Diablo 3 Patch 2.0.1 finally here!

My update was downloading overnight and it was 15GB for me as well, but i haven't opened the client in couple of months. Judging from what people are saying it looks quite promising.

Can't wait to give this a whirl tonight.
 
My feedback of the new patch after playing with it for around 3 - 4 hours:

1. Game runs much smoother - no more jittering or stuttering - it's all gone! Whatever they did, performance all around has significantly improved.
2. New login screen, menu layout, map screen - love it!
3. New clans and communities feature is awesome. Breathe of fresh air to the game as you can party up with other players faster and make new friends!
4. Gameplay feels slower and more concentrated (a good thing). Every ability and monster feels tweaked and feels right.
5. New loot is awesome - already finding gear that's better than even my most expensive gear on my top character.
6. Opening chests, looting corpses, searching nooks and crannies feels worthwhile again because of the new loot system!
7. New Paragon system is great! I love the freedom of being able to distribute my points.
8. Monster density is great - although more "clumped", it feels great to be slaughtering packs.
9. Gem costs are been significantly reduced. Crafting feels effective again and worthwhile. Hallelujah!
10. New monster affixes, chests, orbs and shrines make the game feel so much more varied - I started the game over and it feels like I'm experiencing everything again for the first time.
 
lordspaceman said:
My feedback of the new patch after playing with it for around 3 - 4 hours:

1. Game runs much smoother - no more jittering or stuttering - it's all gone! Whatever they did, performance all around has significantly improved.
2. New login screen, menu layout, map screen - love it!
3. New clans and communities feature is awesome. Breathe of fresh air to the game as you can party up with other players faster and make new friends!
4. Gameplay feels slower and more concentrated (a good thing). Every ability and monster feels tweaked and feels right.
5. New loot is awesome - already finding gear that's better than even my most expensive gear on my top character.
6. Opening chests, looting corpses, searching nooks and crannies feels worthwhile again because of the new loot system!
7. New Paragon system is great! I love the freedom of being able to distribute my points.
8. Monster density is great - although more "clumped", it feels great to be slaughtering packs.
9. Gem costs are been significantly reduced. Crafting feels effective again and worthwhile. Hallelujah!
10. New monster affixes, chests, orbs and shrines make the game feel so much more varied - I started the game over and it feels like I'm experiencing everything again for the first time.
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Thanks for the detailed update. This is a nice expanded view of what everyone seems to be confirming.

It gives blizzard good publicity too as they knew it wasn't near as good as Diablo 2 was, but then they listened and at least made an attempt to fix the problem. Other companies like EA will release a TURD (cough... simcity, battlefield 4, etc...) riddled with bugs, flaws and issues and rather continue releasing DLC's and expansions without fixing the problems first or listening to their community.

Well played Blizzard, keep up the good work.
 
I played D3 in the closed beta and enjoyed it for its first 3 months of release until I realised that unless I was farming for the 100,000m gold it was going to take forever to get anywhere. I stopped playing before Paragonland happened.

Looking at my ARPG of choice, I now find myself in a similar situation about POE. You need to invest so much time to get anywhere.

I reinstalled recently and played a little last night. Rolled a new character and put it on hard difficulty. Very awesome challenge and the Leoric fight took me about 10 minutes actually. But I was rewarded with a legendary ring which was AWESOME. Forgot how visceral D3's combat is. Ragdoll physics of zombie corpses flying across the map. AWESOME!

I don't know if I am going to get RoS, but last night was a lot of fun. Looking forward to joining the MyG "community". Please post details here.
 
lordspaceman said:
My feedback of the new patch after playing with it for around 3 - 4 hours:

1. Game runs much smoother - no more jittering or stuttering - it's all gone! Whatever they did, performance all around has significantly improved.
2. New login screen, menu layout, map screen - love it!
3. New clans and communities feature is awesome. Breathe of fresh air to the game as you can party up with other players faster and make new friends!
4. Gameplay feels slower and more concentrated (a good thing). Every ability and monster feels tweaked and feels right.
5. New loot is awesome - already finding gear that's better than even my most expensive gear on my top character.
6. Opening chests, looting corpses, searching nooks and crannies feels worthwhile again because of the new loot system!
7. New Paragon system is great! I love the freedom of being able to distribute my points.
8. Monster density is great - although more "clumped", it feels great to be slaughtering packs.
9. Gem costs are been significantly reduced. Crafting feels effective again and worthwhile. Hallelujah!
10. New monster affixes, chests, orbs and shrines make the game feel so much more varied - I started the game over and it feels like I'm experiencing everything again for the first time.
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Thanks for this! Sounds Great! I must admit tho im still annoyed at all the time i put in in the early days and got pretty much nothing to show for it...
 
My brother phoned me and said this patch made the game like diablo should of been from the start so im going to give it another try this weekend again
 
Apparently barb isn't as staunch as it was pre patch, kinda sux cause I invested so much time in my barb and its gear.
 
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