Note: Additional changes made since the PTR’s conclusion are highlighted in blue.
Updates from PTR
Vessel of Hatred
Rune Words
Xan
- Duration Increased from 0.25 to 0.35 seconds.
- Overflow Effect
- Previous: Increase damage.
- Now: Increase duration.
Tec
- Damage reduced from 1000% to 700%.
Spiritborn
- Aspect of Apprehension moved from Utility to Offensive Category.
- Rushing Claw
- Damage increased from 60% to 80%.
- Sepazontec
- Damage increased from 50-100% to 80-130%.
- Sunbird's Gorget
- Damage increased from 150-300% to 200-400%.
- Additional functionality: Now also makes your Storm Feathers also a Jaguar Skill.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the description for Sunbird's Gorget was not consistent with similar effects.
- Fixed an issue where Shroud of False Death could appear to grant a Skill Point to all Spiritborn Key Passives.
- Fixed an issue where Aspect of Unyielding Hits would not properly interact with Sunbird's Gorget and the Eagle Primary Spirit Hall.
- Fixed an issue where the Igni rune was not casting at the target of the Skill that activates it.
- Fixed an issue where the effect of the Xan rune could be consumed by a Shout skill.
- Fixed an issue where Holy Orbs persisted after phase conclusions during the Harbinger of Hatred encounter.
Base Game
Belial’s Return
Andariel's Flaming Skull
- Primary Power
- Damage decreased from 1800% to 450%.
- Modifier
- Damage over time bonus decreased from 21%-40% to 10.5-20%.
- Damage over time no longer requires enemies to be burning.
- Removed additional burn damage when triggering Primary Power.
Belial's Eye Beams
- Primary Power
- Damage decreased from 1750% to 438%.
- Damage Reduction decreased from 75% to 50%.
- Reduced amount of eye beams from 6 to 5.
- Slightly sped up the eye's orbiting rotation.
- Eye's durations reduced from 3.5 to 2 seconds, damage over time duration is unaffected.
Harbinger of Hatred's Volley
- Primary Power
- Damage decreased from 400% to 250%.
- Modifier
- Fixed Vulnerable bonus to be multiplicative.
- Added a 1 second cooldown to activating this modifier.
Urivar
- Primary Power
- Damage decreased from 800% to 400%.
- Added a 1 second cooldown to this ability.
- Removed 5 second ultimate cooldown reduction.
- Gain 15% Cooldown Reduction.
Duriel's Burrow
- Primary Power
- Damage decreased from 200% to 100%.
- Modifier
- Increased Dodge duration from 2 to 5 seconds.
Sinerat
- Primary Power
- Damage decreased from 200% to 50%.
Avarice
- Modifier
- Damage bonus per resource point decreased from 1.5%-3.4% to 0.01%-0.20%.
Lilith
- Primary Power
- Damage increased from 250% to 400%.
- Modifier
- Only 1 Blisters can exist per Elite, and 2 per Boss.
- Blisters can no longer become executed from abilities that cannot execute bosses.
- Blister Elite damage reduced from 5.25%-10% to 2.1%-4%.
Wandering Death's Chest Beam
- Primary Power
- Adjusted the beam to start closer to your character.
- Modifier
- Execute threshold 15%-34% to 15.5%-25%.
Blackmailer's Sabotage
- Modifier
- Barrier amount reduced from 20%-58% to 11%-30%.
Allek's Talons
- Primary Power
- Channeled Basic abilities can now proc this ability while channeling.
Hatred's Embrace's Hate
- Modifier
- Maximum Critical Chance bonus decreased from 22.5%-70% to 12%-50%.
Flesh Reaper's Disruption
- Modifier
- Increased Vulnerable Damage from Crowd Control bonus from 0.25%[x] to 0.5%[x].
Grigoire's Lightning Square
- Primary Power
- Damage Decreased from 300% to 250%.
Lord Zir's Blood Pool
- Modifier
- Increased Heal amount from 5.5%-15% to 17%-36%.
Skerg's Toxins
- Primary Power
- Changed to whenever you take direct damage.
- Damage decreased from 1000% to 600%.
Varshan's Life Steal
- Primary Power
- Leeching beam now always works on a surrounding enemy.
- Damage is over 1 second instead of 3.
- Increased damage to 700%.
Beastmaster's Training
- Primary Power
- Summons now stuns for 2-4 seconds instead of taunts.
Barbarian
Skills
Whirlwind
- Damage increased from 32% to 52%.
Furious Whirlwind
- Bleed damage increased from 40% of Whirlwind's Base Damage over 5 seconds to 120% [weapon damage] over 5 seconds.
Developer’s Note: We recognized that none of the options were previously attractive for a pure whirlwind build so we've greatly adjusted the bleed option to compensate as a powerful second choice.
Double Swing
- Fury cost reduced from 25 to 20.
- Damage increased from 60% to 66%.
Hammer of the Ancients
- Fury cost reduced from 35 to 30.
- Damage increased from 90% to 98%.
Upheaval
- Fury cost reduced from 40 to 35.
- Damage increased from 120% to 132%.
Rend
- Fury cost reduced from 35 to 30.
Warrior's Mighty Throw
- Damage bonus reduced from 200%[x] to 50%[x].
Developer’s Note: The value was adjusted to a reasonable level to compensate for the bug fix made to Warrior’s Mighty Throw, but it will ultimately result in heftier BONKS.
Steel Grasp
- Base damage increased from 35% to 80%.
Fighter's Steel Grasp
- Damage bonus reduced from 400%[x] to 200%[x].
Warrior's Steel Grasp
- Number of charges gained increased from 1 to 2.
Developer’s Note: We’ve moved some of the damage bonus for Steel Grasp baseline to make gaining additional charges a more attractive option. This is an increase in damage for both options.
Legendary Aspects and Unique Items
Executioner's Aspect
- Damage per 100 Strength reduced from 15% to 5%.
- The damage bonus now caps at 200%.
Developer’s Note: Earthquakes maintained a clear advantage over other builds in the PTR, even after updates meant to bring them in line with other builds. These changes aim to return them to the levels we want and make room for more Barbarian builds to enter the spotlight.
Twin Strikes
- Critical Strike chance affix replaced with Chance for Double Swing to deal Double Damage.
Druid
Skills
Storm Strike
- Chain acquisition radius increased by 50%.
Cyclone Armor
- Non-physical damage resist increased from 15% to 20%.
Ravens
- Passive Damage increased from 31% to 90%.
Poison Creeper
- Passive damage over 2 seconds increased from 47% to 65%.
- Active damage over 2 seconds increased from 126% to 180%.
Passives
Abundance
- Basic Skill Spirit generation increased from 6/12/18% to 10/20/30%.
Earthen Might
- While the guaranteed Critical Strike buff is active, it now also gains 50%[x] increased Critical Strike damage.
- Earthen Might can now be procced again while the buff is active after a very short delay.
Nature's Fury
- Channeled skills now periodically activate Nature's Fury.
- Stone Bursts triggered by Nature's Fury now channel to maximum size before exploding.
Spirit Boons
Gift of the Stag
- Maximum Spirit reduced from 40 to 30.
- Spirit generation increased from 5 to 10.
Legendary Aspects and Unique Items
Aspect Of Impending Deluge
- Previous: Storm Strike's damage is increased by 50%[x] and increases the damage the target takes from other skills by 20-40%[x] for 6 seconds.
- Now: Storm Strike chains to twice as many targets and increases the damage the targets take from other skills by 30-50%[x] for 6 seconds.
Wildheart Hunger
- Decay rate reduced from 2% per second to 0.5% per second.
Gathlen's Birthright
- Anima of the Forest duration increased from 10 to 15 seconds.
- Critically Hitting a boss grants 5 stacks.
Developer’s Note: The break between the benefits of Anima of the Forest allows for much larger bonuses to be granted on this effect, but after feedback and testing, we've decided to increase the uptime on this effect by 50%. Giving it much greater boss fighting effectiveness in order to help the moment of power feel more consistent.
Necromancer
Skills
Blood Lance
- Now always spreads the Lanced effect to another enemy, even when hitting a non-Lanced enemy.
Blood Wave
- Damage increased from 450% to 500%.
Bone Storm
- Damage increased from 300% to 350%.
Passives and Effects
Terror
- Previous: You deal 3/6/9%[x] increased Shadow damage to enemies who are Slowed or Chilled, and 3/6/9%[x] increased Shadow damage to enemies who are Stunned, Immobilized, or Frozen. These bonuses stack and apply to Shadow damage done by you and your Minions.
