Rolling Restarts and Hotfixes – Updated
June 27, 2012 in News! by Motorskull
The bad news is that Patch 1.0.3b has been delayed.
The good news is that some issues identified as urgent are being hotfixed, including the Inferno drop rate fix among a ‘couple of others’.
You can read Bashiok’s post about it here.
UPDATE: The June Hotfix Blog has been updated with the 28th June changes. Very sweet looking indeed.
The blog has now had 29th June fixes added (to remedy some exploits). Check it out at the above link.
Dare I say it? I’m actually really happy with the boss drop changes AND the drop rate changes. It actually makes me want to play my barb again and start farming Hell act IV since that is much more manageable for him than act 1 inferno. I was a bit bummed when they dropped guaranteed 2 rares from bosses down to 1 with 5 stacks in favor of every champ pack now dropping a guaranteed 1. I really enjoy boss fights so this is a very welcome change! ALSO DROP RATES WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Still sad about jars though… god damn gold farmers.
I hear ya mate. I also like the boss fights, so I’m glad that they’re back sort of on a par with champs. I despise the run-to-the-boss type runs, so I’m glad they didn’t nerf champ drops along with it.
Going out into the world and killing everything you find should be the playstyle that’s most rewarding I reckon, then finishing up with a boss fight as the cherry on top. And the drop rate buff is great news as well. Loving every second of this patch
And yeah…to the wood chipper with farmers, exploiters, bots, the people who operate bots, their friends, their families and everyone they know.