“We traveled for an eternity...” - Marius

Travel no longer my friends - the Diablo II 1.13 Public Test Realm is LIVE!

NOTE: This is a beta patch that can only be played on the beta realm.

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Patch 1.13
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A new Mystery has been revealed!

- Players of Hell Difficulty Realm games are hereby warned once again,
that a series of new and challenging tests await you! The answer lies
within Diablo's Bosses, which span across the world from the Den of Evil
to the Throne of Destruction...

Major Bugs

- Fixed an item dupe bug.
- Video improvements for Intel Mac machines with OS 10.5 or greater.

Minor Bugs

- Uber Mephisto now checks for both Uber Baal and Uber Diablo to be killed before spawning summoned minions (Before he would only check for Uber Baal).
- The game will no longer stop and then restart the game music after the window loses and then regains focus.
- Fixed an issue where the game window would minimize when running in windowed mode when it lost focus.
- Fixed an issue where the game window wouldn't center properly when it was created.

Specific Changes & Improvements

- Respecialization is now possible! Completing the 'Den of Evil' quest will now additionally reward 1 free respec which can be saved. Players who have already completed this quest should receive 1 free respec in Hell difficulty.
- Increased the drop rate of high runes.
- Support for blit scaling in windowed mode. The game can now be maximized to the largest 4:3 resolution supported (hooray widescreen users).
- Some rare drop items now have an orange color. i.e. Runes and items required for Uber Tristam.
- Modified the gold bank limit to be a flat cap not bound by level.
- Nightmare/Hell WilloWisps champions/uniques have had their damage greatly reduced.
- Removed the requirements to create a hardcore character.
- Greatly reduced the explosion damage dealt by Fire Enchanted monsters.
- Uber Mephisto and Uber Baal's summoned minions no longer give experience.
- Removed Oblivion Knight's Iron Maiden curse.
- Hellfire Torch Firestorm proc rate has been reduced to 5%.
- Users can now toggle the display of text over the Health and Mana globes by clicking on the bottom area of each orb.
- Updated two Act 5 mercenary names to Klar and Tryneus.
- When creating a single player game, pressing the 'Enter' key now automatically creates a Hell difficulty game if possible.
- When creating a game, each difficulty button is now bound to a unique key: Normal 'R', Nightmare 'N', and Hell 'H'.
- The 'Enter Chat' Button in the battle.net waiting room is now bound to the 'Enter' key.
- Added the windows system buttons to the game window (MIN, MAX, CLOSE).
- Added new command line parameter '-nofixaspect' which allows users to not fix the aspect ratio to 4:3 when maximizing windowed mode. This lets the game 'stretch' to fill your monitor.
- Added support for '-sndbkg' command line switch. This enables sound in background.
- Added support for '-nosound', '-window', and '-windowed' command line options.


Revised Skill Balance for Player Character Classes

Amazon

Immolation Arrow - Increased radius of Explosion effect by 33% and Immolation effect by 50%.
Immolation Arrow - Explosion effect damage increased by 20%.
Immolation Arrow - Increased base duration by 33%.

Assassin

Shadow Master - Increased resistance range per point from 5-80 to 5-90.

Barbarian

Whirlwind - Reduced initial mana cost by 50%.
Masteries - Changed critical strike chance from 0-25 to 0-35.

Paladin

Blessed Hammer - No longer ignores resistances of undead and demons.

Druid

Werebear - Damage bonus increased by 15% across all ranks.
Werebear - Increased health by 25% and armor by 1% per point.
Shockwave - Synergy from Maul adds 5% damage per point.

Necromancer

Blood Golem - Removed negative shared life effect (player no longer loses life when golem takes damage).
Corpse Explosion - Increased base damage dealt from 60% - 100% to 70% - 120% of corpses health.
Poison Nova - Increased base damage by 15%.

Sorceress

Firewall - Synergy receives 1% damage per point of Inferno and Blaze and 4% per point of Warmth.
Blaze - Synergy receives 2% damage per point of Firewall and 4% per point of Warmth.
Hydra - Increased base damage by 15% per rank.
Hydra - Increased base speed of Hydra projectile.
Hydra - Reduced cooldown by 25%.
Lightning Mastery - Reduced overall effect by 15%.

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F.A.Q
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Q: How do I begin testing on the PTR?
A: When you start Diablo II change your Battle.net gateway to “ClassicBeta”. When you log in the 1.13 patch will be applied to your game and you can begin testing the changes made in the patch. Since it's a new realm you'll need to create a new account.

Q: I don't see the ClassicBeta realm in my gateway list!
A: Log into one of the other gateways first, then back out and the classicbeta realm will appear.

Q: What if I want to play the normal game again?
A: Simply choose any of the other (non-PTR) gateways. Your game will be reverted to version 1.12 and you’ll be able to play on the live realms as normal.

Q: Where are my characters?
A: The PTR realm is separate from the live realms so your current characters aren’t carried over. You’ll need to create a new character to begin testing. But, cheats are enabled and you may use the following cheats by typing them into chat while in a game:
Gold # - Will provide the amount of gold specified
Level # - Will increase your level to the number specified
Waypoints 1 - Will activate all waypoints. You must still reach an act before that act’s waypoints will be unlocked with this cheat.

Q: What happens to my characters once the PTR testing period ends?
A: They remain on the PTR realm to be removed once the test ends. Characters on the PTR realm won’t transfer to the normal realms.