- Now: You deal 3/6/9%[x] increased Shadow damage to Crowd Controlled enemies, and 3/6/9%[x] increased Shadow damage to Elites and Bosses. These bonuses stack.
Developer’s Note: This bonus still applies to Shadow damage from your Minions. Your Minions benefit from all of your damage bonuses, so it was redundant to include that specification here.
Vampiric Curse
- Now considered a Curse Skill for various Necromancer effects, specifically Affliction, Amplify Damage, Frailty, Aspect of the Damned, Amplify Glyph, and Damage to Cursed Enemies.
- Damage from the unleashed Souls is now considered a Summoning Skill.
Paragon
Flesh-eater Legendary Node
- Corpses consumed during the bonus's duration will now count towards refreshing the bonus.
Scent of Death Legendary Node
- Previous: With at least 2 Corpses nearby, you gain 15% Damage Reduction. With no Corpses Nearby, you deal 15%[x] increased Damage.
- Now: You gain 15% Damage Reduction and deal 30%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage.
Legendary Aspects and Unique Items
Aspect of the Unholy Tether
- Now grants Unstoppable, rather than Unhindered.
- Duration Reduced from 6 to 5 seconds.
Aspect of Service and Sacrifice
- Damage from the Skeleton Warrior's explosion is now considered Summoning Skill damage.
- Damage increased from 100-200% to 200-300% Weapon Damage.
Sanguivor, Blade of Zir
- Inherent Affix changed from Mage and Golem Damage to Summoning Damage.
- Damage bonus per soul increased from 5-10% to 15-25%.
- Value of the Intelligence affix increased to match other Two Handed Weapons.
- Previous: 160-188 Intelligence.
- Now: 214-242 Intelligence.
- Vampiric Curse souls can now be unleashed only with Army of the Dead, rather than Defensive, Macabre, or Agility Skills, while using this weapon.
Rogue
Skills
Shadow Clone
- Now always a Cutthroat Skill, rather than only with its Rank 5 Bonus.
Death Trap
- Base cooldown increased from 50 seconds to 60 seconds.
- Cooldown reduction from kill or Overpower reduced from 10 seconds to 5 seconds.
Prime Death Trap
- Bonus Trap damage reduced from 50%[x] to 20%[x].
Items and Tempering
Trap Expertise tempering recipe moved from the Offensive to the Utility category.
Scoundrel's Leathers
- Inherent Affix no longer applies the Core Skill tag to Grenade Skills.
- Unique Power
- Previous: Your Trap Skills can be thrown and will spawn a Death Trap every 10 seconds when Cast. You step through the shadows to your Death Trap when Cast, gaining 10-30%[x] increased damage for 5 seconds.
- Now: Your Trap Skills can be thrown and will spawn a Death Trap every 10 seconds when Cast, granting you 10-30% increased damage for 5 seconds.
Sorcerer
Skills
Ice Shards
- Shard projectiles now spawn slightly further behind the player to consistently hit close enemies.
Familiar
- The casting of Familiar has been refined, resulting in snappier gameplay.
Passives
Avalanche
- Previous: Lucky Hit: Your Frost Skills have up to a 30% chance to make your next cast of Ice Shards, Frozen Orb, or Blizzard consume no Mana and deal 60%[x] increased damage. Damage is increased by an additional 25%[x] against Vulnerable enemies.
- Now: Your Frost Skills cost 30% less Mana and deal 60%[x] increased damage. Damage is increased by an additional 25%[x] against Vulnerable enemies.
Legendary Aspects and Unique Items
Shivering Aspect
- Damage increased from 20%-40% to 35%-55%.
Aspect of the Frozen Tundra
- Ice Spikes spawned from this aspect now scale with ranks of Deep Freeze.
Glacial Aspect
- Ice Spikes spawned from this aspect now scale with ranks of Blizzard.
Aspect of the Frozen Wake
- Ice Spikes spawned from this aspect now scale with ranks of Ice Armor.
Aspect of Frozen Memories
- Previous: The Avalanche Key Passive now applies to 2 additional casts and its damage to Vulnerable enemies is increased to 50-75%[x].
- Now: The Avalanche Key Passive now reduces the cost of Frost Skills by an additional 30% and its damage to Vulnerable enemies is increased to 50-75%[x].
Developer’s Note: Frost Skill cost reduction is additive with the Key Passive.
Hail of Verglas
- Max Life Affix has been changed to Cooldown Reduction.
- The spread of Ice Shards has been decreased.
Paragon
Enchantment Master Legendary Node
- Previous: Your Enchantments are 30% stronger, and each equipped Enchantment grants 30%[x] increased damage with their main element.
- Now: Your enchantments are 30%[x] stronger, and each equipped Enhancement grants 40%[x] increased damage with their main element, and 20%[x] increased damage for the second Enchantment if it is the same element.
Tempering
The Elemental Control Recipe has had levels of Convulsion replaced by levels of Static Discharge.
New Tempering Recipes
New All-Class Offensive Tempering Recipes
- Elemental Finesse: Day
- Fire Damage
- Physical Damage
- Lightning Damage
- Elemental Finesse: Night
- Cold Damage
- Poison Damage
- Shadow Damage
Belial, Lord of Lies
After PTR feedback, the final form of Belial, Lord of Lies was made meaner and more challenging.
- He had his health and damage increased.
- He also gained some new tricks to cause hell with, such as a second slam attack during the first phase of the encounter.
Miscellaneous
- The experience reward reduction between Levels 1 and 25 has been lessened to create a smaller difference between this season and last season.
- Magic Seasonal Powers now cost 40% less Spectral Ash, and Rare Seasonal Powers now cost 20% less Spectral Ash to rank up.
- We've adjusted the odds at which you can upgrade Paragon Glyphs when your Pit Tier is lower than your Glyph level.
- The odds at which you can upgrade Paragon Glyphs when your Pit Tier is lower than your Glyph level have been adjusted.
- Previously: You have a 0% chance to level a Glyph if you're not within 10 Pit Tiers.
- Now: You have a 1% chance to level a Glyph if you're within 50 Pit Tiers, doubling every 10 Pit Tiers.
- The Monster Health increase per Pit Tier has been lessened to create a smaller difference between this season and the last season.
Bug Fixes
Belial’s Return
- Fixed an issue where defeating a Lair Boss could reward Reputation.
- Fixed an issue where Wandering Death's Chest Beam could continue to deal damage after the player stopped channeling.
- Fixed an issue where the Apparition Incursion Whisper could not be completed in the Field of Giants.
Barbarian
- Fixed an issue where Bane of Ahjad-Den would pause its timer when swapping weapons.
- Fixed an issue where Whirlwind's tooltip was adjusting based on weapon speed.
- Fixed an issue where Warrior's Mighty Throw was granting an additive damage bonus rather than multiplicative.
Druid
- Fixed an issue where Damage While Human would not show up in the Character Stats panel when gaining multiplicative damage bonuses.
- Fixed an issue where Stone Burst was overpowering with Aspect of Anticline Burst on the second level of explosion in some cases.
- Fixed an issue where Anima of the Forest would not refresh the Earthen Might key passive if the Anima buff was gained again very quickly.
- Fixed an issue where the Critical Strike bonus from Earthen Might was not removed when the Key Passive was lost.
Necromancer
- Fixed an issue where Bone Storms that were generated from Lidless Wall would not benefit from Chance for Bone Storm to Deal Double Damage affixes.
Rogue
- Fixed an issue where Death Trap's Cooldown would sometimes fail to be reduced by Preparation or from Overpowers, and sometimes fail to Overpower with Banished Lord's Talisman and Scoundrel's Leather.
- Fixed an issue where Poison Trap when copied by Shadow Clone would not properly scale with the correct Skill Tags, like Damage with Ultimate Skills.
- Fixed an issue where the Aftermath Passive was granting extra resource when triggering an additional Death Trap via Scoundrel's Leathers.
Sorcerer
- Fixed an issue where the Aspect of Frosty Strides didn't activate properly when using the Teleport Enchantment evade.
General
- Fixed an issue when the chance to upgrade a Paragon Glyph 6-7 levels below the completed Pit Tier had slightly lower odds than expected.
- Fixed an issue where certain projectile attacks from Drowned enemies didn't damage the player.
- Fixed an issue where the player could not teleport to Infernal Hordes from inside a dungeon.
