Din’s Curse v.902 Beta Patch Released, Rogue Class Profiled

Soldak Entertainment has released a new v.902 patch for the pre-order/beta version of Din’s Curse, while also adding information about the rogue class to the game’s official website. Despite the short timespan since the v.901 update, the patch notes are surprisingly long:

‘¢ traps quests are now correctly marked as optional (Aganazer)
‘¢ fixed completed hidden quest issue (incognoscente)
‘¢ fixed some problems when cancelling a quest
‘¢ can no longer purge required quest objects (getter77)
‘¢ added 2 more player skins
‘¢ put Show Use Hints back in (Desticato)
‘¢ fixed some covenant stuff in character export still (Coreyh2)
‘¢ no longer save shared stash if fake player (probably never did in the first place, just extra check)
‘¢ now load items in a slightly safer way
‘¢ changed projectile damages to floats
‘¢ decreased dark elf wizard ice storm damage from 30-60/6-18 to 10-15/2-3.5 (Lyranaar/Cadfan)
‘¢ decreased acid damage from 3.0/0.4 to 1.5/0.2 (Cadfan)
‘¢ decreased naga priest base damage mult from 0.7 to 0.6 (Cadfan)
‘¢ orc shamans now have some physical damage so they can destroy objects
‘¢ decreased orc shaman damage mult from 0.75 to 0.6
‘¢ changed SkeletonWarrior to warrior class
‘¢ changed DarkElfWarrior to warrior class
‘¢ changed DarkElfAssassin to rogue class
‘¢ fixed a bunch of monsters having no valid class set
‘¢ decreased most monsters vitality per level from 1.5 to 1.4
‘¢ decreased mage/priest monsters vitality per level from 2.0 to 1.3
‘¢ decreased rogue monsters vitality per level from 2.0 to 1.4
‘¢ decreased warrior monsters vitality per level from 3.0 to 1.6
‘¢ fixed 2 crashes when trying to spawn an item with no entity slots left
‘¢ fixed a crash in Player::isLootEquipment
‘¢ fixed a vendor issue
‘¢ changed magic bow effect to look a little better
‘¢ cave-ins are a little slower (qt3 ravenight)
‘¢ now automatically select current selected specialty on pick specialty screen (incognoscente)
‘¢ fixed some revenge quests not completing correctly after a save/load
‘¢ fixed npc intro button issue (getter77)
‘¢ decreased rescue & ambush quest chances from 1.0 to 0.75
‘¢ fixed dropping an item not calling inventoryChanged (jshar)
‘¢ health bars of monsters that give quests are now yellow (Cadfan)
‘¢ cave ins hurt monsters again
‘¢ decreased cave in range from 100 to 75
‘¢ fixed earthquakes not hurting monsters
‘¢ monster events no longer show up on minimap
‘¢ added ice bomb
‘¢ boss quest now has a minimum level (lekonish)
‘¢ improved Din’s look a bit (SharpCarlos)
‘¢ now only one dialog will play at once (Cadfan)
‘¢ fixed search for server and password fields (hornedry2k)
‘¢ added Ego Items help topic (Aganazer)
‘¢ added Fragile Items help topic
‘¢ fixed zoom buttons when you have switched mouse wheel to something else (SharpCarlos)
‘¢ fixed must’ve of been Hamlec typo (getter77)
‘¢ added Secret Doors help topic (freykin)
‘¢ fixed duplicate prisoner quest (Ephemera)
‘¢ fixed altar revenge text (Lyranaar)
‘¢ fixed characters level arrow on setup world screen
‘¢ fixed low/medium arrows on setup world screen on new characters (getter77)
‘¢ fixed dark elves’ evil altars typo (FloodSpectre)
‘¢ fixed plaguebringer larva will overwhelm typo (FloodSpectre)
‘¢ fixed The dark elf Fuse typo (FloodSpectre)
‘¢ fixed the Show XP numbers text (Valgor)
‘¢ changed paladin shield mastery icon (Valgor)
‘¢ improved difficulty highlight help some (Valgor)
‘¢ fixed localization data getting loaded in twice (Valgor)
‘¢ fixed townspeople intro punctuation (FloodSpectre)
‘¢ fixed naga priest having a weapon in bestiary (Valgor)
‘¢ fixed an alpha issue on evil pools (Valgor)
‘¢ fixed GoldVein (Valgor)
‘¢ fixed WeaponRecipe & WeaponRecipeDesc (Valgor)
‘¢ changed secret found messages slightly
‘¢ reworded King Alek Carmelo dialog (FloodSpectre)
‘¢ fixed until the monsters typo (FloodSpectre)
‘¢ reworded breakable things tip (FloodSpectre)
‘¢ reworded trade comes through dialog some (FloodSpectre)
‘¢ reworded for the crusade (FloodSpectre)
‘¢ fixed whatever in dynamic world help topic (FloodSpectre)
‘¢ fixed townspeople in reputation help topic (FloodSpectre)
‘¢ reworded shared stash help topic a bit (FloodSpectre)
‘¢ rewored Din’s starting quest a bit (FloodSpectre)
‘¢ fixed prayer description (Lyranaar)
‘¢ added a warning that raise dead doesn’t work on some monster types (cthonic)
‘¢ fixed Purple Scree spelling (Valgor)
‘¢ fixed monster group quest having issues across saves (Valgor)
‘¢ fixed spacing issue in monster group text
‘¢ fixed damage per successful hit typo (FloodSpectre)
‘¢ increased dark sacrifice damage from 5-10 to 5-15
‘¢ increased dark sacrifice mana return from 10 to 50 (cthonic)
‘¢ changed dead body help to left click to search (Lyranaar)
‘¢ fixed some quests like rescue completing twice (Lyranaar/vomitousinsight/freykin)
‘¢ fixed a spawning extra set items crash (stuartpierce)
‘¢ should now get experience for finding secrets
‘¢ now get experience for picking locks
‘¢ now get xp for picking locks (FloodSpectre)
‘¢ now get xp for disarming traps (DeathKnight1728)
‘¢ now get xp for exploring new levels
‘¢ fixed candle name
‘¢ fixed lantern names (Iane)
‘¢ increased shield of fire starting damage percent from 0.05 to 0.1 (Cadfan)
‘¢ fixed rupture mana cost (getter77)
‘¢ now if you raise dead on too many it destroys your current weakest monster (incognoscente/cthonic)
‘¢ decreased blight damage from 3 to 1.5
‘¢ increased blight mana per level from 0 to 2
‘¢ increased disease cloud start time from 3.0 to 4.0
‘¢ fixed defensive totem objects getting purged (Kruztee)
‘¢ ego shields now get defense bonus (FloodSpectre)
‘¢ fixed reputation highlight text (FloodSpectre)
‘¢ pets should attack less objects (incognoscente)
‘¢ pets are now more aggressive (incognoscente/Aganazer/Twotricks)
‘¢ pets now get initial health boost and other boosts per level (Aganazer/Cadfan/incognoscente/cthonic)
‘¢ increased most pets staring levels
‘¢ increased all pets per skill level level boost
‘¢ now show monster bonuses in skill level text
‘¢ added chest tag to chaos lord
‘¢ added port information to manual (viper34j)