Note: Additional changes made since the PTR’s conclusion are highlighted in blue.
Updates from PTR
Vessel of Hatred
Spiritborn
Harmonious Hunter
- Damage bonus to Injured decreased from 100%[x] to 50%[x].
- Reduced maximum Ferocity gained from 4 to 2.
Exalted Hunter
- Previous (on PTR): Killing an enemy while The Hunter is present reduces this cooldown by 5 seconds. Hitting a boss reduces its cooldown by 1 second.
- Now: Killing an enemy while The Hunter is present has a 40% chance to instantly reset its Cooldown. This chance is halved after each consecutive reset.
Harmonious Devourer
- Enemies affected by toxic globs also take 50% [x] increased Poison Damage.
Harmonious Seeker
- Player attacks are guaranteed to Critically Strike for the duration of the Eagle Spirit.
Exalted Protector
- Player deals 25%[x] increased damage while in The Protector's area.
Items
Balazan's Maxtlatl
- Thorns Damage decreased from 200-300% to 100-150%.
Aspect Of Deflection
- Reflected Razor Wings (non-spiraling) now targets nearby enemies.
Aspect Of Fleet Wings
- Active ability changed to now increase Potency damage by 3-5%[x] for each active Razor Wing.
- Now an offensive aspect.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where Thorns damage could be snapshotted when using Balazan's Maxtlatl.
- Fixed an issue where Aspect of Fleet Wings could not be imprinted on the correct items at the Occultist.
Base Game
Balance Update
Barbarian
Skills
Enhanced Flay
- Vulnerable proc change increased from 15% to 50%.
Wrath of the Berserker
- No longer interrupts movement or channeling.
- Previous: Explode into rage, Knocking Back surrounding enemies and gaining Berserking and Unstoppable for 5 seconds. For the next 10 seconds, dealing direct damage with Basic Skills grants Berserking for 5 seconds.
- Now: Explode into rage, Knocking Back surrounding enemies and gaining Berserking and Unstoppable for 10 seconds.
Heavy Hitter
- Reduced damage bonus from 15%[x] to 10%[x].
Hooves of the Mountain God
- Cleave radius increased from 135 to 150.
Ugly Bastard Helm
- Damage bonus decreased from 80-100%[x] to 40-60%[x].
Arreat's Bearing
- Dust Devil damage reduced by 50%.
Unbroken Chain
- Replaced increased +% Movement Speed for increased +% Strength.
Executioner's Aspect
- Earthquake damage bonus reduced from 200%[x] to 100%[x].
Paragon and Tempering
Vehement Augments Weapons Tempering Recipe
- Replaced Heavy Hitter with Wallop.
Rumble Glyph
- Earthquake damage bonus reduced from 35.1% to 30.1%.
Druid
Skills
Pulverize
- Damage increased from 110% to 150%.
Enhanced Pulverize
- Previous: Every 10 seconds, your next Pulverize will Overpower.
- Now: Pulverize deals 30% increased damage to Crowd Controlled enemies and Bosses.
Raging Pulverize
- Previous: Pulverize deals 75% increased Overpower damage. Enemies Overpowered by Pulverize are Stunned for 3 seconds.
- Now: Every 10 seconds, Pulverize is guaranteed to Overpower and make enemies take 20% more damage for 5 seconds.
Primal Pulverize
- Enemy damage reduction duration increased from 4 to 5 seconds.
Storm Strike
- After chaining, Storm Strike will now chain back to old targets after running out of new options to chain to.
Grizzly Rage
- Companion Skills are always usable during Grizzly Rage.
- Rank 5 Bonus:
- Previous: Companion Skills can be Cast during Grizzly Rage.
- Now: You gain 30% increased Armor while Grizzly Rage is active.
Provocation
- Previous: When you remain in Werebear form for at least 20/16/12 seconds, your next non-Defensive Skill will Overpower.
- Now: After 10 seconds of Werebear form, your next non-Defensive Skill will Overpower and deal 5/10/15% increased damage.
Toxic Claws
- Previous: You deal 5/10/15% increased Poison damage.
- Now: You deal 5/10/15% increased Poison damage. This is doubled while in Werewolf form and for 8 seconds after leaving it.
Nature's Fury
- Earth and Storm damage bonuses increased from 20% to 40%.
Ursine Strength
- Bonuses remain for 8 seconds after leaving Werebear form, up from 5 seconds.
Shockwave Aspect
- Will now trigger the puddle effect of Rotting Lightbringer.
Aspect of the Rabid Bear
- Poison Damage Bonus increased from 20-40% to 40-80%.
Aspect of the Rampaging Werebeast
- Damage bonus per stack increased from 3% to 5%, up to 100% from 60%.
Dire Wolf's Aspect
- Category changed from Offensive to Utility.
- Movement Speed increased from 10-30% to 20-40%.
- Spirit Cost Reduction reduced from 40-80% to 20-40%.
Aspect of The Ursine Horror
- Category changed from Offensive to Utility.
- Earth Skill Cooldown reduction reduced from 1-4 seconds to 0.5-1.25 seconds.
Aspect of Metamorphic Stone
- Boulder damage increased from 90-130% to 120-160% of normal damage.
Aspect of Seismic Shift
- Previous: Earth Spike deals 50-70% increased damage and launches spikes in a line.
- Now: Earth Spike deals 50-70% increased damage and launches 2 rows of spikes in a line.
Overcharged Aspect
- Previous: Lucky Hit has up to a 15-30% when dealing Lightning damage to overload the target for 3 seconds, causing any direct damage you deal to them to pulse additional damage to surrounding enemies.
- Now: Your direct Lightning damage makes your Storm Skills deal 0.8-1.3% more damage to the enemy, up to 40-65%. At maximum stacks, the target becomes Vulnerable.
Unique Items
Rotting Lightbringer (Previously Noxious Spine-breaker)
- Affixes:
- 14-18% Willpower increased to 18-22%.
- 114-150% Poison Damage increased to 406-550% Poison damage.
- Power:
- Previous: Every 10 seconds, Pulverize forms a puddle that deals 200-400% of its damage as Poisoning damage over 6 seconds. Pulverizing the puddle splashes an additional 20-40% of the puddle's total damage within the area and around it.
- Now: If no puddle is around you, Pulverize forms a puddle that guarantees its own Overpowers and deals 200-600% of its normal damage as Poisoning over 7 seconds. Pulverize causes all close puddles to splash 20-60% of their total damage within their areas and around them.
- Functionality Change:
- Pulverize radius increase will affect the size of the puddle and its splashes.
Greatstaff of the Crone
- Damage increased from 170-250% to 200-350%.
Dolmen Stone
- Boulder damage increased from 20-40% per boulder to 30-50%.
Tempering
Werebear Innovation: New Utility Recipe
- Pulverize Size
- Maul Size
- Petrify Duration
Nature Magic Innovation: Utility Recipe
Necromancer
Skills and Book of the Dead
Supreme Blood Wave
- Number of Blood Orbs spawned reduced from 3 to 2.
Cold Mage Second Upgrade
- Previous: Cold Mage attacks make enemies Vulnerable for 4 seconds.
- Now: Cold Mage attacks make enemies Vulnerable for 4 seconds and have a 10% chance to instantly Freeze the target for 2.5 seconds.
Passives
Serration
- Critical Chance increased from 0.3% to 1%.
Titan's Fall
- Previous: While Fortified, you deal 6% increased damage to Elites.
- Now: You deal 5% increased damage to Elites.
Necrotic Fortitude
- Lucky Hit chance per level increased from 5% to 7%.
Ossified Essence
- Damage per Essence used increased from 0.5% to 0.7%.
- Cap increased from 100% to 140%.
Affliction
- Damage enemies take from you increased from 15% to 45%.
- Scaling percent increased from 30% to 120%.
- Base damage increased from 100% to 180%.
- Cap increased to 900%.
Shadowblight
- Scaling percent increased from 20% to 70%.
- Damage cap increased from 300% to 450%.
Legendary Aspects
Blighted
- Damage bonus increased from 25% to 35%.
Bone Duster's Aspect
- Previous: Bone Spear is guaranteed to Overpower enemies within Bone Prison and deals 30-45%[x] increased damage to them.
- Now: Bone Spear deals 30-45%[x] increased damage to enemies within Bone Prison and the first Bone Spear to hit each enemy within it is guaranteed to Overpower.
Unique Items
Hand of Naz
- Arch-Mage size slightly increased.
