General Increased the radius of "Strength in Numbers" (multiplayer buff) from 100 to 200 yards Gold Find on items will now stack multiplicatively with the Gold Find bonus provided from game difficulty This significantly increases the gold reward most players will see when playing on higher difficulty levels or wearing Gold Find gear. Example: Suppose you are playing … [Read more...]
BlizzCon 2014 Tickets Going on Sale
The mighty Blizz has just announced the dates for this year's BlizzCon. This year's event will take place at the Anaheim Convention Center on Friday, November 7th & Saturday, November 8th. Tickets for BlizzCon 2014 will be going on sale starting Wednesday, May 7th at 7pm PST for the first batch, with the second batch of sales happening on Saturday, May 7th at 10am PST. … [Read more...]
Reaper Gets its First Patch: 2.0.4 Now Live
Patch 2.0.4 marks the first major content patch update for Reaper of Souls. It consists of many bug fixes, quailty of life improvements, and a host of class changes - especially for our newest hero, the Crusader. The official patch notes are below... General Greatly increased the survivability of pets summoned by several items and skills, … [Read more...]
A Look at the New Skills in RoS
Continuing the examination of the new Reaper of Souls content, let’s look at the new Level 61 skills across all classes. Overall, these range from novelties you can ignore to indispensable necessities. Let's dip into the specifics... Barbarian: Avalanche Sometimes when you are walking along, it’s satisfying when rocks fall and everyone dies. It’s particularly nice when you … [Read more...]
Farming the Crypt
Hearing all of this hoopla about the Legendary run du jour - the Defiled Crypt Level 2 rinse and repeat - I had to give it a whirl. The run involves killing Manglemaw over and over and over and over and over and over...and over...until orange or green stuff starts dropping. Hearing about how painless and lucrative this can be, I was anxious to give it a go. I started out … [Read more...]
What to Expect from RoS
Prior to the gates of Westmarch opening, streams of stalwart Crusaders, enraged Barbarians and pompous Wizards were chomping at the bit to ruin Malthael's homecoming party. And now that they've finally gotten their chance, I've received a slew of questions regarding how to most efficiently traverse the significantly altered world of Sanctuary. Reaper of Souls expands upon … [Read more...]
Augmented Reality App
Blizzard announced a little easter egg of sorts that folks who purchased the Diablo III RoS CE will get to enjoy. Apparently...the art book that comes with the Collector's Edition has a nifty little associated app, which when installed on your phone and used to view the art book, causes the images to come to life on the page. O.O The creatures come alive with animation and … [Read more...]
We’re Off to See the Reaper
Taking my sweet time to get through Act V, I finally went in to face Malthael last night. What an epic fight is all I can say. Kudos to Blizzard for taking the genre to the next level. I fought Malthael with my P57 level 70 Demon Hunter, sporting around 308K HPs and 122K DPS unbuffed. My gear was decent, with a mix of mostly 60-65 rares and a few legendaries. I … [Read more...]
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