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    Diablo 3 Beta Patch 6 is 251mb in size and will go live in about 8 hours. It adds some interesting new elements to the beta as well as reworking a fair chunk of the DiabloWikiMonk‘s skills.

    DiabloWikiAuction House

    Stackable items can now be purchased and sold on the gold Auction House. These items can be purchased in any quantity provided that the quantity is available for sale, and will pull from multiple auction listings if needed.  Read Azzure’s post on Diablo3Markets for the possible implications of this on trading.

    Battle.net

    • Player profiles have been added! These profiles will display important statistics for each of your characters, as well as 3D models featuring their current gear.
      • Player profiles will only be viewable while in the main, character select, and party screens.  They will not be viewable in-game.
      • To access your player profile, click on your hero or press “P”.
      • To view other players’ profiles while in a party right-click on their character.  Player profiles for DiabloWikiReal ID friends can also be accessed by right-clicking on their names in the Friends List.
    • DiabloWikiAchievements are now available for testing.  Please note that for the beta launch of this system, only a limited number of achievements have been included.
      • To view your characters’ achievements, click on the “Achievements” icon located in the lower right or press “Y” at any point while playing.
      • To view another character’s achievements while in a party, right-click on their character and select “Inspect.”

    Classes

    Monk

    Active Skills

    • DiabloWikiBlinding Flash Spirit Cost reduced from 30 to 10
    • DiabloWikiBlind duration increased from 3 seconds to 5 seconds
      • Now has a 15 second cooldown
    • DiabloWikiCrippling Wave Damage reduced from 135% to 110%
    • DiabloWikiDashing Strike Damage increased from 65% to 160%
    • DiabloWikiExploding Palm Explosion damage reduced from 40% to 30% of target’s max health
    • DiabloWikiFists of Thunder Damage reduced 120% to 100%
    • DiabloWikiInner Sanctuary Spirit Cost reduced from 80 to 20
      • Now has a 30 second cooldown
    • DiabloWikiLashing Tail Kick Damage increased from 180% to 225%
      • Cooldown removed
    • DiabloWikiLethal Decoy Damage increased from 110% to 330%
      • Duration reduced from 5 seconds to 1 second
      • Decoy is now summoned directly on top of the Monk
      • Ability now plays a casting animation

    Wizard

    Active Skills

    Monsters

    General

    • Monster affixes “Die Together,” “Powerful,” and “Ghostly” have all been removed from the game

    I’m looking forward to seeing what DiabloWikiAchievements have made it in to these early stages of the game and then earning them before Flux does.

    Also, there will be a full character wipe for the following reason.

    As the patch introduces achievements to the game, and we want to ensure that we’re able to obtain as much testing on them as possible, we will be wiping characters with the deployment of tonight’s patch.

    We apologize for the late notice, we like to give notice at least a week before we wipe characters, but this decision wasn’t made until just a few moments ago due to finding specific testing gaps and issues we believe would occur if we do not wipe characters.

    We appreciate your understanding, and thank you for your continued help in testing Diablo III.

    Thanks to Diablolico x64 for the tip.

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