- Fixed an issue where the Blood Maiden didn't drop as much Exquisite Blood as expected in certain scenarios.
Miscellaneous
- Fixed an issue where Artificer's Stones rlisted that they could be acquired in Infernal Hordes.
- Various visual, UI, stability, and performance improvements.
Vessel of Hatred
Game Updates
New Items
Sunbird’s Gorget
- Affixes
- Inherent: +30% Resistance to All Elements
- +16-25% Movement Speed
- +2-3 Ranks of Potent
- +2-3 Ranks of Furnace
- +2-3 Ranks of Acceleration
- Unique Power
- Picking up a Storm Feather forms a firestorm around you for 8 seconds dealing 200-400% Fire damage every 0.5 seconds.
- Every 5 additional Storm Feathers you pick up grows the firestorm, increasing its damage by 100%[x] but not refreshing its duration. Storm Feathers are now Jaguar Skills, and the firestorm is an Eagle, Jaguar, and Storm Feather Skill.
Rip and Tear Aspect
- Rushing Claw deals 10-30%[x] increased damage and is empowered based on how many Charges it has when you Cast it:
- 1: Heals for 15% of your Maximum Life.
- 2: Guaranteed to Overpower.
- 3: Guaranteed to Critically Strike.
- 4+: Strikes an additional time.
Spiritborn Updates
Skills
Rushing Claw
- Base Damage increased from 50% to 80%.
Poised Rushing Claw
- Previous: - When Rushing Claw hits an Elite enemy you gain 10% increased Dodge chance for 6 seconds.
- Now: - Rushing Claw now has 20 Maximum Charges. Casting it consumes all of its Charges to increase its damage by 25%[x] per Charge and it hits a larger area.
The Seeker
- Rank 5 Bonus capped at 200%[x] damage increase.
The Devourer
- Rank 5 Bonus capped at 200%[x] damage increase.
Passives
Legendary Aspects
Aspect of Recalling Feathers
- Legendary ranks increased from 8 to 21.
- Damage increased from 50-64% to 75-150% of weapon damage.
Aspect of Falling Feathers
- Legendary ranks increased from 8 to 21.
- Damage increased from 50-64% to 75-150% of weapon damage.
Aspect of Wild Claws
- Damage increased from 45-65% to 65-85% of Rake's Base damage.
Aspect of Plains Power
- Legendary ranks increased from 8 to 21.
- Damage increase per stack of Ferocity increased from 2.0-4.1% to 2.0-5.0%.
Rune Words
Xan
- Previous: Your next skill critically overpowers. Overflow: 1% damage per 10 Offering.
- Now: Your next attack will cause your hits to be a guaranteed Critical Strike and Overpower for 0.35 seconds. Overflow: Increase duration.
- Duration increased from 0.25 to 0.35 seconds.
- Offering required reduced from 700 to 300.
Qax
- Previous: Your next non-Basic skill spends all your Primary Resource to deal up to 100% increased damage based on the percentage of Resource spent.
- Now: Casting a Skill other than a Basic or Defensive spends all your Primary Resource to increase your damage up to 100% for 1 second.
Vex (+1 to all skills for 10s. Overflow: More ranks up to 3)
- Offering cost reduced from 150 to 100.
Lum (Gain max resource)
- Offering gained increased from 2.5% to 3.5%.
Ahu
- Previous: Lucky hit: 100% when hitting an Injured enemy.
- Now: Lucky hit: 100% when hitting a non-Healthy enemy.
- Offering gained reduced from 25 to 15.
Tec
- Damage reduced from 1,400% to 700%.
Bug Fixes
Spiritborn
- Fixed an issue where the Intricacy Passive would not correctly remember which Skill was last used after transferring to a new Zone.
- Fixed an issue that allowed for snapshotting of the Resilient Passive.
- Fixed an issue where Resource Generation stats for other classes would display in character stats for Spiritborn Players.
- Fixed an issue where casting The Hunter could cause the Wanderer to get partially stuck under the ground.
- Fixed an issue where Spiritborn's In-Fighter legendary paragon node did not display its bonus and gaining a new stack would not refresh all stacks.
- Fixed an issue where Intricacy did not trigger on Touch of Death.
- Fixed an issue where Aspect of Recalling Feathers could occasionally stop working, such as when other players also had Storm Feathers nearby.
- Fixed an issue where Replenishing Ravager was not correctly triggering from Life on Kill bonuses.
- Fixed an issue where Focal Point's bonus would not be doubled when using Toxic Skin or Ravager.
- Fixed an issue where Chance for Core Skills to Hit Twice affix was causing Poised Payback to deal double damage, rather than Hit Twice.
- Fixed an issue where Prodigy's Tempo was activating on non-casted skills.
- Fixed an issue where Convergence Legendary Paragon Node was not correctly inheriting all bonuses that it should. Updated its description to clarify the current bonus amount.
Runes
- Fixed an issue where the Xal rune would play the heal sound effect when at full life.
- Fixed an issue where swapping weapons would end the Jah rune's teleport buff.
- Fixed an issue where the NaguCeh combo would sometimes break if the target dies right before the Spirit Wolf tries to do its ice explosion.
- Fixed an issue where some of the text on the Que rune was displaying in the incorrect font style.
- Fixed an issue where the Neo rune would not generate offering when blocking damage with a Barrier.
- Fixed an issue where the Xan rune could be activated in the middle of Spiritborn's Soar.
- Fixed an issue where the Poc rune effect did not consistently trigger when using Unlimited Spirit granted by Mjölnic Ryng.
- Fixed an issue where the Que rune would trigger Druid's Backlash passive.
- Fixed an issue where the Que rune combined with the Feo rune would not clear CC effects when a player has Enhanced Earthen Bulwark equipped as a Druid.
- Fixed an issue where the removed Rune, Met, could still drop in rare circumstances.(Hey! Who let the Met rune hangout near the campfire again?)
Miscellaneous
- Fixed an issue where two identical timers for Kurast Undercity runs would display while playing in Local Co-Op.
- Fixed an issue where Raheir did not both Knock Down and Stun enemies with his Valiance ability.
- Fixed an issue where Shrines in Undercity were triggering a cooldown reset more frequently than intended in some circumstances.
- Fixed an issue where Shrines in Undercity were granting cooldown reduction to Mighty Throw and Steel Grasp when wearing Aspect of Delayed Extinction.
Base Game
New Items
Barbarian
Bane of Ahjed-Den - Unique Gloves
- Affixes
- +4-6 Ranks of Mighty Throw
- + 114-150% Critical Strike Damage
- + 7-10 Fury Per Second
- + 8-12.5% Cooldown Reduction
- Unique Power
- Every 12 seconds, your next Mighty Throw detonates its pulses instantly as Fire Damage and deals 400-600% increased damage.
Of Delayed Extinction
- Mighty Throw and Steel Grasp now gain multiplicative damage instead of cooldown from Cooldown Reduction and their damage is increased by another 125-250%[x].
Druid
Gathlen's Birthright - Unique Helm
- Affixes
- Inherent: Anima of the Forest grants you 15% Attack Speed
- +10.5-15% Willpower
- +224-296% Willpower
- + 2-3 Ranks of Humanity
- + 17.5-23% Movement Speed While in Human Form
- Unique Power
- While in Human form, Critical Striking enemies with Nature Magic 400-200 times grants you Anima of the Forest for 15 seconds.
- While infused with Anima of the Forest you gain the Perfect Storm and Earthen Might Key Passives.
Aspect of Impending Deluge
- Storm Strike chains to twice as many targets and increases the damage the targets take from other skills by 30-50%[x] for 6 seconds.
Necromancer
Sanquivor, Blade of Zir – Unique Two-Handed Sword
- Affixes
- Inherent: +60% Summoning Damage
- +32-50% Chance for Army of the Dead to Deal Double Damage
- +214-242 Intelligence
- +1,060-1,142 Maximum Life
- +2 Ranks of Skeleton Warrior Mastery, Skeleton Mage Mastery, and Golem Mastery
- Unique Power
- Your Summons' damage afflict enemies with Vampiric Curse. Consuming a Corpse also contributes a soul to Vampiric Curse, which can now stack up to 20 souls.
- Army of the Dead can now unleash the souls from Vampiric Curse, causing both Army of the Dead and the souls to deal
5-10 15-25% increased damage per soul unleashed.
Aspect of Service and Sacrifice - Offensive Aspect
- Skeleton Warriors explode on death, dealing 200-300% Physical damage to surrounding enemies. They lose 25% Life per second while in combat.
