ModsbyLaz

[BrotherLaz]

1.D9b -> 1.D9c

Characters

Paladin

- Retaliate: window of opportunity now lasts 5 seconds, up from 2.
- Merkabah: damage reduced, but hit rate increased, and now gains increased radius per level.

Sorceress

- Hex: corrected skill description; now lasts 5 seconds, up from 2.

1.D9 -> 1.D9b

Characters

Barbarian

- Spirits now have slightly less life at higher character levels due to overflow.
- Shamanic Trance: reduced life bonus due to overflow.

1.A9c -> 1.D9

Characters

- Damage synergies completely removed. This is compensated by the energy buff below.
- Diminishing returns curve on spell damage is much flatter, avoiding the discouraging 1/4 at high skill levels.
- Energy bonus to spell damage has a flatter curve, meaning more damage at higher energy values.
- Mana costs now increase at 50% their previous rate.
- Reduced inert duration of sacrifice effects.
- Greatly increased cast speed of sorcs and druids with staves and attack speed of barbs with 2h weapons.

Amazon

- Dragon Lady
Dragonforce: reduced submissile rate, but increased damage to match.

- Moonfury
Moonbeam: added magic damage conversion.
Ricochet: added cold damage conversion; reduced bounces.
Enfilade: added magic damage conversion.
Moon Warrior: added life per kill.
Fairy Ring: added fire damage conversion.

- Bloodwitch
Magic Missiles: now a level 1 skill, damage adjusted accordingly.
Bloodstorm: increased damage.
Lava Pit is a new level 24 skill, replacing Death Ray.

- Huntress

Pounce: radius locked, but gains damage from str or dex.
Great Hunt: increased damage; changed graphics.

- Spirit of Vengeance: uses a more intelligent AI that follows the player; changed cast sound; is now invulnerable!
- War Spirit: now hits every 2 seconds instead of every second, but does double damage.

Assassin

- Batstrike: increased AR, greatly increased charge duration; bats now inherit PB.
- Crucify: may now shoot up to 8 extra missiles depending on nearby enemies.
- Queen of Blades: changed cast sound.

- Way of the Spider: rebalanced damage progression.

- Cryo Beam is a new level 6 skill, replacing Rune of Ice.
- Immolation Bomb: corrected damage progression.

- Psionic Storm is a new level 18 skill, replacing Rain of Bombs.

- Storm Crows: increased damage.
- Wychwind: reduced timer.
- Maelstrom Mk.II is a new level 18 skill, replacing Rocket Blade.

- Beacon: changed cast sound.
- Way of the Gryphon: doubled damage.
- Way of the Raven: increased damage.

Barbarian

- Fortress: reduced starting timer and improved timer progression.
- Spirit Guide: aura refreshes faster; radius increased; missing FCR bonus added to description.

- Titan Strike: colourshift should now override armour colours.

- Increased run speed of spirits.
- Spirit Walk is a new level 24 skill, replacing Shaman's Path.
- Protector Spirit: now gets a lot of Bloodlust damage from level.

- Rebound: reduced axes per level; reduced damage.
- Screaming Eagle: now also slows the targets; increased radius.
- Overkill is a new level 24 skill, replacing Hawk Talons.

- Snake Stance: rebalanced damage progression.

- Wolf Stance: CB is now a self-synergy.
- Shamanic Trance: improved graphics; now offers str-based bonuses to minions; now adds +1 spirit per hard point.

Druid

- Elfin Arrows: desc now reflects that it also affects forms.
- Spore Shot: now 3/4 damage.
- Nova Shot: now 3/4 damage.

- Removed both charm trees, eliminating the unpopular charm druid build in favour of two shapeshifting trees.
- The new Trap Rat tree:
Trap Rat Form
Quill Storm
Egg Trap
Ferocity
Thorn Wall
- The new Treewarden tree:
Treewarden form
Pummel
Circle of Life (moved from the poison tree)
Wildfire
Rampage

- Charm: takes the place of Circle of Life in the poison tree.
- Pagan Rites: now castable under skill lockout.

- Hailstorm: improved graphics by removing bugged light radius.
- Rain of Fire is a new level 18 skill, replacing Fire Fountain.

- Poison Flash: increased duration.
- Acid Fiends: fixed desc.

- Force of Nature: increased bonus.
- Goodberry: recipe now works only with druids.

- Mark of the Wild is now an innate skill; you get it in your icon list for free.

Necromancer

- Minion tree overhaul:
Summon Darklings removed.
Summon Rampagor and Summon Lamia moved up.
Summon Veil King is a new level 18 skill.

- Combat tree overhaul:
Soulshatter and Deathstrike removed.
Massacre is a new level 18 skill.
Deathlord is a new level 24 skill.

- Totem trees overhaul:
Exploding Totem and Totemic Mastery removed.
Frostclaw Totem moved up to level 1.
Totembound Guardians is a new level 6 skill.
Oathbreaker Totem is a new level 18 skill.

- Famine: increased damage bonus.
- Buckshot: uses a new skill function to remove the need to click at the edge of the screen to get a focussed blast.

- Summon Jinn: Hellfire Aura radius increased.

Paladin

- Retaliate: radius locked, but now gains damage per strength.
- Hammerstrike is a new level 6 skill, replacing Holy Insanity.
- Merkabah: renamed from Edict of Forbiddance, and now also deals fire damage and converts damage to fire damage; radius locked, but now gains damage per strength.

- Searing Light: added physical damage component.
- Brimstone is a new level 12 skill, replacing Holy Trap.

- Shadowfiends: now also inherit Plague.

- Tainted Blood: now heals faster for each additional point spent, but is now hard pooint based.
- Mind Flay: now an explosion effect with no ND.
- Punisher: timer reduction is more severe per skill point.

- Rapture: now also increases cast rate; timer reduced per skill point, all the way to 0 timer; increased duration.

- Plague: greatly increased damage. Did NOT replace the skill. Boo hoo.

Sorceress

- Ice Queen
Ice Lance: increased freeze duration and missile speed.
Frigid Sphere: increased damage.
Ice Elementals: consolidated synergies, so you no longer need to max the entire cold tree; increased run speed; added +% defense aura (the other promised changes didn't work, sigh).

- Stormfury
Lightning Cascade: fixed desc error.
Nova Charge: improved graphics.
Warp Armor: avoid ramp is now slower, but linear.
Warp Armor: corrected desc.

- Sister
Living Flame is a new level 6 skill, replacing Fear of Fire.
Illumination: spell damage bonus is now linear.

- Witch
The poison tree is now more equal to the other trees:
* Duration mostly reduced
* Total damage reduced because of this
* Damage per second left the same or boosted.
* Now more spammable

- Arcane Torrent: now has a mana cost; now does damage based on full mana.
- Fixed huge unintended diminishing returns on Arcane Torrent and Mana Sweep.

- Mystic Blood is a new level 90 skill, replacing Full Force.
- Bladestorm moved up to level 24; fixed incorrectly high convert %.
- Baneblade is a new level 90 skill.

- Time Field: increased radius, is now again soft point based because Blizzard greatly disliked the concept of synergies on missile-carried curses.

Other

- Several skills added to the oskill list:
Call Leprechaun, Death Ray, Deathstrike, Dominate, Elvensong, Exploding Totem, Fear Bomb Totem, Fire Bolt Nova, Holy Trap, Horned God [currently disabled], Overkill, Rune of Ice, Soulshatter, Spiral Dance, Summon Darklings, Whirlpool.
- Also removed an oskill:
Liche Totem (aura state cannibalised for druid melee tree).

- The old 'melee druid oskills' (Feral Strike, Ravage, Thorn Field) now work with axes, maces and daggers, the same weapons as the shapeshifting trees.
- Feral Strike: removed block bonus.
- Thorn Field: now does sensible damage.

