June 4, 2018
Refining Diablo 3’s Game Systems – GDC talk
This video is a blast from the past, it’s from 2013, but makes for some interesting viewing.
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Latest Updates
January 13, 2018
Diablo 3 Bone Ringer disabled for now
A hotfix will be applied to address an issue with the Legendary Bone Ringer.
June 19, 2017
Skills Elective Mode on by default in 2.6.0
A quick update on elective mode for skills.
October 31, 2013
Latest Datamined Reaper of Souls patch skills changes – 30 October
The latest Reaper of Souls patch build from the internal version brings a few changes, mainly to the Barbarian but there a few other things filled in for other classes compared to the last list that was run so stastics on the other classes’ skills are not affected.
February 12, 2013
Diablo 3 Datamined v1.0.7 Skill Changes
Diablo 3 Datamined skill info. Here’s the datamined list of skill changes from the final v1.0.7 patch, much of which has been updated on the PTR notes over time but you can see a good comparison from v1.0.5 which was the last major update.
September 22, 2012
Jay Wilson and Wyatt Cheng Talk v1.0.5
Jay and Wyatt are on the interview rounds again and this time they talk to PCGamer about the patch v1.0.5. It’s a nice interview; much more informative than the few short teases we got earlier this week, with new details on Monster Power and the Infernal Machine, as well as quite a bit about their philosophy on skill changes and overall difficulty issues.
August 24, 2012
Paragon Levels: The Max Level Controversy Revisited
Since Blizzard announced the new Paragon Levels system and implemented it in v1.04, I’ve been 1) enjoying the feature, and 2) thinking back on the “max level 60” controversy from a couple of years ago. The whole issue is summarized pretty well in our Max Level wiki article, but if you weren’t around back in September 2010, here’s a quote from the official statement here.
June 16, 2012
Diablo 3 Patch 1.0.3 Datamined
Patch 1.0.3 is now on the servers (although not live to download). These are the skill changes you can expect to see once the patch is live.
March 9, 2012
DiabloNut.com Patch 14 Skills Updated
We have now updated all the skills in the DiabloNut.com database to patch 14. If you were following the patch 14 release last night then you may want to see what has changed since the last patch and you can find the full list right here. This list includes either significant text changes to skills, not capitilisation changes or anything Blizzard cleaned up. Just the hard facts on the skills themselves for all the classes.
July 8, 2011
Blizzard on High Level Barbarian Skill Cooldowns
Last evening, Bashiok hopped into a long thread full of confusion about adding skills from the tiers. He didn’t answer the main question of the thread, which as far as I know is a simple issue. You can use 7 of your character’s skills, irrespective of their location on the skill tiers. For instance, you can’t use a skill from the 4th tier before Clvl 10, but once you reach a tier, you can use any or all of the skills from that tier, once you’ve got the skill points to enable them. You could respec at Clvl 30 and have all 7 skills from just the top two tiers, if you so desired.