1.13 'content patch'

[Archon_Wing]

But really, my cynical side won't be surpised if bliz already have the majority of 1.13 done, and their request to fans is nothing more than a PR stunt. My very cynical side won't be surprised if this both a PR stunt and a type of survey for D3.

Really though, I'm just hoping they don't break more things than they fix. D2's patch history to me sometimes reads like a company that thinks a sledgehammer can be used for watch repair.

I am also of the thought that it is merely a PR stunt.

What will probaly happen:

Patch 1.13

- "Rebalanced" certain skills. Blessed hammer and chain lightning synergies have been turned into anti-synergies. Now you lose -% per point invested in them. 20k hammers no more! Have fun killing fallen in normal. This is consistent with former patches- nerf currently popular skills to oblivion and make other ones insanely overpowered, but hey who notices things such as balance? Just look at Starcraft. It's balanced because everything is broken, equally. We strive to reach the same goal in all our games.

- Poison Explosion damage doubled. CE and PE synergize each other. LOL balance.

- Fixed a bug where you could create amazons. She was removed earlier for balance purposes.

- Fixed a bug involving Fire Enchanted monsters doing much less damage then they should. Oh, you meant too much? Oh well, I'm sure you won't notice.

-Fixed a bug where unique items and runes dropped 10x more than intended.

- If you attempt to create more than 3 games a month you will be banned, because you are probably a hacker. Please subscribe to World of Warcraft.

- Added a new quest Uber l33t Den of Evil . It is activated if high runes are sold, meaning that only people with duped runes are going to activate the event, but don't worry we think that will discourage duping like it did with Uber Diablo.
In Uber l33t Den of Evil, not only do you fight the 3 in uber form, but you also fight Lilith, Uber Duriel, and every monster in the game, including random bosses. Oh, and shamans can revive any monster, including Diablo. And cast corpse explosion.
(We recieved reports that someone from the Amazon Basin has already defeated this in 3 days, armed with only a low quality javelin and cracked sash. But many antidotes, thawing potions and chilling potions that somehow exploited a mechanic in the time-space continuum that caused a tempoary division by zero, but not long enough to destroy the universe. Hardcore too, no less. )

- Made the lobby prettier. Of course, the game boggled down to a crawl. We will fix it in 3 months, and ignore the community who will probably come up with the fix in two days. Then we can ban them for modifying our stuff!! (Example: Starcraft 1.16)

- Added a "tppk" button. We are aware of the exploit, but we don't care. We did however, decide to make it fair by allowing everyone to do it.

- To prevent bots from joining, you will now enter a 68 character long captcha which will work about half the time. (But hey, I'd rather have this if bots died)

- The forums have been modified to only allow pro-Blizzard opinions. If you are not a fanboy/girl who thinks Blizzard can do no wrong, please die. Before you die though, consider our next great games, Starcraft II and Diablo 3 which will now be sold in 10 parts to "enhance" the story line.

- Ugh, we know we said battle.net was gonna be free and stuff, but aren't you tired of this game? We sure are.

:)
But hey, it could be worse. So don't worry about it. Blizzard has a tendency of getting things right... eventually.