- Reduced mana cost of many oskills.
- Ancients' Hand: increased damage.
- Body of the Savior: reduced HP of resurrected corpse and removed Gift of Inner Fire.
- Fire Cannonade: item versions have reduced firing rate.
- Guard Tower: removed skill timer.
- Maelstrom: desc fixed.[/color]
- Summon Overlord: petmax is now +4 instead of +15.
- Summon Shock Beast: reduced required level.
- Claw Tornado always had an ND of 4 and not 10 noobs.

Items

Base items

- Clubs are now maces.
- Maces are no longer headgear for crafting purposes.
- Fixed crash bug with some blunt weapons.
- Splash damage weapons now do full damage in their radius, up from 3/4.

Magic and rare items

- Added a number of new oskills.
- Added MORE PROCS OMGOMG.
- Added more maximum damage affixes, up to +1000 damage
- Shapeshifter weapons now spawn with up to +4 druid skills.
- Druid helms can now spawn with serious dexterity bonuses.

Specials

- Updated Kara's Trinket.

Runewords

- Split the throwing runewords between knives and axes.
- Made an attempt at fixing the issue this caused where you couldn't unequip your weapon, lol.

- The following runewords had their bonuses restored after being changed due to skill modifications. This means old versions of the runewords will morph, but newly found ones are okay. To update your runewords, unsocket them and remake them.
Thammuz
Black Cat
Tarqeq
Seed of Conflict
Colliding Worlds
Kallisti
Lily
Nix
Revelation
Lyrannikin
Dar-Al-Harb
Ker
Savitr
Banshee (Possess proc replaced with Charm proc)

- Rebalanced the following runewords:
Crusade (Revelation)
Eris
Hali
Astarte
Typhaon
Stalactite
Spectre
Shedim
Dirge
Tzeentch
Amaymon
Ngozi
Quimbanda
Semhazai
Kronos
Ghoul
Krypteia
Taqiyya
Derweze
Outlaw
Scorched Earth
Warlock
Cassilda
Ginfaxi
Jihad

- Added 17 new runewords:
Tau
Patriot
Fennec
Quantum
Raptor
Lemuria
Aspect
Ekam
Rattus
Instinct
Thundercloud
Raid
Hastata
Haste
Hastilude
Hastur
Hastin

Uniques

- Unique maces that erroneously had a dex bonus instead of a str bonus have been fixed.
- The following uniques had their bonuses restored after being changed due to skill modifications. This means old versions of the uniques will morph, but newly found ones are okay.
Icehunter's Fang
Seraph Wing
Bucket of Love
Rattenfanger
Hypnodisk
Gift of the Spiritbeast
Nimmenjuushin
Al Dhih
Lex Ferarum
Hivemind
Leathdhiabhala
Stone of the Skatsim
Larzuk's Contraption
Kingsport's Signals

- Rebalanced the following uniques:
Deathforce
Xorine's Cane
Wedding Dress of the Zann
Manastorm
The Lumberjack
Edge of Extinction
Gnarled Root
Acidburn
Norrec's Topor
Icepick
Clawscratch
Death Touch
Rockshatter
Magebane
Flowerspring
Mooncurse
Uldyssian's Legion
Compass of Souls
Blackheart
The Toecutter
Storm Cloud
Lavadome
Wailing Wall
Zerae's Veil
Big Bad
Darkflesh
Nimmenjuushin
Lex Ferarum
Griswold's Revenge
Branch of a Million Splinters
Lychnus Lyaei
Thunderbane
Emberstorm
Dusk Shard
Gryphon's Claw
Drow Valor
Angler's Hook
Demonstorm
Thunder Machine
Larzuk's Bombard
Sky Sweeper
Al Dhih
Kaskara of the Taan
Claw of the Spirit Wolf
Blade of the Jitan
Skeld's Battlesong
Elite Hacker
Warfeast
Leathdhiabhala
Fiacla-Gear's Wisdom
Witchbane
Malleus Maleficarum
Glor-an-Fhaidha's Firebark (Glor-an-Fhaidha's Claws)
Toesie Warmer
Akarat's Trek
Crest of Arnazeus
Kethryes' Warband
Danmaku
The Tannr Scutum
Rozsochac
Toraja's Champion
Morlu's Friend
Bul Kathos' Voice
Coldhunger
Augur's Pelt
Nature's Orphan
Demonlure
Fateweaver
Drake Cigar
Hivemind
Argentek's Tide
Cloak of the Vasan Queen
Bartuc's Curse
Demonspike Coat
Armor of the Old Religion
Felblood
Klaatu Barada Nikto
Ripstar
Earth Rouser
The Prophet's Veil
Dragonspine
Naiad King

- Changed secret unique policy.
- Added a few new secret uniques.
- Disabled Cornerstone of the World due to massive duping.

Sets

- Rebalanced the following set items:
Avalanche
Cinadide's Bender
Lend Me Thy Light
Rathma's Skeleton
Full set bonus: Creed
Full set bonus: Caoi Dulra
Full set bonus: Satanic Mantra

- Replaced outdated sets:
Removed: Druid Summoner Set
Removed: Druid Charmer Set
Removed: Necromancer Totemic Set
New: Rainbow Warrior (Druid Trap Rat Set)
New: Last King of Scosglen (Druid Treewarden Set)
New: The Towerlord (Necromancer Totemic Set)

- Caoi Dulra set: affected by an act of god.
- Warmage's set: removed Doom proc.

Monsters

- Slightly increased monster damage on Hatred.
- Removed lifedrain damage off reanimates.

- Diablo: slightly reduced Blast Wave level, but increased melee damage.

- Poison damage of heroic Obsidian Knight, Darksister and Venom Fiend reduced.

- Daystar: increased Angelfire spell level.
- Mangler: reduced damage due to the Storm Crows buff.
- Onyx Knight: changed immunity, resulting in a clean fire, cold, lightning immunity set at Diablo's seals.
- Void Archon: nerfed DR% aura.
- Warforged Shaman: increased Maelstrom damage.
- The Smith, Hephaesto and Izual are no longer knockbackable.

Uberquests

- Kurast 3000 BA: slightly increased monster life to match regular elites.
- Island of the Sunless Sea: increased monster stats by 15%.
- Tran Athulua: increased unique drop rate by 20%.
- Duncraig: increased unique drop rate by 25%.
- Duncraig: reduced poison damage.

Hirelings

- Act 1 Priestess: now uses Spore Shot; fixed Deathstrike level.
- Act 3 any: doubled damage bonus per level.
- Act 3 Necrolyte: now casts Beacon with its default attack and can shoot sharks with bees in their mouth.

1.A9 -> 1.A9c

Characters

- Leech on Destruction is now 1/50, up from 1/75 (but slightly down from 1/40 before)

Necromancer

- Summon Jinn: now correctly freeze immune, as if it matters. Blood for the blood god! Skulls for the skull throne! Changes for the change log!

Sorceress

- Frigid Sphere: increased minimum damage. Feel free to declare it useless, though, because you don't realise that damage decreases with distance.
- Nova Charge: made it so you can see the screen. NO, the radius decrease is not a nerf, it did barely any damage at a dist-- oh screw it, RESPEC OUT ALREADY.

Items

Cube recipes

- Added lolrecipes to make quest items.

Runewords

- Astarte: now properly gives Fortress.

Monsters

- Attempted to make Dragon Eggs untargetable by minions to prevent them getting egg on their face. Instead, it seems the minions aren't targeted by the eggs now. *hums 'Ik kocht een ei, de melkboer zei...'*
- Lost Soul poison damage reduced to 1/4, but increased run speed and life.
- DID NOT TOUCH FAUZTINVILLE. GAAAAAAH.

