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== Mechanical Changes ==

* Dying in softcore will no longer create a body. Instead you will keep all your gear equipped. This also means the EXP penalty is in full effect 0/5/10% in Normal/Nightmare/Hell respectively.
* All skills now have their own separate cooldown that doesn't prevent the user from using other skills temporarily.
* Killing The Cow King will not prevent opening a portal to the Secret Cow Level.
* Throwing weapons now have durability instead of quantity.
* Monster resistances can no longer drop below 0%
* Higher tier Runes now get rarer (per tier) linearly instead of exponentially meaning the highest rune tiers, like Zod, are not impossibly rare for a smaller community.
* The inventory is expanded and divided into two sections; the bottom section is where charms are activated. Charms held in the top portion won't work.
* Ranged skills which grant Attack Rating now actually apply correctly, unlike the original game.
* The distance it takes for all summons to reappear at the player when falling behind, is now shorter.
* Auras can now be put on left click and it is therefore also possible to run two different auras at the same time.
* Martial Arts charges are no longer consumed and can only expire. The duration can be refreshed by reusing the corresponding charge-up.
* Elemental Damage% now correctly applies to all +X-Y Elemental Damage stats on ranged skills. For example +5% Fire Damage did not originally apply to a Strafe attack where the user had +3-6 Fire Damage on a charm.
* Runes now stay on the ground for longer.
* Added a new starting skill called 'Move-only' which allows the players to move without accidentally attacking enemies.
* Auras no longer stack by default except for Holy Shock and Holy Fire from Dream and Dragon/HoJ respectively.
* Shrines buffs can now be stacked instead of removing the previous one.

== Stat Changes ==

* Replenish Life values reworked. In the original game, ‘Replenish Life +5’ is actually ‘0.5 life per second’. All Replenish Life values in the game will be increased by 10x and the stat will display the text “per second”. [https://www.patreon.com/posts/fixing-replenish-99493826 More info].
* Open Wounds formula reworked: The base duration is now 4s (was 8s) and base damage is 9.7 dps (instead of scaling, from 1.6dps at Lv1 up to 125dps at Lv99). It can be improved via two new stats "Wounds Bleed Damage" and "Wounds Bleed Duration".
* Items durability of all weapons have been increased significantly. Additionally, the chance to lose a point of durability when used is now 2% on Weapons and 4% on Armors (was 4% and 10% respectively).
* Crushing Blow effectiveness on prime evils and relic bosses is halved

== Realm Changes ==

* Selling Stone of Jordans no longer triggers the diablo clone event or messages. See [[Bossess]] for details on the reworked diablo clone event.
* The /players X command is disabled. Instead, the loot quantity is always equivalent to 'p8' while monster life/exp is still based on how many players are in the game.
* The bonus exp % per player that joins a multiplayer game has been reduced from 50% to 40% per player.
* Global chat system introduced to chat with players in other games and other game servers. Type /chat command in-game for details.
* New chat commands beginning with a hashtag: #roll (a dice), #flip (a coin), #played (char play time), #age (char creation date)
* Can now create up to 18 characters and fixed the character selection screen menu not having a scrollbar and not being scrollable via mouse-wheel, originally.
* Game perming now only takes 30 seconds.
* The message log ('m' hotkey) is no longer wiped when changing games.

== Quest Changes ==

* Nihlathak's portal will remain open even if the quest is completed.