ModsbyLaz

[BrotherLaz]

1.F9 -> 1.F9b

Characters

Assassin

- Phase Bomb: no longer a left click skill to avoid the door bug.

Barbarian

- Bloodhatred: corrected skill description.

Necromancer

- Embalming: corrected skill synergy description.

Items

Sets

- The Mysteries: the weapon now correctly has AoE damage.

1.E9 -> 1.F9

Characters

- Found a workaround to allow all 'mace' type items to work with skills that require one, including clubs and hammers.

Amazon

- Bloodlust is now an innate.
- New skill: Balefire.
- Bacchanalia: bug fixed - no longer reduces spell damage at full life.
- Bloodstorm: increased missile movement speed.

Assassin

- Broadside: slightly increased lockout timer.
- New skill: Storm Cloud Sentry replaces Nova Bomb.
- New skill: Fireball Sentry replaces Immolation Bomb.
- Scorpion Blade: increased range.

- Phase Bomb can now be targetted at the ground.

Barbarian

- Bloodhatred: removed skill lockout effect.
- Shower of Rocks: fixed description.

Druid

- Poison Flash: now considered a melee skill.
- Summon Acid Fiends: removed green colour.
- Thorn Wall: now correctly displays attack rating.
- Wildfire: increased damage and range.

Necromancer

- Overhauled the necromancer trees... lots of changes. There are now separate melee and crossbow trees, and the annoying totems were mostly removed.
- Summon Shadows: increased elemental damage bonus.
- Summon Veil King: increased attack range to enable it to attack over minions.
- Summon Jinni: removed (bugged) corpse animation.

Paladin

- Hammerstrike: the hammer can now drop on AoE targets as well; fixed issue where the AoE dealt only 1/2 damage.
- Ring of Light: ring diameter reduced so it stands right in melee range.
- Ring of Light: duration locked at 3 seconds; damage increased.
- Rising Dawn replaces Vindicate; Vindicate is now an innate.

- Divine Apparition: slightly reduced freeze length.

- Rapture is now blue and has a new cast sound.
- Holy Armor renamed to Sacred Armor and is now blue.
- Hymn is now blue.

Sorceress

- Arcane Torrent: now correctly pierces.

Other

- Reduced graphics load on Cataclysm and Immolation Bomb.
- Nova Bomb and Immolation Bomb can now target a spot on the ground.

- BFG83K: fixed attack rating showing up. (Only one person noticed? Grats. But there will be endless qq threads about the smallest detail anyway, if this detail somehow makes characters LESS powerful)
- Demonic Speed: changed animation.
- Disintegrate: fixed description.
- Feral Strike, Ravage and Thorn Field now properly don't work with throwing knives.
- Shadow Avatar: damage reduced. (Yes, it was OP and you didn't know it, lol)
- Baal Rune Curse: changed animation.

Items

- Due to the replacement of the corresponding skills, existing items with Unholy Armor, Blood Tide Totem, Mana Tide Totem, Elemental Totem or Totembound Guardians on them may end up with a different skill that will likely not work. Reroll the item to fix it.

Base items

- Increased the drop rate of Warp Blades.

Specials

- Removed Signets of Gold from the game due to the overflow bug.

Magic and rare affixes

A few changes due to the replacement of the corresponding skills:
- Oskill Blood Tide Totem on paladin helms is now Summon Rampagor.
- Elemental Totem, Mana Tide Totem and Totembound Guardians are now available as necromancer oskills.
- Nova Bomb, Immolation Bomb are now available as assassin oskills.

The following items may morph: find them again to get back their old skill bonus.
- Elemental Totem (sorceress orbs)
- Mana Tide Totem (druid helms)
- Unholy Armor (level-up proc on belts)

- Fixed the bug that caused +1-4 druid skills to not show up on daggers.