- Arch-Mages now become unstoppable for a moment after teleporting.
- Delay between when Arch-Mage splinters can fire again reduced.
Bloodless Scream
- Intelligence bonus normalized with other weapons values.
- Freeze Duration affix replaced with Lucky Hit: Chance to restore resource.
- Lucky Hit chance affix replaced with Lucky Hit: Up to a 40% chance to deal 8500-13500 Shadow damage.
- Ranks to Darkness Skills increased from 1-2 to 2-4.
Indira's Memory
- Adjusted the tooltip for Indira's Memory to clarify that only the player's Bone Spears can consume corpses.
Paragon
Flesh Eater
- Corpse requirement reduced from 5 to 3.
Hulking Monstrosity
- Previous: Your Golem has 40% increased Maximum Life and deals 100%[x] increased damage.
- Now: Your Golem has 40% increased Maximum Life and deals 100%[x] increased damage.
- Skeletal Mages and Warriors Sacrifice bonuses grant an additional 35%[x] Golem damage.
Bone Graft
- Number of total stacks reduced from 8 to 4.
- Damage per stack increased from 1% to 5%.
Rogue
Skills
Advanced Flurry
- Previous: Successive casts of Flurry increase its damage by 10%[x] and reduce its Energy cost 15%, up to 3 times.
- Now: Successive casts of Flurry increase its damage by 10%[x] and store 10 Energy, up to 3 times. Casting a different Skill resets this bonus and grants all stored Energy.
Developer’s Note: In combination with the new Unique, this upgrade made it harder to achieve the powered-up state. This change hopes to compensate for that while granting a similar bonus.
Shadow Clone
- Damage reduced from 60% to 40%.
Supreme Shadow Clone
- Previous: Shadow Clone deals 20% additional damage.
- Now: Shadow Clone engulfs you in its visage granting 20% Damage Reduction for the duration.
Death Trap
- No longer reduces cooldown from kills or overpowers baseline.
- Rank 5
- Previous: Death Trap has an additional Pull In effect when it appears.
- Now: Killing or Overpowering an enemy with Death Trap has a 20% chance to reset its Cooldown.
- Skill Ranks beyond 5 increase the chance for Death Trap to reset by 1% per rank.
- Damage reduced from 300% to 200%.
Key Passives
Victimize
- Previous: Lucky Hit: Dealing direct damage to a Vulnerable enemy has up to a 50% chance to cause an explosion, dealing 90% damage of the same type to them and surrounding enemies. Victimize's damage is increased by 20%[x] of your Vulnerable damage bonus, up to 300%[x].
- Now: Lucky Hit: Dealing direct damage to a Vulnerable enemy has up to a 50% chance to cause an explosion, dealing 200% damage of the same type to them and surrounding enemies. Enemies hit by Victimize's explosion take 75%[x] increased damage from you for 3 seconds.
Close Quarter's Combat
- Percentage of Damage to Close for scaling increased from 10% to 50%.
Precision
- Percentage of Critical Strike damage bonus for scaling increased from 20% to 100%.
Alchemical Admixture
- Previous: Dealing 2 different types of Non-Physical damage increases the Potency of your Imbuement Skills by 40% for 5 seconds. This Potency is further increased by 40% of the total amount of your Bonus damage to Poison, Shadow, and Cold.
- Now: Dealing 2 different types of Non-Physical damage increases the Potency of your Imbuement Skills by 100% and Non-Physical Damage by 50%[x] for 8 seconds.
Legendary Aspects
Coldclip
- Previous: Your Basic skills are always Cold Imbued. You deal 5-20% increased damage to enemies that are Chilled or Frozen.
- Now: You deal 20-40% increased damage to enemies that are Chilled or Frozen. Your Basic Skills are always Cold Imbued at 50% potency and gain this damage bonus against Bosses.
- Damage now properly scales with Ancestral versions.
Ravager's
- Previous: Shadow Step has an additional Charge. Killing an enemy with Shadow Step refunds a Charge and increases the damage of Shadow Step by 4.5 - 12% for 2 seconds, up to 27 - 87%.
- Now: Shadow Step has an additional Charge and gains a charge when it kills an enemy. Casting Shadow Step increases its damage by 9 - 18% for 5 seconds, up to 45 - 90%.
Unique Items
Deathmask of Nirmitruq
- Damage bonus increased from 30-50% to 50-70%.
- Health damage lost reduced from 10% to 8%.
Eaglehorn
- Now always bounces at least once.
Developer’s Note: What did it bounce off of? Yes.
Eyes in the Dark
- Damage bonus reduced from 100-200% to 40-60%.
- Now always grants the bonus, rather than only on the additional cast.
Paragon
Eldrich Bounty
- Previous (on PTR): Each equipped Imbuement Skill grants 3% Maximum resistance and 30%[x] damage for that Imbuement's Element.
- Now: Poison, Shadow, and Cold gain 3% Maximum Resistance and 30%[x] increased damage.
No Witnesses
- Previous: Your Ultimate Skills gain an additional 20%[x] damage from your Damage with Ultimate bonus and grant this bonus to all Skills for 10 seconds when cast. Maximum 60%[x].
- Now: Your Ultimate Skills gain an additional 20%[x] damage from your Damage with Ultimate bonus and grant this bonus to all other Skills for 10 seconds when cast. Maximum 40%[x].
Sorcerer
Skills and Paragon
Hydra
- Hydra heads now attack immediately upon spawn, unless Hydra has been cast multiple times rapidly in succession.
Developer’s Note: This change is intended to make Hydra feel snappy and responsive after casting in most situations, but it should also discourage repeatedly spamming Hydra casts at high attack speed to trigger more immediate attacks.
Invoked Hydra
- Previously: After you Critically Strike, your Hydras gain 30%[+] Critical Strike Chance for 3 seconds.
- Now: Hydras gain 50%[x] Critical Strike damage and 20%[+] Critical Strike Chance.
Searing Heat Legendary Paragon Node
- Pyromancy Skills Critical Strike Chance increased from 12%[+] to 15%[+].
Icefall Legendary Paragon Node
- Frost Skill damage increased from 25%[x] to 35%[x].
Items
Ophidian Iris
- Skill Ranks of Devouring Blaze affix replaced with Skill Ranks of Primordial Binding.
- Critical Strike Chance affix replaced with Attack Speed.
Serpentine Aspect
- Previously: Casting Hydra Consumes all of your Mana to increase its damage by 0.5-2.5%[x] per Mana spent.
- Now: Hydras deals 0.50-1.50%[x] increased damage per Mana you had when Summoned. Casting Hydra Consumes all of your Mana.
Developer’s Note: This update allows the Hydra Enchantment to benefit from Serpentine Aspect without consuming all of your Mana, which is only consumed when the skill is cast.
Firestarter Aspect
- Ranks increased from 16 to 21.
- Previous: When newly Burning an enemy, you deal an additional 75-150% Fire damage to them. This effect is treated as a Pyromancy Skill.
- Now: Gain 10-30%[x] increased Fire Damage. When newly Burning an enemy, you deal an additional 150% Pyromancy Fire damage to them. This effect is treated as a Pyromancy Skill.
Season of Sins of the Horadrim
Horadric Jewels
New Horadric Jewel: Willbreaker
- Physical damage you deal shatters enemies' spirits, causing them to take 40%[x] more Physical damage for 6 seconds. This effect applies when first damaging a Boss or Elite, or when they are affected by Crowd Control.
Developer’s Note: As this season offers extensive options for elemental character builds, we wanted physical builds to have something to chase as well.
- Liminal Echo can no longer drop in Hardcore.
Developer’s Note: It’s important to us to maintain the integrity and spirit of Hardcore, and welcome feedback regarding what that means to the community!
- Increased Reverie Horn's damage bonus from 30% to 50%.
- Spark of Creation's Resource Generation reduced from 10 to 5.
- Spark of Creation will now be the first Horadric Tome the player receives, instead of Scornful Light.
- Reduced Idol From Below's Maximum Health bonus from 8% to 6%.
- Jewel Guardians generated by Idol From Below can no longer spawn in Training Grounds or after a Dungeon's Objective has been completed.
- Jewel Guardians now spawn at set intervals as opposed to between two random times.
- The resource costs for crafting Horadric Jewels have been decreased across the board.
Catalysts
Propulsion
- Starting Cooldown reduced from 9 to 8 seconds.
Disintegrate
- Beam radius increased by 100%.
Celestial Surge
- Lucky Hit Chance reduced from 30% to 18%.
