Blizzard Entertainment is looking at removing permanent crowd control in a future 'Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls' content patch. The news comes from Grimiku, the community manager for the game's official forums as he responded to fan feedback about the state of Greater Rifts. Fans can also enjoy the celebration of Diablo's 3rd year anniversary by getting to the Secret Cow Level realy quick.
Grimiku mentioned how the goal of Diablo 3 Greater Rifts is to serve as a form of measuring stick for a character's growth wherein scaling damage is a very important element in a character's ability to function. As such, the team is currently looking at options for possible adjustments to how the damage scales in the future.
In order to address the trend of zDPS builds that have been flooding the higher levels of Greater Rifts play, Blizzard is looking at disabling permanent Crowd Control in an upcoming content patch to create more interaction with monsters at higher Greater Rifts levels. And in order to promote balanced play, Blizzard will also re-evaluate how much damage monsters are dealing to players, in order to provide a more consistent Greater Rift experience whilst making sure that defensive Legendary items still matter.
The Greater Rifts area was introduced to Diablo 3 during a patch update in August 2014. It provides players time challenges to complete a level and defeat Rift Guardians. Defeating guardians thereby provides access to higher levels of Greater Rift play, with the potential for greater rewards and higher rankings on the game's leaderboards.
Blizzard may have revealed the changes which makes sense on paper, but it may be a little bit different during actual gameplay. Some classes such as the Crusaders and Witches deals less damage when compared to the others, at the same level of survivability, so game developers will need to find a way to resolve this, along with other issues such as players getting one-shotted in Diablo's Greater Rift levels over 50.
Meanwhile, Diablo 3: Reaper of Soul recently celebrated its third birthday last week. To celebrate the occasion, Blizzard has launched a special event from May 15 to May 21, during which players can access a Secret Cow Level.
Lastly, Blizzard did not provide details on when the content patch for Diablo 3 will be out, but it'll likely be at the end of Season 3, which has about three months to go.
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