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Crafting Mats Might Get Their Own Slots and Auto Pickup

Several VERY interesting ideas are being thought over by the devs regarding crafting mats and their handling. As usual, keep in mind nothing is certain and final at this point! 

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker/ Official Forums)

Thanks for the great feedback summary, Khaoz! I'm glad to hear it was a fun transition, and that it worked well for you. I was sure to read through all of your post, and took notes to pass along. 

- PLEASE, make gems and crafting mats be picked up automatically. I obviously want to get all of them (just like gold and health potions) and it's very annoying to click-click-click them everywhere. Also, all them became fixed items in my inventory. They will be looted anyway and they will stack to 1000, so why bother stashing or w/e? 

This is one of many solid suggestions we’ve seen regarding improvements that could be made to the crafting resource management system. On the whole, we agree with your feedback and are currently working on some different ways to help streamline the process of picking up, storing, and using crafting resources.

Let me preface what I’m about to say with the caveat that any changes we make to crafting material management at this point would come after Reaper of Souls ships. With that in mind, here’s a few ideas we’re tinkering with to help get you thinking about some of the cool possibilities: 

• All crafting materials would be moved to a currency-style storage in the UI. Think something similar to Blood Shards.
• All crafting materials would become auto pickup, except for LEGENDARY crafting material. (Legendary crafting material would still be automatically stored as a currency, but players must click on it to pick it up.)
• All crafters would pull crafting materials from this storage area for recipes.
• Crafting materials that the player doesn’t currently own would appear in grey text with a 0 counter.
• Players could mouse over the icons of all crafting material to get the full tooltip of the item. This includes greyed out ones.
• Currently, we do not intend to store gems in this way because it would make socketing items feel clunky.

Note that this is all still a work in progress and thus subject to lots and lots of iteration. Again, while this is something that won’t make the launch of the expansion, we still wanted to acknowledge that we’ve seen your feedback, agree with it, and are already starting to act on some of your suggestions.

Blue Posts

Originally Posted by Blizzard

[BUG] Imperial Gems Not Dropping In Master Difficulty

I'm wondering if this is bugged or not.

I double checked this (personally, I didn't find any until Torment II), and it turns out that Imperial gems dropping in Master difficulty is bugged. We're going to correct it in an upcoming hotfix, but I don't have an ETA yet on when that will happen. We'll be sure to update the Closed Beta Hotfixes thread, though, so keep an eye on it if you're interested. (Blue Tracker/ Official Forums)
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Bloodshard Drop Rate Concerns
When we were investigating split-farming concerns, one of the biggest issues was Kadala's generosity. This contributed to the split-farming issue, and in order to address it as a whole, we drastically lowered her drop rate to make sure her enticing loot wasn't skewing other data while we experimented with possible solutions.

We're currently keeping a watchful eye on how the changes we've implemented to address split-farming are doing, and whether or not there are additional steps or tweaks we need to make. If we feel the split-farming issue is in a better place and as we get closer to the expansion launch, we can revisit Kadala and re-evaluate her drop rates. (Blue Tracker/ Official Forums)

Demon Hunter Fan Art

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