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[Molster]

Magic Find Article Coming Soon?
It looks like we might be seeing the article about champion/elite kills effecting boss kills and magic find soon. This would hopefully cover some of the information such as Nephalem Valor resting on skill switching, along with new information on how this ties to bosses.

Originally Posted by Blizzard

Hey Bash, any idea when we might be seeing the write-up for that new system that boosts your MF for killing champions?
Yup, I know exactly when! (Source)

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The History of the Follower's Updates
With the recent discussions about the Templar changes seen in patch 14, people seem to be really interested in what the followers have to bring. We have decided to recap the last 3 patches of follower changes for you! Enjoy

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Patch 15 Changes

Scoundrel

• Hysteria Whenever you or the Scoundrel land a critical hitCritical Hit, you both will go into hysterics, increasing all damage done by 10% for 3 seconds. This effect cannot occur more than once every 6 seconds.

Enchantress

• Disorient Cast a flash of Confusion on a group of enemies in an area, causing them to stumble around disoriented for 84 seconds. / Cooldown: 3045 seconds

Patch 14 Changes

Templar

• Heal Heals you or the Templar for 450 Life. / Cooldown: 1530 seconds
  
• Charge Charges a target, dealing 15050% weapon damage and stunning all enemies within 158 yards for 32 seconds. / Cooldown: 1530 seconds
  
• Intimidate Enemy units are slowed by 3060% for 3 seconds when they hit the Templar. Does not stack with other slows.
  
• Inspire Increase resource generation for all allies that the Templar is following. / Mana: 13 per second. / Arcane Power: 1 per second. / Hatred: 1 per second. / Discipline: 1 per second. / Fury: 1000% generated. / Spirit: 1000% generated.
  
• Intervene Taunts enemies attacking youplayer for 53 seconds when you arehero is below 50% healthLife. / Cooldown: 3060 seconds
  
• Onslaught Delivers a massive blow to an enemy for 300200% weapon damage. / Cooldown: 15 seconds

Scoundrel

• Hysteria Whenever you or the Scoundrel strikeland a critical hit, you both will go into hysterics, increasing all damage done by 10% for 3 seconds. This effect cannot occur more than once every 6 seconds.
  
• Crippling Shot Ranged attack that slows the target by 5060% for 3 seconds. / Cooldown: 46 seconds
  
• Dirty Fighting Blinds enemies in front of the Scoundrel for 60 seconds. Any hit will break the effect. / Cooldown: 1530 seconds
  
• Powered Shot Powerful ranged attack that explodes on impact, dealing 20025% weapon damage as Arcane damage to targets within 156 yards and has a 50% chance to stunStun them for 32 seconds. / Cooldown: 1020 seconds
  
• Vanish The Scoundrel vanishes in a cloud of smoke when injured, reappearing after 0 seconds. While vanished, he will heal himself for 450 Life. / Cooldown: 30 seconds

Enchantress

• Disorient Cast a flash of confusionConfusion on a group of enemies in an area, causing them to stumble around disoriented for 208 seconds. Damage done to confused targets will break the effect. / Cooldown: 1530 seconds
  
• Charm Charms an enemy to fight for you for 64 seconds. / Cooldown: 1525 seconds
  
• Powered Armor Enchantress buffs herself and her allies, increasing Armor by 515%. Attackers are slowed by 30% for 3 seconds.
  
• Focused Mind An aura that increases attack speed by 53% to allies within 40 yards.
  
• Erosion Conjures a pool of arcane energy that deals 50% Arcane weapon damage per second as Arcane. Affected enemies take an extra 2515% damage from all attacks for 3 seconds. / Cooldown: 15 seconds
  
• Mass Control The Enchantress lobs a bulb of magical energy at the player that will hex all enemies within 15 yards into chickens for 45 seconds. Hexed enemies are unable to perform offensive actions. / Cooldown: 3060 seconds
  
• Forceful Push Summon an arcaneArcane explosion 158 yards around an enemy, dealing 200100% weapon damage as Arcane damage and knocking back all monsters caught within it. / Cooldown: 10 seconds

Patch 13 Changes

Templar

• Intimidate Enemy units are slowed by 5030% for 3 seconds when they hit the Templar. Does not stack with other slows.
  