- Skeleton Mages take 90% reduced damage and deal 50-100%[x] increased damage.
Rogue
Bands of Ichorous Rose - Unique Gloves
- Affixes
- Inherent: +4 Maximum Poison Traps
- +10.5-15% Attack Speed
- +3-5% Maximum Poison Resistance
- +41.5-55% Poison Resistance
- 18.5-27.5% Chance for Poison Trap to Cast Twice
- Unique Power
- Poison Trap always deals its full damage over 3 seconds and it benefits from all of its upgrades, which are increased by 50-100%[x].
- Poison Trap also: Has no Cooldown during Inner Sight and Cooldown is reduced by Preparation.
- Benefits from Combo Points: Each Combo Point increases its damage by 30% and its Lucky Hit chance by 10%.
Aspect of Contamination - Legendary Offensive Aspect
- Poison Trap bursts for [150-250%] Poison damage when it triggers. If this burst Critically Strikes, you deal 20-40%[x] increased Poison damage for 5 seconds.
Sorcerer
Hail of Verglas - Unique Helm
- Affixes
- Inherent 1: 7.5% Maximum Cold Resist
- Inherent 2: 50% Cold Resistance
- +10.5-15% Intelligence
- +8.1-8.8% Cooldown Reduction
- +10.5-15% Attack Speed
- +4-6 Ranks in Ice Shards
- Unique Power
- Ice Shards now spread out with 2 additional shards. You deal 1-2%[x] increased damage for each time Ice Shards damages an enemy for 5 seconds, up to 50-75%[x].
Shivering Aspect
- Enemies take up to
20 35-40 55%[x] increased damage based on how much they are Chilled or Staggering. You apply 15% more Chill.
Balance Updates
General
Unique items and Legendary Aspects
Fists of Fate
- Lucky Hit: Chance to Apply a Random Crowd Control affix has been replaced with Lucky Hit: Chance to Make Enemies Vulnerable for 3 Seconds.
Azurewrath
- Lucky Hit Chance to Deal Cold Damage affix damage increased, exact amount depends on item power. The highest damage increased by approximately 150%.
- Previous: Lucky Hit: Up to a 20% chance to Freeze enemies for 2 seconds and deal Cold damage to them.
- Now: Your Casts with this weapon apply Vulnerable for 3 seconds and Chill enemies for 10-30%.
Frostburn
- Previous: Lucky Hit: Up to a 20-60% chance to Freeze enemies for 3 seconds.
- Now: You deal 15-35%[x] increased Fire Damage to Chilled enemies and 15-35%[x] increased Cold Damage to Burning enemies.
Aspect of Concussive Strikes
- Previous: Lucky Hit: Damaging an enemy has up to a 20% chance to Daze them for 2 seconds. You deal 5-25% increased damage to Dazed enemies.
- Now: Your Daze effects last 20-40% longer. Dazing an enemy increases your Movement Speed by 20-40% for 3 seconds.
Paragon
Dominate Glyph (Barbarian, Druid, Necromancer)
- Legendary max bonus reduced from 20% to 12%.
Tempering
Worldly Fortune Tempering Recipe
- Lucky Hit: Chance to Apply Crowd Control affixes have been removed.
- New Affixes: Lucky Hit Chance, Impairment Reduction, Crowd Control Duration.
Natural Schemes Tempering Recipe
- Crowd Control Duration affix replaced with Fortify Generation affix.
Barbarian
Skills
Enhanced Mighty Throw
- Previous: While a thrown weapon is out, gain 25% increased Attack Speed.
- Now: Mighty Throw grants 25% increased Attack Speed for 6 seconds.
Fighter's Mighty Throw
- Previous: Swapping weapons near any of your thrown weapons creates an additional pulse. Each extra pulse generates 5% of your Maximum Life as a Barrier for 5 seconds.
- Now: Swapping weapons near any of your thrown weapons creates an additional pulse. Mighty Throw generates 20% of your Maximum Life as a Barrier for 5 seconds.
Whirlwind
- Base damage increased from 24% to
32 52%.
Developer’s Note: Whirlwind's base damage is determined by the attack speed of your weapon. These values are based on an attack speed of 1.0.
Violent Whirlwind
- Previous: After using Whirlwind for 2 seconds, Whirlwind deals 35% increased damage until it's canceled.
- Now: Channeling Whirlwind for 2 seconds increases the damage of your next Weapon Mastery Skill by 35% if used immediately after Whirlwind ends.
Fighter's Steel Grasp
- Previous: If Steel Grasp damages an enemy, gain Berserking for 2 seconds.
- Now: Steel Grasp's damage is increased by
400 200% and if it damages an enemy you gain Berserking for 2 seconds.
Power Charge
- Charge cooldown reduction vs bosses increased from 4 to 6.
Double Swing Enhancement
- Moved to Violent Double Swing.
Violent Double Swing
- Moved to Enhanced Double Swing.
Ground Stomp
- Base damage increased from 80% to 140%.
Tactical Ground Stomp
- Damage bonus reduced from 900% to 100%.
Developer’s Note: The damage from this upgrade trivialized the leveling process, leading to players skipping elite packs, even when playing in higher Difficulties.
Iron Maelstrom
- Rank 5 Bonus capped at 200%[x] damage increase.
Wrath of the Berserker
- Rank 5 Bonus now always deals 500% damage rather than scaling with Skill Ranks.
Passives
Concussion
- Previous: Lucky Hit: Skills using Bludgeoning Weapons have up to a 10/20/30% chance to Stun enemies for 2 seconds, or up to a 15/30/45% chance when using a Two-Handed Bludgeoning Weapon.
- Now: Lucky Hit: Skills using Bludgeoning Weapons have up to a 20% chance to Stun enemies for 2 seconds, or up to a 30% chance when using a Two-Handed Bludgeoning Weapon. This also deals 30/60/90% Physical damage to them.
Hamstring
- Previous: Your Bleeding effects have a 15/30/45% chance to Slow Healthy and Injured enemies by 70% each time they deal damage.
- Now: The first time you apply a Bleeding effect to an enemy, Slow them by 70% for 2/3/4 seconds.
Expertise
One Handed Mace
- Berserk duration doubled from 1.5 to 3 seconds.
Legendary Aspects
Of the Dire Whirlwind
- Number of seconds needed to cap increased from 3 to 5.
- Updated the formula to be more generous. This means whirlwind crit chance is increased from 3-8% up to 9-36%, to 6-10% up to 28-50%.
Of Grasping Whirlwind
- Previous: Whirlwind periodically Pulls enemies to you.
- Now: Whirlwind Pulls enemies to you every 6-3 seconds.
Dust Devil's
- Previous: Whirlwind leaves behind Dust Devils that deal X damage to enemies in their path.
- Now: Whirlwind leaves behind Dust Devils that deal X damage to enemies in their path. Hitting enemies with Dust Devils increases damage from all other sources by 25%[x] for 3 seconds.
Bul Kathos Aspect
- Damage with Earthquakes removed.
Unique Items
The Third Blade
- Previous: Your Weapon Mastery Skills are now also Core Skills that have no Cooldowns but cost Fury, dealing 50 - 70% of normal damage. Their Fury costs are reduced by 5 for any additional Charges the Skill would have had.
- Now: Your Weapon Mastery Skills are now also Core Skills that have 100% Cooldown Reduction but cost Fury, dealing 50 - 70% of normal damage.
- Fury Costs for all Weapon Mastery Skills reduced by 5 baseline.
Developer’s Note: This Cooldown Reduction breaks the cap of 75% and will provide the maximum bonus of 75% that Cooldown Reduction would normally grant on the Aspect of Delayed Extinction.
Ring of Red Furor
- Previous: After spending 100 Fury within 3 seconds, your next cast of Hammer of the Ancients, Upheaval, or Death Blow within 5 seconds is a guaranteed Critical Strike and deals x% bonus Critical Strike Damage.
- Now: After spending 100 Fury within 5 seconds, your next non-Channeled Core or Weapon Mastery Skill Cast within 5 seconds is a guaranteed Critical Strike and deals x% bonus Critical Strike Damage.
Battle Trance
- New Inherent: Lucky Hit: Up to a 10% chance to gain a stack of Frenzy.
Gohr's Devastating Grips
- Damage now deals and scales with Whirlwind damage.
- Previous: Whirlwind explodes every 2 seconds and after it ends, dealing 50-80% of the Base damage dealt to surrounding enemies as Fire damage.