1.A9 prerelease -> 1.A9 release
Note: this is only the list of changes since the last beta patch. For the full list of changes, hit Ctrl-F, type '1.99' and Enter to jump to the 1.99 -> 1.A9 beta change list, and scroll up from there.

Characters

Paladin

- Tainted Blood: Reverted accidental nerf.

Sorceress

- Symbol of Esu: Reduced heal bonus to +250/level.

Items

Specials

- Corrected a few Pearls of Wisdom.

Hirelings

- Disintegrate is now properly an uberskill.

1.A9 RC5 -> 1.A9 prerelease

Characters

- Partially unnerfed leech. Noobs.

Amazon

- Dragonforce: reduced attack rate from 5 to 3 shots per second.
- Spirit of Vengeance: eliminated sprite-heavy effects off reanimated Core Lords and Plaguebringers.

Assassin

- Black Lotus Strike: reduced mana cost.
- Broadside: timer -1 second due to popular qq.
- Death Blossom: reduced mana cost.

Barbarian

- Rebound: corrected description.
- Screaming Eagle: limited range.

Druid

- Fixed corrupted formula leading to erroneous Lifeshield defense numbers.

Necromancer

- Increased minion caps due to whining (after they were reduced due to whining...):
> Shadows: 30
> Darklings: 40
> Rampagors: 20 (unattainable)
> Lamia: 30 (unattainable)
The only one that is really noticable is the Shadows (skill level 30), because it is also the only monster made out of two pieces and therefore twice as laggy (CLoD skeletons were made out of 9 pieces...).

Paladin

- Black Sleep: corrected timer.
- Blood Thorns: no longer worthless - sorry, I meant to say it no longer has ND.
- Holy Trap: corrected synergy description.
- Slayer: removed irritating sound.
- Tainted Blood: reduced duration and therefore increased heal rate.

Sorceress

- Creeping Doom: fixed description; renamed back to Carpet of Spiders.
- Fear of Fire: timer is 10 seconds and decreases with hard points, down to 5.2 at 21, 4.0 at 28 etc.
- Forked Lightning: capped number of bolts at 8.
- Frigid Sphere: reduced cold damage for balance reasons.
- Ice Elementals: reduced Glacial Nova proc chance but increased damage and life.
- Lightning Cascade: increased damage.
- Lorenado: increased damage.
- Symbol of Esu: greatly increased life and mana heal.
- Time Field: reduced slow % to avoid hitting the cap early; reduced radius.
- Thunderstone: fixed bug that caused excessive damage.
- Swapped Arcane Fury and Symbol of Esu in the skill tree.

Items

Cube recipes

- Ber jewelcraft: reverted nerf, leech bonus now 1-2% up from 1%.

Runewords

- Oniwaka: 25% Forked Lightning proc.

Uniques

- Frostbringer: corrected stats.
- Icehunter's Fang: now has Ice Lance proc.
- The Moon Fairy: renamed to Mooncurse.

Monsters

- Reduced size of superunique packs.
- Baal: now uses Tremor instead of Deathstrike.
- Snotspill: took away big magic.
- Superuniques (should) have only 1 immunity; reduced exp; minions of special bosses are now heroic.
- Upgraded Act bosses and seal superuniques.

Drop rates

- Reduced chance that elites drop uniques.
- Reduced unique drop rates by 20%.
- Reduced item rain from superuniques.

1.A9 RC4 -> 1.A9 RC5

Characters

Assassin

- Perfect Being: fixed corruption issue.

Sorceress

- Frigid Sphere: fixed erroneous ND.

Items

Sets

- Elemental Fury: oskill replaced with Lightning Wall.

Monsters

- Grimspike and El Chupacabras are now regular Quill Bears.

1.A9 RC3 -> 1.A9 RC4

Characters

Amazon

- Blood Elementals: increased mana cost.
- Starstreak: reduced graphical spam.

Assassin

- Death Blossom: increased mana cost.
- Perfect Being: reverted to 1.99 status.
- Scorpion Blade: max blades synergy is now from Rocket Blade.
- Vampiric Icon: improved leech.

Barbarian

- Eagle Stance: now again soft point based, removed damage penalty.
- Fortress: mana cost frozen at 40.
- Screaming Eagle: reverted unpopular graphic.
- Shaman's Path: greatly improved Bloodlust damage bonus
- Snake Stance: corrected synergy description.
- Spirit Guide: boosted defense and reduced radius to match its role as a skill to encourage proper battle positioning (ie. right with the stupid minions in the middle of danger).
- Stormblast: damage increased from 1/4 to 1/2. It was a well balanced skill, and thus useless.

Druid

- Fire Fountain: slightly reduced mana cost.
- Hailstorm: no longer misfires if you don't click on the target.

Necromancer

- New skill: Summon Jinn replaces Necromantic Trance.

- Bend the Shadows: changed sound effect.
- Frostclaw Totem: replaced sound.
- Mana Tide Totem: replaced graphic to avoid overlay bug.
- Unholy Prayer: limited radius to enable melee contact; changed sound effect; changed icon.
- By popular demand, limited max number of minions to reduce maintenance:
> Shadows: 10
> Darklings: 15
> Rampagors: 5
> Lamia: 5
- Totems now properly get your -% enemy resists.

Paladin

- Black Sleep: is now an area effect spell.
- Edict of Forbiddance: reduced damage from 1/2 to 1/3.
- Shadowfiends: increased cap from 10 to 20 because it wasn't overpowered.

Sorceress

- New skill: Frigid Sphere replaces Cold Fear.
- New skill: Ice Lance replaces Frozen Soul.
- New skill: Lightning Cascade replaces Lightning Wall.
- New skill: Symbol of Esu replaces Disintegrate.
- New skill: Fear of Fire replaces Inner Fire.
- New skill: Creeping Doom replaces Carpet of Spiders.
- New skill: Lorenado replaces Venomous Spirit.

- Bladestorm: ND is now 3, down from 5.
- Flamestrike: increased mana cost.
- Forked Lightning: now gains +1 extra bolt every 3 skill levels.
- Ice Elementals: greatly increased damage; increased mana cost; reduced Glacial Nova CtC% due to lag.
- Pyroblast: increased damage.
- Spiral Dance: now costs 100 mana.
- Static Orb renamed to Thunderstone and graphics changed.

Other

- Body of the Savior: now a summoning skill.
- Liche Totem: stat bonus is now a percentage to avoid the strength bug.
- SMG: greatly increased damage (3/4) and increased attack rate.

- Shower of Rocks procs now appear on the target and not yourself.

Items

Specials

Magic and rare affixes

- Low level +skill affixes are no longer so easily culled from the affix pool at high levels.

Cube recipes

- Reduced Ber craft power.

Uniques

- Stuff...
- Coldhunger: now procs Ice Lance.
- Frostbringer: now procs Ice Lance
- Icetomb: now procs Ice Lance.
- Khalim's Gloriole: replaced broken retribute bonus with -% enemy fire resist.
- Zerae's Veil: now procs Lightning Cascade.

Sets

- Eruption, Snowstorm: reduced chance to cast to reduce lag.
- Serpent's Tongue: now procs Lorenado.
- Vasily's set: reduced chance to cast to reduce lag.

Runewords

- New runeword: Tonatiuh.
- Circus: replaced with Kodiak.
- Dirge: reduced chance to proc Crucify.
- Herfjotur: reduced chance to proc Time Field.
- Manta: now procs Lightning Wall.
- Sway of the Stars: now works.

