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Yellows only and blues only leaderboards

7:15 pm, October 17, 2014 Not sure if this idea has been posted before but it would be interesting to see which builds would be on top if builds aren't influenced by leg affixes. And this would make blues and yellows w [..] View

Idea - Checkpoints for Greater Rifts

7:15 pm, October 15, 2014 Just had a thought that I'd like to share. The debate over RNG attached to Greater Rift maps has been raging since patch 2.1 was released. Some maps are compact enough that one can " [..] View

GRs: How about mixing in aspects of the 1.XX difficulty system?

7:15 am, October 10, 2014 Some people have been bringing up the whole point of insane exponential growth in greater rifts, that just makes them slower and slower to complete until you ultimately fail and start over again becau [..] View

US Top 1000 Record Aging

7:15 am, October 8, 2014 Averaged graphs are here: http://jsfiddle.net/0vLfects/3/embedded/result/ The Y axis is in days. I've seen a few requests as to how old the the top 1000 records are, so here's that inf [..] View

Let's go back to the beta days: Salvaging with a button in our bags to deal with crafting mat starvation and keep us in the action!

7:15 am, September 27, 2014 Back in beta d3, we were able to salvage items while out in the field. Blizzard decided that they didn't like us never having to go back to town, so they nixed it. Now, we have a lot more reas [..] View

World Rank 1 - DH Tier 45 solo (no pylon)

7:15 pm, September 25, 2014 Hello everyone, this is Wudijo. I'm not entirely sure on how much the communities of diablofans and reddit overlap, so I thought I'll post it here as well to bring more attention to th [..] View

V3dun's "Void Ray" Wizard

7:15 pm, September 25, 2014 The prismatic prestidigitation of the Wizard is as impressive as it is destructive. In todays Play Your Way feature, V3dun#2884 draws a parallel between the Void Ray unit in StarCraft II and his own v [..] View

Rare drops from cache not salvaging

7:15 pm, September 24, 2014 I'm finding that the rare items dropped from a cache, wont salvage with the rest of the yellows when using the salvage all button. Anyone else having this problem? submitted by Arillious [ [..] View

With over 100 attempts at 43 solo, I've come to some conclusions about GR scaling and why it is no longer fun.

7:15 am, September 22, 2014 This is not a rant (well perhaps a little one) but more of a speech to identify fundamental problems with the GR scaling at and above lvl 40 for solo play. I'll try and share some thoughts tha [..] View

A simple rule for split bounty hunters and key farmers

7:15 pm, September 19, 2014 Sell and salvage your loot at the beginning of a new game, please. Don't hold everybody who is already out of the current game and ready for new one by salvaging your loot and identifying your [..] View

[Guide] Condemn Crusaders - introductory guide, thoughts, and theorycrafting

7:15 am, September 19, 2014 [V1.0 initial post, subject to refining and editing] Introduction: My crusader is P319 on seasons, and I've been running the Blade of Prophecy (BoP) (Condemn casts 2 or 3 times) and Frydehr& [..] View

The Waypoint - Week of September 8

7:15 am, September 13, 2014 While theres no question that slaying hordes of demons and looting heaps of shiny trinkets from their corpses is a ton of fun, sharing and talking about these experiences with other players on our for [..] View

PhoenixGod's "Rage of the Maniac" Barbarian

7:15 pm, September 11, 2014 Get ready to roar with unbridled Fury the Barbarian is our next class feature and PhoenixGod#1842 is on fire with his Frenzy-focused build in this weeks Play Your Way! About the Build: The Barb [..] View

List of things that need changing regarding Greater Rifts (+ Link to b.net forums)

7:15 am, September 10, 2014 Link : http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/11982298425 There's a lot of issues currently that need fixing in regards to the Greater rifts. I might miss some important points, but overall th [..] View

Top 1000 Average Solo Greater Rift Levels

7:15 am, September 9, 2014 I wanted to see how much ladders have changed over the weekend. Following up from http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/2fkiu5/averaging_the_top_1000_solos_for_each_class/ckaer0k Using my modificati [..] View

Averaging the Top 1000 Solos for each class

7:15 pm, September 5, 2014 As part of a discussion on another post, I wrote a little PHP script to aggregate the top 1000 characters in each solo rift leaderboard, for softcore. Thought I'd paste this out for those inte [..] View