Cosmic Anomaly
- Anomalies now benefit more from Lucky Hit with their passive attacks, which manifest up to 5 anomalies that emit particles which deal damage over 4 seconds.
Infusions
- All Enemy affix deactivation durations increased from 5 to 8 seconds.
Thunderous Particle
Corrosive Vapor
Arcana
Magic
Jagged Bramble
- Thorns damage increased from 100-250% to 150-300%.
Rare
Siphoning Gizmo
- Renamed to Sharpening Gizmo.
- Previous: Lucky Hit: Damage from your Catalyst has up to a 40-80% chance to consume Damage-Over-Time effects and deal 100% of their damage instantly.
- Now: Lucky Hit: Damage from your Catalyst has a 50% chance to deal 200-340% Physical damage. Your Catalyst Lucky Hit Chance is doubled.
Fractured Core
- Damage taken debuff increased from 10% to 15%.
Legendary
Nightmare Orb - Celestial Surge
- Additional star chance increased from 25% to 50%.
Disintegrate
- Previous: Disintegrate Fears unaffected enemies. Killing those affected enemies restores 5% of your Maximum Life and Primary Resource.
- Now: Disintegrate Fears unaffected enemies and deals 100% increased damage to them while they are Feared.
Propulsion
- Previous: Propulsion removes enemy Vulnerable effects to Fear unaffected enemies. After the Fear ends, a Lesser Mana Blast is formed upon that enemy.
- Now: Propulsion removes enemy Vulnerable effects to Fear them. While Feared, those enemies randomly form Lesser Mana Blasts.
Astral Pillar
- Previous: Every 9th wave from your Astral Pillar Fears. It automatically Taunts and lures any enemy that is Feared.
- Now: Every 9th wave from your Astral Pillar Fears. Enemies close to it are Taunted and have their Fear removed.
Cosmic Anomaly
- Slow increased from 80% to 90%.
Frigid Heart: Cosmic Anomaly
- Chance to preserve themselves increased from 20% to 30%.
Bloody Charm: Propulsion
- Previous: The Mana Blast from Propulsion Executes non-Boss enemies. Successful Executions reset it.
- Now: The Mana Blast from Propulsion Executes non-Boss enemies. Successful Executions grant 70% Movement Speed for 5 seconds.
Miscellaneous
- The Monster Health increase per Pit Tier after Torment I has been slightly reduced to ensure a wider range of builds succeed in their journey to Torment IV.
- Additional Experience Orbs dropped in a Forgotten Wisdom Nightmare Dungeon now scale better and behave more consistently.
- Removed the inherent additive damage portion of Overpower that was based on your Life and Fortify amounts.
Developer’s Note: On the PTR, we tested an 80% reduction in these additive damage values, but still found Overpower based builds to be overperforming other options due in part to this inherent bonus. Overpower will now only grant up to a 50%[x] damage increase when it triggers, similar to Critical Strikes. However, Overpowers are still intended to be a rarer occurrence than Critical Strikes, relying primarily on guaranteed sources. As a result, balancing of Overpower damage sources are typically higher than similar ones for Critical Strikes.
- Horadric Phial drop rate now scales with Torment Tier.
- Nightmare Dungeon, Resplendent Chest, and Dungeon Event Chest Rewards have been retuned to reward more Gear, Obducite, and Gold, in Torment Difficulties.
- Betrayer's Husks (Belial material cache) scale with Difficulty Tier, the same as other boss material caches.
- Added a transmutation recipe for exchanging the Judicator's Mask into Abhorrent Hearts at the Alchemist.
- The drop rate of Scrolls of Escape in Hardcore has been increased.
Bug Fixes
Nightmare Dungeons
- Fixed an issue where Nightmare Dungeons with the Treasure Hunt affix sometimes didn't drop the final reward cache.
- Fixed an issue where the Horadric Reserves Nightmare Dungeon affix dropped Obol chests more frequently than intended.
- Fixed an issue where the interaction tooltip for Rare Horadric Chests was missing.
- Fixed an issue where affixes didn't properly apply in Escalating Nightmares during Party play.
- Fixed an issue where Sorcerer Hydras could drop Experience motes in Nightmare Dungeons with the Forgotten Wisdom Affix.
Gameplay
General
- Fixed various issues where Horadric Spellcraft effects and Horadric Jewels didn't function as intended.
- Fixed an issue where Astaroth could become invincible if he was staggered while dismounting.
- Fixed an issue where the player could not access the World Map from Astaroth's Lair.
- Fixed an issue where X'fal's Corroded Signet was not properly triggering from Shocking Damage.
Barbarian
- Fixed an issue where the power of Hooves of the Mountain God could be triggered by the Lucky Hit Effect of Battle Trance.
- Fixed an issue where the Ugly Bastard Helm power would not properly function.
- Fixed an issue where Barbarians could occasionally get infinite duration while Berserking.
Druid
- Fixed an issue where the Aspect of the Alpha did not properly grant bonus damage for Werewolf Companions.
- Fixed an issue where the bonuses of the Mangled Aspect could be snapshotted.
Necromancer
- Fixed an issue where Kalen's Edict was granting double the death bonus to Skeletal Warriors and no death bonus to Skeletal Mages.
- Fixed an issue where Aspect of Decaying Humerus would not display the change to Shadow damage on the tooltips of your Bone skills.
- Fixed an issue where new Skeletal Mages would die while wearing The Hand of Naz if your Skeletal Warriors or Golem were not sacrificed.
- Fixed an issue where Skeletal Mage Mastery Ranks were not granted properly on the Hand of Naz.
- Fixed an issue where equipping certain Sacrifice bonuses would cause the extra minions from Hand of Naz to disappear when logging out and back into the game.
- Fixed an issue where the extra mages from The Hand of Naz would sometimes die and Arch Mages would revert to normal mages when entering a town. (Considering the town guards no longer have a bone to pick with them, the Sekeletal Arch Mages can enter as themselves.)
Rogue
- Fixed an issue where Deathmask of Nirmitruq could cause the player to get stuck at 1 Health.
- Fixed an issue where Supreme Death Trap's Pull resist area was centered on the player rather than the trap.
Sorcerer
- Fixed an issue where Serpentine Aspect allowed you to Summon an additional Hydra.
- Fixed an issue where Hydra's attacks would not properly increase their Critical Strike Chance when using Elementalist's Aspect.
- Fixed an issue where Shimmering Ice Armor would not get more than 1 second of Cooldown Reduction, even when spending more than 100 Mana at once.
User Interface and User Experience
- Fixed an issue where Deathmask of Nirmitruq would cause the Flurry cost to display as 0 on the tooltip.
- Fixed an issue where the value for the Aspect of Adaptability was incorrectly displayed in the Codex of Power.
- Fixed an issue where items in the lost items stash with Greater Affixes would display the incorrect number of Greater Affixes on the icon.
- Fixed an issue where the buff from Rotting Lightbringer would appear to be consumed by using any skill, rather than just Pulverize.
- Fixed an issue where the buff tooltip for Subverting Concealment was missing a name.
Miscellaneous
- Fixed an issue where selling items to the Purveyor of Curiosities did not always grant gold.
- Fixed an issue where Masterworking enchanted or tempered affixes would grant larger upgrades than expected.
- Fixed an issue where a Tempered affix could be re-rolled via Enchanting.
- Fixed an issue where enchanting an item with two tempered affixes would only allow re-rolling the range of an affix instead of replacing it.
- Various performance, UI, visual, stability, and audio fixes.
Vessel of Hatred
Game Updates
Spiritborn
New Items
Balazan's Maxtlatl - Unique Pants
- Affixes
- +107-121 Dexterity
- +424-457 Maximum Life
- +268-373 Thorns
- +2-3 Ranks to Bastion
- Power
- Each attack damages Close enemies for 200-300% of your Thorns also deals 100% of this damage as Poisoning over 3 seconds.
- Each time you've retaliated with Thorns, for 5 seconds the Poisoning damage is increased by 100%, up to 300%.
Skills
Thrash
- Damage increased from 18% to 40%.
- Third hit damage increased from 27% to 70%.
Withering Fist
- Damage Over Time increased from 36% to 65%.
Thunderspike
- Damage increased from 15% to 45%.
- Third hit damage increased from 32% to 65%.
Rock Splitter
- Damage increased from 20% to 50%.
- Third hit damage increased from 28% to 80%.
