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[zulux21]

I think it means that since the monsters in Act 1 inferno are level 61 (62 at most), the maximum amount of affixes you'll get will be less than say, Act 3/4 monsters. This means that the best gear will always come from the later acts, though you can still find some very worthy things in Act 1 and 2. With the monster power system though, you should be able to adjust up the monster levels in the earlier (and later acts), and possibly end up with items that have more affixes than possible currently.

I am curious to see how this monster power thing works, as I wouldn't mind going back to act 1 and 2 if I can power them up high enough to drop things like act 3 with out a boost would lol

 

[Fenderputty]

Does this essentially mean the only difference between items of different iLVL will be their base dps or armor

It also means all act III & IV items will roll iLVL 63 stats with the only difference being the base as well.

Seems kinda wild

 

[zulux21]

Does this essentially mean the only difference between items of different iLVL will be their base dps or armor

It also means all act III & IV items will roll iLVL 63 stats with the only difference being the base as well.

Seems kinda wild

if that is the case I have to assume the armor market is going to crash hard as last I checked most people don't care about the base armor on stuff just the extra stuff lol

edit: in the long run it will likely all be good though, as this is likely just a lot of testing to find what works well, and after if works well then when they bump the level cap up they can start fresh with the new high level items lol

 

[linsivvi]

Too bad this patch won't be coming out for a while since they are just beginning the testing phase.

Also not impressed with the monk changes.

 

[ertitoagus]

I think it means that since the monsters in Act 1 inferno are level 61 (62 at most), the maximum amount of affixes you'll get will be less than say, Act 3/4 monsters. This means that the best gear will always come from the later acts, though you can still find some very worthy things in Act 1 and 2. With the monster power system though, you should be able to adjust up the monster levels in the earlier (and later acts), and possibly end up with items that have more affixes than possible currently.

but... bosses are higher level than normal monsters if i remember correctly... that means that your and mine assumptions could be correct ...

 

[koji]

Started this up again after a month or something, loving the WD changes (first time I play since 1.04 release), my pets can now easily tank A2 without me going crazy with CC/armor/resists. Cool!

Patch 1.05 changes sound pretty cool as well and oh dear that paragon system, looks like I'm back :lol

 

[syllogism]

Affixes on items will now roll their level based on the level of the monster killed (rather than the item’s level)

I wonder if this means that

a) ilvl 62 class specific items can roll ilvl 63 affixes
b) lower level legendaries with random affixes can also roll ilvl 63 affixes

 

[SeigO]

Could any wizard offer some insight on what this source might be worth? I don't know the class very well so I'm not sure is it missing +max AP important? The closest one I can find on the AH is 200m but that seems overpriced like it'll never sell.

 

[syllogism]

Max AP isn't important. That's a very nice roll and it could be worth a lot, but it's hard to say how much wizards are willing to play for a tal rasha source because oculus and chantodo have higher potential. If someone wants the 4 set bonus they are pretty much forced to use tal rasha source though because witching hour is so much better than tal rasha belt.

 

[ElyrionX]

Could any wizard offer some insight on what this source might be worth? I don't know the class very well so I'm not sure is it missing +max AP important? The closest one I can find on the AH is 200m but that seems overpriced like it'll never sell.

I'd say 200mn for that source sounds about right. Damage rolls are really good and I believe that is a double intel roll as well

EDIT: I'm a wiz and have been looking around for similar sources for about two weeks now. Try pricing it high first, maybe 250 mn, and lowering it until you sell it. If you want it to go fast, I'm sure it will move at the blink of an eye if you go 100mn. NA server btw.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

*looks at skill changes for DH, Wizz and Barbs*

*looks at skill changes for monks and WDs*

Blizzards really hates us monks and WDS

We aren't the least played classes for nothing buddy =)

WITCH DOCTOR FOREVERSH!

 

[Backfoggen]

Items below iLevel 58 no longer drop in Inferno difficulty

There are no words. Just tears of joy.

Fuckin finally. Stopped playing after I got two lvl 53 garbage legendaries in amidst of tons of lvl 63 rares.

 

[woober]

Just found this set item. LOOK AT THAT SHIT. My 2nd set item I found after 300 hours of playing. OHHHHHH.....

I'd say 200mn for that source sounds about right. Damage rolls are really good and I believe that is a double intel roll as well

EDIT: I'm a wiz and have been looking around for similar sources for about two weeks now. Try pricing it high first, maybe 250 mn, and lowering it until you sell it. If you want it to go fast, I'm sure it will move at the blink of an eye if you go 100mn. NA server btw.

I've been thinking about selling mine too considering the new patch will let you search for damage on off hands. There are no 400 damage ones out there as far as I can tell so I'm tempted to go nuts and list it for 500m.

