Diablo IV

Diablo IV Patch Notes

Diablo IV Patch Notes

The Diablo IV team has been monitoring your feedback. As we introduce patches to keep your experience in Sanctuary smooth, we will update the below list and denote whether the fixes are intended for PC, Xbox, PlayStation™, or all platforms.

2.0.5a Build #59901 (PC Only)—November 20, 2024

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the Elixir of Antivenin granted significantly more health than intended. This fix will go live a few hours after this client patch hits. It will be in a coinciding server hotfix.
  • Various stability improvements.
2.0.5 Build #59712 (All Platforms)—November 19, 2024

Vessel of Hatred

Game Updates

Balance Updates

Runes

Ritual Runes

Neo

  • Is no longer blocked by invulnerability.
  • The Tooltip now specifically states that you must take health damage to stop this effect.

Moni

  • Offering increased from 25 to 35.

Invocation Runes

Ton

  • Reduced the spread of Meteorites when they fall.
  • Meteorites have less delay between volleys.

Ceh

  • Spirit Wolves now all have the Unhindered buff allowing them to move through enemies and the player, because spirits don't normally run into things.

Tal

  • Now spawns 3 Pestilent Swarms at a time.
  • Damage reduced from 300% to 150%.

Vex

  • Duration increased from 5 to 8 seconds.
  • Duration now properly refreshes.

Lum

  • Increased from 1% to 2.5%.

Thul

  • Offering cost reduced from 400 to 300.

Mercenaries

Raheir

Shield Throw

  • Increased Taunt duration from 3 to 5 seconds.
  • Increased number of bounces from 3 to 9 targets.
  • Increased damage from 225% to 450% damage.

Iron Wolf’s Ward

  • Increased Valiance Cooldown Reduction from 25% to 35%.

Iron Wolf’s Virtue

  • Increased Valiance Cooldown Reduction from 25% to 35%.

Iron Wolf’s Arrival

  • Increased Valiance Cooldown Reduction from 25% to 35%.

Sundering Shield

  • Increased the burst damage of Crater by 200%.

Draw Fire

  • Removed the ability to use a Potion while at Maximum Life.

Varyana

Ancient Harpoon

  • Increased Stun duration from 2 to 4 seconds, damage from 140% to 200%.

Whirlwind

  • Increased Physical Damage from 65% to 85%.

Annihilator

  • Increased Slow duration from 3 to 5 seconds.

Intimidated

  • Increased Damage Reduction from 10% to 15%.

Taste of Flesh

  • Increased Heal amount from 1% to 2%.

Subo

Bargaining Chips

  • Increased Overpower damage from 2% to 5%.

Thrillseeker

  • Reduced detonation timer from 3 to 1.5 seconds.

Mastermind

  • Increased Crowd Control duration from 15%[+] to 25%[+].

Pin Cushion

  • Increased Immobilize duration from 2 to 3 seconds.

Snipe

  • Increased damage from 300% to 450%.

Aldkin

Exhaustion

  • Increased Daze chance from 5% to 10%.

Wave of Flame

  • Increased damage from 300% to 550%.

Curse of Flame

  • Reduced Resource drain from 10% to 8%.

Fire Shot

  • Increase damage from 40% to 90%.

Spiritborn

Skills

Withering Fist

  • Poisoning damage increased from 30% to 36%.
  • Slow increased from 30% to 40%.

Sharp Withering Fist

  • Increased target spread from 3 to 5 enemies.

Toxic Skin

  • Passive damage increased from 30% to 36%.

Enhanced Toxic Skin

  • Bonus Toxic Skin damage increased from 100% to 130%.

Measured Toxic Skin

  • Damage increased from 15% to 36%.

Soar

  • Updated Soar's targeting on controller to land at targeted enemies instead of at max distance.

Razor Wings

  • Damage increased from 50% to 75%.
  • No longer has a short cooldown between casts.

Enhanced Rushing Claw

  • Bonus damage per hit increased from 10% to 20%, maximum bonus increased from 80% to 100%.

Poised Rushing Claw

  • Bonus Dodge duration increased from 3 to 6 seconds.

Harmonious Devourer

  • Toxic Globs's damage now scales with The Devourer's Skill Ranks.

Exalted Devourer

  • Pestilence Swarm's damage now scales with The Devourer's Skill Ranks.

Passives

Intricacy

  • Bonus duration increased from 5 to 7 seconds.

Nourishment

  • Bonus Poisoning damage increased from 3/6/9%[x] to 4/8/12%[x] per rank.

Adaptive Stances

  • Bonus duration increased from 5 to 7 seconds.

Legendary Aspects and Unique Items

Aspect of Invigorating Will

  • Chance to Heal increased from 10% to 25%.

Bruiser's Aspect

  • Armor increased from 1% to 2% per 1% missing Maximum Life.

Aspect of Avoidance

  • Dodge Chance increased from 4-8% to 6%-10%.

Starving Ravager's Aspect

  • Vigor drain reduced from 25-5 to 14-4.

Aspect of Deflection

  • Damage increased from 25-32% to 26%-54%.

Aspect of Soil Power

  • Damage increased from 45%-60% to 180%-250%.

Nesekem, the Herald

  • Duration between marks reduced from 5 to 2 seconds.

Bug Fixes

Dark Citadel

  • Fixed an issue where the Elixir of Tailwind had improper text in its description.
  • Fixed multiple issues where quest objectives, icons, and other UI elements did not display properly.
  • Fixed an issue where the portal out of the Realm of Oblivion wouldn't function properly if the boss was defeated while Impending Doom was being channeled.

Mercenaries

  • Fixed an issue where Subo's Seeker skill didn't properly track when the player moved between zones while mounted.
  • Fixed an issue where the chat log would display that you were killed by your Hired Mercenary if you were killed by an already defeated enemy. (Turns out they weren't traitors after all!)

Kurast Undercity

  • Fixed an issue where the Barrier leading to Yoche could be passed through with Evade.
  • Fixed an issue where certain layouts had less monster density, which made achieving Max Attunement difficult.
  • Fixed an issue where the end portal could fail to send the player back to town if you interacted with it just as the timer expired.
  • Fixed an issue where non-tribute runs had a starting timer of 100 instead of 120.

Runes

  • Fixed an issue where the effect of the Lith Rune could activate when using an ability outside of combat.

Spiritborn

  • Fixed an issue where Nesekem, the Herald was marking enemies slower than intended.

Quests and Events

  • Fixed an issue where progression could be blocked during the New Again quest if a town portal was used during the Confront Beleth objective.
  • Fixed an issue where the Coiling Fate achievement did not properly track progress after completing the Everything Old quest.
  • Fixed an issue where progression could be blocked for the Thrust Into Dark quest if required enemies were defeated before progressing to the proper step.
  • Fixed an issue where certain Vessel of Hatred Campaign quests did not grant proper rewards upon completion.
  • Fixed an issue where health bars were missing for hostages during the Hostage event.

Strongholds

  • Fixed an issue where Kirma in the Kichuk Stronghold could teleport outside of the boss arena and block progression.
  • Fixed an issue where other party members could be unable to join an in-progress boss fight in Kichuk.
  • Fixed an issue where the Healing Well in Kichuk didn't function.

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed an issue where certain Polearms were not usable by Barbarians and Druids.
  • Fixed an issue where some Tenets of Akarat could not be interacted with.
  • Various visual improvements.

Base Game

Balance Updates

General

Mythic Unique Items

Shattered Vow

  • +400% Damage to Healthy Enemies replaced with +44% damage over time duration.

Andariel's Visage

  • Damage increased from 3000% to 4000%.

Unique Items

Penitent Greaves

  • Chill per second is now 3 times higher.

Endurant Faith

  • Damage distribution time increased from 2 to 3 seconds.

Legendary Aspects

Bold Chieftain's Aspect

  • Maximum active Cooldown Reduction increased from 50% to 70%.

Aspect of Adaptability

  • Both effects now apply to Basic Skills even when they are not Cast, such as the free Storm Strike triggered from Greatstaff of the Crone.

Barbarian

Skills

Ground Stomp

  • Damage increased from 35% to 80%.

Strategic Ground Stomp

  • Ultimate Cooldown Reduction increased from 4 to 5 seconds, up to an increased max of 15 seconds from 12.

Hammer of the Ancients

  • Damage increased from 55% to 70%.

Upheaval

  • Damage increased from 100% to 120%.
  • Lucky Hit Chance increased from 25% to 30%.

Enhanced Upheaval

  • Stun chance increased from 35% to 45%.

Furious Upheaval

  • Damage bonus stacks increased from 8 to 10.
  • Damage per stack increased from 15% to 20%.

Double Swing

  • Damage increased from 50% to 60%.

Rend

  • Damage increased from 12% to 25%.
  • Bleeding damage increased from 105% to 120%.

Leap

  • Damage increased from 42% to 55%.

Kick

  • Damage increased from 18% to 60%.

Iron Skin

  • Cooldown reduced from 14 to 12 seconds.

Enhanced Iron Skin

  • Previous: Iron Skin's Barrier absorbs 25% more of your Maximum Life.
  • Now: Iron Skin grants Unhindered for 5 seconds and its Barrier absorbs 30% more of your Maximum Life.

Tactical Iron Skin

  • Healing per second based on Barrier increased from 10% to 20%.

Strategic Iron Skin

  • Fortify amount increased from 20% Maximum Life to 30%.

Death Blow

  • Damage increased from 120% to 140%.

Enhanced Death Blow

  • Death Blow Boss damage bonus increased from 150% to 200%.

Rupture

  • Damage increased from 13% to 25%.

Enhanced Rupture

  • Damage bonus per 50 Strength increased from 20% to 35%.

Steel Grasp

  • Damage increased from 23% to 35%.

Mighty Throw

  • Base damage increased from 80% to 120%.
  • Pulse damage increased from 35% to 55%.

Developer’s Note: This change is to compensate for a bug fix related to the tempering affix that gives a chance to deal double damage.

Passives

Heavy Handed

  • Critical Strike Damage increased from 5/10/15% to 6/12/18%.

Pit Fighter

  • Previous: You deal 3% increased damage and gain 2% Distant Damage Reduction.
  • Now: You deal 3% increased damage and gain 2% Damage Reduction.

No Mercy

  • Previous: You have 3/6/9% increased Critical Strike Chance against Immobilized, Stunned, or Slowed enemies.
  • Now: You gain 3/6/9% increased Critical Strike Chance.

Legendary Aspects

Battle-Mad

  • Previous: Gain Berserking for 1.5-4.0 seconds after swapping weapons 8 times.
  • Now: Gain 20-40% increased damage and Berserking for 4 seconds after swapping weapons 8 times.

Of Sundered Ground

  • Damage bonus increased from 30-50% to 50-70%.

