1.07

Released 29 June 2001 [1]

Skill Balance Changes

Paladin

• In expansion games, Blessed Hammer/Concentration combination imbalance has been corrected.
• In non-expansion games, the Blessed Hammer/Concentration combination remains the same.
• Zeal is now limited to 5 swings and gives an increased percentage to Attack Rating.
• Fixed display for Vengeance's damage to reflect its actual damage.
• Salvation resistance increased.
• Increased damage for Fist of the Heavens.
• Decreased the length of time that Converted monsters fight for you.
• Increased the damage per level for Sanctuary.
• Increased the Smite damage for Holy Shield.
• Increased resistance bonus for Resist Fire, Resist Cold, Resist Lightning, and Salvation.
• Increased the Mana regeneration rate for Meditation.
• Added melee lightning damage to Holy Shock.
• Added melee damage to undead to Sanctuary.
• Allowed Conviction to reduce an enemy's resistance to a negative value.
• Increased the player's resistance penalty for Conviction.
• Added a damage bonus to Fanaticism.

Barbarian

• In expansion games, Whirlwind is now properly modified by weapon speed.
• In non-expansion games, Whirlwind remains the same.
• Frenzy, Double-Swing, and Double-Throw are now properly modified by weapon speed.
• Added damage bonuses to Concentrate and Frenzy.
• Frenzy now increases in attack speed as more monsters are hit.
• Increased the damage bonus on Berserk.
• Changed Battle Orders bonus to increase by 3% per level at all levels.
• Increased the damage of War Cry.

Amazon

• Strafe has a greater range.
• Impale and Jab are now properly modified by weapon speed.
• Impale increases damage with level and decreases the chance to lose durability.
• Fend is now uninterruptible and does more damage.

Sorceress

• Increased the damage of Hydra.
• Lightning Mastery now affects electrical damage rather than decreasing the Mana cost of those skills.
• Added a casting timer to Fire Wall, Meteor, Blizzard, Frozen Orb, and Hydra and commensurately increased their damage to prevent a drop in frame rate, while maintaining the same overall balance.
• Decreased the Mana cost for Enchant and increased its bonus to fire damage.
• The damage inflicted by most skills over level 8 has been increased.

Necromancer

• Enhanced the damage and decreased duration for Poison Dagger, Poison Explosion and Poison Nova.
• Increased duration and adjusted radius for Decrepify.
• Fixed Iron Maiden+Blood Golem bug and increased the Blood Golem's Life stealing.

Major Bugs

• Fixed a bug with Paladin skills and party/hostility on the borders of town.
• Fixed a bug that allowed a Necromancer to summon more than one Golem at a time.
• Player can no longer steal Life/Mana from inanimate objects.
• Fire Mastery now correctly increases damage to the Hydra skill.
• Fixed a bug that occasionally prevented Hirelings from dying along with the player.
• Fixed the double-draw bug in some skill effects, including Blizzard, to improve frame rate.
• Fixed the updating of the summonables' health bar on their icons.
• Fixed a bug with left-hand swinging on the right-hand spell selection side.
• Fixed the pop-up description for Fist of the Heavens.
• Fixed the overlapping of the character name and level name in the party screen.
• Fixed bug with Barbarian Masteries.

Modifications

• Gambling prices are now based on the character level.
• Sets and Uniques can no longer be gambled for.
• Boss monsters now do 30% less damage to Hirelings and minions than before.
• Monsters now display if they are Undead or Demon, when highlighted. If nothing is listed, they are an "Animal" type.
• General levels for monsters in Nightmare and Hell difficulty have been adjusted.
• Maximum monster level is now level 70 in Nightmare and level 90 in Hell.
• Monsters in Nightmare/Hell difficulty, have higher Resistances, Hit Points, and lower attack ratings than before.
• Poison Damage attacks from Monsters, do more damage than before.
• Mana and Life stealing effects are reduced by half in Nightmare and Hell.
• Retrieving your corpse where it died in Nightmare and Hell restores 50% of any experience lost at death.
• Adjusted the stocking of vendor inventories based on difficulty level.
• Adjusted how Hirelings gain experience.
• Adjusted how Hirelings react to missiles.
• Adjusted Hireling resistances.
• Increased the amount of Gold a character can hold in the Stash.
• Increased the power of all Gems/Skulls and added level requirements.
• Increased the power of all throwing potions and added level requirements.
• Increased the resistance penalty in Nightmare difficulty to -40 and Hell difficulty to -100.
• Sounds for Gems in inventory have changed.
• Looting corpses is available only in Hardcore games.
• In multi-player, you may only go hostile once per minute with each other player in your game.
• New Party Experience Bonus to players in a Party in multiplayer.
• Crystal Swords have an increased durability.
• Scepter class items have increased damage.

Improvements

• Holding down SHIFT and RIGHT-Clicking, when buying health potions, auto-fills any empty slots in the belt. This applies to buying scrolls of Town Portal and Identify scrolls too.
• Holding down SHIFT and LEFT-Clicking on health potions in inventory, will auto-move them to the appropriate column in your belt.
• Added a new 'Repair All' button for equipped items at the blacksmith in each Act.
• New Auto-Map functionality. Players can adjust the size of the Auto-Map in the "Auto-Map Options" menu, switching to the new "Mini-Map".
• Up to 8 "Hotkeys" are available to assign skills to now.
• Improved the displays for character status screens.
  • Total blocking % is now shown and is a related to a player's level and dexterity.
  • Chance to Hit and Defense against last monster fought is now shown.
  • Maximum Resistances are now shown in Gold color.
  • Elemental damage only items, display colors for elemental type damage.
• Wells now heal hirelings.
• Removed collisions for players with pets.
• Pets health will scale up accordingly in Nightmare and Hell difficulty.

Attention

• Player can no longer steal Life/Mana from certain monster types.
• Names of pre-existing Rare Items have changed. However, the item properties have not.
• The maximum damage of Enhanced Damage items may change 1-3 points.
• The damage of many items has been increased.
• Items with one or two sockets may gain an additional socket.
• After patching, newly-discovered Set and Unique items will have additional level requirements.
• Level requirements have not changed for Classic Set items (those discovered in the original Diablo II).