NOTICE: Maps are being fundamentally changed this season to be stackable. Old maps will cause compatibility errors and will need to be dropped beforehand.
GENERAL CHANGES
Added a new act 4 mercenary which can be hired at Tyrael and uses staves
Dark version: Casts bone armor, Bone Spear, Teeth, Curse Mastery and Amplify Damage
Light Version: Casts holy bolt, fists of the heavens, holy nova and has sanctuary aura
Act 1 mercenaries have received several changes
Added a new act 1 physical mercenary that uses strafe, slow movement and magic arrow
The fire act 1 mercenary now uses exploding arrow instead of strafe
The cold act 1 mercenary now uses freezing arrow instead of strafe
Rare items have received a massive overhaul
Many low level affixes will no longer spawn 40 levels after they are first available (fixed - added list of affixes below)
Damage Amplification (level 15 amplify damage on striking)
Savagery, Devastation (5-15% deadly strike)
Bleeding, Siphoning (open wounds)
Chipping, Crumbling (5-15% crushing blow)
There are two new tiers of amplify damage procs
Magic and rare staves now have three tiers (alevels of affixes 37/56/76) of chance to cast on casting procs for the following skills (Fireball, Lightning, Chain Lightning, Nova, Charged Bolt, Frost Nova, Ice Barrage) These procs are level 18/24/30 based on their tiers and have different chance to proc based on the level of the skill
Magic and rare weapons now have three tiers (alevels of affixes 37/56/76) of chance to cast on striking procs for the following skills (Fireball, Lightning, Chain Lightning, Nova, Charged Bolt, Frost Nova, Ice Barrage) These procs are level 18/24/30 based on their tiers and have different chance to proc based on the level of the skill
Higher values of damage reduced by and magic damaged reduced by are available
Thorns stats on rares have been massively buffed and a new tier has been added
There is now an open wounds and added open wounds damage per level hybrid prefix on jewels
Added a new stat "+X Open wounds damage per second"
Open wounds now stacks up to three times on a target
Open wounds now lasts 5 seconds
Open wounds no longer has a ½ penalty against uniques, champions or prime evils
Open wounds now applies from attackers take damage
Open wounds now applies to splash damage
Open Wounds in PvP now has the following adjustments:
Normal: 16% damage
Nightmare: 12% damage
Hell: 6% damage
Crushing blow now applies to splash damage
Added a new stat “Curse Resistance” which reduces the effect of curses against you by X%
Reduced Curse Duration now caps at 75%
Reduced curse duration corruptions on helmet, chest, shield and quivers have been replaced with 10% curse resistance corruptions
Monsters curse durations have been reduced to 20 seconds
Implemented D2GL made by Bayaraa which allows for 60+ FPS, HD text and many other features! Press Ctrl + O in game to modify the settings
The Dps meter can now be enabled to stay on between games within the BH menu and will now reset automatically when out of combat for 5 seconds
Poison damage is now calculated more accurately in the DPS meter
Hardcore players whos deeds of valor are announced to the server will now also include the monster that slayed them
Slain messages will now come from a different account allowing you to mute them if you wish without blocking server messages
Added an attack speed calculator into the advanced stats menu. It will show the attack speed breakpoints and the amount of frames of your current breakpoint
Critical Strike stat now shows the correct values on the advanced stats page
Mephisto in Hell difficulty can now drop Prime Evil Soul (fixed - wasn't mentioned)
MAPS
Added two new unique maps
These maps will both be diablo 1 inspired
Zhar’s Sanctum will have a large chance to drop charms and the boss will always drop skiller charms (Map made by Alma)
The Stygian Caverns will have a chance for items to drop corrupted and the boss will always drop a corrupted unique item (Made by Aerlynn)
Added two new map events
Gheed now has a chance to spawn within a map having 5 unidentified item bases available for 1 million gold each. These items will always be unique and can upgrade to exceptional or elite bases similar to gambling
An Altar of the Catalyst can now spawn within your map when you interact with this shrine a boss monster will spawn defeating this monster will allow you to smash the crystal on the altar granting you Catalyst Shards. Catalyst Shards can be combined with a map to add the modifier “Area contains a random event”
Kehjistan marketplace now provides less experience
White maps can now be stacked
Reduced chance of spawning map events for white maps by 66%.
