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Patch 1.13c
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A new Mystery has been revealed!
Adventurers of Sanctuary are hereby warned once again, that a new challenge
awaits you. Within Diablo's Bosses, spanning across the world from the ancient Monastery Catacombs to the Throne of Destruction, is where you'll find what you seek...
Major Bugs
Fixed an item dupe bug.
Video improvements for Intel Mac machines with OS 10.5 or greater.
Fixed an issue where some players could kill other players while in town ("TPPK").
Fixed an issue where some players could disconnect other players when they had too many active states.
Fixed two issues where players could stack auras in an unintended way.
Minor Bugs
Uber Mephisto now checks for both Uber Baal and Uber Diablo to be killed before spawning summoned minions (Before he would only check for Uber Baal).
The game will no longer stop and then restart the game music after the window loses and then regains focus.
Fixed an issue where the game window would minimize when running in windowed mode when it lost focus.
Fixed an issue where the game window wouldn't center properly when it was created.
Fangskin should now properly drop loot in Hell difficulty.
Fixed an issue where auras were not re-applied to your mercenary after it was resurrected.
Fixed an issue where if you had two items which provided auras to a mercenary and you unequipped one, the aura from the remaining item never became active.
Fixed an issue where the Paladin class runeword 'Principle' wasn't having all of its stats applied properly.
Fixed an issue where the Paladin's Charge ability would become locked out if Holy Shield faded while charging.
Fixed an issue where the Barbarian's Leap ability could become locked out if they were hit when they started to leap.
Specific changes/improvements
Respecialization is now possible! Completing the 'Den of Evil' quest will now additionally reward 1 free respec which can be saved. Players who have already completed this quest should receive 1 free respec in Hell difficulty.
Increased the drop rate of high runes.
Support for blit scaling in windowed mode. The game can now be maximized to the largest 4:3 resolution supported (hooray widescreen users).
Some rare drop items now have an orange color. i.e. Runes and items required for Uber Tristam.
Modified the gold bank limit to be a flat cap not bound by level.
Removed the requirements to create a hardcore character.
Greatly reduced the explosion damage dealt by Fire Enchanted monsters.
Uber Mephisto and Uber Baal's summoned minions no longer give experience.
Removed Oblivion Knight's Iron Maiden curse.
Hellfire Torch Firestorm proc rate has been reduced to 5%.
Users can now toggle the display of text over the Health and Mana globes by clicking on the bottom area of each orb.
When creating a single player game, each difficulty button is now bound to a unique key: Normal 'R', Nightmare 'N', and Hell 'H'.
The 'Enter Chat' Button in the battle.net waiting room is now bound to the 'Enter' key.
Added the windows system buttons to the game window (MIN, MAX, CLOSE).
Added new command line parameter '-nofixaspect' which allows users to not fix the aspect ratio to 4:3 when maximizing in windowed mode. This lets the game 'stretch' to fill your monitor.
Added support for '-sndbkg' command line switch. This enables sound in background.
Added the following aliases for pre-existing command line options, '-nosound', '-window', and '-windowed'.
Revised Skill balance for Player Character classes
Amazon
Immolation Arrow - Increased radius of Explosion effect by 33% and Immolation effect by 50%.
Immolation Arrow - Explosion effect damage increased by 20%.
Immolation Arrow - Increased base duration by 33%.
Assassin
Dragon Claw - Synergy receives 4% additional damage per point of Claw Mastery.
Dragon Talon - The bonus to Attack Rating per point has been increased to 35.
Shadow Master - Increased resistance range per point from 5-80 to 5-90.
Combo points awarded by combo moves now last 15 seconds, up from 9.
Barbarian
Whirlwind - Reduced initial mana cost by 50%.
Masteries - Changed critical strike chance from 0-25 to 0-35.
Paladin
Blessed Hammer - No longer ignores resistances of undead and demons.
Druid
Werebear - Damage bonus increased by 15% across all ranks.
Werebear - Increased health by 25% and armor by 1% per point.
Shockwave - Synergy from Maul adds 5% damage per point.
Necromancer
Blood Golem - Removed negative shared life effect (player no longer loses life when the golem takes damage).
Corpse Explosion - Increased base damage dealt from 60% - 100% to 70% - 120% of corpses health.
Poison Nova - Increased base damage by 15%.
Sorceress
Firewall - Synergy receives 1% damage per point of Inferno and 4% per point of Warmth.
Blaze - Synergy receives 1% damage per point of Firewall and 4% per point of Warmth.
