1.11 Release Notes

[DeathMaster]

Part of the purchase price for the game goes into ongoing support. I don't rate Blizzard's support very favourably. I paid the same price for my game as someone who plays online. On the back of the CD it says I could play SP, up to 8 players over TCP/IP or Battle.net. Nowhere does it say they would selectively treat Battlenet users more favourably. Nowhere is indicated that they would develop extra's for Battlenet and explicitly code in exclusions to deny SP users the same functionality. Blizzard had to do extra work to remove features for SP and that bites. Thus with less effort and lower costs, they could have satisfied more gamers - and they didn't take that approach. Thus, in my eyes they have failed dismally in the support department. I expect and demand equal treatment. If I'd known up front they they discriminate against SP in this way I never would have purchased their game no matter how good it is.

My gripe is not with Blizzard adding new features over 5 years (that's a good thing). My gripe is that they actually make special effort to exclude my chosen method of playing the game, a pretext they sold the game to me on in the first place. THAT's why Blizzard will never get another $ out of me. It's called integrity and fairness, concepts apparently unknown at Blizzard. It's not like they haven't been told, but sadly, it's fallen on deaf ears and blind eyes.

Again, I couldn't agree more.

I'm not rant about this patch itself, but the way blizzard treat SPer like SH*T, and the future games they are pushing.

I expect to pay the full price once, and get the same level of support/goodies as everyone else, and I'm not going to pay an extra monthly fees to continuely play the game I'm already paid for.

If we look for the fairness issue closely, b.netters cost blizzard money, and they get more? and we don't cost their money, but get less! Also as already pointed out, they spend extra effort to cut what we are entitle to get at the first place, this is insult!

Anyway, I'm more interested to know if the leap bug has been fixed or not. FE bug, I can now live with it, but Leap bug is the one really needs to be fixed, it stops my project going.

[shermo]

In 1.10 for me, if I drank a mana potion while holding the shift key, the merc said "Thank you," but my mana filled up.

1.11 Questions to be answered.

4) any changes to the 1.10 drop rates, and

Yup that's what happened to me too.

I haven't noticed any difference in the drops so far. Of course, if there's only a small change in the rate rare stuff drops that won't be obvious for a very long time. If ever

[HolyPade]

-The ctc Valk crashes the game if worn by a merc or used for a clay golem.

Iron golem, I assume.

And addition to the list: Mercs can be changed easier as they can be hired 1-5 lvls from your level?

[bill_n_opus]

I found a change!

You can no longer give yourself mana pots by pressing 1-4 while holding down the shift key.

Your merc says "i can't use that" and nothing happens.

Very annoying

I don't know about you guys but this is the way you give your merc a potion (red, blue, purple) without having to drag it into the char window. I do this all the time while running Meph on p8 since my merc can't leech.

If you can't do this in 1.11 then it's a real shame.

[PyroStock]

I don't know about you guys but this is the way you give your merc a potion (red, blue, purple) without having to drag it into the char window. I do this all the time while running Meph on p8 since my merc can't leech.

If you can't do this in 1.11 then it's a real shame.

From what I've read it doesn't work with blue mana potions anymore (which just made you drink it instead of wasting it on a Merc), but I've seen nothing saying reds and purples won't work with Shift-#.

[Cattleya]

I don't know about you guys but this is the way you give your merc a potion (red, blue, purple) without having to drag it into the char window. I do this all the time while running Meph on p8 since my merc can't leech.

If you can't do this in 1.11 then it's a real shame.

My understanding is that you can still give your merc red and purple pots using the shift-belt hotkey. Before when you gave them blue pots this way, you drank them instead. (Which meant the casters didn't have to take their hand of the shift key to drink a mana pot.) Now when you give your merc a mana pot this way, nothing happens.

[TheWormishOne]

Mercs can be changed easier as they can be hired 1-5 lvls from your level?

Yes.

I'd be interested to know how this affects their stats, though.

[HolyPade]

I'd be interested to know how this affects their stats, though.

I've been wondering the same. If you level a merc through the game it will have better stats in the end I assume but just how much?

[TheWormishOne]

I've been wondering the same. If you level a merc through the game it will have better stats in the end I assume but just how much?

Read all about it here .

[GlennDanzig220]

I wasn't around the SPF when 1.10 came out. Were there similar reactions when SP didn't get Uber Diablo or the Annihilus? I'm not one to tell someone else how they should feel and I've never walked a step in anyone else's shoes, but I am perplexed by some of the reactions to the patch here. I feel that the changes we did get were for the better. I also agree that the "Realm Only" content is there to encourage people to play on the Realms, just like the "Ladder Only" content introduced in 1.10 was to encourage people to play on the fresh, clean (momentarily) ladder as opposed to nonladder. Is that fair? I don't know, I'm neutral on that subject. I won't be deleting my SP characters or ATMA, though, even if I do venture out to go find the "Keys".