Blizzard has released a new hotfix for Diablo III, dated 6/28, which features improvements in the drop rates of high level items for each act’s bosses.

In the latest hotfix (6/28) for Diablo III, the boss enemies at each act, the drop rates of high level items have been significantly increased. As a result, players now have greater chances of getting geared up in the preliminary stages of Inferno mode, or even in the later stages of Hell mode.

Here are the changes made in the latest hotfix, as published in Battle.net:

Items

The drop rates for high-end items (items level 61-63) have been increased for Acts III and IV of Hell difficulty and Acts I – IV of Inferno difficulty:

The new approximate drop rates are as follows:

• Hell – Act III and Act IV
  • iLvl 61: 13.9%, up from 9%
  • iLvl 62:  3.45%, up from 1.9%
  • iLvl 63: 0% (no change)

 

• Inferno – Act I
  • iLvl 61: 23.9%, up from 17.7%
  • iLvl 62: 12.6%, up from 7.9%
  • iLvl 63: 4.8%, up from 2.0%

 

• Inferno – Act II
  • iLvl 61: 23.3%, up from 18.6%
  • iLvl 62: 18.6%, up from 12.4%
  • iLvl 63: 9.3%, up from 4.1%

 

• Inferno – Act III and Act IV
  • iLvl 61: 27.1%, up from 24.1%
  • iLvl 62: 21.7%, up from 16.1%
  • iLvl 63: 16.3%, up from 8.0%

 Bosses

• Bosses are now guaranteed to drop at least 1 Rare item for players with 4 stacks of Nephalem Valor and at least 2 Rare items for players with 5 stacks of Nephalem Valor

 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug with several items that would allow those items to block pathing when dropped on the ground
• Fixed a crash that could sometimes occur when a player was interacting with environment objects (e.g. opening chests or clicking on a lectern)
• Fixed several additional game and service crashes

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