Diablo – What are the Diablo 3 Hardcaps

According to Blizzard, there are 3 Normal, 87 Rare, and 39 Legendary Blacksmith Plans. We know that the three normal ones are dropped by Izual in Act 4 on the respective difficulty levels.

Anecdotally by forum posts, it looks like people are finding one or two per difficulty (bnet forum post) from random monster/champion/boss drops, although one person notes none found on his way to Inferno. So far the only non-Blizzard list this gamer found was at d3db, and it just lists "Drop" as the source of each of the plans.

Level 1 characters start with:

• 10 in primary stat
• 8 in secondary stats
• 9 vitality

Source: my tests

At each level, you get:

• +3 to primary stat
• +1 to secondary stats
• +2 vitality

Source

So, at level 60 (after 59 level-ups), all characters should have (assuming I did the math right):

• 187 in primary stat
• 67 in secondary stats
• 127 in vitality

Primary stat: strength for barbarians, dexterity for monks and demon hunters, and intelligence for wizards and witch doctors.

Derived stats:

• Armor: 1 armor per point of strength
• Dodge: 0.1% per point of dexterity at first, then changes by a formula
• Resistances: 0.1 per point of intelligence
• Damage: +1% per point of primary stat

(although I am not sure if there is any base armor or dodge added to these values)