Diablo III Patch 1.0.5 – v.1.0.5.12480

Diablo III Patch 1.0.5 – v.1.0.5.12480 is now officially live in North America. Check out the full patch notes below to learn about all the latest changes. Please note that you will not be prompted to download patch 1.0.5 until the patch is live in your home region. If you are logging in from a European or Asian client, you will need to wait for this patch to release in that region before it can be installed. Additionally, if your home region is the Americas, you will be unable to log into...

The Infernal Machine is a device that will allow level-60 players to battle “uber” versions of some of Sanctuary’s most nefarious bosses. While the rewards for defeating these bosses will be great, some assembly is required. This guide covers exactly how to craft the infernal machine, from finding the keys and plans to crafting the actual machine and where to use it!



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This week Blizzard is taking a close look at defensive skills vs. incoming monster damage in 1.0.5. they're going to be changing a few defensive skills for each class, including some direct nerfs to skills like wizard Energy Armor and barbarian War Cry - Impunity. However, they also reducing incoming damage in Inferno, so players will actually come out ahead. In short the plan is: Reduce the effectiveness of select defensive skills, Reduce monster damage by more than the mitigation lost by the...

Showing the probably most effective way to grind experience in the game atm. This is the method that Alkaizer used to get to lvl 98 Paragon in under 14 days.

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The demonically-besieged world of Sanctuary needs heroes. Now you can join in the apocalyptic battle for FREE via the all-new Diablo® III Starter Edition. Available exclusively via Battle.net®, the Starter Edition allows you to fight your way up to the Skeleton King boss in Act I, and advance all the way to level 13, without having to purchase a copy of Diablo III.

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Out of the five Diablo III classes, witch doctors are receiving the most attention in patch 1.0.4. The goal for this patch, like for many of the other classes, was simple: identify the unpopular or hard-to-use skills, figure out what’s not working, and then make them better. In some cases, skills only needed slight tuning -- a little more damage here, or some increased durations there. In other cases, more significant changes were required. Check out some of the changes below by Wyatt Cheng! ...

As with other classes, when there's a single skill (or set of skills) that is much stronger or more worthwhile to use, it curbs potential build diversity. To help open up some other options, we're taking a look at Hatred Generators and Spenders, as well as some of the demon hunter's more iconic abilities like Rain of Vengeance and Sentry, and will be upping the damage on all of them. Check out some of the changes Wyatt Cheng the Senior Technical Game Designer for Diablo III has in store for the...

The most important changes for the monk in 1.0.4 are aimed at improving damage-focused Spirit Spenders. Blizzard is happy with where Spirit Generators are right now, but unfortunately once you have Spirit, there aren’t very many appealing ways to use it. In many cases, the most effective use of Spirit has been to recast a Mantra repeatedly for the three-second bonus. While this is certainly one possibility, it doesn't seem as exciting as using one of the more offensively-focused Spirit Spenders...

The wizard is also seeing a lot of tuning improvements to help promote build diversity. Rather than focus on those minor adjustments, though (which you'll be able to learn more about in the 1.0.4 patch notes), Wyatt is going focus the majority of this preview on Hydra. There are changes being made on the Skill design philosophy for Diablo as a whole, What makes Venom Hydra as strong as it is and why, rather than nerfing Venom Hydra, they're simply going to buff all the other Hydra variants. Continue...

For 1.0.4, Blizzard is taking a good look at some of the most unpopular skills for each class, figuring out why they aren't being used in your builds, and then seeing how they can make them better -- either by redesigning how they work or just buffing the hell out of them. For barbarians, they focused on improving the following areas: Bash and Cleave are not very attractive compared to Frenzy and many of the damage-oriented Fury Spenders don't do enough damage to justify the spot on your bar. Read...