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Hey everyone,

As a quick heads up, we have two buffs to Legendary item drop rates coming down the pipeline.

First change: We're increasing the drop rate for Legendary items (this includes Set items) in Torment 1-6.

Second change: We're significantly increasing the chance for an item purchased from Kadala to be a Legendary.

Both of these hotfixes are somewhat proactive, but are aimed to help improve the reward curve for players as they start to reach higher Torment difficulties. We look forward to hearing your feedback as a result of these changes!

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/12319691934#1

We've got buffs, debuffs, control.  Pretty easy to switch to a support role.   However, the pickings for human beings can be a bit slim during my hours.  :awesome_for_real:

I may just also be underestimating what I can do.  What's good on paper numbers for doing torment 1?

We've got buffs, debuffs, control.  Pretty easy to switch to a support role.   However, the pickings for human beings can be a bit slim during my hours.  :awesome_for_real:

I may just also be underestimating what I can do.  What's good on paper numbers for doing torment 1?

Nope.  Half the reason I keet Sweeping Wind up until my latest skill build is so I don't miss breakables.

What difficulty are you playing at?  If I am looking for equipment I go down to Hard and do bounties at that.  That's seem to net me 1-2 legendaries an hour.  The trick is to go to a difficulty where you destroy mobs extremely quickly.

It kinda bums me out but the only thing that matters in this game is how fast you can kill and complete bounties.  Even being able to clear T1 at a decent rate my gear upgrade and exp gain is much faster on hard.

I want to talk about how much they need to add Forgotten Souls as a drop to every monster and chest in the game and not have it tied to Legendary Drops.

I've gotten one from every torment rift i do from the rift guardian.

The change is in, yeah. Not even a yellow item, Merusk? That's kind of amazing. Almost every item I get is yellow, rarely a blue, very rarely a green/legendary (which was nil until the hotfix.)

The following hotfixes now require a patch, and will be implemented in an upcoming patch:

Belial is occasionally not dropping appropriate loot.*
Players are receiving an unusually high number of Mighty Belts and Quivers.*

There is now an additional bonus 25% chance to find a Legendary item while in a Nephalem Rift.*
The number of chests that spawn in the following zones has been reduced:*
Core of Arreat
Briarthorn Cemetary
Battlefields of Eternity
Crag of Eternity
Demonic Vessels were using the incorrect loot table, and now give less generous loot.*

There is now an additional bonus 25% chance to find a Legendary item while in a Nephalem Rift.*

Yeah it went live last night.

Oh, I remember reading last night a blue post that they are looking at increasing legendary craft mats so they drop *much* more frequently. 

There's no reason to not blow through your shards on whatever, though, at the absolute worst you get crafting mats. I bought about 20 mojos right after the hotfix and got my Manajuma's mojo that way, so the stuff *can* drop.

After that can they actyally look at making the itesm useable?

I mean, I have both the Cain's and the Demonskin set of plans, and I cannot for the life of me figure out *why* I'd want to craft them. They cost an astonishing fortune, have completely random stats and have terrible set bonuses.

Most of the crafted legendaries and sets seem that way - I think they should be redone and turned into "build" sets so that folks can focus in on an item or set they want that matches their playstyle. Cains should be turned into a useful set for experience gain, for example - have every piece spawn with lower level requirements, have experience gain on lots of them etc. Demonskin could be a fire based set etc.

After that can they actyally look at making the itesm useable?

I mean, I have both the Cain's and the Demonskin set of plans, and I cannot for the life of me figure out *why* I'd want to craft them. They cost an astonishing fortune, have completely random stats and have terrible set bonuses.

Most of the crafted legendaries and sets seem that way - I think they should be redone and turned into "build" sets so that folks can focus in on an item or set they want that matches their playstyle. Cains should be turned into a useful set for experience gain, for example - have every piece spawn with lower level requirements, have experience gain on lots of them etc. Demonskin could be a fire based set etc.

Poison monster affix nerfed.

General
            Crusaders now take 15% less damage from all sources

Attention Crusaders,

There is currently a very unpleasant bug with Blessed Shield - Shattering Throw where the shield can rebound on the Crusader casting it, potentially resulting in death.

Hardcore players should avoid using this skill until a hotfix can be implemented.

We are currently working on a hotfix and will update the 2.0.4 Patch Hotfix thread with more information as soon as it becomes available. We thank you for your patience and understanding while we work to resolve this issue as quickly as possible!