[Monk] Mystic Ally: Earth Ally Bug

7:15 am, September 4, 2014 I've found that performing some actions while having the Mystic Ally: Earth Ally rune equipped (which passively grants +20% life) can cause the passive effect to momentarily drop, then be reap [..] View

Legendary Gems and Proc Coefficients

7:15 pm, September 2, 2014 Hi! Today I noticed that some of the legendary gems are proccing from one of my Witch Doctor's non-damaging abilities (Horrify) which hat no proc coefficient: Legendary Gems that proc off Hor [..] View

Key farming and/or Ubers need a change

7:15 am, September 1, 2014 Forgive me if this seems like a rant against the RNG gods, but it feels as if farming for keys and attempting to get the parts for a Hellfire Amulet is near impossible, or at the very least a huge was [..] View

How accurate is the Damage value?

7:15 pm, August 18, 2014 I'm pretty casual at this game, but I love finding gear upgrades as much as anyone else. However, most of the time I find myself auto-selling or salvaging any legendary that has 5% worse damag [..] View

So, how long without talking about that INVENTORY MANAGER we do need so much?

7:15 pm, August 17, 2014 Cause with time, we start needing more and more space to save objects that could be useful now or in a future (legendary gems, rift keystones, useful set pieces, etc) and managing all those items betw [..] View

Was going to try an alt class, gave up because of stash space...

7:15 am, August 11, 2014 After PTR Season 1, I got that huge mailbox with items and started managing my Stash: All mailed rares were instantly salvaged (I played barb/crusader on season and my non-season main classes were th [..] View

Insomnia's "Pyropower" Witch Doctor

7:15 pm, August 7, 2014 While pets and Witch Doctors often come hand in hand, these masters of magic and mayhem are capable of offering so much more on the battlefield. Sometimes, there's beauty in simplicity and th [..] View

The Benefit of Cooldown Reduction for the Marauder Sentry Build

7:15 am, July 25, 2014 Cooldown Reduction (CDR) is useful for Demon Hunters (DH) running the Marauder 6-piece Sentry build because it allows the dropping of Sentries more frequently, thereby increasing damage output. Howeve [..] View

Ideas to improve seasons: More common "Ethereal" versions of ultra-rare items (like Wand of Woh) that only last for the duration of the season + more

7:15 pm, July 24, 2014 A lot of people's frustrations with the game seem to be about the getting bored with repetitive farming for seemingly unattainable rare legendaries while finding the same common legendaries ov [..] View

Monk generators, spirit gain and thoughts (rip spirit on crit)

7:15 am, July 18, 2014 Short post since I'm posting this from a mobile phone. Rip spirit on crit. Why this had to be removed? Monk spirit spenders cost a lot and without epiphany, regardless of nice-ish buffs to oth [..] View

Ideas for legendary affixes - Wizard

7:15 pm, July 12, 2014 Now to show some love for all you Wizards out there, here are my ideas for Wizard legendary items. As with my other posts, all class specific items are listed. You can check my other posts here: Bar [..] View

Can we get a buff to organ drop rates for smaller parties / solo?

7:15 am, July 11, 2014 I'm a big fan of solo, and I don't particularly like being more or less forced to farm organs in 4-player parties. Otherwise you have to burn way more keys per organ. How about someth [..] View

Patch 2.1.0 PTR Patch Notes (Updated July 9)

7:15 am, July 10, 2014 Updates to patch notes can be found in red. Last updated July 9, 2014 @ 6:30 p.m. PDT. Below you'll find the preliminary PTR patch notes for patch 2.1.0. Please note that this isn't [..] View

Ideas for legendary affixes - Monk

7:15 am, July 9, 2014 Good news everyone, I finished making effects for monk legendary items :) Some time ago i posted my ideas for Demon Hunter legendaries (DH is my main) and you can check it out here: Demon Hunter Legen [..] View

Just started playing again (left around 1.5) and beat Malthael on Master. What's the endgame like now?