Uniques

A few changes due to the replacement of the corresponding skills:

The following items may morph: find them again or reroll them to get back their old skill bonus.
- Elemental Totem: Blade of the Jitan.
- Mana Tide Totem: Argentek's Tide.
- Unholy Armor: The Overlord, Glowskull, Quietus, Darkspite, Vizjerei's Folly, Stone of the Skatsim, Demonhorn.
- Vindicate: Lightforge.
- Nova Bomb: Klaatu Barada Nikto, Larzuk's Contraption.
- Immolation Bomb: Jared's Fragmentor, Larzuk's Contraption.
- Bloodlust: Sawfish, Runeflesh, Shamanka, Terra Indiges, Na-Krul's Spine, Trollskull.

- Dragon's Breach: reduced proc rate to 10%.
- Gravetalon: added 100% Ice Elementals on kill to make aerial stfu.
- Windwall: reduced proc rate to 10% for lag reasons.

Runewords

A few changes due to the replacement of the corresponding skills:
- Amaymon: now has Howling Totem instead of Blood Tide Totem.

The following items may morph: find them again or reroll them to get back their old skill bonus.
- Elemental Totem: Orisha, Huracan.
- Mana Tide Totem: Ker, Megalith.
- Nova Bomb: Taqiyya.
- Immolation Bomb: Taqiyya, Fuse, Shaheeda.
- Bloodlust: Seid, Circe, Skald

- Aegipan: reduced proc rate to 1% for lag reasons.

Sets

A few changes due to the replacement of the corresponding skills:

The following items may morph: find them again or reroll them to get back their old skill bonus.
- Elemental Totem: Red Vex' Idol.
- Immolation Bomb: Cinadide's Bellows.

- The Warmage's Wrath set was split in two: the new Warmage set (fire) and The Mysteries (melee). You will need to refind your Warmage pieces to go with the new set, though the old pieces still combine to form the old set if you already have them.

Monsters

- Monster defense rate reduced to make non-dex builds viable.

- Veterans now correctly no longer spawn in Hatred.
- Daystar: reduced spell damage by 25%, reduced maximum pack size.
- Diablo: increased melee damage.
- Nihlathak: no longer drops exp signets in Hatred.

Levels

- Reduced monster density in key areas.
- Removed Daystars from the maggot lair.

Challenges

- Fixed the necromancer LC2 award to give +1 max totems.
- Mirror Mirror: increased chance to 1%.

Misc

- Reduced early game (<9) exp gain.
- Halved rune TC chance to cascade down to lower TCs.
- Reduced rune itemlevels.
- Removed drops from Groupies due to complaints.

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1.E9 PRERELEASE 2 -> 1.E9

Characters

Amazon

- Fire Elementals: removed cold resist penalty.
- Spirit of Vengeance: gave ED% back to the aura. Now SoV is strictly the best choice for 3/4 main amazon builds. Otherwise you might have had to think about which uberskill is the best for you, but now it is much simpler: Pick SoV. This allows you to feel good because you picked the best skill, without the annoying part of having to decide which it is.

Barbarian

- Bloodhatred: fixed description.
- Shower of Rocks: reduced mana cost.
- Stormblast: reduced mana cost.

Necromancer

- Reverted second xbow skill back to Widowmaker (the buffed version).
- Summon Jinni: increased Hellfire Aura radius.

Sorceress

- Ice Elementals: removed fire resist penalty.

Other

- Lolsummons: now LMB-able; added fake energy.
(If you're a newbie, this line has just told you that you have no business being here. Sorry.)
- Dragon Shot: renamed to Fragmentation Shot; increased radius; fixed bug that caused it to shoot only half the intended amount of nova missiles; doubled flat magic damage; updated description.
(Effect of this fix: more reliable at the edges, more than double damage near the centre)

Items

Magic and rare affixes

- Removed Crystalline from high-end +max damage affixes due to bows/throwing/xbows.
- Added Fragmentation Shot as a (common) nexcrossbow oskill.

Uniques

- Hand of Rathma: fixed useless stat.
- Sunbearer: fixed proc.

Monsters

- Reduced the maximum group size of Djinns, Ifrits, Hivehosts, Tempest Mages, Sons of Lucion, Gothi, Undead Counselors, Plaguebringers and Blood Stones to reduce lag.
- Shadowgate Totem: now has a footprint of 2x2.
- Son of Lucion: halved chance to spawn poison cloud.

