2.2 Patch Notes

[Game]

Annihilus 2.2 Changelog:


• The Worldstone Event has been added. This includes 7 new Bosses with all new Spells and Attacks.

• The Final Boss of each Act has a chance to drop a colored Worldstone Fragment.

• The Item Filter system is now customizable! We have a new default filter in place to not hide Organs among other things, but you may hide any item by simply mousing over it and pressing "Delete". You can un-hide it by mousing over it and pressing "Backspace".

• You can now lock / unlock your cursor to your Diablo II window by pressing Alt + F1.

• The iconic items "The Grandfather" and "Tyrael's Might" have been buffed. They are quite rare and very popular and their strength did not match their reputation. This will not affecting existing items.

• Death Spear has had it's Shout Synergy % increased to 14%, up from 10%. It was pretty strong in PvP but not so much in PvM, this will make it better in PvM but did not change much to PvP damage.

• Death Spear now gains Attack Rating Per level, as it had less chance to hit than a normal Attack.

• Lowered the HP of all Dreamlands Bosses, but they now have a 50% chance to Evade attacks and spells.

• Stitches HP has been slightly lowered.

• Basket of Organs is now on the Gold Vendor for 120 Gold. The basket will contain 3 random Organs (Azathoth's, Cow King's, or Uber Tristram Organs).

• Infernal Chests no longer have a chance to contain useless items such as Quest items (Horadric Staff, Khalim's Flail, etc) and throwing potions.

• Infernal Key's cost has been lowered to 75, down from 100.

• The Cow Queen's Horns (Shako) has had its Life per Magic Find % changed to Vitality per Magic Find %, as it was not actually granting Life due to a bug. This change will apply to existing items.

• Goka Uln's aura on Clay Golems now properly lowers enemies Magic Resist instead of increasing it. This change will apply to existing items.

• Manald Heal now properly summons a Solar Creeper when hit. This change will apply to existing items.

• Fixed an issue where some players could not see the names of the Effect Stones on the Gold Vendor.

• Fixed an issue where the window would be moved to the center of the screen everytime you leave a game in Windowed mode.

• Fixed an issue with the launcher where you could get errors when trying to switch to Full Screen mode. We now use 1 file for both Full Screen and Windowed Mode to prevent this, no more file renaming!

• Fixed an exploit allowing people to teleport to any level in the game by interacting with an object.


Patch 2.1 Hotfix 2 changes were moved to this patch as well:


• Othuyeg's Thorns has been replaced by Holy Shock, and now has a 50% chance to cast Level 40 Nova when he is hit.

• K'nar'st's Ribcage Life / Mana based on time has been replaced with a flat roll of 400-500 Life and Mana. This is not retroactive and unfortunately will not affect existing items.

• Fixed an issue where R'lyeh and Tristram could sometimes overlap, causing the game R'lyeh was opened in to crash. This also applies to other levels that sometimes overlapped.

• Sand-Dweller's Firewall skill level has been lowered. It was lasting a little too long!

• R'lyeh Treants no longer use Vine Attack as it was causing lag. It has been replaced with Poison Nova.

• Lowered Diablo Clone's physical resistance to 95, down from 100.


(Thanks to token for assistance with the filter, cursor lock, and windowed mode issues, and thanks to Brother Laz for ideas for the new Boss skills)

[Mephisto]

We wanna see a sneak peak, we deserve it !

[Game]

We wanna see a sneak peak, we deserve it !

Pick 1 Class!

[Lokix]

Pick 1 Class!

Worldstone event!

[acyroma]

Awesome. Can't wait to get home now.

[Game]

We wanna see a sneak peak, we deserve it !

He picked sorceress:

[Mephisto]

Geez thats crazy, lookin awesome

[Dante]

YAY thanks Alex

I comment some of the things, because I'm bored . I haven't tried it out at this point though.