Unique Items

Twin Strikes

  • Damage increased from 30-60% to 50-80%.

Tuskhelm of Joritz the Mighty

  • Berserking damage bonus increased from 15% to 25%.

Gohr's Devastating Grips

  • Damage increased from 40-70% to 50-80%.

Ring of Red Furor

  • Critical Strike Damage increased from 30-60% to 50-80%.

100,000 Steps

  • Effect can occur every 5 seconds instead of every 10.

Fields of Crimson

  • Blood pool damage bonus increased from 30% to 50%.

Overkill

  • Shockwave damage increased from 40-60% to 60-80%.

Paragon

Blood Rage Legendary Node

  • Maximum damage bonus increased from 30% to 45%.

Decimator Legendary Node

  • Vulnerable damage bonus increased from 10% to 20%.
  • Overpower damage bonus increased from 10% to 20%.

Druid

Skills

Tornado

  • Spirit Cost reduced from 40 to 35.

Storm Strike

  • Removed the 20% reduced damage when Storm Strike chains to surrounding enemies.

Rabies

  • Poisoning damage increased from 175% to 275%.

Grizzly Rage

  • Damage bonus increased from 30%[x] to 50%[x].

Passives

One with Nature

  • Companion bonus damage increased from 60% to 80%[x].

Ursine Strength

  • Overpower damage increased from 45% to 70%[x].

Bestial Rampage

  • Werebear damage increased from 30%[x] to 40%[x].
  • Werewolf attack speed increased from 20%[+] to 30%[+].

Lupine Ferocity

  • Critical Strike Damage increased from 70%[x] to 100%[x], and from 140%[x] to 200%[x] against Injured enemies.

Earthen Might

  • Base chance increased from 10% to 15%.
  • Bonus chance for Critical Strikes increased from 10% to 15%.
  • Bonus chance for hitting a Stunned, Immobilized, or Knocked Back enemy increased from 10% to 15%.

Nature's Fury

  • Chance increased from 35% to 40%.

Perfect Storm

  • Spirit Gain increased from 1 to 2.
  • Damage increased from 45%[x] to 60%[x].

Spirit Boons

Pack Leader

  • Chance to reset Companion Skills increased from 25% to 30%.

Calamity

  • Ultimate Skill duration increased from 25% to 35%.

Scythe Talons

  • Critical Strike Chance increased from 10%[+] to 15%[+].

Swooping Attacks

  • Attack Speed increased from 15%[+] to 20%[+].

Avian Wrath

  • Critical Strike Damage increased from 30%[x] to 40%[x].

Iron Feather

  • Maximum Life increased from 20%[x] to 30%[x].

Overload

  • Damage increased from 100% to 250%.

Masochistic

  • Healing increased from 5% to 10% of Maximum Life.

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of the Ursine Horror

  • Tectonic Spike damage increased from 120-200% to 200-300%.

Stormchaser's Aspect

  • Previous: Tornado will seek up to 1-5 targets.
  • Now: Tornado will seek up to 1-5 targets and deals 30-50%[x] increased damage.

Stormclaw's Aspect

  • Damage increased from 40-60% to 60-80%.

Aspect of Natural Balance

  • Earth Critical Strike damage increased from 30-50%[x] to 50-70%[x].
  • Storm Skill Critical Strike Chance increased from 8-13.3%[+] to 10-15%[+].

Aspect of Trampled Earth

  • Landslide damage increased from 70-110% to 100-140% of normal damage.

Aspect of the Tempest

  • Hurricane damage per second active increased from 10.5-20.5% to 15-25%.

Aspect of the Rabid Bear

  • Poison damage increased from 30-90%[x] to 60-120%[x].

Unique Items

Airidah's Inexorable Will

  • Damage scaling increased from 2.0% to 10.0% per 1 point of Willpower.

Dolmen Stone

  • Boulder damage per rotating Boulder increased from 10-30% to 20-40%.

Stone of Vehemen

  • Stone Burst final explosion damage increased from 10-15% to 15-20%.
  • Stone Burst damage per size increased from 10-15% to 15-20%.

The Basilisk

  • Damage increased from 100-600% to 300-900%.
  • Now always works against Healthy enemies instead of on the first hit. It can trigger against bosses once every 5 seconds.

Paragon

Constricting Tendrils Legendary Paragon Node

  • Lucky Hit Chance increased from 15% to 40%.
  • Damage increased from 150% to 300% of the Skill's Base damage.

Necromancer

Skills

Decompose

  • Damage increased from 33% to 60% per second.
  • Essence gain per second increased from 10 to 13 and now increases with your Attack Speed bonuses.

Hemorrhage

  • Damage increased from 27% to 40%.
  • Essence generated increased from 9 to 13.

Bone Splinters

  • Damage increased from 9% to 15%.
  • Essence generated increased from 7 to 10.

Reap

  • Damage increased from 13% to 20%.
  • Now generates 15 Essence when hitting a boss.

Bone Storm

  • Damage increased from 180% to 300%.

Passives

Evulsion

  • Previously: Your Bone Skills deal 5/10/15%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage to Vulnerable enemies.
  • Now: Your Bone Skills deal 6/12/18%[x] increased damage to Vulnerable enemies.

Compound Fracture

  • Damage increased from 5/10/15%[x] to 6/12/18%[x].

Gloom

  • The 2%[x] increased Shadow damage now stacks up to 4 times, up from 3.

Shadowblight

  • Damage increased from 44% to 60%.

Affliction

  • Damage increased from 80% to 100%.

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Empowering Reaper

  • Pool of Blight bonus damage increased from 60-140%[x] to 70-190%[x].

Reaping Lotus' Aspect

  • Sever damage increased from 110%-170% to 140-200% of normal damage.

Unique Items

Deathless Visage

  • Damage increased by 5% for every 20% of your Critical Strike Damage, down from every 30%.

The Mortacrux

  • Chance to spawn a Skeletal Simulacrum increased from 10-30% to 20-40%.

Howl from Below

  • Corpse Explosion damage increased from 30-50% to 50-90%.

Rogue

Skills

Invigorating Strike

  • Base damage increased from 35% to 45%.

Forceful Arrow

  • Base damage increased from 22% to 33%.

Twisting Blades

  • Base damage increased from 54% to 70%.

Penetrating Shot

  • Base damage increased from 70% to 95%.

Advanced Penetrating Shot

  • Previous: When cast with full Energy, Penetrating Shot will Slow all enemies it hits by 50% for 3 seconds. Elite enemies will also be Knocked Down for 1.5 seconds.
  • Now: When cast with full Energy, Penetrating Shot will Slow all enemies it hits by 50% for 3 seconds. Elite enemies will take 50%[x] increased damage and be Knocked Down for 1.5 seconds.

Developer’s Note: The Tooltip for Advanced Penetrating Shot in-game will soon be updated to show that Elite enemies take multiplicative damage.

Flurry

  • Base damage increased from 130% to 150%.

Advanced Flurry

  • Energy cost reduction increased from 10% to 15%.

Rapid Fire

  • Base damage increased from 33% to 40%.

Enhanced Rapid Fire

  • Critical Strike Chance per shot increased from 5% to 7.5%.

Dash

  • Base damage increased from 40% to 65%.

Dance of Knives

  • Added that its damage is increased by Attack Speed in the tooltip.
  • Improved the distance tracking.
  • Base damage increased from 64% to 86%. Note that these percentages relate to when a one-handed weapon is equipped.

Smoke Grenade

  • Cooldown reduced from 13 to 10 seconds.
  • Base damage increased from 45% to 90%.

Countering Concealment

  • This skill now properly maintains the buff for 5 seconds after casting, regardless of whether you leave Stealth while it is active.
  • Tooltip updated for clarity.

Shadow Imbuement

  • Damage to single enemies when the infection expires increased from 40% to 60%.

Passives

Deadly Venom

  • Damage increased from 3/6/9% to 6/12/18%.

Exploit

  • Damage increased from 6/12/18% to 8/16/24%.

Victimize

  • The explosion from Victimize can happen much more frequently than before.
  • Damage scaling increased from 120% to 150%.

Alchemical Admixture

  • Potency scaling increased from 20% to 40%.
  • Fewer non-physical damage types are required to gain this benefit, reduced from 3 to 2.

Precision

  • Damage scaling increased from 15% to 20%.

Close Quarters Combat

  • Damage scaling increased from 15% to 25%.

Momentum

  • Damage per stack increased from 5% to 6%.

Exposure

  • Lucky Hit Chance increased from 25% to 40%.
  • Stun grenade damage increased from 40% to 80%.

Paragon

Leyrana's Instinct

  • Damage cap while Inner Sight is full increased from 35% to 60%.

Legendary Aspects

Bladedancer's

  • Damage increased from 40-60% to 60-80%.

Unique Items

Windforce

  • Damage bonus when activated increased from double to triple damage.

Condemnation

  • Core damage increased from 20-40% to 50-70%.

Pitfighter's Gull

  • Critical damage increased from 33% to 45%.

Asheara's Kanjar

  • Damage cap increased from 20-40% to 30-50%.

Scoundrel's Kiss

  • Damage increased from 15-35% to 35-55%.

Sorcerer

Skills

Meteor

  • Increased damage from 96% to 120%.

Enhanced Meteor

  • Previous: If a cast of Meteor hits 3 or more enemies, there is a 30% chance an additional Meteor falls on the same location.
  • Now: If a cast of Meteor hits 3 or more enemies, an additional Meteor falls on the same location.

Enhanced Hydra

  • Previous: While Healthy, your casts of Hydra gain 1 additional head.
  • Now: While Healthy, your casts of Hydra gain 1 additional head and deal 50%[x] increased damage.

Familiar

  • Damage increased from 40% to 70%.

Incinerate

  • Damage per second increased from 101% to 120% up to 136% to 162%.

Passives

Vyr’s Mastery

  • Increased damage from 250% to 500%.

Combustion

  • Previous: Your Burning effects deal 60%[x] increased damage, and an additional 4%[x] per unique source of Burning you have applied to the enemy.
  • Now: Your Burning effects deal 60%[x] increased damage, and an additional 25%[x] of your Bonus Damage to Burning Enemies.

Avalanche

  • Increased Lucky Hit Chance from 10% to 30%.
  • Removed double chance for Avalanche to activate against Vulnerable enemies, instead damage is now increased by an additional 25%[x] against Vulnerable enemies.

Legendary Aspects and Unique Items

Aspect of Charged Flash

  • Now deals critical surge damage from Enhanced Charged Bolts instead of critical flat damage.

Aspect of Overheating

  • Previous: After channeling Incinerate for 3 seconds it deals X Critical Fire damage per second for 5 seconds. Casting Incinerate refreshes and maintains this bonus.
  • Now: After channeling Incinerate for 2 seconds it deals 75-100% increased damage for 5 seconds. Casting Incinerate refreshes and maintains this bonus.

