Diablo III Patch Info Incoming

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A new post on the Diablo III Forums outlines five different articles they are working on to prepare Diablo III players for the upcoming patch to update the action/RPG sequel to version 1.0.4, saying these will be posted "in the not-too-distant future," though there's no real hint about when the patch will go live. They say they are cooking up a high-level summary of planned system changes, an outline of Legendary item improvements, an update on how Magic Find is changing, a preview of how each class will change, as well as the full patch notes.

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Aug 9, 2012, 17:39

The Half Elf wrote on Aug 9, 2012, 14:30: Elessar wrote on Aug 9, 2012, 11:22: There's one thing I want to see fixed. -Drops no longer suck, therefore no longer forcing you into our shitty moneygrab Auction House allowing you to actually have fun playing the game. THIS. So my main is a 40'ish Wizard in Act 2 on Nightmare and was having a hell of a time dealing out damage. Someone suggested going to the AH and getting the biggest DPS weapon you can afford. So from a 80'ish DPS to a 150 DPS weapon made a ton of difference. But I have tons of freaking INT to boost damage, what exactly is getting boosted damage wise? The drop system basically gives you items for characters a few levels below you. So you need a few good drops sold on the AH (plus your gold find) in order to buy one item for your level... I'm not sure it's at all a realistic prospect to get through Hell without the AH. Well maybe if you farm and get lucky, but with the AH you don't need to farm at all until Inferno (I didn't anyway, possible the AH market has changed since then). For wizard your primary stat is INT. It acts as a multiplier on your weapon damage - yeah even your spells are based on the weapon damage. To get far into the game you need to have a decent grasp of the mechanics. There's a shortish guide at http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1145671-Diablo-3-Stat-Mechanics or a longer but better one at http://www.clicktoloot.com/p/combat.html . The specifics are pretty complicated but do finish Nightmare you can get by just looking at the main inventory screen (i.e. DPS and VIT) plus whether toolips on items are green or red. For Hell, you shouldn't need to be doing any math, you just need a basic grasp of how it works, and start looking at the detailed inventory tab. But fairly early on in Inferno you'll probably be using a spreadsheet e.g. http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/uzl99/ehp_dps_spreadsheet/ and thinking in terms of EHP. Note one thing missing from most of the guides and spreadsheets is life regen & life steal. This might seem straightforward but bear in mind that 1hp is worth a lot more to a character with very high damage reduction. Therefore the best route to EHP is through high damage reduction. Oh and apparently skill runes can impact the proc rates, so I'm finding out my Barb skills picked for life steal actually lower the proc rate of life on hit from the weapon affix, so the net hp gained from the hit is well below what it would appear from the tooltip. Similarly for DPS, I always prefer attack speed, base damage, crit chance then crit damage. This affects both the actual damage dealt plus life on hit or life steal considerations.

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	1.	Aug 9, 10:18	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	InBlack
	2.	Aug 9, 10:23	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	JohnnyRotten
	3.	Aug 9, 10:51	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	Techie714 ©
	4.	Aug 9, 10:51	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	El Pit
	5.	Aug 9, 10:57	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	Techie714 ©
	6.	Aug 9, 10:57	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	nin
	9.	Aug 9, 11:38	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	Verno
	10.	Aug 9, 12:09	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	MoreLuckThanSkill
	16.	Aug 9, 14:38	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	Hornet303
	19.	Aug 9, 15:21	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	MoreLuckThanSkill
	20.	Aug 9, 15:48	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	OneEye
	21.	Aug 9, 16:01	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	MoreLuckThanSkill
	22.	Aug 9, 16:32	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	gilly775
	26.	Aug 9, 18:04	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	Glykon
	11.	Aug 9, 12:10	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	Darks
	12.	Aug 9, 13:12	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	DG
	13.	Aug 9, 13:56	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	Beelzebud
	14.	Aug 9, 14:18	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	deqer
	23.	Aug 9, 16:57	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	AngelicPenguin
	7.	Aug 9, 10:59	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	deqer
	8.	Aug 9, 11:22	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	Elessar
	15.	Aug 9, 14:30	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	The Half Elf
>>	24.	Aug 9, 17:39	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	DG
	25.	Aug 9, 17:56	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	AngelicPenguin
	17.	Aug 9, 15:02	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	Verno
	18.	Aug 9, 15:08	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	Cutter
	27.	Aug 9, 18:30	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	RailWizard
	28.	Aug 9, 18:56	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	NegaDeath
	29.	Aug 9, 19:39	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	Julio
	30.	Aug 10, 03:11	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	El Pit
	31.	Aug 10, 04:36	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	Armengar
	32.	Aug 10, 07:15	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	InBlack
	33.	Aug 10, 08:22	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	briktal
	34.	Aug 10, 09:04	Re: Diablo III Patch Info Incoming	Verno