Q: How long with the PTR run for?
A: As long as we deem necessary to ensure the patch and changes are solid.

Q: Where can I give feedback and what kind of feedback do you want?
A: All 1.13 PTR feedback and bug reports should ONLY be posted in the Diablo II Test Realm Forum here: Diablo II Test Realm Forum

• All post should have a subject line that clearly describes the bug or feedback being given
• Use the search feature to ensure a thread doesn’t already exist before posting
• When reporting a bug include as much information as you can, including steps to reproduce it if possible
• Any non-constructive posts may be deleted and the poster’s privilege to post revoked
• This is a chance for you to ensure the 1.13 patch includes changes and balance tweaks that you think would lead to a better overall experience. Getting the information to us in a clear and logical way helps us understand your view and makes it easier for us to collect feedback for any potential updates to the 1.13 patch before release.

Finally, after over a week, it was noticed by someone (Killen4Fun) that the website has been changed back to DiabloRealm. This was done as part of our preparations for the next coming of Diablo.... Diablo III!!! As before when DiabloRealm changed names to RealmGaming, the website can be still accessed by both diablorealm.net and realmgaming.net. Also, this change does not mean that we will drop our support for other games such as World of Warcraft, but it does mean that our primary focus will be back the Diablo series (Not that it wasn't before). In the coming weeks, I will be working on updating the site's forum layout and content to address Diablo III better. Additionally, I will be updating our forum software to the newest version, although this may take some time as I will have to rewrite many of the custom mods I made as well as the theme.

As for RealmGaming, I still have some plans for this URL in the future, so all will not be forgotten. I will post updates about this at a later date.

I will be periodically posting news updates on the status of these changes. As with all major changes, I would like to hear your input on what you thing about what we are doing, and if we can do anything else to make DiabloRealm even better. So please leave your comments in this thread.

Blizzard has announced the fourth of the five classes for Diablo 3 today at blizz con in Anaheim. The monk appears to be an exact opposite of the barbarian, quick yet fragile, however this character seems highly dynamic.

Concept Art


Blood Everywhere
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/diablo/i...deverywhere.jpg

Blood SuperNova
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/diablo/i...odSupernova.jpg

Crippling Wave
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/diablo/i...ipplingWave.jpg

Impenetrable Defense
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/diablo/i...ableDefense.jpg

the Blizzcon gameplay footage can be viewed here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci5-oWt9mLs

more information about the monk can be found here
http://diablo.wikia.com/wiki/Monk

http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topic...02&sid=3000

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From all of us at Realmgaming! Hope your holidays are great, and enjoy your presents, family, and feasting! Feel free to brag here about what you've received.

The first phase of site upgrades has been completed. Phase 1 consisted of updating the internals of the site and consisted of most of the downtime that the site will experience during these updates. Phase 2 will consist of a reorganization of the site's forums. This will include the addition of some new forums, the removal of others, and also the cleaning up of topics within the forums. Phase 3 will consist of cosmetic changes to the site. A whole new theme for the site is being discussed right now to give the site a brand new feel. Finally, Phase 4 will involve the addition of many new features of the site that will aid us for when Diablo III is released. One of the planned features is a more advanced trading system for the site that will allow you to post and trade items and services seamlessly.

After Diablo III is finally released, we have plans to start an extremely in depth database of all things in that game. More on this will come when we get closer to the release date.

I would also like to note that from now on, the staff will be cracking down of flaming and rude behavior. This goes for everyone. Flaming has gotten out of control on this site and needs to be dealt with. Violators will be warned whether the flame was serious or sarcastic. You have been warned.

It is true... Diablo 3 has finally been announced by Blizzard! Check it out at Blizzard's official website for Diablo III. While you are there, be sure to watch the gameplay video and cinematic trailers. Currently there is no specified expected release date, and only two character classes (Barbarian and Witch Doctor) have been announced among a few other things. Be sure to keep checking back with us to get up to date news about the upcoming Diablo III!

I would also like to mention that Realmgaming will be going through some changes and updates to go along with the announcement of D3, so the site may be down for small periods of time during these updates. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.

Most of you have probably noticed the random divide by zero errors that were occurring Realmgaming for the past day or so. These errors made it impossible to read threads and sometimes even restricted user logins. The problems were due to my web host changing servers on me and not notifying me about it. Anyways, I have fixed the site so it should work as normal. If you find anything that is still not working properly, please let me know about it by posting in this thread.
I apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused some of you.

Thank You
-LeftAnswer

Edit: There have been some reports about users still not being able to post. If you are experiencing this problem them please try to send me a PM. If the PM system is not working for you also, then please try to contact me on AIM (LeftAnswer).

Or is it?

I know it has been awhile since we have had a news post here, so here is one for you.

First I would like to thank HOFX, killen4fun, and Dingle for their donations that they made to the site.

Next, I would like to inform you that I plan to update the site early next week. During the updates, the site will be down shortly. I do not have a date for this set yet, but I can tell you that it will probably be done around 2 or 3 AM PST in order to keep those that would be affected at a minimum.

Lastly, I would like to inform you that another early pre-release of "Project Blood" (The RealmGaming MMORPG) will be available next week. Along with the playable demo (although it may be still too early to call it a demo), I will also be releasing the official name of the game as well as the website for the game. I would also like to note that although the game will have a separate website, the forums for the game will still be here. (Edit: Postponed... Sorry )