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Season 7 Revelation - April 28th 2023

Patch Notes S7

Patch Notes Document (Reddit Thread) 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) Sturdy, Strong, Glorious (10-50% enhanced defense) Jagged, Deadly, Vicious, Brutal, Massive (10-65% enhanced damage) Bronze, Iron (10-40 attack rating) Sharp, Fine, Warrior's (10-60 attack rating & 10-40% enhanced damage) Lizard's, Snake's, Serpent's (3-20 mana) Shimmering (3-7 all resistances) Azure, Crimson, Tangerine, Beryl (5-10% elemental resist) Triumphant (1 mana after each kill) Lunar, Arcadian (25-100 attack rating vs demons & 10-50% enhanced damage vs demons) Snowy, Fiery, Static, Septic, Foul (flat elemental damage) Consecrated (25-75 attack rating vs undead & 25-75% enhanced damage vs undead) Blood Letting (1 life after each kill) Health, Protection, Absorption (physical damage taken reduced by 1-3) Warding (magic damage taken reduced by 1-2) Thorns, Spikes, Razors (attack takes damage of 3-40) Frost, Icicle, Flame, Fire, Burning, Shock, Lightning, Blight, Venom (flat elemental damage) Craftsmanship, Quality, Maiming, Slaying (1-8 maximum damage) Worth, Measure (1-5 minimum damage) Dexterity, Skill (1-5 dexterity) Energy, Mind (1-6 energy) Light, Radiance (1-3 light radius & 15-60 attack rating) Jackal, Fox, Wolf (1-20 life) Strength, Might (1-5 strength) 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 resistance penetration 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 resistance penetration 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% +5 Fire absorb removed Metalgrid +2 to golem mastery increased to +8-12 Kadala's Heirloom New unique ring (fixed - wasn't mentioned) Set Items Infernal Tools full set bonus 20% chance of open wounds removed Added 12 poison damage over 2 seconds Griswold's Legacy full set bonus +30 to all resist increased to +50 Natalya's Odium full set bonus 6% life leech increased to 10% 6% mana leech increased to 10% +30 to all resist revered back to +50 Runewords Zenith Can now be made in staves Pride Can now be made in staves Last Wish Can now be made in staves Destruction Can now be made in staves The staff version has the same stats but all procs are on casting instead of on striking Beast Can now be made in staves Wind +350-400% enhanced damage reduced to +320-380% Grief +260 to 280-320 damage increased to +280 to 320-360 -20 to -25% enemy poison resistance reduced to -15 to -20% Oath Now replenishes it's Heart of the Wolverine charges Venom 20% chance to cast level 23 poison nova when you kill an enemy changed to 20% chance to cast level 28 poison nova on striking White +1-2 to poison and bone skills increased to +2 Rampage +80-100% enhanced damage increased to +110-135% Neophyte +20% faster cast rate increased to +30% (non-staves only) +30% faster cast rate increased to +40% (staves only) Malice +2 life on hit removed Added +6 open wounds damage per second Fury +33-66% open wounds removed Added +5 to Deep Wounds (Barbarian Only) Hand of Justice Fire resistance penetration reduced from 20% to 10-20% Myth 10% chance to cast level 1 taunt on striking reduced to 5% Gloom Magic damage taken reduced by 4-10 removed Added +20% curse resistance Dream Holy shock aura level reduced from 14 to 13 PATCHES Season 7 Patch 1 (2023-04-30) (was mislabeled as patch #3) Blessed aim now passively provides -1% target's defense per base level instead of attack rating to prevent it from bugging when the aura is active Fixed an issue that was causing the Altar of the Catalyst map event to not spawn Several improvements to server stability Season 7 Patch 2 (2023-05-01) (was mislabeled as patch #4) Unique map drop rates reduced by 33% Unique maps level reduced from 92 to 89 Several stability improvements Altar of the catalyst forced map event should always give a map event now Default render mode set Blessed aim will now properly apply its passive ignore targets defense bonus Season 7 Patch 3 (2023-05-05) (was mislabeled as patch #5) Added preset quality settings to D2GL Removed 800x600 resolution as it was causing crashes The Guardian of Fate now has a limit to the amount of clones they can spawn Fixed a bug that was allowing curse immune monsters to still be cursed Applied several stability improvements Season 