7:15 am, July 2, 2014 Really like the changes to the game so far, the experience feels a lot closer to D2. Only gotten the chance to mess around with Adventure mode for an hour or two so far but I like it. Three main ques [..] View

Soo what has happened to the skill point debate? Is that bridge burned forever now?

7:15 am, June 29, 2014 There have been a number of great and popular ideas in the past on how one could possibly have permanent changes to one's skill sets. Personally, I think it is great there are seasons now and [..] View

Suckerfred1's "Lead Foot Lacerator" Barbarian

7:15 pm, June 26, 2014 Barbarians are visceral warriors, reveling in the adrenaline produced by their violent displays of physical prowess. Often bathing themselves in the blood of their foes, either willfully or as a bypro [..] View

Patch 2.1.0 PTR Patch Notes

7:15 am, June 26, 2014 Below you'll find the preliminary PTR patch notes for patch 2.1.0. Please note that this isn't the final version of the patch notes and that some changes may not be documented or des [..] View

Best Marauder Setup... T&T or Aughild or Magefist?

7:15 am, June 21, 2014 I'm still fairly new to this Marauder setup... so I'm wondering which has the best potential. This is my DH setup... profile Items wise I have Tasker & Theo and Magefist... whi [..] View

Idea: "Midcore" Rifts (For Softcore Characters)

7:15 am, June 20, 2014 So this is something I've been kicking around with some friends as a potential new Rift mode for Softcore characters. My apologies if this is something that's been brought up in the pa [..] View

Can the idea of increasing the drop rate of Arcane Dust be entertained?

7:15 pm, June 19, 2014 I would venture to say that bracers are one of the more popular crafted items. With the 120 Arcane Dust cost, I am finding it to be my crafting choke point currently. Especially since it's use [..] View

Some ideas for legendary affixes - Demon Hunter

7:15 pm, June 13, 2014 First, to introduce myself. Although I'm a long time player od Diablo, Diablo 2 and Diablo 3, this is my first post. Like most of you, I want this game to be all it can be, fun and rewarding a [..] View

Lessons to be learned from the designs of effective item sets and why the monk sets should be viewed as outliers

7:15 am, June 11, 2014 Prior to 2.0.6, I think it was fair to say that every class other than monks had at least one class-specific set that served as the basis for effective T6-capable builds. Barbarians had the Might of t [..] View

Will the Arcane Dust requirements to craft Bracers be reduced?

7:15 am, June 11, 2014 I think 120 arcane dust is just a little ridiculous. Im running out of Arcane Dust faster than I run out of forgotten souls, maybe reduce the amount needed for bracers or give more arcane dust when sa [..] View

Patch 2.0.6 Now Live

7:15 pm, June 10, 2014 Diablo III patch 2.0.6 is now live in the Americas. Check out the full patch notes below to learn all about the latest changes. Important: Please note that you will not be prompted to download patch [..] View

[Question] Mythic Rhythm passive

7:15 am, June 8, 2014 Every third hit from a Spirit Generator increases the damage of your next damaging Spirit Spender by 40%. I am using Way of the hundred fists as my generator. Does it count as 1 or 3 hit per click? [..] View

Dual wield, how does it work?

7:15 pm, June 1, 2014 So i'm leveling a monk now and i have a lvl req reduced weapon and a "normal" one. Now i found a shield, with no dps stats on it, but equipping it would increase my dps by ~2 [..] View

Vote For Your Favorite Build!

7:15 pm, May 29, 2014 Before we get started, I want to thank you all so much for the warm reception to this new blog series and for your amazing level of participation. My inbox is overflowing with entries, and while I may [..] View

Most engaging/interactive builds?

7:15 pm, May 28, 2014 Basically all the characters I've played so far are sorta right click to win. Sentry dh, arcane wiz, leap barb. Basically just spam 1 skill without much interactivity. Wiz is the worst of them [..] View

Surprising Game Mechanics (xpost from /r/d3hardcore)

7:15 am, May 27, 2014 I thought it might benefit the hardcore community as a whole if its' members were to share some game mechanics that utterly surprised them when they first encountered them and even resulted in [..] View

Speaking of fixing Set Items: Let's look at Sage's Purchase

7:15 am, May 18, 2014 The level 70 Sage's Journey crafted set, Sage's Purchase gloves, for example, has a three piece bonus that reads: Whenever a *****'s Breath drops, a second one will also drop. [..] View

