Diablo II Merciless

Text version has been released!

V1. 5 – "Socketathon" Update

Features available on the Dev version:

• []Movement Skill rebalance: Teleport, Leap, Leap Attack, Charge and Dragon Flight's cooldowns can now be reduced by investing points into the skills themselves, or from +Skills on items. The casting delay scales down with diminishing returns for each invested point, but can be reduced to zero at around skill level 13.

  []MCE discontinued.

  []Rune 3-to-1 Recipes have been restored. Since Runebinding crafts have Runes as resources, 3-to-1 Rune Recipes now present a harder choice and are no longer as uninspired an upgrade decision.

  []Gem Bags and Rune Stacks!

  []Gem Bags allow you to stack up to 20 Gems in a 2×2 slot. This translates into an inventory depth of 5.

  []They are created by cubing 2-7× Gems of the same type in the Cube. 1-6× Gems can then be cubed into the bag, up to the maximum of 20. Gems in the Bag can be removed one by one by cubing the Bag alone, and the Bag itself will be unmade when cubed with only two Gems are left.

  []Rune Stacks allow you to stack up to 5 Runes in a 1×1 slot. This translates into an inventory depth of 5 as well.

  []They are created by cubing 2-5× Runes of the same type in the Cube. 1-3× Runes can then be cubed into the stack, up to the maximum of 5. Runes in the Stack can be removed one by one by cubing the Stack alone, and the Stack itself will be unmade when cubed with only two Gems are left.

• []3 El Runes + 1× Topaz Dust → Eld Rune

  []3 Eld Runes + 1× Amethyst Dust → Tir Rune

  []3 Tir Runes + 1× Sapphire Dust → Nef Rune

  []3 Nef Runes + 1× Ruby Dust → Eth Rune

  []3 Eth Runes + 1× Emerald Dust → Ith Rune

  []3 Ith Runes + 2× Emerald Dust → Tal Rune

  []3 Tal Runes + 2× Ruby Dust → Ral Rune

  []3 Ral Runes + 2× Topaz Dust → Ort Rune

  []3 Ort Runes + 2× Sapphire Dust → Thul Rune

[]Andariel will do her special Quest drop 1 out of 2 times after defeating her for the first time on that difficulty. This is a compromise between fixing an obvious bug/exploit and keeping it in as it had become a staple 'feature' of the game.[