Hydra - Increased base damage by 15% per rank.
Hydra - Increased base speed of Hydra projectile.
Hydra - Reduced cooldown by 25%.
Diablo 2 Patch 1.13a
A new Mystery has been revealed!
Players of Hell Difficulty Realm games are hereby warned once again, that a series of new and challenging tests await you! The answer lies within Diablo's Bosses, which span across the world from the Den of Evil to the Throne of Destruction...
Major Bugs
Fixed an item dupe bug.
Video improvements for Intel Mac machines with OS 10.5 or greater.
Minor Bugs
Uber Mephisto now checks for both Uber Baal and Uber Diablo to be killed before spawning summoned minions (Before he would only check for Uber Baal).
The game will no longer stop and then restart the game music after the window loses and then regains focus.
Fixed an issue where the game window would minimize when running in windowed mode when it lost focus.
Fixed an issue where the game window wouldn't center properly when it was created.
Specific changes/improvements
Respecialization is now possible! Completing the 'Den of Evil' quest will now additionally reward 1 free respec which can be saved. Players who have already completed this quest should receive 1 free respec in Hell difficulty.
Increased the drop rate of high runes.
Support for blit scaling in windowed mode. The game can now be maximized to the largest 4:3 resolution supported (hooray widescreen users).
Some rare drop items now have an orange color. i.e. Runes and items required for Uber Tristram.
Modified the gold bank limit to be a flat cap not bound by level.
Nightmare/Hell WilloWisps champions/uniques have had their damage greatly reduced.
Removed the requirements to create a hardcore character.
Greatly reduced the explosion damage dealt by Fire Enchanted monsters.
Uber Mephisto and Uber Baal's summoned minions no longer give experience.
Removed Oblivion Knight's Iron Maiden curse.
Hellfire Torch Firestorm proc rate has been reduced to 5%.
Users can now toggle the display of text over the Health and Mana globes by clicking on the bottom area of each orb.
Updated two Act 5 mercenary names to Klar and Tryneus.
When creating a single player game, pressing the 'Enter' key now automatically creates a Hell difficulty game if possible.
When creating a game, each difficulty button is now bound to a unique key: Normal 'R', Nightmare 'N', and Hell 'H'.
The 'Enter Chat' Button in the battle.net waiting room is now bound to the 'Enter' key.
Added the windows system buttons to the game window (MIN, MAX, CLOSE).
Added new command line parameter '-nofixaspect' which allows users to not fix the aspect ratio to 4:3 when maximizing windowed mode. This lets the game 'stretch' to fill your monitor.
Added support for '-sndbkg' command line switch. This enables sound in background.
Added support for '-nosound', '-window', and '-windowed' command line options.
Revised Skill balance for Player Character classes
Amazon
Immolation Arrow - Increased radius of Explosion effect by 33% and Immolation effect by 50%.
Immolation Arrow - Explosion effect damage increased by 20%.
Immolation Arrow - Increased base duration by 33%.
Assassin
Shadow Master - Increased resistance range per point from 5-80 to 5-90.
Barbarian
Whirlwind - Reduced initial mana cost by 50%.
Combat Masteries - Changed critical strike chance from 0-25 to 0-35.
Paladin
Blessed Hammer - No longer ignores resistances of undead and demons.
Druid
Werebear - Damage bonus increased by 15% across all ranks.
Werebear - Increased health by 25% and armor by 1% per point.
Shock Wave - Synergy from [D2W]Maul[/D2W] adds 5% damage per point.
Necromancer
Blood Golem - Removed negative shared life effect (player no longer loses life when golem takes damage).
Corpse Explosion - Increased base damage dealt from 60% - 100% to 70% - 120% of corpses health.
Poison Nova - Increased base damage by 15%.
Sorceress
Fire Wall - Synergy receives 1% damage per point of Inferno and Blaze and 4% per point of Warmth.
Blaze - Synergy receives 2% damage per point of Firewall and 4% per point of Warmth.
Hydra - Increased base damage by 15% per rank.
Hydra - Increased base speed of Hydra projectile.
Hydra - Reduced cooldown by 25%.
Lightning Mastery - Reduced overall effect by 15%.
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Downloadable Installer Support
- If all required Diablo 2 '.MPQ' files are installed on the
hard drive, the game will no longer require the CD to play.
For users that originally performed a 'Full Installation'
and wish to run without the CD, all '.MPQ' files should
be copied from the Diablo 2 CDs to the Diablo 2 directory.