Levels

- Reduced monster density in the River of Flame, Maggot Lair, Act 3 Sewers, Kurast, the jungle areas, Worldstone Keep, Frozen Tundra and the entire Act 4.

Uberquests

- Made Akarat explode when you summon him. Hell, he will die before you summon him. You just summon the charm.

Misc

- Reduced exp gain by 15%.
- Signet of Skill capped at 3.

1.E9 PRERELEASE -> 1.E9 PRERELEASE 2

Characters

Barbarian

- Fortress: now actually shoots arrows; duration increased.
- Snake Stance: reduced damage range to prevent description overrun.
- Wolf Companion: fixed description.

Necromancer

- Buckshot: improved graphics.
- Dragon Shot replaces Widowmaker: shoot an exploding potion from your bow to a ground target point.
- Rathma's Chosen: now grants 100% avoidance instead of damage reduction.

Other

- Item Wings of Wrath: reduced speed bonus.

Items

Uniques

- Celestia's Defense: removed useless oskill.
- The Flying Anvil: removed bugged runemaster bonus.

1.E9 RC2 -> 1.E9 PRERELEASE

Characters

Amazon

- Curare: fixed the issue that either this or Plague is the 'weaker' one and therefore useless: now it has the same damage.
- Spirit of Vengeance: removed ED% from aura, but left the elemental damage bonus.

Assassin

- Broadside: slightly increased lockout duration.
- Seal of Fire: new animation.

Barbarian

- Fortress: increased damage to 3/4; doubled duration bonus per level; now has a lockout timer (=/= skill timer) of 5 seconds.
- Wolf Companion: Doom radius now increases correctly.

Necromancer

- New skill: Fragmenting Crystal replaces Widowmaker.
- Lamia: now 100% chance to cast Doom.

Paladin

- Vindicate: reduced energy bonus.
- Resurrect: description is now correct.

Other

- ATMG Sentry: reduced sound volume.

Items

Cube recipes

- Crafting: MADE IT BETTER.

Monsters

- Baal: reverted to 1.D9 status because of the suicide/no quest credit bug with different AI (?!).

- Fixed incorrect monster levels of veteran monsters.
- Witches: now spawn only in the Tamoe Highland, Rocky Waste and Frozen Tundra (and CTower), let me know if they get in the way anywhere.

Uberquests

- Akarat: reduced Hammertime damage by 33%.
- Death Projector: now has a chance to proc Amazing Grace when struck.

Heroics

- Normalised levels in Terror to 70.

1.E9 BETA 3 -> 1.E9 RC2

Characters

Barbarian

- Swapped Earthquake and Stormblast in the skill tree.

- Stormblast: again does 3/4 damage.
- Titan Strike: now displays attack rating.
- Wolf Companion: curse now starts as a single target effect and gains radius from level.

Necromancer

- Widowmaker: greatly reduced mana cost, now gets +4 arrows per level.

Sorceress

- Pyroblast: slightly reduced damage.

Other

- Frozen Crown: reduced mana cost.
- Ice Bolt Nova: reduced mana cost.
- Shadow Avatar: removed ND; increased hit rate. (You never thought this was going to happen, did you?)
- Winter Avatar: increased damage.

Items

Base items

- Increased attack speed of sceptres.
- Increased damage of the Hand of God.

Magic and rare affixes

- Added numerous weapon-based hit and kill procs.
- Reenabled stat% bonuses.
- Marksman's Eye: reduced chance to drop.

Specials

- Hard Mode Charm: now uses a different hp progression which is more friendly to low level characters (2,5*diff*clvl*clvl); also now adds a percentage to AR instead of a flat bonus.

Runewords

- Greisen: now adds oskill Rock Shock.

Uniques

- Deathwind: added Lorenado proc.
- Hratli's Craft: 10% DR.
- Leathdhiabhala: added Ice Lance proc.
- Rozsochac: improved several stats.
- Spire of Kehjan: increased skill bonus.

Cube recipes

- Crafting: completely reverted to 1.D9 status.