Passives
Noxious Resonance
- Previous: Your Critical Strikes cause your Poisoning on an enemy to burst, dealing 100% of the total Poisoning instantly to them and 20% of it to surrounding enemies before removing the Poisoning effect from the primary target. This damage is increased by 30% of your Critical Strike Damage bonus.
- Now: Your Critical Strikes cause your Poisoning on an enemy to burst, dealing 180% of the total Poisoning instantly to them and 20% of the burst to surrounding enemies before removing the Poisoning effect from the primary target.
Nourishment
- Damage bonus now applies to all Poison damage instead of just Poisoning Damage.
Acceleration
- Previous: Gain 1 additional Evade Charge. After you Evade, your Eagle Skills deal 8%[x] increased damage for 2 seconds.
- Now: Gain 1 additional Evade Charge. After you Evade or use a Mobility Skill, your Eagle Skills deal 8%[x] increased damage for 3 seconds.
Legendary Aspects
Aspect of Deflection
- Previous: While active, Counterattack reflects incoming Razor Wings back out again. Other Small Missiles are also deflected back at enemies and deal 26-54% of Counterattack's Base damage on impact.
- Now: While active, Counterattack reflects incoming Razor Wings back out again with 30-50%[x] increased damage. Other Small Missiles are also deflected back at enemies and deal 30-50% of Counterattack's Base damage on impact.
Unique Items
Sepazontec
- Damage bonus reduced from 80-130%[x] to 50-100%[x].
Paragon
In-Fighter
- Previous: When you Dodge or Block an attack you gain 2.0%[+] increased Attack Speed and 1.0%[x] increased Damage for 5 seconds, stacking up to 9 times.
- Now: When you Dodge or Block an attack, gain 20%[+] increased Attack Speed and 15%[x] increased Damage for 5 seconds.
Drive
- Each Stack no longer has an individual timer.
Convergence
- Previous: You deal bonus damage equal to 20%[x] of your 2 highest bonuses to Damage with Physical, Fire, Lightning, Cold, Poison, and Shadow combined, up to 30% total.
- Now: You deal bonus damage equal to 3.5%[x] of all your bonuses to Damage with Physical, Fire, Lightning, Cold, Poison, and Shadow combined, up to 30% total.
Loot Updates
Runes
- The drop chance of Legendary Runes has been increased slightly.
- Lair Bosses have an additional small chance of dropping a Legendary Rune.
- All Undercity Runs drop at least one Rune.
Undercity of Kurast
- The Butcher now awards an Undercity Tribute on death.
Runes Tribute
- Drop rate slightly reduced across the board.
Developer’s Note: We made this change because we observed that this Tribute was stockpiling heavily in player inventories.
- Rewards more Runes per attunement, scaling with Torment Level.
Tribute of Titans
- Drop rate significantly reduced from Lair Bosses.
- Drop rate heavily increased from all randomized tribute sources. Now when a player gets a random tribute in Torment Tiers, there is an equal chance to reward either a Tribute of Harmony or a Tribute of Titans.
Tribute of Harmony
- This Tribute can now infrequently drop from all random tribute sources.
- Drop rate in Nightmare Dungeons has been slightly reduced.
Seasonal Nightmare Dungeon Rotation
- Beast Graveyard
- Farai Cliffs
- Feeding Grounds
- Forge of Malice
- Forgotten Remains
- Hallowed Stones
- Hierophant Pyre
- Iron Cenotaph
- Murmuring Spiral
- Putrescent Larder
- Razak's Descent
- Remnants of Rage
- Ruined Wild
- Seething Underpass
- Sleepless Hollow
- Ularian Sepulcher
- Vile Hive
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the Rank 5 bonus to Thorns damage for the Protector did not properly apply.
- Fixed an issue where the Stealth effect from Shroud of False death didn't properly work when an enemy was marked by the power of Nesekem, The Herald.
- Fixed an issue with Armored Hide's Resolve Generation Rate bonus being more effective than expected. 100% increased Resolve Generation Rate now generates Resolve twice as quickly.
- Fixed an issue where the Convergence Legendary Paragon node did not display the proper damage bonus while in town.
- Fixed an issue where the map Icon for the Lair of Loathing didn't update after defeating the boss.
- Fixed an issue where Vessel of Hatred exclusive items could not be marked as favorite while equipped.
- Fixed an issue where the Ceh Rune could be traded to players who did not own Vessel of Hatred.
- Fixed an issue where Cir rune would not activate when a Barbarian changed weapons.
- Fixed an issue where Undercity Tributes of Ascendance and Radiance were not giving intended rewards.
- Fixed an issue where the player could respawn in the boss arena when fighting the Harbinger of Hatred.
Base Game
New Items
Barbarian
Hooves of the Mountain God - Unique Boots
- Affixes
- Inherent - Attacks Reduce Evades Cooldown by 2.5 Seconds.
- +17.5-23% Movement Speed
- +16-25% Basic Attack Speed
- +7-10 Fury Per Second
- +2-3 Ranks to Belligerence
- Power
- When reaching Maximum Fury, your Fury will rapidly drain until you run out and all your Basic skills now cleave and deal 70-100%[x] increased damage.
Druid
Rotting Lightbringer – Unique Two-Handed Weapon
- Affixes
- Inherent: 110% Damage to Poisoned enemies.
- 18-22% Willpower
- 406-550% Poison Damage
- 26-35% Chance for Pulverize to Hit Twice
- 26-35% Resource Cost Reduction
- Power
- Previous: Every 10 seconds, Pulverize forms a puddle that deals 200-400% of its damage as Poisoning damage over 6 seconds. Pulverizing the puddle splashes an additional 20-40% of the puddle's total damage within the area and around it. The size of the puddle increases with Pulverize size increases.
- Now: If no puddle is around you, Pulverize forms a puddle that guarantees its own Overpowers and deals 200-600% of its normal damage as Poisoning over 7 seconds. Pulverize causes all close puddles to splash 20-60% of their total damage within their areas and around them.
Necromancer
The Hand of Naz - Unique Gloves
- Affixes
- 77.5-100% Skeletal Mage Damage
- 10.5-15% Attack Speed
- +424-457 Maximum Life
- +2-4 Skeletal Mage Mastery
- Power
- Sacrificing both Skeletal Warriors and Golems grants an additional Skeletal Mage for each Minion sacrificed.
- When a Skeletal Mage attacks enemies 25 times without dying it upgrades to a Skeletal Arch-Mage.
- Skeletal Arch-Mages teleport to safety when attacked and their attacks occasionally shatter on impact dealing 50-100% increased damage to the target and up to 3 additional targets.
Rogue
Deathmask of Nirmitruq - Unique Helm
- Affixes
- +424-457 Maximum Life
- +2-3 Skillranks to Flurry
- +16-25 Movement Speed
- +224-296 Armor
- Power
- You can now overexert yourself while Casting Flurry, spending 8% life when you don't have enough Energy. Spending life to Cast Flurry increases its damage by 50-70% and your Attack Speed by 50% for 5 seconds.
- Developer's Note: Flurry will fail to cast when the player has neither enough energy or health available.
Sorcerer
Ophidian Iris - Unique Amulet
- Affixes
- Inherent: +30% Resistance to all Elements
- Inherent: Casted Hydras Have +2 Heads.
- +11.5-15.7% Intelligence
- +10.5-15 Attack Speed
- +77.5-100% Pyromancy Damage
- +1-2 to Primordial Binding
- Power
- Hydra is now a Core Skill and always summons a 3-headed Hydra whose attacks explode on impact.
- For each head above 3 that it would have had, the Hydra instead grows larger and deals 50-100%[x] increased damage.
Balance Updates
General
Shard of Verathiel
- Damage bonus reduced from 50-200%[x] to 50-150%[x].
Paingorger's Gauntlets
- Damage bonus reduced from 100-200%[x] to 75-125%[x].
- The echoed damage will now Critically Strike and/or Overpower if the triggering damage was also a Critical Strike or Overpower.
Yen's Blessing
- Resistance to All Elements Affix reduced from 26-35% to 15.5-20%.
Rakanoth's Wake
- Resistance to All Elements Affix reduced from 26-35% to 15.5-20%.
Arreat's Bearing
- Resistance to All Elements Affix reduced from 26-35% to 15.5-20%.
- Dust Devil damage reduced by 50%.
Aspect of the Moonrise
- Damage bonus reduced from 40-100%[x] to 40-60%[x].
- Legendary Ranks increased from 16 to 21.