- Now: Whirlwind explodes every 3 seconds as Fire damage dealing 300-600% increased damage. Critical Strikes with Whirlwind reduce the time until the next explosion by 0.2 seconds down to 1 second.
Tuskhelm of Joritz the Mighty
- Damage bonus increased from 25% to 35%.
- Fury gained per second increased from 2 to 6.
Twin Strikes
- Previous: After casting Double Swing 4 times, your next Double Swing will hit 2 additional times, each dealing 50-80% increased damage and Stunning for 1 second.
- Now: After casting Double Swing 4 times, your Double Swing will continue to hit 2 additional times, each dealing 70-100% increased damage for 3 seconds.
Paragon
Rumble Glyph
- Now stacks additively with itself rather than multiplicatively per stack.
- Damage to Bosses and Crowd Controlled enemies reduced from 10% per stack (50% max) to 3% per stack (15% max).
Dominate Glyph (For Barb only)
- Timer between free Overpowers reduced from 15 to 12 seconds.
Druid
Skills
Fierce Storm Strike
- Previous: Storm Strike has a 50% chance to make enemies Vulnerable for 3 seconds.
- Now: Storm Strike makes enemies Vulnerable for 3 seconds.
Enhanced Cyclone Armor
- Previous: Enemies who are Knocked Back by Cyclone Armor are also slowed by 70% for 2 seconds.
- Now: Enemies Knocked Back by Cyclone Armor become Vulnerable for 5 seconds.
Preserving Cyclone Armor
- Previous: Every 10 seconds, Cyclone Armor intensifies, causing incoming damage to grant you 30% Damage Reduction for 2 seconds.
- Now: Cyclone Armor now Pulls In enemies rather than Knocking Back and grants 10% Damage Reduction for 4 seconds.
Innate Cyclone Armor
- Previous: Enemies Knocked Back by Cyclone Armor become Vulnerable for 3 seconds.
- Now: Enemies who are hit by Cyclone Armor are slowed by 70% and take 15%[x] increased damage for 6 seconds.
Enhanced Blood Howl
- Previous: Kills reduce the cooldown of Blood Howl by 1 second.
- Now: Killing enemies reduce the Cooldown of Blood Howl by 1 second and hitting a Boss reduces its Cooldown by 0.3 seconds.
Stone Burst
- Reverted a change to Stone Burst that slowed down the rate between casts back to its version from Season of Hatred Rising.
Grizzly Rage
- Rank 5 Bonus
- Previous: Casting Grizzly Rage Knocks Down surrounding enemies for 5 seconds and deals 500% damage to them.
- Now: Companion Skills can be Cast while in Grizzly Rage.
Cataclysm
- No longer snapshots its damage bonuses between successive casts.
Lacerate
- Rank 5 Bonus capped at 200%[x] damage increase.
Passives
Charged Atmosphere
- Previously: Every 14/11/8 seconds, a Lightning Bolt hits a Nearby enemy dealing [45%] damage. Your Lightning Bolts deal 10/20/30% increased damage.
- Now: Every 3 seconds, a Lightning Bolt hits a Nearby enemy dealing [30/60/90%] damage. Your Lightning Bolts deal 10/20/30% increased damage.
Spirit Boons
Overload
- Chance for lightning bolts increased from 1% to 35%.
Legendary Aspects
Lightning Dancer's
- Previous: Lightning Storm Critical Strikes spawn 3 Dancing Bolts that seek enemies in the area dealing [110-155%] Lightning Damage.
- Now: Lightning Storm and Lightning Bolt Critical Strikes have a 50% chance to spawn 3 Dancing Bolts that seek enemies in the area dealing [155-200%] Lightning Damage. Your Dancing Bolts deal 30% increased damage.
Of Anticline Burst
- Previous: Stone Burst deals 10-30% increased damage and when Cast at or above 75 Spirit, it is immediately at its Maximum size.
- Now: Stone Burst deals 10-30% increased damage is guaranteed to Overpower when it detonates at Maximum size.
Aspect of the Rampaging Werebeast
- Critical Strike Damage per stack changed from 10% (200% max) to 3% (60% max) but it now grants Multiplicative Critical Damage rather than Additive.
Developer’s Note: This change will result in a much higher damage bonus than previously.
Paragon
Sinister Tendrils (Previously Constricting Tendrils) Legendary Node
- Previous: Lucky Hit: Nature Magic Skills have up to a 40% chance to entangle the enemy with vines, Immobilizing them for 2 seconds and Poisoning them for 300%[x] of the Base damage dealt over 4 seconds.
- Now: Nature Magic Skills do 35% increased damage against Poisoned enemies. Lucky Hit: Nature Magic Skills have up to a 40% chance to deal [800% weapon damage] Poisoning damage over 4 seconds.
Necromancer
Skills
Blood Lance
- Previous: Throw a blood lance that lingers in enemies for 3 seconds, dealing 80% damage to the enemy and all other lanced enemies. Blood Lance pierces through enemies who are currently lanced, dealing 10% reduced damage to subsequent enemies after the first.
- Now: Throw a blood lance that lingers in enemies for 3 seconds, dealing 80% damage to the enemy and all other lanced targets. If Blood Lance hits a lanced enemy, it deals 100%[x] increased damage and applies the lanced effect to another surrounding enemy.
Iron Maiden
- Now has a Lucky Hit Chance of 5% and its damage can Critically Strike.
Blood Wave
- Rank 5 Bonus capped at 200%[x] damage increase.
Supreme Blood Wave
- Blood Orbs reduced from 6 to 3.
Bone Storm
- Rank 5 Bonus capped at 200%[x] damage increase.
Army of the Dead
- Rank 5 Bonus capped at 200%[x] damage increase.
Passives
Kalan's Edict
- Previous: Your Minions gain 3%[+] Attack Speed and 3%[x] increased damage for each active Minion.
- Now: Your Minions gain 3%[+] Attack Speed and 3%[x] increased damage for each active Minion. When one of your Minions die, your other Minions enrage, dealing 20%[x] increased damage for 3 seconds.
Legendary Aspects
Tidal Aspect
- Extra Blood Waves bonus damage reduced from 200-240% to 40-100% of normal damage.
Unique Items
Kessime's Legacy
- Blood Wave Fortifies Inherent Affix reduced from 85% to 30%.
- Blood Wave damage increase per hit portion of the Unique power has been removed.
- Blood Wave Explosion damage increased from 100-200% to 200-300% damage.
Rogue
Skills
Puncture
- Puncture and Primary Puncture's descriptions have been updated to reference “every 3rd Puncture,” rather than “every 3rd Cast”.
Developer’s Note: These bonuses are intended to work even when copied by Shadow Clone.
Poison Trap
- Lucky Hit Chance increased from 20% to 25%.
- Subverting Poison Trap
- Previous: You deal 15% increased Poison damage to enemies standing inside your Poison Trap.
- Now: You deal 20% increased Non-Physical damage to enemies standing inside your Poison Trap.
Caltrops
- Slow increased from 50% to 65%.
- Damage increased from 45% to 60%.
Death Trap
- Base Cooldown Increased from 50 to 60 seconds.
- Lucky Hit Chance increased from 8% to 15%.
- Death Trap's Pull In effects will always happen around the area the trap is thrown or placed.
- Previous: If Death Trap kills an enemy, its Cooldown is reduced by 10 seconds.
- Now: If Death Trap kills or Overpowers an enemy, its Cooldown is reduced by 10 seconds.
Prime Death Trap
- Previous: Death Trap Slows all surrounding enemies by 85% for 5 seconds when it activates.
- Now: Enemies hit by Death Trap take
50 20%[x] increased damage from your Trap Skills for 8 seconds.
Shadow Clone
- Rank 5 Bonus now always deals 500% damage rather than scaling with Skill Ranks.
Rain of Arrows
- Rank 5 Bonus capped at 200%[x] damage increase.
Passives
Trick Attacks
- Previous: Dazing or Stunning an enemy increases your Critical Strike Chance by 2/4/6% and Critical Strike Damage by 2/4/6% for 5 seconds, up to 12/24/36%.
- Now: Attempting to Daze or Stun an enemy increases your Critical Strike Chance by 1/2/3% and Critical Strike Damage by 1/2/3% for 8 seconds, up to 5/10/15%.
Developer’s Note: This Passive will now operate on single-target Boss fights. Its overall power has been significantly reduced to account for this and make its place in the Skill Tree less oppressive. Additional bonus stacks are no longer multiplicative with each other.
