Diablo 2 gets first major update in 11 years, fixes some 20-year-old bugs
Blizzard Entertainment rolled out a major new update for Diablo 2: Resurrected on Thursday, a patch that made sweeping balance changes to and fixed numerous bugs in the classic click-and-kill action-RPG. Patch 2.4 for Diablo2: Resurrected is the first major balance update to the game in more than 11 years and fixes some nasty bugs that players have faced since the original game launched in 2000.
Of note are two longstanding bugs with Diablo 2 that would have completely wiped out your character’s mana — making some classes effectively defenseless — or dealt too much damage — namely fire-enchanted monsters. From Blizzard’s extensive patch notes:
Diablo 2: Resurrected developers said last year that they wanted to address bugs like the above, the unexpected results of miscalculations in the game’s code, that have long vexed players. Andre Abrahamian, former game designer at Blizzard Entertainment and lead design for Diablo 2: Resurrected, said during a Q&A video session that the team in charge of the Diablo 2 remaster wanted to fix “things that are misinforming players,” but leave “quirks” that could benefit players or that became part of the game’s meta as-is.
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Elsewhere in the update, Blizzard has made substantial balance changes to all of Diablo 2: Resurrected’s seven classes. The team appears to have touched every aspect of classes, from attack animations, to combat skills, to class-specific tooltips. (Barbarian players will undoubtedly be thrilled by a fix to that class’ Whirlwind skill.) Those tweaks have been in testing since January, when Blizzard brought patch 2.4 to the game’s public test realm.
Thursday’s update also includes new Horadric Cube recipes, new Ladder-exclusive Rune Words, and wide-ranging
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