Diablo III Servers Going Down in Preparation for New Patch

<p>Blizzard has announced that <em>Diablo III<&sol;em> will be offline tomorrow in preparation for the release of patch 1&period;0&period;3&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The maintenance will begin Wednesday at 2am UK time and will last until roughly 12pm&period; Players will not be prompted to download the patch until it is live in their home region&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;If you are logging in from a European or Asian client&comma; you will need to wait for this patch to release in that region before it can be installed&comma;&&num;8221&semi; community manager Takralus explained on <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;eu&period;battle&period;net&sol;d3&sol;en&sol;forum&sol;topic&sol;4736895086&num;1" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Battle&period;net<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Additionally&comma; if your home region is the Americas&comma; you will be unable to log into Europe or Asia using Global Play after patch 1&period;0&period;3 is live until those regions have also patched&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Patch 1&period;0&period;3 makes changes to the Inferno difficulty&comma; rare item drops on bosses and bonus monster damage when playing in a group&comma; among many other things<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2012-06-19-diablo-3-offline-tomorrow-morning-to-prepare-for-patch-1-0-3">Eurogamer<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;