-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Diablo II Version History -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Patch 1.13c -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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%. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Patch 1.13b (Public Test Realm) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Patch 1.13a (Public Test Realm) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Patch 1.12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Patch 1.11b -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Patch 1.11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ...
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