Patch 1.17.2.14

Released November 15, 2012

This patch addresses a number of issues:

Pets

• Owl pet added
• Badger pet added

Languages

• Russian language now available
• Polish language now available

General

• Charmed monsters are released when the unit that charmed them dies
• Several spelling errors fixed
• Dimensions fixed on one texture
• A lot of internal fixes to support translations better, and copy-pasting of cyrillic characters and use of IME
• Characters with certain special characters in their names won't fail to save
• Attacks that deal weapon% no longer give bonus crit for values over 100%
• Missiles with an AoE were not properly taking into account some untargetable states
• Run speed bonuses were sometimes added twice
• Fixed Trillbot achievement quest

Engineer Skills

• Rank 8 and 9 or Seismic Slam scale soak values properly on direct damage
• Flame Hammer, Ember Hammer and Emberquake correctly list staves in requirements

Berserker Skills

• Storm hatchet now targets better on slopes
• storm hatchet should be less likely to collide with walls and more likely to collide with units
• Ravage knockback/slow resistance fixed
• Ravage falls back to autoattack when mana is low
• Battle rage properly refreshes now
• Shadowbind procs now level properly

Embermage Skills

• Rank 4 of Firestorm now has correct max damage
• Issues w/ Prismatic Bolt duration effects resolved
• Fixed mana cost for rank 10 of Infernal Collapse
• Skill description for Infernal Collapse now states the skill does not build charge

Spells

• Made requirement reduction spells work properly

Items

• Rifle and Cannons now use weapon damage instead of DPS - fast weapons were stronger than intended, slow weapons were weaker than intended
• A non functioning proc on the Tundra set was converted to a functioning Lifesteal
• Tomes of Weapon Expertise (spells) now correctly state that they improve Claw use, amongst the other weapons
• New ring for Emberweave set
• New pants for Embercraft set
• Legendary wand Earth Dies Screaming can no longer crash the game
• Fixed some issues with item-based proximity effects getting doubled

Maps

• Various pathing and collision fixes
• Various new boss rooms added for maproom maps
• Several new Phase Beast rooms added
• Can't be knocked behind fence in Arena of Slaughter

Monsters

• Exploding zombies now strike only once per explosion
• King gels have champion resistances and minion gels cannot be charmed

Recipes

• Transmutation recipe for sockets can't eat gems with no return.

Random Maps

• Some random map affixes better tuned

Quests

• You must talk to the guardian of mana before you can enter the dungeon from Act 4 hub

System

• Fix for crash in certain circumstances when wearing gear that requires a requirement reduction spell
• Fix for crash when quitting the game from the options menu while the shared stash is open.