Aspect of Adaptability
- Previous: When used below 50% Maximum Resource, Basic Skills generate 3 of your Primary Resource, once per Skill. When used at or above 50% Maximum Resource, Basic Skills deal 20 – 100[x]% increased damage.
- Now: Basic Skills generate 5 additional Primary Resource, once per Skill. Basic Skills deal 0.4-0.6%[x] increased damage for each point of Primary Resource you have.
Barbarian
Skills
Frenzy
- Damage increased from 30% to 70%.
Lunging Strike
- Damage increased from 33% to 90%.
Battle Lunging Strike
- Bleed damage increased from 20% to 40%.
Bash
- Damage increased from 33% to 90%.
Flay
- Damage Over Time increased from 48% to 115%.
Hammer of the Ancients
- Damage increased from 98% to 110%.
Leap
- Previous: Leap forward and slam down, dealing damage to and knocking back surrounding enemies.
- Now: Leap forward and slam down, dealing damage and slowing surrounding enemies by 70%.
Mighty Leap
- Previous: Enemies Damaged by Leap are slowed by 70%.
- Now: Leap deals 40%[x] increased damage. Enemies damaged by Leap are knocked back.
Whirlwind
- Movement Speed penalty while using Whirlwind is now additive instead of multiplicative.
Passives
Outburst
- Barbarian's Outburst passive now grants at least 1 Thorns per bonus Maximum Health threshold regardless of player level.
Developer’s Note: It's intended that the bonus Maximum Health threshold dynamically updates as the player levels, and that is unchanged.
Unique Items
Ugly Bastard Helm
- Damage bonus decreased from 80-100%[x] to 40-60[x].
- The Fire buff will now require Wrath of the Berserker to be active.
Twin Strikes
- Updated the tooltip to make it more obvious that Double Swing is doing 2 additional applications of damage per hit, per power instance, over the course of that 3 second window.
Tempering
Furious Augments
- Chance for Bash to Cleave changed to Chance for Bash to Hit Twice.
Paragon
Hemorrage
- Previous: Your Bleeding damage is increased by 15%[x] of your Vulnerable Damage Bonus, up to a maximum of 45[%].
- Now: Applying a Bleed to a Vulnerable target deals 45%[x] increased damage.
Blood Rage
- Previous: Killing a Bleeding enemy has 10% chance to grant Berserking for 5 seconds. Your damage is increased by 10%[x] of your Damage while Berserking bonus, up to a maximum of 45%[x].
- Now: Killing a Bleeding enemy has 10% chance to grant Berserking for 5 seconds. You gain 45%[x] increased damage while Berserking.
Carnage
- Previous: While Berserking, Critical Strikes increase your Attack Speed by 2%[+], up to 16%[+], for 6 seconds.
- Now: Berserking now additionally grants 15%[+] Attack Speed.
Decimator
- Previous: Each time you make an enemy Vulnerable, your damage is increased by 20%[x] for 5 seconds. Overpowering a Vulnerable enemy grants an additional 20%[x] bonus for 5 seconds.
- Now: You deal 20%[x] increased damage to Vulnerable enemies. Your Overpower deals 20%[x] increased damage.
Flawless Technique
- Previous: Damaging enemies with One-Handed Weapons increases your Critical Strike chance by 1% for 4 seconds, up to 8%. This can only happen once per Skill cast, or twice per second while channeling Whirlwind.
- Now: Consecutive attacking with the same weapon increases your Critical Strike chance by 15%[+] for 4 seconds.
Force of Nature
- Previous: Your Earthquakes have a 75% chance to spawn a Dust Devil every second that deals 180% Weapon damage. Earthquake damage is increased by 40% of your Damage vs Close bonus, up to a maximum of 200%.
- Now: Your Earthquake deals 45%[x] increased damage and have a 75% chance to spawn a Dust Devil every second that deals 180% Weapon damage.
Druid
Skills
Earth Spike
- Damage increased from 19% to 90%.
Wind Shear
- Damage increased from 20% to 60%.
Storm Strike
- Damage increased from 20% to 60%.
Maul
- Damage increased from 26% to 80%.
Claw
- Damage increased from 28% to 80%.
Fierce Claw
- Poison Damage increased from 20% to 40%.
Pulverize
- Damage increased from 92% to 150%.
Enhanced Pulverize
- Previous: Your next Pulverize will Overpower every 12 seconds while you remain Healthy.
- Now: Pulverize deals 30% increased damage to Crowd Controlled enemies and Bosses.
Enhanced Debilitating Roar
- Fortify amount increased from 22% to 30%.
Innate Debilitating Roar
- Damage bonus increased from 15% to 25%.
Grizzly Rage
- Damage bonus per second while in Grizzly Rage increased from 3% to 4%.
- Companion Skills are now always usable during Grizzly Rage.
- Rank 5 Bonus:
- Previous: Companion Skills can be Cast during Grizzly Rage.
- Now: You gain 30% increased Armor while Grizzly Rage is active.
Prime Grizzly Rage
- Previous: Grizzly Rage makes you Unstoppable for 6 seconds.
- Now: You are Unstoppable while Grizzly Rage is active.
Passives
Toxic Claws
- Previous: Shred and Lacerate deals an additional 24/48/ 72% of their Base damage as Poisoning damage over 4 seconds.
- Now: You deal 5/10/15% increased Poison damage. This is doubled while in Werewolf form and for 8 seconds after leaving it.
Vigilance
- Damage Reduction reduced from 7/14/21% to 5/10/15%.
Abundance
- Basic Skill Spirit generation bonus increased from 10/20/30% to 15/30/45%.
Nature's Fury
- Previous: Casting or Channeling an Earth Skill has a 40% chance to trigger a free Storm Skill of the same category, and vice versa. In addition, these free Skills count as both Earth and Storm Skills.
- Now: Casting or Channeling an Earth Skill has a 40% chance to trigger a free Storm Skill of the same category, and vice versa. In addition, you deal 40% more Earth and Storm damage and these free Skills count as both.
Ursine Strength
- Previous: Gain 30% additional Maximum Life while in Werebear form and for 3 seconds after leaving Werebear form. While Healthy, deal 15% increased damage, and 70% increased Overpower damage.
- Now: Gain 30% Maximum Life, 20% more damage, and a 100% Overpower bonus while in Werebear form and for 8 seconds after leaving it.
Legendary Aspects
Of The Ursine Horror
- Category changed from Offensive to Utility.
- Previous: Pulverize is now also an Earth Skill. After Casting Pulverize tectonic spikes continue to deal damage over 2 seconds.
- Now: Pulverize is now an Earth Skill. After it Overpowers, your Earth Skill Cooldowns are reduced by 0.5-1.25 seconds.
Mangled
- Previous: While in Werebear form, you gain 10-25 Spirit every 8 seconds.
- Now: While in Werebear form, you gain 5-10% Maximum Spirit Generation per second.
Of the Rabid Bear
- Previous: While Grizzy Rage is active, Skills that Critically Strike apply Rabies and your Poison damage is increased by 60-105%.
- Now: While Grizzy Rage is active, your direct damage is converted into Poison damage, you deal 20-40% more Poison damage, and you passively spread Rabies.
Runeworker's Conduit
- The secondary effect has been changed.
- Previous: Your Lightning Bolt damage is increased by 15%[x] for every 100 Willpower you have.
- Now: Your Lightning Bolts deal 25-40% increased damage.
Unique Items
Mjölnic Ryng
- Damage bonus reduced from 40-100% to 20-40%.
Necromancer
Skills
Reap
- Damage increased from 20% to 50%.
Hemorrhage
- Damage increased from 40% to 80%.
Decompose
- Damage increased from 60% to 150%.
Enhanced Decompose
- Damage increased from 40% to 100%.
Bone Splinters
- Damage increased from 15% to 30%.
Soul Rift
- Soul Rift no longer grants a Barrier.
- Damage bonus on Prime Soul Rift reduced from 75% to 15%.
Passives
Affliction
- Damage enemies take from you increased from 15% to 45%.
- Scaling percent increased from 30% to 120%.
- Base damage increased from 100% to 180%.
- Damage capped at 900%.
Ossified Essence
- Previous: Your Bone Skills deal 0.5% increased damage for each point of Essence you have above 50 upon cast. Current Bonus: X%
- Now: Your Essence Generation is increased by 50% and your Bone Skills deal 0.7% increased damage for each point of Essence you have when Cast, up to 140%[x]. Current Bonus: X%
Shadowblight
- Base damage increased from 60% to 200%.