Most users will only need to copy D2Music.mpq from the
Diablo 2 Play CD and/or D2xMusic.mpq from the Lord of
Destruction CD. Mac users will need to copy these music
files and rename them to 'Diablo II Music' and
'Diablo II Expansion Music' respectively.
Anyone who did not perform a 'Full Installation' will need
to re-install from CD again to ultimately play without the CD.
In this case, a 'Full Installation' is required, followed by file
copy step noted above.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an incompatibility between Rosetta and OpenGL mode on Intel Mac.
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FIXES:
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when you return to chat after
playing a game on Battle.net.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when the runeword "Peace" was
equipped on a hireling.
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A new Mystery has been revealed!
- Players of Hell Difficulty Realm games are hereby warned once again,
that a series of new and challenging tests await you! The answer lies
within Diablo's Bosses, which span across the world from the Den of Evil
to the Throne of Destruction...
New Items
- Added 10 New Runewords.
- Added new Unique Items that will drop from Special Bosses.
Hireling Enhancements
- Players can purchase hirelings that are within 1-5 levels below their
own level.
- The rate at which hirelings gain experience has been increased. They
should now stay closer to the player's level.
Major Bugs
- Creating a town portal when corpses or other objects entirely fill the
area where the portal will appear in town will no longer crash the game.
- Skills obtained from runewords created while the item is equipped will
no longer disconnect you from Battle.net when chosen.
- Barbarians will no longer become stuck when using Whirlwind right after
Inferno from the unique item Balrog Blade Flamebellow.
- German, Spanish, and Polish users will no longer crash when the mouse
cursor moves over an item that grants an Aura while equipped.
- The game will no longer crash when selecting a skill granted by a weapon
at the same time as switching weapons with the W key.
- Dying or being requested to trade while changing the key configuration
will no longer cause you to get stuck.
- The "Missile Firing too far" assertion error has been corrected.
- Attempting to sell a Horadric Cube or a quest item to an NPC by holding
Control while clicking will no longer disconnect you from Battle.net.
Minor Bugs
- Running the game with -install no longer causes the game to be installed
as a Windows Service. -install is now ignored.
- Sometimes the seals in Diablo's lair would not activate. This has been
corrected.
- Character expiration messages have been updated to reflect the
expiration policy implemented in patch 1.10.
- Unidentified items sometimes caused other set items to display green for
items the player does not have. This has been corrected.
- The German mouseover text for the Ist rune has been corrected.
- Account recovery is now allowed for existing accounts whose name is only
one or two characters.
- When leaving a game on Battle.net, you will now be brought back to the
channel in which you were previously.
- Transmuting an ethereal item now retains the ethereal stats bonuses.
- In Japanese Lord of Destruction, items that add to all Assassin skills
incorrectly stated in their mouseover text that they added to all Druid
skills. This has been corrected.
- Battle.net messages for non-English versions have been corrected.
Fixed Game Exploits
- It is no longer possible to bypass the 10-second hostility timer by
activating a waypoint at the same time as declaring hostility.
- Uber Diablo is no longer killed when Shenk the Overseer or Blood Raven
die nearby.
- Necromancers with Trang-Oul's Set equipped could sometimes become
invincible to attack. This has been corrected.
- Blessed Hammer no longer remains active while in town, preventing
players from subsequently declaring hostility and having the hammers hit
other players for damage.
- Set items retained their multi-piece bonuses after the player died, even
though they were removed. This has been corrected.
- Items with skill-charging effects will no longer give synergy bonuses to
skills when equipped on a character without those skills.
- Pasting from the Clipboard no longer allows the creation of characters
with more than one dash or underscore in their name.
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Mysterious World-event
- Players of Hell difficulty Realm games are hereby warned that a new,
challenging world-event has been added to Diablo II version 1.10.
Players of Hardcore characters should be even more wary when
encountering Superunique monsters during an active world event. Be
prepared to execute a hasty Save and Exit, if your situation seems too
dangerous.
Fundamental architecture changes/improvements
- The skill and monster systems are now completely data-driven. Skill
balancing is simpler and quicker. Monster control/populating/creation
is simpler. Although done for our needs, mod-makers should like these
changes, too. A major result is that nearly any skill can be used by any
character class.
- A skill now may have synergy Bonuses (similar to masteries) applied by
putting points into other skills.
- The player stats and inventory system has been completely redone to
run more efficiently, improving server performance and stability.
- The collision detection system has been sped up significantly. Again,
improving server performance.
Specific changes/improvements
- Increased difficulty for high-level players to reduce future
exploitation of the game system.