RIF Stats Tracker - for all you min/maxers out there

7:15 am, May 15, 2014 Not going to discuss the merits or morals of RIF in this thread; it's pretty much here to stay. However, when I was opening/leeching RIF's the other day, I got to wondering how much I [..] View

Patch 2.0.5 Now Live

7:15 pm, May 13, 2014 Diablo III patch 2.0.5 is now live in the Americas. Check out the full patch notes below to learn all about the latest changes. Important: Please note that you will not be prompted to download patch [..] View

Squirrel's "Barbari-care" Barbarian

7:15 pm, May 12, 2014 Let's talk about the Health Globe, the unnamed hero of Sanctuary that's always there when you need it most. Some builds rely on these little guys to keep the flow of combat going and [..] View

Squirrel's "Barbaricare" Barbarian

7:15 pm, May 8, 2014 Lets talk about the Health Globe, the unnamed hero of Sanctuary thats always there when you need it most. Some builds rely on these little guys to keep the flow of combat going and healing downtime to [..] View

Fan of Knives with Perm Cycling And Perm SS

7:15 pm, May 8, 2014 Hey guys its Emerge again, Author of the Fun with Fans (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/12675108789#1) Pure Venom (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/12504570695#1) bringing you a fun a [..] View

[GUIDE] Cooldown Calculations Made Easy

7:15 am, May 7, 2014 Patch 2.0.1 introduced a variety of new mechanics to Diablo III, including a new item affix called Cooldown Reduction. For heroes (and builds) that enjoy or like to make heavy use of cooldown-based sk [..] View

How Bad Monk's Damaging Skills Are In Reaper of Souls

7:15 pm, May 5, 2014 Wave of light (unruned) deals 479% damage, cost 75 spirit. Lashing Tail Kick (unruned) deals 629% damage, cost 30 spirit. submitted by vlodia [link] [54 comments] View

Interface lag, anyone else?

7:15 am, May 5, 2014 If you mouse over portraits in your party, do you also get a 1-3 seconds lag? If you mouse over experience bar, do you also get the same lag? If you mouse over icons/spells or health/spirit/fury/wrath [..] View

a couple Quality of Life gameplay tips

7:15 am, May 2, 2014 So here are some things I've discovered to be helpful that most people probably don't know (the first being the most used) Under Options - Key Bindings --> Gameplay, set a key [..] View

ZiPS' Unholy Monk

7:15 pm, May 1, 2014 "Monks are sacred warriors who channel divine power through sheer force of will. Healing waves, mantras of protection, and attacks empowered with holy might are all within their purview.& [..] View

new community: interclass gear swap

7:15 am, May 1, 2014 Hi everyone, i just made a new community after getting some interest... the community is called "interclass gear swap" and the basic idea behind it is everyone plays on their main ch [..] View

Simple request: Add the chat message "Player X has opened a rift"

7:15 pm, April 29, 2014 I don't know if this is a new trend or not, but I've been seeing an increasing amount of people simply lying about number of rifts they've opened. Personally I always try to ke [..] View

Now that Critical Mass is removed, why are wizard proc coefficients still so abysmally low?

7:15 pm, April 29, 2014 I understand that a lot of our attacks are AoE-based, but now that Lifesteal is a thing of the past as well as CM, Life on Hit has become a far more important component to sustain. I run an EB/WoW bui [..] View

DHs Shared Rift Runs Community

7:15 am, April 29, 2014 Hi DHs! As you have noticed it is quite hard to acquire all the loot (legendaries and set items) we need! So, I thought why not to organize rift runs just between DHs where we could share the loot if [..] View

The Ess of Johan, good companion item

7:15 am, April 29, 2014 The Ess of Johan Neck Legendary Amulet Primary Reduces cooldown of all skills by 4.06.0%. Secondary Chance on hit to pull in enemies toward your target and Slow them by 6080%. One of 3 Magic Propertie [..] View

Idea : Legendary Items Should Sell For WAY More Gold

7:15 pm, April 27, 2014 So I currently have about 50 forgotten souls and only 1 mil gold because I've spent so much enchanting, combining gems, etc. Whenever I find a legendary item that is a downgrade, I obviously s [..] View

DHs Shared Legs/Sets Rift runs (t2+)

7:15 pm, April 23, 2014 Hi fellow DHs! As you have noticed it is quite hard to acquire all the loot (legs and sets items) we need! So, I thought why not to organize rift runs (t2+) just between DHs where we could share the l [..] View

Can we talk about Sacrifice? How did they manage to completely mess up this skill?

