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Blizzard has been promising for a while that Diablo III's patch 1.0.4 would be a Capital B D Big Deal for the game, and a blog post from developer Wyatt Cheng seems to reinforce that notion. What's missing from this particular post is specifics about the sweeping class changes the devs have been talking about, but apparently that's going to be a whole 'nother blog, so fear not.

Some major features of the patch are below, with the whole blog after the cut.

• Magic find and gold find will no longer be averaged in multiplayer games.
• Monster health will now be a flat increase of 75% health (per player), regardless of the game's difficulty level.
• No more Out Of Time enrage timers on elites or healing to full after you die a few times.
• Normal monster HP is increasing by a slight amount, but the chance of finding rare items on normal monsters is being increased by a factor of four.
• To close the gap between normals and elites, elite HP will be reduced slightly.
• Weapons of ilvl 61 and 62 can now roll weapon damage that extends to numbers currently reserved for ilvl 63+.
• Use of two-handed weapons will be encouraged by new sets of affixes.
• Repair costs of high-end items will be reduced by about 25%.
• Problem affixes like Fire Chains and Shielding are being adjusted, and Invulnerable Minions is gone, baby, gone.
• A tentative release date of the fourth week in August.