Tired of limping through the Burning Hells in a hessian sack with just a blunted steak knife and a bin lid to keep you safe? Good news for you then, because Blizzard has deployed a Diablo III hotfix that improves the chances of high level loot drops in the third and fourth chapters of Hell difficulty, and throughout Inferno difficulty.
Bosses are now also “guaranteed” to drop at least one rare item for players with four stacks of Nephalem Valor, and at least two rare items for players with five stacks of Nephalem Valor. Have at ’em, people, these things won’t just drop themselves.
The new drop chance rates are (where “iLvl” indicates item level):
Hell – Act 3 and Act 4
- iLvl 61: 13.9 percent (old: 9 percent)
- iLvl 62: 3.45 percent (old: 1.9 percent)
- iLvl 63: no change (still 0 percent)
Inferno – Act 1
- iLvl 61: 23.9 percent (old: 17.7 percent)
- iLvl 62: 12.6 percent (old: 7.9 percent)
- iLvl 63: 4.8 percent (old: 2.0 percent)
Inferno – Act 2
- iLvl 61: 23.3 percent (old: 18.6 percent)
- iLvl 62: 18.6 percent (old: 12.4 percent)
- iLvl 63: 9.3 percent (old: 4.1 percent)
Inferno – Act 3 and Act 4
- iLvl 61: 27.1 percent (old: 24.1 percent)
- iLvl 62: 21.7 percent (old: 16.1 percent)
- iLvl 63: 16.3 percent (old: 8.0 percent)
Source: Diablo Fans
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I resorted to buying off the AH… not the real money one. I’ll never touch that one. I still can’t seem to get nice gear and crafting 90% comes up with rubbish for me : /
I find that Hell has become a lot easier. I was suffering at one point and now it feels like I am breezing through it. This happened before I got the new gear. I know that mob damage was reduced in an earlier patch but I think I read that it was for Inferno.