Trap Mastery
- Previous: When Poison Trap or Death Trap activates, you gain 3% Critical Strike Chance against Vulnerable and Crowd Controlled enemies for 4 seconds.
- Now: After a Trap Skill activates, gain 4% Critical Strike Chance for 4 seconds.
Exposure
- Previous: Lucky Hit: Dealing damage to an enemy affected by a Trap skill has up to a 40% chance to:
- Reduce the active Cooldown of your Trap Skills by 30%.
- Drop a cluster of exploding Stun Grenades that deal 80% total Physical damage and Stun enemies for 1.0 seconds.
- Now: Lucky Hit: Damaging a Trapped enemy has up to a 40% chance to:
- Reduce the active Cooldown of your Trap Skills by 30%.
- Increase your Trap Skill damage by 10%[x] for 10 seconds, stacking up to 100%[x].
Legendary Aspects
Of Nebulous Brews
- Previous: Using a Healing Potion grants 35-55% Movement Speed for 3 seconds, and you may now drink them while at full Life. Every 20 meters you travel, you spawn a Healing Potion.
- Now: Healing Potions can be used at full Life and grant 35-55% Movement Speed for 3 seconds. Every 20 meters you travel refills a Healing Potion.
Developer’s Note: Healing Potions are now automatically added to your total amount instead of being dropped on the ground.
Of Iron Rain
- The chance for Smoke Grenade to create Arrow Storms is now always 100%.
Unique Items
Writhing Band of Trickery
- Previous: Casting a Subterfuge Skill leaves behind a Decoy Trap that continuously Taunts and lures enemies. After 2 seconds, it explodes, dealing Shadow damage. This effect is treated as a Trap Skill and can only spawn one Decoy Trap every 6 seconds.
- Now: Your Subterfuge Skills create a Decoy Trap that Taunts and lures enemies, dealing Shadow damage over 6 seconds. This counts as a Trap Skill and only one Decoy Trap can be active at a time.
Developer’s Note: Decoy Traps deal damage-over-time now and can be respawned and reoriented repeatedly. When used with thrown Trap Skills, it will be placed where that Skill is aimed.
Scoundrel's Leathers
- Inherent Affix no longer applies the Core Skill tag to Grenade Skills.
- New Affixes
- 16-25% Movement Speed.
- 21-35% Damage to Trapped Enemies.
- 171-225% Trap Damage.
- 10.5-15% Damage Reduction from Enemies Affected by Trap Skills.
- Previous: While you have unlimited Energy from Inner Sight, casting a Core Skill has a 60-80% chance to spawn Caltrops, Poison Trap, or Death Trap. Gain 10-20% Core Skill damage.
- Now: Your Trap Skills can be thrown and will spawn a Death Trap every 10 seconds when Cast, granting you 10-30% increased damage for 5 seconds.
Your Trap Skills can be thrown and will spawn a Death Trap every 10 seconds when Cast. You step through the shadows to your Death Trap when Cast, gaining 10-30% increased damage for 5 seconds.
Paragon
Deadly Ambush – Legendary Node
- Critical Strike Damage bonus to enemies by your Trap Skills increased from 23% to 30%.
Sorcerer
Skills
Greater Fireball
- Previous: Fireball deals 10% of the Burning damage you've applied to enemies as additional damage.
- Now: Fireball deals 10%[x] increased damage to Burning enemies. When a non-Boss enemy takes this damage while below 25% life, they are instantly killed.
Lightning Spear
- Improved targeting for Lightning Spear. It will now attempt to prioritize closer enemies.
Blizzard
- Adding new terms Frostbiting / Frostbitten for Cold Damage over time.
- New Description: Call forth a frigid blizzard that deals 210% Frostbite damage and continually Chills enemies for 18% over 8 seconds.
Deep Freeze
- Rank 5 Bonus capped at 200%[x] damage increase.
Passives
Convulsions
- Previous: Shock Skills have up to a 7% chance to Stun enemies for 3 seconds.
- Now: You deal 5/10/15%[x] increased damage while you have Crackling Energy. You periodically pick up nearby Crackling Energy.
Crackling Energy
Shocking Impact
Combustion
- Added Damage to Burning as part of the calculation.
Developer’s Note: This now functions the same as the Flamefeeder Glyph.
Unique Items
Fractured Winterglass
- Now only spawns equipped Conjurations on your Action Bar.
Starfall Coronet
- Meteor’s Cooldown changed from 10-3 to 5-2.5.
Legendary Aspects
Aspect of Piercing Cold
- Previous: Ice Shards pierce 10 times, dealing 4-10%[x] more damage per subsequent enemy hit.
- Now: Ice Shards pierce 5 times and deal 35-50%[x] increased damage, and an additional 10%[x] more damage per subsequent enemy hit.
Aspect of Shatter Stars
- Meteorites now do their own damage.
- The bonus damage from Meteor now applies to all Meteorites while this is equipped.
Aspect of Frozen Wake
- Previous: While Ice Armor is active, you leave behind exploding Ice Spikes that deal X damage. Your Ice Spikes deal 15%[x] increased damage to Frozen enemies.
- Now: While Ice Armor is active, you leave behind exploding Ice Spikes that deal X damage. Spawning an Ice Spike increases your Ice Spike damage by 3%[x] for 2 seconds, up to 30 times.
Paragon
Static Surge
- Previous: Hitting enemies at least 8 times in a second with Shock Skills restores 30% of your Maximum Mana and increases your damage by 50%[x] for 8 seconds. This cannot be refreshed while active.
- Now: Hitting enemies at least 8 times in a second with Shock Skills restores 30% of your Maximum Mana and increases your damage by 50%[x] for 8 seconds. This can only be reapplied every 1 second.
Enchantment Master
- Previous: Your Enchantments are 30% stronger.
- Now: Your enchantments receive 40%[x] increased damage for each enchantment element, and 20%[x] for the second enchantment if it is the same element. Your Enchantments are 30% stronger, and each equipped Enchantment grants 30%[x] increased damage with their main element.
Frostbite Glyph
Miscellaneous
- The damage of Ice Spikes has been standardized across Blue Rose, Frozen Tundra, Frozen Wake, and Glacial aspects.
Party Finder
- The Party Finder menu will now automatically close after successfully joining a party.
- Listing will now automatically re-list if the Party Leader changes or the Difficulty Level is changed.
Loot and Activity Rewards
- Bosses in Apparition Incursion events now grant bonus experience.
- A Whisper has been added for Apparition Incursion events.
- Whisper Caches
- Nightmare Dungeon Sigils no longer drop from Caches. Instead, Caches now have a high chance to include Sigil Powder.
- Ancestral Caches, added with the Season of Witchcraft, are now available baseline.
- Unique Items
- Removed the bonus Ancestral rate from Unique Items. Unique Items now have the same ancestral rate as Legendary Items.
- Bosses formerly known as Endgame Bosses have been broken out into 3 tiers: Initiate, Greater, and Exalted Lair Bosses to convey their varying difficulty and rewards.
- Initiate Lair Bosses: Beast in the Ice, Grigoire, Lord Zir, Varshan, and Urivar (available for Vessel of Hatred owners only).
- Greater Lair Bosses: Andariel, Duriel, and Harbringer of Hatred (available for Vessel of Hatred owners only).
- Exalted Lair Bosses: Belial, Lord of Lies.
- Initiate, Greater, and Exalted Lair Bosses
- Lair Bosses no longer require boss materials to summon and no longer drop loot upon death. Instead, when a Lair boss dies, a chest called a Hoard will spawn containing its loot. Each player must individually spend boss materials, called Hoard Keys, to open their Hoard. Here’s the Hoard Key cost per Lair Boss type:
- Initiate: 12
- Greater:
4 3
4 2
- The first Unique item dropped by a Lair Boss will be from their unique pool. Further Unique Items will have a 50% chance to be from the general Unique pool. In Torment Difficulty III, an additional guaranteed Unique item from the item pool will drop.
- When playing in a party, Lair Bosses have a 33% chance per additional party member to drop an extra Unique Item from their unique pool.
- Lair Bosses now drop 57 Unique Items on Torment IV, instead of 6.
- Increased the number of Hoard Keys you receive each time:
- Helltide Chests will drop more Living Steel.
- Nightmare Dungeons will drop more Distilled Fear.
- Blood Maiden will drop more Exquisite Blood for each contributed Baneful Heart.
