Blizzard's 2012 hack-and-slash dark fantasy/horror action RPG. It is the third release in the Diablo series, and a sequel to Diablo II in both story and style.
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What is the effect “Blood oozes from you” on a Blood-Magic Blade?
The Blood-Magic Blade is a craftable level 60 legendary dagger. After the revamp of 1.0.4 legendaries, a new effect, described as "blood oozes from you" was added to the item description.
Given that ...
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Attack speed and its interaction with various skills
The nonintuitve part of "Increase attack speed by x%" is, it also increases your CAST speed.
There are a fair few different type of skills in Diablo3, in addition to the generic "nuke":
Channelled
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difference in loot between different monsters
Since even with Monster Power 1 all monsters are level 63, is there any difference in loot from different monsters? I'm now talking only about normal, white, monsters(so not elite or unique).
For ...
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Entangling Shot - Shock collar
There is another question on the viability of entangling shot. However, this question is about the shock collar rune. Everyone says that even with the increase in damage, it cannot compare to other DH ...
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Can I do anything to improve the damage done by the demon summoned by my follower's Maximus?
My enchantress uses the legendary two-handed sword Maximus, which quite frequently summons a large demon to fight with us.
It's quite a handy proc, but I'd like to know if there's any way I can make ...
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Which melee(Monk/Barbarian) skills can't be dodged?
With the addition of brawling in 1.07, its now possible for players to fight each other, and thus the dodge attribute of some classes (i.e. DH and Monk) now becomes a major factor in some matches in ...
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How is the damage to items and the repair cost calculated?
While reparing your items was just a nuisance before patch 1.0.3, at least as long as you didn't die excessively, it is a very significant gold drain now. I'm trying to understand which factors affect ...
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Hidden modifiers to various stats in Diablo 3
I've been reading around and found various topics on different hidden modifiers to stats/attributes in Diablo 3. Some of the ones I found most confusing include the Life oh Hit (LoH) modifier, which ...
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What exactly is Chilled in Diablo 3? Does cold damage chilled 100%?
Cold damaged always slow enemies even if done by your scoundrel.
Does that means scoundrel's attack, with Buriza, will have 100% chill rate? Buriza is a cold damage weapon.
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How much XP do Rare monsters and Champions give?
I am currently farming with an archon build, and am averaging 8 to 10 million xp an hour.
Sometimes, though, I get killed by a rare monster or champion. Should I bother finishing the job, or should ...
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What proc values do the witch doctors skills have?
What are the proc values (effect probability, e.g. for crowd control damage) for the different skills of the witch doctor?
Some are given in the Patch 1.0.4 notes:
Firebomb - Fire Pit: 0.067
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How do I resolve this desync issue?
Ever since 1.04 came out, I've managed to desync the game twice. I'm not 100% sure what I did to cause it in the first place, but when it happens, it looks like this:
Symptoms include:
Unable to ...
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When crafting the new armor recipes introduced in 1.0.7, what is the best plan to use for each slot?
There are different stat affixes that affect the maximum stat attribute roll for each armor piece.
If we look at all the possible affixes for the Strength stat:
"Ruthless" (max +100 Vit and Str) ...
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How can I build a melee/kite wizard?
I'm running a 1/2 melee, 1/2 kite wizard build. The build is:
Passives:
Astral Presence
Galvanizing Ward
Temporal Flux
Offense spells:
Arcane orb (celestial)
Hydra (Poison)
Blizzard (stark ...
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How is the vendor sell value of an item calculated
I would like to know the exact mechanics/tables behind the vendor sell value calculation.
Obviously higher ilvl and higher stats equates to higher sell value.
For clarification: I'm asking the price ...
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Why Twister over Piercing Orb
My question is, what is the reasoning behind using twister, is there a large advantage over using something like piercing orb? Is it an AP sink? If so, what is the advantage over using the Arcane Orb ...
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What is the lore/back story associated with various legendaries and set items
There are a ton of sets and legendary items in Diablo III. Several of them are inspired from other game/story universes or some event in them. I found out about a few through the battle.net forums or ...
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Why won't my escape key work in the keybindings?
I'm having this really strange problem that I just can't seem to figure out. My escape key won't bind. In fact, the option for using the escape key is simply grayed out in the keybindings menu:
I ...
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Cluster Arrow+Loaded For Bear=low dps, what should i do?
Every time I use Cluster Arrow with the Loaded for Bear rune, my DPS drops from 41K to 16K. what is happening and what should I do?
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What is the maximum ilvl you can find on vendors/merchants/blacksmith from town or via quest/event?
What is the max ilvl for each vendor/merchant?
Do act 1/2/3/4 merchants have different ilvl 'drops'?
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DW weapon slotting - weapon speed
This is probably a stupid question, but need to know if i had two weapons:
A - DPS 100, attack speed 2 (these are all hyperthetical figures ofcourse)
B - DPS 200. attack speed 1
Does it matter which ...
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What is going on with Rain of Vengeance's scrolling text damage?
I'm trying to add in skill damage display to a spreadsheet I made, but I'm having problems reproducing the damage numbers shown in-game specifically for un-runed Rain of Vengeance, RoV-Dark Cloud and ...
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How often locust swarm jumps?
I also wonder how often they jump. Once per second? Once per tick? What's the point of jumping to 2 enemies in pestilence then if every enemies will get infected anyway?
This is for witch doctor ...
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What are the equations for calculating armor values on the character sheet and armory profile?
The main purpose of this question is to be able to enter a series of armor values for gear, and then calculate a value that exactly matches the character paper-doll screen and the armory value for any ...
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How do affixes affect Elite's names?
I noticed sometimes when I meet an elite (yellow name) in Diablo 3 their name reflects their affixes. I had found something on a wiki but I can't seem to find it anymore.
Can someone explain it to me ...
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Does the newest Nvidia driver support 3D Vision in Diablo 3?
I used version 300+
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3123040038?page=2 says that version 280+ already support diablo 3.
Yet when I tried diablo 3 in 3D I do not see anything different. It ...
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How is maximum number of affixes affected by difficulty / act / iLvl?
Today I was farming Act II on normal difficulty with 250% magic find bonus trying to find some decent rares. Of 25-30 rare items that I found all armor items had 4 affixes and weapons had 4 to 5 ...
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Blinding Flash - how long does the missed attacks from elites last?
The damage reduction this skill has (30% chance to miss from elite) - is that only for the 3 seconds or does it last until the monster or you die (like when you die they reset hp and probably any ...