Aspect of Piercing Cold

  • Previous: Ice Shards pierce 3-19 times, dealing 25-5% less damage per subsequent enemy hit.
  • Now: Ice Shards pierce 10 times, dealing 4-10% more damage per subsequent enemy hit.

Starfall Coronet

  • Reduced minimum cooldown from 4 seconds to 3 seconds and increased the number of charges from 2 to 3.

Paragon

Stalagmite Glyph

  • Increased Ice Spikes bonus from 16.7%[+] to 18.8%[+].

Torch Glyph

  • Increased the additional bonus cap from 12.5%[x] to 25%[x].

Pyromaniac Glyph

  • Increased the additional bonus rate from 2% to 3% and cap from 10%[x] to 18%[x].

Party Finder

  • The Echo of Hatred boss fight has been added as an activity for Party Finder.
  • Additional tooltips and icons have been added in various contexts to increase visibility of the Party Finder feature.
  • The default keyboard shortcut and emote wheel action for opening Party Finder will now open the last used tab. It will default to the Find tab the first time.

User Interface and User Experience

  • The description for changing difficulties now specifies that unlock conditions are character specific.
  • The icons for difficulties have been updated to be more visually distinctive.
  • No Change is now the default selected option when Enchanting an item.

Miscellaneous

  • Loot quality for Legion Event chests has been increased.
  • Artillery, Blast Wave, and Conduit shrines now deal increased damage, scaling with both Character level and Paragon level.
  • The Malignant Heart cost for crafting Mucus-Slicked Eggs has been decreased from 9 to 3.

Bug Fixes

Accessibility

  • Fixed an issue where the Screen Reader did not fully function in the Party Finder menu.

Party Finder

  • Fixed an issue where quick list icons did not display properly on the map for the Pit.
  • Fixed an issue where quick listing for the Pit automatically applied Dungeon and Nightmare Dungeon tags to the listing.
  • Fixed an issue where Advanced Search filters didn't reset when search presets were changed.
  • Fixed an issue where closing Party Finder did not return you to the previous window.
  • Fixed an issue where the level range for listing a party for the Pit only went up to 100.
  • Fixed an issue where Pit tier ranges in Party Finder could be set with a minimum value higher than the set maximum value.
  • Fixed an issue where the controller focus in party finder was initially set to the expansion field instead of the first activity field.

Gameplay

Barbarian

  • Fixed an issue where Chance for Mighty Throw to deal Double Damage Temper was always applying its bonus. A compensatory buff has been introduced, as can be seen above.
  • Fixed an issue where Bold Chieftain’s Aspect would occasionally stop working.

Druid

  • Fixed an issue where the Chance for Shred to Hit Twice Tempering affix was actually granting Shred a chance to Deal Double Damage. The affix has been updated to reflect this functionality, and is now listed as Chance for Shred to Deal Double Damage.
  • Fixed an issue where the 4th Shred Attack when using the Aspect of the Agile Wolf did not dash correctly.

Necromancer

  • Fixed an issue where the Blood Orbs Restore Essence affix on Blood Artisan's Cuirass did not increase when Masterworking.
  • Fixed an issue where the smaller Blight projectiles from Ebonpiercer would not benefit from the Chance for Blight Projectiles to Fire Twice affix.
  • Fixed an issue where Ring of Mendeln's attack counter would reset on all Minions when a new Minion was summoned.
  • Fixed an issue where Soulrift would sometimes fail to cast if you were targeting a location outside of your line of sight.

Rogue

  • Fixed an issue where imbuements would not update the damage type dealt with Shadowstep.
  • Fixed an issue where the bonus from Countering Concealment was immediately removed after Stealth broke.

Sorcerer

  • Fixed some issues where Familiar didn't properly interact with Enlightenment when combined with Sidhe Bindings.

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed an issue where enemies could spawn beyond the locked door inside the Fell Council chambers in Infernal Hordes.
  • Fixed an issue where swapping gems did not remove the stat granted by the removed gem.
  • Fixed an issue where Glyph Upgrade chance did not properly scale past Pit Tier 100.
  • Fixed an issue where the player could not immediately use the town portal after changing difficulty.
  • Fixed an issue where monster density in Sarkova Pass while Helltide was active was lower than intended.
  • Fixed an issue where completing pit Tier 150 in a party with someone who hadn't completed lower tiers would not unlock those lower tiers for that other player.

Quests and Events

  • Fixed an issue where the Izel of the Vizjerei quest could have progression blocked when interacting with the Discarded Vials earlier than intended.
  • Fixed an issue where enemies during the Rupture event had higher health than intended in higher difficulties, which made achieving mastery overly difficult.
  • Fixed an issue where the boss health bar could appear outside the boss room in the Pit.

User Interface and User Experience

  • Fixed an issue where the warning prompt when salvaging all sigils didn't also include information about salvaging Infernal Compasses, or Kurast Undercity Tributes.
  • Fixed an issue where the Urn of Aggression displayed incorrect bonus experience values in multiple difficulties.
  • Fixed an issue where the Transmutation tab for gems was missing at the Alchemist.
  • Fixed an issue where the tooltip for difficulties only referenced the statue in Kyovashad and not the other locations where the statues are present.
  • Fixed an issue where navigating to the Craft Sigils tab at the Occultist set the player's inventory to the Consumables tab instead of the Dungeon Keys tab.
  • Fixed multiple instances where certain Aspects didn't appear when using Keyword search in the Codex of Power.

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed an issue where Pets could fail to teleport with the player in various circumstances.
  • Fixed an issue where Torment difficulty achievements could be unlocked just by entering the required Pit Tier instead of needing to complete it.
  • Various visual, UI, stability, and performance improvements.
2.0.4e Build #59495 (PC Only)—November 11, 2024

Bug Fixes

  • Various stability improvements.
  • NVIDIA DLSS Frame Generation has been re-enabled.
2.0.4d Build #59456 (PC Only)—November 7, 2024

Bug Fixes

  • Various stability improvements.
2.0.4c Build #59390 (All Platforms)—November 5, 2024

Bug Fixes

  • Various stability improvements.
2.0.4b Build #59269 (PC Only)—November 1, 2024

Bug Fixes

  • Various stability improvements.
2.0.4a Build #59238 (All Platforms)—October 30, 2024

Bug Fixes

  • Various stability and visual improvements.
2.0.4 Build #59118 (All Platforms)—October 29, 2024

Vessel of Hatred Expansion Updates

Vessel of Hatred Expansion

  • Varyana's health during her acquisition quest has been reduced.
  • Portal Prankster chests in the Kurast Undercity are now also affected by the active Bargain.
  • Additional Nahantu-themed Loading Screens have been introduced to the rotation.
  • The descriptions for Undercity of Kurast Tributes have been improved for clarity.

Vessel of Hatred Bug Fixes

Dark Citadel

  • Fixed multiple instances of missing or incorrect tooltips and icons throughout the Dark Citadel.
  • Fixed an issue where the Gloves of the Khazra Cosmetic item could be salvaged and lost.
  • Fixed an issue where the Community Challenge pedestal could not be interacted with when playing on controller.
  • Fixed an issue where completing Enclave of Strife could fail to unlock the Labyrinth of Souls.
  • Fixed an issue where Cosmetic rewards for Dark Citadel completion were sometimes not properly granted.
  • Fixed an issue where Faeroch did not cast Maze Malaise consistently.
  • Fixed an issue where stacks from the Incense of Rushing Wind did not properly expire.
  • Fixed an issue where Resplendent Chests in the Dark Citadel did not drop Citadel Coin caches.

Kurast Undercity

  • Fixed an issue where Longtooth could become temporarily invisible when using a specific attack.
  • Fixed an issue where the Primary Resource bargain did not guarantee an item drop with the related affix.
  • Fixed an issue where players could join a party while the Party was in an active Kurast Undercity run.
  • Fixed an issue where players could join the party at the end of an Undercity run and still collect the rewards.
  • Fixed an issue where only one player in the party would get credit for the Undercity introduction quests.
  • Fixed a rare issue where Undercity runs could be started without activating the timer.
  • Fixed an issue where various Summoned companions, such as Spirit Wolves, could grant Attunement when dying or disappearing.
  • Fixed an issue where the description for the Tribute of Titans did not include other sources besides Lair Bosses.

Mercenaries

  • Fixed an issue where the same mercenary could be displayed as hired and enlisted at the same time.
  • Fixed an issue where progression could be blocked during Varyana's acquisition quest after talking to Zulmog.
  • Fixed an issue where Bonus stats gained from a Mercenary's Passive could persist after dismissing them.
  • Fixed an issue where the Bartering quest did not grant rewards.
  • Fixed an issue where how to unlock Bartering was not clearly communicated.

Helltide and Strongholds

  • Fixed an issue where defeating the Blood Maiden after a Helltide ended would not progress the associated Deeds of a Champion quest objective.
  • Fixed an issue where monsters in Chakhir granted less Experience than intended.

Dungeons

  • Fixed an issue where the visual effects for Bloodhorn's Vortex could persist when not dealing damage at the end of the Forgotten Remains.
  • Fixed an issue where the Sunbaked Overlook Cellar could not be completed.

Spiritborn

  • Fixed an issue where Spiritborn characters could not use the Hungering Necrolyte's Cache.
  • Fixed an issue where having points in Acceleration in conjunction with boots granting additional Evade charges could result in consuming Evade charges when mounting.
  • Fixed an issue where Spirit Hall modifications applied by Harmony of Ebewaka were not displayed on the appropriate Skills while mounted or in town.
  • Fixed an issue where the Aspect of Deflection did not display damage dealt.

Quests and Events

  • Fixed an issue where the player could respawn behind an impassable barricade during the Thrust into the Dark quest.
  • Fixed an issue where some Nahantu side quests did not grant renown rewards.
  • Fixed an issue where the All Good Things quest could not progress if the Collect Akarat's Power objective was skipped.
  • Fixed an issue in the Unknowing Survivors quest, where the player could respawn in an inescapable area.
  • Fixed an issue where the Scales of History quest became available at Level 20 even though it requires you to craft an Elixir with a Level 40 requirement.
  • Fixed an issue where the Harbinger of Hatred could get stuck in an unbeatable state on rare occasions.
  • Fixed an issue where all monsters could drop Urivar's Orders after leaving the Buried Chamber during the Living Memory quest.
  • Fixed a rare issue where Neyrelle could get stuck during the Burning Crusade quest, which would block progression.
  • Fixed an issue where followers during The Way Out is Through quest could not dismount if the player was using a Necromancer with summoned Skeletal Skirmishers.
  • Fixed an issue where items rewarded from quests had incorrect or missing inherent affixes.
  • Fixed an issue where the Shrine Ambush event could not be completed if it appeared in the Putrid Bodypit cellar.