 

[Impeccable]

I've been thinking about selling mine too considering the new patch will let you search for damage on off hands. There are no 400 damage ones out there as far as I can tell so I'm tempted to go nuts and list it for 500m.

List it like 250m with no buyout.

You'll most likely get that + way more.

Buy yourself a 350 damage one for 100mil-ish... profit!

 

[FeedMeAStrayCat]

I haven't played multiplayer a ton of times, so I don't know if this is a relatively common occurrence or not, but I was playing act 4 inferno with a group earlier. We got to Diablo, and the message came up about joining the boss fight. Well one guy declined, he was working on inventory stuff, so I declined as well, thinking the other two would. Instead they went on (those bastards lol), the one guy dies almost immediately, and the other guy... well he takes Diablo all by himself. He was a Barbarian, his health may have dropped below half a handful of times (was watching the little icon). Took a little bit of time, but he handily destroyed him. God damn. My DH gets one shotted by the DH clone usually lol

 

[Boogalogist]

Could any wizard offer some insight on what this source might be worth? I don't know the class very well so I'm not sure is it missing +max AP important? The closest one I can find on the AH is 200m but that seems overpriced like it'll never sell.

This is one helluva gem...great base damage rolls...int >300...max crit chance...9 AP on crit...with life %...this is an end game gear here!!

 

[MrDaravon]

Mother of God at the patch notes.

Give me at least a week or two with Borderlands 2 Blizzard, come on!

 

[michaelius]

Fuckin finally. Stopped playing after I got two lvl 53 garbage legendaries in amidst of tons of lvl 63 rares.

That's kinda funny - because actually lvl 52 rares are sellable if they get good rolls - lvl 58 noone will buy since everyone is just a hour or two from lvl 63 goodness.

 

[BigBlue1974]

What an awesome, awesome patch!

There were a few things I mentioned quite a few pages back in this thread that I'd like to see and I swear Blizzard just added every single thing I asked for.

Some of the highlights for me:
- Ability to load stats from your item in AH - so useful
- Resplendent Chests are actually worth something again
- Experience Shrines
- Monster Power and Infernal - Great additions

From my own character's perspective, I think I must have missed the fact previously that Vault can now break out of Jailer. This was one of the main reasons I still kept SS around so it's definitely being removed from my skills now. Also it sucks it's getting nerfed down to 300% but the fact that you can at least stack Trail of Cinders is excellent.

I'm going to have to play around with my skills a little because I need to figure out what to replace SS with and possibly preparation too as Shadow Power won't be popped as often anymore so I'll likely have a surplus of discipline. Any suggestions from other DHs? Here's my current build:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Cerebus-1696/hero/16373259

 

[Celegus]

Can someone pretty please post patch notes for work-GAF? I want to bask in all of their glory!

 

[V_Arnold]

So is there any way I can check the ptr out with an EU b.net D3 account?

 

[MrDaravon]

Can someone pretty please post patch notes for work-GAF? I want to bask in all of their glory!

Probably isn't going to look pretty, but here you go:

PATCH FEATURES

New System: Monster Power
Similar to the "Players 8" command in Diablo II, Monster Power is a system designed to give players more control over how challenging enemies are in each difficulty. With this system, players can choose to increase the health and damage of monsters according to different "power levels" and in return they’ll receive scaling bonuses to experience (for heroes levels 1-59) as well as boosts to Magic Find and Gold Find (for heroes in Inferno) which will stack above the 300% cap. The option to increase Monster Power will be available to all players starting at level 1 in the Quest Selection window, and can be adjusted separately for Normal, Nightmare, Hell, and Inferno difficulties.

New Event: Infernal Machine
The Infernal Machine is a device that will allow level 60 players to battle "uber” versions of some of Sanctuary's most nefarious bosses. While the rewards for defeating these bosses will be great, some assembly is required. Only the most powerful Nephalem can unlock the secrets to building the Infernal Machine, but once forged the device can be used to open portals to special encounters featuring not one, but two bosses which have been augmented from their original versions, both in terms of difficulty and appearance. Defeating each boss pair will provide players with extra items and gold, as well as a chance to find components for a new Legendary ring