Goka Uln's aura on Clay Golems now properly lowers enemies Magic Resist instead of increasing it. This change will apply to existing items. - haha i was wondering. Will it break immunities now?

Basket of Organs is now on the Gold Vendor for 120 Gold. The basket will contain 3 random Organs (Azathoth's, Cow King's, or Uber Tristram Organs). - seems a bit expensive for the stuff you get on first read. But yea why not. For me it would be only nice for Uber organs though, so as long as it is 1/3. If I consider how much you get from a single Uber run now though and you get 60 gold a day... seems fine. If I spend like 4 gambles (~500g = 5$) and I don't get a full org set, I would be pissed, get what I mean?


- Thanks a bunch for the item filter. Really nice to see so many suggestions coming true for that

Town Portal Scrolls and Identity Scrolls no longer drop, they are irrelevant since Tomes auto replenish. - I don't know about that. Are they still at vendor? What if I'm used to have tp scrolls in belt and using the hotkeys there?

Othuyeg's Thorns has been replaced by Holy Shock, and now has a 50% chance to cast Level 40 Nova when he is hit. - So he basically has 50% dodge and 50% nova. Will be kinda tricky cause he is immune to all but phys. This seems like a very hard buff to me. If he gets even stronger, this is clearly too much for me. Bosses should be beatable without dying 10 times if you have at least mediocre gear specific for it I would say. I fully understand that it's hard to balance and you have way more insight than me, I hope you take it as a constructive critic.


Fixed an issue where the window would be moved to the center of the screen everytime you leave a game in Windowed mode. - This is like my favorite thing for this patch I cannot describe how annoying this was.

The iconic items "The Grandfather" and "Tyrael's Might" have been buffed. They are quite rare and very popular and their strength did not match their reputation. This will not affecting existing items. - NICE !!!! I'm only a bit sad because I found my first Tyrael (since start lol) only 3 days ago :P

Lowered the HP of all Dreamlands Bosses, but they now have a 50% chance to Evade attacks and spells. - This sounds like a buff for them tbh. I have to try and see. If this causes even more deaths per run, even with good gear, I probably don't like it. DL is such a nice place, but can be frustrating too. I'm not a fan of all the 1 hit death spells.

K'nar'st's Ribcage Life / Mana based on time has been replaced with a flat roll of 400-500 Life and Mana. This is not retroactive and unfortunately will not affect existing items. - This is such a cool item, sadly besides maybe a sorc, nobody would use it over the alternatives I think. Since most people and chars want teleport, valor as the no tp goto or sets which all have armors items like this are just laying around with no great use for me. I wish we had something else that has +1 teleport than set or unique with armor. Maybe an amulet or ring, at least with let's say 250 charges maybe. This would bring in a lot of new ways to gear a char, and can bring variety even in the same skill builds.

R'lyeh Treants no longer use Vine Attack as it was causing lag. It has been replaced with Poison Nova. - I liked those over the mad charging centaurs lol Those horses wreck.

Sand-Dweller's Firewall skill level has been lowered. It was lasting a little too long! - Also if you encountered a pack of those, it caused weird graphical bugs like invisible char and mobs. Maybe this mitigated a bit too.

[Death]

Fixed an exploit allowing people to teleport to any level in the game by interacting with an object.

I shouldn't have reported it
Too bad I was too shitty to kill the bosses.

[Research]

• The Item Filter system is now customizable! We have a new default filter in place to not hide Organs among other things, but you may hide any item by simply mousing over it and pressing "Delete". You can un-hide it by mousing over it and pressing "Backspace".

• You can now lock / unlock your cursor to your Diablo II window by pressing Alt + F1.

• Fixed an issue where the window would be moved to the center of the screen everytime you leave a game in Windowed mode.

• Fixed an issue with the launcher where you could get errors when trying to switch to Full Screen mode. We now use 1 file for both Full Screen and Windowed Mode to prevent this, no more file renaming!

these are the best wow thanks token

p.s. you can toggle fullscreen in-game