Fortunately, I was busy when patch 1.10s came out. I wonder what the "s" stands for, "Surprise!", or maybe something else, best left to the imagination. :S
Anyway, I was aware of the problems before I even downloaded it. I took the time to sort of figure out what was going on, and I kind of understand what they are trying to do. The description that Blizzard posted was typical of a company that treats their customers like the "s" in "1.10s". They SHOULD have said:
There is a totally new system for saving character's items. The system is not designed to transfer items from the first 1.10 Beta characters. If you load a character saved in 1.10 into 1.10s, the following items will be deleted:
-All Magic, Rare, Set, Unique, and Runeword items,
-All Runes,
-All Jewels, Rings, Amulets, and Charms (qualify as first condition),
-All potions that are held in a belt that gets deleted.
Items that will not be deleted:
-Non-Magic (White) items,
-Non-Magic Socketed items, as long as they do not contain Runes,
-Potions in inventory, in the first row of a belt, or held in a belt that will not be deleted,
-Gems, including those in socketed items that do not otherwise qualify for deletion,
-Gold
-Tomes and Scrolls of Identify and Town Portal
-Keys
The main thing to note is that almost everything "worthwhile" collected in 1.10 games will be deleted. There is no way to recover or convert those items within the game.
With that said, by upgrading from 1.10 to 1.10s, your characters will retain their experience and stats gained while playing 1.10.
Items that your characters had pre-1.10 (1.09 and down) can be recovered, or converted to 1.10s. You must load a character holding those items that was saved in 1.09. To save both the pre-1.10 items, and keep the character experience gained in 1.10, requires a few steps.
For example, assume I have a character that was at level 30 in 1.09, was converted to 1.10, and leveled up to 80 in 1.10. First, I must have a save of two versions of the character, a 1.09 save, and a 1.10 save. I load the 1.09 character in a 1.10s game, and transfer the items to a new mule. Then, load the 1.10 version of the character in a 1.10 game. Use the unsocket recipe to remove any runes or jewels from any socketed items that you want to keep (Hel + Scroll of TP), handy if you don't want to scrape up another 6-socket Hydra Bow. :) Finally, load that character in the 1.10s game, and transfer the 1.09 items back to it.
That would have been a bit nicer than "some legitimate 1.10 items will also end up being deleted". :S
Right now, I have 3 installations of the game on my system, and I'm working on transferring my characters & items as time allows. Hopefully, I won't completely lose interest in the silly game before I'm done. :)
-rcv-
Edit: Note, don't take these details as "gospel", I just dashed it off quickly and never verified at the time I wrote it up. At this time, I know that potions do NOT get deleted, even if the belt holding them goes.
Anyway, I was aware of the problems before I even downloaded it. I took the time to sort of figure out what was going on, and I kind of understand what they are trying to do. The description that Blizzard posted was typical of a company that treats their customers like the "s" in "1.10s". They SHOULD have said:
There is a totally new system for saving character's items. The system is not designed to transfer items from the first 1.10 Beta characters. If you load a character saved in 1.10 into 1.10s, the following items will be deleted:
-All Magic, Rare, Set, Unique, and Runeword items,
-All Runes,
-All Jewels, Rings, Amulets, and Charms (qualify as first condition),
-All potions that are held in a belt that gets deleted.
Items that will not be deleted:
-Non-Magic (White) items,
-Non-Magic Socketed items, as long as they do not contain Runes,
-Potions in inventory, in the first row of a belt, or held in a belt that will not be deleted,
-Gems, including those in socketed items that do not otherwise qualify for deletion,
-Gold
-Tomes and Scrolls of Identify and Town Portal
-Keys
The main thing to note is that almost everything "worthwhile" collected in 1.10 games will be deleted. There is no way to recover or convert those items within the game.
With that said, by upgrading from 1.10 to 1.10s, your characters will retain their experience and stats gained while playing 1.10.
Items that your characters had pre-1.10 (1.09 and down) can be recovered, or converted to 1.10s. You must load a character holding those items that was saved in 1.09. To save both the pre-1.10 items, and keep the character experience gained in 1.10, requires a few steps.
For example, assume I have a character that was at level 30 in 1.09, was converted to 1.10, and leveled up to 80 in 1.10. First, I must have a save of two versions of the character, a 1.09 save, and a 1.10 save. I load the 1.09 character in a 1.10s game, and transfer the items to a new mule. Then, load the 1.10 version of the character in a 1.10 game. Use the unsocket recipe to remove any runes or jewels from any socketed items that you want to keep (Hel + Scroll of TP), handy if you don't want to scrape up another 6-socket Hydra Bow. :) Finally, load that character in the 1.10s game, and transfer the 1.09 items back to it.
That would have been a bit nicer than "some legitimate 1.10 items will also end up being deleted". :S
Right now, I have 3 installations of the game on my system, and I'm working on transferring my characters & items as time allows. Hopefully, I won't completely lose interest in the silly game before I'm done. :)
-rcv-
Edit: Note, don't take these details as "gospel", I just dashed it off quickly and never verified at the time I wrote it up. At this time, I know that potions do NOT get deleted, even if the belt holding them goes.