Stone of recall

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炉石 是一个打开通往最近的赫拉迪克传送门的魔法。该魔法在前作中也称为回城（传送门），在暗黑1中这是一个可以学习的魔法，记载在魔法书上，但是在暗黑2中只能通过卷轴来释放了。在暗黑3早起开发过程中，回城还是存在的。但是在2010年开发者们由于回城的作用太过imba将其取消，因为随时回城可以让熟练的玩家轻松逃脱死亡的危险。在随后的一年里，回城始终没有回来的消息，知道2011年6月Bashiok在蓝贴中暗示其回归。尽管它们回到了游戏中，但是作用大大受限，就是为了防止玩家在战斗中随时使用回城逃命。同时，回城换了一个新的名字——炉石（Stone of Recall）

Diablo 3 Town Portals

以下是Bashiok蓝贴原文: 我们一直在尝试创造一种比回城更好的机制，从而使小站成为主要的交通工具。但是（有回城）看起来似乎更有趣，生活更带感，因为你可以随时随地想回就回。而且，想要消灭回城在D2中的imba地位也并非难事，不用非得去掉回城机制不可。

这款新的炉石却是有限制的。这一法术的施法时间为10s，期间任何移动或伤害都会导致法术施放停止。这和WOW的炉石几乎完全一样。见左图。 炉石不再是掉落物品，而是镶嵌在界面中，通过做任务获得这一法术，有点类似于合成盒Nephalem Cube.

Travel Alternatives

While Town Portals were out of the game, the D3 Team stressed that the more frequent waypoints would prove an adequate substitution. Though TPs are back, in some limited form, there's no indication that waypoints are going to be any less common. Besides Waypoints allowing players to travel to and from town (or to other waypoints all throughout the game) there are ways for players to sell items directly from the dungeons (via some NPCs, or by other unspecified methods). There is also a way for players to travel instantly one-way from town to join up with others in the dungeon. Jay Wilson commented on this during an interview at Gamescom 2010: [1] <blue>Gamona.de: There are no town portals in Diablo 3. What’s the alternative for easy travel?
Jay Wilson: We’ve put in several things to offset the lack of Town Portals. The most obvious are more frequent Waypoints. These give players more opportunities to return to go back to town. We’ve also added salvaging to let players break items down into small parts that stack up in your inventory. We’ve also added a Scroll of Wealth that allows you to sell items right on location.</blue>

Spell Lore

The Town Portal spell seems to be closely related to the Horadric Waypoint network, and work with similar magical components to the Teleport spell, however, it does not seem to require the same type of physical component as the runed stone of a Waypoint. The Brotherhood constructed numerous magical gateways between their mighty fortresses and settlements so that they could quickly concentrate their defences against any incursion by the Demons. With but a thought, the Crusaders of the Light could transport themselves to predetermined destinations many leagues apart. It's likely that there are Waypoints with additional magic infused into them to allow the use of a Town Portal spell to the vicinity of that Waypoint. A Waypoint located at a former Horadrim fortress or settlement site could be what enables Town Portal spells to bring you there. If this is the case, it might be possible for a Sorcerer with enough skill to use a similar spell to teleport directly to a Waypoint. It could also be a completely different set of teleportation nodes, besides the actual Waypoint network, made specifically for retreating back to the nearest safe place, and nothing else. Although the secret of creating these gateways as well as the Waypoints has been long lost, it is still possible to use the pathways that are already in place. A Portal opened by means of this spell will always take the caster to the location of the nearest gate and remain open long enough to bring the caster back to his point of origin. The Tristram Cathedral is built upon the remains of a Horadrim monastery, and has at least in the past harboured a portal gateway nearby.