7:15 pm, April 22, 2014 Before 2.0, it used to be one of the most damaging skills for the Witch Doctor. It did 275% while Explosive Beast(similar explosion radius) did 236% and Vengeful Spirit at 230%. It also practically re [..] View

Real problem behind barbs, not Shard of Hate

7:15 pm, April 16, 2014 There are two major things that I think should be addressed. The first has to do with our abilities, specifically our secondary and a few other ones. The reason Shard of hate being fixed is so frustra [..] View

Let's talk about the Legendary Axe, "Hack". How does its special property work? I am also attempting a Thorns-based build around it and the Chains of the Invoker set. Is Hack a game-changer as well?

7:15 pm, April 8, 2014 First, the item in question. Hack. The special property it possesses is applying 75-100% of your Thorns damage to all attacks. What does that mean? I'm a little confused on how Thorns work and [..] View

post-"soft gear wall" discussion: inspired by /u/Napkin_Math's comment

7:15 am, April 8, 2014 original comment Let me preface this by saying I LOVE the progress that Blizzard has made with this game and I am hooked on it again. I've been playing as much as I can and I am very happy wit [..] View

I think this needs to be said: Play the game the way you want and forget about everyone else!

7:15 am, April 4, 2014 All I see all the time is "What's the best way to do x?" in chat and on here. People complain non stop about bounties being too good or T6 farming is too good. Here's [..] View

PSA: Legendary 'proc' effects count as 'skills'

7:15 am, April 3, 2014 Just tested this, and can confirm 100% that legendary effects that do damage count as skills and are elements of their type. Put on firewalkers and nothing much else, ran through mobs, firewalkers did [..] View

Latency Issues Connecting to the Diablo 3 Americas Realm

7:15 am, April 2, 2014 Lots of players on the Americas Realm have reported issues with latency and lag spikes over the last couple of days. Blizzard is aware of the issue and has been collecting player data. Unfortunately i [..] View

8 second cooldown All Runes Archon + Full Tals build

6:15 pm, March 29, 2014 Just a theoretical build I came up with (sets are identified by #): Helm: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/tal-rashas-guise-of-wisdom (#1) Shoulder: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/artisan/blacksmith/recip [..] View

Hardcore Beware: Crusader bug lets you **** allied Crusaders

6:15 pm, March 28, 2014 I joined a game as a Crusader last night for the first time with another Crusader, and my ally kept complaining that he was instantly dying when he was doing fine before I joined (good thing we weren& [..] View

SUGGESTION: Item lock to prevent accidental salvaging.

6:15 pm, March 26, 2014 Let the player enable a lock on selected items to prevent accidental salvaging/selling. Player will not be able to salvage the item (rare/leg or otherwise) until they 'unlock' the item [..] View

White items you may want to hang onto for crafting (save yourself some frustration later)

6:15 am, March 26, 2014 Most of the new legendary and set blacksmithing plans require a specific white item as one of the ingredients. I've been salvaging everything in sight until I got the plans for something that [..] View

Obvious or not so, things You Didn't Know about Diablo III

6:15 pm, March 17, 2014 ... I found out that: Picking up books grants you reasonable XP. There is an option to skip cinematic in the options panel. Skills are based on weapon damage, not the "DPS" numbe [..] View

Cold VS Fire Wizard

6:15 am, March 17, 2014 I've been noticing that Endgame RoS content items are really geared towards a fire build wizard. Some noticeable points... Frostburns VS Magefists As you can see Frostburns only have 2 Rando [..] View

The need to fix salvaging. Either make it like the original beta or fix drop rates.