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed an issue where Gems and Runes could be swapped or removed from Sockets in equipment-locked content, such as the Pit.
  • Fixed an issue where Boots acquired through Bartering were missing the inherent Evade modifier affix.
  • Fixed an issue where the Jeweler was present in the Kurast Training Grounds room.

Base Game Updates

Season of Hatred Rising

  • Radiant Chests at the end of Legion events now grant bonus loot and Zakarum Remnants reputation to players with a Seething Opal active when the chest is opened.
  • The description for Seething Opals now additionally indicates that the additional loot chance also applies to end-of-run loot, such as the Pit or Kurast Undercity.
  • An additional wave of Bloodbound Guardians can now spawn in the Realmwalker encounter.
  • The Realmwalker's health has doubled.

Miscellaneous

  • The Gem Fragment cap has been significantly increased.
  • The amount of damage required to force a dismount has been increased to make forced dismounts less common in the endgame.
  • Party Finder quick list has been added for Infernal Hordes in the Map.
  • For PlayStation™ 5 users, we've introduced VRR (variable refresh rate) support. VRR can be enabled for displays that support it by setting VRR to "automatic" in the console settings. When it is enabled, the framerate can exceed 60 if it is within the VRR range for the display when Enhanced Visuals is disabled.

Base Game Bug Fixes

Accessibility

  • Fixed an issue where Character Portraits did not apply colorblind settings.

Season of Hatred Rising

  • Fixed an issue where Bloodbound Guardians could be difficult to attack for melee characters.

Helltide and Infernal Hordes

  • Fixed an issue where the objective Defeat the Fell Council could fail to progress after defeating all bosses.

Gameplay

General

  • Fixed an issue where the following affixes could not appear as a Greater Affix.
    • Chance for Blood Lance to Deal Double Damage
    • Chance for Bone Storm to Deal Double Damage
    • Chance for Corpse Explosion to Deal Double Damage
    • Chance for Sever to Deal Double Damage
    • Chance for Incinerate to Deal Double Damage
    • Chance for Teleport to Deal Double Damage
  • Fixed an issue where Whisper Invaders, such as Grotesque Debtors, did not drop loot.
  • Fixed an issue where the Elemental Surge Tempering recipe would always roll its maximum value.
  • Fixed an issue where World Bosses only dropped one Health Potion when reaching the associated health thresholds.
  • Fixed an issue where Avarice the Gold Cursed's treasure chest would disappear on death.
  • Fixed an issue where Beast in the Ice did not spawn when resummoning at the altar in Glacial Fissure.
  • Fixed an issue where Echo of Lilith could be prevented from destroying the floor if she was Staggered at the right time.
  • Fixed an issue where leftover Ingolith and Neathiron on Eternal characters could not be transmuted into Obducite.
  • Fixed multiple instances where champion monsters and Whisper Invaders could appear in pre-Torment difficulties.
  • Fixed certain instances where more champion monsters than expected would spawn in lower Torment Difficulties.
  • Fixed an issue where Healing Wells did not fully heal the player.
  • Fixed an issue where activating a Greed Shrine while mounted prevented the Gold explosion that is supposed to occur when the effect expires.
  • Fixed an issue where Skill Cooldowns could randomly reset while mounted.
  • Fixed multiple instances where Magic and Rare items could drop when they shouldn't.
  • Fixed an issue where Lightning Enchanted Monsters could damage the player from further away than intended.

Druid

  • Fixed an issue where Shred would dash to the nearest target instead of to the aimed-at target.

Necromancer

  • Fixed an issue where the Reaping Lotus aspect did not properly benefit from the Chance for Sever to Deal Double Damage affix.

Rogue

  • Fixed an issue where moving in tight circles with Dance of Knives could result in losing charges unexpectedly.

Sorcerer

  • Fixed an issue where the Familiar Enchantment effect did not function if Familiar was on cooldown with zero charges.
  • Fixed an issue where using Deep Freeze after teleporting in the Dark Citadel could allow the player to move while Deep Freeze was active.

Quests and Events

  • Fixed an issue where the Poachers could fail to spawn as expected during the Tending Nature quest.
  • Fixed an issue in lower difficulties where not enough enemies would spawn to fulfill the mastery objective for the Jar of Souls event.
  • Fixed an issue where enemies could stop spawning during the Hold your Ground event in certain locations.
  • Fixed an issue where the pressure plates for the Ancient Obelisk event could get stuck, preventing event completion.
  • Fixed an issue where the Pit of Artificer's Obelisk and its associated portal could be difficult to click.

Dungeons and Strongholds

  • Fixed an issue where the Animus Urn in Bastion of Faith could become non-interactable if it was interacted with before having enough animus to activate it.
  • Fixed an issue where the Barracks Gate in Kor Dragan Barracks could be opened before being unlocked.
  • Fixed an issue where progression of Hope's Light could be blocked if a town portal was used after crossing the traversal created by the Survive the Drowned Assault objective.

Party Finder

  • Fixed an issue where the following were not available for Quick List:
    • Boss Ladder Lairs
    • World Bosses
    • Non-Helltide Whispers
  • Fixed an issue where the Training Grounds was an activity for Party Finder listings.
  • Fixed an issue where Pit Tier range was editable after listing a Party for the Pit.
  • Fixed an issue where the message instructing the player to de-list their party first before continuing could persist after de-listing the party in certain situations.

User Interface and User Experience

  • Fixed multiple instances where some Rune and Skill icons were incorrect.
  • Fixed an issue where some tooltips related to the Jeweler did not reference Runes.
  • Fixed an issue where the tooltips in the Occultist menu for salvaging Sigils did not also include information that this included Infernal Compasses and Undercity Tributes.
  • Fixed an issue where the tooltip for level in the Character stats window displayed Skill Points would stop being earned at level 50 instead of level 60.
  • Fixed an issue where the icon for new items in the Materials tab could persist indefinitely.
  • Fixed an issue where the Paragon Tab could become locked after previewing a Paragon Board attachment while Keyword Search was open.
  • Fixed an issue where players on controller could not pick up items dropped in the same place as Tormented Boss altars.

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed an issue where the Diadem of the Ancient cosmetic would drop as a normal item from Lord Zir.
  • Fixed an issue where walk mode would not be applied with auto-move or while mounted.
  • Fixed an issue where Collections of Rings caches from the Tree of Whispers did not grant experience.
  • Various stability, performance, visual, UI, and audio improvements.
2.0.3c Build #59036 (PC Only)—October 24, 2024

Bug Fixes

  • Various stability improvements.
2.0.3b Build #58989 (All Platforms)—October 23, 2024

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where Hydras could drop Obducite in Nightmare Dungeons.
  • Fixed an issue where players could receive Whisper rewards without consuming Grim Favors.
  • Various stability improvements.
2.0.3a Build #58904 (All Platforms)—October 21, 2024

Bug Fixes

  • Various stability improvements.
2.0.3 Build #58850 (All Platforms)—October 17, 2024

Game Updates

User Interface and User Experience

  • The crafting notification for Runes now displays what’s being crafted instead of the Runes used.
  • The recipes for crafting random Runes at the Jeweler now include what Runes are needed for each recipe.
  • The tooltip for swapping Runes and Gems in sockets now says "swap" instead of "socket" when in that context.
  • Tooltips for Runes and Runewords have been updated to better communicate their effects.
  • The tooltip for Masterworking now indicates that the item must be Tempered twice before it can be Masterworked.
  • Various tooltips and icons for crafting materials have been updated for improved readability.
  • Infernal Hordes and Kurast Undercity will now be at the top level of activities in the Party Finder menu, alongside activities such as the Pit and Dark Citadel.
  • The icon for Glyph Sockets has been adjusted to make it more visually distinct in Paragon Boards.
  • The Non-Physical damage stat has been removed from the Character Stats window.

Developer’s Note: The Non-Physical Damage stat consists of separately listed stats of all included elements, such as Fire Damage. This stat was also incorrectly listed as a standalone entry and has been removed. Its impact on the individual elements has not changed.

  • Combat text for damage numbers are now abbreviated.
    • e.g. 10000 damage now displays as 10k damage.
  • New Nahantu-themed loading screens will now appear in-game.

Kurast Undercity

Developer’s Note: These updates aim to improve the overall value of rewards in the Kurast Undercity while reducing unnecessary friction for leveling players.

  • Rewards from successful Kurast Undercity runs have been improved.
    • More random items will drop.
    • Now at least 1 Legendary Item is guaranteed to drop.
    • Gold drops have doubled.
  • Minions with the Extra Health monster Affix will no longer spawn.
  • The health pools for bosses and greater afflicted monsters have been reduced to achieve closer parity with similar dungeon content.
  • The spawn frequency between afflicted super Elites and afflicted regular Elites has been slightly adjusted.
  • The number of normal monster mobs spawned from the Spirit Beacon encounter has been slightly reduced to improve clarity for the objective.
  • Timer adjustments
    • The starting time for a base run—with no Tribute applied—has been increased from 100 seconds to 120 seconds.
    • Afflicted regular Elites now grant a 10 second time bonus, increased from 8 seconds.
    • Afflicted super Elites now grant a 15 second time bonus, increased from 14 seconds.
  • Tribute of Titans can now drop outside of defeating bosses.
  • Increased the drop rate of Rare Tributes throughout the game, other rarities are unaffected.

Season of Hatred Rising

  • The following changes have been implemented for the Realmwalker event:
    • Realmwalker no longer reduces spawns if only one person is following it.
    • Increased max spawns allowed at a time to 20, previously 15.
    • Increased the base movement speed of the Realmwalker by around 15%.
    • Every time you kill a wave of Bloodbound Guardians, the Realmwalker’s movespeed increases by 10%. For example: If you kill all 3 waves of Bloodbound Guardians, the Realmwalker will move 30% faster, in addition to the 15% base increase.
  • The Realmwalker now has a low chance to summon a Treasure Goblin.
  • Removed 1 Hatred Spire from the Ritual phase of the event in Nahantu. Three Hatred Spires will still spawn when the event occurs in Estuar, the continent home to the 5 Regions of Diablo IV’s base game.
  • Removed the Hatred Rising icon from the map. Players will now find the Realmwalker via the event icon.
  • Various miscellaneous changes to make the event progress quicker.

Balance Updates

Sorcerer

  • The Overheating Aspect now scales with Incinerate Skill Ranks.
  • The Charged Flash Aspect now scales with Charged bolts Skill Ranks.

Mythic Unique Items

Doombringer

  • All Stats increased from 114 to 160.

Shattered Vow

  • Life increased from 444 to 1,200.

The Grandfather

  • Life increased from 662 to 1800.
  • All Stats increased from 150 to 220.

