Enhanced the damage and decreased duration for Poison Dagger, Poison Explosion and Poison Nova.The damage inflicted by most skills over level 8 has been increased.Decreased the Mana cost for Enchant and increased its bonus to fire damage.Added a casting timer to Fire Wall, Meteor, Blizzard, Frozen Orb, and Hydra and commensurately increased their damage to prevent a drop in frame rate, while maintaining the same overall balance.Lightning Mastery now affects electrical damage rather than decreasing the Mana cost of those skills.Fend is now uninterruptible and does more damage.Impale increases damage with level and decreases the chance to lose durability.Impale and Jab are now properly modified by weapon speed.Changed Battle Orders bonus to increase by 3% per level at all levels.Frenzy now increases in attack speed as more monsters are hit.Added damage bonuses to Concentrate and Frenzy.Frenzy, Double Swing, and Double Throw are now properly modified by weapon speed.In non-expansion games, Whirlwind remains the same.In expansion games, Whirlwind is now properly modified by weapon speed.Increased the player's resistance penalty for Conviction.Allowed Conviction to reduce an enemy's resistance to a negative value.Added melee damage to undead to Sanctuary.Added melee lightning damage to Holy Shock.Increased the Mana regeneration rate for Meditation.Increased resistance bonus for Resist Fire, Resist Cold, Resist Lightning, and Salvation.Increased the Smite damage for Holy Shield.Increased the damage per level for Sanctuary.
Decreased the length of time that Converted monsters fight for you.Increased damage for Fist of the Heavens.Fixed display for Vengeance's damage to reflect its actual damage.Zeal is now limited to 5 swings and gives an increased percentage to Attack Rating.In non-expansion games, the Blessed Hammer/Concentration combination remains the same.In expansion games, Blessed Hammer/ Concentration combination imbalance has been corrected.Fixed renaming character to existing character bug.Fixed the incorrect display of German text in the German version.Fixed the incorrect display of special chatroom icons.You may now change the name of a character to an existing account.In single player, the sound is no longer shut off by loading a saved game while Diablo is in his death throes.Nightmare and Hell difficulty monsters now display the correct number of hit points (HP).Equipped shields always appear properly to all players.Adria's books appear white now only if a player can read them.Fixed the bug that caused shields to disappear when worn after wielding two-handed weapons.The casting of a Nova spell is now visible to all nearby players.When in effect, the Mana Shield graphic appears to all players.Fixed the bug that froze Lazarus (and made him invulnerable to arrows and spells) after the player had entered his lair, then left (or died), and finally returned.Allowed right-clicking (casting/drinking) belt items in positions 5 through 8, while the Spellbook is open.Prevented bows with fire-hit damage from interfering with the behavior of Gargoyle class monsters.Fixed the bug that caused excessive damage when a Mana Shield expired due to an attack.Fixed the bug that caused Mana Shield to become less effective with increasing spell level.Fixed bugs that prevented items with the suffixes Thieves, Speed/Haste, Balance/Stability/Harmony, and Piercing/Bashing/Puncturing from working properly.Prevented repeated castings (128 or more) of Mana Shield from disabling the casting of any more spells.Fixed bug that rarely transformed unique items (like the Optic Amulet) into some other (usually mundane) item when saving the game and then starting a new game.Fixed the bug that prevented Rogues from properly disarming traps on levels 13 through 15.Fixed the Mana Shield bugs that could make a player invulnerable and/or invisible to other players.Fixed bug that made some Hell difficulty monsters too easy to hit.Prevented players from becoming stuck inside a wall when Town Portalling down into a dungeon.Fixed the freeze upon touching a Hidden Shrine while equipped with only indestructible items.This includes the crash upon resurrecting after being killed by a Black Death. Fixed crashes associated with being attacked or killed by a Black Death ( Zombie class).Changes Serious bugs (crashes or freezes)