Recent patch changes

2.0.0

Known issues:

• Perfect Obsidian can currently not be stacked
• Evil force string error in act 5 merc description
• Some Evil force or Missing Strings in affix names
• Wrong merc skill icons for icons 3-5 in merc inventory
• Corruptions on Set Items have visual bugs due to the added attributes (colors become weird, or the item may only reveal the corruption when worn)
• Act 1 Rogue Merc with Strafe has no attack animation
• Some inconsistencies with colours in descriptions of Charges

Fixes the following:

• game now works with D2R vanilla version 2.8
• more than 600 minor bug fixes and performance improvements! (Thanks, D2RLint!)
• fixed a nasty property duplicate bug that rendered wrong properties
• skill tree panels now reflect correct prereqs for skills (dependencies simplified)
• skeletal mages now correctly spawn with fire and lightning mages exclusively
• Essences (burning, festering, hatred, etc) now unstack into unstacked versions
• correct skill tabs are now infused from Blood Biddings
• melee splash damage now works properly
• corrected pixel lines and visuals for merc inventory screen for m/k and controller

Balances the following:

• renamed Skill Biddings to "Blood Biddings" and can only be infused into Sunder Charms
• removed Might from Holy Fire requirement
• removed Amplify Damage from Weaken requirement
• Enigma's Teleport are now "Lesser Teleport" with a long cooldown
• Demon Machine now spawns with ctc Firewall
• renamed all biddings to generic "biddings" so player is forced to pick up
• Arkaines Valor: increased defense range, added hp/lvl as in 1.10, added 50% Fire Resist, added repair durability
• Inreased Melee Damage with 25% on all Exceptional and Elite Weapons across the board
• reduced distance for Force Cleave missile
• all poison-based attacks and properties now have a global 2 second duration
• • elemental skills now properly give their bonuses
• Decrepify cast by monsters now properly reduces speed, attack rate AND cast rate (casters beware in Chaos Sanctuary)
• Nerfed Confuse amplify damage synergy to only provide Amp damage if Amplify Damage is 20 base skill points
• changed Conversion skill to "Sacred Swordsmanship" that provides passive Parrying (Strafe + Dodge with no animation), increased attack rating, and synergises with Charge and Sanctuary Aura for two-handed swords ONLY, also colors the two-handed sword golden in its duration
• reduced max life of all Golems, especially Clay Golem

Adds the following:

• Slabs of Faith now drop from Baal Quest Drop Nightmare difficulty, and from all Nightmare Boss Desecrated
• Gheeds Gambles now drop from superuniques in Hell difficulty
• Baubles now drop from Terrorized superuniques in Hell difficulty *- chipped, flawed and normal gems now drop from superuniques in Terror Zones
• Baubles can be upgraded to Crafting Baubles by transmuting 50 Jewels (stacked) and a Bauble
• Crafting Baubles need to be transmuted with 50 stacks of runes, from runes 1 to 7, one at a time (first 50 Els, then 50 Elds and so on)
• When all 7 stacks of runes have been transmuted into the Bauble, a specific type of "X Crafting Bauble" can be activated by transmuting a designated 50 P-Gems, holding 50 charges of crafting.
• Crafting Baubles can be transmuted to output 2 Bauble Charges that can be used to craft directly (each crafting recipe will now remove 1 charge from the cube, so you can craft two items in a row by just replacing the crafted item in the cube)
• The Crafting Bauble can now be recharged with a new set of 50 stacked P-Gems
• edited Crafting recipes to only use runes 2-7 for all crafting types (so one crafting type takes only 1 type of rune)
• enabled a recipe to build Obsidian Stones (Flawless and Perfect) to use for Slabs of Faith and Sunder Charms
• Sunder charm biddings now drop from Hell Terrorized zones and can be used to craft Sunder Charms using Slabs of Faith
• new automod "% to not consume charges" added to all claws, daggers, bucklers, small shield and large shields, and random automod for gloves
• added three new armors that grant "Mark" of Bear and Wolf specifically to use for shapeshifter characters (not restricted to Druid)
• added new Runeword "Judgment" (GulChamHelJahDolUm) inspired by PD2 and added 2 handed sword to the item type
• added two types of melee splash to one and twohanded weapons (onehanded is an arc, twohanded is a radial damage)
• added new affix to skills that allow for "additional Revives" for Necro

Changes the following:

Mercenaries:

• Act 2 Desert Mercs are now considered "pal" class
• Act 2 Desert Mercs Might replaced with Vigor aura
• Act 2 Desert Mercs Holy Freeze replaced with Sanctuary aura
• Act 3 Sorcerors are now considered "sor" class
• Act 1 fire merc now shoots Strafe (also added passive multiple shot to add as synergy with fire arrow)
• Act 1 cold merc now shoots Multiple Shot
• Act 3 Fire, Cold and Lightning Sorcerors now have Fire, Cold and Lightning Mastery, respectively
• Act 3 Lightning Sorcerors now have added Thunder Storm skill
• Act 5 Mercs now all have Iron Skin and cast Shout
• Act 5 Frenzy Mercs now have Cleave and cast Battle Cry
• Act 5 2H Mercs now have Great Cleave instead of Bash and cast Howl

Assassin:

• elemental Charge Up skills now incur a linear resistance penalty (minus resistance and minus max resistance)
• removed dependencies between Elemental Charge Up skills
• If more than one Elemental Charge skill has points in it, a global 10 second cooldown will be set to all Elemental Charge Up skills. Phoenix Strike is the exception and this will encourage the player to pick a single element to focus on (while still being able to use different PS charges for dual elements)
• Cobra Strike charge 1 now is a poison Cloud and charge 3 is an AoE poison-based attack
• Cobra Strike now has progressive stack when charges are released
• Phoenix Strike now has a flat "minus magic damage reduction" penalty
• reduced PS charge 3 Chaos Ice freeze significantly
• Tiger Strike now has a flat "minus physical damage reduction" penalty
• Dragon Talon now has a maximum of 1 kick no matter the skill level (due to crazy unbalance when using Mosaic)
• all Finishing moves (with the exception of Dragon Flight) now no longer always hits

Druid:

• add teleport skill (Frost Wind) instead of "Arctic Blast"
• add Firestorm cast to Fireclaw attack
• added three new armors that grant either ctc "Mark of Bear/Wolf"
• "Mark of the Bear/Wolf" now has base reduction of PDR and Life % and instead scales better with skill points to Lycanthropy and Werebear/Werewolf
• Shockwave now splits into multiple waves when more skills are put into it and increases stun length
• Vines and Totems are now granted 1000% enhanced defence to avoid losing them immediately in later difficulties
• 1 Additional Vine can now be spawned per 10 base levels
• Additional Vines stat can now be granted through Nature items (primarily Druid Pelts but also certain Unique Rings)
• Carrion Vine now both recovers life and mana
• Solar Creeper now deals fire damage on attack and as a fire aura pulse instead of recovering mana
• Spirit of Barbs now grant additional 100% defense aura to make it more useful
• Additional Totems stat can now be granted through Spirit items (primarily Druid Pelts but also certain Unique Rings)
• Cooldowns removed from Volcano and Molten Boulder
• Ravens now deal cold damage
• Bear and Wolf Summons now synergise with Werebear and Werewolf (pack leader, GO!)

v1.2.0 - Pets and Peeves

Fixes the following:

• Corrupting rings with life after kill now correctly adds life after kill attribute
• Amazon javelins and bows, and Sorc Orbs now spawn with their correct automods
• Barb Battle Cry now correctly decreases enemy physical resistance (can also break immunities)
• more fixes for weapon splashing

Adding:

• support for patch 2.6
• support for Terror Zones

Sorc:

• Meteor and Firewall can now be cast continuously on controller

Paladin:

• Holy Bolt no longer pierces

Barb:

• removed Stun
• removed Concentrate
• added new lvl 12 skill: Great Cleave. Two-handed weapons only (not swords). Strikes a piercing wave through enemies on attack.
• added new lvl 18 skill: Cleave. 1-handed weapons only. Casts melee splash damage that arcs to multiple enemies close nearby.

Necromancer:

• complete revamp and balance of all skill trees, curses are enhanced, golems are now viable, and bone and poison skills all have their own niches
• see Change log for full changes

v1.1.0 - A Song of Ice and Fire: Electric Buggaloo

Fixes the following:

• Fixed all issues with missing splash damage on weapons
• Defiance aura now actually provides 1% DR per 2 base points (also includes Act2 Defiance Merc)

Adding:

• strafe now synergises with magic arrow
• guided arrow now synergises with magic arrow
• inner sight now provides -% to enemy AC
• penetrate no longer provides -% to enemy AC
• strafe is now for bows only
• multiple shot is now for xbows only
• multiple shot now provides crushing blow
• magic arrow: magic damage base conversion reduced, synergy added to guided arrow, synergy added to multiple shot
• increased damage to multiple shot
• removed some affixes from rare bolts and arrows so they only spawn on magic bolts and arrows

Paladin and Sorceress skill changes:

• see change log for details

v1.0.3

Fixes for the following issues:

• Pruby and Psapphire cubing swallows other items
• Experimental fix for crash twice (skilltab biddings id corrected)
• Uber keys stacks no graphics
• Fomenters crafted ring now requires Tal rune
• Charges now have rare items in the description for forging
• Teleport charges now show on Spellsteel
• Typo in Elemental Bidding text
• Shield corruptions no longer returns flawless on bricking
• Synergy description bug for Find Item
• Fixed string bug for Deadly strike suffix

Added:

• Backend structural changes that allows for easier handling of future Blizzard updates
• Iratha's full set bonus now decreased
• Description for flawless gems transmuting
• New names for biddings and infusion points (Biddings of Li-Ming and Spirit Infusion)
• Decrease Power Strike cost
• Lightning Fury bolts now caps at 11 and scales with the number of skill points
• Increase Hell bidding drops
• Full rejuvs now only heals 65%
• Essences (Twisted, Suffering, Hatred) now drops in Hell difficulty (instead of full tokens)
• Token of Absolution stacks now unstack into unstacked tokens
• Decrease mana cost for Leap and Leap Attack

v1.0.2

Fixes for the following issues:

• Flawless gems transmuting to Perfect
• Forging anything but set weapons and armor failed

v1.0.1

Minor update with fixes for:

• Rune stacks, orbs, essences, charges, new stacks now shows on ground
• Unlimited unstacking of most rune stacks
• Weird light rays underground
• No roof on Travincal temple
• Corruption color overflow for corrupted set items
• No longer corruptions with no new attributes
• Act 5 merc suiciding and crashing the game

Added: - Descriptions on Flawless gems explaining that they can be transmuted into other flawless gems - Save folder with enabled additional shared stash tabs