GENERAL
Resplendent Chests will now operate similarly to Elite packs in Inferno difficulty:
When players open a Resplendent Chest, they will receive a reward based on how many Nephalem Valor stacks they have active at the time Opening a Resplendent Chest will grant one stack of Nephalem Valor
Major in-game events will now grant one stack of Nephalem Valor when completed by a level 60 character in Inferno difficulty
If completed in a multiplayer game, all eligible characters in the party will receive the buff regardless of whether they participated in the event or were close to the event's location
Major in-game events in Inferno difficulty that involve a special chest or Unique monster (ex: ) will now also drop additional loot for every stack of Nephalem Valor a player has active at the time of the event’s completion
Several events have had Unique monsters added to them for this purpose
Experience Shrines can now appear in Inferno difficulty Two new shrines have been added to all difficulty levels:
Empowered Shrine – Increased resource regeneration and reduced cooldowns Fleeting Shrine – Increased movement speed and pickup radius
Followers, pets, and summoned creatures will no longer attack enemies that are in an idle state unless the player is within 10 yards of the enemy The reduction of snare effects against Elite monsters has been reduced (in the player’s favor):
Normal: 20% to 0% Nightmare: 30% to 15% Hell: 40% to 25% Inferno: 40% to 25%
Crowd control effects will now be affected by diminishing returns. To learn more about how diminishing returns will work in Diablo III (and why these changes are an overall buff to player CC), click here!
AUCTION HOUSE
Search parameters will now save when switching between the gold and real-money auction house An additional sortable column has been added to the results window
This column will have a drop-down box populated with each of the Preferred Stats that players indicated for their search (only one Preferred Stat can be selected at a time)
The Preferred Stat list is now sorted alphabetically A button has been added to allow players to quickly reset Preferred Stat filters to "None" Players can now search for +Damage on off-hand items When searching for items to purchase, an option to "autofill" stats based on what the player is currently wearing has been added Similarly, when selling an item, a "Find Similar" button has been added to allow players to quickly search for items currently up for auction that have similar stats Bug Fixes
When claiming stackable items from the auction house, the claimed items will always attempt to fill out partial stacks completely before falling back to using an open slot in your inventory The color-coding for the "Quality" drop-down menu for Pages & Recipes has been updated to match the color-coding for all other categories Fixed a bug that was causing the minimum value for the Spirit Regen affix to not filter items correctly

BATTLE.NET
The "Friend of Friend" feature for finding and adding Real ID friends is now available for Diablo III A new item delivery system has been added that will allow Blizzard to send items directly to players (you may see us testing this feature over the course of the PTR) Achievements
An Achievement button has been added to the in-game hotbar Players can now link Achievements in chat
Banners
Players can now customize their banner in-game while in town Each banner reward type now has sub-categories organized by the content they were rewarded from (Hardcore, Crafting, Challenges, etc.) New unlocked banner rewards are now highlighted so they can be found more easily
Chat
Players can now change font color (per channel) and size Clicking on items linked in chat will now provide a comparison tooltip based on what you are currently wearing Several additional improvements have been made to in-game chat to increase usability

BOSSES
Azmodan
Bug Fixes
Azmodan should no longer be able to cast Flame Meteors or continue channeling his Laser attack while stunned


CLASSES
General
Defensive bonuses provided by certain class skills have been reduced. To learn more about these changes and why they were made, click here!
Barbarian
Active Skills
Battle Rage
Duration increased from 30 seconds to 120 seconds
Hammer of the Ancients
Increased Critical Hit chance is now based on the amount of Fury the player has when Hammer of the Ancients is activated: For every 5 Fury a player has, Hammer of the Ancients has a 1% increased Critical Hit chance Skill Rune – Smash
The radius of Smash has been slightly increased to help resolve an issue that caused Hammer of the Ancients to occasionally miss targets immediately in front of the player
Skill Rune – The Devil's Anvil
Movement speed reduction increased from 60% to 80%

Leap
Skill Rune – Iron Impact
Now grants 100% bonus armor per enemy hit for 3 seconds

Overpower
Cooldown reduced from 15 seconds to 12 seconds
Rend
Rend should now more reliably hit enemies that are running away Skill Rune – Mutilate
Mutilate has been redesigned to slow enemies by 60% for the duration of Rend

Sprint
Skill Rune – Run Like the Wind Proc coefficient reduced from 0.2 to 0.08

Threatening Shout
Cooldown reduced from 15 seconds to 10 second Skill Rune – Grim Harvest
Now also has a chance to drop a health globe

War Cry
Cooldown reduced from 30 seconds to 20 seconds Fury generated reduced from 30 to 20 Skill Rune – Charge!
Fury generated reduced from 60 to 40
Skill Rune – Impunity
Bonus resistance reduced from 50% to 20%

Whirlwind
Fury cost from 16 to 9 Skill Rune – Blood Funnel
Healing increased from 1% to 2% of Maximum Life per Critical Hit


Passive Skills
Animosity
Bonus Fury regeneration increased from 10% to 20%
Inspiring Presence
Healing increased from 1% to 2% Maximum Life per second
Unforgiving
Fury regeneration has been quadrupled, increased to 2 Fury every 1 second (up from 1 Fury every 2 seconds)


Demon Hunter
Active Skills
Bola Shot
Explosion radius increased from 7 yards to 17 yards Skill Rune – Volatile Explosives
Explosion radius increased from 14 yards to 20 yards

