1.0.2 Patch Details / Big Changes Coming In 1.0.3 Patch

[glockcoma]

1.0.2
Nerfed

• Lingering Fog
• Boon of Protection
• Force Armor

1.0.3
General Changes

• Crafting costs decreased
• Only need 2 gems now to craft

Inferno Notes

• Damage "spikiness" being resolved
• Blizzard: a "pretty significant number of people" have ventured into Inferno severely undergeared

Future Changes
Legendary items

• Being "fixed" in multiple phases
• First, Blizzard plans to display the item level of gear level 60+ so people can
  better see why they're finding plain magical items which are more useful.
• After that, it'll "straight-out buff" Legendaries, probably in the patch which introduces PvP
• Then work on giving Legendary items more diverse and unique bonuses

[glockcoma]

Diablo III Patch 1.0.2 - v.1.0.2.9749
Classes
Monk -> Active Skills -> Serenity -> Skill Rune -> Tranquility
Duration of immunity granted to nearby allies from crowd control effects reduced from 2 seconds to 1 second
Bug Fixes
For a full list of documented game and service bugs, please review the Known Issues sticky located in the Bug Report forum.
General
Players should no longer receive an "Error 14009" when logging in
The "Select a Hero" menu will now also display the difficulty level for each character
Several speed improvements have been made to the streaming downloader
Achievements
All players in a party should now receive "Till Death Do Us Part" even if they don’t have Haedrig Eamon as their active follower
Acts
Act IV
Witch Doctors should no longer receive an error if they kill a Shadow Clone with a Damage-Over-Time (DoT) skill after it's launched a Firebomb but before it's reached its target
Auction House
The auction log in the Completed tab will now display a player's activity (bids, buyouts, sales, etc) in the proper order
When placing a new bid over a previous bid on the same auction, players will now be provided with the correct warning message: "Raising your maximum bid on an Auction you are already winning raises your current bid to just above your previous maximum bid. Are you sure you want to continue?"
Players will now receive an error message if they attempt to purchase an item after the 50 item limit has been reached in the Completed tab
The "Physical Damage" Preferred Stats option for rings has been renamed to "Bonus Minimum Physical Damage"
The "All Damage" Preferred Stats option for weapons and armor has been removed and replaced with bonuses of specific damage types
Items which have been purchased from a vendor and equipped by the player can now be sold on the Auction House
Listing items on the Auction House from a different character than the one currently selected should no longer cause item display issues
Battle.net
The public chat list will now sort alphabetically
Classes
Witch Doctor
Spirit Vessel (Passive) no longer clears debuffs when using waypoints or changing equipment

[.:Spartan:.]

Liking the changes to the legendaries.

[Blue Stealth]

nice post glock, thanks much.

-Blue

[Frank The Tank]

ty for the post