14 DAY TRIAL // Blizzard has just released a brand new patch for its Diablo 3 role-playing dungeon crawler, in the form of update 1.0.2b, which brings a few changes to all sorts of things, while allowing damaged items to be sold in the Auction House.
Diablo 3 has been around for almost a month and, since its release, Blizzard has been working hard to make sure the dungeon crawling experience is as stable and balanced as possible.
Now, after releasing patch 1.0.2 last week, Blizzard has unveiled a second version of the update, 1.0.2b, which adds a few more things to the RPG.
These improvements range from a variety of gameplay changes, to fixes for bugs like the critical one triggered by some of the Barbarian’s passive skills.
Modifications were also made to the log in process, as the Cancel button will be unavailable for 30 seconds when trying to log in, in order to reduce server load.
One of the biggest improvements in Diablo 3’s patch 1.0.2b relates to the Auction House, as players can now sell damaged items. Those who buy these things will receive them already fixed, so there’s no penalty.
Check out the full list of changes included in Diablo 3 update 1.0.2b below.
General When logging into Diablo III, the "Cancel" button which appears in the login checkbox will now be grayed out for 30 seconds after a Battle.net account name and password are entered. This is to reduce server load during the login process.
Auction House
Damaged items can now be sold on the auction house Once sold, damaged items will be repaired automatically when moved from the purchasing player's Completed tab to their stash Please note that unsold damage items will not be automatically repaired when returned to the seller's stash Description messages for several auction house-related errors have been added
Mac
Several Mac performance improvements have been made
Bug Fixes General It is no longer possible to skip entire Acts in a multiplayer game
Classes Barbarian Active Skills Fixed a bug that was allowing certain barbarian skills to continuously trigger each other's critical strikes, to the point of causing the player to crash. To address this crash, the following skill and skill rune combinations can no longer be triggered by each other's critical strikes: Battle Rage (Skill Rune - Bloodshed) Cleave (Skill Rune - Rupture and Skill Rune - Scattering Blast) Hammer of the Ancients (Skill Rune - Thunder Strike) Wrath of the Berserker (Skill Rune - Slaughter)
Followers
Monsters who are charmed by the Enchantress's skill "Mass Confusion" can no longer kill event NPCs You can download patch 1.0.2b for Diablo 3 right now, from Softpedia, or let it automatically download by the game client.