Chakram
Chakram will now always fire a projectile, regardless of distance or if an enemy is targeted
Companion
Added a 30-second cooldown Reduced each Companion's attack cooldown from 1.5/2 seconds to 1 second Weapon damage increased from 30% to 38%, but they can no longer critically hit Companion's damage now scales with attack speed Skill Rune – Wolf Companion
Wolf Companion has been redesigned to be a more durable pet: Now has comparable durability to one Zombie Dog New attack: 120-degree Cleave with a 10-yard radius that hits for 94% weapon damage
Skill Rune – Spider Companion
Spider Companion has been redesigned to be a more durable pet: Has slightly more durability than the Wolf Companion New attack: 120-degree Cleave with a 10-yard radius that hits for 38% weapon damage and Slows every enemy it hits by 60% for 2 seconds
Skill Rune – Boar Companion
Boar Companion has been redesigned to be a more durable pet: Has more durability than the Spider Companion New attack: Single-target attack that hits for 38% weapon damage Provides (155 @ 60) Life per second and a 15% bonus to all resistances for the Demon Hunter

Evasive Fire
Skill Rune – Shrapnel has been replaced with a new rune: "Hardened"
Hardened increases your Armor by 50% for 3 seconds and replaces the backflip
Skill Rune – Parting Gift
Weapon damage increased from 45% to 55% Poison bomb delay reduced from 1.2 seconds to 0.6 seconds

Sentry
Cost changed from 10 Discipline to 30 Hatred Increased from weapon damage from 55% to 88% Players can now have two turrets active at once, but an 8-second cooldown has been added to compensate Sentry can no longer critically hit Skill Rune – Spitfire Turret
Weapon damage increased from 8% to 15%
Skill Rune – Vigilant Watcher
Vigilant Watcher has been redesigned and now reduces the cooldown of Sentry by 2 seconds instead of increasing the duration
Skill Rune – Chain of Torment
Weapon damage increased from 80% to 100%

Shadow Power
Base spell changed from 20% Life Steal for 3 seconds to 15% Life Steal for 5 seconds Skill Rune – Night Bane
Changed from 4 Hatred per second for 3 seconds to 3 Hatred per second for 5 seconds
Skill Rune – Blood Moon
Changed from 30% Life Steal for 3 seconds to 25% Life Steal for 5 seconds
Skill Rune – Gloom
Changed from 65% damage reduction for 3 seconds to 35% damage reduction for 5 seconds
Skill Rune – Shadow Glide
Changed from 40% movement speed increase for 3 seconds to 30% movement speed increase for 5 seconds

Spike Trap
Skill Rune – Sticky Trap
Explosion radius increased from 8 yards to 16 yards
Skill Rune – Bandolier has been replaced with a new rune: "Echoing Blast"
Echoing Blast gives your Spike Traps three charges with a minimum delay of 1 second between each explosion, and deals damage as Poison

Strafe
Movement speed increased from 65% to 75% Hatred cost reduced from 16 to 12 Skill Rune – Equilibrium has been replaced with a new rune: "Emberstrafe"
Emberstrafe leaves behind fire trail that deals 65% weapon damage per second for 2 seconds
All rune variants now allow you to walk through enemies while active
Vault
Can now be used while under the effect of roots, including Jailer (and will break the effect) Skill Rune – Trail of Cinders
Reduced damage from 1500% to 300% weapon damage over 3 seconds Trail can now stack
Skill Rune – Acrobatics
Cooldown reduced from 15 seconds to 10 seconds


Passive Skills

Custom Engineering
Adds the ability to have a third Sentry turret out a time Now also increases the maximum number of Spike Traps you can have out to 6
Numbing Traps
Damage reduction reduced from 25% to 20%, but now also works with Grenades and Sentry
Perfectionist
Now also increases Life, Armor, and Resistances by 10%
Thrill of the Hunt
Thrill of the Hunt has been redesigned: Every 7 seconds, your next Hatred spender roots all targets hit by it for 2 seconds. Enemies can only be rooted once every 7 seconds. This does not affect Sentry. Now displays a buff icon when ready to use


Monk
Active Skills
Breath of Heaven
Skill Rune – Infused with Light
Bonus Spirit regeneration increased from 6 to 8 additional Spirit per hit for 5 seconds

Dashing Strike
The strike animation after dashing now scales with attack speed
Mantra of Evasion
Skill Rune – Wind Through the Reeds
Run speed bonus increased from 5% to 8%


Passive Skills
Beacon of Ytar
Cooldown reduction increased from 15% to 20%
Near Death Experience
Cooldown reduced from 90 seconds to 60 seconds
Pacifism
Now also works on Freeze and Immobilize effects (note: the tooltip will not say Freeze, because Freezes are classified as a Stun)
Resolve
Damage reduction reduced from 25% to 20%
Seize the Initiative
Conversion of Dexterity to Armor reduced from 100% to 50%


