Game designer John Yang chimed in on the forums recently to let players know that Blizz is currently working to improve pet survivability. The goal is to have pet survivability match the player's - improving the way toughness is translated to the pet(s), while also adjusting how certain monster attack damage is received by pets. Rather than getting one-shotted by certain … [Read more...]
Quotes and Official Info from Blizzard
These posts include highlighted information from the community managers, developers and head muckity mucks at Blizzard Entertainment. If it's quoted in blue it's probably accurate. ;)
Keystone of Trials Drop Rate
Blizz recently confirmed that the drop rates for Greater Rift Keystones scale with Torment difficulty. The drop rate is unknown, but it's believed to be close to the Horadric Cache Legendary drop rate scaling, but T6 does not mean a 100% chance to get a Keystone of Trials -- it's closer to 90-95%. Quote from Grimiku You'll need to be in Torment difficulty in order to … [Read more...]
Demonic Organs Drop Rate Increase
Drop rates have been increased for the components needed to craft the Hellfire Ring and Hellfire Amulet. It's now advisable to tackle those Ubers on the highest difficulty setting you can handle. The drop rate of Leoric's Regret, Vial of Putridness, Idol of Terror, and Heart of Evil has been increased on Torment I and above, to a maximum of 100% on Torment VI (9/9) … [Read more...]
2-Hand Weapons to be Buffed in 2.1
Game designer John Yang recently announced that Patch 2.1 will bring with it a much needed buff to 2H weapon damage. We’ve been discussing 2-Hander buffs for a while now. Right now on live, 2-Handers are almost always less powerful than dual-wielding 1-Handers for a few different reasons, and we wanted to rebalance them for Patch 2.1. We had two options to address the … [Read more...]
Patch 2.0.6 Crafting Changes
Patch 2.0.6 introduced a pretty big change to the Legendary item crafting process. In a move to lower the barrier for entry to obtaining Legendary crafted gear, Blizz has decided to remove Legendary crafting mats from the game. I repeat, Legendary crafting mats are no longer needed for crafting Legendary items. Excerpt from official 2.0.6 patch notes … [Read more...]
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