**OFFICIAL** Diablo 3 Thread

[Tweak155]

Anyone have patch notes?

 

[DaTT]

Here you go.

Diablo III – Patch 2.0.3 v.2.0.3.22427
GENERAL
The area of effect for the Fire Trenches in the Halls of Agony now better match their animations
There is now a short delay before Fire Trench damage is dealt
Followers
Enchantress
Bug Fix: Fixed an issue where Erosion was causing Electrified to proc too frequently

BOSSES
Act Bosses now always drop a rare quality item
The Skeleton King no longer drops a Legendary item after using the "Reset Quests" button for level 60 characters
This bonus has been moved to Diablo for level 60 characters

CLASSES
Wizard
Active Skills
Hydra
Bug Fix: Hydras should now properly dissipate when the owner dies or leaves the game
Familiar
Increased the internal cooldown attack rate to roughly match the player's attack speed to a maximum of approximately 2 attacks per second.
Magic Weapon
Skill Rune – Deflection
Added an internal cooldown to the proc rate to be roughly once per attack

CRAFTING
Blacksmithing
Level 1-60 crafted Legendary and Set pieces now require 2 Fiery Brimstones to craft
All low level crafted Legendary and Set pieces now require at least 1 Demonic Essence to craft
Bug Fix: Fixed an issue where Legendary crafting recipes were rolling Rare level stats
In addition, a pass was made to ensure all Legendary crafted items are rolling with 6 total affixes

ITEMS
New Affix: +Max Spirit for Monks
This affix rolls on Fist Weapons, Spirit Stones, and Combat Staves

 

[Tweak155]

Doesn't look like anything too major. Thanks.

 

[darkewaffle]

My friends will be bummed by the Skele King nerf lol.

 

[smackababy]

My friends will be bummed by the Skele King nerf lol.

I am really wondering how this works. Say, if you reset and I invite you to my game, where we kill Diablo, do you get the reward? I would be very interested to try this out.

 

[DaTT]

I am really wondering how this works. Say, if you reset and I invite you to my game, where we kill Diablo, do you get the reward? I would be very interested to try this out.

I will try this with you....although most of characters are sitting in A3 having reset the other day.

Also, bosses will still drop legendary's, just not a guarantee from the King anymore. Yesterday, The Butcher dropped 2 identical legendary's for me on the same kill. The rolls were different but the item was the same.

 

[smackababy]

I will try this with you....although most of characters are sitting in A3 having reset the other day.

Also, bosses will still drop legendary's, just not a guarantee from the King anymore. Yesterday, The Butcher dropped 2 identical legendary's for me on the same kill. The rolls were different but the item was the same.

Also, it is for any difficulty right? On normal, it wouldn't take very long for my to do the game on my Monk. Already at 35% move speed PLUS skills that move me across the screen. Seems like incredibly easy legendary farming I might have missed out on if it was for Skele king. =(

 

[Cappuccino]

Not a bad idea.

And, if you play on the Americas servers, our clan is Anandtech, send a join request if you haven't already. I also created an Anandtech Community.

Not a single invite on the EU side. Literally everyone here are from the US -_-
baaaaaaah~

 

[smackababy]

Not a single invite on the EU side. Literally everyone here are from the US -_-
baaaaaaah~

Swap across the pond then! It isn't like it takes a long time to level and it isn't like you can't get gear quickly enough.

I will let you have my Cain's Set.

I think silverpig is in London and he plays US servers. I think the only 'problem' would be the time difference. But, leaving work early and playing D3 yesterday, I don't think a lot of the AT clan have jobs. >_<

 

[lupi]

USA!!!USA!!!






ssssdhdhd

 

[Cappuccino]

Swap across the pond then! It isn't like it takes a long time to level and it isn't like you can't get gear quickly enough.

I will let you have my Cain's Set.

I think silverpig is in London and he plays US servers. I think the only 'problem' would be the time difference. But, leaving work early and playing D3 yesterday, I don't think a lot of the AT clan have jobs. >_<

I wish.. I'm Paragon 341 in the EU lol and I'm not even level 2 yet on the US lol :whiste:

 

[DaTT]

Can't you server swap?

 

[Cappuccino]

Can't you server swap?

Huh? You can play both EU and US servers, but you can't transfer your EU characters to the US server. If that's what you meant. ^_^

 

[DaTT]

Huh? You can play both EU and US servers, but you can't transfer your EU characters to the US server. If that's what you meant. ^_^

That is what i meant....transfer would have been a better choice of word I guess.

 

[pandemonium]

There's all these reviews on Amazon and elsewhere where people say they played 100+ hours or leveled 3+ characters to 60 and they hate they game. Doesn't make sense.

Most likely these people are attention whores who feel the need to post extreme reviews to ensure that it gets read. I f-ing hate that. I read a review on Amazon (not D3, something else) where the guy admitted that his "real" review would be 3 stars, but he rated it 1 star on Amazon because "nobody reads the 3 star reviews." That shit annoys me to no end. Same thing with professional reviews that give extremely poor ratings so that their review stands out on Metacritic (*ahem* Gamespot's 6/10 review for Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze).

If these guys used experience and reasoned logic to reach their conclusions, I'd accept them. But they're not. They're just a bunch of holier-than-thou comic book men types that want to climb on the highest soapbox they can find to shout out what they believe is some super profound opinion.

Yeah, I got your point.

