Diablo 3 Leaked 1.0.3 Patch Notes

[Arkanna]

Seems like they changed Teleport - Fracture to be more like Mirror Image. I don't like it. -_-

How so?

[Lucavi]

Because



Doesn't really set up for a intellectual conversation based around balance and numbers now, does it?

I was civil and engaging for a while, but shit like this pops up more and more from someone who gets disgruntled their cash cow gets nerfed or a bug they were exploiting gets fixed.

Are you kidding me? Hahaha? Cash chow? I haven't placed a single item on the AH. Bug exploits? I don't even have a character at 60 yet. I'm taking my time and enjoying the game, so assume somewhere else, asshole.

Putting your ignorance and your short temper aside, Blizzard has dropped the ball in recent years. Cata wasn't received nearly as well as its previous games, SC2 took a lot of flak from many in the community, and the D3 launch and subsequent managing of the early portion of the game has been completely lackluster. Through server outages, poor foresight for common issues that everyone knew would pop up, questionable game choices and designs, and now hilarious patch bugs, its clear that Blizzard is pooling their fancy eggs either in another project (Titan), or have simply lost too many of their best devs. Its too bad you can't see that, though, through being blinded by internet rage over a few posts from people that are miffed that there have been some shitty choices by Blizz over the last few weeks.

You can call yourself civil, but devolving into a troll is not civil. Clutching strawman arguments to your chest as if you were holding a hostage is not civil. Pulling the "umadbro" rhetoric over and over is not civil.

Get over yourself. The game has issues, but not everyone is going to leave because of those issues. I play regularly, plan to play regularly (when the XP isn't fucked), and enjoy getting my money's worth in a game. I'm not going anywhere, so you can take your half-witted one-liners elsewhere. I don't get mad over this game, and I certainly don't get mad over trolls like yourself. What I do get, however, is dissapointed that Blizzard would repeat D2's life in releasing a game that feels completely underwhelming due to the glaring flaws, knowing that they're stringing us along to inevitably pay for the fixes and adjustments we've wanted all along in the next expansion.

Disappointment, not anger. Learn the difference between the two, learn to stop assuming shit about people, and most importantly, learn how to debate on the internet, for fucks' sake.

[Seraph]

I'm so angry I could flip a table, but I wouldn't get anything out of it.

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[Deadgye]

The only argument you've presented to date that I've replied to that essentially everyone has disagreed with you about is how "nerfing destructible objects is not Diablo". And yes my replies were dickish.

You might want to reread the thread. People who voiced something on your side of the destructable argument: You, Arkanna, Perm. People who voiced something on my side: Me, Waltall, Karbuncle. Clearly this is not essentially everyone.

Within this specific topic I presented you with multiple chances to show how it wasn't "diablo" like. I stated how there would be no reason to barrels/etc in diablo 1&2 if you couldn't get anything from them. I presented examples of this staple in the previous two diablo games. Someone else presented Jay himself(?) mentioning the joy of getting a good item from a destructable. I asked for your reasoning, for your response. Yet all I got was you making stupid assumptions that because I'm complaining about nerfs to the game that I don't enjoy playing it.

This is not the first time I've seen you do this, and this is exactly why I made my first reply as I did.

I was civil and engaging for a while

You were never civil in regards to me and this topic. You started out by misrepresenting my problem, my argument, and telling me to gtfo.

[Eanae]

Disappointment isn't typically accompanied by rage. Practicing what you're preaching now may be appropriate. It's obvious they really only care about the money. The economy is shit ruined by early exploiters and the rmah and without ladder will never be fixed. I even said this back on like age 6.

Cataclysm wasn't even worth buying after playing the beta, so I didn't. Never went into the wow forums to bitch about it. Not going to discuss that game though.

Sc2 is the strongest it's ever been, especially the esports scene which may have a deal to be broadcast on CBS national television so I don't think your point there is valid.

Also stated before diablo 3 was made by a whole new team that never worked on 1 or 2 as Blizzard North all quit once their project of what was originally this game got shut down. All those who didn't leave we're laid off when Blizzard officially closed Blizzard North. I think Metzen and his 1 trick stories is the only person who is credited with both games.

And to the above: I said why wasn't civil. Telling blizzard to "suck a dick" really meant you were just going to be angry no matter what was posted.

[Meko]

I never know the state of the game until I visit the forums, lol. Up until I reached act 2 inferno, I thought the game was pretty stellar minus some of the aggravating "online offline game" stuff and the GAH/RMAH (which I don't care for). I still think the game is quite solid although it could use some areas of improvement. Idk, I just play.

[Kisamoo]

All the DH nerfs were justified. Were they overnerfed? For sure, but there was such a huge window of opportunity to abuse DH brokenness that I can't even complain because it set me so far ahead of the curve. Now every class (except lolWD) has a chance to shine.

[Arkanna]

Just stating this to make it clear, but, I wasn't really siding with Eanae about anything. I just feel it's more "diablo-like" to farm drops by killing hundreds and thousands of demons, than it is to smash hundreds and thousands of fucking pots. Apparently Blizzard agrees on that point, because well, now you don't get shit from pots.

(Yes I know you could get good shit out of pots in D2, but you didn't see pot-smasher-bots, you saw Pindlebots etc)

[Weltall]

@Deadgye please include person's name you are quoting; it is easier for me! hehe

@Eanae are you the same Eanae who was on Alexander server at one point?

[Deadgye]

Telling blizzard to "suck a dick" really meant you were just going to be angry no matter what was posted.

I fail to see how you drew this conclusion. 1.0.3 is what I've been looking forward to since it was announced. It was going to be blizzards first step in the right direction. Why should it be unacceptable to be angry at blizzard for putting in completely random nerfs that effect everyone and are detrimental to gameplay. (Or rather, are not beneficial to gameplay.)

