14 DAY TRIAL // Blizzard has just unleashed the newest patch for its recently launched Diablo III role-playing dungeon crawler, fixing a large array of errors and changing various features, like the Auction House, while improving abilities that were nerfed by previous hotfixes.
Diablo 3 was lauched over two weeks ago and, after releasing small hotfixes that changed the abilities of certain characters, Blizzard has finally posted a full-fledged patch, in the form of update 1.0.2.
Besides fixing quite a lot of bugs, the patch changes a variety of things in the Auction House, but also makes a few new changes to the Monk class, improving some of the powers and runes that saw the efficiency decrease following a hotfix last week.
Check out the full list of things included in Diablo 3’s patch 1.0.2 below.
Diablo III Patch 1.0.2 - v.1.0.2.9749
General
Players will now automatically join General chat when logging in
Classes
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)
Bug Fixes
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 You can download the Diablo 3 patch 1.0.2 right now, via Softpedia, or automatically, when the game is launched.