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Well I finally beat Leoric for the first time in Patch 13 and I have to say it was somewhat more fun. I mean getting to try out skill runes was a huge improvement. There are some bugs though that they have to fix before the game comes out. I played downstairs on this same computer at 4AM and now when i woke up i played again and none of my options were saved, i had to re-toggle elective mode, and no health bars and only display item names when hotkey is pressed. Just stupid tedious stuff that should never be there in the first place.

Second, I LOVE the changes in skill placement. I mean ray of frost is a lvl 5 skill now, and they just completely redesigned the UI to look nicer i feel. My problem with this whole new UI is the skills are not in one place, I have to click through different pages, around 5 of them to find what skill I want. I think they should've just kept them in a single page.

Third I hate this whole I unlock this rune later on. Ray of frost unlocks at lvl 5, you don't get its last skill rune till lvl 51... WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SHIT. I mean at least if you're going to give us a skill, make it so that we can use all the runes by a reasonable level, not when we're about to finish hell. I just overall don't like how you unlock runes now anyway.

Other than that though everything is pretty fine. I mean as a wizard It definetley felt harder being a glass cannon, but nto too hard cause it's normal mode. Leoric seems to have been HP buffed a bit. I don't remember him taking that long to kill. and they added some new skill animations I think. Magic missle used to be a small bolt but now its more of a medium sized ball. And Arcane Orb got some sound effect enhancements, unless I never noticed it.

Overall I feel it's a good patch, they have some pros and some cons. But the feel of the game is absolutely stupendous. It's not boring either, They upped the amount of monster encounters and the number of building blocks for dungeons, i'm seeing formations i have never seen before so that's always a plus too.

Quote from Ferret

This is not really a Blizzard problem though, it lies with the retailers that are taking pre-orders for a game that is not yet on the market.

"If you decide to purchase the Diablo III Collector's Edition when it's available"

Clearly, the game is not yet available. Retailers aren't selling you the CE, they're selling you the guarantee that you will get the CE when the game is out. If people would have waited to the point of "when it's available", then they would have known for sure whether or not it would actually give them a benefit.