Monthly Archives: March 2012

Mar
29
2012

Diablo 3 Wizard Skill Changes – Patch 5

by Troll-X

I think to properly understand the wizard class,this guide might come in handy and can help you understand the class a little better. There’s a lot of tips and hints in there which can be pretty helpful for those who want to quickly master the wizard class in just days. Personally, I think it’s a great way to quick start playing the wizard class.

Wizard active skills, same thing with the witch doctor. All of the diablo 3 wizard leveling skills are now based off of weapon damage and all of the speed based off of the weapon attack speed. Now the order in which skills are awarded from level six to 13 has been adjusted for the wizard. It’s going to work so that you’re unlocking offensive and defensive abilities in alternating order. Passive skill for the wizard and the one were seeing is called critical mass. At level 12 is unlocked. Your critical hits reduce the cool down of your spells by one second.

diablo 3 wizard skills

Next on the list we’ve got some follower updates here. For the skills guardian, the ability now unlocks a level 20 instead of level 5. The heal for the templar, healing provided by this ability will now scale properly when activated, the ability will heal you for one fourth of your total life every 15 seconds and you will only heal when a player is below 50 percent health, down from 67.

Intimidate the slow has been reduced on that from 80 percent to 50 percent for the templar. Intervene is now the new name for taunt. It now unlocks at level 5. The radius of the monsters reduced from 30 to 10 yards, duration reduced from 10 seconds to 5 seconds will now only cast when a player is below 50 percent health and the cool down has been increased from 15 seconds to 30 seconds and then loyalty, life regeneration of this ability will now scale properly.

 

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Mar
19
2012

Diablo 3 Barbarian Skill Changes – Patch 5

by Troll-X

Wanting to know more about how to quickly maximize all of the Barbarian’s skills and abilities? I found a guide that can help you; find out what you can do to quickly learn each of the Barbarian’s skill and rune combos and make a difference in your game. Personally speaking, I really liked the layout of the guide and it really felt it was written by professionals. Highly highly recommended!

Alright, now we’ll be moving on to the class specific portion of this recent patch. Starting off with the diablo 3 Barbarian guide. The Barbarian has had some active skill changes. Fury generators have received a tuning pass in the sense that bash cleave and frenzy now generate more frenzy, whereas the other fury generators, generate less. So, we look at bash, cleave and frenzy. Those are your typical attack since the barbarian, and generally what you use to build a fury. Now there are other fury generators like leap attack and ground stomp, but they want to make it so most of your fury generation is coming from a basic attack actually hitting an enemy, as opposed to using something like leap attack or ground stomp. And that’s basically why I think they made a change.

diablo 3 fury generators

In addition to that some just various balance changes. Battle rage had it’s damage reduced from 30 to 20 percent. Revenge, the chance for this ability to activate had been increased from 10 to 15 percent. And weapon throw got a pretty big change, the fury cost was cut in half from 20 to 10 fury but the damage at the same time was also reduced from 210 to 180. So, although for the same amount of rage, if you did weapon throw twice it’s now cost 10 fury. For the same amount of fury you’re doing a lot more damage. At the same time, it’s over a longer period of time. So, it’s something to consider. You have to hit twice with it, as opposed to hitting once for 20 fury, dealing 210. You would have to hit twice to do 180 times two, which of course would be 360 percent. But again, just some various balance changes.

New passive skill for the diablo 3 barbarian leveling is going to be nerves of steel. This unlocks at level 12 and increases your defense is increased by 25 percent of your vitality. So this is kind of a tanky type of ability for the barbarian.

 

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Mar
16
2012

DIABLO 3 Has A Release Date!

by Troll-X

The article below provides information about Diablo 3′s official release date. In anticipation to preparing for the release event, a website has published online Diablo 3 guides for players to reference to get a head start in the game.

That’s right folks! You heard it, I heard it, and the entire world heard it! Diablo 3 finally has a release date we all can look forward to! The holy date is MAY 15th so mark that down on your calendars!

Now that the news is out, aren’t you all excited for it? Right now on Battle.net, Diablo 3 is available for pre-sale but it doesn’t seem that the website has a physical copy of the game. We’ve all seen the Diablo 3′s Collector’s Edition at a whopping expensive price! However, you can expect the CE will knock your socks off once you get a hold of the game! Perhaps a little patience will yield something very rewarding in the future.

So, what will you do once Diablo 3 is released? Game like mad? Epically yes! Right now what we know from Diablo 3 through the months is the game had gone through changes; removing and adding contents in the game. Diablo 3 will not feature PvP. However, it was mentioned PvP content will be released later, as a result, avid PvP players will have to wait for the updated patch.

For now, keep your fingers and toes crossed since it’s 2 months away before Diablo 3 is released; you can expect some more changes are to be taken within the game to improve gameplay and enjoyment.

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