Monsters

- Beefed up these superuniques:
* Snotspill
* Grimspike
* El Chupacabras
* Moonbender
* Flower Prowler
* Blightfire
* Kermit
* Plaguewrath
* Fleshdoom
* Doomweaver
* Deadeye
* Fatal Morgana
* Warpwing
* The Smith
* Hephaesto
* Izual
* Gharbad the Weak
* Deathspit
* The Vizier
* Nightwing the Cold
* Goldblight of the Flame
* Zhar the Mad
* Deathshade Fleshmaul
* Gorestone
* Lachdanan
* Bilefroth the Pit Master
* Bloodmoon Soulfire
* Bloodskin Darkbow
* Lionskull the Bent
* Stormbane
- Have no idea why Act bosses aren't dropping only rares.
- Baal: increased damage; now uses Deathstrike instead of Time Field.

Uberquests

- Aldric Jitan: can no longer be frozen.
- Toraja: fixed erroneously low hit points of Celebrants in Destruction.
- Tran Athulua: the amazons can no longer be interrupted and forced to shoot nothing.

Drop rates

- Toraja: fixed shrine drop rates.

1.A9 RC2 -> 1.A9 RC3

Characters

- Rebalanced many mana costs.

Items

Specials

- Taha rune now shows up.

Drop rates

- Toraja: Reduced jewel spam.


1.A9 RC1 -> 1.A9 RC2

Characters

Barbarian

- Spirit Guide: now again affects Wolf Companion; increased radius.

Drop rates

- Toraja: greatly reduced gem drops to reduce screen clutter.
- Drop rates massively increased, even if they were fine in 1.99 and were higher in the RC...
> Unique: 1/100 base, 1/50 max
> Rare: 1/25 base, 1/15 max
> Set: 1/15 base, 1/5 max
> Magic: 1/5 base, 1/1 max

1.A9 beta 4 -> 1.A9 RC

Characters

- Slightly reduced leech nerf.

Amazon

- Dragonforce: range synergy now from Ghost Arrow; now gains +1 target per 2 levels to balance it against Barrage and Phalanx.
- Spirit of Vengeance: detection range is already 80, and because I'm such a failure, I can't make it follow you either.

Assassin

- Perfect Being: bonus +5% at all levels.
- Phase Bomb: resist pierce locked at -15%, enough to remove immunities but not enough to break uberquest shield auras.
- Singularity: mana cost now 470.

Barbarian

- Eagle Stance: nerf reverted: heal bonus again based on soft points because I forgot people do not want to put more than 1 point into an active defensive skill unless it makes you invincible, and even then. This one only makes you half invincible.
- Kraken Stance: corrected description.
- Shower of Rocks: improved power of the attack rating curse.
- Thundergod: reduced nova frequency to prevent permastun effect.
- Wolf Companion: +1 wolf per 5 levels; fixed targetting issue with the curse; removed erroneous AR display.

Other

- Body of the Savior: halved life and damage due to overflow.

Items

Specials

- Fixed Taha and Ghal graphics.
- Was unable to change the superior properties because they're somehow coded a second time in special columns.

Runewords

- Dirge: now works. Much qq about balance, little beta testering.
- Eos: reduced demon damage and lowered CtC% for lag reasons.
- Linga Sharira... yeah.
- Nero: CtC% Fortress = 10%
- Shaheeda: reduced crushing blow chance.

Unique

- Sky Sweeper: newly dropped ones should now have a working proc, I think.

Other

- Unblocked stat reassignment with PlugY.

Drop rates

- Drop rate halfway between 1.99 and earlier betas now:
> Uniques: 1/200 base, cap at 1/50;
> Rares: 1/25 base, cap at 1/15;
> Sets: 1/20 base, cap at 1/10;
> Magic: 1/5 base, cap at 1/1.
- Toraja: doubled Great Rune chance.
- Toraja: reduced item drop rate and increased blank drops to reduce item clutter on the ground.

1.A9 beta 3 -> 1.A9 beta 4

Characters

Amazon

- Dragonforce: damage again 1/2, but dragons move 50% faster.

Assassin

- Singularity: corrected mana cost.

Barbarian

- Kraken Stance: implemented 2% synergy from any other stance.
- Spirit Guide: removed effect from Wolf Companion, because it defeats the point when the wolf is untargetable.

Necromancer

- Soulshatter: now has ND again, but 3/4 damage.

Paladin

- Edict of Forbiddance: radius reduced.

Items

Specials

- Rune graphics of Great Runes modified to prevent Black Background effect.

Magic and rare affixes

- Disabled Clobber and Gorefest on bows.

Runewords

- Brocken: replaced RoL proc with Lemures at a lower chance.
- Eris: reduced CtC% from 4% to 1%.
- Tarqeq: CtC% Rune of Ice is now on kill; reduced CtC% Arrow.

Monsters

- Made an attempt at introducing champion packs, but it looks like my efforts to fix champion Astroghas have caused this to break, god damn it.

Drop rates

- Fixed issue that caused Torajian GRs to be about 20x rarer than intended.

1.A9 beta 2 -> 1.A9 beta 3

Characters

Amazon

- Dragonforce: damage now 1/4.

Barbarian

- Kraken Stance: removed max level synergy because people don't get it, yay.
- Spirit Guide: description is now correct.

Necromancer

- Soulshatter: removed ND again because zomg any skill with ND is useless, even if it has a ND of *2* and it was bugged to have no ND in the first place so it's like an omnidirectional Buckshot which means it is very overpowered but whatever, I don't care.

Items

Cube recipes

- NEW RECIPE: CUBE AN OLD HAMMER OF TAAN JUDGES OR WORLDSTONE KEY (THAT LOST SOME OF ITS BONUSES IN THE TRANSITION TO 1.A9) TO ADD ITS MISSING/REDUCED MODIFIERS BACK.

Drop rates

- Corrected issue that caused Toraja runes to drop excessively rarely.
- Rebalanced drop rates... again. Stupid magic find. Stupid game.


1.A9 beta -> 1.A9 beta 2

- Fixed most passive poison descriptions.

Characters

- Unnerfed leech.

Amazon

- Dragonforce: damage 1/2; starts at 2 targets; fixed incorrect excessive target description.

Barbarian

- Screaming Eagle: fixed description.
- Shower of Rocks: changed effect to -% enemy attack rating to prevent reaching 100% in the right party/with the right oskills.

Druid

- Poison Flash: coverage +1.

Necromancer

- Soulshatter: nerf undone, but now properly has ND (2 frames).

Items

Runewords

- Dirge: reduced life on striking, removed Spike Nova proc.
- Zodiac: replaced broken Trinity Beam proc.

Drop rates

- Reduced unique drop rates from the excessive 1.A9 values.

Challenges

- Dragon challenge: Act 2 one now needs (and returns) a tp scroll as ingredient to prevent conflict with the goodberry recipe; Hatred level limit is now 60 instead of 40; dragons no longer stunnable.

1.99d -> 1.A9 beta

Characters

- Base block modifier down to 0 for paladins, -1 for everyone else, -2 for sorcs.
- Reduced mana per energy point by -1 (now you gain +2, +4 or +6) to reduce the chance of overflow with heavy investment.
- Energy Factor power increased, but now tapers off at very high energy investments to prevent damage overflow.
- The minion resistance cap is now +75%, up from 50% (and not 25%, liars).
- Slightly reduced mana gain per energy point of some mana-intensive characters to avoid mana overflow.

- All enemy-affecting resist pierce skills (except the assassin uberskill Phase Bomb) have been removed, leaving only item-based sources of -% resist (including Shadowfiends). This is because due to a bug in D2, they worked at full strength against immunities based on shield auras, making a lot of uberquests trivial to beat. Sorry, people.

