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Revision as of 00:08, 7 June 2014
Patch 2.1 is the next content patch due for Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls. There is no expected release date other than sometime in 2014, as stated by Game Director, Josh Mosqueira on 25th March 2014. [1]
Pets
4th June 2014
To Call of the Ancients specifically: [2]
- The Ancients should no longer sometimes stand idle when they have foes they could be clobbering instead.
- The Ancients should now use their secondary abilities as indicated on the tooltip.
Other pets to be addressed: [3]
I did some digging and found out that these changes will update multiple pets, and not just Call of the Ancients. I’ll go over what those changes are, and what pets it should affect. I also want to emphasize that we don’t have an estimate to share for when we expect patch 2.1, but we’re definitely working on it and are looking to provide a PTR.
We’re making a number improvements to the AI of several pets:
We’re also fixing a number of issues that sometimes prevented some pets from attacking nearby enemies, or caused them to stand still and stop attacking their current target. Pets affected by these changes should include:
- Call of the Ancients
- Companion
- Fetish Army
- Gargantuan
- Mystic Ally
- Phalanx
- Zombie Dogs
Monk
15th May 2014
Blizzard specifically addressed the planned Monk changes, although all classes will be addressed. [4]
Our future goals for the Monk in 2.1.0 focus improving core class attributes, class abilities, and addressing Legendaries that need improvement. You should all be able to see (and test out) these changes soon™ on the 2.1.0 PTR once its live. (Note: Initially, the PTR will not have all the changes we want to do for 2.1.0, but as the PTR progresses, more changes will be added. Also note that we do not have an ETA for the 2.1.0 PTR at this time.)
We also want to let you all know that we will be improving some of the underwhelming Set items. The following Sets will be receiving buffs or redesigns to their full-Set bonuses in 2.1.0 and will be retroactive, so keep those pieces:
- Firebird’s Finery
- Raiment of a Thousand Storms
- Monkey King’s Garb
- Thorns of the Invoker
- The Shadow’s Mantle
Ladders and Seasons
6th June
Ladder-Only legendaries. [5]
- Seasons will be optional. Similar to how you flag a character as Hardcore, when you create a character, you have the option to also make them Seasonal.
- There will be Seasonal Legendaries.
- At the end of a Season, Seasonal Legendaries will roll over into the non-Season loot pool.
- New Seasonal Legendaries will be available for Seasonal characters once the new Season begins.
"To be very clear here, that means that we’ll be able to find Seasonal Legendaries on regular (softcore/hardcore) characters after that season has expired, correct?"
"Not just that we’ll be able to keep the Seasonal Legendaries we found during the season."
25th March 2014
Ladders, much requested, have been confirmed by Blizzard to be coming in the next content patch. Although Blizzard have toyed with the community with cryptic clues on Twitter or images of the devs stood surrounded by ladders Josh Mosqueira finally confirmed at the Reaper of Souls Launch party that ladders were coming to Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls. [6]
24 April 2014
John Hight in a later interview elaborated, giving away a few more details. [7]
Tiered Rifts
25 March 2014
Tiered Rifts were first mentioned by Wyatt Cheng in an interview he gave at the Reaper of Souls launch party. [8]
24 April 2014
Later in an interview from Shacknews John Hight reiterated.[7]
Legendary Gems
In an interview John Hight gave the first mention of a new level of gem to try to deepen the socketing mechanic currently in play. [7]
References
- ↑ Patch 2.1 release - Josh Mosqueira, 25/03/2014
- ↑ Call of the Ancient changes - Blizzard Community Manager, 04/06/2014
- ↑ List of Pets to change - Blizzard Community Manager, 04/06/2014
- ↑ Monk Changes - Community Manager, 15/05/2014
- ↑ Ladder-only legendaries - Blizzard Community Manager, 06/06/2014
- ↑ Ladders coming to Diablo 3 - Josh Mosqueira, 25/03/2014
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Tiered Rifts - John Hight, 24/04/2014
- ↑ Tiered Rifts - Wyatt Cheng, Blizzard Entertainment, 25/03/2014