Diablo 3 Dev Journal: Patch 1.0.5 Defensive Skills Buff

A new developer's journal post has been added to the battle.net blog. The blog post explains why and how players defensive skills will be changed and what developers are doing to offset those changes to result in a defensive buff for Diablo 3's patch 1.0.5.

The basic layman's idea of what will occur is as follows:

1. Reduce the effectiveness of select defensive skills.
2. Reduce monster damage by more than the mitigation lost by these skills.
3. Putting both changes together, players actually take less damage than before

The post is an interesting read. For those interested in learning all the gory details you can read the full post here.

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