Reduced chance of spawning map events for magic maps by 33%.
UBERS
Diablo clone and Rathma now have multiple difficulties. The base difficulty will no longer drop the Diablo clone and Rathma exclusive items however will be much easier than previously to allow more people to farm their own Anni or Tainted Worldstone Shards
The Diablo Clone and Rathma exclusive items will now be locked behind hard mode difficulties. In order to access the higher difficulties you will need to cube a Vex rune or higher with the Vision of Terror or Voidstone. Vex will add difficulty 1 and each higher tier of rune will be 1 difficulty higher going from 1 (vex) to 8 (zod). The drop rates of the Diablo Clone and Rathma exclusive items as well as the difficulty will increase with each difficulty increase.
We will be granting an aura for the first three players to defeat Difficulty 1 (Vex) and Difficulty 8 (Zod)
You can now break down a hellfire torch with a key to create stackable Hellfire Ashes which can be used for the Voidstone recipe
All Diablo Clone and Rathma summon materials drop rates have been increased
Monsters within phase 1 and phase 2 of Rathma have had their experience greatly reduced
PVP
Regular potions can no longer be used within the PvP Arena
Vendors within PvP Arenas will now sell PvP mana potions which cost 1 gold and can only be used within the Arenas
Meteor now has reduced explosion radius within PvP arenas
LOOT FILTER
New Features and improvements:
Hidden gold will now automatically be picked up
Added Reload Config to the in-game settings menu
Added EDEF which will filter Enhanced Defense
Added EDAM which will filter Enhanced Damage
Added GEMLEVEL (same as GEM)
Added SOCKETS (same as SOCK)
Added %SK#%, %OS#%, %CLSK#%, %TABSK#%, %MULTI#,#% skill value outputs
Added named stat value outputs (%DEF%, %LIFE%, %MFIND%, %RES%, etc.)
Renamed %STAT-#% to %STAT#% (now matches the input condition)
All valid conditions will now work with the 'between' (~) operator
Conditions with negative values should now work more intuitively (prior to this change, something like [REPLIFE>10] would also match items with negative Replenish Life, like Soul Drainer)
Items names can now use %NL%, so long as the item is identified and its quality is magic or greater
Added %ED%
Added EDEF, EDAM, FCR, AR, REPLIFE, STAT3 (vit), STAT60 (life leech), STAT62 (mana leech) to "+" condition (can be summed before evaluation)
Reworked PREFIX/SUFFIX/AUTOMOD to all start from ID 1. Previously the first PREFIX was 968 (Stout) but will now be 1. Likewise the first AUTOMOD (Fletcher's) was 1645 but will now be 1. This will prevent loot filters from needing updates every time a new PREFIX or SUFFIX is added
Color codes which were previously Glide-Only (%CORAL%, %SAGE%, %TEAL%, %LIGHT_GRAY%) will work if HD Text is enabled (fixed - wasn't mentioned)
Bug Fixes:
Fixed a bug with Enhanced Defense and Enhanced Damage sometimes returning 0
Fixed a bug with 1H that prevented it from filtering "hand axe"
Fixed a bug with EQ2 using the wrong armor group
Fixed a bug with EQUIPPED which caused items in the shared stash to be incorrectly considered "equipped"
Fixed a bug with SHOP that would sometimes cause the condition to incorrectly return true
Fixed a bug with GEM/GEMLEVEL that prevented unstacked flawless/perfect from filtering properly
Fixed an issue with MINDMG, MAXDMG, & STAT21-24 that would incorrectly filter on base min/max weapon damage instead of +min/+max damage bonuses.
