diablo-3
One of the features I really liked in Diablo 2 was the ability to change your map position. You could either keep it in the upper right hand corner or switch it so that it was over-layed on the screen and your character could essentially walk around on top of it. Like this:
Is there a way that I can set my map up like this in Diablo 3? If not exactly like this, is there any option other than keeping it in the upper right hand corner?
The standard movement speed is as fast as it gets in Diablo 3. There is no run/walk toggle because you're now always running. Stamina no longer exists, and there's no real reason to ever move at a slower pace.
As for running faster, however, there are items that increase your movespeed. You are most likely to find this affix on boots, although it also exists much more rarely on other items.
Here is a partial list of affixes discovered so far and their properties. What you'll be looking for are boots that are Quick or Nimble.
You can change skills whenever you want, but there are currently two penalties:
There's a small cool-down in which you won't be able to use the new skill, which makes swapping skills frequently in combat disadvantageous...
...And swapping skills will cause you to lose the "Nephalem Valor" buff that characters over level 60 get from killing elite monsters, which increases your magic find, causes boss monsters to drop additional items, and, since paragon levels were added in patch 1.0.4, also gives bonus experience.
See also the question on Nephalem Valor
Best Answer
No, that feature was intentionally taken out by the designers because they wanted to avoid that situation we all know in D2 where we spend about 10% of our time looking at the action and 90% looking at the minimap.
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As a bonus, you can always kind of see what areas you haven't explored yet in the minimap to the upper right of the screen.