sorry, I meant to say "that will ruin all my fun".

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