Fixed a bug with PRICE that would cause the condition to incorrectly return false in certain cases
Fixed LIFE/MANA conditions
Fixed MAPTIER to properly allow negative values
Fixed issue with MAPTIER not filtering for non-map items
SKILLS
Amazon
Fend
Now gains +20% melee splash radius on it’s second attack and +40% on it’s third
Synergies increased from 12% to 15%
Lightning Fury
Changed from gaining a bolt every 5 base levels to every 5 soft
Power Strike
Level 28+ scaling increased from 0-31 to 0-32
Lightning Strike
Chain range reduced from 20 to 16
Hits reduced from 12 to 10
Synergies reduced from 12% to 10%
Evade
The passive movement speed bonus now works properly
Assassin
Mind Blast
Now deals partial magic damage
Tiger Strike
Animation reverted back to only using it’s main hand
Can now use daggers
Shadow Warrior
Item quality per level increased from 2 to 3
Shadow warrior base item quality increased from 18 to 20
Reworked Shadow Warrior equipment generation so that they will generate boots to increase their kick damage
Allowed inspecting shadow warriors gear (using unsummon skill to highlight the warrior and press 0)
Shadow Master
Reworked Shadow Master equipment generation so that they will generate boots to increase their kick damage
Allowed inspecting shadow masters gear (using unsummon skill to highlight the warrior and press 0)
Fists of Fire
Fixed fists of fire's meteor physical damage only gaining 25% from synergies instead of 26%
Fists of fire second charge nova level 22-28 scaling reduced from 30-33 to 27-33
Fists of fire second charge nova level 28+ scaling increased from 30-33 to 33-40
Dragon Claw
Synergies increased from 8% to 14% (fixed - incorrectly said 15%)
Damage per level increased from 15% to 25%
Blade Sentinel
Synergies increased from 9 to 10%
Fire Blast
Synergies increased from 12 to 14%
Shock Web
Synergies increased from 12 to 14%
Blade Shield
Synergies increased from 8% to 10%
Blade Dance
Base damage increased from 60% to 110%
Base attack rating increased from 90% to 200%
Attack rating per level increased from 6% to 15%
Venom
No longer double dips on increase poison damage% (the poison damage% will be applied on hit and not on casting venom)
No longer has scaling duration from poison damage%
Now lasts 1.6 seconds at all levels
Cobra Strike
Now has 4 frame next hit delay
Poison Bolt level 22-28 scaling increased from 18-18 to 20-20
Poison Bolt level 28+ scaling increased from 26-26 to 30-30
Synergies increased from 12% to 14%
Barbarian
Deep Wounds
Added a new passive: Deep Wounds - This passive grants the barbarian % chance of open wounds and additional open wounds damage per second
Double Swing
Synergies increased from 16% to 18%
Frenzy
Synergies increased from 14% to 15%
Concentrate
Synergies increased from 15% to 18%
Bash
Damage per level increased from 18% to 25%
Stun synergy increased from 12% to 15%
Concentrate synergy increased from 10% to 15%
Leap Attack
Synergies reduced from 10% to 8%
Leap attack no longer uses durability
Leap attack aoe increased
Find Item
Find potion synergy removed
% chance for high quality reduced from 30% to 15%
Scaling reduced from a diminishing return scaling from 0-50 to 0-40
Druid
Spirit of Barbs
Now has a 5% synergy with Carrion Vine
Arctic Blast
Hurricane synergy increased from 14% to 16%
Tornado
Level 1 base damage increased from 25-35 to 32-35
Level 1-8 scaling reduced from 8-8 to 6-8
Level 8-16 scaling increased from 14-15 to 14-16
Level 16-22 scaling increased from 20-21 to 20-22
Level 22-28 scaling increased from 24-25 to 24-26
Level 28+ scaling increased from 28-29 to 28-30
Fury
Now gains +20% melee splash radius on it’s second attack and +40% on it’s third
Feral Rage
No longer provides increased melee splash radius
Werebear
