Thread: Diablo 3 Leaked 1.0.3 Patch Notes    

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Originally Posted by Deadgye

Looking back at d2, I don't understand how they fucked up stats/affixes so badly in this game. BotD gave your weapon 60% IAS, other weapons had 30-45% easily. Yet they weren't broken. And then you have things like this: http://img5.fotos-hochladen.net/uplo...rwtlui2jmy.jpg

They just simply don't know what they're doing, and this realization saddens me a lot.

They fucked up a lot of things they shouldn't have, D3 has no soul to the game. All I see is a dev team that tried to re-invent a wheel that did not need to be re-invented. The item system just reeks of WoW, it is just boring and a step down from D2 in all phases. I love the fact we can't play the way we want to play on the only difficult that matters(Inferno) after being told how there would be thousands upon thousands of viable ways to play across all difficulties and the only solution Blizzard has given us is:

"stay tuned folks, we're keeping a close eye on things! The class balance patch is in 1.1!" meanwhile we'll nerf shit into the ground. I want to play a summoner WD that is viable in the only difficulty that matters, I can't, want to know why? The stupid fucking "hardcore internal inferno test team" was too lazy to play a WD and see the pets get obliterated in 2-3 hits(in the only difficulty that matters)

The balance teams/testers did a terrible fucking job, how did all of them think the original design of skills like "Force Armor, Smokescreen" were balanced? A tester should of hit smokescreen and said "oh, wow, 5 second duration with lingering fog? I can just stack some + Max discipline and be a god." The whole idea of Goblins were poorly thought out, did Blizzard honestly expect them NOT to be exploited given the current retarded situation that is inferno?

Speaking of balance, they screwed the pooch with a lot of mob families in the game when they decided to increase the natural speed of mobs in each difficulty. You want mobs to 1 shot me? fine, but when I have to avoid certain champion packs because they run you down even when you snare/slow them is just retarded game design. I don't know a single player currently on Inferno that bothers with those mobs that are champion packs like "Accursed, soul rippers, leaping launci's, copper fang lurkers", most packs that have the fast affix on already retarded fast mobs.

Ranged mobs, terrible to see spears, certain arrows, also the hit boxes of multiple enemies are broken. Hit boxes have been a weird issue all across WoW for many years, some how, this is not only repeated in D3 but it is a whole lot worse because of the implications that is inferno. I literally cringe when I see a spear chucker pack in A3, I know this is a multiple death affair due to the following:

Hard to see spears in certain areas, they can snipe you off screen, hit boxes are so fucked up where you get hit standing 3-5 yards away.


Instead of making Inferno require me to think and form awesome strategies it just boils down to overgearing the content. I am pigeon held into certain skills, I need x amount of DPS to burn down the said target or I need enough stats to tank them. I feel like every meaningful fight in this game is a "patchwork fight" as a DPS char, burn it down as quickly as possible, nothing else to think about.

Legendaries, I yell "FUCK YOU" everytime I see a legendary weapon drop. In D2 classic, we had useful unique weapons, Ume's Lament, Spectral Shard, Gull Dagger, Bone Snap, Culwins's Point.

Sadly I could go on and on, but by now people should get the point. This was the easiest game not to fuck up and now we have to wait until who knows how long until enough patches get rolled out that addresses some of these issues. I almost feel like D3 is Ultima IX in a lot of ways, heavily retconned story, lots of missing features due to "EA interference" and most hardcore Diablo fans just want to yell "Betrayal!" at the 3rd game in its current state.

Originally Posted by Correction

I'm mostly relieved we don't have to carry a backpack full of Greater Charms (for now).

Oh it's coming, for sure. WTB 290s

If you ever played Hunter in WoW, it's been obvious for a while now that Blizzard doesn't know how to balance games. Hunter was OP for one season and has been struggling to be viable ever since. When I left WoW mid-cata, there was no role that Hunter could fill that another class couldn't do better. Unless you consider feeding kills a role.

My hope with d3 was that it would be a different team and whatnot, but I guess not.

Saving them for paid expansions. Duh.

They'll clearly release Rejuv Potions with the next expansion to make it look like its got more content than it has.

Probably bring back Skulls, Diamonds, Jewels, and Charms too, Of course they'll likely raise level cap as well, Gotta put as much "Shit that should be in the game from Launch" into the expansion to make players think its adding so much content.

Hopefully they'll do it right if they have them. have 2-4 of them. 25%, 50%, 75%, 100% HP Recovery, or just 50/100. They likely removed them because Potions are now Instant, which was Rejuv's "big thing" outside of Full heal. Also a little pissed they removed Mana potions entirely.

Also kinda pissed you keep the exact same Hatred/Discipline/etc for the entire 60 levels... Guess they couldn't be assed to put in more effort than that into "Balancing" skills around that.

Oh, Boy... I'm upset at the idiocy , You know, I don't want the team to be fired, But i do wish they'd bring in a team who actually new Diablo II existed. Jay Wilson needs to go back to WoW or something, He's clearly an MMO Designer, as he has no idea what he's doing with Diablo 3.

He's not a terrible director it seems, Just a terrible ARPG director. He's out of his element entirely. It would be like putting on the Director of Street Fighter into Final Fantasy, It would only end in chaos.
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Originally Posted by Ragnus

Saving them for paid expansions. Duh.

Beat me too it.

I don't really understand how having to leave game 20 times in a row to spawn an Elite/Champ pack you can actually kill without dying instantly makes Hardcore mode "fun".

They could probably kill them but skip ones with risks. Why does everyone want 100% easy mode? -.-

Originally Posted by Roranora

I guess if people didn't rush to an Inferno they knew damn well would be messed up at launch

Game not properly designed sounds like a pretty good reason to complain.