Items
The previous ladder-only runewords can now be made in non-ladder games. The revised items below are restricted to Reign of the Warlock ladder games; their Classic and Lord of Destruction versions are unchanged.
Runewords now available in non-ladder
Item changes for ladder
Bloodletter
- +20% Faster Run/Walk added.
The Battlebranch
- Base item level: 34 → 30.
- Required Level: 25 → 17.
Rogue's Bow
- +1~3 to Cold Arrow or Fire Arrow added (Amazon Only).
Pluckeye
- +25% Increased Attack Speed added.
Bane Ash
- +20% Increased Attack Speed removed.
- +50~60% Enhanced Damage removed.
- +20% Faster Cast Rate added.
Gravenspine
- +10% Faster Cast Rate added.
Blinkbat's Form
- Faster Run/Walk +10% → +30%.
- +1 To Mana After Each Kill added.
The Ward
- Socketed (1) added.
Manald Heal
- +10% Faster Cast Rate added.
Angelic Raiment
- Angelic Sickle: Damage +6 added (3 set items).
- Angelic Mantle: +100% Damage to Undead added (3 set items).
- Full set bonus: +1 to All Skills added.
Terror Zones / Colossal Ancients
- Heralds at Tier 3 and above have a better chance to drop Rare-or-higher quality items.
- Latent Sunder Charm drops now require level 75 rather than 69.
- Latent Sunder Charm drops obtained through Magic Find are less frequent. Herald-specific drop rates are unaffected by this change.
- Magic Find can now produce Latent Sunder Charm drops only in Hell difficulty.
- Worldstone Shard drops are accompanied by another item.
- Worldstone Shards drop less frequently.
- Ancient Statues drop less frequently.
Bug fixes
- General stability and performance fixes are included.
- Bind Demon's extra damage no longer exceeds its intended bonus.
- A failed Sigil: Death cast no longer spends mana.
- Sigil: Death now receives the intended benefit from +X to Fire Skills.
- Miasma Chain missiles no longer collide with neutral or friendly units.
- Leap no longer leaves the player trapped in its landing animation.
- Bosses no longer lose their AI behavior in the affected cases.
- Council Members appearing as Heralds now drop loot correctly.
- Controller users can purchase keys in bulk from Hratli.
- Movement no longer briefly reveals item labels that should remain off-screen.
- Several Chronicle item-display problems are corrected.
- The Chronicle no longer shows an eligibility message for an item that is already registered.
- The Chronicle eligibility message now appears correctly in 8-player games.