Witch Doctor
Active Skills
Spirit Barrage
Skill Rune – Well of Souls
Will now seek out targets up to 40 yards (up from 25 yards)

Wall of Zombies
Cooldown reduced from 25 seconds to 20 seconds Skill Rune – Pile On
Changed from 745% weapon damage with a 25-second cooldown to 500% weapon damage with a 10-second cooldown and the radius has been slightly increased


Passive Skills
Gruesome Feast
Now shows a buff icon when you have active stacks
Fetish Sycophants
Proc chance increased from 3% to 5%
Jungle Fortitude
Damage reduction reduced from 20% to 15%


Wizard
Active Skills
Archon: Slow Time
Slow increased from 30% to 60%
Blizzard
Arcane Power cost reduced from 45 to 40 (Snowbound cost will remain the same at 20 Arcane Power)
Energy Armor
Armor bonus reduced from 65% to 35% Skill Rune – Prismatic Armor
Resistance bonus reduced from 40% to 25%

Familiar
Skill Rune – Ancient Guardian
Health threshold increased from 35% to 50%
Skill Rune – Dartling has been replaced with a new rune: "Vigoron"
Vigoron regenerates Life every second for the wizard

Hydra
All runes now properly benefit from Arcane Dynamo's five-stack damage buff Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause the heads of the Hydra to become separated from the base when cast near a wall
Ice Armor
Now reduces damage from melee attacks by 8%
Magic Missile
Base weapon damage increased from 110% to 125% Skill Rune – Charged Blast
Weapon damage increased from 143% to 162%
Skill Rune – Split
Weapon damage increased from 50% to 56% Angle of damage reduced from 30 degrees to 20 degrees
Skill Rune – Seeker
Weapon damage increased from 121% to 138%
Skill Rune – Penetrating Blast
Pierce chance increased from 70% to 100%

Meteor
Delay between cast and impact reduced from 2 seconds to 1.25 seconds Arcane Power cost reduced from 60 to 50
Ray of Frost
Movement speed reduction increased from 30% to 60% Duration of slow increased from 3 seconds to 4 seconds Arcane Power cost reduced from 20 to 16 per period Skill Rune – Numb
Movement speed reduction increased from 60% to 80%
Skill Rune – Cold Blood
Arcane Power cost reduced from 12 to 10 per period
Skill Rune – Sleet Storm
Weapon damage increased from 215% to 333% Proc scalar reduced from 0.25 to 0.1875
Skill Rune – Black Ice
Weapon damage increased from 193% to 387% over 3 seconds

Slow Time
Cooldown reduced from 20 seconds to 15 seconds Movement speed reduction increased from 30% to 60% Skill Rune – Time Shell
No longer reduces the size of Slow Time
Skill Rune – Perpetuity
Now reduces cooldown to 12 seconds (from 16 seconds)

Spectral Blade
Weapon damage increased from 135% to 165% Angle of damage increased from 60 degrees to 90 degrees Range increased from 10 yards to 15 yards (range of Thrown Blades will remain at 20 yards) Skill Rune – Deep Cuts
Weapon damage from Bleed increased from 35% to 45% over 3 seconds
Skill Rune – Healing Blades
Removed Critical Hit requirement

Storm Armor
Ability has been redesigned to periodically deal 100% weapon damage as Lightning to nearby enemies Skill Rune – Reactive Armor
Redesigned to deal 70% weapon damage as Lightning to ranged and melee attackers
Skill Rune – Strike Back has been renamed "Thunder Storm"
All other runes remain unchanged

Teleport
Now breaks roots Skill Rune – Reversal
Now ignores line of sight when returning to the casting location

Wave of Force
Cooldown reduced from 15 seconds to 12 seconds Skill Rune – Force Affinity
Cooldown from 12 seconds to 9 seconds


Passive Skills

Unstable Anomaly
Increased health threshold from 20% to 30% Now heals the player to 45% of Maximum Life and slow targets that are knocked back by 60% for 3 seconds



CRAFTING
Crafting materials can now stack to 500 Jeweler Designs that drop in the world will now show up as Rare quality (yellow) to make them more visible on the ground Salvage now uses the required equip-level of the item instead of the base item level to determine what components the item will be salvaged into
Example: If an item is an iLevel 60 and has a reduced level requirement of 52, the item will salvage into Hell crafting materials instead of Inferno crafting materials This is being done to accommodate the change of item affixes rolling at the monster’s level rather than the item's level (detailed further in the Items section below)
Crafting reagents can now be converted up to the next highest level at the Blacksmith at a ratio of 10:1 Tomes of Training can be converted up to the next highest level at the Blacksmith and Jeweler at a ratio of 10:1
FOLLOWERS