Damage bonus per level increased from 12% to 15%
Rabies
Rabies synergies reduced from 17% to 12%
Fire Claws
Removed Lycanthropy and Firestorm synergies
Redistributed synergy values into Molten Boulder and Armageddon
Increased the base damage scaling on fire claws from 1/2/3/4/5 - 2/3/4/5/6 to 2/3/5/7/9 - 3/4/6/8/10
Added scaling fire missile creation (was flat 6 fire missiles, now it is 4 + 1 per 5 base levels (8 total at level 20))
Increased the range of fire claw fire missiles
Added basic attack damage to fire claw tooltip
Necromancer
Poison Strike
Poison nova synergy replaced with bone armor
Now has a 4 frame next hit delay
Corpse Explosion
Synergies increased from 7% to 8%
Level 8-16 scaling increased from 1-1 to 2-4
Level 16-22 scaling increased from 5-10 to 8-10
Level 22-28 scaling increased from 10-14 to 12-14
Dark Pact
Curse mastery and iron maiden synergies reduced from 18% to 15%
All curse synergies reduced from 12% to 10%
Mana cost increase per level reduced from .25 to .125
Fixed a bug that applied increased magic damage% from items to Dark Pact twice
Curse Mastery
Changed to apply a "curse cap" on the monster. This means that a curse cast from a unit with increased max curses will allow other units to apply curses up to that limit (E.g., a necromancer player with 2 max curses casts a curse on a monster, if their mercenary casts a curse on the same monster it will stack up to the necromancer's max curse limit)
Paladin
Thorns
synergies increased from 18 to 20%
Blessed Aim
Attack rating base reduced from +80% to +60%
Attack rating per level reduced from +20% to +15%
Now provides +5% deadly strike base
Now gains +1% deadly strike every 2 levels
Might
Now grants allies ½ of your personal bonus instead of ⅓
Might damage per level bonus reduced from +25% to +20%
Concentration
Attack rating base increased from +25% to +50%
Attack rating per level increased from +5% to +10%
Enhanced damage bonus per level increased from +12% to +15%
Now has a ½ penalty for its enhanced damage bonus to allies
Fanaticism
Enhanced damage per level reduced from +18% to +15%
Charge
Now gains up to +60% increased melee splash radius based on the distance traveled
Will always charge in melee range instead of doing a normal attack
“Charge bug” has now been fixed
Zeal
Now gains +20% melee splash radius on it’s second attack and +40% on it’s third
Sacrifice
Sacrifice has been reworked: It now causes the killed monster’s corpse to explode after a delay dealing 5% of the monsters health and 150% of the overkill damage dealt to the monster. (This means if you deal 130 damage to a monster and the monster has 100 health then the overkill explosion will deal 5% monster health + 45 damage) This damage is dealt as half physical and half magic
Damage to self is now reduced by physical damage reduction
Fist of the Heavens
Synergies increased from 10% to 11%
Fist of the heavens holy bolts now gain their proper synergy values
Sorceress
Blizzard
Base damage changed from 15-25 to 17-24
Level 16-22 scaling increased from 8-10 to 8-11
Level 22-28 scaling changed from 11-13 to 10-14
Level 28+ scaling increased from 15-17 to 14-19
Frozen Orb
Base damage reduced from 100-110 to 80-90
Level 28+ scaling increased from 27-29 to 28-30
ITEMS
Misc Items
Um Rune
+25% open wounds reduced to +10% in weapons
Added +120 Open wounds damage per second in weapons
Ohm Rune
40% enhanced damage increased to 45%
Uniques
Unique Weapons
The Gnasher
Added +2 open wounds damage per second
+60-70% enhanced damage reduced to +40-50%
Butcher's Pupil
indestructible removed
Adds 30-50 damage reduced to adds 20-30 damage
Added +90-120 open wounds damage per second
Skull Splitter
+60-100% enhanced damage reduced to +60-80%
15% crushing blow removed
added +12-16 open wounds damage per second
