Category: News

Blizzard just graced us with a new developer blog post which outlines the Legendary item changes we can expect in patch 1.0.4.

Here’s a few of the changes that makes my mouth water:

-Some legendary items will grant your character certain elite mob affixes (such as shielding, molten, etc.)
-Legendaries can now be ilvl 63, and major weapon damage increases.
-Helm of Command will NOT be changed.
-Any new set items will have a different name/set so you won’t be able to mix/match pre 1.0.4 and post 1.0.4
-Legendary crafting patterns will craft the new version of items post 1.0.4 (except for Helm of Command)

There’s a lot more. I recommend you take a few minutes and read through the full 1.0.4 Legendary Item Changes Developer Blog post for all the changes.

Just a quick news update. The “long-awaited” character profiles are finally here! (I, personally, would rather see a patch…but something is better than nothing I guess.)

After browsing around at my characters for a little bit I noticed one MAJOR thing that was missing from it. Where in the world are the achievements? I hope they add that at a later date. It does seem kinda strange to leave them out at this point.

To see your profile, just login to your Battle.net account and click on “View Profile”. To see other people’s profiles in the forums you can click on “View Profile” underneath their name.

As you probably know already, patch 1.0.3 hit the live servers today. Instead of doing the usual copy/paste of the complete patch notes (like every other Diablo site) I thought doing a list of nerfs would be helpful to many of you looking to see what was nerfed in the patch. Of course, if you want the complete patch notes you can find them at the official Blizzard site.

Tons of nerfs hit the servers pertaining from class skills all the way to the way Magic Find works on chests. I have each and every nerf listed below by main category. The Demon Hunter nerfs are listed in the patch notes as Bug Fixes but these are pretty big so I included them. I haven’t played the new patch yet, but it seems the OP days of Nether Tentacles may be over.

I did list some other Bug Fixes that were commonly abused. See the full list after the break.

Blizzard did a small hotfix today that fixed a couple different things. One of the major things was reducing the amount of gold that is dropped in Act 1 pots of ashes and Act 4 vases. This pretty much makes the Act 1 Inferno Royal Crypts gold farming useless now.

It also puts a huge damper on the Act 4 Inferno Vase farming (although that really was about getting chests and items more than gold), so that is probably still do-able from a pure MF standpoint.

Here’s the complete list straight from the horse’s mouth.

General

• In cooperative games, monster damage will no longer increase when additional players join the game. Please note that monster health will still scale based on the number of players in a party.

Bug Fixes

• Tyrael no longer has collision when he is your active follower
• Pots of ashes in Act I and vases in Act IV will now drop less gold when destroyed
• Fixed a bug where players could turn in the same quest repeatedly and always receive rewards as though they were completing the quest for the first time

UPDATE: Patch 1.0.3 is going live today 6/19! Maintenance today from 3:00am PDT to 1:00 PDT.

Blizzard just put out a preview of what we can expect to see in the next patch (1.0.3). They are changing a lot especially when it comes to the end-game. Inferno will be seeing a difficulty nerf in Acts 2-4.

The drop rates on lvl 61-63 items will be increasing in late Hell and Inferno. Stop crafting until this patch hits as it will reduce the costs of crafting with the blacksmith and jeweler. With all this good news comes some bad….the repair costs at level 60 will be going up. Blizzard doesn’t like the “graveyard zerging” against elite monster packs and wants to make the repair costs important to keep in mind.

Lots of good stuff going on and if you want more details feel free to follow after the break for a full list of changes.

Wow! Athene is at it again. Like him or absolutely hate him he really drove this Butcher kill home. Before watching the video I half-expected some kind of shadiness going on for a kill that fast, but no…it was straight up and with his eyes closed. LOL

Got a couple of minutes? Give this video a quick watch.

I just saw this on the Diablo Fans forum and thought some of you might find it useful. Not sure how I would classify it since it does seem to be taking advantage of mobs getting stuck. The concern on the forum is only basically when Blizzard will fix it. I imagine Blizzard will fix it fairly quickly, so if you want to farm this get started on it now. 🙂 Yes, this still does work post-patch today (May 29th).

Anyway, either if you agree with taking advantage of pathing issues for mobs or not this can get you a bit of gold and, if you’re lucky, some decent drops. Have fun!