April 13, 2016
John Yang Joins World of Warcraft Team
Thanks to HolyKnight for pointing us to a new tweet by John Yang, in which he announces that he’s changed teams within Blizzard.
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March 1, 2016
Watch all the Diablo 3 Dev Lightning Talks
Miss the dev chats at BlizzCon? Watch these.
February 19, 2016
Diablo 3 Podcast #200: Diablo 3 Legendary Item Postmortem
Our 200th episode delves deeply into the best and worst of Diablo III’s legendary items, following in the path of developer John Yang’s recent “Ten Items in Ten Minutes” lightning Diablo 3 Item Postmortem talk. Aahz and Flux discuss and debate The RoRG, Furnace, Unity, and many other legendary item milestones in Diablo III. Plus a bonus anti-Set Dungeon rant when you least expect it.
Diablo 3 Podcast #200: PALs Early Access
The newest episode of the Diablo 3 Podcast is now online with our customary sneak preview for site PALs. You guys can now access the show via this thread in our PALs forum.
February 7, 2016
Diablo 3 Legendary Items Postmortem
Blizzard has posted another Lightning Talk, with a developer reprising his quick presentation from Blizzcon onto video for the edification of everyone who didn’t witness (or couldn’t hear) the original live talk at Blizzcon 2015. This one features John Yang discussing 10 key Legendary/Set items that were exploited, or nerfed, or that players asked to be nerfed.
October 14, 2015
Join Blizzard at the Slaughtered Calf Inn at Blizzcon 2015
Looks like the D3 team have planned a fun small area at Blizzcon 2015 for people attending to chat with developers and more about the game.
September 10, 2015
Season Four: Season Journey Completed
By now, most players have found (often to their surprise) that the themed achievement park of the Season Journey is actually a pretty fun ride. I was skeptical when I first saw it on the PTR for Patch 2.3, but found myself enjoying it when building my first Seasonal character on the PTR.
Blizzard Investigating Crippling Multiplayer Lag
September 5, 2015
Blizzard on Item Set Improvements
September 1, 2015
Diablo 3 Developer Q&A Full Transcript
August 27, 2015
Diablo 3 Community Q&A: September 1st
Blizzard tweeted out welcome news: Diablo 3 Community Q&A: September 1st in Reddit’s Diablo forum. Fielding questions will be John Yang, Travis Day, Wyatt Cheng, and Matthew Berger, software engineer Roger Hughston, artist Richie Marella, and writer Brian Kindregan, on Tuesday, September 1 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. PDT.
August 7, 2015
Which Witch Fetish is Which?
Last week brought news of a change to improve the lag for Witch Doctors using the Carnevil helm, by reducing the number of Fetishes firing poison darts to 5, while also boosting the damage of the darts to keep the overall damage output roughly the same. Now that the patch is live, players have some reactions, and Blues have answers.
July 31, 2015
Immortal King Six Piece Set Buff Coming
Barbarian players have been complaining that the six piece bonus for the Immortal King’s set is lacking, especially compared to other Barb sets. Happily, Blizzard agrees and John Yang shared their plans to fix the problem, via BIGGAR NUMBARS!!11! in the next PTR patch.
July 29, 2015
