Patch Notes 1.5.1 Build #56948 – August 20, 2024
Game Updates
Infernal Hordes
- The chest with gold treasures can now be reused.
- The sound effects that play when picking up Burning Ether are now louder.
- The following hellish gifts have been updated to offer higher rewards:
- The Sublime Elite: The amount of Burning Ether has been increased from +1 to +2.
- The Swelling Elite: The amount of Burning Ether has been increased from +1 to +2.
- The Unstoppable Elite: The amount of Burning Ether has been increased from +1 to +2.
- The Burning Rain: The amount of Burning Ether you receive at the end of a wave has been increased from 1-3 to 3-9.
User Interface and User Experience
- The trade chat is now separated by world levels.
- You will now be notified when a new patch is available.
- Group leaders can now promote another group member to the new leader.
- Newly created characters will now always appear at the top of the character list.
- The clan name can now be changed.
Miscellaneous
- All players will receive a chest with legendary items with guaranteed Great Affixes. This is meant to compensate you for the issue in patch 1.5.0, where you did not receive items with guaranteed Great Affixes from various sources.
- The fortification affix “Alchemist Control” for Hunters has been reactivated with the following adjustments:
- The affix “Size of Blade Storm” has been removed from “Hunter Innovation” and is now found on “Alchemist Control”.
- The ranks of the affix “Sneaky Attacks” have been removed from “Alchemist Control”.
- Additional visual effects have been added to the trajectory of the arrows to make it easier to track the origin of the projectile.
Fixed Issues
Accessibility
- Fixed an issue where a non-functioning setting for “Read with Cursor” was present.
- Fixed an issue where the screen reader read Roman numerals as letters.
User Interface and User Experience
- Fixed an issue where character stats in town were inaccurate when you had certain items equipped.
- Fixed an issue where the term “Compass Affixes” appeared twice in the tooltip for the Hell Compass.
- Fixed an issue where the name of Varshan’s Echo was displayed as “Tormented Echo of Varshan”.
- Fixed an issue where comparing a mythical unique item of the Ancients could trigger an error.
- Fixed an issue where the Whisper symbol for defeating the Blood Maiden overlapped with the symbol for the cursed ritual on the map.
- Fixed an issue where the symbols for hellish gifts in the Infernal Hordes were different on the minimap and the world map.
- Fixed an issue where treasure goblins in Hellfire could leave a permanent portal behind.
- Fixed an issue where the visual effect for poisons could remain permanently on the corpses of enemies if they were killed while poisoned.
- Fixed an issue where thorns granted by the fortification affix “Hardened” were not shown in character stats.
- Fixed an issue where for players using a controller, the inventory tab for equipment opened when they used an Abyssal Scroll.
- Fixed an issue where the minimap was incorrect in certain instances of the Infernal Hordes.
Gameplay
Infernal Hordes
- Fixed an issue where Hellblood did not appear as often as intended when an infernal gift of hellfire was active.
- Fixed an issue where the platform of the infernal gift “The Pursuer Devil” could reappear after interacting with it.
- Fixed an issue where the reduction to all resistances of the infernal gift “The Faded Wanderer” did not actually decrease the resistance.
- Fixed an issue where treasure goblins that appeared during an Infernal Hordes encounter could never be killed, preventing wave progress.
- Fixed an issue in local co-op where one player could pick up another player’s Burning Ether after they died. Whoever finds it gets to keep it!
Quests and Dungeons
- Fixed an issue where the player could re-enter on the other side of the target location while protecting Locran for the quest “To the Edge of the Abyss”.
- Fixed an issue where endless monsters appeared during the quest “The Bubbling Mountain”.
- Fixed an issue where the fight with the Istel Tornado during the quest “The Ascending Hells” could last indefinitely.
- Fixed an issue where progress in the quest “Sins of the Willing” could be blocked if the player died during the ritual.
- Fixed an issue where the second Spider Summoner in Schirokko Cave did not appear, preventing progress.
- Fixed an issue where “Storm-Cursed’s Wrath” did not deal damage. (So much for wrath.)
- Fixed an issue where the aspect of inevitable fate could appear on a chest piece through a seasonal quest line.
General
- Fixed an issue where the Tormented Echo of the Beast in Ice dropped the same amount of Needle-Pierced Dolls as the normal version.
- Fixed an issue where the visual effects of the Death Trap and Camouflage were not properly visible to other players.
- Fixed an issue where higher ranks of the Fire Wall had no blue flame effect.
- Fixed an issue where Dungeon Whispers in the zone “Cleansing Sands” didn’t appear.
- Fixed an issue where multiple Shadow Totems could appear when switching weapons while using the Umbracrux.
- Fixed an issue where Cursed Hearts could be lost when using cursed altars after the end of a Hellfire.
- Fixed an issue where a small number of affixes could not roll as Great Affix, including the affix on the Bloodcrafter’s cuirass that restores essence using bloodballs.
- Fixed an issue where players could get stuck when interacting with the World Level statue in Kyovashad while using a town portal.
- Fixed an issue where exiting the dungeon with the “Leave Dungeon” skill couldn’t leave cellars.
- Fixed an issue where Lilith’s Echo could sometimes not be staggered during the first phase of the fight.
- Fixed an issue where Lilith’s Echo could remain airborne indefinitely if staggered immediately after landing.
- Fixed an issue where Lilith’s Echo did not transition to the second phase of the fight under certain conditions.
- Fixed an issue where the summoned lightning spear could not consume stacks of “Crackling Energy” or grant the bonus to damage increase.
- Fixed an issue where completion did not affect certain affixes for the following unique items:
- The Oculus
- Blue Rose
- Storm Companion
- Fixed an issue where players could not interact with various objects.
- Fixed an issue where “Blood Howl” did not grant stealth when “Waxing Moon” was equipped.
Miscellaneous
- Fixed an issue where the corpses of Duriel and Grigoire did not disappear shortly after their death.
- Diverse improvements to user interface, graphics, stability, and performance.
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