Shroud of False Death

  • Life increased from 222 to 800.
  • All Stats increased from 111 to 160.

Nesekem, the Herald

  • Life increased from 464 to 1200.

Harlequin Crest

  • Life increased from 465 to 800.

Andariel's Visage

  • All Stats increased from 77 to 110.

Tempering

  • The minimum damage values on Legendary Elemental Surge Tempering Affixes have been increased from 300 to 900 damage. The maximum values remain unchanged.

Miscellaneous

  • New graphics options have been added
    • Chromatic Aberration Toggle
    • Ultra setting for Ray Tracing Reflections
  • The number of Scrolls of Restoration reward from the Dark Citadel Weekly cache has been increased. Previously, the reward was 1-2 on all Torment Difficulties.
    • Torment I: 1-2
    • Torment II: 2
    • Torment III: 2-3
    • Torment IV: 3
  • The following Items were not available during Patch 2.0.2 and have now been enabled with Patch 2.0.3
    • The Aspect of the Agile Wolf
    • Azurewrath
    • Frostburn
    • Shroud of False Death
  • A new whisper objective for completing a Dark Citadel wing has been introduced.
  • A new mount trophy has been added as a reward for reaching Paragon 300.
  • Super Elite monsters will now drop even more loot.
    • Previous: Super Elites drop 1-2 times as much as Elites.
    • Now: Super Elites drop 3 times as much as Elites.
  • Elite monsters with the Waller affix now cast less walls, and the walls now last 3 seconds, reduced from 5.
  • The amount of barrier Varshan gains when summoning additional monsters and during the cone waves attack has been reduced.

Bug Fixes

Accessibility

  • Fixed an issue where the Screen Reader on PlayStation™ 4 had a distorted voice.
  • Fixed an issue where the Screen Reader did not function within the Reinforcement tab in the Mercenaries menu.

Season of Hatred Rising

  • Fixed an issue where the Tier 3 reputation reward from the Zakarum Remnants granted the wrong item type.
  • Fixed an issue where the Tier 7 reputation reward from the Zakarum Remnants granted Sigil Powder instead of Artificer's Stones.
  • Fixed an issue where the Slight Challenge Objective could reward favor upon completion before Chapter 3 of the Season Journey was unlocked.
  • Fixed an issue where consuming a Seething Opal would always guarantee a drop from the first monster killed, instead of only guaranteeing a drop the first time a Seething Opal was consumed.
  • Fixed an issue where destroying an object right after consuming a Seething Opal would immediately remove the buff.
  • Fixed an issue where Bloodbound Guardians spawned during the Realmwalker encounter could still damage the boss after it was defeated.
  • Fixed an issue where no additional monsters would spawn if a full wave of Bloodbound Guardians were killed.

Dark Citadel

  • Fixed various issues where tooltips and map icons did not display properly in the Dark Citadel.
  • Fixed an issue where characters could become invisible if they evade while the Faeroc monsters were in the air.
  • Fixed an issue where multiple Counterspell Elites could exist at the same time.
  • Fixed an issue where missed cosmetic items dropped in the Dark Citadel would not be sent to the missed equipment tab of the Stash.
  • Fixed an issue where using the Town Portal while in the Dark Citadel took the player back to their preferred town instead of to the Ancient Nexus.
  • Fixed an issue where the player could enter the Dark Citadel without completing the Crater of Lost Souls Quest.
  • Fixed an issue where the visual effects for Soul Bombs cast by Gorshak did not follow the player after they used a movement ability such as Dash or Leap.

Developer’s Note: Soul Bombs are the explosion effects that appear as dark and red circles under the player during the encounter.

  • Fixed an issue where the objective to obtain a Ward Stone wouldn't properly update if a Soul Siphon was charged while carrying a Ward Stone.
  • Fixed an issue where players were stuck in the Citdael Wing when both Hurstt and Vorshok bosses were in the Realm of Oblivion. Now, a Teleporter Elite will spawn as intended, which can then be killed to transport you to the Realm of Oblivion.
  • Fixed an issue where the Death's Debuff Icon and Siphon Symbol Icon would overlap each other when in the Realm of Oblivion.
  • Fixed an issue where traveling into the Realm of Oblivion with a Ward Stone during the encounter with Gorshak would prevent the Realm Guardians from spawning.
  • Fixed an issue where the player would get instantly teleported out of the Seething Realm if Gorshak died while the player was in the Realm of Oblivion.
  • Fixed an issue where using an immunity effect—such as Blood Mist—when Zagraal uses the Soul Entanglement wipe could cause the player to become stuck at 1 health.
  • Fixed an issue where Kubal could be damaged from outside the Boss arena.
  • Fixed an issue where defeating Kubal too quickly could block progression.
  • Fixed multiple miscellaneous visual issues with cosmetic rewards from Dark Citadel.

Kurast Undercity

  • Fixed an issue where the time limit could be avoided by teleporting to the next floor just as the timer expired.
  • Fixed an issue where the progress bar did not display the accurate time needed to complete the channel when teleporting to a new floor.
  • Fixed an issue where moving did not cancel teleporting between floors.
  • Fixed an issue where Flesh Cultivators wouldn't pursue the player.
  • Fixed multiple instances where certain UI elements were not indicated as unusable when the player did not have enough materials.
  • Fixed an issue where players could avoid damage during the Vortex portion of the Longtooth encounter.
  • Fixed an issue where the Undercity Trailblazer achievement could not be earned as expected.
  • Fixed an issue where destroying structures could spawn lesser afflicted enemies instead of an Elite Monster.
  • Fixed an issue where monsters could enter the safe area in the Undercity Ziggurat.
  • Fixed an issue where dying while channeling the portal to the boss room could block progression.
  • Fixed an issue where Attunement chests were granting identical loot for all party members.

Developer’s Note: The intent is to reward individualized loot of the same quality, not identical loot.

  • Fixed an issue where the rewards for successful runs was of lower loot quality than intended.

Runes

  • Fixed an issue where the Overflow effect for the Que Rune did not affect the duration of Druid's Earthen Bulwark.
  • Fixed an issue where the buff from the Qax Rune could be lost unexpectedly.
  • Fixed an issue where the following skills would be Invoked by the Rune effect as the base skill without any enhancements when the skill was upgraded.
    • Rogue - Ner Rune Invoking Concealment
    • Druid - Que Rune Invoking Earthen Bulwark
    • Barbarian - Ohm Rune Invoking Warcry

Developer’s Note: Effects from Runes will count as if they were Invoked by the player. For classes that the skill is not native to, this Invokes as the base version of the skill. For classes that can learn the skill, apply skills ranks, and upgrades to it, the skill that’s Invoked with a Rune's effect will Invoke the upgraded version of the skill.

  • Fixed an issue where the Yom Rune tooltip was inaccurate.
  • Fixed an issue where tooltips did not properly communicate the functionality of Overflow effects.

Mercenaries

  • Fixed an issue where the Bastion ability had a longer duration than what was displayed in the tooltip.
  • Fixed an issue where Mercenaries could attack Bloodmarked players in town.
  • Fixed an issue where the Wire Trap ability did not contribute to stagger on bosses.
  • Fixed an issue where Raheir Rapport Caches did not always drop a legendary item.
  • Fixed an issue where Mercenaries could be unable to ride a mount if the player died while mounted.
  • Fixed an issue where buff icons would appear over Mercenaries' heads.
  • Fixed an issue where the Mercenary Skill tree would display improperly when viewed in 16:10 aspect ratio.
  • Fixed an issue where Raheir's Passive Armor and Resistance Bonuses would be removed upon mounting but would not be properly reapplied when dismounting as intended.

Infernal Hordes and Strongholds

  • Fixed an issue where Infernal Horde waves spawned in Torment I and II at a slower pace than Torment III and IV.
  • Fixed an issue where certain items that should drop more commonly from Infernal Hordes were not doing so.
  • Fixed an issue where enemies in the Chakhir Stronghold were stronger than intended.
  • Fixed an issue where first-time rewards for completing Nahantu based Strongholds could be acquired multiple times if the Malnok Stronghold had not been completed.
  • Fixed an issue where the boss could disappear in the Kichuk Stronghold.

Dungeons and The Pit

  • Fixed an issue where progression in the Seaside Descent Dungeon could be blocked if more monsters were slain before activating the gate release.
  • Fixed an issue where the Vesicator enemies were unable to be targeted in the Hallowed Stones in certain circumstances.
  • Fixed an issue where the boss fight in the Betrayed Tomb Dungeon could become reset if the player moves around the arena entrance.
  • Fixed an issue where players could become stuck if removed from a party while in the loading screen for transitioning in and out of Dungeons.
  • Fixed an issue where the Shoreside Shack Dungeon could be completed without killing all enemies inside.
  • Fixed an issue where enemies could keep spawning even after clearing a Cellar.
  • Fixed an issue where the Drifting Shade affix would not apply daze while in the boss encounter in the Ruined Wild and Iron Cenotaph Dungeons.
  • Fixed an issue where the Blood Boiling affix often did not function properly.
  • Fixed an issue where Pit Bosses in Tiers 137 and above had less health than intended.
  • Fixed an issue where placeholder names displayed for certain monsters.

Quests

  • Fixed various issues where quest pins and quest objectives did not display properly.
  • Fixed an issue where quest progression could be blocked for The Blind Eye if the cutscene was skipped.
  • Fixed an issue where the "Claim a reward from the Tree of Whispers," objective could be immediately completed upon starting the Deeds of The Champion quest.
  • Fixed an issue where only one player in a party would get credit for objective completion for multiple quests in the Kurast Undercity.
  • Fixed an issue where Zarshala could be invisible during the Butchers of the North Quest.
  • Fixed an issue where some enemies would not attack the player during the Pursuit of Justice quest.
  • Fixed an issue where the Wayward Friendship quest could have progression blocked by not being able to taunt villagers.
  • Fixed an issue where the Banshee spirit didn't appear during The Keening Spirit quest.
  • Fixed an issue where the player could get stuck in the Corrupted Cavity cellar if they waited too long inside during the A Flickering Light quest.
  • Fixed an issue where the debuff applied during the A Flickering Light quest could persist after the quest was complete.
  • Fixed an issue where the poison cauldrons during A Flickering Light quest were difficult to hit, especially as melee characters.
  • Fixed an issue where The Beast could fail to respawn if the player died during the boss' second phase during The Sacred Hunt Spiritborn Class quest.
  • Fixed an issue where The Pit of the Artificer quest did not grant any rewards upon completion.
  • Fixed an issue where the Deeds of a Champion quest had a duplicated quest objective for completing Tenets of Depravity and Slaying the Terror of Five Hills.
  • Fixed an issue where party members could be unable to join the encounter in the Cellar during the Living Memory quest.
  • Fixed an issue where lighting in Gea Kul would abruptly change during the Enmity Rising quest.
  • Fixed an issue where the introduction quest for the Dark Citadel could be given to the player before entering a Torment Difficulty tier.
  • Fixed an issue where the clones spawned during the Ah Bulan encounter could freeze and prevent progression if staggered at low health.
  • Fixed an issue where Ah Bulan could fail to navigate to the player.
  • Fixed a rare issue where the Harbinger of Hatred could get stuck and block progression of the encounter.
  • Fixed an issue in party play where only the player who initiated the conversation with Ormus would activate the Fundament of Faith quest.
  • Fixed an issue where quest progression could be blocked during the Forgotten Gods Quest if another player in the party remained inside Hesa Si while the quest continued.
  • Fixed an issue where the Nangari Deathworker during the Thrust into the Dark Quest could get stuck in the fog wall.
  • Fixed an issue where the player could respawn in a blocked area during the Way Out is Through Quest.
  • Fixed an issue where the Fog Wall could malfunction for other players in a party during the All Good Things Quest.
  • Fixed an issue where the cutscene could fail to trigger for all players in the party when talking to Neyrelle during the Perspective Quest.
  • Fixed an issue where the party could have quest progression blocked during the Perspective Quest if interacting with multiple statues at the same time.
  • Fixed an issue where several challenges associated with the Vessel of Hatred campaign could not be unlocked as expected.
  • Fixed an issue where the Sacred Hunt Spiritborn class Quest could have progression blocked.