- Damage scaling reduced from 100% to 70%.
- Damage bonus capped at 450%.
- Now also scales with Shadow damage.
Rathma's Vigor
- Overpower bonus reduced from 120% to 100%.
Legendary Aspects
Aspect of Swelling Curse - Renamed to Aspect of Decaying Humerus
- Previous: Bone Spirit's Critical Strike Chance is increased by 10-30%. Each enemy hit by Bone Spirit increases your Essence by 2 for 15 seconds, up to 50.
- Now: Your Bone Skills now deal Shadow damage instead of Physical. Enemies take 15-25% increased Shadow damage after being hit with a Bone Skill.
Of Plunging Darkness
- Previous: Bone Prison is now a Darkness Skill and spawns a pool of Blight that deals 80-140% bonus damage over 6 seconds.
- Now: Bone Prison is now a Darkness Skill and spawns a pool of Blight for 6 seconds. Your Blights deal 40-60% increased damage while Bone Prison is active.
Blighted
- Previous: You deal 35-55%[x] increased damage for 6 seconds after the Shadowblight Key Passive damages enemies 10 times.
- Now: Consecutive hits with the Shadowblight Key Passive deal 15-35%[x] increased damage for each hit, resetting 6 seconds after the first.
Blood Soaked
- Previous: Blood Mist leaves a trail of Desecrated Ground that lasts for 4 seconds and deals 45-65% Corrupting damage per second. Gain +20% Movement Speed while Blood Mist is active.
- Now: Blood Mist leaves a trail of Desecrated Ground that lasts for 8 seconds and dealing 35-55% Corrupting damage per second. Gain +30% Movement Speed while Blood Mist is active and while standing on Desecrated Ground.
- Now a Mobility legendary rather than offensive.
Of Creeping Mist - Renamed to Creeping Cadaver
- Previous: Gain 20-40% Evade Cooldown Reduction. You can now Evade during Blood Mist, traveling twice as far. Entering or exiting Blood Mist resets your Evade Cooldown.
- Now: Consuming a Corpse increases your Movement Speed by 20-40% for 8 seconds.
Coldbringer's
- Time between Blizzard casts reduced from 6 to 4 seconds.
Unique Items
Deathless Visage
- Echo damage reduced from 40-80% to 20-40%.
Indira's Memory
- Damage bonus reduced from 40-80% to 20-40%.
Bloodless Scream
- Affixes
- Intelligence bonus normalized with other weapons values.
- Freeze Duration affix replaced with Lucky Hit: Chance to restore resource.
- Lucky Hit Chance affix replaced with Lucky Hit: Up to a 40% chance to deal 8500-13500 Shadow damage.
- Ranks to Darkness Skills increased from 1-2 to 2-4.
- Powers
- Previous: Your Darkness Skills Chill enemies for up to 100% and deal 100-200% increased damage to Frozen enemies. Lucky Hit: Your Darkness Skills have up to a 100% chance to generate 15-25 additional Essence against Frozen targets.
- Now:Your Darkness Skills Chill enemies for up to 100% and deal 100-200% increased damage to Frozen enemies, and Bosses. Every 800 times you damage enemies with Darkness Skills, all Nearby enemies are Feared for 0.25 seconds before Freezing for 3 more seconds.
Paragon
Bloodbath
- Overpower damage bonus reduced from 100%[x] to 40%[x].
Rogue
Skills
Puncture
- Damage increased from 21% to 45%.
Heartseeker
- Damage increased from 24% to 50%.
Forceful Arrow
- Damage increased from 33% to 50%.
Invigorating Strike
- Damage increased from 45% to 65%.
Blade Shift
- Damage increased from 30% to 45%.
Enhanced Dance of Knives
- Meters required to gain charges increased from 30 to 34.
Developer’s Note: This will slightly increase the movement speed requirement needed to make Dance of Knives infinite.
Supreme Death Trap
- Damage to enemies who resist the pull reduced from 180% to 60%.
- Now properly damages Unstoppable enemies.
Improved Flurry
- Previous: Casting Flurry dashes you to the target and Heals for 10% of your Maximum life.
- Now: Casting Flurry dashes you to the target and Heals for 10% of your Maximum life over 1.5 seconds.
Subverting Concealment
- Previous: The Skill that breaks Concealment will always be a guaranteed Critical Strike and makes enemies Vulnerable for 6 seconds.
- Now: Breaking Concealment causes all Skills for 4 seconds to be guaranteed Critical Strikes and make enemies Vulnerable for 3 seconds.
Passives
Close Quarter's Combat
- The % of Damage to Close increased from 25% to 50%.
- Damage bonus is capped at 90%.
Precision
- Percentage of Critical Strike Damage bonus for scaling increased from 20% to 100%.
- Damage bonus is capped at 360%.
Alchemical Admixture
- Previous: Dealing 2 different types of Non-Physical damage increases the Potency of your Imbuement Skills by 40%[x] for 5 seconds. This Potency is further increased by 40% of the total amount of your Bonus damage to Poison, Shadow, and Cold. Current bonus is a multiplicative percentage based off your current stats.
- Now: Dealing 2 different types of Non-Physical damage increases the Potency of your Imbuement Skills by 100% and Non-Physical Damage by 50%[x] for 8 seconds.
Victimize
- Previous: Lucky Hit: Dealing direct damage to a Vulnerable enemy has up to a 50% chance to cause an explosion, dealing 60% damage of the same type to them and surrounding enemies. Victimize's damage is increased by 150%[x] of your Vulnerable Damage Bonus.
- Now: Lucky Hit: Dealing direct damage to a Vulnerable enemy has up to a 50% chance to cause an explosion, dealing 200% damage of the same type to them and surrounding enemies.
- Enemies hit by Victimize's explosion take 75%[x] increased damage from you for 3 seconds.
Legendary Aspects
Energizing Aspect
- Previous: Damaging an Elite enemy with a Basic Skill generates 4 Energy. Gain 10-45 Energy after killing an Elite enemy with a Basic Skill.
- Now: Damaging an enemy with a Basic Skill generates 6 Energy. Gain 10-30 Energy after killing an Elite enemy.
Infiltrator's
- Previous: Poison Trap no longer breaks Stealth and triggers no Cooldown or arm time while you are in Stealth. All Poison Traps activate when you exit Stealth and Poison Trap's Cooldown will be 8-4 seconds per trap placed.
- Now: Poison Trap no longer breaks Stealth and triggers no Cooldown or arm time while you are in Stealth. All Poison Traps activate when you exit Stealth and begin Poison Trap's Cooldown. Poison Trap's Cooldown is reduced by 10-50%.
- Now a Utility Legendary Aspect rather than Offensive.
Cheat's
- Previous: You take 10-30% less damage from Crowd Controlled enemies. Whenever a Crowd Controlled enemy deals direct damage to you, gain 15% Movement Speed for 2 seconds.
- Now: You have 5-15% increased Damage Reduction and 10% increased Movement Speed, doubled while below 50% Maximum Life.
Of Volatile Shadows
- Previous: When a Dark Shroud shadow is removed you trigger an explosion that deals x Shadow damage and applies Shadow Imbuement to each enemy it hits.
- Now: Shadow Imbuement deals 10%[x] increased damage per Skill Rank of the Imbued Skill. Every 10 seconds, when your imbued Skill hits an enemy you trigger a large explosion dealing x Shadow damage and applying Shadow Imbuement to each enemy it hits.
Aspect of Bursting Venoms
- Previous: Lucky Hit: Poison Imbued Skills have up to a 15% chance to create a toxic pool that deals [280-364]% Poisoning damage over 3 seconds to enemies within. While standing in the pool, your Poison Imbuement Skill has no Cooldown and no Charge limit.
- Now: Lucky Hit: Poison Imbued Skills have up to a [15-35]% chance to deploy a Poison Trap while you have Poison Trap equipped.
Of The Dark Dance
- Damage bonus is now multiplicative instead of additive.
Unique Items
Eaglehorn
- Previous: Penetrating Shot makes enemies vulnerable for 2 seconds. Every 4th Penetrating Shot bounces off walls and deals 50-150%[x] increased damage.
- Now: Penetrating Shot bounces off walls and deals 40-80%[x] increased damage.
Eyes in the Dark
- Previous: Death Trap deals 50-150% increased damage and will rearm itself once after activating.
- Now: Death Trap deals 40-60%[x] damage and will rearm itself after activating, once every 10 seconds.