7 Patch 4 (2023-05-08) (was mislabeled as patch #6) Fixed crash in unique maps and Ashen Plains Server improvements Season 7 Patch 5 (2023-05-30) (was mislabeled as patch #7) Fixed some server bugs and added logging to help debug server instability Removed the Find Potion synergy string from Find Item (it wasn't applying but incorrectly displayed a synergy) Fixed Spirit of Barbs ATD synergies Fixed a bug with Battle Cry not being counted as a curse for curse resistance/duration reduction calculations Fixed Mind Blast not stunning with 1 hard point Fixed the Undead Damage/AR corruption on weapons not applying the Undead Damage% in some cases Fixed a bug in the stat screen with Druid FHR breakpoint display Improved the performance of the lootfilter code PVP Updates: Weapon Block is now disabled when running/walking in the PVP arena Healing skills (holy bolt/holy nova) no longer heal allies inside the PVP arena Lightning Sentry PVP modifier changed from 65% -> 45% in Normal/NM PVP arena Chain Lightning Sentry PVP modifier changed from 65% -> 45% in Normal/NM PVP arena Wake of Fire PVP modifier changed from 55% -> 45% in Normal/NM PVP arena Magic Arrow PVP modifier changed from 150% -> 100% in Normal/NM PVP arena Season 7 Patch 6 (2023-05-31) (was mislabeled as patch #8) Some server bug fixes to help with instability Fixed battle cry being overwritten by other curses (it will still be affected by curse resistance and curse duration reduction) Fixed the MAPTIER condition in lootfilters Fixed the lootfilter Settings button not saving it's position on game exit PVP Changes: Changed weapon block to be 1/3 chance while running and 1/2 chance while walking (full chance while standing still) Season 7 Patch 7 (2023-06-19) (was mislabeled as patch #9) Server functionality rewrite and speedups Fixed a bug with kadala's ring getting other unique ring stats (All bugged kadala's rings will be deleted) Enabled dclone/rathma difficulty changes in single player/non-ladder PVP Changes: Decrease the pvp penalty for open wounds: Hell 6% -> 18% NM 12% -> 24% Norm 16% -> 32% Smite PVP modifier in hell changed 35% -> 65%

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Pre-Beta Season 9 Pre-Beta Spoilers Spoilers from Dev Stream #1 VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2085940286 League Name -- Anarchy: April 12 start, open beta April 8-10, closed beta March 30 - April 7 Crafting infusions will be staying, but will be treasure fallen event exclusive item Treasure fallen loot table changes from crafting season (i.e. can drop higher runes) will stay minus puzzle pieces, but will no longer spawn in LoD Next Hit Always Misses bug fixed (was common with Zeal and other melee attacks if put into hit recovery, block, etc; Sacrifice self-damage and Holy Sword block would automatically cause this NHAM bug) Melee hit checks simplified: will do an initial target range check to move character into hit range, and then the secondary range check is more lenient if monster moves after initial target Reduced volume level of main menu music Reworked next hit delay to be on a per missile type for caster basis -- this means you can't next hit delay yourself if you use multiple skills to do damage (i.e. Twister and Tornado don't delay each other) and applies to other player's skills in game as well; may result in nerfs for skills that relied on damage increase to cover hit delays and/or additional Monster HP increases per player in multiplayer Necro Poison Dagger now has a spread mechanic - if a monster dies while poisoned by Dagger, it will release a cloud upon death Necro Poison Dagger poison cloud larger Increased maximum sprite limit in game, will no longer have graphics go invisible when too much is on screen (aka Shenk Bug) Added commands for player statistics: .kills of various types (.kills all - all monsters killed, .kills dclone, .kills maps, etc.), .played for time played, .deaths for death count; stats also will function on PlugY for single player Top 3 99s, DClone Tier 2, Rathma Tier 2 all get account-wide aura with a lightning effect; all other 99s and DClone/Rathma Tier 2 will get a character-bound aura without lightning (the character-bound auras will also work in singleplayer and carry over to non-ladder) TBA changes to Dungeon Boss farming Skills no