Razor's Edge
+225-325% enhanced damage reduced to +225-300%
Added +260-340 open wounds damage per second
Rune Master
+220-270% enhanced damage increased to +240-290%
Added +10-20% Curse resistance
Death Cleaver
+280-330% enhanced damage increased to +300-350%
Goreshovel
+50-70% enhanced damage reduced to +30-50%
added +8-12 open wounds damage per second (fixed typo)
Hellslayer
+100-200% enhanced damage increased to +140-200% enhanced damage
Executioner's Justice
Added +20% curse resistance
Messerschmidt’s Reaver
20% faster run walk removed
20% deadly strike removed
20% chance of open wounds added
+650-800 open wounds damage per second added
+225-275% enhanced damage reduced to +200-250%
+40-480 fire damage removed
Bloodrise
+120% enhanced damage reduced to +100%
+2 to light radius removed
Added +6-8 open wounds damage per second
Fleshrender
Added +50 open wounds damage per second
+130-200% enhanced damage reduced to +130-180%
Stone Crusher
+5-10% physical pierce reduced to 5%
The Gavel of Pain
Added +10-20% curse resistance
Earth Shifter
+250-340% enhanced damage reduced to +250-300%
The Cranium Basher
10% chance to cast level 33 Amplify Damage reduced to 8% chance
+240-280% enhanced damage reduced to +220-260%
Blood Crescent
+60-80% enhanced damage reduced to +40-60%
+15 to life removed
+4 to open wounds damage per second
Plague Bearer
+4-6 to rabies reduced to 3-5
Bloodmoon
+240-300% enhanced damage reduced to +240-280%
Level 15 blood warp charges removed
Added +400 open wounds damage per second
Ripsaw
+150-200% enhanced damage reduced to 120-160%
Added +30 open wounds damage per second
Grandfather
+200-260% enhanced damage increased to 220-280%
Fleshripper
+225-300% enhanced damage reduced to +225-275%
Added +300-360 open wounds damage per second
Removed slows target by 10%
+53% deadly strike reduced to +50%
The Scalper
+20% increased attack speed removed
Added +480-600 open wounds damage per second
Lacerator
20% chance to cast level 31 amplify damage reduced to 8% chance to cast level 31 amplify damage
+20 to minimum damage removed
Added +450 open wounds damage per second
Wraith Flight
+150-250% enhanced damage increased to +190-250%
Added +10% curse resistance
Gargoyle's Bite
-15 to -25% enemy poison resistance reduced to -10 to -20%
Bloodthief
Added +10 open wounds damage per second
The Impaler
Prevent monster heal removed
added +40 open wounds damage per second
Viperfork
6% chance to cast level 32 desecrate on striking increased to 9%
Arioc's Needle
+394 poison damage over 4 seconds removed
Added +750 open wounds damage per second
Added 20% chance of open wounds
+240-290% enhanced damage reduced to +240-280%
Steel Pillar
10-15% physical pierce reduced to 5-10%
Repairs 1 durability in 4 seconds removed
Soul Harvest
+30% chance of open wounds removed
Added 160 poison damage over 2 seconds
+50-90% enhanced damage reduced to +50-80%
Woestave
Prevent monster heal removed
Added +30-40 Open wounds damage per second
The Meat Scraper
+170-250 open wounds damage per second added
200-250% enhanced damage reduced to 150-200%
Bonehew
Added 10-20% curse resistance
Riphook
+15 maximum damage removed
Added +50 open wounds damage per second
Endlesshail
12% chance to cast level 18 blizzard on striking changed to 6% chance to cast level 24 blizzard on striking
Kuko Shakaku
+2-3 to immolation arrow removed
Langer Briser
33% chance of open wounds removed
+10-30 maximum damage increased to +20-30
Gut Siphon
+320-440% enhanced damage reduced to +280-400%
12% chance to cast level 36 desecrate on striking reduced to 12% chance to cast level 28 desecrate
+1000-1200 open wounds damage per second added
Hand of Blessed Light
+2 to fist of heavens increased to +2-3
+2 to holy nova increased to +2-3
Akarat's Devotion
