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I don't see any comparison in that article to Gamergate.

"It's about ethics in Commander Rules Committee reform" is a direct shot at how Gamergate used "it's about ethics in video game journalism" as a cover story for unbridled hatred and misogyny. The fact that Gamergate, as a movement, was so utterly vile (I remind you that they felt it necessary to protect "ethics in video game journalism" through harassment, doxing, death threats, and literal terrorist threats) means it's deeply insensitive for the writer to compare detractors of the rules change to it (the connotation is that he feels said detractors simply want to harass people and are using the rules change as pretext) and negligent of SCG's editing staff to let such a thing through.

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boooooooooooooooooo again.

That sucks though. Totally not green. Wastes paper and pencils. Plus, then i actually have to do math instead of just pressing -1 or +1 a couple of times. And it keeps nice neat track of the match time and the number of poison counters. (ya know... just in case.)

Your cell phone is anything but green. The electricity is likely generated from burning hydrocarbons. The rare earth elements for the speakers are mined from deep inside the earth, which also unearths toxic heavy metals. Same goes with that battery your constantly charging. Everything about your electronic devise is anti-green. From it's construction to its daily operation.

Do you write on paper that you throw away after using? If so, don't save it and use it to write on the back. Get yourself a proper eco-friendly writing utensil and enjoy saving the planet.

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Loot hotfix!

Legendaries in rifts 100% upped. Blood shards are also getting buffed with this too.

Chest runs and unique runs are also getting nerfed.

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Hey all,

A series of hotfixes will be deployed today making more adjustments to overall reward structures within the game.

I wanted to take a minute to explain the reasons for the changes that we are making. A driving goal of our design has been to make killing monsters feel rewarding, we want you all to find tons of cool items that you are excited about but more importantly we want you to have fun while doing it.

Rifts have always been intended to be the most efficient play method in the game, currently they aren’t for a number of reasons. Part of this has to do with the high level of efficiency in farming that players find doing things like farming Manglemaw, Razorclaw and any other number of unique monsters. Another contributing element is that farming chests without having to actually fight monsters is far more effective than actually fighting the monsters. It is very important to us that chests are exciting to find and feel rewarding but presently they are far too common and reliable to farm in certain areas of the game.

Finally Kadala, she has always been intended to give players some degree of control over their item upgrades. While we don’t want players to simply pick and choose from a list of items at an excessively high cost, we do want you to have an answer to the question “How do I upgrade my boots?” Kadala is meant to be that answer, she is meant to give you some direct control over the types of items you find. Since we are increasing the overall reward structure of the game she is also going to be increasing but by a larger amount than the rest of the changes since she didn't feel rewarding enough to us.

Without further delay here is a list of the changes that will be coming in the hotfix.

The Bad!
Unique monsters now drop less items.
*Uniques were dropping far more loot than their difficulty would warrant.

Chest spawns have been thinned out across all acts of the game.
*Ideally chests become less common and something that players can’t flip games to farm. It is our goal to make them feel exciting and rewarding when you find them.

The Good!
The bonus legendary drop rate for rifts is being increased from 25% to 100%!
*This means that while in a rift your chance to find a legendary item from monsters, chests, elites, and everything else is double what it is outside of rifts. No this does not mean opening bounty bags in rifts is the new hotness. ;P

Kadala’s legendary drop rate has been significantly increased.
*Blood Shards are meant to be a compelling element of rift rewards and something players are excited to get.

Loot is an incredibly important aspect of Diablo games and we will continue to keep a very close eye on it. If more problems arise we will continue striving to address them. It isn’t our goal to take loot away from people, we just want to make sure they are having as much fun as possible while finding it and these changes all support that goal.

Good hunting and link the loot!

Travis Day

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really liking how they made better loot drops in Reaper of Souls

just out of curiosity, I have a level 41 barbarian, how high should my damage be?

depends on what your playing on? Normal? Master? Torment?

I'm playing on normal, the expansion act

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I'll be on late night (10-11 pm eastern) if anyone wants to party up for adventure mode.found a few interesting uniques thus far but HOLY HELL is act 5 difficult.....even on easier modes.....Adria forward sucked

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Adventure Mode is sweet. You can make a party of four, play at Normal difficulty, split up the Acts, then open up your five Horadric Stashes at Torment 6 for ridiculous loot. Rinse, repeat.

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got ROS this morning. I got the digital standard. I wanted to get the physical CE so i can match it with my original D3 CE, but meh. my money says "nope".

I created a Crusader and toyed with it for a couple levels. I think I'd like playing it over the Barb as my ground and pound character.

Then I started Act V with my Wiz. Got her up to the town checkpoint. And that's where I left off.

How far away am I until I get the new NPC? the Mystic or whatever.

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No way. Either A. the DiabloFans post is dead wrong, or B. crafting materials dropping with a low drop rate off RARE mobs and events means Blizzard has truly lost their mind.

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So, I just came from Tumblr,