longer have a cooldown when in town - summon QoL when starting a run All permanent summons will carryover through games (i.e. not Ravens or Revives); Valks will reroll new armor between games; Iron Golem still undetermined on how that will function Uber Tristram is no longer in D2GS code, now part of game -- will natively work in single player/PlugY, and can now fix bugs when seen in Tristram Uber Tristram house cheese is gone, players and monsters can no longer go in the houses Pally Charge now hits non-namelocked monsters; would do a ghost attack that would miss if a monster was not namelocked Standard of Heroes now only dropped from Uber Ancients, no longer drops in Uber Tristram (leaning toward 1 guaranteed and a chance of +1 per additional Ancient defeated) Spoilers from Dev Stream #2 VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2092631267 Base density of all maps increased 50%; reduced density from (non-corruption) affixes by the same amount --> less map rerolling because base density will be higher (higher floor, same ceiling without corruptions, higher ceiling with corruptions) Added descriptions to map orbs for base game in case you are not running lootfilter Can filter games by difficulty in game menu New UI when creating a game - buttons for selecting game server instead of typing GS in description Can only have one Iron Golem - it is no longer overridden by other golems and always has a separate minion icon/healthbar Blood Golems will have open wounds damage per second Druid Arctic Blast now causes monsters to "shatter" in cold AoE upon death Reduced delay to re-enter town portals Removing rune cost requirements for higher tiers of uber fights to improve accessibility; cubing the uber item by itself will cycle between difficulties Work in progress: rebalancing defense values on all armors - leaning towards reduction on lighter armors, increase on heavier armors (higher strength requirements will generally mean higher defense) Investigating making summon level auto-scale to player skill level to prevent snapshot abuse (still undecided) Evaluating dungeon improvements - want to make more group-oriented and incentivize Spoilers from Dev Stream #3 VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2099267501 Gold capacity in stash from 5 million to 8 million (max game can support) All characters will always be able to hold 1 million gold - no longer based on character level If you have two sources of Half Freeze Duration on your gear, it counts as Cannot Be Frozen Diamonds are now crafting gems -- Prismatic Craft. Tenative values below: Ammy: Tal + Diamond --> +5-10% all res, +100-150 defense vs missile, +4-8 all attributes Ring: Hel + Diamond --> +3-5% all res, +50-100 defense vs missile, half freeze duration Belt: Io + Diamond --> +5-10% increased attack speed, half freeze duration, +25-50% enhanced defense Gloves: Shael + Diamond --> +5-10% increased attache speed, +10-20% attack rating, +25-50% enhanced defense Boots: Ko + Diamond --> +10% movement speed, +100-150 defense vs missile, half freeze duration Helm: Eld + Diamond --> +5-10% increased attack speed, +25-50% enhanced defense, half freeze duration Chest: El + Diamond --> +5-10% all res, +10-20% increased chance of blocking, +25-50% enhanced defense Shield: Ort + Diamond --> +5-10% all res, +10-20% increased chance of blocking, half freeze duration Weapon: Lum + Diamond --> +20% increased attack speed, +20-40% enhanced damage, +50-100 attack rating XP Gain penalties between level 20 to 25 reduced to lessen need to drop back and progress if underleveled in A5 Inferno skill rework: Now scales the area of effect of the flamethrower with skill level Inferno and Arctic Blast initial cast speed is now 3 frames (much faster) Added curse procs onto staffs as potential mods (Amp Damage, Lower Resist) Added Lower Resist proc onto weapons as potential mod Increased elemental damage mods that can spawn on weapons; also increasing suffix value ranges to be closer to prefix ranges Added portals to Uber Trist that are one-time use portals - can exit and enter up to three times, including after death Work in progress: May add these consumable portals into dungeons as part of rework Armor base rework completed -- in general, low strength armors will have nerfed defense, high strengths