Monsters

- Duriel: increased Fortress proc level.
- Baal: changed animation modes.

- Blackash the Burning: removed poison proc.

- Fairy Witch: increased spawn rate; reduced damage.
- Glowing Blob: slightly increased stats.
- Veterans no longer spawn in Hatred difficulty.

- Witches: restricted to Tamoe Highland, Lost City, Plains of Despair and Frozen Tundra (and the less alert variant in the Countess tower for the challenge)
- Witches: delay after pounce reduced to 10-8-6 seconds; reduced pounce radius; increased sound effect priority.

Uberquests

- Kurast 3000 BA: reverted density bonus.
- Rathma Square: Gorecrawlers no longer have excessive AR; increased life of Primus.
- Tal Rasha: increases resist pierce.

Challenges

- Removed veterans from Hatred difficulty.

- Crowned: increased star chance from 10% to 15%.
- Level Challenge 2: now involves Tal Rasha; removed +1 max level from the reward.

Drop rates

- Slightly increased NoDrop.

1.E9 BETA 2 -> 1.E9 BETA 3

Characters

Barbarian

- Fortress: skill timer is now hard point based.
- Stormblast: reduced to 1/2.
- Wolf Stance: corrected description.

Monsters

- Reduced stats of veteran monsters and fixed erroneous immunities.
- Relocated Fairywitches to the Canyon of the Magi.

- Baal: reduced Wrath and lava ball damage; slightly reduced Shardspawn life.

- Bloodfire Rogue: reduced chance to use Blindside.
- Corruptor Warlock: increased Blighted Orb damage.
- Plaguebringer: reduced pack size.
- Que-Hegan: now uses a different aura to prevent confusion with witches.

- Witches:
Removed from Durance, late Act 3, the Graveyard in Hatred and the Harem.
Added to Lost City and Valley of the Magi.
Reduced spawn rate by 33%.
Added a cooldown between Pounce casts.
Song now loops properly and has increased volume and priority.

Levels

- Countess Tower: increased safezone radius around the stairs.

Drop rates

- Reduced excessive drop rates off non-Act bosses and slightly reduced Act boss drops.

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1.E9 RC -> 1.E9 BETA 2

Characters

- Internal changes to the energy factor progression.
- Innates now have a blue icon.
- Changed description of innates to fix the skill level bug.
- Slightly tweaked block %.

Amazon

- Run speed is no longer equal to walk speed.

- Enfilade: now has cold damage conversion instead of magic.
- Fairy Ring: reduced rate of fire.
- Great Hunt: improved graphics.
- Moon Warrior: slightly reduced damage bonus.
- Pounce: slightly increased range.
- Ricochet: now has magic damage conversion instead of cold.

Barbarian

- Removed damage reflection from spirits due to the quest bug.

- Ancient Blood: moved to level 6 and absorbed the IAS bonus from Predator.
- Eagle Stance: added leech bonus.
- Fortress: timer greatly reduced and quickly decays to zero, but duration reduced.
- Overkill: improved graphics.
- Spirit Walk: consolidated description.
- Stormblast: now a level 1 skill; now less affected by walls.
- Thundergod: added lightning damage.
- Wolf Companion: increased radius and effectiveness of Hunter's Mark.
- Wolf Stance: now a level 24 skill.

- New skill: Earthquake at level 24.
- New skill: Immortal at level 90.

- Titan Strike is now an innate skill.
* Oskill versions of it can be higher level, though.

Druid

- Elemental: narrowed damage range to prevent overflow.
- Hunting Banshee: slightly reduced max damage to prevent overflow.

- Force of Nature: now affects all skills; changed progression to diminishing returns.
- Goodberry: increased duration to 2 hours.
- Tremor: reduced damage.

Necromancer

- Fixed damage progression on totems.

- Buckshot: now pierces.
- Deathlord: reduced ED% bonus to prevent damage overflow.
- Howling Totem: reduced ED% bonus to prevent damage overflow.
- Widowmaker: now does 3/4 damage and converts 50% damage into magic damage.

Paladin

- Lionheart: removed block bonus.
- Punisher: increased range.
- Searing Glow: fixed description.
- Vindicate: now also adds +25 energy per level when you kill the cursed enemy.