Events

  • Fixed an issue where the event where a Stalker spawns when trying to save someone from a bear trap wouldn’t spawn the Stalker, which could prevent future instances of this event.
  • Fixed an issue where the Legion event Of Souls and Spirits would end if the Basins were destroyed while collecting the souls.
  • Fixed an issue where certain companion skills such as The Devourer or Shadow Clone did not function properly during the Of Souls and Spirits Legion event.
  • Fixed an issue where Mastery could not be completed for the Impromptu Investigation event because Subo wouldn't call out killers if enemies were slain too quickly.
  • Fixed an issue where certain events—such as Blood Siphon—spawned more Super Elites than intended.
  • Fixed an issue where Flayer ambush events occurred less frequently than intended.

Gameplay

General

  • Fixed an issue where fewer automatically granted crafting materials were received in higher difficulty tiers than intended.
  • Fixed an issue where Angelbreath was not dropping as often as intended.
  • Fixed an issue where some items could only drop in higher world tiers than intended.
  • Fixed an issue where the Blacksmith cache contained lower quality gear than intended for lower-level characters.
  • Fixed an issue where Treasure Goblins and The Butcher did not guarantee a Legendary item drop at level 1.
  • Fixed an issue where the Revenge Paragon Glyph didn't work in certain contexts of Thorns damage being applied.
  • Fixed an issue where Cat mounts could move and behave erratically in certain conditions.
  • Fixed an issue with The Shroud of False Death in which some passives required to be learned before they granted their benefit.
  • Fixed an issue where Grindebor the Harvester dealt far more damage than intended.
  • Fixed an issue where some items could not be equipped after seasonal migration.
  • Fixed an issue where defeating the Echo of Lilith did not reward a Resplendent Spark.

Developer’s Note: Players that have already defeated Echo of Lilith this season will be rewarded with a Resplendent Spark soon after logging in once this patch is live.

  • Fixed an issue where Varshan could gain Barrier from attacking Mercenaries.

Barbarian

  • Fixed an issue where Mighty Throw Pulse size tempered affixes did not display in the character stats panel.

Druid

  • Fixed an issue where active Ravens would persist indefinitely after unequipping Stormcrow's Aspect.
  • Fixed an issue where Stormcrow's Aspect did not mark Ravens as a nature skill.
  • Fixed an issue where automatic casts from Nature's Fury would count as a Rune Offering.
  • Fixed an issue where bonus casts from Nature's Fury did not get properly marked as Werewolf or Werebear skills when using Tempest Roar or Vasily's Prayer Unique items.
  • Fixed an issue where the 4th Shred attack from the Aspect of the Agile wolf did not dash into enemies as intended.
  • Fixed an issue where Chance for Storm Strike to Hit Twice affix on the Greatstaff of the Crone could not be a Greater Affix.
  • Fixed an issue where Fierce Maul did not stack with Maul Size affixes.
  • Fixed an issue where Perfect Storm Key Passive was not working.
  • Fixed an issue where only the first instance of Druids Raven active attack was doing Lightning Damage while the Stormcrow's affix is equipped.

Necromancer

  • Fixed an issue where the Shademist Aspect would occasionally not deal damage from a Minion if it was equipped after that Minion was summoned.
  • Fixed an issue where changing an upgrade for the Golem before entering a new area could prevent future Golems from spawning.
  • Fixed an issue where Black River's Corpse Skill Ranks affix did not increase as a Greater Affix or through Masterworking.
  • Fixed an issue where additional Bone Storms spawned by Lidless Wall would cause an active Bone Storm with increased duration from the Aspect of Osseous gale to not do damage.

Rogue

  • Fixed an issue where Preparation didn't reset Dance of Knives charges.

Sorcerer

  • Fixed an issue where casting Familiar while using both the Elemental Constellation Aspect and Sidhe's Bindings would always cast a Fire Dagger, regardless of the expected element of Familiar.
  • Fixed an issue where the tempering affix for increasing Familiar duration did not function properly.
  • Fixed an issue where casting Familiar while Unstable Currents was active couldn't trigger any additional spell casts.
  • Fixed an issue where stacks of Enlightenment weren't consistently being granted.
  • Fixed an issue where Free Duration effects—such as from tempering—did not function correctly.
  • Fixed an issue where the Tempering affix for Chance for Lightning Spear to deal double damage wouldn’t function.
  • Fixed an issue where Chance for Teleport to Deal Double Damage affix was not working.
  • Fixed an issue where the Aspect of Tenuous agility effect didn't function while in town.
  • Fixed an issue where the Aspect of Exhilaration could allow the player to evade without a cooldown.
  • Fixed an issue where the Charged Flash aspect did not apply the full benefits of the Enhanced Charged Bolts upgrade.
  • Fixed an issue where the Energy Focus passive would not generate barrier up to the maximum cap.
  • Fixed an issue where companions—such as quest followers or Mercenaries—could trigger Enchantment effects.
  • Fixed a bug where a line would appear while in certain content when using Ball Lightning.
  • Fixed an issue where Deep Freeze would cause much of the screen to turn white when cast in the Field of Giants area.

Spiritborn

  • Fixed an issue where the unique power of Jacinth Shell did not interact properly with skills that use charges.
  • Fixed an issue where the Acceleration passive would cause the Attacks Reduce Evade's Cooldown affix to not function.
  • Fixed an issue where Acceleration could be consumed by non-damaging abilities.
  • Fixed an issue where the affix for Soar granting Barrier did not increase as a Greater Affix or through Masterworking.
  • Fixed an issue where the Scorn of the Earth Unique boots did not grant the correct amount of bonus damage to Soar.
  • Fixed an issue where stacks of Supremacy could be granted from automatic casts of Ultimate abilities, such as from the Yom Rune.
  • Fixed an issue where Shard of Verathiel could drop for Spiritborn characters.
  • Fixed an issue where Rod of Kepeleke would make Payback have no cooldown when the Poised Upgrade was not selected.
  • Fixed an issue where Spiritborn Unique Items could not drop from Flayer Ambushes.
  • Fixed an issue where Spiritborn could cancel the Evade animation mid-evade.

Developer’s Note: Spiritborn's Evade could be cast more rapidly than normal depending on the input method and speed. It is now normalized to the standard Evade cast rate in all scenarios.

Party Finder

  • Fixed an issue where Kurast Undercity did not require Level 15 to be selected.
  • Fixed an issue where the highlight on controller could disappear when scrolling to the bottom of a drop-down menu in the Party Finder window.
  • Fixed an issue where Quick List was not an option for the following activities
    • Legion Events
    • Realmwaker
    • Helltide Activities
  • Fixed an issue where controller navigation could malfunction after attempting to join a full party.
  • Fixed an issue where selecting Kurast Undercity and Infernal Hordes always required completion of the introduction quest to the activity.
  • Fixed an issue where description labels didn't properly function when first opening the Party Finder menu.
  • Fixed an issue where a label for Vessel of Hatred was present in the Party Finder menu.
  • Fixed an issue where Controller focus could be lost after joining a party through Party Finder, impacting cursor navigation.
  • Fixed an issue where the search would be reset to Any after using the Expansion dropdown.

User Interface and User Experience

  • Fixed an issue where the Pit Tier selection tooltip displayed outdated information.
  • Fixed an issue where the tooltip did not convey that Torment difficulties unlocked Pit Mastery.
  • Fixed an issue where Campaign Progress didn't display correctly in the Hall of Fallen Heroes.
  • Fixed an issue where the visual effect for several incenses would persist after the incense wore off.
  • Fixed an issue where the tooltips on possible affixes when enchanting an item displayed inaccurate information.
  • Fixed an issue where the Spree Killer's set items did not display properly for Spiritborn characters.
  • Fixed an issue where items with all Greater Affixes, maximum tempering affixes, and items that have been socketed would have non-functional item links in chat.
  • Fixed an issue where the Journal could not be re-opened with the appropriate keybind after being closed.
  • Fixed an issue where bonuses from several Glyphs did not display in character stats when in town.
  • Fixed an issue where the appearances for Flameweaver and Midwinter Dirk did not appear in the Wardrobe.
  • Fixed an issue where city names in the map could appear in offset locations when viewing the map while inside a dungeon.
  • Fixed an issue where the Lock Cursor option did not function.
  • Fixed an issue where the Exceptionally Attuned Challenge did not properly display a progress bar.
  • Fixed an issue where interacting with the Purveyor of Curiosities or the Dark Citadel Vendor when playing on controller would default your cursor to the inventory instead of the Vendor window.
  • Fixed an issue where the controller highlight would be missing when navigating through tiers in the Pit Menu.
  • Fixed an issue where the initial cinematics upon starting the Vessel of Hatred campaign did not display a Skip prompt.
  • Fixed an issue where the warning about missed glyph experience would display when failing mastery in a Pit run.
  • Fixed an issue where Controller triggers did not switch tabs in the Stable Master Menu.
  • Fixed an issue where the Exceptionally Attuned achievement did not display a progress bar.

