Necromancer - Summoning Skills
- Skeleton Mastery - Increased Damage of non-Skeletal 'pets'. Increased
Life of Skeletal 'pets'.
- Raise Skeleton - Increased Skeleton Life, Attack Rating, and Defense.
Decreased the maximum number of Skeletons that can be summoned as
follows: the first 3 skill points in Raise Skeleton still yield 1
Skeleton per point (as in 1.09), however, subsequent Skeletons now
require 3 skill points each. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Clay Golem - Added the ability to slow players and monsters on hit.
Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Raise Skeletal Mage - Increased Damage. Decreased the maximum number
of Skeletal Mages that can be summoned as follows: the first 3 skill
points in Raise Skeletal Mage still yield 1 Mage per point (as in 1.09),
however, subsequent Mages now require 3 skill points each. Added skill
synergy bonuses.
- Blood Golem - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Iron Golem - Added Defense bonus. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Fire Golem - Increased Fire Damage. Added Holy Fire Damage. Added skill
synergy bonuses.
Necromancer - Poison and Bone Skills
- Teeth - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Bone Armor - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Poison Dagger - Increased Attack Rating. Increased Duration. Added skill
synergy bonuses.
- Bone Wall - Cut duration in half. Life decreased. Added skill synergy
bonuses.
- Poison Explosion - Increased Duration. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Bone Spear - Increased Magic Damage. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Bone Prison - Cut duration in half. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Poison Nova - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Bone Spirit - Increased Magic Damage at highest levels. Added skill
synergy bonuses.
Paladin - Combat Skills
- Holy Bolt - Increased Magic damage. Ignores resistances of Undead.
Increased Healing to non-monster characters.
- Blessed Hammer - Increased high-level damage. Ignores resistances of
Undead and Demons. Added skill synergy bonuses
- Vengeance - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Sacrifice - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Holy Shield - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Fist of the Heavens - Ignores resistances of Undead and Demons. Added
skill synergy bonuses.
- Zeal - Increased damage above level 4. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Charge - Added skill synergy bonuses.
Paladin - Offensive Auras
- Might - Increased area of effect.
- Holy Fire - Added Fire Damage to attack. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Thorns - Increased area of effect.
- Blessed Aim - Increased area of effect.
- Holy Freeze - Added Cold Damage to attack. Added aura damage.
Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Holy Shock - Rebalanced the area of effect. Increased Lightning Damage
on attack. Improved damage ramp. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Sanctuary - Increased Magic Damage. Added skill synergy bonuses.
Paladin - Defensive Auras
- Prayer - Increased Healing and area of effect.
- Resist Fire - Increased area of effect.
- Defiance - Increased area of effect.
- Resist Cold - Increased area of effect.
- Resist Lightning - Increased area of effect.
- Cleansing - Increased area of effect. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Meditation - Increased area of effect. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Redemption - Increased area of effect.
- Salvation - Increased area of effect.
Sorceress - Cold Spells
- Ice Bolt - Increased Cold Damage. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Frozen Armor - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Frost Nova - Increased Cold Damage. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Ice Blast - Increased Cold Damage. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Shiver Armor - Increased Cold Damage. Increased Cold Duration.
Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Glacial Spike - Increased Cold Damage. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Blizzard - Increased Cold Damage. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Chilling Armor - Increased Cold Damage. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Frozen Orb - Added skill synergy bonus.
Sorceress - Lightning Spells
- Charged Bolt - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Energy Shield - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Nova - Rebalanced Lightning Damage.
- Lightning - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Chain Lightning - Added skill synergy bonuses.
Sorceress - Fire Spells
- Fire Bolt - Increased Fire Damage at higher levels. Added skill
synergy bonuses.
- Inferno - Increased Fire Damage at higher levels. Added skill synergy
bonuses
- Fire Ball - Increased Fire Damage at higher levels. Slightly increased
Mana cost. Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Enchant - Rebalanced Fire Damage. Added Attack Rating bonus. Reduced
Mana cost. Added Skill Synergy Bonus.
- Meteor - Added skill synergy bonuses.
- Hydra - Rebalanced Fire Damage. Added skill synergy bonuses.
Added new Rune Words and Horadric Cube Recipes
- Added 20 new Rune Words.
- Added a Horadric Cube recipe as follows: 3 flawless gems + 1 magic
weapon = socketed, magic weapon.
- Added 46 more Horadric Cube Recipes -- upgrades for the remaining
Runes and item 'rerolls'.
- The highest 19 Rune upgrades are usable only by Ladder characters.
Closed some PvP loopholes/exploits
- Terminated the casting of 'absentee' skills such as the Sorceress'
Meteor, Firewall, Blaze, Hydra; the Assassin's Sentries; the Druid's
Volcano; etc. when the player enters town. This prevents declaring
Hostility and doing immediate damage to the unsuspecting.
- Prevented 3rd-party hacks from treating background objects as a
Waypoint.
- Enforced a 10-second delay between declaring Hostility and using a
Waypoint or Town Portal to leave town.
- Ears and other items dropped on the ground by players (even in town)
are deleted more frequently, and even when on the same screen as
players. Magic, Rare, Set, and Unique items persist longer.
- The attribute "Hit Slows Target" has been limited to no more than 50%
slowing when used in PvP.
- Fixed the bug that prevented a hostile player from targeting a
Whirlwinding Barbarian equipped with a 2-handed sword.
- Throwing an Oil Potion no longer crashes an opponent.
New Battle.net features. Please see
www.battle.net for more
information.
- Introduced a new Lobby. Players now start in the lobby where they may
decide to enter battle.net chat as before or to simply create/join a
game without entering chat.
- Added the ability to recover a forgotten/stolen account password via
email registration.
- Added a new command '/mail account_name' which sends a message
directly to the account's registered email address.
- An 'expiration date' is now shown with Realm Characters on the
selection screen.
- Introduced a new Ladder System for those who prefer to play free from
any characters who may have participated in past item duping or hacking.
To use this new feature, a player places a check in the Ladder box upon
character creation -- in the same way that Expansion and Hardcore
selection is done. Periodically, the Ladder may be reset, adding the old
Ladder characters to the regular population -- who, of course, cannot
play games with the new season's Ladder characters. Thus, every season
each new Ladder character truly starts from scratch, as no 'twinking' is
possible from older characters.
- Once a player defeats Diablo, all Diablo II Battle.net accounts
accessed from that computer may create Hardcore characters.
Battle.net bugs
- Prevented a crash when waiting in the Blizzard Tech Support channel on
Battle.net.
- Realm games created without a Password no longer allow players who
specify a Password to join.
- When a character dies during an 'Alt-F4' disconnection from B.net in
Hardcore, the character icon now properly appears in both chat and the
Character Selection Screen.
- Corrected typos in the Options help.
- Prevented players from changing their chat text color and indentation
to masquerade as official Blizzard accounts.
- Warcraft III players no longer appear as cloaked figures in Diablo II
chat rooms.
- Battle.net stability has been improved when a Diablo II character that
had been designated as the operator of a private channel resigns.
- Players may no longer immediately re-join a chat Channel from which
they have been banned.
- Barbarians dual-wielding with a Javelin now show the Javelin in
battle.net chat, too.
- Removed Age from the Player Profile.
Major Bugs