armor will have increased defense Normal armors: Mostly the same, Ancient Armor nerfed to be in line with rest of normal amrors Exceptional armors: Mostly the same, Curiass and Mage Plate nerfed to be in line with rest of exceptional armors Elite armors: Big adjustments across the board -- Dusk Shroud, Wyrmhide, Scarab Husk, Wire Fleece, Archon Plate dropping 60-120 base defense; Hellforged Plate, Lacquered Plate, Shadow Plate, Sacred Armor increased 100+ base defense; other Elites in middle range of changes Shadow Plate strength requirement dropped from 232 to 220 strength to be in line with strength scaling with bases in Normal and Exceptional Unsummoning Iron Golem will make the item used re-drop to be picked up Pally Holy Light reworked: If cast on enemy, does magic damage to target and 50% heal to party in AoE around target; If cast on party, does full heal to party and 50% damage to monsters in AoE around target Brought back full palette of colors to elite monsters that were previously disabled due to bug Attack Rating Cap is changed from 95% to 100% -- applied to Ignore Target Defense as well Sorc Teleport buffed: Damage penalty reduced from 65% to 50% base, reduces by 2% per soft point skill level up to lvl 16 skill, reduces by 1% per level for lvl 17+ skill Sorc Energy Shield change: No longer has a Telekinesis synergy, can max scale through skill points, now caps at 90% damage taken to mana instead of 85% -- the max cap also applies to Uldyssian's Awakening unique Ghost Spear Set items can now roll ethereal, will result in some TBD balance changes Beta Tentative Patch Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-oPLkYkrEicCbPnfIFonrL8R8-mLLVtoGt6NfqUE_qE Lootfilter-Related Notes New %CL% keyword (short for "conditional line") which works the same as %NL% except is ignored if it's the first or last part of a name/description; also, if multiple %CL% keywords are adjacent to each other, only 1 new line will be created New %LBRACE% and %RBRACE% keywords for "{" and "}" symbols so they can be used in descriptions Pointmod-capable regular (white/gray) items can now use one %NL% in their name Several bug fixes and other minor changes (see Loot Filter section of patch notes) New diamond-based (Brilliant) crafts: Amulet: Tal + P.Diamond + Jewel Ring: Hel + P.Diamond + Jewel Belt: Io + P.Diamond + Jewel Gloves: Shael + P.Diamond + Jewel Boots: Ko + P.Diamond + Jewel Helm: Eld + P.Diamond + Jewel Chest: El + P.Diamond + Jewel Shield: Ort + P.Diamond + Jewel Weapon: Sol + P.Diamond + Jewel (was originally introduced as using Lum instead of Sol) Brilliant Craft Infusion item code: crfp Item level and Affix level will now only show on relevant items Glide specific colors will now use their non-glide counterparts when in ddraw mode (previously these would have all been grey) Added recipe tooltips to map crafting items (orbs) Added flavor text to uber crafting materials Cubing a Vision of Terror or Voidstone by itself will cycle between difficulty tiers Most SUFFIX IDs seem to have shifted upward by 4 due to 4 new elemental damage suffixes (new affixes are now at the bottom so old affixes are unchanged) PREFIX IDs may have been shifted as well Map tiers and monster immunities shuffled (exact values from closed beta) Lilith's Mirror no longer works on jewels, but does work on crafted items Equipment Changes: Set items can now roll ethereal Updated defense values for chests (also Shadow Plate's strength requirement changed from 230 to 220) Daggers can now roll the following pointmods: Poison Strike, all martial arts skills which can be used with daggers - Tiger Strike, Fists of Fire, Claws of Thunder, Blades of Ice, Cobra Strike, Phoenix Strike, Dragon Talon, Dragon Tail, Dragon Flight Immortal King’s Stone Crusher - Indestructible replaced with repairs 1 durability every 4 seconds (so it can be eth) Bul-Kathos' Tribal Guardian - +20% deadly strike removed, +50% enhanced damage (2 items) set bonus replaced with +20% deadly strike Map recipes can now use any rune instead of just Thul or higher Safety weapon crafts now work with all weapon types instead of just bows Predetermined attributes for crafting recipes changed for: caster boots/chest/shield, hitpower ring/boots/chest, safety amulet/chest/shield/weapon, vampiric weapon, bountiful ring