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Diablo 3 Auction Houses are back online, after the services were taken offline due to a gold exploit in patch 1.0.8 was discovered earlier this week,Blizzard has announced. Maintenance has concluded, and both the gold and real-money Auction Houses are now live and gold trades have been reactivated. Go nuts.

Blizzard has said it is still “auditing transactions that were performed on the both the gold and real-money Auction House,” in Diablo 3 following the gold exploit in patch 1.0.8 discovered earlier this week.

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Blizzard is not only looking to improve “co-op farming efficiency’ with Diablo 3 update 1.0.8, bit it also looking into making Rare and Legendary items more special.

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Blizzard has said the fact that most Diablo 3 players get their gear from Auction House has become “an issue.”

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Blizzard has updated the Public Test Realm patch notes for Diablo 3. Through the notes, you will find some balances mentioned, the usual bug fixes, drop rate changes, account-bound craftable items with boosted stats, a damage boost for rubies, PvP duelling changes regarding damage reduction, along with changes to reflected damage. Hit the link for a read.

When Diablo 3 director Jay Wilson announced this week he was moving on to something new within Blizzard, he mentioned we might see a job posting advertising his old position. Today, that very thing happened. If you look on the jobs page for Blizzard, and there are 173 position available, under Diablo 3 you will notice a position available for Game Director. Surely someone on the team has already applied, but you never know. If you think you have what it takes, hit the link to apply. [image]

Prices for StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty and Diablo 3 have been slashed on the Blizzard Store. You can pick up StarCraft 2 for $19.99 instead of the usual $59.99 and Diablo 3 has been marked down from $59.99 to $39.99. No word on how long the savings will last, so you better hurry.

Diablo 3 patch 1.0.5 will contain an option to allow players to appear offline. This will keep Chatty Cathy types from bothering you while in the middle of being swarmed, or if you just want to be incognito, it’s for that as well. The option will also be available in World of Warcraft and StarCraft 2 sometime after the release of each game’s upcoming expansion.

Diablo 3 update 1.0.5 has been given another sneak peek by Blizzard, and this time, the blog post focuses on defensive bonuses and monster damage.

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Diablo 3′s update 1.0.5 is coming, and Blizzard has issued a sneak peek at the contents regarding defensive skill changes, the new Infernal Machine event, and the new Monster Power system. The developer said to look for more articles on what to expect with the patch in “the coming days.” Hopefully the wait on the actual patch won’t be much longer.

The latest Diablo 3 developer journal has outlined plans Blizzard has for a buff which sets new rules for how mobs will react to crowd control effects. According to the post, crowd control resistance stat which builds when effects are applied and diminishes when they are not will be applied to mobs. There’s a chart any everything explaining how the developers came about the original implementation of CC buff, and how they will change with update 1.0.5 through the link. It should help explain to players why effects diminish as the game progresses. Thanks, >Blue.

Diablo 3 game director Jay Wilson has said after update 1.0.4 releases for the RPG, the development team is “going to be looking at” the game’s difficulty options.

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Diablo 3 fans should go have a look at the patch preview pages for the Demon Hunter and Witch Doctor, which are now live. Each character page has details on class changes expected with version 1.0.4, which is due before the end of the month. The Witch Doctor seems to be getting the most developer attention with the patch, and Blizzard is also having a look at Hungering Arrow, currently the best-performing Hatred Generator for Demon Hunters. Go have a look through here.

A preview of Diablo 3 patch 1.0.4 has been posted by Blizzard, and this time, it’s more than a preview of a preview.

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Blizzard community manager Lylirra has said the number of auction house filters in Diablo III will be bumped from three to six in a future update, an addition players have been requesting for months.

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Blizzard boss Mike Morhaime has addressed issues and upcoming changes to Dibalo III over on Battle.net, and amidst thanking the fans for their support and patting his team on the back for the job it has done, he also admitted there were things still to be worked on when it comes to gameplay, and community feedback.

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Blizzard has announced it plans to reinstate the limit on the number of game which a player can launch in Diablo III in order to stamp out bots and exploits.

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Blizzard has said it will allow more commodity trading in Diablo III via the real-money auction house “soon.”

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Blizzard has issued a hotfix for Diablo III which increases the chance of high-end loot drops by monsters in all Inferno acts, and acts 3 and 4 in Hell mode. The chance of looting level 63 items have also increases significantly, and bosses are now guaranteed one Rare item at the least for players with four stacks of Nephalem Valor. If a player has five stacks of Nephalem Valor, bosses will drop at least two Rare items. The list of hotfixes can be found through here, but note that if you have yet to finish the game on Normal difficulty, the list may contain some spoilers.

Blizzard has said new Diablo III purchasers will no longer be limited to Act One of the game, something noted in the latest patch for the RPG.

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