Amazon

- Death Ray: fixed too-long formula causing erroneously low damage.
- Dragonstrike replaces Wraith Arrow: fires a slow moving dragon that shoots spines at nearby enemies.
- Ghost Arrow: added self-synergy for +1 arrow per 10 levels.
- Fairy Ring: fixed base target seek range; +0.6 yards at all levels.
- Moon Warrior: increased enhanced damage bonus from 15% to 20% per level.
- Pact of Blood: duration now goes up with hard points.

Assassin

- Doom: reduced synergy from 20% to 15%.
- Perfect Being: now based on hard points, but you get run speed from soft points.
- Rocket Blade replaces Maelstrom: fires a zigzagging explosive knife.
- Scorpion Blade: now gains +1 blade per 10 Broadside levels; synergy moved to Rocket Blade.
- Singularity: mana cost frozen at 780.
- Way of the Spider: poison length now increases by 0.2 seconds per level.

Barbarian

- Eagle Stance: heal rate now based on hard points, and there is now a slight damage penalty.
- Kraken Stance: added max level synergy from all other stances.
- Lion Stance: corrected display showing excessive damage; reduced ED% component; removed max level synergy but increased magic damage per level.
- Predator replaces Berserk Fury: similar effect, but instead of hit recovery speed it offers life steal.
- Runemaster: reduced by half.
- Screaming Eagle replaces Eagle Dive: similar effect, but instead of resist pierce it reduces damage and attack speed.
- Shower of Rocks: now instead of the (bugged) physical resist pierce, it reduces enemy damage. This is because the proposed -% attack rating change was useless because you didn't bother doing the math or you did and concluded that -50% attack rating is slightly inferior to x2 defense so it's weak and gimped. Please abandon your melee barb. I want you to make a bombsin.
- Snake Stance: slowing effect is now a self-synergy.
- Spirit Guide: now also adds +40% total defense, +15% per hard point.

Necromancer

- Buckshot: QUAD RANGE.
- Deathstrike: doubled flat damage component, which isn't bugged.
- Famine: reduced ED% to prevent damage overflow.
- Fireheart Totem: to reduce lag, rate of fire divided by 4 but damage multipled by 4.
- Necromantic Trance: added sound effect.
- Summon Rampagor: poison damage now increases with character level, up to 5-10x higher than before!
- Summon Void Archon: aura no longer reduces enemy resistance, but now reduces damage by 25%.

Paladin

- Edict of Forbiddance replaces Retribute: periodically deals weapon damage in an area.

Sorceress

- Fixes an issue where some lightning skills gained an incorrect bonus from energy factor.

- Bladestorm: increased damage from 1/2 to 3/4.
- Hive: synergy increased from 8% to 10%.
- Nova Charge: synergy increased from 4% to 6%.
- Spiral Dance replaces Starfire. Sorry to all Starfire users. See above. Also, the melee sorc's reliance on a single unique item sucked.
- Time Field: no longer has ND.

Others

- Added skills: Path of Flames, SMG, Amatoxin, BFG83K, Body of the Savior.

- Ambush: reduced skill timer to 2 seconds.
- Medusa: now does 1/2 damage, up from 1/4; conversion 100% -> 75%; reduced NextDelay to 3 frames.
- Sunburn: now inflicts slow instead of resist pierce.

Items

Base items

- Crossbows in melee range (Buckshot) now have increased click range.

Specials

- Removed fire, cold, lightning and poison elixirs to free up state rows.
- Added three new Great Runes for Toraja: Krys, Auhe and Sha'ad.
- +% stat gems now go from 1% to 5%.

Magic and rare affixes

- Reduced stat% affixes on jewels from 3-6% to 1-2%.
- Added oskill Ancients' Hand, Tantrum, Gorefest and Clobber to appropriate magic, rare and crafted items.

Notice on existing affixes
Due to a rescaling of the corresponding number ranges, existing items with +% chance to block will have their chance go down by 3%, items with +max minions by 5 and items with +% total weapon damage will go down by 50%. This will not affect newly spawned items. Please reroll or refind the item.

Runewords

- Added 60 new runewords:
Adramelech, Amanita, Apostasy, Brocken, Cambion, Carabosse, Cassilda, Cecaelia, Circus, Derweze, Dirge, Eos, Eris, Eurynome, Eventide, Freybug, Gilgamesh, Gravastar, Greisen, Hecatomb, Herfjotur, Hermanubis, Indigo, Jaguar, Joker, Jokulmorder, Krypteia, Kundalini, Linga Sharira, Ljosalf, Mkodos, Myrrhbearer, Nero, Nigra, Nyx, Oniwaka, Orchid, Quaoar, Resheph, Rhea, Riot, Riptide, Rotundjere, Sauron, Shaheeda, Skarn, Skilt en Vriend, Snowsquall, Spectre, Stardust, Sway of the Stars, Styx, Tarqeq, Titanomachia, Tombstone, Tynged, Tzeentch, Vertigo, Wolfsangel, Zodiac

- Aiwass: minion damage = 21-25%
- Apotheosis: all stats +21-30; spell damage +11-15%.
- Asmodai: CtC% increased to 5%.
- Astarte: now has oskill Moon Warrior.
- Avatar: skill levels = 1.
- Azrael: enhanced damage = 151-180%.
- Berith: ED% = 201-250%.
- Cathedral: poison duration = +101-150%.
- Cauldron: proc improved: now 20% level 11 Hex on attack.
- Comaetho: avoid = 5%; sorceress skill levels = 2; removed thorns effect to reduce line numbers.
- Dragonheart: defense per level = 3.5%.
- Drekavac: skill levels = 1; cold damage = 100-200.
- Dyaus Pita: increased defense to +201-250%; stats should be useful now due to the jewel nerf.
- Fuse: increased CtC% level to 14.
- Gauntlet: increased Crucify CtC% to 33%.
- Geas: poison duration bonus increased to +41-50%.
- Gehenna: ED% = 251-300%.
- Ginfaxi: Runemaster effect locked at 1%.
- Hadad: skill levels = 2.
- Hibagon: reanimate chance = 5%; skill levels = 1.
- Icarus: run speed bonus increased to 80%.
- Ilmatar: CtC% level = 7.
- Judas: reanimate chance = 21-25%.
- Judge: CtC% is now 25%.
- Kali: skill levels = 1.
- Khany: CtC% changed to Starburst, oskill to Thunder Slam; max damage per level = 2; ED% = 201-250%; sorc skill levels = 1-2.
- Kronos: replaced redundant proc with 100% level 17 Time Strike on kills.
- Lammasu: spell damage = +21-30%.
- Lataif-as-Sitta: oskill Illumination/Rapture level increased to 11-16.
- Lincos: oskill changed to Arcane Torrent.
- Malakbel: fire resist = 100%!; doubled fire spell damage.
- Mirage: skill levels = 1, but minimum resist all is 51% up from 31%.
- Nehushtan: IAS penalty reduced to -10%.
- Nephilim: strength and vitality = +50; removed skill level bonus; flat ac = 150.
- Ngozi: spell damage increased to +31-40%.
- Norma: oskill changed to Cold Fear.
- Raudna: now also shoots Arrow instead of Time Strike for lag reasons.
- Sabertooth: increased global damage to 2%/level.
- Samhain: druid skill levels = 2; cast rate 10% -> 40%.
- Scorched Earth: increased Pentagram CtC% level to 59, chance to 33%.
- Shark: CtC% = 6%; ED% = 41-60%.
- Shaula: ED% = 251-300%; slow = 33%; reanimate chance = 21-25%; flat damage = 150-250.
- Siegfried: all resists +21-25%.
- Skald: CtC% increased to 40%.
- Summanus: skill levels = 2.
- Summit: skill level bonus replaced with +151-200% GF.
- Takfir: guaranteed paladin skill levels = 2.
- Triune: elemental damage = 333-1666 per element; resist all = 66%; ED% = 201-250%.
- Unity: skill levels = 1.
- Urada: Necrobot reanimate chance is now 25%.
- Void: slow = 40%; damage reduction = 11-15; reanimate chance locked at 10%; flat damage = 25-50.
- Wintermute: skill levels = 2; spell damage = +31-40%; global ac = +21-30%.

