#1 - March 21, 2012, 3 p.m.
Blizzard Post

Learn more about the latest service and game changes to the Diablo III beta with the official patch notes!

Diablo III Beta Patch 15 – v.0.9.0.8896

General

  • All characters have been wiped. Please note that this wipe will also affect gold, items, auctions, achievements, followers, and artisans.
  • Battle.net Authenticators have been enabled for the Diablo III beta test. If a Battle.net Authenticator is attached to your Battle.net account, you will be required to enter an authentication key to log in.
  • The gold auction house for Hardcore characters is now available for testing
  • A new quest selection feature has been added
    • Accessed from the main character screen, this feature will allow players to select which stage of a completed or in-progress quest they wish to start at when resuming a game
  • The costs of the first and second Shared Stash tabs have been increased
    • First tab cost increased from 50,000 gold to 100,000 gold
    • Second tab cost increased from 150,000 gold to 200,000 gold
  • The levels at which character skills and skill runes unlock have been adjusted for most classes
  • Treasure Goblins now drop slightly better loot and less junk (slay them all!)

 

Classes

  • Monk
    • Active Skills
      • Dashing Strike
        • Now converts to Basic Attack if you are out of Spirit
  • Witch Doctor
    • General
      • Mana costs for all skills have been adjusted
    • Active Skills
      • Corpse Spiders
        • Weapon damage decreased from 24% to 16%
      • Firebats
        • Weapon damage increased from 100% to 150%
      • Haunt
        • Weapon damage increased from 360% to 575%
      • Poison Dart
        • Damage Over Time (DoT) reduced from 50% to 40% weapon damage
      • Soul Harvest
        • Now displays how many targets are affected on the ability’s stack count

 

Followers

  • Templar
    • General
      • The non-hired version of the Templar has had its damage reduced and will now deal approximately the same amount of damage as the hired version
    • Skills
      • Intervene
        • Radius decreased from 10 to 6

 

Monsters

  • The monster affix "Thorns" has been renamed to "Reflects Damage"
  • Jondar Poison damage has been increased

 

Bug Fixes

  • Players should no longer receive error messages regarding the Starter Edition of Diablo III
  • Buying extra Stash space in Normal mode no longer expands your Stash space in Hardcode mode
  • Hardcore characters will now be correctly placed into a separate queue from Normal characters when using Public Games to queue for quests
  • The names of a player’s RealID and BattleTag friends should no longer appear as [] when chatting with them