Diablo 3 Patch 1.0.3b

As we reported earlier, the Diablo 3 servers and web services are scheduled for maintenance downtime on Tuesday, July 10th. The latest patch update 1.0.3b will also be delivered.

Diablo 3 Patch 1.0.3b notes and changes are as follows:

Auction House

• General
• The following commodities are now available for trading in the real-money auction house (gold commodity trading is coming soon):
• Gems
• Dyes
• Crafting materials
• Blacksmithing Plans
• Jeweler Designs
• Pages of Training
• Bug Fixes
• The "Bid" and "Buyout" buttons will now be correctly grayed-out in the confirmation window when attempting to purchase an item with insufficient gold.

Bug Fixes

• General
• Fixed a bug where leaving a heavily-populated General chat channel would prevent players from rejoining any General chat channel until they logged out and logged back in.
• Fixed several tooltip-related bugs that were occurring when viewing items with 2 or more sockets in the auction house and profile pages.
• Fixed a rare crash with tutorials on item pickup.

Source: Battle.net Forum

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Diablo 3 Patch 1.0.3a

As we posted earlier, the Diablo 3 servers and web services are scheduled for maintenance downtime on Tuesday, June 26th. The latest patch update 1.0.3a will also be delivered.

The scheduled maintenance times for each region are:

The Americas: 5:00 a.m. PDT to 7:00 a.m. PDT
Asia: 1:00 p.m. PDT to 3:00 p.m. PDT
Europe: 8:00 p.m. PDT to 10:00 p.m. PDT

Diablo 3 Patch 1.0.3a notes and changes are as follows:

Bug fixes to Witch Doctor's Zombie Bears:

• Fixed a bug where Zombie Bears were unable to attack targets on slopes.
• Zombie Bears should no longer become stuck on objects with which they shouldn’t have collision.

Item durability fix:

• Equipped items will now take "wear-and-tear" durability damage at half the previous rate.
• Please note that durability loss as the result of normal combat is different from the 10% durability loss characters will incur when they die. Equipped items have always suffered durability loss while fighting, and we are simply slowing the rate at which the loss occurs.

Item bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug that was causing Unique monsters to not drop the appropriate amount of loot when slain.
• Fixed a bug with linking items with 3 gem sockets.
• It is no longer possible to create fake achievement links.

General bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug that was causing the “Switch Hero” button to occasionally disappear after leaving a game while in town.
• Fixed several gold and leveling exploits.
• Fixed several game and service crashes (for Mac and PC).

Source: Battle.net Forum

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Diablo 3 Patch 1.0.3 Bug List Update

Blizzard has updated the list of known issues and bugs related to the recent release of the Diablo 3 patch 1.0.3. Quoting from the Battle.net forum, the currently known issues are as follows:

Achievements

• The achievement "Espionage" cannot be completed because the lore "Battlefield Reports" doesn't drop in game.

Battle.net

• We are aware of players who are unable to gain EXP on their characters and their followers. Customer Service has been made aware of this issue as it may be an account issue.
• Workaround: Change your password.
• It is possible for the Switch Hero button to disappear.

Combat

• Demon Hunter: By using Fan of Knives with a quiver equipped but no weapon, then equipping a weapon, you can bug out your DPS such that you deal no damage at all to anything.
• Demon Hunter - Strafe: Drifting Shadow can cause you to rubber band at low hatred when casting it with high attack speed and/or latency.
• Witch Doctor - Zombie Handler: Zombie Handler's health buff does not dynamically update.
• Witch Doctor - Spirit Vessel: Spirit Vessel does not allow you to walk through enemy collision.
• Witch Doctor - Zombie Charger: Zombie Bears stop abruptly with small bumps of physics.
• Witch Doctor - Zombie Charger: Zombie Bears are not casting properly on slopes.

Environment

• Act 2 - Ancient Cave Level 2: A Resplendent Chest's items can become unreachable when opened in a location in this area.
• Act 2 - Hidden Aqueducts: Loot can fall behind a chest by an altar near the Jeweler, making it unreachable.
• Act 2 - Hidden Aqueducts: You can use movement spells to clip into the empty altar prop and exploit combat by being out of range of melee monster attacks.
• Act 3 - Arreat Crater Level 1: The loot from a specific rare chest falls into the chest and cannot be picked up in this area.

Items

• Existing Legendary items that had the bugged Increased Attack Speed affixes will not get fixed until a future patch. All newly-created Legendary items (created by the player or the game) will correctly increase your attack speed.