Unique items

- Griefbringer: attempt number two thousand to fix the damned proc.
- Hammer of Ghrab Thaar: changed reanimates to Blood Templar. Of course, someone had to find an exploit and everyone had to exploit the hell out of it. Damn you. Damn you.
- Helm of Sprits: CtC changed to Venomous Spirit.
- Lachdanan's Avenger: CtC changed to 3-8% Spike Nova.
- Seal of the Nephalem Kings: removed old and obsolete +% damage based on strength.
- The Moon Fairy: CtC changed to Banish.
- Wedding Dress of the Zann: removed oskill because it is now a learnable skill.
- Worldstone Shard: CtC changed to 5% Mana Sweep.

Set items

- Rathma's Tyranny: the CtC% on them broke due to the replacement of Guard Tower, but newly spawned ones have Guard Tower again. Other items like this are unaffected.
- Witchhunter's Faith: broken move speed bonus removed.
- Edyrem's Children full set bonus to Starfire changed to +4 sorceress skill levels.
- Hadriel's Lore full set bonus oskill removed.
- Lone Wolf's full set bonus oskill changed to +19 Nova Charge.

Cube recipes

- Blessing: no longer works on ethereal items to prevent the stacked defense bug. Thanks, Blizzard, again. Yes, your 5000000 defense armors are now illegitimate.
- Gem upgrade: no longer needs CP to make perfect gems.
- Jewelcraft (Lem): bonus now +3-5 stats.
- Unique creation recipe: now requires only 2 crystals instead of 4! You now need a perfect gem, though. (Ps. It never required CP)
- Upgrade recipe (regular): no longer has a crafting point requirement; only 1 crystal.
- Upgrade recipe (unique): no longer has a crafting point requirement; only 1 crystal; now instead of a perfect gem, you just need any gem.

*tsc-isc

Drop rates

- Fixed bug where magic find did not work on set, rare AND unique items. Yes, MF% was entirely broken for months. It was a drama when the set bug was discovered, with people screaming for a patch and whatnot. Nobody noticed that uniques were broken in the same way. Thanks for participating in my unintended social experiment, and remember: *baaah! baaaaah!*
- Act end bosses will now always drop at least rares.

Monsters

- Slightly reduced monster damage to make up for the various character nerfs.
- Many uberquest bosses are now immune to knockback.
- Gothi: increased damage.

Uberquests

- Kurast 3000 BA: Hammer of the Taan Judges: removed +1% block chance.
- Astrogha: Venom Stinger: skill levels = 1.
- Duncraig: poison throw damage greatly reduced to prevent instadeath against characters stuck in monster groups, making the level unfair for a lot of characters.
- Tal Rasha & Koth: minions now freeze immune because someone found a bug with this to stop shield auras and of course posted it in the public forum.
- Toraja: by popular demand, now adds +1 max skill level, down from 5.
- Vizjun: Cold Fusion Schematics: +stat range reduced to +11-25; trophy reward nerfed.
- Vizjun: reward drop rate is now 100%.

Challenges

- Disabled the Attribute Challenges because people feel like they are REQUIRED to do them and then curl up and cry when it turns out they can't do them, cursing the gods of the world because their character will FOREVER be WEAKER.

Hirelings

- Act 2 Exemplar: now uses Gorefest.


1.99b -> 1.99d

Characters

Amazon

- Pounce:

Items

Uniques

- Hellspeak: Added oskill Devil's Fang Totem.
- Prince of Nothing: added oskill Singularity.

Monsters

- Corrected incorrect monster attack ratings in Destruction.

1.99b -> 1.99c

Characters

Barbarian

- Guardian Spirit: removed knockback, stun length fixed at 5 frames.
- Hawk Talons: trap collision size is now 3, up from 1.

Necromancer

- Frostclaw Totem: removed NextDelay.

Paladin

- Blood Thorns: NextDelay is now 3, down from 4; reduced mana cost.
- Lemures: reduced mana cost.
- Mind Flay: NextDelay was 3, is still 3, lol at people complaining about it.

Sorceress

- Diseased Cattle: narrowed spread again, due to complaints about viability.

Items

Uniques

- Black Sun Spear: removed bugged modifier.
- Wedding Dress of the Zann: added Spiral Dance oskill again.

Sets

- Fixed full set glow on Witchhunter's and Big Game Hunter sets.
- Fixed affix colour bug on Gathering, Big Game Hunter, Caoi Dulra and Sacred Earth.
- The Angel of Death oskill on Warmage's helm now works with the weapon in the set.

Drop rates

- Reverted set drop rate nerf.
- Vizjun: no longer erroneously drops Rings of the Five.
- Vizjun: increased drop rates in Terror and Destruction.

Misc

- Reverted experience gain per level.

1.99 -> 1.99b

Items

Sets

- Mount Arreat set: replaced CtC% Rune of Ice with Hailstorm.
- Corrected a crash bug with the amazon sets.

1.99 beta 3 -> 1.99

Characters

Druid

- Dominate: slightly increased radius.
- Elvensong: can now be put under the left mouse button.

Necromancer

- Void Archon: fixed description.

Items

Sets

- Major revamp of almost every set.

Runewords

- Wyrm: Wings of Wrath oskill now gives a guaranteed high run speed bonus.

Other

- Stuff... I forgot.

1.99 beta 2 -> 1.99 beta 3

Characters

Barbarian

- Earthquake: reduced % chance to knockback.

Druid

- Leprechaun: now cast at the location of the cursor.
- Renamed Lorelei to Elvensong.
- Removed resist pierce bonus from this skill; it is now a bonus to Leprechauns.

Uberlevels

- Vizjun: fixed incorrect animations leading to crash problems.


1.99 beta 1 -> 1.99 beta 2

Characters

Energy Factor bonus reduced to 1/20K, down from 1/15K.

Amazon

- Pounce: 3/4 damage.

Barbarian

- Earthquake: added knockback.
- Lion Stance: corrected damage bug.
- Titan Strike: fixed descripton.

Druid

- Charm: reverted nerf.
- Elemental: now does what it is supposed to do. Nobody noticed in beta 1? Thanks, 'testers'.
- Implemented new Unseelie Court skills:

* Call Leprechaun: hostile creature with a low damage multi blade attack to charm.
* Dominate: long duration, short timer, single target charm.
* Lorelei: summon that charms enemies.

Necromancer

- Famine: increased damage bonus.
- Void Archon: greatly increased damage; fixed issue where min damage was too low on 1/2 of

the attacks.

Sorceress

- Reduced excessive synergies of some skills.
- Pyroblast: replaced animation.

Items

Magic and rare items

- Improved chance to find high-end enhanced damage and defense affixes.
- Improved chance to find high-end +max damage affix on weapons.
- Improved chance to find oskill affixes.
- Enabled Crystalline affixes on rares.
- Improved several proc affixes.
- Improved high-end +% spell damage affixes on most items that can have them.
- Enabled up to +10 assassin skills on naginata.
- Enabled up to +4 druid skills on pelts.
- Enabled up to +5 sorceress skills on mage armors.
- Reenabled +2% block rate affix and removed max level from this affix group.
- Improved high-end +mana and +life on striking in melee affixes.

Specials

- Rune drop rate nerf is now halfway between 1.95 and 1.99 beta 1.

Uniques

- Frysturgard: reverted nerf.

Cube recipes

- Dupe recipe: now works again, but only on non-cornerstone jewels and gems.

