[Magistrate]

Diablo II patch 1.13b has been confirmed to not be the last phase of the latest updates to the nearly decade-old game. Bashiok posted today that a 1.13c is in the works and it is coming to completion, but warns that we will most likely not be seeing any updates from Blizzard until a week before the patch finally hits the official realms.

Official Blizzard Quote:

We're glad the changes in 1.13b are being well received. We don't think we've hit every issue obviously, there are still quite a few, as well as feature requests, etc. that we hope to address in future patches.

But, 1.13b won't be the final version of this patch. Work is already in progress and near completion on a 1.13c that addresses a few additional issues. This new version will require new patches to be generated and tested, but it won't be making its way to the PTR as we don't feel the changes warrant it.

We plan to give a one week warning before a Diablo II ladder reset, which will coincide with the release of 1.13. You're not likely to hear any updates on release schedule before that one week warning.

As has been noted lightly before, the Legacy Team will also likely be working on patches for Diablo II in the future, though no dates or specifics have been provided.

Official Blizzard Quote:

I also want to impress upon everyone that 1.13 isn't and never has been intended as a final patch for Diablo II. I realize with the long delays in getting it to PTR, and longer stretches of time inbetween patches that it seems like it's necessary that 1.13 encompass everything because, well, there's just no guarantee that anything will come after. Or in a timely fashion. But, there is a solid long term plan of action for future support of Diablo II. There's obviously plenty of room for skepticism, and I can't blame anyone for that. But even with that skepticism I hope that we can get the message across that we have no intention of stopping here.

So play up your last-minute cheats on the PTR while you can, we may not be far from the long-awaited ladder reset and finished patch that has dragged us through a long and harrowing year.

[Umpa65]

Niccee!

[Zhar]

Very good, hopefully we'll be seeing some more bug fixes, though, I highly doubt they'll be stopping dupes n' such, they're probably going to focus all their anti-cheating on the new battlenet.

[Nektu]

About time!

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

Glad to see Blizzard actually putting the elbow grease to the patch.

[Donsro]

Ladder reset please be soon!

[Musica]

This is great news. I'm excited to see what will be included in this version of the patch. Blizzard's really trying to make up for that mess that was the original 1.13 patch. I'm glad they intend to maintain their periodic work on Diablo 2.

[kira862]

Bout time

[Magistrate]

Musica said:

This is great news. I'm excited to see what will be included in this version of the patch. Blizzard's really trying to make up for that mess that was the original 1.13 patch.

I concur. When they started 1.13b, that's actually the first thing that occurred to me. It's approval rating was relatively low all over the place. Still, it doesn't look like 1.13c will have anything fantastic in it, but the tweaks at least show that they care about player feedback in some way.

I was going to add this, but I'm fairly certain that when Bashiok turned down extra content for 1.13, he said it was a possibility for 1.14. I can't remember where I saw it, though.

[kira862]

If they plan on releasing a 1.14 then it just shows that we still have a long time to wait for diablo 3.

[Magistrate]

Well, I firmly believe that Diablo III won't be out until 2012, so that leaves two years in which to patch. I also imagine there will still be a lot of people playing Diablo II online for a while after Diablo III's release. There is a surprising number of people with computers incapable of running something like that, people that hate III on a whim, etc.

[Nekrodrac]

My eyes and thoughts are on mods now. I have never tried one before.
As soon as I get into my holidays, I'll retrieve my d2 discs and get going. :cool:

Blizz seem to be working though. :D
They must have realized it was high time seeing that D3 is around the corner (kind of)...

[akse]

Hmm need to play my barb to 60 at least before reset:) have some nice sword that I wanted to build a barb for. Haven't played much though so the sword has just been lying around. Well 45 lvl now so not much to go.

[Stefke-HC]

Finally some news about the 1.13 patch :)
My guess is 2 weeks, and then they announce the reset.
1.14 will be a content patch and I think they'll fix Diabloclone (not with sojs)..

[Mobstar]

Hope so steff, 2-3 weeks would be great ;)

[Jack in the box]

I hope with the release of b.net 2.0 to the masses Diablo 2 will also get a major update. A lot of the limitations with content and such come from the old battle.net. I'm no computer programmer but I think that a major update in the online services could mean a major update for Diablo 2, without the limitations of the current battle.net.

Don't flame me for ignorance, maybe they have announced that the old battle.net will remain for legacy titles and they won't all go to b.net 2.0.

[Magistrate]

It would certainly be nice if they did extend the newer features to the old games, though. Then maybe we wouldn't need things like channel bots for holding clan areas together...

[iVile]

I am a new user here, and I am very impressed with the community over here. Great site. With that being said, I am sick of waiting for this reset. I have been awaiting it ever since they projected it to come out last April. I have no idea when this thing is going to reset, but hopefully it happens around the end of March. Anybody have any solid info on when the patch is going to be released?

[zeroRooter]

Like i said before it is impossible to work on a patch for a year like this and come out with the bare minimum of what i was expecting of it. I have to say i'm disappointed. They haven't done much and their going at the speed of a damn decapitated turtle!

I know someone who makes good d2 mods (super_jew if any of you know him) and he can make some pretty sweet stuff in a few days, and this is only one person. They're supposed to have a descent team of competent people working on this. Quite frankly I'm disgusted at how long it takes them.