Templar

Skills
Heal
Now heals both the Templar and the player when cast Can now be cast when the player is below 75% health (up from 50%)
Inspire
Mana regeneration bonus increased from 2 to 4 Mana per second
Intervene
Cooldown reduced from 60 seconds to 30 seconds Affected radius increased from 6 yards to 10 yards Removed the health threshold for when Intervene can be cast
Spell will now cast whenever the player is hit and off cooldown, regardless of the player's currently health %

Intimidate
Now also reduces the movement speed of enemies that the Templar hits by 60% for 3 seconds


Scoundrel

Basic ranged attack weapon damage increased from 25% to 40% Skills
Hysteria
Cooldown reduced from 6 seconds to 5 seconds
Poison Bolts
Weapon damage of initial hit increased from 40% to 100% Poison now deals 40% weapon damage over 2 seconds (instead of over 3 seconds)


Enchantress
Skills

Disorient
Affected radius increased from 4 yards to 6 yards Cooldown reduced from 45 seconds to 25 seconds
Mass Control
Cooldown reduced from 60 seconds to 30 seconds
Powered Armor
Armor bonus reduced from 15% to 5%
Reflect Missiles

Reflect Missiles has been replaced with Missile Ward
Missile Ward reduces incoming damage from ranged attacks by 6%



Bug Fixes
Magic Find and Gold Find values inherited from Followers should now respect the 300% cap Followers will no longer run in place or run slowly when players perform abilities that augment their movement (ex: Leap, Teleport, Vault, etc.)

ITEMS
The cast time for identifying Rare items has been reduced to 1 second The cast time for identifying Legendary items has been increased to 4 seconds The location of Legendary items will now be marked by a column of light as well as a ping on the mini-map the first time they drop, and a new sound has been added Affixes on items will now roll their level based on the level of the monster killed (rather than the item’s level) Class-specific items will now drop more often Items below iLevel 58 no longer drop in Inferno difficulty Square-quality gems no longer drop in Inferno difficulty Monk class Skill bonuses can now roll on shields
MONSTERS
Additional health per monster in multiplayer games has been reduced from 75% to 70% Damage and health of monsters levels 50-63 have been reduced to coincide with the addition of Monster Power Sand Shark AI has been improved:
Sand Sharks can now use an "Under Sand Attack" while burrowed. The "Under Sand Attack" causes the Sand Shark to charge to the player and do a 10-yard radius earthquake-like attack for low damage. Sand Sharks can now walk toward you while above ground, which gives players more time to DPS them.
Skeleton Fire Mage fire pools, Wood Wraith spore clouds, and Opressor fire breath attacks should now do reduced damages to pets and followers Two-handed skeleton executioners have had their escape radius reduced The "coolup" has been increased on the Fallen Lunatic’s suicide power from 1-3 seconds to 2-5 seconds, giving players a more predictable time to kill them (or run away) before they explode Bug Fixes
Damage caused by the Reflects Damage affix can no longer be dodged Fire Chains monsters should no longer link with burrowed monsters (if a monster burrows while linked with Fire Chains, the link will be removed) The explosion effect of a dying Molten monster and the damage done by the effect should now always occur at the same time Damage done by the Arcane Sentry beam attack should now properly sync with the beam graphic Heralds of Pestilence will now abort their ranged attack if the player uses a power to make themselves un-targetable while the attack is casting (or "winding up")

BUG FIXES
Shrines will now buff all players that are within the shrine’s radius or in the same level area Nephalem Valor stacks are now restored whenever a player rejoins the last multiplayer game he/she was disconnected from The damage stat in the Hero page should now display the appropriate values when switching main and off-hand weapons with a shield Fixed a bug where buffs on other players weren’t displaying correctly in the party UI Fixed a bug that was causing players to not be able to rejoin a multiplayer game if they switched to a character that was saved to a difficulty level not yet unlocked by the other party members Fixed a crash that could sometimes occur when mousing over the tooltip for crafting materials Removed the initial tick of damage from fire trenches in Keep Depths and slightly reduced the radius

 

[V_Arnold]

Too slow, nm.

 

[hyduK]

Holy crap at those changes.

Bought TL2 yesterday, it gave me the urge to play more d3.

 

[Sigmaah]

Alright GAF, I need help! I just got some money in and I NEED to buy a new desktop, I have 700-800 bucks to spend and I'm obviously looking to get a gaming computer, been checking best buy and so far, they don't have anything "that" good for that price, I wanna be able to run d3 on max settings and just want the comp to be reliable for other games as well, please help bros!

I would wait for more money but I can't, this is all I got!