• Loyalty Loyalty
  
  • desc : Regenerates 365 Life per second for you and the Templar.
• Intervene Intervene
  
  • desc : Taunts enemies attacking you for 5 seconds when you are below 50% health. / Cooldown: 30 seconds
• Onslaught Onslaught
  
  • desc : Delivers a massive blow to an enemy for 300% weapon damage. / Cooldown: 15 seconds

Scoundrel

• Crippling Shot Ranged attack that slows the target by 7050% for 3 seconds. / Cooldown: 4 seconds
  
• Dirty Fighting Blinds enemies in front of the Scoundrel for 60 - 8060 seconds. Any hit will break the effect. / Cooldown: 1015 seconds
  
• Powered Shot Powerful ranged attack that explodes on impact, dealing 250200% weapon damage as Arcane damage. The impact also causes an explosion to targets within 15 yards around the target, knocking back enemies caught in it, withand has a 50% chance to stun them for 53 seconds. / Cooldown: 610 seconds
  
• Poison Bolts Poison Bolts
  
  • desc : Ranged attack which deals 50% weapon damage as Poison damage over 3 seconds. / Cooldown: 4 seconds
• Multishot Multishot
  
  • desc : The Scoundrel's ranged attacks fire 1 bolts at a time.
• Vanish Vanish
  
  • desc : The Scoundrel vanishes in a cloud of smoke when injured, reappearing after 0 seconds. While vanished, he will heal himself for 450 Life. / Cooldown: 30 seconds

Enchantress

• Disorient Cast a flash of confusion on a group of enemies in an area, causing them to stumble around disoriented for 20 - 40 seconds. Damage done to confused targets will break the effect. / Cooldown: 15 seconds
  
• Charm Charms an enemy to fight for you for 8 - 116 seconds. / Cooldown: 15 seconds
  
• Reflect Missiles Place a shield on the Enchantress and her allies that reflects incoming projectiles for 5 seconds. This effect can only occur when you are below 50% of your maximum health. / Cooldown: 20 seconds
  
• Powered Armor Enchantress buffs herself and her allies, increasing Armor by 105%. Attackers are slowed by 4030% for 3 seconds.
  
• Focused Mind The Enchantress places a buff on her allies increasingAn aura that increases attack speed by 105% for 10 seconds. / Cooldown: 30 secondsto allies within 40 yards.
  
• Erosion Erosion
  
  • desc : Conjures a pool of arcane energy that deals 50% weapon damage per second as Arcane. Affected enemies take an extra 25% damage from all attacks for 3 seconds. / Cooldown: 15 seconds
• Mass Control Mass Control
  
  • desc : The Enchantress lobs a bulb of magical energy at the player that will hex all enemies within 15 yards into chickens for 4 seconds. Hexed enemies are unable to perform offensive actions. / Cooldown: 30 seconds
• Forceful Push Forceful Push
  
  • desc : Summon an arcane explosion 15 yards around an enemy, dealing 200% weapon damage as Arcane damage and knocking back all monsters caught within it. / Cooldown: 10 seconds

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Blue Posts

Blizzquote

More Beta Waves
We'll be continuing to invite people into the beta, yes. As far as who, what regions, or how many, that's information we don't release beforehand (mostly because we don't know). (Blue Tracker/Official Forums)

Digital Collector's Edition
Our Collector's Editions are traditionally retail-exclusive, and while we appreciate that there's some desire for digital versions of our CE's, we have no plans to do so for Diablo III.

Best of luck though in getting a hold of a physical one! I think it's the coolest CE we've put together. (Blue Tracker/Official Forums)

Twitter
Any reason our characters are doomed to first names, and cannot have last names via spaces or underscores?
You're such a bad ass that you just go by one name. Like Cher. (Source)

YES or NO servers on release date will turn at 3am eastern?
We don't know yet. (Source)

Will you release a wallpaper for 2 million likes on Facebook, pretty please?
Oh man... MAYBE! If you're lucky. (Source)

Hey Bash. How are the loot tables handled in D3? Is it like D2, or do all monsters share the same loot table?
There are types of loot monsters can drop, and then varying chances. It's not a single gigantic item pool, but it's close. (Source)

If we already have the beta client, do we still need to download the retail client?
Yes, they're different. (Source)

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Curse Weekly Roundup
For those who like to play other games and see what else our Curse family is up to, we have this week's Curse Weekly Roundup.

[Aerisot]

Dang, I thought I had a good Twitter response, it may have been an obvious answer, but you'd be surprised on how many people wouldn't know until release day.