- Legion Events drop more Exquisite Blood.
- World Bosses drop more Exquisite Blood.
- Random Boss Keys are more likely to be a key other than Malignant Heart.
- Rewards from the Purveyor of Curiosities in Torment Difficulties have significantly increased in quality. There are now increased chances to acquire Legendary, Unique, and Ancestral items.
Developer’s Note: This season, we’re focusing on Lair Bosses and their role in the player journey. Unique items find themselves pulled in two directions. On one side, they are must-find, build-enabling, pieces of gear with one-of-a-kind powers. On the other, they are super rare items to strive for that create moments of celebration once acquired. In previous seasons, Lair Bosses leaned heavily towards supporting the former. In our next season, we want to push more towards a middle-ground, where standard Unique items are readily attainable through Initiate and Greater Lair Bosses, but the path Ancestral Unique items lie directly through defeating the Exalted Lair Boss, Belial, Lord of Lies. Because Belial can reward Ancestral Uniques, we want to give players more freedom on how they get to him. By allowing Initiate and Greater Lair Bosses to have a chance at dropping any Unique item, these bosses should always feel more relevant to fight. Finally, while we like the social element of bossing, the efficiency gained from doing so in a full party is too high. Adjusting the boss summoning flow aims to make the experience more equitable regardless of party size while retaining a small bonus for social play.
- Common quality items will no longer drop beyond Level 6. Magic quality items will be the most prevalent until around Level 25 whenRare and beyond items start to take precedent.
- Magic items will now appear with 1-2 Affixes, with 2 Affixes becoming standard as player’s level increases.
- Rare items now always appear with 2-3 Affixes, with 3 Affixes becoming more common as your level increases.
- Legendary Item changes
- Legendary item drop rates have been reduced during levelling.
Developer’s Note: We've increasing the power of Magic and Rare items during levelling while reducing the Legendary item drop rates to address feedback about Legendaries too quickly become the only item rarity you care about.
- Hoard Key drop chances have been reduced.
- The Infernal Hordes Aether Reward from the Butcher increased from 25 to 75.
Lair Boss Updates
All Lair Bosses have been updated to make their fights more challenging and engaging. This includes increased health and damage across the board, and changes to the fight itself.
Duriel
Lord Zir
- Lord Zir's damage has been significantly increased. Added a warning cone to help players see it coming.
- Lord Zir's blood puddles have been reworked. Fewer of them spawn but can grow larger.
- Lord Zir now summons more Bloodseekers with higher health and damage.
Gregoire
- New mechanics added to the boss arena.
Varshan
- Each monster absorbed by Tormented Echo of Varshan now turns into a persistent seeking projectile.
Developer’s Note: Tormented Echo of Varshan's Malignant monster summon and absorption mechanic was complicated, not well communicated and can provide Uber Varshan with some potentially frustrating bonuses (Such as constant shield regeneration and on-hit blind). This change is aimed at making it clearer to the player what is happening.
Beast in the Ice
- Various minor tweaks to the encounter.
User Interface and User Experience
- Adjusted the capitalization of the words Element and Elemental when referring to a damage type to properly match other descriptions.
- We’ve named 3 damage types that were previously unnamed:
- Shadow Damage over time has been renamed to Corruption Damage.
- Cold Damage Over Time has been renamed to Frostbite Damage.
- Lightning Damage Over Time has been renamed to Sparking Damage.
- Tooltips for socketable items have been adjusted to improve clarity on what items can be socketed into what.
- Automatic sorting in the Inventory and Stash has been updated to be more intuitive. Now, auto-sort will push the most relevant items to the front. This includes better sorting by rarity and presence of Greater Affixes.
- The pip on the Map tab in the game menu will no longer appear if the only new item is a Cosmetic.
- Crafting recipes that do not cost Gold will no longer display a cost, which was always 0.
Miscellaneous
- Experience received from monster kills until Level 25 has been reduced.
Developer’s Note: Player power has grown considerably with the re-introduction of Seasonal Power systems. This creates a disjointed early game experience, where the pace of leveling vs. other elements of progression are not aligned. This change reduces the need to constantly upgrade early game items, increases the relative value of activity and seasonal rewards, and creates a more seamless early game journey.
- Players in a party can now quickly teleport to other members of the party through the Social menu.
- Cosmetic items can now be consumed and unlocked while playing any Class.
- Conduit Shrines will no longer appear.
Developer’s Note: We have heard feedback on the Conduit shrines. We are disabling them until further notice while reworking them.
- Skills that cost health will now fail to cast if the cost is higher than the player's current health, instead of reducing the player to 1 health.
Bug Fixes
Accessibility
- Fixed an issue where the Screen Reader didn’t read everything in the Codex of Power menu when on Controller.
- Fixed an issue where the Screen Reader read Activity information before reading the popup for a successful party listing.
- Fixed an issue where page controls were not read by the Screen Reader during Character Creation when launching the game for the first time.
- Fixed an issue where Character Names would be read aloud when leaving the player's screen.
Gameplay
Barbarian
- Fixed an issue where Executioner's Aspect was not increasing when on a Two-Hand Weapon or Amulet.
- Fixed an issue where Bold Chieftain's Aspect would not work properly when casting two shouts simultaneously.
- Fixed an issue where the Ugly Bastard Helm was affecting some sources of indirect damage, such as Thorns.
- Fixed an issue where the bonus Fury granted by the Aspect of Slaking was not granted while in town.
- Fixed a bug that caused all versions of Earthquake to deal twice as much damage as intended.
- Fixed an issue where the Dust Devils and Earthquakes formed by Call of the Ancients while using Arreat's Bearing were not correctly scaling with Ultimate or Summoning Skill damage bonuses.
- Fixed an issue where Mighty Throw did not properly benefit from Weapon Expertise.
- Fixed an issue where Earthquake damage didn't fully benefit from the Rumble Glyph.
- Fixed an issue where Fury generated from the Berserk Fury aspect did not count towards the Devilish Aspect.
- Fixed an issue where Call of Ancients could spawn unlimited Ancients. Ancients are now capped at 12.
- Fixed an issue where the Unconstrained Key Passive was extending the duration of Berserking.
- Fixed an issue where increasing the size of Mighty Throw also reduced its Lucky Hit Chance.
- Fixed an issue where Expose Vulnerability Passive would override the duration of Vulnerable if the attack was otherwise going to apply Vulnerable, such as with Power Kick.
- Fixed an issue where Iron Maelstrom's second and third attack could occasionally have an incorrect cooldown.
Druid
- Fixed an issue where Nature's Fury would stop working when attacking with Lightning Storm in rare instances.
- Fixed an issue where Stone Burst defaulted to exploding at its Rank 2 size regardless of its Rank when channeled.
- Fixed an issue where Shroud of False Death could reduce the number of summonable companions.
- Fixed an issue where Aspect of the Blurred Beast did not add the damage increase on all instances of Shred.
- Fixed an issue where the effect from Mjölnic Ryng could randomly stop functioning.
- Fixed an issue where the Mending passive did not function when using Insatiable Fury.
- Fixed an issue where Hurricane Size tempering affixes weren't consistent when enhancing hurricanes around wolf companions when using Aspect of Wolf's Rain.
- Fixed an issue where the Stormshifter's Aspect did not actually grant as many Shapeshifting skill ranks as expected in certain scenarios.
- Fixed an issue where Damage vs Distant Enemies did not consistently apply to bonus damage to Storm Skills from the Thunderstruck Legendary Paragon Node.
- Fixed an issue where Iron Fur would snapshot its bonus when using Insatiable Fury.
Necromancer
- Fixed an issue where casting Bone Spear with Indira's Memory equipped always drained life instead of only when a corpse was present and when an additional Bone Spear spawned.
- Fixed an issue where Indira's Memory additional Bone Spears spawned even when there was no additional Corpse to consume.
- Fixed a bug where The Unmaker would trigger on itself when casting Soulrift and using certain Lucky Hit effects.
- Fixed an issue where Bone Prison was weaker than intended.
- Fixed an issue where Bone Storm's Lucky Hit Chance was slightly less than the intended 40%.
- Fixed an issue where Deadraiser Paragon Glyph was not properly applying to all Minion bonus damage Paragon Nodes.
- Fixed an issue where Indira's Memory could drain the player's life to 1 and prevent normal regeneration.
Developer’s Note: Indira's Memory will no longer trigger if the player's health is 10% or lower.
- Fixed an issue where fewer than intended Bone Spears would pierce enemies with Indira's Memory equipped.