Paragon
Danse Macabre
- Previous: Casting a Mobility or Subterfuge Skill increases the damage of your next Skill by 75%[x].
- Now: Casting a Mobility or Subterfuge Skill increases your damage by 30%[x] for 10 seconds.
Developer’s Note: We've updated this to improve the gameplay feel around this legendary node.
Tricks of the Trade
- Previous: Your Marksman Skills grant your Cutthroat Skills 25%[x] increased damage for 8 seconds. Your Cutthroat Skills grant your Marksman Skills 25%[x] increased damage for 8 seconds.
- Now: Enemies damaged by your Marksman Skills take 30% increased damage from your Cutthroat Skills, and vice versa.
Eldritch Bounty
- Previous: When you attack with an Imbued Skill you gain 3% Maximum Resistance and 30% increased damage for that Imbuement's Element for 9 seconds.
- Now: Poison, Shadow, and Cold gain 3% Maximum Resistance and 30%[x] increased damage.
Sorcerer
Skills
Frost Bolt
- Damage increased from 38% to 90%.
Arc Lash
- Damage increased from 42% to 80%.
Fire Bolt
- Damage Over Time increased from 44% to 90%.
Spark
- Damage increased from 12% to 25%.
Enhanced Spark
- Damage increased from 9% to 20%.
Lightning Spear
- Damage increased from 16% to 80%.
Invoked Lightning Spear
- Stun Duration reduced from 2 seconds to 0.5 seconds.
Hydra
- No longer has a Mana cost.
- Damage increased from 23% to 35%.
- Lucky Hit Chance increased from 2.5% to 5%.
Firewall
- Base damage increased from 230% to 300%.
Incinerate
- Starting damage increased from 120% to 150%.
- Maximum ramp up damage increased from 162% to 203%.
Inferno
- Damage increased from 354% to 425%.
Passives
Combustion
- Previous: Your Burning effects deal 60%[x] increased damage, and an additional 25%[x] of your Burning Damage and Damage to Burning target bonuses.
- Now: Your Burning effects deal 50%[x] increased damage, and an additional 20%[x] of your Burning Damage and Damage to Burning target bonuses, up to 100%[x].
Vyr's Mastery
- Previous: While Charged: Critical Strikes have a 15% chance to arc as Lightning damage to another nearby enemy, or if there are no other targets you hit the target again for 500% of the damage.
- Now: While Charged: Critical Strikes have a 25% chance to arc as Lightning damage to up to 3 other surrounding enemies or if there are no other targets you hit the target again for 300% of the damage.
Enlightenment
- Previous: While Enlightened your Damage Bonuses with Fire, Lightning, and Cold are equal to them combined and you gain:
- 25%[x] Damage
- 45%[+] Mana Regeneration
- 20%[+] Attack Speed
- Now: While Enlightened your Damage Bonuses with Fire, Lightning, and Cold are equal to the highest bonus among them and you gain:
- 70%[x] Damage
- 45%[+] Mana Regeneration
- 30%[+] Attack Speed
Legendary Aspects
- Aspect of Three Curses - Renamed to Flash Fire Aspect.
- Previous: Increases the Critical Strike Damage of Fireball and Meteor by 25-45%[x]. Double this bonus against Healthy targets.
- Now: Increases the Critical Strike Damage of Pyromancy Skills by 25-45%[x]. Double this bonus against Healthy targets.
Battle Caster's Aspect
- Maximum stacks increased from 5 to 10.
Shivering Aspect
- Updated Tooltip to reference how much Chill or Staggering enemies have built up instead of how enemies are Chilled or Staggering.
Aspect of Splintering Energy
- Previous: Critical Hits with Lightning Spear cause the spear to arc to the target and up to 5 other enemies. This damage is increased by 60-100%[x] of your Critical Strike Damage Bonus.
- Now: Critical Hits with Lightning Spear cause the spear to arc to the target and up to 5 other enemies, dealing 60%[x] of normal damage. Lightning Spear deals 20-40%[x] increased damage.
Tempering
Conjuration Fortune
- Magic Rarity
- Conjuration Lucky Hit Chance increased from 2.5-4.0% to 6.0-8.0%.
- Rare Rarity
- Conjuration Lucky Hit Chance increased from 3.0-5.0% to 8.0-10.0%.
- Legendary Rarity
- Conjuration Lucky Hit Chance increased from 4.0-6.0% to 8.0-12.5%.
User Interface and User Experience
- The Wardrobe now shows unowned or unearned Cosmetics for you to try on with your currently owned threads. Feel free to mix and match to see what new illustrious combinations you can don.
- The Wardrobe will only show Cosmetics that can currently be earned or purchased in-game at any time.
- Each unowned Cosmetic will note where it’s available from.
- Descriptions for Aspects in the Codex of Power now include the detail that Aspects get increased power when imprinted on Amulets, Two-Handed Weapons, and Ancestral items.
- A new setting has been added to disable the floating text for gaining seasonal reputation.
Item Affix Updates
Developer’s Note: Values of many Tempering Affixes in the Offensive category have been updated. Most of these affixes were conditional, required a certain type of damage, or only improved a portion of your overall damage. These new values better reflect how restrictive the condition associated with the affix is, and affixes with similarly restrictive conditions now have identical affix values.
General
- Resistance to All Elements base affix reduced from 10-12% to 8-10%.
- Maximum Base Elemental Resistance is increased from 70% to 75%. It is still capped at 85% from additional sources of increased Maximum Resistance.
- When Overpowering, additive bonus damage based on your Maximum Life and Fortify amounts reduced by 80%.
Base Affixes
- Damage affix maximum increased from 35% to 40%.
- Basic Damage affix maximum decreased from 70% to 50%.
- Damage Over Time affix maximum decreased from 70% to 50%.
- Overpower Damage affix maximum decreased from 70% to 65%.
Inherent Affixes
- Vulnerable Damage inherent affix maximum reduced from 57.4% to 50%.
- Critical Strike Damage inherent affix maximum reduced from 57.4% to 50%.
- Damage Over Time inherent affix maximum increased from 20% to 50%.
- Damage to Close Enemies inherent affix maximum increased from 20% to 50%.
- Summoning Damage inherent affix maximum increased from 20% to 50%.
- Overpower Damage inherent affix maximum reduced from 196.3% to 65%.
Loot Updates
Whispers
General
- Various changes made to improve the overall consistency of Whisper Cache rewards.
Collection of Gold
- Now rewards substantially more Gold.
Collection of Crafting Materials
- Reduced the chance of this cache appearing.
- Now awards substantially more crafting materials.
Collection of Gems
- Now drops more Gems.
- In Torment III and greater, this cache awards a random Royal Gem or higher.
Helltide
- Kixxarth now drops significantly more Cinders.
Nightmare Dungeons
- Nightmare Dungeon completion rewards no longer drop Magic and Rare items in Torment Tiers.
Infernal Hordes
- The Materials Chest now awards more Gems.
World Bosses
- World Bosses are now guaranteed to drop an Infernal Compass.
Crafted Caches
- Ring and Amulet Caches at the Jeweler have been combined into a single Jeweler Cache.
- The Jeweler Cache provides 2 Legendary Amulets and 3 Legendary Rings. Previously, each Ring and Amulet Cache offered a single item.
- The cost of this Cache was reduced from 100k fragments (Ring) and 150k fragments (Amulet) to a combined cost of 30k Fragments.
- Blacksmith Caches now grants 5 item drops, up from 1. Proportionately, the resource cost has been increased by 5 times.
Developer’s Note: These changes were done to create harmony between the two Cache types, and to reduce the number of clicks you have to go through to receive your Blacksmith Cache items. Finally, it was made to make the Blacksmith Cache lootsplosion feel a little more impactful.
General
- Ancestral chance now scales with Difficulty Tier.
Nightmare Dungeons
New Affixes
Horadric Reserves
- Spawns in loot chests with specialized rewards.
- Rewards include Gem Fragments, Gold, Obols, Seasonal Currency, and Resources.
Equipment Delve
- Spawns in collectible artifacts which upgrade a Cache of Eequipment rewards when found.
- Rewards Weapons, Jewelry, Armor.
Power Shrines
- Replaces all existing shrines and spawns in additional shrines of the specified type.
- Spawns in the following Shrines: Artillery, Blast Wave, Channeling, Lethal, Protection.
Forgotten Wisdom
- Experience motes will have a chance to spawn on kill, and an experience well will spawn somewhere in the dungeon.
Treasure Breach
- A number of treasure goblins will invade the dungeon...
