The new patch is out and the new ladder has begun. Good luck getting to the top guys! For a list of suggested builds, see here. Here's a set of the complete patch notes:
Official Blizzard Quote:
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
I was just about to mention that but you beat me to it! Freaking awesome. I love my light sorc. I didn't see anything about the light enchanted spirit things being nerfed either though so getting to Anya will still be quite difficult.
I think the msystery was the respec pot or w/e. Also I wish the best of luck to you guys who are playing the levle up game on the ladder. Best of luck to all of ya! Happy gaming!
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Guys, question: How to use the widescreen thingy? I'm not getting it working, help?
Follow the steps below:
1) Create a shortcut to the game on your desktop.
2) Right click on the shortcut and choose "Properties".
3) In the target box after the last quotation, press the space bar once and type in the command lines below:
Windowed Mode:
Your target line should look something like "C:\Program Files\Warcraft III\Warcraft III.exe" -window -nofixaspect
Quote from "Shatterer" »
Wouldn't that be the respec crystal?
That's correct. The "Mystery" is the respec ability.
Lol the mystery is respec. That is a huge mystery to solve I mean after you finish den talk to akara it only says Change stats/skills. HOLY COW MYSTERY SOLVED!!! MAn that was a huge one. (I would laugh if they were actually smarter and actually implented a secret that they never revealed)
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You need only just ask
Aww they didn't nerf the lighting spirits... damn, they're annoying. Also Sixen, you ended up bulleting everything in the blue post and it looks kinda funny.
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
Lol the mystery is respec. That is a huge mystery to solve I mean after you finish den talk to akara it only says Change stats/skills. HOLY COW MYSTERY SOLVED!!! MAn that was a huge one. (I would laugh if they were actually smarter and actually implented a secret that they never revealed)
Well, there's the respec you get from the Den in each difficulty, and then once you use those up, you mix the three essences from bosses in Hell to make the consumable crystal.
spanning across the world from the ancient Monastery Catacombs, to the Throne of Destruction, is where you'll find what you seek...
the respec mystery is not a challenge, it happens before you even get to monastery catacombs
Quote from "DesmondTiny" »
Lol the mystery is respec. That is a huge mystery to solve I mean after you finish den talk to akara it only says Change stats/skills. HOLY COW MYSTERY SOLVED!!! MAn that was a huge one. (I would laugh if they were actually smarter and actually implented a secret that they never revealed)
He confirmed my post about the mystery being the respec token of absolution. As far as I know, that stuff hasn't been made public by blizzard yet, only the respec Akara gives you.
This pacth would be good with they didin't take that long to come out. I think they could have done a better event isntead of this respec stuff. You already have 3 free specs, whats the point ?
There are fan maded free mods with such good content, new bosss, quests, even balancement. I don't know why people who are being paid to do something don't do something half as good =.=
And the class changes are debatable. They hit the nail only in barb and sorc. The other changes looks completly insane (like increase CE damage LOL) or just insuficient (like asn's MA buff).
The patch was great in terms of bug fixes, but weak in content/balance.
Well, those mods don't support battle.net though. That could have a lot to do with it don't ya think?
For example, look at the shared stash/ bigger stash situation. They ended up scrapping it because of issues it caused with the servers if I'm correct.
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"I want to say something but I'll keep it to myself I guess and leave this useless post behind to make you aware that there WAS something... "
-Equinox
"We're like the downtown of the Diablo related internet lol"
-Winged
Well, those mods don't support battle.net though. That could have a lot to do with it don't ya think?
For example, look at the shared stash/ bigger stash situation. They ended up scrapping it because of issues it caused with the servers if I'm correct.
Yeah, you have a point.
But they could at least put a better event, like uber tristram.
And some mods support open b.net-like simulators if i'm not mistaken. But i'm don't know the subject tecnically, so i really don't know if a better content is or not possible.
I just feel lack of dedication in diablo patchs.
Official Blizzard Quote:
Patch 1.13c
A new Mystery has been revealed!
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
Specific changes/improvements
Revised Skill balance for Player Character classes
Amazon
Druid
Necromancer
Sorceress
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Guys, question: How to use the widescreen thingy? I'm not getting it working, help?
Wouldn't that be the respec crystal?
Join the chat!
If you want to arrange it
This world you can change it
If we could somehow make this
Christmas thing last
By helping a neighbor
Or even a stranger
And to know who needs help
You need only just ask
Follow the steps below:
1) Create a shortcut to the game on your desktop.
2) Right click on the shortcut and choose "Properties".
3) In the target box after the last quotation, press the space bar once and type in the command lines below:
Windowed Mode:
Your target line should look something like "C:\Program Files\Warcraft III\Warcraft III.exe" -window -nofixaspect
That's correct. The "Mystery" is the respec ability.
Diablo III Analyst
SC2Mapster
If you want to arrange it
This world you can change it
If we could somehow make this
Christmas thing last
By helping a neighbor
Or even a stranger
And to know who needs help
You need only just ask
Well, there's the respec you get from the Den in each difficulty, and then once you use those up, you mix the three essences from bosses in Hell to make the consumable crystal.
spanning across the world from the ancient Monastery Catacombs, to the Throne of Destruction, is where you'll find what you seek...
the respec mystery is not a challenge, it happens before you even get to monastery catacombs
He confirmed my post about the mystery being the respec token of absolution. As far as I know, that stuff hasn't been made public by blizzard yet, only the respec Akara gives you.
Join the chat!
There are fan maded free mods with such good content, new bosss, quests, even balancement. I don't know why people who are being paid to do something don't do something half as good =.=
And the class changes are debatable. They hit the nail only in barb and sorc. The other changes looks completly insane (like increase CE damage LOL) or just insuficient (like asn's MA buff).
The patch was great in terms of bug fixes, but weak in content/balance.
For example, look at the shared stash/ bigger stash situation. They ended up scrapping it because of issues it caused with the servers if I'm correct.
-Equinox
"We're like the downtown of the Diablo related internet lol"
-Winged
Yeah, you have a point.
But they could at least put a better event, like uber tristram.
And some mods support open b.net-like simulators if i'm not mistaken. But i'm don't know the subject tecnically, so i really don't know if a better content is or not possible.
I just feel lack of dedication in diablo patchs.
PUN!!
But srsly.