14 DAY TRIAL // Blizzard has revealed a few more details about the changes brought forth by Diablo 3 patch 1.0.8, confirming that quite a few improvements and changes will be made to Legendary items, as better and higher level drops will appear when playing on the highest Inferno difficulty.
Diablo 3 came out almost a year ago and one of the main complaints at that time were the weak and ultra-rare Legendary items, which, besides having an extremely low drop rate, didn't even compare to the more frequent Rare or Magic items.
While Blizzard improved Legendary items through subsequent patches, the team still isn't satisfied with them and has confirmed in a special Q&A session on the Battle.net forums that further improvements will be made.
First and foremost the base level of Legendary items will be the same as the one belonging to the monster that dropped it.
"Legendary items will roll at a level equal to the creature that dropped it. This means that, in addition to a Legendary’s stats rolling at the monster level, the base item stats will also roll at the monster's level. Right now, Rares don't work this way. Instead, their affixes roll at the level of the monster, but their base armor and weapon damage remain unchanged," Blizzard's Travis Day said.
Set items and special ones will also be buffed by the upcoming patch so expect to see much better stats on all sorts of already popular gear.
"Legendary and Set items will be valid drops from monsters at whatever point in the level range they are first introduced," Day added. "Each bonus on a Legendary or Set items scales will ultimately depend on the bonus itself. Some bonuses (such as the +EXP bonus on Leoric’s Signet) scale equally well from level 1 to level 60."
"On the other hand, some bonuses like procs that generate pets, or procs that deal damage effects, don’t always scale well as you get to the higher levels, but those will be changed wherever possible to scale with the level that they drop at."
As of yet, however, it's still unclear when Diablo 3 sees the release of patch 1.0.8, as it hasn't even been posted on the Public Test Realm.