 

[kennah]

Alright GAF, I need help! I just got some money in and I NEED to buy a new desktop, I have 700-800 bucks to spend and I'm obviously looking to get a gaming computer, been checking best buy and so far, they don't have anything "that" good for that price, I wanna be able to run d3 on max settings and just want the comp to be reliable for other games as well, please help bros!

I would wait for more money but I can't, this is all I got!

Go to this thread. READ THE OP. Then ask in that thread if you have more questions.

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=455869

 

[sazzy]

I should patent the idea of making an APRG with D3 combat and TL2 loot/items/skills.


I'm gonna be rich!!

 

[hyduK]

Alright GAF, I need help! I just got some money in and I NEED to buy a new desktop, I have 700-800 bucks to spend and I'm obviously looking to get a gaming computer, been checking best buy and so far, they don't have anything "that" good for that price, I wanna be able to run d3 on max settings and just want the comp to be reliable for other games as well, please help bros!

I would wait for more money but I can't, this is all I got!

Are you willing to build one? If so do you have parts you can recycle (stuff like a case, optical drives, anything not power related to bring the cost down). If so you can build a solid machine for 800.

Check this thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455869

If you built the enhanced PC, which comes to $774, it would destroy D3.

 

[Sigmaah]

Go to this thread. READ THE OP. Then ask in that thread if you have more questions.

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=455869

Thanks!

Are you willing to build one? If so do you have parts you can recycle (stuff like a case, optical drives, anything not power related to bring the cost down). If so you can build a solid machine for 800.

Check this thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455869

If you built the enhanced PC, which comes to $774, it would destroy D3.

I can't build one but I can try to find someone who can, thanks!

 

[turnbuckle]

Don't like the nerf to Barbs. I'd have been happier if the damage of the whrilwinds was reduced, even if reduced by like 50% or more, but the way they did it is going to kill my life on hit and fury generation for my other abilities. Barbs have had it good, especially the well geared ones, but this will directly make the game less fun for me. Like the changes to everything non-character related so I won't stink up the thread complaining, i just won't be playing very much anymore.

 

[Celegus]

Probably isn't going to look pretty, but here you go:

It's... beautiful...

Thanks, can't wait!

I can't build one but I can try to find someone who can, thanks!

It's definitely worth it if you can find someone to help you out. I built my machine for about $300-400 4 years ago, and it still plays everything fine around medium settings. Looking to upgrade sometime soon, but stay far away from Best Buy if you can help it.

 

[Sigmaah]

It's... beautiful...

It's definitely worth it if you can find someone to help you out. I built my machine for about $300-400 4 years ago, and it still plays everything fine around medium settings. Looking to upgrade sometime soon, but stay far away from Best Buy if you can help it.

I'm trying to but my parents don't wanna wait on any of that, they're saying get it now or don't get it, don't wanna go to best buy but it's looking like that :<

 

[turnbuckle]

I'm trying to but my parents don't wanna wait on any of that, they're saying get it now or don't get it, don't wanna go to best buy but it's looking like that :<

You really...really...really need to get your parents to reconsider. You can get a much better computer for a lowered cost if you order online. You could order today and have all the parts in by Tuesday. Not only are you getting a worse computer if you go the Best Buy route, you're getting a computer that will likely be more difficult to upgrade in the future. Unless you way overspend ($1,200+) on a PC at BB, you're gonna get something that will require a new PSU to upgrade to a upper mid-range card.

It's kind of like food, you can overpay for an alright burger at 5 guys, or you can save money and make a kickass burger off your grill.

 

[Sigmaah]

You really...really...really need to get your parents to reconsider. You can get a much better computer for a lowered cost if you order online. You could order today and have all the parts in by Tuesday. Not only are you getting a worse computer if you go the Best Buy route, you're getting a computer that will likely be more difficult to upgrade in the future. Unless you way overspend ($1,200+) on a PC at BB, you're gonna get something that will require a new PSU to upgrade to a upper mid-range card.

It's kind of like food, you can overpay for an alright burger at 5 guys, or you can save money and make a kickass burger off your grill.

That's what I'm saying!!! haha, I'm gonna try hard to get them to reconsider, but who knows what'll happen, if I have to go to Bb, I'll make sure I get the best out of it. (Dunno if that's possible with BB LOL)

 

[Kilrogg]

This patch sounds awesome. Not seeing any nerf on proc rate for Storm Chaser either. I hope they won't hotfix it.

 

[Shadow780]

That's what I'm saying!!! haha, I'm gonna try hard to get them to reconsider, but who knows what'll happen, if I have to go to Bb, I'll make sure I get the best out of it. (Dunno if that's possible with BB LOL)

Here's what you do, steal their credit card and overnight everything.

 

[Sigmaah]

Here's what you do, steal their credit card and overnight everything.