Uberlevels

- Attempted to fix Vizjun crash; feedback wanted.
- Vizjun: only magineers can now be chilled, but magineers can no longer be leeched.
- Vizjun: monsters now have 50% chance to have ITD.
- Duncraig: fixed issue where sacred items had a double chance to drop.

Monsters

- Mephisto: added resistances.
- Diablo: increased life and damage.
- Baal: added resistances, increased AR.

Heroic bosses

- Astrogha's charm now gives +2 skills. (Life regen workaround of course didn't work, so I can't add life regen back because it is broken in some D2 versions [thanks Blizzard] so the boss won't be much harder...)

1.95 -> 1.99 beta 1

Characters

- Generally attempted to make the flat magic damage and magic conversion on weapon skills more logical.

Amazon

- Barrage: removed flat damage, but increased weapon damage to 5/4.
- Enfilade: removed flat damage.
- Fairy Ring: now converts 100% damage to magic.
- Ghost Arrow: now converts 100% damage to magic.
- Moon Warrior: state now turns your armor blue if not overridden.
- POUNCE: REDUCED DAMAGE TO 4/5. PLEASE DELETE YOUR SPEARAZON BECAUSE SHE'S NOW BALANCED SO SHE'S NO LONGER ATTRACTIVE.
- Starstreak: removed flat damage.

Assassin

- Maelstrom: removed range bonus per level.
- Phase Bomb: corrected description.
- Wychwind: damage reduced.

Barbarian

- Bear Stance: added a self-synergy for 2% damage reduction per level.
- Greater Manifestations: fixed life bonus to Defenders/Protectors being inverted.
- Titan Strike: greatly reduced stat gain. Complain to Aerial.

Druid

- +25% base hit recovery speed with a staff or bow.

- Charm: now has only 50% chance to work.
- Elemental: removed drunken homing ability to improve accuracy.
- Gamma Field: doubled DPS, halved duration.
- Hunting Banshee: reduced cold damage synergy from 4% to 1%.

Necromancer

- Fireheart Totem: now targets 2 enemies down from 4 to reduce lag.
- Howling Totem: reduced enhanced damage; crushing blow is now a self-synergy.
- Soulshatter: reduced stun length to 5.
- Stormeye Totem: reduced damage.
- Summon Lamia: reduced damage; they have plenty from Doom anyway...

Paladin

- Mind Flay: reduced NextDelay from 4 to 3. For you noob kids, this is a GOOD thing.
- Retaliate: reduced flat damage component.

Sorceress

- Diseased Cattle: increased scatter radius.
- Pyroblast: massively increased damage.
- Swarm: increased maximum damage.
- Venomous Spirit: slightly reduced poison duration.

Items

Specials

- Signet of Learning: capped at 500 uses.
- Solitude: 5% bonus to durations, 1% stats.
- The Demon Core: 4% spell damage.
- Uldyssian's Spirit: 2% spell damage, +5 EF.
- Reduced Great Rune drop rate

Cube recipes

- Dupe recipe: disabled due to abuse.

Runewords

- Evanescence: reduced damage and skill level bonus.
- Raudna: reduced damage and skill level bonus.
- Shaula: reduced damage.

Uniques

- Demonhorn: reduced chance of Unholy Armor to 1%.
- Frysturgard: reduced damage to +400-500.
- Wing of the Dragon God: now has 1% Dark Star Dragon reanimate.

Monsters

- Monster changes I won't tell you about.
- Reanimated Dark Star Dragons no longer cause swirlies on death.
- Non-superunique reanimates have reduced life.
- Increased elite spawn chance from 17% to 22%.

Uberquests

Added a new uberlevel: Vizjun (Bazaar)
Added a new summoning uberboss...
Note: charms slightly nerfed for beta purposes.

Heroics

- Made the random resist aura a bit nastier.
- Quov Tsin: now permanently poison immune.
- Astrogha: increased life, now permanently poison immune.

1.95 prerelease -> 1.95

Characters

Assassin

- Death Blossom: reduced NextDelay to 3.

Druid

- Elfin Arrows: now adds a CB bonus instead of deadly strike due to damage overflow.

Paladin

- Holy Trap: duration reduced because of some obsessive HT spammers.
- Ring of Light: ditto, and mana cost reduced.

Other

- Tantrum: increased hit rate from 1 second to 0.6 seconds.
- Unique mystic orbs now work on quivers.

Items

- Changed all deadly strike items except Witchhunter's claws due to damage overflow.

Runewords

- Updated Celebration to Apotheosis.

Monsters

- Capped harpy death effect LR penalty to -50% due to noobs.

Mercs

- Increased skill level ramp of Act 3 direct damage spells.

1.95 test 3 -> 1.95 prerelease

Characters

- All weapon damage skills with a flat damage component have been changed to add magic damage to compensate for the fact that flat damage is apparently affected by skill ED%, causing people to do about 100K more damage than intended which they never bothered to tell me even though I asked them to inform me if they overflowed the 1.12 damage cap so I could fix it, and instead just reverted to 1.10 without telling me so THEY would do more damage while everyone ELSE with 1.12 overflowed and would quit due to doing low damage and being useless.
- Corrected minion resists on Terror/Dest.

Amazon

- Blood Elementals are now Fire Elementals.
- Bloodstorm: reduced duration gain per level to prevent lag.

Barbarian

- Shower of Rocks: FIXED the BUG in the character sheet name...
- Spirit Guide: doubled radius.

Druid

- Culling of the Herd: increased base value, increased synergy.

Necromancer

- Summon Lamia: reverted damage nerf.

Paladin

- Lionheart: nerfed again (sigh).
- Plague: reduced damage, because of the following:
- Retaliate: increased damage from 3/4 to 5/4.
Want to bet that people will choose to ignore the nearly-doubled multiplier and whine about the halved base Plague damage?
- Searing Orb: reduced mana cost again.

Sorceress

- Fixed the soft Arcane Torrent/Mana Sweep cap by adding a hard cap.

Other

- Hail of Stones: increased damage to Test 2 value again.
- Tantrum: now attacks once per second.

Items

Magic and rare affixes

- Black Lotus Strike oskill on necro weapons now works.

Other

- Relic of Yaerius: fixed display.

Runewords

- Fixed bug where SOME bow runewords didn't work in xbows.
- Shaula: slow 75% -> 50%.

Sets

- Assassin Melee: reduced Daystar reanimate from 33% to 20% for lag reasons.

Uniques

- Torn Flesh of Gods: added +1000 life bonus.

Uberquests

- Akarat: fixed trophy.
- Cathedral of Vanity: added a stat range to the reward charm.
- Torajians are now freeze immune due to the retarded freeze state bug.

Mercenaries

- Increased all skill level bonuses per level.
- Act 1: get spell2 at level 6 instead of 12; strength x2; dex x2.
- Act 1: Ranger: now casts Broadside instead of Vindicate.
- Act 1: Ranger: increased War Spirit chance.
- Act 1: Ranger: +1 Cascade target every 5 merc levels.
- Act 1: Priestess: now casts Vindicate instead of Guided Chain.
- Act 2: damage resist now increases by 1% per 10 levels instead of 5 levels.
- Act 2: Shapeshifter: reduced Werebear skill bonuses.
- Act 3: now wear crowns.
- Act 3: armor bonus now increases by 2% instead of 1% per level.
- Act 3: Necrolyte: now uses Venomous Spirit instead of Unholy Armor at level 90.
- Act 3: Bloodmage: now casts Liche Form less often and Punisher more often.
- Act 3: Abjurer: now casts Singularity instead of Lightning Shield and Superbeast instead of Phase Bomb.
- Act 3: Abjurer: Supernova now synergised by Forked Lightning.
- Act 5: now has Warband.

Misc

- Removed stamina pots from vendors.

