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Besides what others mentioned, behind the scenes we're also handling vote frauds, so we're sometimes removing 5-10 negative votes that are from the same IP / user with alternate accounts.

You might be voting on builds exactly when one of us is removing "duplicate" votes (can be either positive or negative ones).

Sounds like a good idea - thanks for taking the time to post your feedback! I'll pass it forward.

Thanks for bringing this up. Normally I keep track of these reports in the Site Suggestions subforum, which is why I didn't reply to you before. I'll make sure to submit a report to our devs and see if they can fix this asap!

New Torment Levels & Gold Gains

• New difficulty levels, Torment XI-XIII have been added to the game
• Our moderation manager Bagstone has updated his a handy difficulty guide with in-depth info on each of them!

• Gold rewards have been adjusted:
  • Greater Rift 26 and up has been rescaled to a flat 3% increase per tier
  • Torment VII-XIII has been changed to match Greater Rift reward scaling
  • The cost to empower a Greater Rift has been reduced to match the new gold reward rate
  • The amount of gold dropped by the Gilded Baron Treasure Goblin has been reduced

Crowd Control vs Enemies

• Knockbacks now apply a flat 40% increase to crowd control resistances
• Monsters cannot be knocked back if they are over 65% crowd control resistant
• This greatly affects the use of "pulling" skills like Cyclone Strike in high GRs.
• Powers that apply knockbacks continuously, such as Black Hole, can bypass this resistance if they already knocked a monster back successfully. These powers increase the crowd control resistance by 20% per knockback instead of 40%

Season Journey

• Season 7 rewards include a new "snowy" portrait, a new Undead Horse pet and the usual rotation of the Conqueror's set. See them below.

• Inside the spoiler brackets you can check a side by side comparison of all the Season 6 and 7 chapters:

Haedrig's Gift Sets

• The steps that unlock these gifts are different this season - rather than tying the rewards to specific steps of the Season Journey, Haedrig’s Gifts are now tied to completing certain chapters.
• Chapters II, III, and IV will all reward you with one Haedrig’s Gift. In addition, Chapter IV will also be the reward step for the new Portrait and cosmetic item for Season 7.

Below you can see which Set each class is awarded for completing these Chapters in Season 7:

• Barbarian: Wrath of the Wastes
• Crusader: Roland’s Legacy
• Demon Hunter: Unhallowed Essence
• Monk: Raiment of a Thousand Storms
• Witch Doctor: Helltooth Harness
• Wizard: Tal Rasha’s Elements

New Season Conquests

Items

• Socketing a Topaz into your helm will now provide Resource Cost Reduction rather than Magic Find. This grants the same percentage bonus as Cooldown Reduction and caps at 12.5%
• Bottomless Potion of Chaos
  • New Legendary Potion
    • Teleport to another location when used below 40% health
  • Graphical and sound effects have been added to the teleport
  • Added a camera smoothing effect to the teleport
• Invigorating Gemstone
  • Has been redesigned
    • Each hit done increases healing received by 1% for 5 seconds
    • Stacks up to 10 times
    • You are now immune to Crowd Control effects at Rank 25

Campaign Mode

• The Skeleton King will now drop Leoric's Crown beginning at Level 5

Adventure Mode

• Infernal Machine drop rates have been adjusted:
  • There is now a 50% chance for a machine to drop on Torment I increasing to 100% on Torment IV
  • Torment levels V-XIII have an increasing chance for a second machine to drop
• Nephalem Rifts
  • Greater Rift Keys are now guaranteed from any Nephalem Rift and increasing the difficulty now increases your chance of getting a second or third key
  • Greater Rifts
    • Some of the Experience earned in a Greater Rift has been shifted from killing monsters to the reward for closing the rift. The overall amount of Experience earned should be roughly the same

USER INTERFACE

• Pylons in Nephalem Rifts now have unique minimap icons
• A hotkey has been added to the game to hide the UI
• When the Blacksmith is trained to maximum level his recipe list will now start collapsed
• The Menagerist Goblin now has a unique minimap icon

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that prevented Ray of Frost - Black Ice from creating an ice patch when the player didn't land the killing blow
• Fixed an issue that prevented the maximum of 8 Energy Twisters from applying
• Fixed an issue that was causing stacks of Archon from a previous cast due to The Swami to stack multiplicatively instead of additively with a subsequent, overlapping cast of Archon
• Fixed an issue that prevented Wolf Companion’s active ability from applying the 15% damage buff to pets and followers
• Fixed an issue that prevented the buff from the Orb of the Infinite from being applied if the damage killed the enemy

