Diablo III was unplayable for most of yesterday due to a new update and the subsequent rush of players breaking the servers. As utterly ridiculous as such a concept continues to be, you might be interested to learn that 1.0.2 is now live, and you should be able to get in again.
The Monk has been tweaked again, with his ability to render teammates immune nerfed. The Tranquility Rune affixed to Serenity now grants only one second of immunity compared to two. Mantra of Healing, however, increases life regeneration and grants a three-second shield to the party, so that’s something. Its Boon of Protection Rune has been renamed Boon of Inspiration.
The Auction House has received quite a few changes, mostly improving its player feedback and making things a bit clearer.
Feel free to check out the full patch notes below.
- Players will now automatically join General chat when logging in
- Monk
- Active Skills
- Serenity
- Skill Rune – Tranquility
- Duration of immunity granted to nearby allies from crowd control effects reduced from 2 seconds to 1 second
- Mantra of Healing (tooltips will be updated in a later patch)
- In addition to increasing Life regeneration for you and nearby allies while active, Mantra of Healing will now also shroud you and nearby allies with a mystical shield that absorbs damage for 3 seconds after activiation (up to a limited amount, based on level)
- Skill Rune – Boon of Protection
- Boon of Protection has been renamed Boon of Inspiration
- Mantra of Healing will now heal you when dealing damage to an enemy (heal amount will be based on hero level)
- General
- Players should no longer receive an “Error 14009” when logging in
- The “Select a Hero” menu will now also display the difficulty level for each character
- Several speed improvements have been made to the streaming downloader
- Achievements
- All players in a party should now receive “Till Death Do Us Part” even if they don’t have Haedrig Eamon as their active follower
- Acts
- Act IV
- Witch Doctors should no longer receive an error if they kill a Shadow Clone with a Damage-Over-Time (DoT) skill after it’s launched a Firebomb but before it’s reached its target
- Auction House
- The auction log in the Completed tab will now display a player’s activity (bids, buyouts, sales, etc) in the proper order
- When placing a new bid over a previous bid on the same auction, players will now be provided with the correct warning message: “Raising your maximum bid on an Auction you are already winning raises your current bid to just above your previous maximum bid. Are you sure you want to continue?”
- Players will now receive an error message if they attempt to purchase an item after the 50 item limit has been reached in the Completed tab
- The “Physical Damage” Preferred Stats option for rings has been renamed to “Bonus Minimum Physical Damage”
- The “All Damage” Preferred Stats option for weapons and armor has been removed and replaced with bonuses of specific damage types
- Items which have been purchased from a vendor and equipped by the player can now be sold on the Auction House
- Listing items on the Auction House from a different character than the one currently selected should no longer cause item display issues
- Battle.net
- The public chat list will now sort alphabetically
- Skills
- Witch Doctor
- Spirit Vessel (Passive) no longer clears debuffs when using waypoints or changing equipment