20% chance to cast level 35 blessed hammer increased to 25%
Now has a chance to drop as a second variation with 25% chance to cast level 35 blessed hammer on striking instead of casting
Aidan's Scar
30% chance to cast level 20 amplify damage on striking changed to 25% to cast level 31
Zerae's Resolve
+200-250% enhanced damage increased to 220-270%
Other Uniques
Swordback Hold
Physical damage taken reduced by 5 removed
Added +8 open wounds damage per second
Moser's Blessed Circle
+25 to all resistance reduced to +20
Added 10% curse resistance
Head Hunter's Glory
+280-445 attack rating removed
+12% chance to cast level 31 amplify damage on attack changed to on striking
Added 20-30% curse resistance
Removed 25% faster run walk
Alma Negra
+150-220% enhanced damage changed to +160-200%
+1-2 to all skills increased to +2 to all skills
Dragonscale
+30 to hydra oskill increased to +35
Martyrdom
Magic damage taken reduced by +12-18 increased to +18-24
Added 20-30% curse resistance
Removed Increased corpse explosion radius
Steel Shade
+5-11 fire absorb reduced to +4-6
Valkyrie Wing
+20% faster hit recovery increased to +30%
Cyclopean Roar
Now drops in two different variations one with chance to cast on striking and one with chance to cast on casting
8% chance to cast level 6 battle cry on casting or striking increased to 10% chance to cast level 6 battle cry on casting or striking
Demonhorn's Edge
+20% increased attack speed removed
+20% chance for open wounds added
+25 All resistance removed
Added +350 open wounds damage per second
Raekor's Virtue
+20% curse duration reduction removed
+20% curse resistance added
Wolfhowl
+8-15 vitality removed
+3-6 to fury reduced to +3-5
+3-6 to werewolf reduced to +3-5
Cerebus' Bite
7-10% lifesteal removed
Added +360 open wounds damage per second
Ursa's Nightmare
Increased maximum life +20-25% increased to 20-30%
Overlord's Helm
-30 to energy removed
-30% curse resistance added
Boneflesh
+5-10 to bone armor oskill removed
Added +24-32 open wounds damage per second
10% chance to cast level 10 bone armor increased to level 15
Spirit Shroud
Added +10% curse resistance
Crow Caw
15% faster hit recovery removed
Added +70 open wounds damage per second
Toothrow
25-35% deadly strike reduced to 15-25%
Added +260-350 open wounds damage per second
Attacker takes damage of 250-400 removed
+10 to strength increased to +20
Que-Hegan's Wisdom
+3-5 to mana after each kill reverted back to +3
Black Hades
+160-225% damage to demons increased to +185-225%
Leviathan
20-30% physical damage reduction decreased to 15-25% (fixed typo)
Added 20% curse resistance
Templar's Might
+1 all skills removed
Added 20% curse resistance
Dark Abyss
+6-10 mana after each kill reduced to +3-5
+6-10 life after each kill reduced to +3-5
Requirements -20% removed
Dracul's Grasp
+20% increased attack speed removed
Added +240-320 open wounds damage per second
Soul Drainer
+2-5% mana stolen per hit reduced to +2-3%
+2-5% life stolen per hit reduced to +2-3%
Gorefoot
18% chance of open wounds removed
+20% faster run walk increased to +25%
Gore Rider
+20 maximum stamina removed
Added +140-200 open wounds damage per second
Shadow Dancer
Added +10% curse resistance
Itherael's Path
+10-20 to dexterity reduced to +10-15
+10-20 to vitality reduced to +10-15
Razortail
+10 to maximum damage increased to +10-20
Band of Skulls
10% chance to cast level 24 bone armor when struck changed to 6% chance to cast level 28 bone armor when struck
Saracen's Chance
+60-80% enhanced damage reduced to +30-50%
Added +10% curse resistance
The Cat's Eye
+25 to dex increased to +25-35
Atma’s Scarab
Poison damage removed
Added 10% open wounds
Added 200-300 open wounds damage per second
Rising Sun
-5 to -10% to enemy fire resistance reduced to -4 to -8%
