2012-08-11, 05:30 PM
People be confused, Blizzard clarifies.
Quote:Fire Chains and Shielding were only provided as examples. We looked at every affix and have made adjustments to more than just those two. For example, we're giving players a temporary immunity to Fear after they've been Feared by a Nightmarish monster.
Keep in mind that the systems preview is more about explaining why these kinds of changes are being made, rather than detailing everything out line-by-line. (That's ultimately what patch notes are for.)
Quote:Just to clarify, we aren't making any changes to the chance that an item will drop. Instead, we're changing the quality of that item when it drops. And when we say we're increasing the likelihood that non-Elite monsters will drop magical items "by a factor of four," it means that those monsters should drop 4 times (or "4x") the amount of magical items as they do now.
So, for example, if doing a full clear of an area currently yields 500 items from non-Elites, it will still yield 500 items after 1.0.4. Whereas you may have only gotten 20 Magic (blue) items and 4 Rare (yellow) item from those non-Elites before, youll now get approximately 80 Magic items and 16 Rares.

