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Greater Rifts Info and Tips

Fellow Diablofans user Natalya85 made a very interesting video with the basics of Greater Rifts, as well as some very useful tips. A part of the video might sound quite simple and basic, but it might have useful tips even for more experienced players. Check it out!

San Diego Comic-Con Merchandise

The exclusive merchandise available at Blizzard's booth at this year's Comic-Con has been revealed.

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Original Source)

If you're headed to San Diego Comic-Con this July, you won't want to miss out on visiting the Blizzard booth! Blizzard is raiding SDCC once again, and we're excited to give you a sneak peek at this year's exclusives and premiere merchandise.

Our San Diego Comic-Con exclusives are a limited run produced only for the convention, so make sure to grab them early. If you can't join us in San Diego, don't worry! We'll have several different items featured on the Blizzard Gear Store (gear.blizzard.com) after the event.

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Whimsyshire Treasure Goblin Plush
Trapped among the rainbows and unicorn meadows of Whimsyshire, this Treasure Goblin's gone (adorably) native! Catch one for a lifetime of snuggles . . . or don't and regret it forever.

 

The Whimsyshire variant is limited to 3,500 pieces. (Standard Treasure Goblin coloring coming to the Blizzard Gear Store soon™!)

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Funko POP! Vinyl—Primal Kerrigan
Back from her vacation on Zerus, Kerrigan has got her groove back and gone primal! 

Primal Kerrigan is an SDCC-exclusive variant of her POP! Vinyl figure and is limited to 2,500 pieces. (The non-exclusive variant Funko POP! Vinyl Kerrigan is available now.)

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Nether Faerie Dragon Plush
Catch one if you can! This soft and huggable fey friend is made of premium plush materials and features wings you can pose and a tail with over 50 points of articulation. 

The exclusive Comic-Con Nether variant is limited to 2,000 pieces. (Standard Faerie Dragon coloring coming to the Blizzard Gear Store soon™!)

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Cute But Deadly Cloaking Zeratul
He's cute. He's deadly. He's invisible-ish (and so is his box). Blizzard’s Cute But Deadly figure line continues with this comical cloaked variant of the not-so-comical Dark Templar.

Cloaking Zeratul is limited to 2,500 pieces and will only be available for purchase at San Diego Comic-Con.

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Premiere Merchandise:

• Cute But Deadly Shirt for Men and Women
• StarCrafts Zergling Plush Keychain
• Hearthstone Plush with Light and Sound Effects
• Blizzard Heroes and Villains Lanyard
• . . . and More!
  
  

   

All premiere items will be available on the Blizzard Gear store after San Diego Comic-Con concludes.

Legendary Effects and +% Bonus Damage

Apparently there is a bug, just recently confirmed, that is preventing the effects from Legendary and Set (such as the Whirlwind effect from the Bul'Kathos Oath Set) from benefitting from +% Bonus Damage (Physical in the case of the Bul'Kathos set). The developers will be fixing it in a future patch!

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Official Source - In the Comments of the Blog Post)

You do know that the Bul-Kathos´s Oath WW effect doesn´t benefit from any elemental skill damage bonuses including Physical, right?
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/12329703286?page=6#104
Its damage scales with aps, crit chance and crit damage (crit mod), which are directly included in its damage calculation. On top of that the effect may crit, in which case you gain squared benefit from crit damage.
The crit mod + crit on top is exactly how the "bugged" Rend behaved shortly after patch 2.0.6 but Rend was fixed pretty fast heh ._.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/13088049258
Anyway, it´s difficult to admit it given my history with the class, but the sole reason for us to stick with Barbs at the moment is if we enjoy playing the class and for sentimental reasons, because it simply can´t compete with WD and Crus and DH at endgame. Patch 2.1 doesn´t seem to do anything about that either.
Good luck and have fun.

@Nubtro: Interesting. If that's the case, which was not the impression I was under, I'll make sure I have bring this point up. It's possible it's a bug, either way I'll look into it.

Thanks for the constructive feedback. Comments like this are helpful not only to myself and our developers, but budding theorycrafters and new players as well.

I'll address this quickly, but let's otherwise keep the focus on this build and Patch 2.0.6 rather than 2.1. The PTR just launched and this is just our first iteration (neither Seasons nor Legendary Gems are accessible yet). We're still hard at work on additional class changes, tweaks to Legendaries, and responding to player feedback. There's more to come, so please just be sure to let us know what you'd like to see in the PTR Feedback forum! Keeping your feedback in the appropriate place will allow us to gather and pass it on much more quickly and efficiently.
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@Nubtro: Fun fact - after asking about this, I've discovered this is actually a bug and the Oath set *should* be benefitting from +% Physical damage - as should all other Legendaries with specific elemental effects, such as the Fulminator or Maximus.

We're doing a pass on these Legendaries and making sure they interact properly with bonus elemental damage. It's possible you'll see this fix on a future PTR build, so keep an eye out for it and let us know how it feels once you can give it a whirl (pun totally intended). 

Kasadya Cosplay

Ibelinn has made an incredible cosplay fantasy of one of Malthael's Death Maidens, Kasadya. There's a few photos below, but you should really check the full gallery, which even has some photos of the work in progress!