Monsters

• The player can be feared in rapid succession by Nightmarish monsters.
• Arghus the Collector (a unique armor vendor) cannot spawn.
• If you attack a Beast with the Illusionist affix just prior to its charge, it will become unresponsive.
• Bloodhawk monsters can perform their diving attack repeatedly while remaining untargetable.
• Cydaea's enrage timer does not function properly. It is possible for a player to fight her without her enrage timer activating.
• Siegebreaker does not incapacitate players who are picked up in his hand, allowing them to use various abilities, some of which can cause unintended behavior from Siegebreaker.
• The charge portion of The Butcher's Frenzy ability can hit players standing behind the boss.
• The Oppressor monster's charge attack deals damage twice.
• Act 3 - Tower of the Damned Level 1: Claw Bomb are dealing too much damage in Inferno difficulty.
• Act 4 - The Silver Spire Level 1: The Aspect of Destruction's max and current health increase every time he splits with the illusionist power.
• Act 4 - Secellum of Virtue: The monsters in this world do not grant XP when they are killed.

Followers

• Monsters with the Reflect Damage affix will reflect damage caused by Followers onto the player.

Quests

• Act 4 - Great Span: The ice barricade on the left side of the arena does not form if you quickly skip the cutscene during "Prime Evil : Kill Izual."
• Unlocking a new questline, then starting a game on a previous questline can cause the Quest Selection menu to not show the most recently unlocked questline.
• Act 4 - The Pinnacle of Heaven: It is possible to get stuck at a black screen if you immediately skip the cutscene during the quest "Prime Evil : Climb to the Pinnacle of Heaven in the Silver Spire," blocking progression.
• Act 4 - Holy Sanctum: The puzzle platforms are not all spawning in this area.

User Interface

• Multiple Life UI indicators do not update when the hero heals or otherwise avoid a killing blow.
• Logging out while taking a town portal back to your initial location results in a disconnect.
• After patching, your Diablo III preferences will be reset. Please go to the Options menu and change your preferences to your liking. This will only happen once after patching and will not happen once they are changed back.
• The FPS feature does not update and will always show your FPS at 0.

Compatibility

• Running programs that put an overlay over Diablo III (such as Mumble, Xfire, and MSI Afterburner) can cause Diablo III to crash. Use these overlays at your own risk.

Source: Battle.net Forum

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Diablo 3 Patch 1.0.3 Now Available

Diablo 3 patch 1.0.3 is currently live in the American region. The 1.0.3 patch comes with a lot of updates and changes which you can read about in the patch notes here: Diablo 3 Patch 1.0.3 Notes

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Diablo 3 Patch 1.0.3 Goes Live Tomorrow

Diablo 3 servers will be down for maintenance tomorrow (June, 19) at 3:00 AM PDT in order to deploy the 1.0.3 patch update. The servers should be up again by 1:00 PM PDT.

Quoting from the forum:


Important: Please note that you will not be prompted to download patch 1.0.3 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 Europe or Asia using Global Play after patch 1.0.3 is live until those regions have also patched.

For reference, here are the scheduled maintenance times for each region:

The Americas: 3:00 a.m. PDT (6/19) to 1:00 p.m. PDT (6/19)
Europe: 6:00 p.m. PDT (6/19) to 4:00 a.m. PDT (6/20)
Asia: 1:00 p.m. PDT (6/20) to 11:00 p.m. PDT (6/20)



Source: Battle.net Forum

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Diablo 3 Patch 1.0.2c Goes Live Tomorrow

Patch 1.0.2c will go live tomorrow. The Diablo 3 servers are also scheduled for maintenance in order to deploy the lastest patch.

Here is a list of updates and fixes from the patch notes:


General

If the authentication service is busy, the login checkbox will now wait at "Authenticating Credentials" until a player's login attempt can be processed. As a result, players should no longer encounter Error 37 when logging in.

Achievements have been granted to players who previously completed their objectives, but were not correctly awarded completion credit.

Bug Fixes

Fixed several crashes which occurred when clicking on player-generated item links in the game client.

Source: Diablo 3 Forum

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Diablo 3 Patch 1.0.2b Now Live

Patch 1.0.2b is currently live in the Americas. Among the changes are some Auction House fixes as well as some updates and bug fixes to Barbarian skills. Get the rest of the patch notes here: Diablo 3 Patch 1.0.2b Notes

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