1.95 test 2 -> 1.95 test 3

Characters

Amazon

- Curare: fixed issue where level 1 did too much damage.
- Fairy Ring: range is now correct.

Assassin

- Broadside: further increased initial number of missiles.
- Doom: doubled damage.
- Hades Gate: lol? It does do knockback.
- Queen of Blades: reduced volume.
- Way of the Phoenix: added 20% damage.
- Way of the Gryphon: added 50% damage.

Barbarian

- Rebound: range is now correct.

Paladin

- Lionheart: increased damage bonus.
- Plague: fixed issue where level 1 did far too much damage.
- Searing Orb: increased splash radius from 2.6 yards to 4.6 yards; reduced mana.

Sorceress

Other

- Apocalypse: greatly reduced mana cost.
- Cataclysm: greatly reduced mana cost.
- Hail of Stones: fixed splash range bug; shrunk graphic to prevent clutter.
- Powder Keg: renamed from Barrel of Fun.
- Medusa: now follows melee attack targeting rules; now requires a scythe.
- Summon Sirens: added missing shadow.
- Supernova: greatly reduced mana cost.
- Thorn Field: now multishots.
- Added two magic/rare/crafted oskills: Cyclone, Squall Gust, Static Ward.

Items

Magic and rare affixes

- Increased skill levels of magic and rare oskills.
- Improved +% spell damage on staves.
- Added unobtainable oskills as affixes: Cautious Strike, Claw Tornado, Glacial Nova, Lightning Cascade, Rune of

Mana, Possess.
- The 'Indestructible' affix on jewels is no longer capped at level 62.

Specials

- Xar rune now gives 2% hp/mp down from 5%; runewords updated.

Runewords

- Atlacamani: now a necro scythe runeword.
- Bona Dea: fixed misspelled modifiers.
- Malakbel: replaced Baal reanimate to avoid asinine Missile Firing Too Far bug (wtf Blizzard?).

Monsters

- Harpylisk: LOL! Everyone thought defense was useless because these monsters had ITD. Yes, one monster in the

game, and this apparently means defense is useless. Even better, they were bugged and didn't ACTUALLY have

ITD!! Man, some of you must be feeling like a bleating SHEEP right now.
- Pit Stone: increased damage.
- Succubus types: LR death increases in power at higher difficulty levels.

Uberquests

- Increased stats of some high-end uberquest monsters.

Heroic levels

- Belial and Rodeo can now again be damaged with poison.
- Rodeo now has 1% chance to spawn if chosen, down from 5%.
- Belial now has 20% chance to spawn if chosen, up from 15%.

Drop rates

- The economic crisis has reached Sanctuary: gold drop chance reduced by 4/5.

Hirelings

- Changed a lot of skills; see the webpage.
- Doubled life and added poison length reduction.
- Mercs now use an invisible buff instead of passives to get their exp/stat bonus.
This should allow them to turn it right back on within a few battles after they die.
Let's hope this works.

1.95 test 1 -> 1.95 test 2

Characters

Amazon

- Fairy Ring: range starts at 20 yards and increases by 0.6 yards per hard point.

Barbarian

- Berserk Fury: now properly increases block speed.
- Lion Stance: capped magic damage synergy at level 50 to avoid overflow-bug-thing.
- Rebound: range starts at 20 yards and increases by 0.6 yards per hard point.

Druid

- Fire Fountain: reduced scatter which increases density.

Sorceress

- Static Orb: reduced damage variance.
- Lightning Wall: reduced damage variance.

Other

- The druid's melee oskills now also work with maces and hammers.
- Ancients' Hand: now a melee attack; removed fire trail; converts damage to fire damage.
- Barrel of Fun: removed stun when used by a player.
- Electrobolt: increased width of the lightning trail to ~5 yards.
- Feral Strike: now properly increases block speed.
- Gorefest: now properly considered a melee attack.
- Tantrum: now a full nova instead of random bolts, but damage reduced.
- Added a number of oskills.
Medusa, Hail of Stones, Arrow Swarm, Clobber, Summon Sirens

Items

Specials

- Auriel's Focus: energy factor bonus reduced to 2% down from 3%.
- Hard Mode Charm: now gives -2% block per level instead of -10%.
- Uldyssian's Spirit: energy factor bonus reduced to +10 down from +15.

Runewords
- Added 5 new runewords with oskills:
Bows - Lum: Hornet (Arrow Swarm)
Gloves - Io: Brawl (Clobber)
Necromancer shields - Thur: Lorelei (Summon Sirens)
Paladin blunt weapons - Sha: Takfir (Hail of Stones)
Sorceress armors - Ix: Atlacamani (Medusa) [meleesorc]

Uniques

- Cornerstone of the World: arranged skill list.
- Ryuuseiu Kyanon: reduced Deathfire Bearer reanimate chance due to lag.

Monsters

- Reduced Rain of Bombs level by Ghost Phoenixes.
- Reanimated Tomb Curses no longer spawn Darkwardens.

1.94 -> 1.95 test 1

Characters

Assassin

- Batstrike: summoned familiar AR is no longer halved.
- Broadside: increased starting amount of knives to make it useful at level 1.
- Hades Gate: mana cost fixed at 120.
- Vampiric Icon: fixed low life gain, mana cost fixed at 333.
- Way of the Phoenix: increased damage by 25%.

Barbarian

- Greater Manifestations: max spirit bonus increases linearly to 6 spirits.

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Last edited by BrotherLaz on Mon Nov 16, 2009 7:19 pm; edited 23 times in total

[lintu]

argh...**** no. no. no. no. no...
why? why did you replace apo? no! so, that's the reason why i will quit.
i finally found a concept that totally fits my playstyle, is something individual and really fun, my own personal creation and you destroy it. god damn. hate.
with reduction of energy factor of UE, i finally can forget about oskill sorc. thanks.

[BrotherLaz]

A. You can use your old oskill items.

B. Level 70 Apoc didn't really do much more damage than level 30 due to diminishing returns, but it sure cost a hell of a lot more mana. This gave rise to 'oskills suck' type replies. Now it still does like 75% of its original damage at a third of the mana cost.

[lintu]

well, anyway, i was happy with what it was. i liked my uber-poser-lvl-70-apocalypse just to show off. and it worked great with feedback damage. apo until mana orb is empty, cast maxed mana sweep: everything dead.
maybe it does 75% damage with 1/3 mana cost, but you will have maybe lvl 30 apocalypse (only the magister) and not lvl 70, and so damage will be a lot lower than before.
maybe uber fcr-aposorc-is possible now, but not what i was aiming for in my project. hm....

[BrotherLaz]

I made some calculations over in your oskill thread. It does almost 80% of its damage at level 35 as opposed to 70, but at half the mana. Replace that Bartuc's with something useful and you come out ahead.

The reason it was replaced is because the extremely high spell level resulted in insane mana costs without really adding much to damage, making the skill actually less useful. (Mana Sweep... yeah... casting this every other turn doesn't make you an Apoc sorc anymore)

[lintu]

yeah, read it, now it should finally be freed of casting mana sweep every second. but as backup =)
didnt know about the diminishing returns thingy of apo, sorry for that.
thought damage would just be 1/2 while 1/2 mana costs, but i'll go on tomorrow, at first : time for bed!

[Iwansquall]

Woo, released too soon?

"Saving private median players..."


Can i expect another christmas present?

[Pyro]

Gemwords, Jewelwords Runewords.... so much to learn, my fragil little mind might explode... to think that a mod like this changes the whole factor of diablo 2 is a bit insane... damn then again.. crazy in a fun kind of way, you should think of contacting blizzard, your ideas are pure genius.

[penco]

[rushemzs]

can i play my 1.70 character on 1.71 ??