《暗黑破坏神3》移除僵尸狗额外状态为那般？

   号外号外，巫医召唤的僵尸狗将不再拥有燃烧/带毒的能力了。为什么要移除？看看B大这长篇大论的解释吧~

    First thing’s first, the mongrel is now (or again) known as the Zombie Dog. It was the name that was used when the idea was first proposed and all the way through development. Calling it a mongrel was kind of confusing because everyone was so used to calling it a zombie dog for so long, no one remembered to call it a mongrel (dune thresher and fallen imp suffer from it as well to a degree). The name zombie dog doesn’t need to be lore-fied really. It describes the skill perfectly, so why not use it?
    首先，mongrel现在（或是再一次）被人叫做僵尸狗了。刚刚开始做设计理念的时候，我们就有叫它做僵尸狗了，并且在开发过程中都这样叫它。现在把它叫做mongrel可能会造成各位的疑惑，因为在人们的心目中，把它叫做僵尸狗已经是习以为常，没有人还记得它叫mongrel。僵尸狗这个名字不需要你对游戏背景有很深入的了解，它已经很形象地将这个技能描绘出来，所以为什么不用它呢？

    So anyway, right, the fire and poison/locust enhancements for the zombie dogs was removed. It was a cool idea but it just wasn’t really panning out to be anything meaningful. It was sort of confusing as to why you would be switching between fire and poison, was it to keep an additional DoT active, or maybe there would be tactical reasons for it? But it just wasn’t really jiving in a way that made sense for the rest of the game as it all came together more. It wasn’t shaping up to be a meaningful or fun decision to make on-the-fly. And if you didn’t happen to spec into the skills that would empower the mongrels in different ways, what then? You’re just constantly refreshing a fire DoT on them? To what end? It seemed more and more that a decision that was made at the base skill, either through spending points in another skill (passive potentially), or using particular runes to alter the zombie dogs, made the most sense.
    闲话不扯了，说正事，僵尸狗身上的火焰和毒素/虫群效果已经被移除了。僵尸狗身上带有多种效果是一个很酷的想法，但是实际上没有任何意义。僵尸狗身上带各种状态通常会让玩家很迷惑，就像是为什么要在在火焰伤害和毒素伤害之间换来换去，是为了保持额外的DOT伤害还是某种战术上的需要？但事实上，讲所有的元素集合在一起的时候，我们发现这种僵尸狗身上带多种状态的主意和游戏的其他方面和不来，做不到我们想要的效果。这样做没有任何意义，也没有什么好的理由打动我们继续做这件事。如果你没有在这个召唤技能上投入更多的点数来强化僵尸狗，使得它们与众不同，那么会怎样？你只会不断地往它身上刷火焰的DOT状态？也许我们在基础技能上进行修改更明智，比如花一些点数在另一个技能上（可能是被动技能）,或者使用特殊的符文来改变僵尸狗。

    I haven’t spoken to the designers about it, so I could be way out of line, but I think the potential for passives that affect all “summoned zombies” is definitely there as there are quite a bit more of them that exist now. The gargantuan, zombie charger, wall of zombies, grasp of the dead, and then the zombie dogs of course.
    It’s not an issue of coming up with various ways the effects could work, it’s the issue of why is it interesting or fun to switch between the two? Why/when/how would I choose to set my dogs on fire versus poisoning them, and most importantly! could it be done accurately enough so that it actually makes a difference?
    我没有和游戏设计者谈过这方面的事，所以我说的可能不准。不过就现在而言，我认为增加可以影响所有“召唤僵尸”的被动技能的可能性会更加大，因为现在已经有不少召唤类的僵尸已经登场了。就像是gargantuan（僵尸巨人）, zombie charger（僵尸冲锋队）, wall of zombies（尸墙）, grasp of the dead（死亡之握），当然还有僵尸狗。
    问题并不在于有多少种强化方式。而是在于为什么在两种附加状态中的切换会有趣？我为什么要/什么时候要/怎样来选择让我的狗带火还是带毒，更重要的是！在操作性上是否真的那么准确，使得每条僵尸狗确与众不同？