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General

• Players can now identify all items in their inventory by speaking to Deckard Cain or by using the Book of Cain that can be found near the shared stash in all Acts
• The cooldown incurred by changing skills outside of town on Inferno difficulty has been reduced to 30 seconds (down from 60 seconds)
• There is now an option in Video Settings to lock the cursor to the window when in fullscreen windowed mode, if Diablo III is the active window

• Multiplayer Co-Op
  • Players now receive a 10% bonus to Magic Find, Gold Find, and Experience per additional player in a multiplayer game, up to a maximum of 30% in a four player game
    • The Magic Find and Gold Find bonuses can exceed their respective 300% caps
    • The Experience bonus can stack with other bonuses from items and Monster Power (the bonuses will stack multiplicatively)
  • A notification is now sent to all players in a multiplayer game whenever a party member engages an Elite monster or Treasure Goblin in combat, and their location will be shown on the mini-map
    • In addition to this, an icon will also appear over player banners in town to indicate if they're in combat with a monster, Elite monster, or Treasure Goblin

Achievements

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a bug that prevented monsters killed by a follower or pet, before being attacked by a player, from counting toward achievement criteria

Auction House

• User Interface
  • Tooltips in the Auction House will now show an item comparison for a player's currently selected character

Battle.net

• Matchmaking
  • Players will now be able to search for games that were started on any quest once they have reached level cap
  • Matchmaking "Tags" have been added
    • In addition to selecting your Difficulty, Monster Power, and Quest, players will also be able to choose from the following tags when searching for Public Games: No Tag, Questing, Brawling, and Key Warden
• Social
  • Players can now add a note about a friend by right-clicking the name in their Friends List
  • Players can now enter a message that will be broadcast to their friends
  • Players can now create multi-user conversations
    • There are multiple ways to start a conversation or invite other players to an existing conversation:
      • To start a conversation, open Public Chat Options, then select Invite Friends > Start Conversation or use the "Start a Conversation" option in the Social window by right-clicking on a friend's name
      • To invite or add friends to an existing conversation, open Public Chat Options, then select invite Friends or use the "Invite to a Conversation" option in the Social window by right-clicking a friend's name and selecting the desired conversation
    • Similar to public channels, private conversations can support up to 99 players
  • A new section has been added to the friends list called "Players Near You"
    • Any player who is on your local network will be displayed here (even if they're not currently your friend)
    • If needed, this feature can be disabled from the Social Options of the Game menu
  • Players may now be marked as a "Party Guide"
    • The Party Guide is assigned to the first person who joins a Public Game
    • If multiple characters join a Public Game at the same time, the game will choose the hero with the highest level or Paragon level to be Party Guide
    • When a Party Guide leaves the Public Game, a new one will be chosen automatically
    • Alternatively, the Party Guide can right click on a party member's portrait and pass them the Party Guide title
    • The Party Guide will have a unique icon that will appear on the mini-map
  • Names in your "Recent Players" list will now expire if they become older than a month
  • Blocked players will no longer appear in your "Recent Players" list.

Bosses

• Bug Fixes
  • Skeleton King
    • A bug causing The Skeleton King and The King of the Dead to not play an animation when performing their Whirlwind attack should now occur less frequently

Classes

• Wizard
  • Active Skills
    • Archon
      • The duration of Archon should now be extended by assists from players in multiplayer games, in addition to kills
    • Teleport
      • Players may now Teleport to any location within range, as long as a path is available
  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed a bug causing Teleport - Safe Passage to only reduce damage from physical attacks

Crafting

• General
  • Players can now craft multiple items and gems at a time within the same tier, so long as they possess the necessary materials
  • Players can now craft items using materials located in the shared stash
  Blacksmith
  • Salvaged item information will no longer be displayed in the chat log
  Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a bug preventing players from salvaging an item by dragging it onto the Blacksmith's anvil icon

Monsters

• General
  • Players should now encounter more monsters in Acts I, II, and IV in Inferno difficulty when playing at Monster Power 1 or greater
  • In multiplayer games, the increase in monster hit points per additional player has been reduced to 50% (down from 70%)
  • Tormented Stingers and Stygian Crawlers have had their experience reduced by 75%

Quests

• General
  • Experience earned by completing a quest is now granted to players that have reached level cap

User Interface

• General
  • A maximum of eight buffs and debuffs will now be displayed on the UI
• The maximum number of debuffs that will be displayed is three

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug preventing damage numbers from being displayed if a monster was affected by a spell such as Hex

Bug Fixes

• The sound that plays whenever a Barbarian's Overpower ability comes off cooldown is no longer similar to a Legendary item dropping
• Male barbarians no longer run faster than the other heroes while feared.

