Hotfix 6/28 -- Item drop rate changes

[Lissa]

Lissa, I just went and counted. Diablo had 176 different affixes. I stopped counting Diablo II's affixes after 1000, but would estimate around 1300. Diablo II had a lot of affixes that no longer exist (eg +mana, +skills, cast on hit, etc), which is why I stated Diablo III has less (people would not normally compare Diablo with Diablo III, completely skipping over Diablo II). I have not seen a comprehensive list of all affixes in Diablo III, but I can guarantee it is considerably less than 1000.

Stop counting each individual affix that is only avaiable at certain ilvls and look at the actual effect. If you sit down and look at things like +res, you'll see that the base overall affix is less in D2 than D3, do not seperate each individual tier, look at what the affix does. You'll find that yes, D3 has more affixes than D2 when you look at what the tier does, not how many times said tier is broken down. As I noted in my reply to you, there are 15 affixes in D3 for just stats where as there were only 5 in D1 and 5 or 6 in D2. There is way more variety in D3 on affixes than there was in D3 when you look at the overall affix and not each tier of an specific affix class (like Lightning resistance).