Diablo 2: Resurrected players wasted endgame items thanks to a Blizzard typo fleshed out in the official patch notes.
In Diablo 2, runes are an insertable item that you can use to upgrade your endgame gear with various bonuses. But if you install runes in a particular order on a particular item, you get a unique piece of equipment called Runeword. These items are some of the most powerful gear in the game, but they’re tricky: if you make a mistake placing the runes on your gear, you have to destroy them all to get it right.
New runewords are often added in patches, and Blizzard details the order of runes needed to activate these new items. But in the Season 3 update, a runeword in the patch notes pointed to the wrong rune order, and that typo caused players to waste their runes looking for an ultimately useless item. . .
It seems that the issue is caused by some changes made as part of the PTR test cycle. The Mosaic runeword originally required an Mal + Gul + Thul combo, but players weren’t in love with the cold damage that Thul provides. Mosaic then became Mal + Gul + Amn, with Amn providing lifesteal instead.
Based on community discussion (opens in a new tab), it looks like the patch notes (opens in a new tab) were originally released with the correct Mal + Gul + Amn combo , but at some point a patch did. Mal+Gul+Thul. Now they’ve been fixed again, but the bottom line is that there was a day when Blizzard’s bug happily encouraged players to waste their runes on a non-existent Runeword.
It’s not a new season of Diablo 2: Risen without some issues. Remember when? Season 2 was delayed because Blizzard “didn’t plan very well”?