Sorceress

- Hex: changed sound effect.
- Ice Lance: fixed incorrect damage progression.
- Lightning Cascade: reduced maximum damage.
- Wiccaning: added FCR bonus.

- Arcane Fury: removed sound effect.

Other

- Blast Wave: reduced timer.
- CountessFirewall: bigger flames and more damage.
- Dark Summoning: reduced the delay before spawn.
- Fear Bomb Totem: corrected description.
- Summon Edyrem: now a left click skill.


Items

Base items

- Improved the labrys.
- Amazing Grace proc graphic on paladin spears improved.

Specials

- Reactivated Heart of Frost.

Magic and rare modifiers

- Max damage modifier now depends on weapon type: 2h weapons have more.
- Removed damage reflection from the affix pool.
- Reduced frequency of the 1% block bonus and removed the 2% block bonus.
- Disabled oskill Earthquake.

Uniques

- Armor of the Old Religion: replaced reanimates for lag reasons.
- Blade of the Jitan: reduced Bloodlust bonus from 250% to 100% to prevent overflow.
- Hero's Fang: now has the correct oskill Titan Strike.
- Icebird: proc now always 1%.
- Scourge of Aranoch: improved stats.
- Wing of the Dragon God: now has the correct oskill Titan Strike.

Runewords

- Erilaz: removed exploitable (and eagerly exploited) runemaster bonus.
- Freybug: now adds Wolf Stance.
- Greisen: now has the correct oskill Titan Strike.
- Stardust: now adds 1-4000 elemental damage.
- Zodiac: improved stats.

Sets

- Gathering of the Tribes: now gives 25% avoid.
- Mount Arreat: now gives 200% defense.

Cube recipes

Rewards

- Astrogha's Venom Stinger: removed slow to avoid conflict with slow attacks.


Monsters

- Witches:
You may see these in select areas. They are not hostile unless you come too close and startle them, then they eat your face. Beware...

- Reduced monster defense across the board.
- Increased monster density in many areas.
- Increased Elite monster pack size.
- Added a chance to avoid damage to various monsters.

- Mephisto: fixed erroneously low monster level, is now 40-90-121.
- Diablo: fixed erroneously low monster level, is now 50-95-121; reduced number of Blast Wave hits.
- Baal: fixed erroneously low monster level, is now level 60-100-121.
- Nihlathak: increased monster level to 81-108-121.

- Revamped Baal fight.
* Instead of clones, Baal comes with 'shardspawn', which can be killed but will leave slow moving energy runes that make you very brittle if they hit you.
* Baal skill set changed: scatter energy runes, summon shardspawn, Wrath, homing lava ball.
* Added Pearl of Wisdom drop from the Infernal Contraption to inform players about the energy runes.

- The Smith: increased damage.
- The Countess: added 'cursed' and 'maggots' boss modifiers.

- Armageddon Knight: fixed Zen Bolt doing 0 damage.
- Asatruar: increased Punisher range.
- Black Ice Demon: now pierces lightning resistance on higher difficulties.
- Blood Prince: now pierces fire resistance on higher difficulties.
- Cenobite: increased energy.
- Dark Queen: increased attack rating, fixed Phalanx spell doing 0 damage.
- Destroyer Wolf Rider: increased chance to cast Fortress.
- Gothi: increased damage, fixed Wyrd spell doing 0 damage.
- Living Flame: replaced Pyrobolt skill with actual Pyroblast.
- Mangler: slightly improved damage.
- Shroom: increased damage, fixed sparkle trail doing 0 damage.
- Tomb Curse: increased chance to summon a Darkwarden.
- Tree of Life: improved healing factor.
- Void Archon: aura now reduces vitality by 20-92-416.

- Fixed bug where all succubus types could not spawn physical immune.


Levels

- The following dungeons are now level 121 on Destruction difficulty and can therefore drop sacred uniques and sets:
-- Act 3 Durance of Hate Level 3.
-- Act 4 Chaos Sanctuary.
-- Act 5 Throne Room and Worldstone Keep.
Beware, this also means the monsters are harder!


