March 1, 2016
Kanai’s Immortal Throne Room Cow Level unlocks
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Kanai’s Immortal Throne room cow level unlocks. Take on Kanai’s soul in his Stomping grounds.
Quests
September 4, 2014
Blizzard Disables Cheesy Diablo 3 Bounties
March 1, 2014
Reset Quests and Guaranteed Legendary Drops in Diablo 3 v2
Two issues are bubbling near the top of Clan chat lately, and both are causing a lot of confusion. Reset Quests and guaranteed legendary drops. “Reset Quests” is a button you see in the create game menu which lets you wipe all progress and begin again on the road outside of Tristram, as though you were level 1. Contrary to some rumors, this does *not* grant the the “guaranteed legendary drops” all over again, since that only happens from Leoric and the Act Bosses your first time through the game.
April 4, 2013
Diablo 3 Expansion Quest Leaked?
So it seemed, when an observant fan noticed that the name of the quest in one of the v1.08 preview screenshots was different than any quests in the game today. You can see the screen to the right, with the quest entitled “Restoration of Hope” active, on Hell difficulty.
December 3, 2012
Good Morning Sanctuary… What’s so good about it?
Okay, so there’s that Crumbling Vault event you very rarely get in Act 2. It’s kind of misnamed now, since it no longer collapses; when we first saw this area in the 2009 Blizzcon demo, it was a large desert tomb with monsters and tons of chests. Like dozens and dozens of chests, including multiple golden ones, though they only dropped like 2 or 3x usual chests, back then. (Rather than 6 or 8x, as they do now.)
October 19, 2012
Blizzard Answers v1.0.5 Questions
Since Patch 1.0.5launched, the Blizzard CMs have been handling a variety of player queries on the Battle.net forums. There are quite a few noob questions, suggesting that lots of people are coming back to the game with the patch (or even starting up from scratch). I figure you guys know most of that stuff already though, so here are some of the more interesting/detailed stuffs, or bug reports.
May 31, 2012
Diablo 3: Patch 2 Official Notes
The list of changes for the next patch is now available in the game files! Hot on the heals of patch 2, this third patch addresses more minor issues (reported yesterday). These are mainly in-game tooltip changes to the hotfixes that occurred previously. There also seems to be more quest changes to prevent more exploitation of experience grinding.
May 25, 2012
Blizzard Nerfs Power Leveling
The very common and popular power leveling trick we reported on earlier is now nerfed by Blizzard in a hotfix. Before you could take a brand new character to level 20 in about an hour without it ever leaving town. What you did was load up the quest to kill The Act III Boss and kill him and when that was done you got a new quest in town to hand in and got the same amount of quest reward XP as prior quest.
April 24, 2012
Blue Answers on Vanishing Waypoints, Kill Streaks, Flaming Hammers, and Quest Sharing
Bashiok and several of the not-Bashioks were busy in the B.net forums today, answering numerous questions, most related to the just-concluded open beta weekend. Most of them are pretty simple noob-type questions, but a few of them added some interesting detail.
December 8, 2011
September 13, 2011
The Diablo 3 Podcast #41: Weekly News Attack, Sept 12, 2011
Flux and Elly delve into some of the interesting news items of the past seven days including the new skill interface, the skill switch, graphic setting comparisons, music and always a crowd-pleaser, death.
August 21, 2011
The Diablo 3 Podcast #34: Early Game Structure, Plus Skills
Diablo 3?s early gameplay is very structured and linear, with few player options early. Too cattle chute-y without enough exploration? Also, the guys debate the new and major changes to the skill system.
May 12, 2011
@Diablo on Fewer Traits and Trait Points
The most interesting tweet from @Diablo on Wednesday evening concerned changes they’ve made to the traits. Here’s the quote, and thanks to KuangTu for the tip. Check his forum thread for an ongoing discussion of this issue.
December 17, 2010
Hands-On Preview: Quests and Dungeons
Taking a break from the character reports, with only the Demon Hunter to go, here’s an absurdly-lengthy discussion of the Levels and Quests that made up the PvM demo at this year’s Blizzcon. This one covers the lighting, atmosphere, mood, theme, and layout of the dungeons, and goes into great detail about the minimalistic quests presented therein. It’s copiously illustrated with interesting tidbits from screenshots and the huge gameplay movie, and should teach you a thing or two that you didn’t already know about Diablo III.
October 29, 2010
Blue on Odd Skill Relationships and D3’s Starting Level
An interesting post on the B.net forums drew some replies from Bashiok: