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[Molster]

Note: The Inferno Item Booster Pack contest will return again next weeK!

Four New Item Procs Revealed
Vaeflare has hit both the official forums and reddit to give us a sneak peek at even more item procs!

• Puzzle Ring (Ring) - This ring gives heroes a chance to summon a Treasure Goblin when they’re hit. The tooltip will be something along the lines of: "This ring sometimes calls forth a Treasure Goblin when you are hit."
• The Butcher’s Sickle (1h Axe) – This item will now give players a chance to cast the Butcher’s sickle attack, dragging enemies to them. The tooltip should read something along the lines of: “X% chance to drag enemies to you when attacking.”
• Hellrack (Crossbow) – This weapon will have a chance to cast Jailer on enemies, rooting them to the ground. The tooltip should read something like: “Chance to root enemies to the ground when you hit them.”
• The Gidbin (Ceremonial Dagger) – will have a chance when attacking to summon forth a Fetish to fight for you. - Tooltip: "Chance to summon a Fetish when attacking."

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

The effects from Legendary procs will not damage other friendly members of your party. There are quite a range of proc effects we’ve added, and while some share similar visual effects with monster affixes, we tried to ensure that there was a visual distinction as much as possible. Also, there are quite a number Legendary procs that haven’t been discovered yet, and many are rather … interesting.

Take, for instance, this lovely ring:

Puzzle Ring (Ring) - This ring gives heroes a chance to summon a Treasure Goblin when they’re hit. The tooltip will be something along the lines of: "This ring sometimes calls forth a Treasure Goblin when you are hit."

…I bet that will prove to be entertaining during a boss fight. 

"We wiped on the butcher today because 3 goblins spawned and everyone chased a diferent target. All 3 got away." lol, it actually does sound fun though.
Well, perhaps you or one of your friends could offer the Butcher a piece of your mind by using one of his special attacks against him!

The Butcher’s Sickle (1h Axe) – This item will now give players a chance to cast the Butcher’s sickle attack, dragging enemies to them. The tooltip should read something along the lines of: “X% chance to drag enemies to you when attacking.”

I suspect such an item would, at the very least, be appealing when chasing down those rogue Treasure Goblins. 
You might also be interested in the new Legendary I just posted over on Reddit as well. 

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Patch Targeted for Next Week
Patch 1.0.4 was confirmed to be targeted for the fourth week in August in the first systems blog. Some people were not sure if this referred to the 21st or the 28th. Bashiok posted on twitter confirming the fourth week is the 21st. Keep in mind this is a "targeted" date and "anything could happen".

Originally Posted by Blizzard

hey bash, happy Friday! Is the patch next week on 8/21 or 8/28? Not really sure how to count weeks in August 
The fourth week of August is next week, but of course anything could happen.(Source)

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Blizzard at Gamescom

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Today was the second public day of gamescom 2012, and our second Mists of Pandaria Leveling Contest. This time it was Mark-Hendrik Moll who was the first to make it through the pandaren starting zone to level five, taking home an awesome Sindragosa and the Lich King set from Mega Bloks.
 

Rounding out the morning, StarCraft II fans were treated to some pro tips during StarCraft II Academy. German StarCraft II caster Sebastian “HomerJ” Schenck pulled two amateur StarCraft II players from the crowd on stage to coach their game. This definitely gave spectators some insight into the game and some expert advice on how to get an advantage over their opponents.

HomerJ also shoutcasted the StarCraft II show matches, with one immediately following his coaching session. Strelok prevailed after an exciting match with PIG.

In the afternoon, we saw our first Blizzard orchestral performance of gamescom! The crowd was enchanted to hear songs from World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, and Diablo III played by an eight-piece orchestra. If you missed today’s performance, you can see the orchestra again tomorrow at 16:00.
 

 

Blizzard developers Grace Liu, John Lagrave, Ion Hazzikostas, David Kim, and Kaeo Milker were signing autographs at the Blizzard booth, and will be back tomorrow at 16:30.

Grace also showed her artistic skills on stage as she created an amazing drawing of a witch doctor during a live drawing session. You can watch her at work again tomorrow and Sunday.

We ended the action-packed day with a second StarCraft II show match between Tarson and Moonglade. In the end Moonglade came out on top after an intense battle.
 

 

The fun is far from over! You can check out additional show matches and other activities until the end of the day on Sunday. You won’t want to miss our costume contest tomorrow at 14:30, and it’s not too late to sign up for the dance contest on Sunday! Of course you can still try to win some cool prizes during our quizzes several times daily.
 