Heroics

- Greatly reduced the size of the Stony Tomb Level 1 heroic level; increased Quov Tsin chance accordingly.
- Improved drop quality of heroic level monsters.

- Bull Prince Rodeo: Hoof Stomp now ignores defense; his normal attack now knocks back.


Challenges

- Veteran Challenge
Near the end of each Act in Terror and Destruction difficulty, you may randomly find a group of special monsters. Kill them in Terror and they will drop exactly one token. Cube all tokens with your class charm to get a bonus.

- Slayer Challenge
Kill Act bosses in Terror or Destruction. They will drop a token in addition to their regular drop. Cube all tokens, but include one of the Prime Evil tokens 3 times (eg. Andariel, Duriel, Mephisto/Mephisto/Mephisto, Diablo, Baal) to

get a Signet of Skill.

- Level Challenge 2
Simply kill Primus (Rathma Square) in Terror difficulty and cube your class charm with a perfect gem for a bonus. Also, you need to do this before level 90.

- To make the Black Road Challenge (BRC) viable in Terror difficulty, King Koth, Tran Athulua and Fauztinville are now level 80 in Terror, down from 90-105. Additionally, Tran Athulua and Fauztinville monsters have the same stat% in Terror as in Hatred instead of boosted stats.

- To make the Level Challenge 2 viable in Terror difficulty, the Rathma Square uberlevel is now level 80 in Terror, down from 95 and you gain no experience there in Terror.


Minigames
Newly introduced in 1.E9, these are a collection of 'tasks' that result in a max skill level bonus.

- Witch Blood
Find the Countess in Terror difficulty. Kill her and cube your charm with an Eth rune (r05) for a bonus. By the way... the Countess dungeon's inhabitants are a bit unusual this time round.

- Crowned
Witches appear in specific areas and do not want to be disturbed. If you come too close, you are in trouble. This minigame is active on Terror difficulty and requires you to find a witch in any Act except Act 1. (This will
not work on Act 1 witches). SLOWLY creep closer and see if a glowing star appears on your character. If so, cube your class charm with a Thul rune (r10). But be careful: too close and you're witch food.

- They Have Windows In Hell
In Act 4, you can find stained glass windows. Break one of these windows on Terror or Destruction difficulty and cube your class charm with a Hel rune (r15) while affected by the swirl effect to get a bonus.

- Mirror Mirror
In Act 5 Terror or Destruction difficulty, go to the final fight with Baal and kill his shardspawn minions. Only his minions! An average of 250 kills later, you will get swirlies. Cube your class charm with a Lem rune (r20)
for a bonus.


Uberquests

- Added a high chance to avoid damage and poison length reduction in Destruction difficulty to the following bosses:
-- Tal Rasha
-- King Koth
-- Akarat
-- Avatar of Zakarum
-- Bull Prince Rodeo
-- Belial
-- Quov Tsin
-- Astrogha

- Duncraig: massively increased Sacred drop rate (x4 when an item is rolled)


Drop rates

- All Act bosses and Nihlathak should now drop only uniques and runes.

- Enabled Signets of Greater Gold, Greater Experience and Learning to drop.
Low level monsters: 66% Gold, 33% Experience.
High level monsters: 50% Gold, 25% Experience, 10% Greater Gold, 10% Greater Experience, 5% Learning.

- The Smith has a signet drop bias.
- Nihlathak has 50% chance to drop a Signet of Learning in Hatred, always drops one in Terror and drops 3 in Destruction.


Misc

- Greatly reduced cost of mystic orbs.
- Greatly reduced cost of reagents. (OMG something in the game costs money, the horror!)
- Increased the power of experience signets.
- Reduced experience gain after level 116.

- Book of Summoning is now 1x1.

- Reduced the speed of the Punisher Nova trap.










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1.D9c -> 1.E9 RC

Changes in the RC marked in yellow.