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed an issue where buying a Mace from the Purveyor of Curiosities could result in acquiring an Axe.
  • Fixed an issue where Pets could be attacked by enemies. No power in the deepest of Hells’ depths would save you from that swift and brutal retribution.
  • Fixed an issue where the player could get stuck if trying to leave the game while changing difficulty.
  • Fixed an issue where equipping the Urivar's Shattered Face appearance could remove a character's hairstyle.
  • Fixed an issue where various 2-handed weapon appearances for Necromancers would clip through the player's body.
  • Fixed an issue where all Spur charges could be consumed at once when using the Ash Knight's Destrier Mount Armor.
  • Fixed an issue where Emotes did not play when previewed in the Battle Pass.
  • Fixed an issue where Material caches would drop the materials in small amounts over a long period of time. They now drop more quickly in a large pile.
  • Fixed an issue where some users couldn't toggle certain advanced graphics options.
  • Fixed an issue where the model for the Spiritborn class could be missing on the main menu when first logging in.
  • Fixed an issue where the Urivar's Charred Sword cosmetic could not be unlocked as an appearance by a Spiritborn character.
  • Various performance, stability, UI, audio, and visual improvements.
2.0.2f Build #58822 (PC Only)—October 15, 2024

Bug Fixes

  • Various stability improvements.
2.0.2e Build #58783 (PC)—October 14, and (Xbox and PlayStation™)-October 15, 2024

Bug Fixes

  • Various stability improvements.
2.0.2d Build #58723 (PC Only)—October 14, 2024
  • This update includes additional backend logging to troubleshoot various stability issues.
2.0.2c Build #58657 (All Platforms)—October 11, 2024

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where some players could not log in to the game.
  • Fixed an issue where Aldkin could fail to change form in certain scenarios when playing Necromancer.
  • Fixed an issue where Varshan's barrier could have significantly larger values than intended, making him unkillable.
  • Fixed an issue where staggering the Realmwalker at a low health could lead to the boss becoming unkillable.
  • Fixed an issue where experience wouldn't be granted after completing Deeds of a Champion objectives in certain scenarios.
  • Various stability improvements.
2.0.2b Build #58651 (PC Only)—October 9, 2024

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the Mercenary tutorial would not display for players that selected the less guidance gameplay option.
  • Various stability improvements.
2.0.2a Build #58622 (PC Only)—October 8, 2024

Bug Fixes

  • Various stability improvements.
2.0.2 Build #58474 (All Platforms)—October 7, 2024

Note: Nvidia DLSS Frame Generation and Ray Traced Foliage will be disabled while the team works on addressing an issue in an upcoming patch.

Game Updates

Balance Updates

All Classes

Legendary aspect affix values now have a separate cap between Ancestral and Non-Ancestral items. Now, the maximum values for aspects can only be found on Ancestral items.

Developer’s Note: Previously, max rolls of aspects could be found much earlier on. This made the transition into Ancestral items less exciting, as your aspects could already be maxed out before you entered Torment Difficulty. Now there is more noticeable item progression as you move through Torment Difficulties.

Runewords

Magic Runes of Ritual

  • Cir: (Cast same non-channeled skill 3 times)
    • Offering gained increased from 25 to 50.
  • Cem: (Evade)
    • Offering gained increased from 50 to 75.
  • Moni:(Cast after moving)
    • Offering gained increased from 10 to 25.
    • Interval increased from 0.2s to 0.25s.
  • Yax: (Use healing potion)
    • From 100 to 200.

Rare Runes of Ritual

  • Noc:(Hard CC enemy)
    • Offering gained increased from 5 to 10.
  • Neo:(Deal damage and take none for 5 secs)
    • Time needed to not get hit reduced from 5 seconds to 2 seconds.
    • Offering gained reduced from 300 to 200.
  • Poc:(Every 5% resource spent)
    • Offering gained increased from 2 to 5.

Runes of Invocation

  • Vex: (+3 to all skills)
    • Duration increased from 5 to 7s.
  • Xan: (Critical overpower)
    • Offering requirement reduced from 900 to 800.
  • Gar: (Gain Critical Strike chance up to 10 stacks)
  • Xal: (Max HP)
    • Duration increased from 4s to 6s.
  • Qua: (Movement speed, up to 5 stacks)
    • Movement speed increased from 6% to 7% per stack.
  • Tec: (Earthquake)
    • Rune version damage increased from 82% to 280%.
  • Tun: (Stun Grenades)
    • Rune version damage increased from 20% to 325%.
  • Ton: (Meteorites)
    • Offering requirement reduced from 25 to 20.
    • Rune version damage increased from 50% to 216%.
  • Tal: (Pestilent Swarm)
    • Rune version damage increased from 100% to 300%.

Sorcerer

Unstable Currents

  • The tooltip for Unstable Currents has been updated to state "unleashed" instead of "is also cast."

Developer’s Note: The effects of Unstable Currents are not treated as casts, which only occurs once when you press the Skill button.

Lightning Spear

  • Only 12 Lightning Spears can exist at one time. Any new ones created will destroy the oldest one.

Passives

Enlightenment

  • No longer gains stacks from automatic casts, and can only occur every 0.2 seconds.

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Splintering Energy

  • Tooltip now properly conveys critical damage scaling.
  • The effect can now only happen every 0.2 seconds but will deal extra damage for each trigger missed while on cooldown.

Aspect of Elemental Constellation

  • Damage increased to 50-1050% Weapon Damage from 50-70%.

Unique Items

The Oculus

  • Teleport Size affix replaced by Chance for Teleport to Deal Double Damage.

Flamescar

  • Incinerate Size affix replaced with Chance for Incinerate to Deal Double Damage.

Fracture Winterglass

  • Cooldown Reduction for Conjuration skills affix has been swapped with the inherent All Resistances affix.

Tempering

  • A new utility recipe for Incinerate Size, Meteor Size, and Firewall Size has been added.
  • A chance for Inferno to Deal Double Damage tempering affix has been added to Pyromancy Augments: Fiery.
  • Lightning Spear double cast tempering affix changed to Chance for Lightning Spear to Deal Double Damage.

Paragon

Burning Instinct Legendary Node

  • Cap increased from 80% to 90%.
  • Now requires 30 Intelligence for every 2% instead of 20.

Infernal Hordes

Developer’s Note: We made several changes to ensure Infernal Hordes remains a fun and rewarding activity. Our changes address not being able to target farm specific Unique items on a consistent basis, loot rewards feeling lackluster, and the process of opening chests feeling tedious.

  • Greater Chest of Equipment cost increased from 60 to 200.
  • Scrolls of Restoration have been added to the loot table.
  • Chest of Materials have been reworked to consume all remaining Aether.
  • Chest of Equipment has been removed.
  • The Council Boss now drops guaranteed Legendary items with Infernal Hordes Affixes.
  • The Greater Chest now contains a guaranteed Ancestral Legendary.
  • Both the Chest of Materials and Chest of Gold now consume all remaining Aether rewarding Gold or crafting materials (including Masterworking Materials) the more Aether is spent on the chest.
  • The Item Chest has been removed.
  • Infernal Compasses can no longer be crafted.
  • Infernal Compasses are now rare drops found in Torment Difficulties only.
  • The number of waves will be randomly rolled on Infernal Compasses, and all runs of Infernal Hordes will have a maximum revive count of 4.
  • The difficulty of the Infernal Horde will be determined by the Difficulty Level (Torment I, II, III, or IV).
  • The number of revives is now limited to 4 across all Torment Difficulties.

User Interface and User Experience

  • A new key-binding has been added to change from run to walk.
  • Paragon Level now displays properly on character nameplates, such as in the menu or friends list.

Miscellaneous

  • Paragon Level now displays properly on character nameplates, such as in the menu or friends list.
  • Gems and Runes can be freely swapped without needing to visit the Jeweler.

Developer’s Note: When trying to Socket a gem into a two-Socket item that is already full, the bottom Gem will be removed, and the new Gem will become the top Gem—think first in, first out. If you try to Socket a Gem into an item that has 1 or more Runes in it, all Runes are automatically removed. The opposite is also true when Socketing Runes into an item that contains Gems. Additionally, Unsocketing no longer costs Gold to perform.

  • The Blacksmith Cache now requires 5 Forgotten Souls to craft.
  • Mythic Unique Item crafting has been adjusted. How to Craft:
    • Previous: Crafting a specific Mythic Unique costs 4 Resplendent Sparks
    • Now: A random Mythic Unique can be crafted with 2 Resplendent Sparks
      • A specific Mythic Unique can be crafted with Resplendent Sparks plus a set of Runes unique to each item.
    • Where to Craft
      • Previous: The Alchemist
      • Now: The Blacksmith

Developer’s Note: We've received requests for a reliable way to obtain a Mythic Unique during a season. This change fills that need. We've also created an avenue that allows you to target a specific Mythic Unique using Runes, giving more flexibility and progressive chase in your pursuit of Mythic Unique items.

  • Runes are now guaranteed to be dropped from the following sources
    • Boss encounters throughout the Vessel of Hatred campaign.
    • Whisper Caches
    • World Bosses
    • First time reward for clearing a Stronghold (magic runes only)
  • Impairment Reduction will no longer appear on items.

Developer’s Note: With the substantial increase to Impairment Reduction sources through Paragon, we found this was a good opportunity to improve the overall pool of Affixes on gear by removing Impairment Reduction as a gear Affix.

Bug Fixes

Barbarian

  • Fixed an issue where the Rumble legendary paragon node had an inaccurate tooltip.
  • Fixed an issue where the Brawl glyph didn't properly grant its legendary bonus.
  • Fixed an issue where Barbed Carapace and Tough As Nails could double dip, which resulted in extreme amounts of Thorns being granted.

Druid

  • Fixed an issue where the Druid Legendary Nodes Devastation and Thunderstruck did not function.
  • Fixed an issue where the Lightning Storm Double damage tempering affix did not trigger off Nature's Fury.
  • Fixed an issue where the fourth Shred Strike from Aspect of the Agile would always critically strike.
  • Fixed an issue where Poison Creeper could be re-cast via One with Nature each time the player adjusted Paragon Points, Skill Points, or changed equipment.
  • Fixed an issue where the Stormcrow aspect could make Ravens invisible.
  • Fixed an issue where the first attack of Shred didn't hit the targeted enemy after dashing.

Necromancer

  • Fixed an issue where the Abyssal Glyph did not grant its bonus damage to non-physical attacks.

Rogue

  • Fixed an issue where stacks of Advanced Flurry could be lost after healing, evading, or another Skill was automatically cast from an Aspect or Unique item.
  • Fixed an issue where the poison cloud from the Aspect of Poisonous Clouds could trigger Lucky Hits.
  • Fixed an issue where the visual effect and the actual area of effect did not match for Scoundrel's Kiss Rapid Fire casts.
  • Fixed an issue where the duration of Dance of Knives was shorter than intended.
  • Fixed an issue where Dance of Knives could become unable to be cast if the Skill was used repeatedly while no charges were available.