Seasonal Rotation
- Black Asylum
- Caldera Gate
- Dead Man's Dredge
- Derelict Lodge
- Forbidden City
- Forsaken Quarry
- Hallowed Ossuary
- Hoarfrost Demise
- Kor Dragan Barracks
- Light's Watch
- Maulwood
- Mercy's Reach
- Nostrava Deepwood
- Zenith
- Calibel's Mine
- Domhainne Tunnels
- Garan Hold
- Hive
- Howling Warren
- Luban's Rest
- Maddux Watch
- Mariners Refuge
- Oldstones
- Sarat's Lair
- Sunken Ruins
- Whispering Pines
- Ancient's Lament
- Betrayer's Row
- Bloodsoaked Crag
- Buried Halls
- Carrion Fields
- Champion's Demise
- Charnel House
- Grinning Labyrinth
- Komdor Temple
- Mournfield
- Path of the Blind
- Sealed Archives
- Seaside Descent
- Akkhan's Grasp
- Ancient Reservoir
- Bastion Of Faith
- Belfry Zakara
- Blind Burrows
- Earthen Wound
- Endless Gates
- Faceless Shrine
- Haunted Refuge
- Heathens Keep
- Iron Hold
- Leviathans Maw
- Lost Keep
- Maugan's Works
- Oblivion
- Witchwater
- Abandoned Mineworks
- Collapsed Vault
- Conclave
- Corrupted Grotto
- Deserted Underpass
- Forgotten Ruins
- Hakan's Refuge
- Halls of the Damned
- Heretic's Asylum
- Inferno
- Putrid Aquifer
- Shivta Ruins
- Sirocco Caverns
- Sunken Library
- Tomb of the Saints
- Uldur's Cave
Miscellaneous
- Keyboard and Mouse play is now supported on consoles.
- Summons, such as Druid Companions and Necromancer Minions, now properly inherit Lucky Hit and Overpower bonuses.
- Any unintentional instances of the Met rune, which was removed prior to Season of Hatred Rising, have been converted to a Yom rune.
- Adjusted multiple tooltips across the game to clarify the difference between Drain and Consume. Added two loading screen tips to help players understand the difference.
- Spending, Consuming, and Draining Resource:
- Spending Resource is the act of casting skills and your resource being reduced by an amount. Some mechanics in the game interact with spending and the amount spent can be reduced with the Resource Cost Reduction stat.
- Consuming Resource counts as spending resource for the purposes of interacting with ability mechanics. The amount Consumed is fixed and cannot be lowered by Resource Cost Reduction.
- Draining Resource does not count as spending for the purposes of interacting with ability mechanics. The amount Drained is fixed and cannot be lowered by Resource Cost Reduction.
- Resplendent Chests in the Temple of Rot have been replaced with regular chests.
Developer’s Note: We observed that some players were constantly re-logging to reset Resplendent chests in Strongholds infinitely. This change is to prevent that behavior.
Bug Fixes
Accessibility
- Fixed an issue where the Screen Reader would read out Season Journey objectives as fractions.
Gameplay
Barbarian
- Fixed an issue where Fighter’s Mighty Throw’s extra pulses would deal twice as much damage as intended.
- Fixed an issue where Fighter’s Mighty Throw would grant its Barrier without putting points into the upgrade.
- Fixed an issue where Fighter’s Mighty Throw would snapshot bonuses when swapping weapons.
- Fixed an issue where the Earthquake damage buff from Executioner's Aspect remained after removing the item.
- Fixed an issue where Ugly Bastard Helm would occasionally not increase some sources of Fire damage.
- Fixed an issue where Violent Hammer of the Ancients would sometimes consume its bonus when other skills overpower.
- Fixed an issue where the Wrath of the Berserker Rank 5 Damage couldn't Overpower.
- Fixed an issue where the Rumble Glyph was granting inconsistent damage against bosses.
- Fixed an issue where Devilish Aspect would activate when casting a Shout skill.
- Fixed an issue where the description for the Devilish Aspect was not accurate to the actual effect.
Developer’s Note: The description has been updated to "Your next direct damage will create 2 Dust Devils."
Druid
- Fixed an issue where the buff from Runeworker's Conduit Aspect would not be removed when unequipping the item.
- Fixed an issue where the bonus movement speed from Malefic Crescent did not properly stack with bonus movement speed from Mad Wolf's Glee.
- Fixed an issue where the bonus damage from Waxing Gibbous after exiting Stealth did not apply for certain other sources of Stealth, such as Shroud of False Death.
- Fixed an issue where Shroud of False Death also granted bonuses to Spirit Boons.
- Fixed an issue where Aspect of the Rabid Bear would not always work for the entire duration of Grizzly Rage.
- Fixed an issue where Druid companions could not Overpower as expected.
- Fixed an issue where attacks from Shred that should also Dash wouldn't.
Necromancer
- Fixed an issue where Bone Mages could generate echoes from the power of Deathless Visage.
- Fixed an issue where Skeleton Warrior Mastery, Skeleton Mage Mastery, and Golem Mastery ranks from Ring of Mendeln and Sanguivor, Blade of Zir would fail to function if you did not already have ranks of those passives.
- Fixed an issue where Shadowblight was not scaling from multiplicative Corrupting damage bonus sources.
- Fixed an issue where Howl from Below did not grant the Summon tag to Corpse Explosion.
- Fixed an issue where some Book of the Dead Upgrades would occasionally stop working.
- Fixed an issue where Decompose would not spawn Corpses when used against certain enemies.
- Fixed a issue where twice as many orbs spawned from Kesseme's legacy as intended.
- Fixed an issue where Skirmisher Skeletal Warriors would occasionally not deal increased damage from Ring of Mendeln.
- Fixed an issue where Bone Spear and Bone Splinters trigged from Skeletal Bone Mages were not properly inheriting Summoning, Minion, or Skeletal Mage damage bonuses.
- Fixed an issue where the bonus movement speed from Reaper's Pursuit did not apply while in town.
- Fixed an issue where the effect of the Memento Mori passive remained after removing skill points from it.
Rogue
- Fixed an issue where Crown of Lucion's damage bonus didn't apply while Inner Sight was active.
- Fixed an issue where Preparation would sometimes apply the incorrect amount of Cooldown Reduction when combined with other effects such as from Beastfall Boots.
- Fixed an issue where Precision would sometimes stack despite not actively Casting a Skill.
Sorcerer
- Fixed an issue where Splintering Energy would snapshot overpower procs for an entire instance if it procs on its first Lightning Spear cast for the instance.
- Fixed an issue where Inferno was incorrectly consuming the Overpower bonus from Blood Boiling Aspect, despite being a Damage Over Time effect which cannot Overpower.
- Fixed an issue where the descriptions for Lightning Spear and Ice Blades did not mention the maximum allowed number of active summons.
- Fixed an issue where skill ranks of Primordial Binding from Sidhe's Binding granted more ranks of the skill than intended when Masterworked.
- Fixed an issue where Hydra did not benefit from the Devouring Blaze passive.
- Fixed an issue where Flame Shield incorrectly granted a hidden damage bonus.
- Fixed an issue where Flame Shield incorrectly granted resource cost reduction.
- Fixed an issue where Flame Shield's guaranteed Critical hit only applied if a target was hit.
- Fixed an issue where Enlightenment was gaining stack from unintended sources such as drinking a potion or mounting up.
- Fixed an issue where Prime Inferno was pulling enemies towards the player rather than the center of the Inferno.
- Fixed an issue where Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop was not granting its damage bonus on the first stack.
General
- Fixed an issue where Rare Spawn enemies could drop lower quality items than expected.
- Fixed an issue where Orton could become unkillable during the Dead to Rights quest, which would block progression.
- Fixed an issue where required enemies sometimes did not spawn during the Bound by Blood quest, which would block progression.
- Fixed an issue where the Class Mechanic unlock quests weren’t granting the intended item rewards.
User Interface and User Experience
- Fixed an issue where the New icon indicator would remain on the Map Tab and Quest panel after receiving and viewing an Introduction Quest.
- Fixed an issue where the Aether counter did not properly display in Infernal Hordes under certain conditions.
- Fixed an issue where the tooltip for describing the Injured Key Word displayed with the description for Druid's Lupine Ferocity Key Passive.
Miscellaneous
- Fixed an issue where the Transmutation recipe for Shard of Agony had the incorrect requirement for Malignant Hearts to craft.
- Various performance, stability, visual, UI, and audio improvements.
