Enhancements and other changes

- Implemented a new system to detect and delete 'duped', 'hacked' and
other erroneous items from the inventories of Realm Characters as they
are loaded.
- Increased the damage of nearly all skills above skill level 20.
- Added synergy bonuses to many skills. The bonuses boost the
effectiveness of the higher-level skills based upon the number of points
allocated to the lower-level (synergizing) skills. Players are rewarded
for using skill points earlier rather than hoarding them all for later
'cookie-cutter' distribution to high-level skills.
- Rebalanced the rate of Unique/Set/Rare/Magic items drop.
- Lower Resist and Conviction skills now work properly against immune
monsters.
- Cold Mastery has been changed to a constant amount.
- Elemental Piercing versus immunities has been changed to a constant
amount.
- Improved the existing 7 class-specific Sets by adding and/or boosting
partial and complete Set bonuses. Also added a visual effect to wearers
of these complete Sets.
- Limited the maximum experience gain from The Ancients quest in Act V
to 1 character level.
- One can no longer enter Town Portals cast by other players in areas
beyond the "blocking quests" without having completed those quests:
e.g., Canyon of the Magi/Seven Tombs/Duriel's Lair (The Summoner), The
Harem/Palace Basement/Arcane Sanctuary (The Tainted Sun), Durance of
Hate (The Blackened Temple), The Worldstone Keep (The Ancients), The
Secret Cow Level (Terror's End in DII classic or Eve of Destruction in
DII: LoD). NOTE: A player who kills the High Council (but doesn't use
Khalim's Will to smash the Compelling Orb), may take a Town Portal into
the Durance of Hate.
- NPCs no longer accept lower difficulty quest items to complete quests
in a higher difficulty.
- Atma now heals automatically.
- Quest items are automatically identified when they drop.
- Increased the challenge of Mephisto and the Ancients.
- Increased the damage and defense of Andariel, Mephisto, Diablo, and
Baal.
- Gave Mephisto a more powerful Frost Nova, based on his own (not
player's) stats.
- Added blocking and resistances to Duriel.
- Reduced the levels of all auras used by Unique monsters.
- Added more Unique monsters to the open areas of Acts IV and V.
- Life leeching is now determined by each monster type and reduced below
100% in Nightmare and Hell Difficulties.
- Added resistances and blocking to the Unravelers in Act II in Hell
Difficulty.
- Increased monster hit-points in one player games and reduced the
increase to monster hit-points for each additional player in multiplayer
games.
- Boosted the effects of Health and Mana potions.
- Mana potions are now sold by some shopkeepers.
- The Antidote potion now gives +50 poison resistance and +10 max poison
resist for 30 seconds.
- The Thawing potion now gives +50 cold resistance and +10 max cold
resist for 30 seconds.
- The Stamina potion now gives super stamina recovery for 30 seconds.
- Newly-found (post-1.10) magic bows with the properties "Fires Magic
Arrows" or "Fires Explosive Arrows" have these properties at appropriate
skill levels rather than being fixed at level 1.
- Improved gambling by increasing the chances for Rare, Set, and Unique
items.
- Improved monster drops by boosting the base item types and by
increasing the chance for Rares.
- Increased the chances that dropped items have the magic properties of
Enhanced damage, Life-stealing, Mana-stealing, and + to all Resistances.
Increased hireling Life/attack rating/defense/level. Also removed the
skill cap from Act III hirelings. (Hireling level at hiring is now
different between DII classic and LoD.)
- Increased life regeneration for hirelings.
- Boosted the effect of Health potions upon hirelings.
- Lowered the cost of resurrection of hirelings.
- Increased the leash range of hirelings.
- Summonables except for Revived monsters and pets that don't attack or
defend - e.g., Vines now get Defense and Attack Rating based on their
level.
- Bone Walls are now friendly to the caster's party - that is, not
attackable.
- Improved Blood Raven's behavior.
- Guest monsters (those from earlier Acts and lower difficulty levels)
compute their Treasure Class (for item dropping) appropriately for their
new, higher levels.
- Chilling Armor no longer responds to other Chilling Armor bolts.
- A player may have up to 16 corpses now. Only the first (oldest) corpse
holding items is saved between games.
- In Nightmare and Hell difficulties recovering one's corpse now
restores 75% of the Experience that had been lost at death. This applies
to all of a player's corpses.
- Block lock' has been eliminated. When a player character has just
blocked an attack, the player cannot block again for a short period of
time, the length of which increases as Blocking speed increases.
- Reduced the 'lag' when Lister the Tormentor and his minions are
summoned by Baal.
- The levels of The Forgotten Tower are now larger in Nightmare and Hell
difficulties.
- Increased the likelihood of dropping Elite items.
- Only a very few Unique items and new 'uber' items are now over level
85. That is, the best items now drop more often.
- Jewels and other modifiers can now boost the elemental damage of a
melee weapon if that trait is listed as part of the Jewel description.
- The Buriza's level (not its level requirement) was increased to 59.
- Items that grant skills bestow a lower skill level to those character
classes who natively have the skill in their skill tree. Note that
Charged items receive synergy and mastery bonuses, but don't receive
bonuses by assigning extra points to the skill.
- Boosted the Cham Rune freeze effect on weapons from +1 to +3.
- The Eth Rune's effect is now "-25% to Target AC". Thus, 4 Eth Runes
reduce the target AC to zero.
- The modifier "Ignores Target AC" no longer acts upon SuperUniques,
hirelings, and Act-end bosses. Its lack of effect upon player characters
and unique monsters remains unchanged.
- Changed the Horadric Cube recipe that had used 3 chipped gems to
require 3 standard gems as follows: 3 standard gems + 1 socketed weapon
= socketed, magic weapon.
- Changed the two Horadric Cube recipes for Rejuvenation Potions to
require a chipped gem and a standard gem.
- One may sell items to an NPC without the confirmation dialog by
ctrl-left-clicking on them.
- Increased the size of the message log from 32 to 128 lines.
- Reduced the density of the graphic special effect displaying curses.
- Added optimizations to light map computation and added various levels
of light map fidelity which automatically adjust to keep the frame rate
acceptable.
- Selecting "Show Party - No" in the Automap Options now shows one's
pets.
- In the inventory an unidentified Unique item is now shown as its
generic item type.
- Improved the accuracy of the Mana cost display.
- Added a graphic effect to the Whirlwind skill.
- Improved the second level charge-up graphic effect of the Assassin's
Phoenix Strike.
- Added new color schemes for certain Rare, Set, and Unique items.
- Maces and Staves now display "+50% Damage to Undead", consistent with
other weapon classes.
- The TCP/IP Join Game button remembers the last IP address entered.
- Chat commands (e.g. 'fps') are now preceded by a slash (e.g. '/fps').
- A new chat command '/nopickup' toggles on/off the ability to
automatically pick up items lying on the ground. When off, one must hold
down the Alt key to pick up items.
- Monsters (except for SuperUniques) in non-ladder Realm games are now
at 75% HP (Hell), 85% AC (NM & Hell), and don't increase their AI speed
for higher difficulties.


Macintosh-specific changes

- Support for both "widescreen" and "4:3" mode in Mac OS X 10.2+.
- Improved OpenGL performance for systems with minimum requirements:
MacOSX 10.2, 256MB RAM, and Radeon or GeForce AGP video card.




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