- Made monsters tougher
- Beefed up monster difficulty in Act V, Nightmare, and Hell
difficulties. This was accomplished by improving monster stats (hp, ac,
etc.) and by boosting their AI/behavior in NM and Hell difficulties
(that is, by making decisions more often and by simply moving faster).
In Nightmare and Hell difficulties monster damages have generally been
increased -- dramatically in some cases.
- Reduced the effectiveness of Experience runs, power-leveling, and
leeching.
- Added randomized (especially ranged-attack) monsters to Nightmare and
Hell Act V - e.g., Burning Dead, Imps, etc.
- Increased the Experience attached to most Act V monsters in Normal,
Nightmare, & Hell difficulties.
- Reduced the HP of (Act V) Barbarian soldiers in Nightmare and Hell
difficulties.
- Increased the rate of occurrence of Unique monsters in Hell
difficulty.
- Reduced the party member Experience sharing to 0 beyond a maximum
distance of about 2 screens from the monster death. This prevents
low-level characters from joining a party and then staying completely
out of harm's way while still getting Experience.
- Increased the Experience penalty for Clvl 70+ as follows: Clvl 1 - 69:
100% Experience Clvl 70 - 99: 85% - 0.8% Experience (approximately
exponential decaying)
- Encouraged players to play in more of the Diablo II
areas/locations/levels.
- Reduced drops from the most-run SuperUnique monsters, ThreshSocket and
Pindleskin.
- Cut Experience and reduced drops in the Cow level.
- Randomized the monster populations more thoroughly throughout Act V in
Nightmare and Hell difficulties, including the addition of 'guest
monsters' from other Acts.
- Increased the number of Unique monsters in each area and difficulty.
Improved various Items
- Improved the attributes for newly-dropped Rare Armor, Helms, and most
Weapons.
- Added over 100 new Unique Items, of which 29 can be found only in
Ladder games.
Revised Skill balance for all Player Character classes
Amazon Javelin and Spear Skills
- Jab - Increased Attack Rating.
- Power Strike - Increased Attack Rating and Damage done to targets.
Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Poison Javelin - Increased the total amount of Poison Damage and
Duration. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Impale - Increased Attack Rating. Increased Damage.
- Lightning Bolt - Increased Lightning Damage. Added skill synergy
bonuses.
- Charged Strike - Increased the number of Charged Bolts released.
Reduced average Lightning Damage. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Plague Javelin - Added an Attack Rating bonus. Increased Poison
Damage. Increased Poison Duration. Lowered Mana cost per level of
skill. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Lightning Strike - Reduced the average Lightning Damage. Added skill
synergy bonuses.
- Lightning Fury - Rebalanced by increasing the average Lightning
Damage. Although it starts lower, it rises rapidly to much higher
damage. Added skill synergy bonuses.
Amazon - Passive and Magic Skills
- Inner Sight - Increased the reduction in Enemy Defense. Improved
overall.
- Valkyrie - Increased Attack Rating and decreased Mana cost. Added
resistances and skills like Evade, Dodge, etc. Added skill synergy
bonuses.
- Decoy - Extensively revised with added resistances and skills like
Evade, Dodge, etc.
Amazon - Bow and Crossbow Skills
- Magic Arrow - Added Attack Rating bonus.
- Fire Arrow - Added Attack Rating bonus. Decreased Mana cost. Added skill
synergy bonuses.
- Cold Arrow - Added Attack Rating bonus. Increased Cold Damage.
Increased Mana cost. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Exploding Arrow - Added Attack Rating bonus. Increased Fire Damage.
Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Ice Arrow - Added Attack Rating bonus. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Immolation Arrow - Added Attack Rating bonus. Decreased Mana cost.
Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Freezing Arrow - Added Attack Rating bonus. Decreased Mana cost. Added
skill synergy bonuses.
Assassin - Martial Arts Skills
- Dragon Talon - Increased Attack Rating.
- Fists of Fire - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Claws of Thunder - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Blades of Ice - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- All kick skills - Increased Attack Rating bonus.
Assassin - Shadow Disciplines
- Venom - Fixed duration at 0.4 seconds regardless of poison items
equipped.
- Shadow Warrior - Increased the Life and resistances.
Assassin - Traps Skills
- Fire Blast - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Shock Web - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Charged Bolt Sentry - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Wake of Fire - Slight increase to Damage at higher levels. Added skill
synergy bonuses.
- Lightning Sentry - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Wake of Inferno - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Death Sentry - Added skill synergy bonuses.
