Version 0.8.2

Version History
← 0.8.1 January 1, 2011	0.8.2 October 3, 2011	0.8.3 → January 1, 2011

Patch notes

These are the official patch notes for version 0.8.2 released by Grinding Gear Games.

Features

• Moved Lower Prison and Prisoner's Gate waypoints to the start of their respective levels
• You can now accept quest rewards directly into a socket
• Local chat is now green
• Chat now doesn't scroll to the bottom when a new message arrives if the log was scrolled up already
• Tidied options screen
• Displaying life/mana above orbs can now be toggled in the options
• Updated art for Ghost Pirates in the Ship Graveyard
• Many environmental and effects improvements

Bug Fixes

• Fixed problems entering outdoors areas
• Fixed a problem generating certain types of monsters
• Fixed a frequent clientside crash during combat
• Blood rage skill now hurts the player properly
• Made bandit lords and the unique scavenger spawn with the correct difficulty
• Fixed some passives that granted no values due to rounding down
• Fixed some incorrect yellow minimap markup on non-doors
• Fixed problem where quest log could not be scrolled
• Fixed a problem where item hovers could overlap the mana
• Fixed a bug where some items would not have hovers
• The passive screen now hides the overlay map when opened
• Reordered some world areas on the waypoint screen
• Reordered some act one quests on the quest screen
• Many "terrain seams" fixed
• Reduced volume of the lightning damage sound

Balance

• Merciless difficulty now has reduced monster life and increased monster damage relative to before
• Improved all player cast speed by 20%
• Reduced damage dealt by bow-wielding monsters substantially
• You can only gain one charge of each type per action now
• Made Moss Monsters (the ones made of stone) stronger in terms of both damage and life
• The flask mod "Perpetual" now adds half the charge bonus
• The Mana Leech support gem now doesn't increase the mana cost of your skills
• The Life Leech support gem is now twice as powerful at high levels
• Reduced the monster level of Church and Experimental Dungeons level 1
• Increased attack speed and increased cast speed mods on items now have a variable range
• Off-attribute armour mods no longer occur rarely on armour pieces
• Hillock is now easier in higher difficulties
• Brutus is now harder in the first difficulty, slightly harder in the others
• Skeleton Caster and Siren elemental attacks are now a lot stronger in higher difficulties. Get resistances.
• Added elemental damage support gems now increase the mana cost of supported skills by less