Of course I'm going to rage at them, that would be many people's immediate response. And now that I've been able to vent that rage all that's left is disappointment. I can't think of any game that has disappointed me this much since ffxiv. There is so much potential, and it's just plain sad how much of that potential isn't going to be tapped anytime soon.

Regardless, me being uncivil in regards to blizzard has virtually no baring on the civility that I show to other posters.

Just stating this to make it clear, but, I wasn't really siding with Eanae about anything. I just feel it's more "diablo-like" to farm drops by killing hundreds and thousands of demons, than it is to smash hundreds and thousands of fucking pots. Apparently Blizzard agrees on that point, because well, now you don't get shit from pots.

(Yes I know you could get good shit out of pots in D2, but you didn't see pot-smasher-bots, you saw Pindlebots etc)

I definitely was not insinuating that farming only pots was diablo-like. In fact I specifically had to make a post specifying that because of the strawman used against me. It was the ability go just hack and slash your way through everything and get rewarded for it that made diablo. You cleaved through enemies, through barrels, turned dead bodies over, etc. It was like a rite of passage to get something as awesome as a Shako off an armor rack. I myself got two (crappy weapon) legendaries in d3 from weapon racks before.

Also, making mf not effect chests/etc just feels wrong and imo encourages mf swapping, not to mention it punishes people who run a fulltime mf set. Previously people who swapped mf weren't getting the full effect because they only had mf for elites and resplendent chests and bosses; they didn't have mf for everything else. Now they reduced that everything else to only include white mobs.

@Deadgye please include person's name you are quoting; it is easier for me! hehe

I'll try to do that more often, heh. Normally I copypaste what I want to respond to into notepad and just type the quote brackets out by hand. It seems that you don't actually need the numbers inside the quote thing to use people's names so that'll make it easier.

[Rhyis.]

Just stating this to make it clear, but, I wasn't really siding with Eanae about anything. I just feel it's more "diablo-like" to farm drops by killing hundreds and thousands of demons, than it is to smash hundreds and thousands of fucking pots. Apparently Blizzard agrees on that point, because well, now you don't get shit from pots.

(Yes I know you could get good shit out of pots in D2, but you didn't see pot-smasher-bots, you saw Pindlebots etc)

Only issue I have with the pot smashing nerf is the cash. Hitting every pot along the way was just a nice way to keep that gold flowing while you're smashing enemies. It's a small amount content of the game taken out, which on it's own isn't that big, but there's a lot of content missing when you add it all up.

[Mrf]

All in all, I'm pretty pleased with this patch. I just start from Machines of War and do full clears for my guaranteed 5 NV rares now and I think once the ball gets rollin, I may come out with more rares per minute. Time will tell. I swapped out some of my ASPD only items like my Tal's armor and now I can survive, 4 FULL hits. I pretty much never die now and my DPS is still 60k without sharpshooter so I think I may have actually come out ahead this patch.

Just curious, but what kind of stats do you have? armor / resist wise

[Shenrien]

pressing CTRL +R displays my FPS as 0, when I can clearly see that is not the case lol.

[Kisamoo]

Just curious, but what kind of stats do you have? armor / resist wise

30k HP 300 resist. I still use SS as my main damage mitigation, but the room for error is so huge now that I can survive most encounters that would normally require zombieing. I'm not quite at these stats yet but still in the process of converting items.

60k DPS, dont use sharpshooter anymore. Changed to Frost Arrows and Cull of the Weak.
1600 dex, 31% crit, about 150% crit hit dmg 1.7 aspd
187% MF

[vrumpt]

Somebody needs to give Eanae the forum title of "Blizzard fanboy level: full retard". I've never gone full retard backing a company the way Eanae does with Blizzard and Diablo. Even before SWTOR came out I at least had the brains to think about the shit I say when taking part in discussions there, holy crap. It fucking makes my brain hurt.

So, as a DH, naturally i'm a little upset about the patch notes. I've only been in Inferno for about a week and i haven't had a lot of time to experiment with different stat builds, but I think its clear that the goal is to not fucking die according to Bliz. I'll roll with it and start stacking some VIT/resist gear where I can find it. Also gonna switch back to frost rune on elemental arrow since i'm still in love with that rune from < 59.

And just like WoW, Blizzard has apparently tricked everybody into actually hating the class they play since all I really keep seeing is "DH/Monk/Barb/Wiz" sucks wherever I go, and i guess that means either nobody plays WD or its doing alright.

[arus2001]

I just can't say I'm a fan of what are obviously heavy-handed nerfs that hurt everyone instead of going after the people exploiting.

As is, dying a few times may as well be a half hour's worth or more of random gold for me as I've made maybe 100k pre-expenses going from Tombs to Leoric's Manor, skipping Wortham/Spider cavern in maybe a little shy of 2 hours of playing.

[Eanae]

Somebody needs to give Eanae the forum title of "Blizzard fanboy level: full retard". I've never gone full retard backing a company the way Eanae does with Blizzard and Diablo. Even before SWTOR came out I at least had the brains to think about the shit I say when taking part in discussions there, holy crap. It fucking makes my brain hurt.

To be fair, you could tell SWTOR was going to be trash just from the beta. I don't see how I'm a fan boy for enjoying 2 of 3 blizzard games. I don't agree with their design decisions with WoW, but SC2 and Diablo 3 are very enjoyable still. Fuck anyone who can actually enjoy an online video game now a days, right?

[Rhyis.]

It's how you take the stance, the not stance itself.

I think SC2 was a ton of fun as well.

[Arkanna]

Breakables still drop items ... just had a casket in an act 1 crypt drop a damaged halberd or something.

[Odon]

Seems like they changed Teleport - Fracture to be more like Mirror Image. I don't like it. -_-

What?