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This is true for skills that have no damage type of their own. Spectral Blade is about the only Wizard skill that has no damage type, so it copies the one from the weapon. For example, Electrocute will always show the lightning death animation.

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Wave of Force

Actually these are both considered Physical dmg I believe. Any physical damage skills will copy the elemental dmg effect of the weapon. Something like the Witch Doctor's Poison Dart will always appear as poison damage obviously, however it remains to be tested if the elemental damage of the weapon still carries through - just that we don't get to see it.

Yes all affixes should translate to spells. What is surprising sometimes is seeing the elemental damage of your weapon affect the death effects of your attacks. For example a Wizard using Spectral Blade with a weapon that has +holy damage will result in mobs dying with the holy death animation.

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If you look through the optional key bindings you'll find a "move" button. I don't think it's actually originally bound to anything. This button will simply move your player to where your pointer is. I use my left mouse button to move and attack quite often, but if I'm treading across the weaping hollows or down a long dungeon, if you hold the move button (in this case Q), its like auto pilot.

Oh so there is no way to remove that default behavior of the mousebutton moving the character?

I noticed it wasn't keybound, but haven't played around with it yet. So does it equate to 1 key press = 1 mouse click or does the character stop the second you depress 'Q'?

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Move-> Q

Could you comment on the use of "move" as a keybind? By default this is the left mouse button but it conflicts with the skill for that button too if you misclick. Do you find this is less accident prone?

It's up to your playing preferences: resolution doesn't have an impact on view range, but aspect ration does. proof

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That is an elite Plague Carrier sir, not a Carrion Bat

Just wanted to add that Captain Daltyn's Frozen ability actually scales with the number of players in the game. I don't think we have seen scaling on any affix before this so that's kind of neat.

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Everytime I think I find something, you guys are killjoys. I must just have bad luck

Lol. Don't be discouraged even our findings require validation. It's nice to see we aren't alone in the search for changes.

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Interesting news by way of a CM:

Originally Posted by (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

This isn't a bug nor a dupe. Players are selling items they bought off of vendors.

Currently, all Rare (yellow) items can only be purchased once from vendors. Once you buy it, it disappears from the vendor's inventory.

Magic (blue) items have unlimited stock on vendors but they are no where near the best items in the game.

I was unaware that vendors could sell rare items. anyone seen this in beta?

Since patch 10 - 1/23/12

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Also: I found a new unique (or champion, whatever the cool kids at blizzard call them now adays) next to the cathedral after rescuing Cain. Not sure if he's always there or not or if he's been there in the past. Once you rescue cain and are outside the cathedral (near the waypoint), go to the right near where there's a breakable Stub and he pops out of the ground. When I fought him he was cold enchanted and did the same orb attack that Dalton uses.

That is Aaron Bright and he was already in the game in a previous patch. What is interesting is that your description is the same ability that Capt. Daltyn uses, and before they were both Frozen. So either 1) they changed the Frozen ability to do the orbs instead of just exploding with a freeze effect, or 2) they changed Daltyn and Aaron Bright's ability to some new affix that we haven't seen yet, OR 3) Unique (purple title) monsters have a different effect when carrying the Frozen affix. Good find either way.

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I just found a rare zombie in the musty cellar,one of the first random areas you can get. (yellow text on the name)

This is not new, but what is new is the placement of Dead Plunderer corpses that drop extra gold. The Musty Cellar also has a chance to generate a Quill Fiend nest instead.

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Also anyone else noticed that those rare mobs with minions move alot faster now?
On another note, nightmarish mobs seems to be spawning more often. Maybe they lowered the level from which they can spawn?

I think this was first added in patch 12 or 13 but did not extend to all elites. It seems all elite affixes now have the extra speed activated.

Maybe someone else can chime on that - I have not been actively comparing Cath L1 so I can't confirm. Unfortunately it's not an easy one to confirm from other clues.

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4 - The first level of the cathedral seems to have had its tile set increased. I got an entirely new (and unexpected) attachment I'd never seen on Cathedral 1. Usually see it on level's 2-4.

Could you be more specific? What directions did the tile connect with? Where was it's placement? Can you provide details about what was on the tile.

Great questions. The only interesting thing that he shared during my chat with him was that they had reserved 500 beta keys for PAXEAST per day. When I first went to check out his station on Friday there was a long line of people waiting to register their emails for a beta key. The following day Bashiok was just handing out serial keys printed on paper slips I regret not getting a "make it rain" picture of Bashiok with his beta key slips, but here is proof of the 'stache:

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Well, at least in Skeleton King there is a small area before the boss fight starts so I suppose you could townportal away. Probably all the bosses will have some time before the encounter starts. So nothing like Duriel this time?

The only time you can portal out of that room is after you kill the Skeleton King.