Barbarian - Warcries
- War Cry - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Shout - Increased duration.
- Battle Orders - Increased duration.
- Battle Command - Increased duration.
Barbarian - Combat Masteries
- Throwing Mastery - Increased the Attack Rating bonus to throwing skills.
Barbarian - Combat Skills
- Bash - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Double Swing - Decreased Mana cost. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Stun - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Double Throw - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Concentrate - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Frenzy - Added skill synergy bonuses.
Druid - Elemental Skills
- Firestorm - Increased Fire damage at higher levels. Increased damage
at higher levels. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Molten Boulder - Added physical damage. Increased damage at higher
levels. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Arctic Blast - Increased Cold damage at higher levels. Increased
damage at higher levels. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Fissure - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Cyclone Armor - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Twister - Increased damage at higher levels. Added skill synergy
bonuses.
- Volcano - Added physical damage. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Tornado - Increased damage at higher levels. Added skill synergy
bonuses.
- Hurricane - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Armageddon - Increased Fire damage at higher levels. Added skill
synergy bonuses.
Druid - Shape Shifting Skills
- Werewolf - Added skill synergy bonuses. Allowed casting of Armageddon.
- Werebear - Added skill synergy bonuses. Allowed casting of Armageddon.
- Maul - Increased Stun duration.
- Rabies - Increased Poison Damage. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Fire Claws - Slight increase to Fire Damage. Added skill synergy
bonuses.
Druid - Summoning Skills
- Summon Spirit Wolf - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Heart of Wolverine - Increased radius of effect and Life.
- Summon Dire Wolf - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Oak Sage - Increased radius of effect.
- Spirit of Barbs - Increased Life.
- Summon Grizzly - Added skill synergy bonuses.
Necromancer - Summoning Skills
- Skeleton Mastery - Increased Damage of non-Skeletal 'pets'. Increased
Life of Skeletal 'pets'.
- Raise Skeleton - Increased Skeleton Life, Attack Rating, and Defense.
Decreased the maximum number of Skeletons that can be summoned as
follows: the first 3 skill points in Raise Skeleton still yield 1
Skeleton per point (as in 1.09), however, subsequent Skeletons now
require 3 skill points each. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Clay Golem - Added the ability to slow players and monsters on hit.
Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Raise Skeletal Mage - Increased Damage. Decreased the maximum number
of Skeletal Mages that can be summoned as follows: the first 3 skill
points in Raise Skeletal Mage still yield 1 Mage per point (as in 1.09),
however, subsequent Mages now require 3 skill points each. Added skill
synergy bonuses.
- Blood Golem - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Iron Golem - Added Defense bonus. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Fire Golem - Increased Fire Damage. Added Holy Fire Damage. Added skill
synergy bonuses.
Necromancer - Poison and Bone Skills
- Teeth - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Bone Armor - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Poison Dagger - Increased Attack Rating. Increased Duration. Added skill
synergy bonuses.
- Bone Wall - Cut duration in half. Life decreased. Added skill synergy
bonuses.
- Poison Explosion - Increased Duration. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Bone Spear - Increased Magic Damage. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Bone Prison - Cut duration in half. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Poison Nova - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Bone Spirit - Increased Magic Damage at highest levels. Added skill
synergy bonuses.
Paladin - Combat Skills
- Holy Bolt - Increased Magic damage. Ignores resistances of Undead.
Increased Healing to non-monster characters.
- Blessed Hammer - Increased high-level damage. Ignores resistances of
Undead and Demons. Added skill synergy bonuses
- Vengeance - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Sacrifice - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Holy Shield - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Fist of the Heavens - Ignores resistances of Undead and Demons. Added
skill synergy bonuses.
- Zeal - Increased damage above level 4. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Charge - Added skill synergy bonuses.
Paladin - Offensive Auras
- Might - Increased area of effect.
- Holy Fire - Added Fire Damage to attack. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Thorns - Increased area of effect.
- Blessed Aim - Increased area of effect.
- Holy Freeze - Added Cold Damage to attack. Added aura damage.
Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Holy Shock - Rebalanced the area of effect. Increased Lightning Damage
on attack. Improved damage ramp. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Sanctuary - Increased Magic Damage. Added skill synergy bonuses.
Paladin - Defensive Auras
- Prayer - Increased Healing and area of effect.
- Resist Fire - Increased area of effect.
- Defiance - Increased area of effect.
- Resist Cold - Increased area of effect.
- Resist Lightning - Increased area of effect.
