Beta Patch 15

Diablo 3 Beta Patch 15 – v.0.9.0.8896 - 16 March 2012

Diablo III Beta Patch 15 – v.0.9.0.8896 Released 3/16/12

General

• All characters have been wiped. Please note that this wipe will also affect gold, items, auctions, achievements, follower, and artisans.
• The gold auction house for Hardcore characters is now available for testing
• A new quest selection feature has been added

Accessed from the main character screen, this feature will allow players to select which stage of a completed or in-progress quest they wish to start at when resuming a game

• The costs of the first and second Shared Stash tabs have been increased

First tab cost increased from 50,000 gold to 100,000 gold Second tab cost increased from 150,000 gold to 200,000 gold

• The levels at which character skills and skill runes unlock have been adjusted for most classes
• Treasure Goblins now drop slightly better loot and less junk (slay them all!)

Monk

Active Skills

• Dashing Strike

Now converts to Basic Attack if you are out of Spirit

Witch Doctor

Active Skills

• Corpse Spiders

Weapon damage decreased from 24% to 16%

• Firebats

Weapon damage increased from 100% to 150%

• Haunt

Weapon damage increased from 360% to 575%

• Poison Dart

Damage Over Time (DoT) reduced from 50% to 40% weapon damage

• Soul Harvest

Now displays how many targets are affected on the ability’s stack count

Followers

Active Skills

• Intervene Radius decreased from 10 to 6

Monsters

• The monster affix “Thorns” has been renamed to “Reflects Damage”.
• Jondar Poison damage has been increased

Bug Fixes

For a full list of documented game and service bugs, please review the Known Issues sticky located in the Beta Bug Report forum.

• Players should no longer receive error messages regarding the Starter Edition of Diablo III
• Buying extra Stash space in Normal mode no longer expands your Stash space in Hardcode mode
• Hardcore characters will now be correctly placed into a separate queue from Normal characters when using Public Games to queue for quests
• The names of a player’s RealID and BattleTag friends should no longer appear as [] when chatting with them