Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction Patch v1.13c

Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction Patch v1.13c

This patch updates Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction to version 1.13c. Read below for more information on what this patch contains...

Diablo 2 1.13c Patch Notes

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A new Mystery has been revealed!

- Adventurers of Sanctuary are hereby warned once again, that a new challenge

awaits you. Within Diablo’s Bosses, spanning across the world from the

ancient Monastery Catacombs to the Throne of Destruction, is where you’ll

find what you seek…

Major Bugs

- Fixed an item dupe bug.

- Video improvements for Intel Mac machines with OS 10.5 or greater.

- Fixed an issue where some players could kill other players while in town

(“TPPK”).

- Fixed an issue where some players could disconnect other players when

they had too many active states.

- Fixed two issues where players could stack auras in an unintended way.

Minor Bugs

- Uber Mephisto now checks for both Uber Baal and Uber Diablo to be killed

before spawning summoned minions (Before he would only check for Uber Baal).

- The game will no longer stop and then restart the game music after the

window loses and then regains focus.

- Fixed an issue where the game window would minimize when running in

windowed mode when it lost focus.

- Fixed an issue where the game window wouldn’t center properly when it

was created.

- Fangskin should now properly drop loot in Hell difficulty.

- Fixed an issue where auras were not re-applied to your mercenary after

it was resurrected.

- Fixed an issue where if you had two items which provided auras to

a mercenary and you unequipped one, the aura from the remaining

item never became active.

- Fixed an issue where the Paladin class runeword ‘Principle’ wasn’t

having all of its stats applied properly.

- Fixed an issue where the Paladin’s Charge ability would become locked

out if Holy Shield faded while charging.

- Fixed an issue where the Barbarian’s Leap ability could become locked

out if they were hit when they started to leap.

Specific changes/improvements

- Respecialization is now possible! Completing the ‘Den of Evil’ quest

will now additionally reward 1 free respec which can be saved. Players

who have already completed this quest should receive 1 free respec in

Hell difficulty.

- Increased the drop rate of high runes.

- Support for blit scaling in windowed mode. The game can now be

maximized to the largest 4:3 resolution supported (hooray widescreen users).

- Some rare drop items now have an orange color. i.e. Runes and items

required for Uber Tristam.

- Modified the gold bank limit to be a flat cap not bound by level.

- Removed the requirements to create a hardcore character.

- Greatly reduced the explosion damage dealt by Fire Enchanted monsters.

- Uber Mephisto and Uber Baal’s summoned minions no longer give experience.

- Removed Oblivion Knight’s Iron Maiden curse.

- Hellfire Torch Firestorm proc rate has been reduced to 5%.

- Users can now toggle the display of text over the Health and Mana

globes by clicking on the bottom area of each orb.

- When creating a single player game, each difficulty button is now bound

to a unique key: Normal ‘R’, Nightmare ‘N’, and Hell ‘H’.

- The ‘Enter Chat’ Button in the battle.net waiting room is now

bound to the ‘Enter’ key.

- Added the windows system buttons to the game window (MIN, MAX, CLOSE).

- Added new command line parameter ‘-nofixaspect’ which allows users to

not fix the aspect ratio to 4:3 when maximizing in windowed mode.

This lets the game ’stretch’ to fill your monitor.

- Added support for ‘-sndbkg’ command line switch. This enables sound

in background.

- Added the following aliases for pre-existing command line options,

‘-nosound’, ‘-window’, and ‘-windowed’.

Revised Skill balance for Player Character classes

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- Immolation Arrow – Increased radius of Explosion effect by 33% and

Immolation effect by 50%.

- Immolation Arrow – Explosion effect damage increased by 20%.

- Immolation Arrow – Increased base duration by 33%.

Assassin

- Dragon Claw – Synergy receives 4% additional damage per point of Claw Mastery.

- Dragon Talon – The bonus to Attack Rating per point has been increased to 35.

- Shadow Master – Increased resistance range per point from 5-80 to 5-90.

- Combo points awarded by combo moves now last 15 seconds, up from 9.

Barbarian

- Whirlwind – Reduced initial mana cost by 50%.

- Masteries – Changed critical strike chance from 0-25 to 0-35.

Paladin

- Blessed Hammer – No longer ignores resistances of undead and demons.

Druid

- Werebear – Damage bonus increased by 15% across all ranks.

- Werebear – Increased health by 25% and armor by 1% per point.

- Shockwave – Synergy from Maul adds 5% damage per point.

Necromancer

- Blood Golem – Removed negative shared life effect (player no longer

loses life when the golem takes damage).

- Corpse Explosion – Increased base damage dealt from 60% – 100%

to 70% – 120% of corpses health.

- Poison Nova – Increased base damage by 15%.

Sorceress

- Firewall – Synergy receives 1% damage per point of Inferno and

4% per point of Warmth.

- Blaze – Synergy receives 1% damage per point of Firewall

and 4% per point of Warmth.

- Hydra – Increased base damage by 15% per rank.

- Hydra – Increased base speed of Hydra projectile.

- Hydra – Reduced cooldown by 25%.