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Blizzard has just updated their blog with the Barbarian

http://us.media5.battle.net/cms/blog_header/84RUBV0I1VTO1344643109957.jpg

Blizzard has just updated their blog with the Barbarian changes.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/6923460

More classes coming soon.

The one major thing to take away from this-- *nothing* is getting nerfed, and tons of things are getting buffed. The Barbarian is really the best well-rounded at the moment, so there are probably fewer things to do for this class than the others.

Stay tuned for the rest of the class updates!

Next blog about the 1.0.4 patch is out. It addresses the

Next blog about the 1.0.4 patch is out. It addresses the problems they've had with legendary items, and I must say their fixes look pretty awesome.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/6923457/

Anyone else want fire chains?angels and demons? Molten shielding?
Oh, and that axe at the end would make me consider a two-hander.

I know many players are looking to Blizzard to fix many of

I know many players are looking to Blizzard to fix many of the problems Diablo 3 shipped with to make it a more fun experience. Today, Blizzard dropped some details on the upcoming 1.0.4 patch meant to address many of the issues plaguing players right now. I delved through the post and am bringing you the best bits from my perspective:

You will get your individual gold find and magic find in co-op games. They averaged the ability with your party which led to decreased drops when you played with friends compared to what you could get soloing.

They are lowering the health multiplier for monsters in co-op games. Hopefully this makes co-op games less brutal and more fun.

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Travis Admin wrote on 08/10/2012 at 07:08pm

This will make me come back. It seems that they focus too much on making it easier, rather than making it less frustrating, though. Those aren't the same. Invulnerable minions was fine, just not with some of the other crazy things.

In addition to increasing legendary drops, they're also buffing the stats on legendaries to make them more, well, legendary. Can't wait to see the further changes to legendaries.

hardeyez wrote on 08/10/2012 at 11:08pm

Yeah, I might come back after this, if drops improve and the time spent doesn't feel like a waste (like it does now, I haven't upgraded my equipment since about 4 acts ago...) and the repair costs stop bankrupting me :)

Chowda wrote on 08/10/2012 at 11:28pm

This is only one update of several coming from the dev team. I think we'll see 5-7 blog posts in total detailing the changes. They are definitely saying the right things! Let's hope they deliver and sooner than later.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 08/11/2012 at 05:30am

I agree, looking forward to the next posts about it to drop.

Tungsten wrote on 08/11/2012 at 02:52pm

Looks good. Still really waiting for PVP. Nerfing the leet packs will make HC a little less... scary as hell.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 08/11/2012 at 06:04pm

Agreed. Still in Nightmare act 3 though.

Travis Admin wrote on 08/12/2012 at 12:43am

Hell is a lot of fun. Inferno is just brutal for my tastes though. I think they could keep the difficulty where it is, but simplify and improve item drops and elite packs (which they are doing) to make Inferno seem less of a chore. I am really looking forward to getting back into Inferno when 1.4 comes around.

Tungsten wrote on 08/12/2012 at 05:10am

Random Suggestion: What about a horde mode? Just stick a group in an arena and sick elite packs on 'em until they crack.

Travis Admin wrote on 08/12/2012 at 05:43am

That would be loads of fun. I love the jar of souls event but thought it ended just when it was getting good. I figured it would at least end with an elite pack.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 08/12/2012 at 06:11am

That kind of mode would be fun. See how many rounds one could survive. Kind of like ut2004.

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Blizzard dropped Diablo 3 profiles today. The profile for

Blizzard dropped Diablo 3 profiles today. The profile for my most recent character, a Barb by the name of Discipline is shotted above.

Here is the profile for my account:

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/jdodson-1332/

This is my highest level character, Snuggy Bunny a Witch Doctor:

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/jdodson-1332/hero/3331502

Snipped from the D3 site:

"View your heroes’ gear, stats, and skills. How high have you raised your characters’ attributes? What are they wielding in each slot? What are their most prominent gear bonuses? What skills comprise their current build? Nuance awaits you in the Heroes tab.

Track your game progress. How many acts have you... Read All

Any of you guys ever found the Development Hell level? Just

http://thecontrolleronline.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Diablo-3-Development-Hell.jpg

Any of you guys ever found the Development Hell level? Just a fun little easter egg I stumbled onto the other day.

