Patch 2.1 – Live on August 26, 2014
PTR shutting down at 3PM PST on August 25 The Breaking News in the Battle.net Desktop App also says the maintenance is for 2.1:
Tavern Talk #1 – Patch 2.1
This is why I have zero belief now that the PC design team will ever find a way to BALANCE the fun/challenge/effort/rewards aspects of Diablo III. The amount of time…
The devs 2.1 Philosophy – My Thoughts
As I mentioned in my previous post, this is a VIDEO GAME (and one that is primarily PVE). Balancing is fine so long as there aren't blatant extreme outliers in…
2.1 Philosophy
D3 designers patch 2.1 philosophy as relayed via Community Manager Nevalistis. http://www.diablofans.com/blizz-tracker/topic/55810-patch-2-1-0-philosophy Hey all! With the release of patch 2.1.0 drawing near, we wanted to take some time to share…
Patch 2.1 and Seasons: being proven wrong in all the wrong areas
Several PTR patches and seasonal resets have occurred since I last posted several weeks ago. I barely put time into PTR Season 2 but noticed how they are handling the…
Additional notes on Greater Rift rewards
http://www.diablofans.com/blizz-tracker/topic/55494-greater-rift-issue Nevalistis added some clarification on the changes coming to legendary gems (one of the rewards) in terms of how they'll be upgraded: Good questions! The quick answer is no,…
Greater Rift changes coming
http://www.diablofans.com/blizz-tracker/topic/55494-greater-rift-issue Community Manager Nevalistis posted the following: There has been a ton of great feedback coming our way about Greater Rifts and your experiences with them. So let me take…
2.1 PTR – More thoughts on Greater Rifts + Legendary Gems
The design flaws I mentioned previously regarding Greater Rifts is actually worse than I thought. Rifts in general were meant to be the D3 designers/devs implementation of the oft-asked for,…