My point is, anyone that's playing that much obviously enjoyed themselves to keep going, and developed a hate that was confirmed time and time again until their patience got the best of them. Doesn't mean they don't know what they're talking about, it's just muddied by their ragequit. There's a reason why people get jaded; it's not just made up from thin air.

Playing and hating it and then playing and still having fun are two different things. I have plenty to bring me to hate this game, but it's still fun to play for the most part.

I agree with you though; if they have valid points that make their case, then I'll listen, regardless of how vile their commentary seems to be.

 

[Majes]

Yeah, I got your point.

My point is, anyone that's playing that much obviously enjoyed themselves to keep going, and developed a hate that was confirmed time and time again until their patience got the best of them. Doesn't mean they don't know what they're talking about, it's just muddied by their ragequit. There's a reason why people get jaded; it's not just made up from thin air.

Playing and hating it and then playing and still having fun are two different things. I have plenty to bring me to hate this game, but it's still fun to play for the most part.

I agree with you though; if they have valid points that make their case, then I'll listen, regardless of how vile their commentary seems to be.

There is also playing and enjoying yourself, but realizing that the game should have been so much more and feeling cheated by how much they gutted the game...

I put in many, many hours, but always felt extremely disappointed in how much they forgot D2 when making this game.

 

[Cappuccino]

That is what i meant....transfer would have been a better choice of word I guess.

I would swap. I swap only if I could transfer all my stuff to the US servers. :$

 

[Cappuccino]

Swap across the pond then! It isn't like it takes a long time to level and it isn't like you can't get gear quickly enough.

I will let you have my Cain's Set.

I think silverpig is in London and he plays US servers. I think the only 'problem' would be the time difference. But, leaving work early and playing D3 yesterday, I don't think a lot of the AT clan have jobs. >_<

I think Silverpig added me. I can't remember his BT.
'I don't think a lot of the AT clan have jobs. >_<' lol. :awe:

 

[darkewaffle]

I did T1 up until about Maghda on a WD. Hit 50 in 2 hours. Granted, I was rolling Cain's set and getting one shot early on. Eventually, I hit 41 and scooped up my Barber or whatever 1300 DPS dagger with -19 level req on it was and easily dominated the last few levels.

I think Wizard will be a bit better, as they aren't awful early game like WD.

Yeah once I hit 44 and could put on some legendary 1h axe with 11xx DPS and -16 level required it got really silly, I've been playing mostly on T2 (though starting immediately at T6 is fun for a couple levels) which is at times problematic but certainly amusing lol. Made it to like 50 by the time I downed butcher.

This +50% xp multiplier is pretty nice and I feel like the stats available:item level ratio has increased in such a way that playing on Master/Torment is quite doable, and higher isn't a problem if you get a little lucky or spend some money. I think I might just take one of everything to 60 just because and get it out of the way finally, it flies by.

The difficulty levels seemed a little goofy at first but in practice I think getting rid of the arbitrary normal/nightmare/hell/inferno dividers and simply having one 'base game' that scales to your level no matter what with a 1-10 "difficulty slider" is a great step forward.

 

[digiram]

If anyone has that hollowed plan, just an fyi. You can make some really decent monk fist and dh bows. I made a monk fist with 1350 + dex + socket, but all the ones I made were 1300+. Demon skin and Hallowed plan has been awesome for my monk.

 

[MeldarthX]

those in the UK give me a shout as I might start playing again....just ugh; hopefully it will be better this time round as didn't have the feel of diablo or diablo 2 lol....but hell I bitched about d2 also feeling a bit too easy at start

 

[Wardawg1001]

If anyone has that hollowed plan, just an fyi. You can make some really decent monk fist and dh bows. I made a monk fist with 1350 + dex + socket, but all the ones I made were 1300+. Demon skin and Hallowed plan has been awesome for my monk.

Huh, weird. I tried making about 15 of those crossbows and never once got one over 1k dps. I think I read in the patch notes that they fixed something about crafted items rolling sub-par stats, maybe I'll try a few more.

 

[Wardawg1001]

Yeah once I hit 44 and could put on some legendary 1h axe with 11xx DPS and -16 level required it got really silly, I've been playing mostly on T2 (though starting immediately at T6 is fun for a couple levels) which is at times problematic but certainly amusing lol. Made it to like 50 by the time I downed butcher.

I crafted a sword with 1350 dps, a socket, and -19 level requirement

Been sitting on it to level my Crusader, but yea I think I'll level up a WD and Monk with it in the meantime just for the achievements.

 

[Wardawg1001]

Also, it is for any difficulty right? On normal, it wouldn't take very long for my to do the game on my Monk. Already at 35% move speed PLUS skills that move me across the screen. Seems like incredibly easy legendary farming I might have missed out on if it was for Skele king. =(

It worked on any difficulty when it was dropping from Skeleton King, I assume the same now that it drops from Diablo, as they didn't indicate otherwise.

It really doesn't make a difference where it drops though. The guaranteed drop only happens if you 'Reset Quests'. You can only do that if you've completed every quest in the game (including every mini-step in every quest). So you have to literally complete the entire game start to finish regardless of whether the Legendary drops from SK or Diablo.

I did a couple speed runs with my DH on Hard, but I was always worried that I was moving so quickly that a Legendary would drop and I wouldn't even notice it. I prefer to just do Torment 1 runs. White mobs die pretty much instantly, rares only take a few seconds, and I get a solid billion exp or so per run. Takes roughly 3 hours for a full campaign run.

 

[silverpig]

I am indeed in the UK but haven't logged on to the EU servers. I started my characters when I was in Toronto and have only been in London for a few months.