- Cleansing - Increased area of effect. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Meditation - Increased area of effect. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Redemption - Increased area of effect.
- Salvation - Increased area of effect.
Sorceress - Cold Spells
- Ice Bolt - Increased Cold Damage. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Frozen Armor - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Frost Nova - Increased Cold Damage. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Ice Blast - Increased Cold Damage. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Shiver Armor - Increased Cold Damage. Increased Cold Duration.
Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Glacial Spike - Increased Cold Damage. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Blizzard - Increased Cold Damage. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Chilling Armor - Increased Cold Damage. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Frozen Orb - Added skill synergy bonus.
Sorceress - Lightning Spells
- Charged Bolt - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Energy Shield - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Nova - Rebalanced Lightning Damage.
- Lightning - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Chain Lightning - Added skill synergy bonuses.
Sorceress - Fire Spells
- Fire Bolt - Increased Fire Damage at higher levels. Added skill
synergy bonuses.
- Inferno - Increased Fire Damage at higher levels. Added skill synergy
bonuses
- Fire Ball - Increased Fire Damage at higher levels. Slightly increased
Mana cost. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Enchant - Rebalanced Fire Damage. Added Attack Rating bonus. Reduced
Mana cost. Added Skill Synergy Bonus.
- Meteor - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Hydra - Rebalanced Fire Damage. Added skill synergy bonuses.
Added new Rune Words and Horadric Cube Recipes
- Added 20 new Rune Words.
- Added a Horadric Cube recipe as follows: 3 flawless gems + 1 magic
weapon = socketed, magic weapon.
- Added 46 more Horadric Cube Recipes -- upgrades for the remaining
Runes and item 'rerolls'.
- The highest 19 Rune upgrades are usable only by Ladder characters.
Closed some PvP loopholes/exploits
- Terminated the casting of 'absentee' skills such as the Sorceress'
Meteor, Firewall, Blaze, Hydra; the Assassin's Sentries; the Druid's
Volcano; etc. when the player enters town. This prevents declaring
Hostility and doing immediate damage to the unsuspecting.
- Prevented 3rd-party hacks from treating background objects as a
Waypoint.
- Enforced a 10-second delay between declaring Hostility and using a
Waypoint or Town Portal to leave town.
- Ears and other items dropped on the ground by players (even in town)
are deleted more frequently, and even when on the same screen as
players. Magic, Rare, Set, and Unique items persist longer.
- The attribute "Hit Slows Target" has been limited to no more than 50%
slowing when used in PvP.
- Fixed the bug that prevented a hostile player from targeting a
Whirlwinding Barbarian equipped with a 2-handed sword.
- Throwing an Oil Potion no longer crashes an opponent.
New Battle.net features. Please see www.battle.net for more
information.
- Introduced a new Lobby. Players now start in the lobby where they may
decide to enter battle.net chat as before or to simply create/join a
game without entering chat.
- Added the ability to recover a forgotten/stolen account password via
email registration.
- Added a new command '/mail account_name' which sends a message
directly to the account's registered email address.
- An 'expiration date' is now shown with Realm Characters on the
selection screen.
- Introduced a new Ladder System for those who prefer to play free from
any characters who may have participated in past item duping or hacking.
To use this new feature, a player places a check in the Ladder box upon
character creation -- in the same way that Expansion and Hardcore
selection is done. Periodically, the Ladder may be reset, adding the old
Ladder characters to the regular population -- who, of course, cannot
play games with the new season's Ladder characters. Thus, every season
each new Ladder character truly starts from scratch, as no 'twinking' is
possible from older characters.
- Once a player defeats Diablo, all Diablo II Battle.net accounts
accessed from that computer may create Hardcore characters.
Battle.net bugs
- Prevented a crash when waiting in the Blizzard Tech Support channel on
Battle.net.
- Realm games created without a Password no longer allow players who
specify a Password to join.
- When a character dies during an 'Alt-F4' disconnection from B.net in
Hardcore, the character icon now properly appears in both chat and the
Character Selection Screen.
- Corrected typos in the Options help.
- Prevented players from changing their chat text color and indentation
to masquerade as official Blizzard accounts.
- Warcraft III players no longer appear as cloaked figures in Diablo II
chat rooms.
- Battle.net stability has been improved when a Diablo II character that
had been designated as the operator of a private channel resigns.
- Players may no longer immediately re-join a chat Channel from which
they have been banned.
- Barbarians dual-wielding with a Javelin now show the Javelin in
battle.net chat, too.
- Removed Age from the Player Profile.
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