As a conversation starter then, what are the best easter eggs you can think of? Did you find them yourself or did you use a guide?

jdodson Admin wrote on 07/30/2012 at 04:36am

Some cool easter eggs I found recently were the ones in Rage. I saw videos online and sort of figured out the rest.

http://cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/posts/183

The Legend of Zelda Link to the Past I found an easter egg. Well or a bug, I don't know. I was able to do it a few times and my cousin was able to do it on his system as well.

What you did was go through the game normal and get the sword tempered. Then save the game and quit and start a new game. Go up in the rain to the left and talk to the guards blocking the exit. They will reveal mostly all the text that everyone says in the game. They will just keep feeding it to you, its kind of neat. Didn't know if that was an easter egg or a bug. Either way, it was awesome.

jdodson Admin wrote on 07/30/2012 at 04:36am

Oh and is development hell in hell mode?

Tungsten Post Author wrote on 07/30/2012 at 06:17am

It's random, but apparently it shows up more often in the higher difficulties. I found this in nightmare.
BTW: that is not my screenshot. I tried to take some, but was unable to recover them.

Tungsten Post Author wrote on 07/30/2012 at 01:52pm

You know when you are looking for the royal crypts? If you ever see four doors open instead of three, one of them is "Development Hell". It's really just a normal crypt but all the zombies have the names and titles of the real people that worked on the game and the Lead Designer is an Elite.

Tungsten Post Author wrote on 07/30/2012 at 01:54pm

Were you ever able to get into the secret room in link to the past that was made for the contest? Know what I'm talking about? It's named after the kid who won the contest and you have to do some ridiculous dash to get into it. (I never was able to pull it off, so I'm no help there."

jdodson Admin wrote on 07/30/2012 at 02:11pm

I did find that one, yeah. I think I read about it in Nintendo Power back in the day and eventually pulled it off.

Timogorgon Member wrote on 07/30/2012 at 05:33pm

I was able to get to the secret room in Link to the Past as well. There wasn't really anything in there but some rupees, but it was a cool easter egg. Here's some other fun easter eggs:
In Mega Man X you can learn Ryu/Ken's hadoken. :)
In Fallout 3 you can find a vault 77 jumpsuit, which is a reference to the Penny Arcade comic about the Puppet Man.
In Dungeon Siege there is a secret chicken level, which is a spoof of Diablo's cow level.
In Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, if you beat the final boss immediately after starting a new game + you get the developers ending, where you can talk to NPC's based on the developers.

jdodson Admin wrote on 07/31/2012 at 03:43am

Chicken level in Dungeon Siege? Awesome, have to check that out.

Tungsten Post Author wrote on 07/31/2012 at 06:15am

I did the Megaman Haduken thing. That was fun. What about Max (of Sam and Max) in Star Wars Jedi... damn what was that called? Forgot it.

hardeyez wrote on 08/01/2012 at 03:07pm

One of the games I worked on Dr. Muto had several easter eggs/secret characters. I.e. the artists had fun modelling each other, the programmers, and other fun stuff. (here's a somewhat complete list I quickly found http://www.neoseeker.com/Games/cheats/PS2/dr_muto.html although I'm pretty sure we also had MADDOG which was the initial lead programmer)

Usually there's lots of extra bits we throw into a game, but most get yanked out before shipping as they aren't appropriate to the age level of the game (another game I worked on Looney Tunes Racing had some really funny carts making fun of me that the artists created, but they were definitely not appropriate for the games rating... so they didn't ship with the game)

jdodson Admin wrote on 08/02/2012 at 12:04am

Ha, thats awesome.