Lmao! The funny thing is, the money is in MY debit card... :0

 

[M.D]

Do you guys get latency issues or is just me? It's mostly fine in the morning and at night, but in the middle of the day most days I just can't play the game. latency is all over the place (200-300+) which makes it unplayable :/

 

[linsivvi]

200-300 is what I always get and I've played this since launch. You get used to it.

 

[The Omega Man]

Monks and DH won't be able to dodge reflect damage with the new patch, I don't like that one to be honest

 

[Melville]

What say you? No vita and the strength could be higher but the other stats are pretty good, I think. Nothing similar on the AH (Europe).

 

[kennah]

It won't be worth as much as you like. Belts can roll a lot of str, so having it that high is common. Search for 145 str, 2.5 life steal and 70 resist all.

 

[turnbuckle]

I'd say that's a very good belt that'll be made more desirable, but also less scarce due to improved itemization, in the next patch.

Not sure what comparable belts are going for right now on the AH, but I'd buy it from you for a million, so that means there'll be others willing to pay a few .

Barbs will almost necessarily have to have a lifesteal belt when the new patch rolls out.

 

[Fenderputty]

I wonder if this means that

a) ilvl 62 class specific items can roll ilvl 63 affixes
b) lower level legendaries with random affixes can also roll ilvl 63 affixes

If I'm reading it correctly, it means all items that dropp from iLVL 63 mobs will roll with that level of affixes (or at least have the ability too). It does't matter if it's a level 58/59/60/61/62/63 item. So the only major difference in items will be their base DPS and ARMOR if you farm act III plus. The lower levels still have the same chance of getting a level 60/61/62/63 items but will have at best level 62 affix rolls.

This means that if you're farming items you have to pick up every yellow now as all loot has a chance to not suck. That coupled with the 1 second identify should be nice actually.

I also wonder if this applied to legendaries. Though I don't see why it wouldn't.

 

[The Omega Man]

If I'm reading it correctly, it means all items that dropp from iLVL 63 mobs will roll with that level of affixes (or at least have the ability too). It does't matter if it's a level 58/59/60/61/62/63 item. So the only major difference in items will be their base DPS and ARMOR if you farm act III plus. The lower levels still have the same chance of getting a level 60/61/62/63 items but will have at best level 62 affix rolls.

This means that if you're farming items you have to pick up every yellow now as all loot has a chance to not suck. That coupled with the 1 second identify should be nice actually.

I also wonder if this applied to legendaries. Though I don't see why it wouldn't.

That's how I see it as well, but instead of making me want to farm acts 1-2 all it does is giving me more reasons to stick to act 3 as the loot will now be better and more consistent there.

Also I got a legendary yesterday night, it was the butcher's thing

 

[Melville]

I'd say that's a very good belt that'll be made more desirable, but also less scarce due to improved itemization, in the next patch.

Not sure what comparable belts are going for right now on the AH, but I'd buy it from you for a million, so that means there'll be others willing to pay a few .

Barbs will almost necessarily have to have a lifesteal belt when the new patch rolls out.

This is what I was thinking of. I also remember reading somewhere that the Freeze on Hit was a nice addition.
I put it for 5M bid/10M buyout. If it doesn't sell 4M/9M in two hours and so on.

 

[Xamdou]

So I joined a friend's game that upgraded his starter edition to the full retail game. I tried to trade with him but it say's "Player Busy" and when i drop items for him to take he says the items appear then vanishes. He also can't access the auction house. What exactly is going on?

 

[foladar]

So I joined a friend's game that upgraded his starter edition to the full retail game. I tried to trade with him but it say's "Player Busy" and when i drop items for him to take he says the items appear then vanishes. He also can't access the auction house. What exactly is going on?

I think there's a waiting period if I recall from way back, maybe 72 hours?

 

[turnbuckle]

So I joined a friend's game that upgraded his starter edition to the full retail game. I tried to trade with him but it say's "Player Busy" and when i drop items for him to take he says the items appear then vanishes. He also can't access the auction house. What exactly is going on?

Usually takes 12-36 hours or something for a person who legitimately bought the game digitally to actually have legit access to the game. Was so frustrating that first weekend my friend and I both started playing but couldn't trade or do anything with the AH.

 

[Fenderputty]

That's how I see it as well, but instead of making me want to farm acts 1-2 all it does is giving me more reasons to stick to act 3 as the loot will now be better and more consistent there.

Also I got a legendary yesterday night, it was the butcher's thing

Well ... you'll now have the ability to increase difficulty if you want. Increasing the iLVL of the mostners I would guess. So I think you might still be able to farm act I every once in a while. You'll just more weapons / armor with lower bases, but the rolls will be the same.

The butchers thing is pretty good depending on the roll. It looks cool / fun too.