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[Dagni]

Poison Javelin - Increased the total amount of Poison Damage, while the Poison Duration was decreased. Added skill synergy bonuses.

A typo? Or a sign of something that will be changed? Because currently in the Beta this skill's poison duration is higher than anything. I wouldn't call 46 seconds of duration a decrease. :)

Throwing Mastery - Increased the Attack Rating bonus to throwing skills.

Yeah, because that's what throwers have been asking for since day one.

"My damage is astounding! But if only I could hit the monsters."

Seriously, though, I'm not complaining - it's just funny. :)

Blessed Hammer - Increased high-level damage. Ignores resistances of Undead and Demons. Added skill synergy bonuses

Wow, ignores resists? But, umm, because there were so many magic resistant guys before?

Crushing Blow now works at the percentage chance stated.

Again I wonder if this is the text of a change from 1.10 beta, rather than from 1.09. Since in the Beta it has been reported that with multiple sources of CB adding to 100% you get several CBs each hit.

The erroneous action of the "Reduce AC" modifier (which had shown in the item pop-up as "x% Target AC") has been corrected. It now no longer sets the target’s AC equal to the percentage, but properly reduces the target’s AC by the percentage. The display has been corrected to say "-x% Target AC”. The modifier’s effect is reduced by one half when player characters, SuperUniques, hirelings, and Act-end bosses are targeted.

Hmm, so with 8 Eths you'd get effectively ITD even against Bosses, whereas real ITD doesn't work at all against Bosses. Too bad 8 isn't possible, but probably you could get another -50% from some kind of unique/runeword/etc armor, to go with a 6 Eth weapon. Or perhaps a -% AC skill could be used at 1/2 effectiveness against the Boss and would correctly stack with the weapon's bonus.

A class of bugs that had reduced the effectiveness of alternating weapon attacks (when equipped with two weapons) has been fixed, including the various dual-claw Assassin attacks.

Yay!!!!

Mana Shield now works as intended.

Well, isn't that nice to know. Umm, a little more help here, please! Either there simply was a bug I hadn't heard about, or they changed something, maybe in the damage order calculations?

One can no longer enter Town Portals to areas beyond the "blocking quests" without having completed those quests: e.g., Tristram (The Cairn Stones), Valley of the Kings/Seven Tombs/Duriel's Lair (The Summoner), The Harem/Palace Basement/Arcane Sanctuary (The Tainted Sun), Durance of Hate (The Blackened Temple), The Worldstone Keep (The Ancients), The Secret Cow Level (Terror’s End in DII classic or Eve of Destruction in DII: LoD). NOTE: A player who kills the High Council (but doesn’t use Khalim’s Will to smash the Compelling Orb), may take a Town Portal into the Durance of Hate.

Okay, but can a player who smashes the orb but doesn't kill the council take a tp into the Durance? Because that's the problem in the beta, which allows there to be a situation where someone playing solo can't take his own tp.

Increased the challenge of Mephisto and the Ancients

Really? The Ancients? From what I've heard, and my own experience, the Ancients are much easier in the Beta. Meph is probably harder, though.

‘Block lock’ has been eliminated. When a player character has just blocked an attack, the player cannot block again for a short period of time, the length of which increases as Blocking speed increases.

Cool ...I think. But shouldn't the length of time unable to block decrease as blocking speed increases?

Jewels and other modifiers now boost the elemental damage of a melee weapon

What does that mean? That +%dmg can now boost elemental damage? That there now exists a +% elemental dmg affix? Or something else?

- Dagni