Diablo 3 news » Beta Patch 15 Now Live

Learn more about the latest service and game changes to the Diablo III beta with the official patch notes!

Diablo III Beta Patch 15 – v.0.9.0.8896

General

• All characters have been wiped. Please note that this wipe will also affect gold, items, auctions, achievements, followers, and artisans.
• Battle.net Authenticators have been enabled for the Diablo III beta test. If a Battle.net Authenticator is attached to your Battle.net account, you will be required to enter an authentication key to log in.
• The gold auction house for Hardcore characters is now available for testing
• A new quest selection feature has been added
  • Accessed from the main character screen, this feature will allow players to select which stage of a completed or in-progress quest they wish to start at when resuming a game
• The costs of the first and second Shared Stash tabs have been increased
  • First tab cost increased from 50,000 gold to 100,000 gold
  • Second tab cost increased from 150,000 gold to 200,000 gold
• The levels at which character skills and skill runes unlock have been adjusted for most classes
• Treasure Goblins now drop slightly better loot and less junk (slay them all!)

Classes

• Monk
  • Active Skills
    • Dashing Strike
      • Now converts to Basic Attack if you are out of Spirit
• Witch Doctor
  • General
    • Mana costs for all skills have been adjusted
  • Active Skills
    • Corpse Spiders
      • Weapon damage decreased from 24% to 16%
    • Firebats
      • Weapon damage increased from 100% to 150%
    • Haunt
      • Weapon damage increased from 360% to 575%
    • Poison Dart
      • Damage Over Time (DoT) reduced from 50% to 40% weapon damage
    • Soul Harvest
      • Now displays how many targets are affected on the ability’s stack count

Followers

• Templar
  • General
    • The non-hired version of the Templar has had its damage reduced and will now deal approximately the same amount of damage as the hired version
  • Skills
    • Intervene
      • Radius decreased from 10 to 6

Monsters

• The monster affix "Thorns" has been renamed to "Reflects Damage"
• Jondar Poison damage has been increased

Bug Fixes

• Players should no longer receive error messages regarding the Starter Edition of Diablo III
• Buying extra Stash space in Normal mode no longer expands your Stash space in Hardcode mode
• Hardcore characters will now be correctly placed into a separate queue from Normal characters when using Public Games to queue for quests
• The names of a player’s RealID and BattleTag friends should no longer appear as [] when chatting with them