- Fixed an issue where the Second Bone Spear from Deathless Visage didn't heal the player with the Supernatural Bone Spear upgrade equipped.
- Fixed an issue where Bone Spear did not Overpower consistently.
- Fixed an issue where the Aspect of Shielding Storm could generate Barrier without Bone Storm damaging enemies.
- Fixed an issue where the Blood Boiling Aspect did not communicate the maximum number of Volatile Blood drops that could be spawned at once was 3.
- Fixed an issue where Hewed Flesh Passive would not trigger on some enemies.
- Fixed an issue where Acolyte's Reap would not spawn a Corpse when used against certain enemy types.
Rogue
- Fixed an issue where the Aspect of Iron Rain could have a trigger chance exceeding 100%.
Developer’s Note: This aspect will now always roll at 100% chance and the only variance is the damage of the Arrow Storm.
- Fixed an issue where using Imbued Skills or any Basic Skill with the Coldclip Aspect always counted as using a Cooldown for Beastfall Boots.
- Fixed an issue where Beastfall Boots would not empower Trap Skills when they were also Core Skills due to Scoundrel's Leathers.
- Fixed an issue where Saboteur's Signet and Trickster's Aspect spawned fewer grenades and the grenades did less damage than expected.
- Fixed an issue where Rare Agile Augments tempering recipe had Chance for Flurry to Consume No Charges instead of Chance for Flurry to Deal Double Damage.
- Fixed an issue where Shadow Clones would not benefit from the Dagger or Bow bonuses of the Weapon Mastery Passive.
- Fixed an issue where your Shadow Clone's Caltrops were not properly granting the effects of Enhanced Caltrops.
- Fixed an issue where Shadow Clone from Grasp of Shadows could not duplicate Caltrops.
- Fixed an issue where Shadow Clone would occasionally stop functioning if you moved too far away from it.
- Fixed an issue where Subverting Poison Trap would not properly apply its bonus when applied from your Shadow Clone.
- Fixed an issue where Shadow Imbuement and Poison Imbuement, when applied by your Shadow Clone, wouldn’t deal increased damage with bonuses that affect Shadow Clone, such as Ultimate Skill Damage.
- Fixed an issue where Grasp of Shadows was triggering more often than intended.
- Fixed an issue that was causing Aspect of Arrow Storms and Vengeful Aspect to proc a second Arrow Storm when hitting an enemy with Enhanced Shadow Step.
Sorcerer
- Fixed various instances where the Incinerate Enchantment didn't interact properly with the Aspect of Conflagration.
- Fixed an issue where the second slash from Arc Lash did not have a visual effect.
- Fixed an issue where Elemental Synergies were improperly adding the Fire damage bonus for Familiars along with its current element even if the Familiar changed elements.
- Fixed an issue where Shatter's explosion didn't damage bosses after the stagger period ended.
- Fixed an issue where the Energy Focus passive was dropping entirely after taking damage.
- Fixed an issue where Sidhe Bindings were not always gaining increased ranks to Primordial Binding when Masterworked.
- Fixed an issue where Inner Flame granted more damage against Healthy enemies than intended.
- Fixed an issue where Prime Deep Freeze would not benefit from Barrier Generation.
- Fixed an issue where Aspect of Conflagration would snapshot when an Incinerate Enchantment Hydra attacked.
- Fixed an issue where increasing Flame Shield's Burn area would not increase its visual effect size.
- Fixed an issue where the Firebolt splitting effect from Flameweaver's aspect was not consistent when standing near a Firewall.
- Fixed an issue where players would receive less Teleport cooldown than intended from Aspect of the Bounding Conduit when adding ranks to Teleport.
- Fixed an issue where Winter Touch Aspect was not gaining the Vulnerable and damage benefits from the initial cast of Frost Nova.
- Fixed an issue where Ice Shard's targeting was inconsistent when enemies were close to the player.
General
- Fixed an issue where the damage variance toggle didn’t properly function in the Training Grounds.
- Fixed an issue where Aspect of Elements' bonus could occasionally be removed from the player or repeat the same bonus after swapping weapons.
- Fixed an issue where Crown of Lucion would occasionally prevent other sources of increased damage from functioning properly.
- Fixed an issue where Gloves of the Illuminator would not properly interact with Crown of Lucion.
- Fixed an issue where Ancestral Caches from the Tree of Whispers did not always drop Ancestral items.
- Fixed an issue where climbing a Traversal could fail if the player continuously held directional input while navigating the Traversal.
- Fixed an issue where the Helltide Commander for the Portal Invasion event could fail to spawn if the player was benefitting from Stealth effects when the Commander spawned.
- Fixed an issue where some events and event masteries could be completed by using Stealth effects to avoid monsters.
- Fixed an issue where Echo of Lilith could become invincible during the first phase of the encounter.
- Fixed an issue where Crackling Energy, Volatile Orbs from the Blood Boiling Aspect, and Blood Orbs could not be picked up while Crowd Controlled.
- Fixed an issue where repeatedly casting a Channeled Skill could spawn missiles from Tyrael's Might.
- Fixed an issue where multiple Accursed Rituals could appear in the same Helltide Zone.
- Fixed an issue where Andariel and Lilith would perform all 4 of their phases at 1 HP instead of at their proper life thresholds.
Party Finder
- Fixed an issue where Vessel of Hatred-exclusive bosses could be set as a Party Finder activity for players who did not own Vessel of Hatred.
- Fixed an issue where Party Finder listings could not be created from the map for Strongholds.
User Interface and User Experience
Barbarian
- Fixed an issue where the descriptions for the Slaking Aspect did match between the Aspect on an Item and in the Codex of Power.
- Fixed an issue where the description for the Luckbringer Aspect displayed the Lucky Hit Chance bonus as multiplicative instead of additive.
- Fixed an issue where the increased Critical Strike Chance from the No Mercy passive didn’t display in the Character Stats panel while in town.
Druid
- Fixed an issue where the tooltip for Airidah's Inexorable Will did not clearly describe the power.
- Fixed an issue where Innate Blood Howl was not displaying.
- Fixed an issue where Hurricane damage displayed would not increase with duration bonuses.
- Fixed an issue where the bonus description for Lupine Ferocity had incorrect information.
- Fixed an issue where the description for Enhanced Claw displayed its Attack Speed bonus as additive instead of multiplicative.
- Fixed an issue where the description for Malefic Crescent said damage was increased "to" instead of increased "by."
Necromancer
- Fixed an issue where damage bonuses from Golems, Skeleton Mages, and Skeleton Warriors were not displayed in the Character Stats panel.
- Fixed an issue where Aspect of Shielding Storm did not display the decimal value on Amulets.
Sorcerer
- Fixed an issue where the Aspect of Elemental Constellation description suggested all skills needed to be cast instead of any of the listed types.
- Fixed an issue where the Aspect of Piercing static reduced the displayed damage number for Charged Bolts.
- Fixed an issue where the Mind's Awakening Aspect did not display the Barrier duration.
All Classes
- Fixed an issue where the Aspect of Metamorphosis Codex of Power description did not include how the Aspect affects evade.
- Fixed an issue where Heir of Perdition's description did not accurately state the distance at which it will steal Mother's Favor from allies.
General
- Fixed an issue where items couldn’t be marked as Junk or Favorited after interacting with the Occultist.
- Fixed an issue where the amount a player was over the Movement Speed maximum wasn’t displayed in Character Stats.
- Fixed an issue where the Malignant Heart crafting recipe didn’t have a prompt to show the required materials to craft it.
- Fixed an issue where the UI header to denote Difficulty and Hardcore status was not displayed while in the Pit.
- Fixed an issue where UI displays for Wave number and Aether amount were inaccurate when playing Infernal Hordes in Local Co-Op.
- Fixed an issue where Scroll Speed in the Skill Tree menu was faster than intended when playing on controller.
- Fixed an issue where notifications for a spawning World Boss could display when no World Boss was spawning.
- Fixed an issue where the icon for maximum Helltide threat did not change when resetting threats.
Miscellaneous
- Fixed an issue where the Master Tactician achievement did not reward the appropriate title.
- Fixed an issue where Aspect of Assistance was dropping before an Ultimate Skill was available.
- Fixed an issue where the Mirage quest could not be completed properly.
- Fixed an issue where the Reanimation and Ossein Assault challenges for the Necromancer did not progress from enemies killed by minions.
- Various stability, performance, UI, visual, and audio improvements.