• Fixed an issue that caused the Firebird's Finery (2) Set Bonus to proc early if there was another damage shield on the player
• Fixed an issue that caused the Treasure Goblin spawned by the legacy Puzzle Ring to pick up Transmog items
• Fixed an issue that caused Girdle of Giants to increase the damage of all skills by the percentage it applied to Earthquake damage
• Fixed an issue that caused Scarbringer to grant a damage bonus of 200%. It has been increased to 300% to match the tooltip
• Fixed an issue that caused Lashing Tail Kick (Vulture Claw Kick) DoT to not benefit from the bonus damage granted by Scarbringer
• Fixed an issue that caused the Fireball proc from Gyana Na Kashu to not do damage to a target if the target has previously been hit with the amplified damage of Lashing Tail Kick from Scarbringer
• Fixed an issue that caused Lashing Tail Kick – Vulture Claw Kick to give all targets the amplified damage from Scarbringer instead of the first 5-7 hit
• Fixed an issue that caused Lashing Tail Kick - Vulture Kick to apply 230% weapon damage per second instead of 230% over 3 seconds
• Fixed an issue that prevented Bracers of Destruction’s Seismic Slam bonus damage from being applied to the Rumble rune
• Fixed an issue with Blade of the Warlord that prevented the Fury spent with Bash from triggering the 2-piece Might of the Earth set bonus and reducing the cooldown of Earthquake, Ground Stomp, Leap, and Avalanche
• Fixed an issue that prevented Kyoshiro’s Soul from activating the 4pc Set bonus from the Monkey King’s Garb set
• The Sweeping Wind bonus provided by Kyoshiro’s Soul will now properly expire after transitioning between level areas

Season 7 F.A.Q.

• Q: When does Season 7 start?
• A: Season 7 will begin Friday, August 5 at 5:00 p.m. PDT in North America, 5:00 p.m. CEST in Europe, and 5:00 p.m. KST in Asia. For assistance with time zones, click here.

• Q: How long will Season 7 last?
• A: All seasons going forward will last approximately three months.

• Q: When are the non-Seasonal Leaderboards being wiped?
• A: Non-Seasonal Leaderboards are tied to what we call “Eras.” The next Era is planned to end on Friday, August 5 at 5 p.m. PDT, when Season 7 begins.

• Q: Will Seasons be coming to console?
• A: Some features on console are best designed for that platform, and the same is true for the PC version of the game. A large part of the fun of Seasons is the entire community rerolling heroes together at the same time. Because the offline and disconnected nature of console does not support this style of play, we do not currently have plans to implement Seasons on console.

• Q: What will happen to older Seasonal records?
• A: As we continue on into additional Seasons, we will no longer be able to store some personal Seasonal records. While Season 7 will store your personal bests for all Seasons to date, at some point in a future Season, we will begin removing old personal bests, beginning with Season 1. This will be true regardless of your personal participation in previous Seasons. We will have more information on this change at a later date.

Seasonal Leaderboard records are not being cleared, and will remain archived both in game and on our website.

Active Skills

• Consecration
  • The healing provided from multiple active Consecrations will no longer stack
• Judgment
  • Skill Rune - Resolved
    • The increased Critical Hit Chance has been reduced from 20% to 8%
• Laws of Valor
  • Skill Rune - Critical
    • The Critical Hit Damage bonus has been reduced from 100% to 50%

Sets

• Armor of Akkhan
  • (6) Set Bonus
    • Damage bonus increased from 450% to 600%
    • Now also reduces damage taken by 15% while Akarat's Champion is active
• Thorns of the Invoker
  • (6) Set Bonus
    • The 800% Thorns damage dealt to the first enemy hit can now benefit from +% Physical Damage

Items

• Cord of the Righteous
  • New Legendary Belt
    • Fist of the Heavens costs 40% less Wrath and deals 150% more damage
• Darklight
  • Has been redesigned
    • Now gives Fist of the Heavens a chance to be cast a second time at the targeted location

Active Skills

• Big Bad Voodoo
  • The attack speed bonus has been reduced from 20% to 15%
  • Skill Rune - Slam Dance
    • The damage bonus provided to allies has been decreased from 30% to 15%
• Haunt
  • Skill Rune - Poisoned Spirit
    • The damage increase provided to your allies has been removed. The skill will now benefit your own damage and your pets' damage
• Hex
  • No longer increases the damage taken by the target
  • Skill Rune - Jinx
    • The damage bonus to the target has been reduced from 30% to 15%
  • Skill Rune - Toad of Hugeness
    • The damage bonus to the target has been reduced from 25% to 15%
• Mass Confusion
  • Skill Rune - Paranoia
    • Can no longer stack with casts from other sources
• Piranhas
  • Can no longer stack with casts from other sources
• Spirit Barrage
  • Skill Rune - Phantasm
    • Damage increased from 675% over 5 seconds to 750% over 5 seconds
• Summon Zombie Dogs
  • Skill Rune - Chilled to the Bone
    • No longer increases damage done to targets by 15%

