Diablo II 1.10 Beta Test begins

[Kevin]

Heh, I didn't really look around and since the first testing I wanted to do was playing through with new chars to see how things went and if it was still fun or not, I didn't run into any sets that had life, mana, or stamina bonuses on them until the Hsarus' belt dropped.

Makes more sense that it is all set items and not just that one. Guess I should have read and browsed more.

I have a really nice screen shot of the monsters attacking through walls, it has a zon in a dodge/avoid pose and the monster chilled from setting off Frozen armor. I'm posting that one in the Maggot Lair thread though.

Those two and the Molten Boulder display bug are the only major ones I have seen so far, but I'm not starting real testing till tonight.

As for why it was released with the obvious bugs in it. My conspiracy theory is to keep the D2 players off B.net during the early days of Frozen Throne release. Make it Single and TCP/IP only, the D2 fans will play it taking some of the normal B.net load down, making things nicer for those new FT customers. At least it is the best theory I have. That and they may not have done a lot of off realm testing either so this helps that. But I don't believe we are looking at the release candidate that Blizzard QA is.