Following Blizzard’s announcement that it would be releasing a new patch for Warcraft III some eight years after its release, the company has announced a patch for cult favourite action RPG Diablo II over a decade after it hit shelves.<\/p>\n
The update features a number of new additions and challenges including the ability to respec characters and improved support for windowed mode with bit scaling.<\/p>\n
Patch notes<\/strong><\/p>\n – Patch 1.13c <\/p>\n A new Mystery has been revealed!<\/p>\n – 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…<\/p>\n Major Bugs<\/strong><\/p>\n – Fixed an item dupe bug. Minor Bugs<\/strong><\/p>\n – 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).<\/p>\n – The game will no longer stop and then restart the game music after the window loses and then regains focus. Specific changes\/improvements<\/strong><\/p>\n – 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. Amazon<\/strong><\/p>\n – Immolation Arrow – Increased radius of Explosion effect by 33% and Immolation effect by 50%. Assassin<\/strong><\/p>\n – Dragon Claw – Synergy receives 4% additional damage per point of Claw Mastery. Barbarian<\/strong><\/p>\n – Whirlwind – Reduced initial mana cost by 50%. Paladin<\/strong><\/p>\n – Blessed Hammer – No longer ignores resistances of undead and demons.<\/p>\n Druid<\/strong><\/p>\n – Werebear – Damage bonus increased by 15% across all ranks. Necromancer<\/strong><\/p>\n – Blood Golem – Removed negative shared life effect (player no longer loses life when the golem takes damage). Sorceress<\/strong><\/p>\n – Firewall – Synergy receives 1% damage per point of Inferno and 4% per point of Warmth. Blizzard continues to offer considerable post game support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
– 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.
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– 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.<\/p>\n
– 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
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– Immolation Arrow – Explosion effect damage increased by 20%.
– Immolation Arrow – Increased base duration by 33%.
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– 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.
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– Masteries – Changed critical strike chance from 0-25 to 0-35.<\/p>\n
– Werebear – Increased health by 25% and armor by 1% per point.
– Shockwave – Synergy from Maul adds 5% damage per point.
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– Corpse Explosion – Increased base damage dealt from 60% – 100% to 70% – 120% of corpses health.
– Poison Nova – Increased base damage by 15%.<\/p>\n
– 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%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"