Announcement Patch #12: QoL Improvements, Widescreen Support, Color Dyes and More

Hello, everyone, Euz here. I stumbled upon this thread and I thought I give my two cents towards this... widescreen implementation. It has been done to another realm that I won't mention here and it pretty much changed a whole PVP meta. To put it short: it made some characters/builds obsolete. Name locking, chain locking and using skill-locking from way farther away, puts some characters/builds at a serious disadvantage. I don't know, maybe it will lower the skill gap between PVP players (which I doubt it), but I really can't see how it can be healthy towards a whole PVP meta.
However, I understand that priority goes towards PVM players, but can't anything be done about it? Is it possible to force a resolution change when certain action has been made? For example when you hostile anyone (or someone hostiles you), resolution goes and locks down to 800x600. Is such thing feasible?

 

griffon +dmg and -res places also changed
https://imgur.com/a/Y5QEkYc

 

for map scrolling u need a time to find your oponent on the map and after 1 teleport u need to recharg it , on widescreen u see more without to do nothing.Its just impossible to compare.
I say it again. Widescreen will destroy PvP.

 

@Gix and company, thank you for your hard work! looking forward to start on Friday

• Increased gambling odds.
• Increased jewels drop rate.
• Increased set items drop rate.

can you please shed some light on this?

 

For jewels, I can confirm that they drop visibly more often than they used to.
For the sets, I haven't done enough farming, after installing the new patch, to reach a conclusion.
For gambling, as per a post by Gix, gambling odds have been slightly increased for uniques (in vanilla, Blizzard says it roughly 0,01%, meaning a chance of 1 in 10.000 for an item to be unique).
Haven't tried yet, but I did get an Angelic amu (set) ilvl 91 and an Eye of Elitch (unique) ilvl 91 some time ago, before the new patch.

 

Mayb this time Gambling Tyraels might is possible lets try it out this ladder!

 

I have one serious question, because all the morning, i try to hijack some players from one other server!!! They want to know, if the Server Shop will be closed for the first days after the restart, because let say it - it is not a good idea, to try to achieve something and see someone with Perfect/Shopped Griffon and/or Perfect/Shopped Enigma on base with the cult Ilvl 90/99 on the first/second day after the restart... Generally the worldwide practice is, when the server is restarted, the shops are closed for the first month - not for anything else, but to guarantee a equal start and conditions for all! Here, even if only for the first 10 days, would still be very good and attractive/stimulated - and i hope it is, because i can hijack at least 6 people, bored in the other mod!

P.S.
Fatty180, young padawan, you know - i am a crazy maniac and i also try to accomplish that with thousands of transactions ~ 35 milions from my Extra Gold / Find Item Barb only for Armors/Shields/Gloves, but till now my only "success" from Ancient Armor / Ornate Plate / Sacred Armor is 1 unique Silks of the Victor... I have a lot more success with the Gloves - as you can see in the topic about the daily drop...

 

webshop will not be available at the start

 

Nice patch!