Blizzard Quote [source]

Mark your calendars—a Blizzard is coming to Southern California! Tickets for BlizzCon^® 2013 will go on sale in two batches on Wednesday, April 24 at 7 p.m. PDT and Saturday, April 27 at 10 a.m. PDT through the official BlizzCon website. In addition, a limited number of tickets to an exclusive pre-BlizzCon Benefit Dinner will go on sale Wednesday, May 1 at 7 p.m. PDT.

BlizzCon 2013 takes place November 8 and 9 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA, and tickets to the two-day show will be available at $175 USD each. Tickets to the Benefit Dinner (which includes admission to BlizzCon) will be priced at $500 USD each, with proceeds benefitting Children’s Hospital of Orange County. Tickets to previous BlizzCon events have sold out within minutes, so be sure to synchronize your hourglasses.

Paladins, demon hunters, and Ghosts who can’t make it to the show in person will once again have the option to enjoy BlizzCon from home by ordering a BlizzCon Virtual Ticket, offering comprehensive live coverage of the event via a multi-channel Internet stream. Further details on the Virtual Ticket, including pricing, availability, and programming information, will be announced at a later date.

See the full press release or check out the BlizzCon Ticket page for more information, and be sure visit the official BlizzCon website at the dates and times above for a chance to purchase a ticket to the show. We hope to see you in Anaheim!

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Hello everyone, and welcome to Patch 1.0.8! Below you will find the Known Issues list for our 1.0.8 patch. Please do not report bugs that you see on this list as we already know about them, and help out other players reporting bugs by referring them to this list.

As a reminder, this list will not list every bug that is active in the 1.0.8 patch. What it is listing are a select few issues -- chosen due to severity/impact -- that are active and confirmed as bugs by Quality Assurance with verifiable steps and an expected fix. We have hundreds of bugs in our database, so it would be impossible to list all known issues. Just because a bug is not on this list does not mean we don't know about it! In addition, potential exploits and the like will never be listed here.

Please note that documented bugs may not always be fixed in the order in which they were reported. In some cases, we may not have a timeline for a when a bug will be fixed and some bugs may not be able to be fixed at all. If we are able to verify that a documented bug cannot be fixed, it will be removed from this list.

Thank you for your continued reports, and enjoy Diablo III!!!

Achievements

• The achievement Bashanishu is awarded inconsistently between the old and new versions of Rakanishu’s Blade.

• The Demon Hunter achievement “Bleed, You Filth!” is not granted the first time you complete the criteria.

• The Demon Hunter achievement “Death Trap” is not granted the first time you complete the criteria.

• The “Self Sufficient” achievement is not awarded the first time you kill the boss and fulfill the requirement.

• Unlike the “Naked Lust” achievement, “The Hero’s New Clothes” Azmodan criteria requires players to deliver the killing blow for credit.

• The “Fallen Angel” achievement isn’t granted when you meet the criteria.

Auction House

• Spam clicking Show More Items will show duplicated entries of the same item in the completed tab.

Battle.net

• The game can get into a semi-locked state when your spot in the party gets filled by another player.

• Players can become locked out of private chat channels under certain conditions.

• It’s possible for party members to get stuck in a broken game with greyed out Resume Game buttons.

• The party guide doesn’t have the option to promote other players into their role.

• Clicking the broadcast message box cancels a party invite.

Combat

• Wizard’s Archon Teleport cannot go through walls.

Items

• The Legendary Chest piece, Tyrael’s Might, can roll Ignores Durability Loss twice.

• The Bind on Equip affix can roll by itself on items.

• The Murlocket no longer drops in game.

• The new Account Bound crafted items from the Jeweler and the Blacksmith do not follow the same order as the Hellfire Rings.

Monsters

• Hitting Diablo with certain abilities, like Whirlwind, during his beatdown phase can lag the client significantly.

• Some NPCs, such as Angel Troopers, Bastion’s Keep guards, and event NPCs, will attack idle Treasure Goblins.

• Shake Stalkers in the Silver Spire do not grant experience or loot.

User Interface

• The Rare Engaged chat notification can pop up for Champions, bosses, and a Rare’s adds.

• Legendary item icons can show on the mini-map when there are no items.

• The Multiplayer buff disappears during an act transition.

Mac

• Launching a quest on Inferno Difficulty and Monster Power 10 asserts the client on a Mac running 10.6.8

• The lock cursor option does not work on Mac.

Blizzard Quote [source]

Currently the vote kick system will remove a player from the group, but it does not prevent them that player from rejoining the same group. We realize this can be frustrating, and we’re working on an upcoming fix that should ensure that players who have been kicked from a group will no longer be matched with that same group.