Version 0.7.2

Version History
← 0.7.0 January 1, 2010	0.7.1 June 4, 2010	0.7.2 → January 1, 2010

Patch notes

These are the official patch notes for Version 0.7.2 released by Grinding Gear Games.

Features

• Item linking now works in global chat (messages prefixed with a #)
• Minimap is now saved between areas
• Added death penalties of 5% and 10% of current level's experience on Cruel and Ruthless difficulties respectively
• Your flasks now refill when you enter town
• Made the minimap slightly transparent
• Skills are greyed out when the player has insufficient mana to use them
• Added level to the /ladder command
• The social panel now switches to the messages tab automatically when a party invite is received
• The number of messages in the Messages tab is also shown in the tab's title
• The 1-9 keys now set the value of the slider in the Unstack Window
• Replaced raise zombie animation with a new faster one
• Implemented knockback
• Many animation and effect improvements (too many to list)

Bug Fixes

• Monsters who burn to death should now give correct credit
• Disabled weapons now don't participate in combat or grant skills
• Fixed a bug that would cause items to get deleted
• Fixed a bug that would cause players to fail to change area occasionally
• Fixed the bow crash
• Increased spell damage mods now work
• Disabled corpse consumption of shield crab shells
• Esc and Shift are no longer bindable keys
• Fixed monster energy shield regeneration
• Disabled the /team cheats command. No more surprise PvP!
• Fixed orb of scouring to clear required level
• Fixed bugs that allowed items to be picked up from a distance or with right click
• Fixed large miscalculation in monster life for harder difficulties
• Fixed exploits with creating and using empty stack items
• Fixed an item duplication exploit
• Changed target selection to take into account object size when selecting targets by circle
• Merveil should always spawn spawns
• Fixed inline item icon placement in multiline chat messages
• Fixed item linking to be unspoofable
• Set Siren minimum attack distance to be more reasonable. They won't run away immediately now
• Player context menu is now disabled for chat messages when the chatbox is closed
• A shift-attack that fails due to mana will now fall back to a shift-attack
• The socket visibility state is now set correctly when items are added to the inventory
• Fixed Witches holding bows

Balance

• Rebalanced higher difficulties to have less monster damage and more monster life
• Reduced requirements of most early levels of support gems
• Most monster mods are now substantially more dangerous
• Slightly reduced drop rate of magics, increased rate of rares, reduced rate of uniques
• Made life regeneration higher on items
• Reduced number of charges flasks use, made them faster and made them heal more
• Some of the Siren attack is now physical. They'll freeze you for less time
• Adjusted difficulty of bosses. Harder difficulties won't be quite so impossible.
• Doubled monster energy shields
• Increased automatic mana and life gain per level
• Reduced amounts of elemental damage increase, spell damage and area of effect on mods and passive skills
• Reduced power and mana usage of added elemental damage support gems
• Increased mana cost of added area of effect support gem
• Reduced number of raised zombies per level
• Rebalanced speed of multiple attack/multiple cast support gems to make them slower and much higher level
• Slightly increased Fireball mana cost and reduced its damage
• Slightly increased Ice Nova mana cost and increased its damage. Corrected its range
• Slightly increased Cold Snap's damage
• Rebalanced raised zombies to be a lot more powerful
• Changed Detonate Dead to be 20% monster health in fire damage and then the rest is physical
• Leap Slam and Ground Slam now check your Accuracy Rating