Diablo 3 paragon level system in patch 1.0.4

Patch 1.0.4 introduces hero levels: the Paragon system

The patch 1.0.4 hype machine has been going non-stop for the last two weeks. One thing is all the 1.0.4 changes to the classes that have been announced, another are the huge buffs to legendary items or the system changes to loot, mob health and enrage timers. Those were enough to get me excited about patch 1.0.4….but there is so much more to it; including a new endgame!
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Diablo 3 Patch 1.0.4 class previews are all up

D3 class preview guide for patch 1.0.4

As I mentioned in my article about the update about the update to the patch notes of patch 1.0.4, there would be a class preview for each individual class.

Over the week these have been released, and I have posted all week on the Diablo 3 farming facebook group about the class previews as they came out during the week, so a full recap is in order.
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Diablo 3 patch 1.0.4 systems preview

Patch 1.0.4 changes classes, grouping, mobs, weapons and difficulty!

As I mentioned yesterday, in the preview of a preview of patch 1.0.4 post, these next few weeks will see a slew of official blog posts coming out about the next big patch.

Today a post about the systems changes came, and it is very interesting reading material!
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Patchnotes for Diablo 3 patch 1.0.4…

…or rather a preview of a preview of the patch notes for D3 patch 1.0.4

Diablo 3 is a great game and I think Blizzard have succeeded very well in doing to action-RPGs with Diablo 3 what they did to MMORPGS with WOW. They made it readily accessible for everyone, set the bar low for entry and expanded the potential customer base ten-fold. However, this also comes at a price.

When you “dumb” things down, you rob people of the joy of discovering things themselves. You get less of a sense of achievement, when you get everything handed to you on a silver platter. So Blizzard have a problem here, since people have gotten fed up with there being nothing to do except the “endgame”, which is making the numbers bigger….by going on the AH.

So patch 1.0.4 is pretty much make or break for Blizzard. This patch introduces new legendary system, rework of classes and changes to magic find.
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