Edit* that was not there a minute ago!

Edited by Aerisot, 21 March 2012 - 02:05 AM.

[Molster]

Aerisot, on 21 March 2012 - 02:04 AM, said:

Dang, I thought I had a good Twitter response, it may have been an obvious answer, but you'd be surprised on how many people wouldn't know until release day.

Edit* that was not there a minute ago!

if its the last tweet it got cut off with a bad link tag

[FreddyBenson]

cheers guys

Lindsay is quite attractive & does a better job than pico, i dont like skinny women, if lindsay stays i shall watch curse news again

[Aerisot]

Molster, on 21 March 2012 - 02:07 AM, said:

Aerisot, on 21 March 2012 - 02:04 AM, said:

Dang, I thought I had a good Twitter response, it may have been an obvious answer, but you'd be surprised on how many people wouldn't know until release day.

Edit* that was not there a minute ago!

if its the last tweet it got cut off with a bad link tag

Indeed it was, ty

[Sojourna]

*looks through Follower changes*

Looking forward to that big blue post regarding MF bonuses.


Edit: Forgot to ask, but does Blizzard update the info on their web site when a patch change goes through? For example, they still have Poison Bolts on the Scoundrel's web page although, according to DF, it's been removed.

Edited by Sojourna, 21 March 2012 - 03:12 AM.

[Windex7]

Since they removed Runestones, decided not to have charms at release and etc. Beside PvP, basically all thats left for you to play for once you have beaten the game on inferno on the char(s) you wanna play with, is getting new pieces of gears and thats pretty much it. They better not change MF and other game mechanics to a point they're worst on my opinion, because that's pretty much all they've done so far. Anyway, I wouldn't mind them changing some things before release to make them better than they're right now because I believe there's room for quite some. They better have a huge huge items base and have items all harder than the others to find and I mean like stuff very very rare, some extremely rare, some stuff you just probably won't even get your hands on after years and etc. Because you farm pieces of gears and nothing else, I doubt you'll ever farm gems after a short amount of time. I've followed the game ever since it was announced and there ain't much new stuff they revealed nor added that I particularly appreciated. The only one I can think of, is the addition of inferno. I really hope that the game will have much to offer for really late game content because that's what I'm looking forward, I don't buy games if I think I'll be quitting them at some point.

[Greenjoke]

I don't think it matters who they get to do the videos. They'll get attacked. Forever alone neckbeards will lash out because they are generally bitter at women for not loving them and deny the existence of decent girls who are interested in games. Ugly girls will attack out of jealousy. Pretty girls will attack because someone "beneath" them is getting attention.

I don't care if followers do loads of damage. If they can at least serve the purpose of distracting monsters then it's fine.

[lorien1973]

I miss Pico.

[Ocean]

Tbh MF has been confusing me the most, apart from RMAH, in this game. I'm looking forward to that article coming out soon

[pikke]

Good, something more to read in coming days.

Followers may need some more tweaking, but that could be done easily by patch.

Thanks Molster!

[misterwolf]

Nooo! Where is Pico!?

[ZenX]

Wow no offense to Pico but this new girl(Lindsay) got real passion(act or not) hence gives out a gamer vibe more than Pico did.

[Drachar]

Some of the numbers on Follower skills seams a tad off.

[Drol]

Windex7, on 21 March 2012 - 03:07 AM, said:

I really hope that the game will have much to offer for really late game content because that's what I'm looking forward, I don't buy games if I think I'll be quitting them at some point.

Can you name all the games you are still playing and have been since release? *curious*

[Xebu]

I like this new host, Lindsay. She speaks much more clearly and the way she talks works much better for news broadcasting things. I think this is what people should focus on rather than looks, but of course that's just my opinion

[Kael13]

Pico was obviously busy with the MoP stuff this week. The level of hate and stupidity on the YouTube video page is really over the top. But then what do you expect...

[wishedhehadbeta]

new magic find article up us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/4241234476#1

[Sylvain]

while the tweet about not being able to put space and underscore in names is funny, look at my battletag to understand why it's bullshit...

[wishedhehadbeta]

Sylvain, on 21 March 2012 - 05:56 PM, said:

while the tweet about not being able to put space and underscore in names is funny, look at my battletag to understand why it's bullshit...

syl.....? so what? mines cooler than yours

Edited by GladHeHasBeta, 21 March 2012 - 06:52 PM.