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Reaper of Nerfs Wrote:[COLOR="#0000FF"]As with other recent hotfixes, we’ve got one coming up shortly that we wanted to give the community a heads up about, this time regarding the legendary Shard of Hate. We’ve been closely observing our internal reports as well as player feedback on the Shard of Hate and the general consensus is that this item feels wildly out of line compared to other items. After digging in behind the scenes, we discovered a couple of bugs with this item that we believe is the ultimate culprit.

First, the internal cooldown of this item’s power was being reset each time a dual-wielding character attacked with a weapon in their other hand. This meant the effect was occurring twice as often for dual-wielding characters, and with particular skills such as Whirlwind or Tempest Rush that also carry attack speed multipliers, this effect was even more frequent.

Secondly, the proc rate of the item was ignoring the proc scalar of the skill it was used with, which in simple terms caused Shard of Hate’s affix to apply every time a skill was used. Combined with the above issue, this resulted in this Legendary vastly over performing, and even more so with particular builds.

The hotfixes we’re applying correct both of these unintended behaviors and have been added to our 2.0.4 Hotfixes thread. As with all major changes, we hope to provide insight as to why we felt these changes were necessary as well as give context to the decisions we ultimately make.[/COLOR]

Quote:"Shard of Hate no longer increases Barbarians' torment clearing capabilities by 3 torment levels."

sh'itposting 101 Wrote:Locking this as Chiltara has been a topic for some time now and you can continue to discuss her and your Gimmering Gem drops in [COLOR="#FF8C00"]this thread.[/COLOR]

JoeTang Wrote:Someone asks if Chiltara will ever be fixed. CM redirects them to a 50 page thread asking the same question without answering. There's our answer.

Razmos Wrote:What annoys me about the matter is that from what I've heard, Chiltara had a near 100% chance of dropping the gemstone before, but now it doesn't drop at all, and then this one mod is shutting down any threads on the matter saying "It's still dropping at the same rate, but the mob is spawning less" which is bullshit, because obviously it isn't dropping at anywhere near the rate it was before, even for people who find Chiltara 10+ times.

I don't get why the guy is saying the exact opposite of what everyone else is saying.

This one guy on that thread said he killed it 97 times with no drop, so it clearly isn't the spawn rate that is the problem.

JoeTang Wrote:The spawn rate is definitely a problem.

dowie Wrote:My bro was killing the shark in the sewers and got this amulet. MURLOC

hadriel Wrote:While attempting to find Bashiok... then of all places...



Unfortunately, it's 1 x bugged spear (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/ahavarion-spear-of-lycander) and 1 x Blackthorn's Spurs (which lacked the Disintegrate bonus). Bah.

Hadriel