6:15 pm, March 15, 2014 At this point, blizzard reduced the the drop rate of all items so there was no piata of useless items when you ****** them. The problem is that now white and blue items are really valuable because the [..] View

Demonic Slave Fire Monk 2.0

6:15 pm, March 15, 2014 So I recently got the Maximus and the stats were pretty underwhelming since it lowered my base dps by 20k. I decided to give a shot anyways and boy was I wrong. The chain was hitting for about 600-700 [..] View

[Suggestion] Tiered salvaging

6:15 pm, March 14, 2014 (copy/pasted from my post on the battle.net forums at http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/12091329036#1) The current method of salvaging items is more tedious that probably the rest of the game com [..] View

Blue/yellow drops: salvage or vendor?

6:15 pm, March 14, 2014 See above. Since there will be new crafting mats at lvl61 whats the point of salvaging the current items? .. except for gearing up alts i guess. submitted by Nashmann [link] [7 comments] View

Why is information in the GUI so limited?

6:15 am, March 13, 2014 I'm seeing a lot of posts about sheet DPS vs eDPS, the differences are huge, we get it. But why is it that I have to spend hours doing math to figure out if an item is an actual upgrade, or a [..] View

Apocalypse: 4 Wizards, 4-Piece Tal Rasha's Set (Video)

6:15 am, March 13, 2014 For fun. This is what happens when four wizards have each unlocked the new 4-piece Tal Rasha set bonus and run in the same game. VIDEO The 4-piece bonus: Damaging enemies with Arcane, Cold, Fire or L [..] View

Join Us for a Live Q&A on March 24!

6:15 am, March 13, 2014 Some of you may have heard we're hosting a little shindig in Los Angeles on March 24 to commemorate the launch of Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. While this launch event is somewhat different th [..] View

The History Behind the Crusade

6:15 am, March 11, 2014 Faithful of Akkhan. Bastions of the Light. Stalwart redeemers of the Zakarum. All of these names could very well describe the newest hero class available in Reaper of Souls. Unlike other orders of th [..] View

My thoughts from my first 1 to 60 run on 2.x

6:15 am, March 5, 2014 I deleted all my old characters and got rid of all my stuff. The only thing I couldn't reverse was the crafting unlocks. Then, I started a new Barbarian on Expert (switched to Master after Act [..] View

Loving loot 2.0, but I was wondering some people's opinion on something.

6:15 am, March 5, 2014 Now that it's much more possible, and more fun to get more powerful by simply playing the game, does everyone still feel they needed to remove the auction house? I totally understand the probl [..] View

Act 1 Cursed Chest farming. 2-3 billion XP / hour

6:15 pm, February 27, 2014 The checkpoint Go to Act 1, Quest 9, The Chamber of Suffering. Use waypoint to Halls of agony Level 2. Go to Highlands Crossing Go to The Cursed Hold Get the checkpoint near Halls of Agony level 3. V [..] View

There is still time, can we have this pretty please?

6:15 pm, February 23, 2014 Am I the only one who thinks adding THIS and THIS would make managing builds and trying new skills much, much easier? submitted by nikanplus [link] [8 comments] View

Crafting in 2.0 How to Prepare NOW (+Video)

6:15 am, February 23, 2014 With rumors of 2.0 being released less than 2 weeks from now, I did another PTR copy to test out the latest version of crafting. I put together this video for you guys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= [..] View

Why Common Debris needs different use and a suggestion

6:15 am, February 14, 2014 Evening gentlemen. Like many of you, I've been playing PTR and the one thing that bugs me is the way they designed common debris and the blue crafting material. I elaborated on the forums and [..] View

A plea for the Witch Doctor.

6:15 am, February 1, 2014 I posted this topic in the PTR class forums but I'd like as much discussion as possible so I'm posting it here as well. http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/11582208196#1 I have to o [..] View

"Savior," the Diablo Rap by Have No Fear and the Space Bards

6:15 am, January 24, 2014 "...Barbarians, Witch Doctors, holy warriors - the Crusaders, take the luck to Diablo, but please don't please dont forget to bring your prayers..." In this edition of the [..] View

The drop rate.

6:15 am, January 23, 2014 I counted the legendaries currently listed on the battle.net site. Not counting RoS, there's currently over 330 legendaries. A drop rate averaging 1 every two hours would be at least 660 hour [..] View

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