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Now that Diablo 3 has been out a little while I wanted to

Now that Diablo 3 has been out a little while I wanted to post a few thoughts I have about the game after beating it a few times. First off, its great and if you can get it I recommend you do as it did not disappoint. That said I did figure I would be playing it much longer than I did. I can't pen why I thought Diablo 3 would be all the game I needed for the rest of the year, but I did. I figured the replayability would be so high that I wouldn't put it down for 6 months. Thing is, that was me for a few weeks but after that my play time waned and I don't play it all too often anymore. I imagine ill poke around in it and occasionally put in more time but it started and... Read All

Bashiok, Blizzard community manager recently posted this on

Bashiok, Blizzard community manager recently posted this on battle.net to address some peoples thoughts on the Diablo 3 endgame:

"We recognize that the item hunt is just not enough for a long-term sustainable end-game. There are still tons of people playing every day and week, and playing a lot, but eventually they're going to run out of stuff to do (if they haven't already). Killing enemies and finding items is a lot of fun, and we think we have a lot of the systems surrounding that right, or at least on the right path with a few corrections and tweaks. But honestly Diablo III is not World of Warcraft. We aren't going to be able to pump out tons of new systems and... Read All

Cant touch this!Oh and as a bonus here is a video of a

Can't touch this!

Oh and as a bonus here is a video of a Monk killing Diablo in Inferno in 3 minutes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDFFYAwThFI

Build and more:

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#abkXgi!dXU!acabYc
http://imgur.com/a/RNqAp#0

The new Diablo 3 1.0.3 Patch dropped a few days ago. More

The new Diablo 3 1.0.3 Patch dropped a few days ago. More details here:

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/blog/5238315/Patch_103_Now_Live-20_06_2012

A few items I felt interesting:

"Attack Speed bonus values on weapons and armor have been reduced by 50%"

Heard for quite sometime people should stack attack speed, I guess Blizz thought it was too overpowered.

"Magic Find will no longer be considered when looting objects in the environment such as chests, barrels, vases, pots, and corpses"

Doh!

"The item quality of all components needed to craft the Staff of Herding, as well as the Staff of Herding itself, have been changed from Common to Legendary (i.e. their item names will appear... Read All

Whimsyshire Is Brutally Cute Fun!

Recently panickedthumb and chowda helped me get to Whimsyshire. Whimsyshire being D3's version of Diablo 2's cow level. Grinding for the items took an evening of solid runs on items but after a few hours I had all the gear to craft the Staff of Warding. It was nice of panickedthumb to walk me through the parts he had done as it was my first time in a game grinding for certain loot drops. Not too bad but you should expect things not to drop more often than they do. Or said another way, it can get tedious. The payoff is well worth the time spent though.

Oh and the total amount of money it takes to get the normal Staff of Warding is 150k. 100k for Wirts Cowbell and 50k... Read All

Ben_Dodson wrote on 06/14/2012 at 06:55am

"There is no Cow Level." Best line from the ghost.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/14/2012 at 05:02pm

The cow king is cool. I like how Whimsyshire is a zone you can keep going to if you want.

When did you grind for the staff?

Ben_Dodson wrote on 06/14/2012 at 05:27pm

I haven't. I was brought there by people who have it

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/14/2012 at 08:20pm

Oh cool.

Travis Admin wrote on 06/18/2012 at 03:58pm

That staff starts getting expensive. 200k to upgrade it for Nightmare, and 500k for hell. A whopping 1.5 million for Inferno.

But the way gold is dropping in Hell, I don't think it's going to hurt my gold pouch too much.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/18/2012 at 04:25pm

Yeah one of my friends who farms Inferno act 1 lent me 50k for the orig staff. He could get that in a quick run too.

Are you in Hell now? How is compared to Inferno?

Travis Admin wrote on 06/22/2012 at 03:53am

Sorry for the delay in responding. Diablo 3 to play :)

Hell is fun. It's harder, but not cheap. The extra affixes on packs of blues make for a harder time judging how you're going to fare, so you have to be on your toes.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/22/2012 at 04:42am

Cool. When I Played Nightmare last of wasnt too challenging so it will be good to up the ante in Hell :)

Travis Admin wrote on 06/23/2012 at 05:28am

I think the initial difficulty adjustment with Nightmare is more shocking, since you don't know what to expect and Normal is *really* easy. Act 2 Hell has me dying about as much as Act 2 Nightmare, but that's because I've gotten better. The difficulty scaling is generally pretty good. Until Inferno, from what I gather, when you get smacked into submission.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/23/2012 at 08:48pm

Awesome. Looking forward to Hell.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 11/07/2014 at 12:16am

I just found out about this (over two years later) and I'm going to work on getting there.

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