  

As always, check out our photo gallery for updated pictures and our activities page for a full stage schedule. We hope to see you at the Blizzard booth!

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New Blizzard Art
Blizzard has updated their art gallery. However there is a good chance you have seen most of these already.

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

The Blizzard Art gallery has been updated with four pieces. Have a look at assorted pieces of stunning artwork that reveal an all-new look at the wonders of the diablo universe.

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Class Previews - Poll
With all five class previews out, which one sparked your interest the most? (Note, for those who missed it, Blizzard updated the Wizard blog with more information)

 

[Molster]

Adding a fourth one  in now

[DesmondTiny]

epic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Thunderclaww]

[s]You missed one more legendary from reddit! [url="http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/ye8hj/puzzle_ring_this_ring_sometimes_calls_forth_a/c5uv15f"]http://www.reddit.co...forth_a/c5uv15f[/url][/s]

EDIT: Oops, a little late.

Edited by Thunderclaww, 18 August 2012 - 02:48 AM.

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[Molster]

[quote name='Thunderclaww' timestamp='1345258077' post='1018337']
[s]You missed one more legendary from reddit! [url="http://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/ye8hj/puzzle_ring_this_ring_sometimes_calls_forth_a/c5uv15f"]http://www.reddit.co...forth_a/c5uv15f[/url][/s]

EDIT: Oops, a little late.
[/quote]
ya he posted that while I was formatting the last two parts >.<

Edited by Molster, 18 August 2012 - 02:49 AM.

[Benegesserit]

starting to look like a 1.0 build, Blizzard

i say pull a Square Enix and just call it Diablo 3: Reborn

[egg3rs]

[quote name='Benegesserit' timestamp='1345258352' post='1018341']
starting to look like a 1.0 build, Blizzard

i say pull a Square Enix and just call it Diablo 3: Reborn
[/quote]

ugh don't drag squeenix into this, its ugly enough as is

[Aku_Aku]

[quote]The [url="http://us.battle.net/d3/en/media/artwork/"]Blizzard Art gallery[/url] has been updated with four pieces. Have a look at assorted pieces of stunning artwork that reveal an all-new look at the wonders of the diablo universe.[/quote]

Unless you've already seen the [url="http://bayimg.com/CaBGFaAee"]art[/url] [url="http://bayimg.com/CaBGeAAee"]book[/url]...  you kind of wonder why they left out the part where or why they made the male demon hunter look like Edward, unless you consider him [url=http://bayimg.com/cABGhAaEE]sexy[/url]?

Edited by Aku_Aku, 18 August 2012 - 04:43 AM.

[Cyeron]

hmmm...

I wonder if puzzle ring will be able to proc from the reflect damage affix... Imagine 4 people with it, doing siegebreaker.

[OwnagerD]

The puzzle ring on ranged classes could result in weird behaviour. Just think of demon hunters that try to maximize goblin spawns by running back and forth into melee mobs

[TOM_RUS]

1.0.4 build is 11327

[Rompehuevos]

puzzle ring= my inmortal barb in act 1/2 getting hit till gob spawns, rinse and repeat

Edited by Rompehuevos, 18 August 2012 - 11:37 AM.

[Kagore]

The Gidbin proc is quite...Boring.

Probably useful if it stacks with fetish passive other than that not impressive at all. Could be lot better.

[UberMey]

nerfing mobs, buffs and more buffs ... maybe I get back after patch

aiming gw2 release btw... great idea, now Im confused xD

[tturtlemaster55]

So let me get this straight, they are adding a proc on a melee weapon that, when you attack an enemy in melee range it will hook the target and bring them to you?

[Buu]

[quote name='tturtlemaster55' timestamp='1345309792' post='1018673']
So let me get this straight, they are adding a proc on a melee weapon that, when you attack an enemy in melee range it will hook the target and bring them to you?
[/quote]
OH great, I  was already thinking it was just me. Yeah, I don't get it too...

[Lehetetlen]

[quote name='tturtlemaster55' timestamp='1345309792' post='1018673']
So let me get this straight, they are adding a proc on a melee weapon that, when you attack an enemy in melee range it will hook the target and bring them to you?
[/quote]
Where does it state your current target? I dare to say it will target mobs out of your melee range.

[WiLdPotATO]

Witch doctors ftw