Sets

• Helltooth Harness
  • (2) Set Bonus
    • The Necrosis bonus damage no longer amplifies the damage of your allies. The skill will now benefit your own damage and your pets' damage

Items

• Homunculus
  • Sacrifice damage bonus increased from 25-30% to 50-60%
• Ring of Emptiness
  • Haunt and Locust Swarm damage bonus increased from 75-100% to 250-300%
• Gazing Demise
  • Legendary power added
    • Spirit Barrage gains the Phantasm rune. For each active Phantasm (max 3), the damage of Spirit Barrage is increased by 40-50%

Active Skills

• Blinding Flash
  • Skill Rune - Crippling Light
    • The damage reduction applied to blinded enemies has been reduced from 40% to 25%
• Epiphany
  • Skill Rune - Soothing Mist
    • Healing has been reduced by 60% from 40232 Life per ability to 16093 Life. The heal amount of your health globe healing bonus has been reduced from 10% to 4%
• Exploding Palm
  • Skill Rune - Flesh is Weak
    • The damage bonus has been reduced from 20% to 15%
• Inner Sanctuary
  • Skill Rune - Forbidden Palace
    • No longer increased the damage taken by enemies inside Inner Sanctuary
• Mantra of Conviction
  • The damage of the passive component of the skill has been reduced from 10% to 8%
  • The damage of the active component of the skill has been reduced from 20% to 16%
  • Skill Rune - Overawe
    • The damage bonus has been reduced from 16% to 12%
• Mantra of Conviction
  • Skill Rune - Fists of Fury
    • The maximum stack value is no longer determined by your attack speed and is capped at 15 stacks

Sets

• Raiment of a Thousand Storms
  • (6) Set Bonus
    • The damage bonus granted to Spirit Generators after casting Dashing Strike increased from 300% to 1250%

Items

• Gyana Na Kashu
  • The damage bonus granted to the fireball from Lashing Tail Kick has been increased from 525-700% to 1050-1400%
• Scarbringer
  • Legendary power added
    • Lashing Tail Kick deals an additional 300% damage to the first 5-7 enemies hit

 Active & Passive Skills

• Arcane Orb
  • Skill Rune - Spark
    • The damage increase of your next Lightning spell now has a maximum of 30%
• Energy Twister
  • Twisters (excluding those created with the Wicked Wind rune) will now despawn if they stop moving
  • This applies only to the PC/Mac version

• Elemental Exposure
  • The damage bonus no longer applies to your allies
• Power Hungry
  • Has been redesigned
    • Deal 30% additional damage to enemies more than 30 yards away

Sets

• Firebird's Finery
  • (4) Set Bonus
    • Has been redesigned
      • Dealing Fire damage with one of your skills causes the enemy to take 1000% weapon damage as Fire for 3 seconds. This effect can be repeated a second and third time by different skills. If an enemy is burning due to three different skills simultaneously the enemy will Ignite, dealing 3000% weapon damage per second until they die
  • (6) Set Bonus
    • Has been redesigned
      • Your damage is increased by 120% and damage taken reduced by 3% for each enemy that is Ignited. This effect can stack up to 20 times. You always receive the maximum bonus whenever a nearby Elite monster is Ignited.

Items

• The Twisted Sword
  • Can now only benefit from a maximum of 5 Energy Twisters
• Starfire
  • Legendary power added
    • Lightning damage done is increased by 15% for every 10 yards you are from the target up to a maximum of 60%

Active Skills

• Companion
  • Skill Rune - Wolf Companion
    • The Active Skill damage bonus has been reduced from 30% to 15%
• Marked for Death
  • The damage bonus has been reduced from 20% to 15%
  • Skill Rune - Grim Reaper
    • The damage bonus has been reduced from 20% to 15%
• Multishot
  • Skill Rune - Wind Chill
    • The increased Critical Hit Chance against the target has been reduced from 15% to 8%
• Spike Trap
  • Has been redesigned
    • Traps no longer have an arming time
    • Traps now only detonate once
    • Now has 2 charges each with a 10 second recharge time
    • All active traps are now detonated by the next Hatred spender you cast
  • Damage increased from 340% to 1160% weapon damage
  • Hatred cost reduced from 30 to 20 15
  • Skill Rune - Echoing Blast
    • Damage increased from 575% to 2020% weapon damage
    • Has been redesigned
      • Enemies are now slowed by 70% when the trap is detonated
  • Skill Rune - Lightning Rod
    • Damage increased from 880% weapon damage over 10 hits to 2010% weapon damage over 3 hits
    • Decreased the radius that lightning can arc to other traps from 75 to 25 yards
  • Skill Rune - Long Fuse
    • Has been removed
    • Replaced with
      • Impaling Spines
        • While the trap is active, enemies within range are instantly immobilized for 3 seconds
        • Increases damage to 1930% weapon damage
  • Skill Rune - Scatter
    • Now places 2 traps side by side and consumes 1 charge of Spike Trap
  • Skill Rune - Sticky Trap
    • Has been removed
    • Replaced with
      • Custom Trigger
        • Your Hatred generators now detonate Spike Traps
        • Increases damage to 1900% weapon damage