Characters

- New block paradigm: all shields have 0% block; class-specific shields have 1% block. However, characters have an innate block rate: amazon, assassin, sorceress = 4%; druid: 3%; paladin, necromancer: 2%; barbarian: 1%. Also, Lionheart and Baneblade give +1% block, and Trap Rat Form gives +4%.
The following skills can now be mapped under the left click:
- Bloodlust
- Blood Elementals
- Wolf Companion
- Acid Fiends
- All necromancer summons
- Merkabah
- Shadowfiends
- Vessel of Judgement
- Rapture
- Ice Elementals
- Faerie Fire
- Tremor
- Baneblade
- Scourge
- War Spirit
- Thundergod
- Golden Calf

Amazon

- Bacchanalia: maximum damage is now attained earlier, but is lower.

Assassin

- Starburst: now correctly uses +% physical/magic spell damage.

Barbarian

- Melee combat skills now work only with a strength-based weapon.
- Undid the above.
- Titan Strike: now grants 10% defense per level.
- Undid the above due to negative feedback.
- Shower of Rocks: added -25% enemy attack speed debuff.
- Stormblast: now 3/4 damage.
- Lion Stance: extra damage penalty reduced to 25% from 50%.

Druid

- Elfin Weapons: corrected description.

Necromancer

- Widowmaker: damage increased from 1/3 to 2/3.
- Unholy Prayer: now a left click skill.

Paladin

- Melee combat skills now work only with a sword, blunt weapon or spear, excluding javelins and daggers.
- Undid the above.

Sorceress

- Ice Elementals: added 25% damage reduction to their Frost Armor aura.
- Lightning Cascade: slightly reduced maximum damage.
- Lorenado: increased maximum damage.

Others

- Glacial Nova: rebalanced freeze time: shorter at low level, then increases.
- Shadow Blade: removed timer, increased minimum damage, added stun.

Items

Base items

- Added 'Amazing Grace' property to paladin spears: 5% chance to become immune for 1.2 seconds on attack.
- Amazing Grace now has a graphic.
- Reduced damage of sacred warp blades and all sceptre types.
- Reduced attack rate of all sceptre types.
- Increased attack rate of war sceptres again.
- Improved warp blade damage again.
- Increased damage and attack rate of necromancer scythes.
- Swapped damage on both scythes.
- Disabled Heart of Frost until a new working oskill is substituted.
- Paladin class blunt weapons now display the correct stat ED% (they always had the correct ED%, it just showed wrong).
- Increased base damage of maiden spears and maiden pikes.
- Increased damage of some barbarian axes.

Magic and rare affixes

- Reduced the power of a few craftable affixes:
+% bonus to an attribute
+maximum damage
- Removed sceptres from the damage affix pool.
- Soulshatter oskill added to scythes.

Cube recipes

- A new recipe was added: cube 5 arcane crystals to create a Belladonna Extract which unspends your skill and stat points! (1.13 only)
- Changed the above recipe to take 3 healing pots and 3 mana pots.
- Crafting: lol.

Unique items

Buffed a number of uniques...
Chillspine: now +250-750 damage
Wing of the Dragon God: now +400-800 damage
Dreadarc: now +400-800 damage
Yaggai's Sagaris: now +400-800 damage
Warfeast: now +200-600 damage
Skylord: now +250-500 damage
Black Sun Spear: now +8-10 to paladin skill levels
Scourge of Aranoch: 33% flee attacker; minion penalty changed to +250 strength.

...and nerfed a few:
Thunderbane: removed flat damage
Meshif's Iron Parrot: 15% Broadside proc reduced to 10%.
Meshif's Iron Parrot: reverted to 15%.

- Removed the 5% slow thorns from Spirit of Damnation to prevent it from cancelling out your regular slow.

Sets

- Gathering of the Tribes and Witchhunter's set limited to 25% reanimate for lag reasons.

Monsters

- Increased elite density by 50%.
- Shredder: reduced chill duration but increased damage.

Misc

- Indiscriminate Punishment traps...
- Updated Akara to properly use the new respec functionality in 1.13.
- Base resist in Hatred is again 0%.
- Blocked stat respecs in PlugY due to the new respec potion on one side and the respec tool on the other.
- Undid the above.


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 scro

[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 ??