Official Beta Patch 15 Notes

[Ari]

Just after the official announcement of Diablo 3's release May 15th 2012 us beta users have another patch released which brings this up to 15 which yes, again... All characters have been wiped. Please note that this wipe will also affect gold, items, auctions, achievements, follower, and artisans. Continue to read on for all the changes in Patch 15!


General

All characters have been wiped. Please note that this wipe will also affect gold, items, auctions, achievements, follower, and artisans.
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
For a full list of documented game and service bugs, please review the Known Issues sticky located in the Beta Bug Report forum.

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

If you find the play experience undesirable you may exit the game and resume this download.

[Ari]

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