Items

• Calamity
  • Now always uses your Marked for Death Rune type and cannot stack with overlapping casts of your Marked for Death
    • Note: This change is retroactive to existing items
• The Demon's Demise
  • Has been redesigned
    • The blast from Spike Trap will damage all enemies again after 1 second.
• Trag'Oul Coils
  • Legendary power added
    • Spike Traps gain the effect of the Impaling Spines rune and are deployed twice as fast

Active Skills

• Threatening Shout
  • Skill Rune - Falter
    • Can no longer stack with casts from other sources

Items

• Girdle of Giants
• Legendary power added
  • Seismic Slam Increases Earthquake damage by 80-100% for 15 3 seconds.
  • Existing Earthquakes will have their damage increased when Seismic Slam is used with Girdle of Giants

Sorry it took this long to reply, we were checking something on our end. We're looking into this issue and will have a solution for it shortly.

First, what Shinna said regarding news management, opinions and feedback for the staff. We're always open to reasonable feedback/criticism, and even when it's not directed at us (aka random forum posts) we still keep track of them.

Second, our moderators are allowed to have their own opinions. It would be unreal to demand people to change their opinions to become forum mods. Also, imho people are misreading what he said (like hard). From what I could understand, he said the impact (to the playerbase) of not having THUD would be considerable, and that not having it come back in some manner would increase the chances of people not playing anymore. Even if he said "I use THud and would prefer if everyone did", he would still be within his right of having a personal opinion. 

Third, there were a ton of long winded and complex discussions about whether or not said tool hurts the game in the past. A lot of controversial arguments, and the community seemed to be very divided. Lots of players supported some THud features, but most agreed that the "maphack" aspect of it hurt the competitive part of D3 (even though some people really defended that too). In the end, in most discussions, people were divided about whether or not it could even be considered cheating.

If he had said something like "DiabloFans condones and incentivizes the use of THud" then I'd agree we would have a problem. Heck, if I said something remotely similar to that (specially on news) it could send the wrong message, but as a voluntary moderator posting his opinion on the forums, I don't think it's a big issue.

Feel free to PM me if you need any further clarification on this subject. I'd rather not discuss it on this thread in order to not derail it further. Thanks for understanding.

Ok, so I've tried to be as neutral as possible not giving my opinion and letting this thread flow naturally, without much interference (not even warnings where they were kinda applicable). I think there were some fair points brought up by both sides, and I was hoping it would become more than "just another daed gaem" thread, with maybe some discussions on what people think Diablo should be headed next.

But it seems that the thread has run its course, and most posts lately have been about another topic or close to personal poking. As such, I'll be locking the thread. I hope you understand Eradifyre - it has nothing to do with how I personally feel about this subject.

Feel free to create another thread to discuss the future of the game, just try to stray away from the "I'm done with this game" stance, as people tend to react very negatively to it. Try to understand their perspective - we've seen hundreds of these, in many case made by people trolling the players who were still fans, so there's some bad blood there. I assure you it's not personal and there's a reason for that kind of reaction.

Sorry Mamba, but we have some rules regarding threads with video links. We needed to put them in place a while ago - see below for reference.

If you have created a video about any Diablo 3 content, be it a class guide, footage of you killing monsters, or a discussion about the game's features, feel free to post this on our forums. However, please note the following rules:

• A user is allowed to post a video, only if the video is used to to start up a topic with a meaningful and constructive discussion.
• The post that contains the video must have all the important information in text form as well, such that members who can't watch the video can participate in the discussion as well. In particular, if you're showcasing a new build, make sure to post a link to your build (for example by using our Build tool or the official build calculator).
• The video and its contents must be in line with the forum rules as well as Blizzard's Terms of Service.

Video threads that we feel are just about advertising your channel and do not provide basis for a constructive and meaningful discussion will be deleted without a notification.

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