Yes you can pk with it according to the boards.

Arcane Orb (frozen) is still absolutely absurd. I was playing my Wizard earlier. Doesn't feel like anything changed.

Crusader

    Blessed Shield - Shattering Throw
        Should no longer cause players to deal Area Damage to themselves and allies.*
    Iron Maiden
        This skill no longer erroneously scales with monster difficulty and provides 6102 Thorns @ level 70.*
            Please note the tooltip will not reflect this value. We plan to rework this skill in a future patch.

Anyone else note an increase in legendary drops?  After the last few days where I was getting one an hour I got one every half hour or so last night.  2 pats. 2 chests. 2 rings and a shoulder. (Killed az and belail and got 2 drops there)

Anyone else note an increase in legendary drops?  After the last few days where I was getting one an hour I got one every half hour or so last night.  2 pats. 2 chests. 2 rings and a shoulder. (Killed az and belail and got 2 drops there)

If you're doing Nephalem Rifts, that would be expected, they buffed the drop rate in Rifts in a hotfix a bit before the patch.

I think they also upped the drop rate overall on higher difficulties?

A series of hotfixes will be deployed today making more adjustments to overall reward structures within the game. I wanted to take a minute to explain the reasons for the changes that we are making. A driving goal of our design has been to make killing monsters feel rewarding, we want you all to find tons of cool items that you are excited about but more importantly we want you to have fun while doing it.

Rifts have always been intended to be the most efficient play method in the game, currently they aren’t for a number of reasons. Part of this has to do with the high level of efficiency in farming that players find doing things like farming Manglemaw, Razorclaw and any other number of unique monsters. Another contributing element is that farming chests without having to actually fight monsters is far more effective than actually fighting the monsters. It is very important to us that chests are exciting to find and feel rewarding but presently they are far too common and reliable to farm in certain areas of the game.

Finally Kadala, she has always been intended to give players some degree of control over their item upgrades. While we don’t want players to simply pick and choose from a list of items at an excessively high cost, we do want you to have an answer to the question “How do I upgrade my boots?”. Kadala is meant to be that answer, she is meant to give you some direct control over the types of items you find. Since we are increasing the overall reward structure of the game she is also going to be increasing but by a larger amount than the rest of the changes since she didn't feel rewarding enough to us.

Without further delay here is a list of the changes that will be coming in the hotfix.

The Bad!
Unique monsters now drop less items.
*Uniques were dropping far more loot than their difficulty would warrant.

Chest spawns have been thinned out across all acts of the game.
*Ideally chests become less common and something that players can’t flip games to farm. It is our goal to make them feel exciting and rewarding when you find them.

The Good!
The bonus legendary drop rate for rifts is being increased from 25% to 100%!
*This means that while in a rift your chance to find a legendary item from monsters, chests, elites, and everything else is double what it is outside of rifts. No this does not mean opening bounty bags in rifts is the new hotness. ;P

Kadala’s legendary drop rate has been significantly increased.
*Blood Shards are meant to be a compelling element of rift rewards and something players are excited to get.

Loot is an incredibly important aspect of Diablo games and we will continue to keep a very close eye on it. If more problems arise we will continue striving to address them. It isn’t our goal to take loot away from people, we just want to make sure they are having as much fun as possible while finding it and these changes all support that goal.

Good hunting and link the loot!

Travis Day

I literally just spent wasted 200 blood shards earlier :(

I literally just spent wasted 200 blood shards earlier :(

Wish granted. :)

This is indeed an intended change, and the amount of benefit provided to pets does not have a cap. Critical Hit Damage now scales for all pets, from Witch Doctors to Demon Hunters. This actually also includes stationary pets, such as Sentries and Hydras.

Apologies for the delay in communication on this one, but we always want to be sure the information we're providing is full and accurate, and it took me some time to check with all the appropriate folks that this was an actual change and not a bug. We'll be updating the patch notes to reflect this information as well.

Having run rifts all afternoon anecdotal evidence suggests that rifts are now good. 

Playing from about noon til three solely running rifts with f13ers (Hi Hat!) I found something like 10 legendary items plus 3-4 plans.

Contrast this to 4-5 hour evenings with one or two drops. It felt good.

I got a Quetzalcoatl from gambling lady.  :heart: