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Diablo III Patch Notes

Diablo III Patch 1.0.2 - v.1.0.2.9749

Classes

• Monk
  • Active Skills
    • Serenity
      • Skill Rune - Tranquility
        • Duration of immunity granted to nearby allies from crowd control effects reduced from 2 seconds to 1 second

Bug Fixes

For a full list of documented game and service bugs, please review the Known Issues sticky located in the Bug Report forum.

• General
  • Players should no longer receive an "Error 14009" when logging in
  • The "Select a Hero" menu will now also display the difficulty level for each character
  • Several speed improvements have been made to the streaming downloader
• Achievements
  • All players in a party should now receive "Till Death Do Us Part" even if they don’t have Haedrig Eamon as their active follower
• Acts
  • Act IV
    • Witch Doctors should no longer receive an error if they kill a Shadow Clone with a Damage-Over-Time (DoT) skill after it's launched a Firebomb but before it's reached its target
• Auction House
  • The auction log in the Completed tab will now display a player's activity (bids, buyouts, sales, etc) in the proper order
  • When placing a new bid over a previous bid on the same auction, players will now be provided with the correct warning message: "Raising your maximum bid on an Auction you are already winning raises your current bid to just above your previous maximum bid. Are you sure you want to continue?"
  • Players will now receive an error message if they attempt to purchase an item after the 50 item limit has been reached in the Completed tab
  • The "Physical Damage" Preferred Stats option for rings has been renamed to "Bonus Minimum Physical Damage"
  • The "All Damage" Preferred Stats option for weapons and armor has been removed and replaced with bonuses of specific damage types
  • Items which have been purchased from a vendor and equipped by the player can now be sold on the Auction House
  • Listing items on the Auction House from a different character than the one currently selected should no longer cause item display issues
• Battle.net
  • The public chat list will now sort alphabetically
• Classes
  • Witch Doctor
    • Spirit Vessel (Passive) no longer clears debuffs when using waypoints or changing equipment

If you find the play experience undesirable you may exit the game and resume this download.

Looks like the servers are still down but the game launcher will update you.

Great more Monk nerfs.

With Boon of Protection being useless since the Hotfix and now Tranquility being nerfed soon monks won't have many viable ways to fight in Hell and Inferno at all.

@Rayeth said:

Great more Monk nerfs.

With Boon of Protection being useless since the Hotfix and now Tranquility being nerfed soon monks won't have many viable ways to fight in Hell and Inferno at all.

Yeah from what I'm hearing I've decided to just forget about my monk for now and try another class. How sad is that...

Same thing happened to Palidans in WOW.

Clearly they aren't finished balancing classes and every class with bill godly/shitty off an on till they reach a good level of balance. Also Monks aren't unplayable i was doing inferno well after the other nerf.

Great more Monk nerfs.

With Boon of Protection being useless since the Hotfix and now Tranquility being nerfed soon monks won't have many viable ways to fight in Hell and Inferno at all.

2 more hours.

*sigh*

Well the patching system seems to be fucked on my end, maybe the servers are down? Last night I was experiencing horrible lag on and off, 100ms to 1800ms every 10 minutes or so. I have a real love hate relationship with this game I swear...

The servers shouldn't be down this long. I know they have to do maintenance but i should be able to play the game i paid 60 dollars for.

well im playing on the Erupean servers and the server are still up and has been for at least the last 3 hours and no update... so yeah

Edit:

but they have fucked the auction house since gems, plans and crafting stuff now have a max starter bid making no one selling them. like firery brimstone or what ever they are called to be max 1g as starter bid. that sux

2 more hours.

*sigh*

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@MrKlorox: You'd think a lot of things being that this is a Blizzard game.. but oh well.

So are they going to change the tooltip of Smoke Screen to reflect what it actually does? It's down to 1 second, 1.5 seconds with rune, but the tooltip still says 2 seconds and 3 seconds with rune...

"When placing a new bid over a previous bid on the same auction, players will now be provided with the correct warning message: "Raising your maximum bid on an Auction you are already winning raises your current bid to just above your previous maximum bid. Are you sure you want to continue?""

That doesn't seem right. So there's an item for sale, I bid 10G maximum for example and am currently winning the auction with an active bid of 5G. So I increase my maximum to 20G, and the active bid becomes 11G?

I'm sure they can run it however they want, and this is still just for the Gold AH, but if this same rule applies to the RMAH I wonder how many people are going to get fucked by this? Yes the warning message is there but it's still pretty shady.

pssh monks are still the best tanks. Also just beef up one of your resists and use that skill that makes them all the same as the highest.

@Rayeth said:

Great more Monk nerfs.

With Boon of Protection being useless since the Hotfix and now Tranquility being nerfed soon monks won't have many viable ways to fight in Hell and Inferno at all.

What the hell are you talking about? Maybe I missed something, but they have THE most viable things EVER to fight in Hell and Inferno: dexterity as damage which also gives them DODGE, some hard dodge chance in their skills, and a passive that means they only need to buy ONE form of resist to be completely viable.

I've yet to see a monk in front of my eyes that doesn't obliterate Hell and Inferno easily.

• Players should no longer receive an "Error 14009" when logging in

Great now what about the other 60 errors?

and the game is broken! great job blizzard!

Hero list isn't being retrieved. Every time I start to get down with the always-online thing, something comes up. I just got on to Nightmare and I was getting some really good loot, too.

@The_Nubster said:

Hero list isn't being retrieved. Every time I start to get down with the always-online thing, something comes up. I just got on to Nightmare and I was getting some really good loot, too.

everyone has this, blizzards patch fucked it up. I'm having flashbacks to every Tuesday I spent playing WoW.

@jakob187 said:

@Rayeth said:

Great more Monk nerfs.

With Boon of Protection being useless since the Hotfix and now Tranquility being nerfed soon monks won't have many viable ways to fight in Hell and Inferno at all.

What the hell are you talking about? Maybe I missed something, but they have THE most viable things EVER to fight in Hell and Inferno: dexterity as damage which also gives them DODGE, some hard dodge chance in their skills, and a passive that means they only need to buy ONE form of resist to be completely viable.

I've yet to see a monk in front of my eyes that doesn't obliterate Hell and Inferno easily.

Yeah I can vouch for Hell at least. I've bought a fair amount of gear for my monk, though nothing too expensive, and I'm finding Hell quite tame. It just feels like an incremental step up from nightmare, which isn't really all that bad.

I just go on the AH every couple of levels and see if there's anything cheap that's better than what I currently have, i.e. has more vit or dex, life per hit or kill for weapons, etc. I've found some really good stuff for cheap using the filters.

@jakob187 said:

@Rayeth said:

Great more Monk nerfs.

With Boon of Protection being useless since the Hotfix and now Tranquility being nerfed soon monks won't have many viable ways to fight in Hell and Inferno at all.

What the hell are you talking about? Maybe I missed something, but they have THE most viable things EVER to fight in Hell and Inferno: dexterity as damage which also gives them DODGE, some hard dodge chance in their skills, and a passive that means they only need to buy ONE form of resist to be completely viable.

I've yet to see a monk in front of my eyes that doesn't obliterate Hell and Inferno easily.

lol, while i can pretty much breeze through ACT I inferno just fine, act II still cracks my balls. So "obliterating inferno" maybe a little far fetched.

By the way, stacking dex for dodge sucks. Armor en resist are the way to go, dodge is far too unreliable to count for defense.

everyone has this, blizzards patch fucked it up. I'm having flashbacks to every Tuesday I spent playing WoW.

In the middle of finishing act 1 and low and behold "Servers Shutting down in 3 minutes" This whole online all the time thing is the worst fucking idea ever, I am home sick and I can't even lay on my couch and slowly die with my Singleplayer game going GAHH!

Vividly recall this from WoW where you'd see a list of all the things patched/nerfed & yet something else big is broken. From the patch notes it didn't look like they are doing much to the authentication yet down it went on being able to play. Too bad as I saw the upcoming patch earlier today & couldn't play then finally got some free time to dive into D3 a little to see it's still sunk.

I was all for online only when it was just going to take a day or two to get sorted out. This is just ridiculous.

/sigh

I can't say I didn't call this....

This reminds me of when I first heard "I used to be an" in the game and thought " That's going to be a meme"

@Evilsbane said:

This whole online all the time thing is the worst fucking idea ever

There have been worse ideas, haven't there?

Well, servers are still down. Maybe I'll dig up my Diablo 2 disk and play some of that.

We meet again Mr. 37... Damn Bliz. Why...

Boo for balance changes.

Servers are back up.

I hope this is fixed soon. I have a few days off coming up and I really want to play.

Man, I haven't gotten an error 37 since launch day. This is becoming an annoyance.

Monks overall got a buff I feel. Sure the Serenity nerf is problematic for those who play only in co-op games, but the buffs to Mantra of Healing more than make up for it in my opinion. Especially as the best mantra to be using most of the time anyway.

How many times can I put in my password and see the error message before I put my fist through the screen? LET'S FIND OUT!

Servers shouldn't be full 2 weeks after launch on a Tuesday. I hope this 37 doesn't actually mean full servers. Otherwise I am extremely disappointed in Blizzard for not being prepared at all... Actually I feel that way anyways.

Well ppl. will continue to defend the always online play, but the issue is settled in my mind. I'm really starting to enjoy Diablo 3, all the more so because I am such a newbie to it all, but this bullshit is what it is...lucky for blizzard their game is so wildly popular.

I seriously cannot believe they have fucked the game so hard. If there was any company I would bet on to make a generally smooth always online launch (at least smooth compared to most games) I would bet on Blizzard or Valve. I bought the game yesterday thinking everything surely would be fixed by now...low and behold I was wrong. I mean, I do have other shit to do so its not the biggest deal, but man this has got to be one of the roughest launches in history, at least when compared to expectations.

Come on, the one class I pick happens to be one that gets nerfed? What's Blizzard got against dudes who just want to beat the shit out of some demons?

Hating Blizzard has clearly become flavor of the week.

Quickening has been stealth nerfed as well. Used to be able to spam any skill to replenish hp, now it doesn't give back as much spirit.