Sorcerer

  • Fixed an issue where certain Fire and Cold damage effects didn't work properly with Enlightenment.
  • Fixed an issue where automatic Frozen Orb casts from Fractured Winterglass granted Enlightenment stacks.
  • Fixed an issue where the increased chance to spawn a familiar was not displayed in the Familiar description after acquiring the Enchantment Master legendary paragon node.
  • Fixed an issue where free Frozen Orb casts from the Enchantment effect could be triggered when casting Skills on cooldown while Channeling Incinerate.

User Interface and User Experience

  • Fixed an issue where larger numbers could become illegible in vendor and crafter menus.
  • Fixed an issue where the description for Exquisite Blood did not properly display how many would be used to summon Lord Zir.

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed an issue where the stealth effect for The Shroud of False Death wouldn't be broken by Mercenaries or Minions dealing damage.
  • Fixed an issue where the Stealth effect for The Shroud of False Death could prevent a summoned boss from spawning.
  • Fixed an issue where summoning monsters at the beginning of a Legion event could be displaced when running into them with your Mount and using Spur.
  • Fixed an issue where progression could become blocked for The Eyes of the Enemy quest when trying to place Locran's talisman.
  • Fixed an issue where the Guaranteed Critical Strike andOverpower from the Qax and Xan runes could be consumed by non-damaging abilities.
  • Fixed an issue where Legendary Aspects and Tempering Affixes that are not usable by your Class would occasionally function when using a Skill of another Class via Runewords. As part of this fix, Classes will no longer be able to equip items with Tempering or Legendary affixes that are Class-specific for another Class.

Developer’s Note: We found an issue where Classes could sometimes unintentionally benefit from Affixes and Legendary Powers that are Class-specific for other Classes. An example of this would be a Sorcerer benefitting from War Cry legendary items that belong to Barbarians. We find the design space interesting, particularly with Runewords being added to the game, and may explore these kinds of synergies in the future. Currently, we do not believe it is healthy for players to farm items and Affixes on one Class to benefit a different one.

  • Various performance, UI, visual, and stability improvements.
2.0.1 Build #58145 (All Platforms)—October 7, 2024

Note: Additional changes made since the PTR’s conclusion are highlighted in red.

Key Updates From PTR

Game Updates

Masterworking

  • The Gold cost for Masterworking Ranks 5-12 has been reduced by approximately one third.
  • Masterworking materials now drop from more sources inside Nightmare Dungeons, including:
    • Resplendent chests
    • Normal chests
    • Miscellaneous Interactive Objects, such as ambient corpses
    • Breakable Objects
    • The Butcher
    • Treasure Goblins
    • Local events
  • Non-Ancestral Legendary items can now be Masterworked up to 8 times and have two Tempering Affixes.
  • Material costs for Masterworking at lower Ranks have been adjusted.

The Pit

  • 50 additional Pit Tiers have been introduced, totaling 150.
  • Bonus tier unlocks for fast clears have increased from 3 to 5 tiers.

Loot Updates

  • Lower-level monsters will now drop more items, and less crafting materials.
  • Overall loot quality dropped by Hellborne has been increased.
    • There is now a higher chance to receive at least One Legendary item, with an additional chance to receive 1-2 more.
  • Overall loot quality dropped by Treasure Goblins and The Butcher has been improved.
    • The Butcher will always drop at least 1 legendary item.
    • The Butcher will always drop the Butcher's Cleaver Unique weapon.
    • Treasure Goblins will always drop at least 1 Legendary item.
  • World Boss loot now scales with higher torment tiers.
  • Adjusted the drop rates of Mythic Unique items from Ladder Bosses to compensate for being guaranteed Ancestral quality.
  • Duriel and Andariel do not guarantee a Mythic item drop but their chance to drop a Mythic item is twice as high as other Tormented bosses.
  • The chance for Uniques to roll as Ancestral has been significantly increased.
  • Starting in Torment Difficulty I, only Legendary and Unique items can drop. Any Normal, Magic, or Rare items that would have randomly dropped will instead be automatically converted into corresponding crafting materials.

Runewords and Sockets

Developer’s Note: We love the enthusiasm around combining Runes, but we understand many would prefer the optimal combinations of Runewords to have bonuses other than scaling damage stats.
Our original approach was to create a journey where both the Runes of Ritual and Runes of Invocation would eventually lead to Legendary Runes becoming the most potent, but in practice, this led to a handful of combinations being favored. Now, the gap in power between rarity tiers for Runes of Invocation and Runes of Ritual will be much smaller, and Runes that provide utility will be more potent than Runes that only provide damage across all rarity tiers.
Additionally, to make sub power Runes competitive, the Rune type will deal more than other types found in Diablo IV depending on the amount of utility they provide.

Lith (Don't walk or evade)

  • Previous: Stand still for 0.3 seconds.
  • Now: Stand still while fighting for 0.3 seconds.

Feo (Become Crowd Controlled or Injured)

  • Reduce cooldown to 10 seconds.

Vex (+3 to all Skills)

  • Offering increased from 400 to 1000.

Kry (Spiritborn Vortex)

  • Reduced from 500 to 300 Offering.

Ner (Rogue Concealment)

  • Reduced from 700 to 600 Offering.

Jah (Sorcerer Teleport)

  • Offering reduced from 500 to 400.

Qua (Movement Speed and Evade refresh)

  • Evade refresh removed.
  • Offering reduced from 400 to 50.

Que (Enhanced Earthen Bulwark)

  • Changed to Base Earthen Bulwark.
  • Offering reduced from 800 to 300.

Yom (Petrify)

  • Note: Petrify no longer gives Critical Strike Damage and instead grants 100 Resource.

Ohm (Warcry)

  • Offering increased from 500 to 600.
  • Now uses base Warcry instead of Enhanced Warcry.

Teb (Abhorrent Iron Maiden)

  • Rune version now deals 300% of base damage.

Tun (Stun Grenades)

  • Rune version damage increased from 20% to 260%.

Tal (Spiritborn Pestilent Swarm)

  • Rune version damage increased from 100% to 150%.

Xan (Critical Overpower)

  • Offering increased from 700 to 900.

Eom (Generic Cooldown Reduction)

  • Cooldown Reduction reduced from 0.25 to 0.1.

Cah (Spiritwolves)

  • Enhanced the Spiritwolf AI allowing it to engage in combat faster.
  • Increased the Attack damage from 14% to 30%.
  • Increased the Leap damage from 14% to 50%.

Zec (Ultimate Cooldown Reduction)

  • Cooldown Reduction reduced from 4 to 2 seconds.

Lac (Barbarian Challenging Shout)

  • Reduce rune version duration from 6 to 3 seconds.
  • Reduce offering from 800 to 400.

Runes removed:

  • Ur
  • Ono
  • Met
  • Kaa

The following runes have had their icons updated to match their Diablo II predecessors.

  • Ohm
  • Thul
  • Vex
  • Lum
  • Jah
  • Tal

Updates for adding sockets to items:

  • The Jeweler is now accessible at Level 1 instead of at Level 15.
  • Chipped Gems can now be crafted at Level 1 instead of Level 15.
  • Gem Fragments now start dropping at Level 5.
  • Socketing costs only require Scattered Prisms for Ancestral items. Additionally, Scattered Prisms will no longer drop prior to playing Torment Difficulties.

Experience Rewards

  • The Experience reward from Whisper Caches and Helltide chests now give more experience, scaling with difficulty.
  • Experience rewards received for completing Strongholds have been adjusted. Players will now earn a one-time experience reward when killing a Stronghold Boss, preventing players from infinitely earning large amounts of experience from the same Stronghold through partying.

Developer’s Note: We’re glad the return of quest experience rewards, like Strongholds, in Patch 2.0 is being enjoyed. We've adjusted the experience reward so that Strongholds remain a strong early to midgame levelling activity, but not strong enough that it's mandatory to hold them from completion until later character levels.

  • Experience rewards for Renown Tiers I and II have been changed to flat values so players don't feel like they need to wait until higher Difficulties to cash them in.

Paragon Updates

General

  • Glyph Scaling values have been reduced by 50%.
  • Rare and Magic Nodes that provide additive damage have been increased by 100%.
  • Single Resist Nodes have all been converted to bonuses to Maximum Resistance for a single element:
    • Single Resist 10%.
    • Max Single Resist 3%.
  • Recuperate Rare node:
    • Potion Healing has been changed to +Max Life.
    • Life Per Second increased by 2x.
  • Armor nodes Increased by 50%.
  • Slayer: Potion Healing changed to Max Life.
  • Spearhead: Armor changed to Max life.
  • Fleeting:
    • Impairment Resistance increased by 50%.
    • Damage Over Time Reduction changed to Dodge Chance.
  • Suffused Resistance: Damage Over Time Reduction changed to Damage Reduction.
  • All sources of Damage While Fortified increased by [x]2.25x.
  • Healing Received increased by 1.5x.

Barbarian

Hemorrhage

  • Lacerator
    • Physical Damage changed to Vulnerable Damage.

Blood Rage

  • Craving
    • Damage to Elites changed to Damage while Berserking.

Carnage

  • Berserker
    • Damage to Elites changed to Critical Strike Damage.
  • Enraged
    • Berserking Duration changed to Critical Strike Chance.

Decimator

  • Destroyer
    • Physical Damage changed to Overpower Damage.
  • Pillage
    • Bonus now applies to Armor instead of Vulnerable damage.

Flawless Technique

  • Havoc changed to Nimble.

Weapon Master

  • Nimble
    • Bonus now applies to Attack Speed instead of Physical damage.
    • Strength requirement changed to Dexterity.
  • Iron Strength
    • Elite damage changed to Max fury.
  • Hunter Killer
    • Damage to Elites changed to Fury on Kill.
    • Movement Speed after Killing Elites increased from 14% to 20%.

Force of Nature

  • Raw Might
    • Physical Damage changed to Damage to Close Enemies.
    • Stat threashold required to unlock bonus changed from Dexterity to Willpower.
  • Alloyed
    • Earthquake duration reduced from 45% to 10%.
    • Armor changed to 10% Dust Devil Size.

Druid

Thunderstruck

  • Concentrated
    • Elite Damage changed to Damage to Close Enemies.
  • Deluge
    • Critical Strike Damage changed to Damage to Distant Enemies.
  • Tempest
    • Critical Strike Damage changed to Critical Strike Chance.

Earthen Devastation

  • Earthen Power
    • Earth Critical Strike Damage changed to Earth Damage.
  • Oppress
    • Critical Strike Damage to Crowd Controlled changed to Critical Strike Damage.

Survival Instincts

  • Ursine
    • % Armor while in Werebear Form changed to % Armor.
  • Battleworn Hide
    • Damage to Elites changed to +Life.

Heightened Malice

  • Poison Conditioned changed to Denial.
  • Toxic Bane changed to All Damage.
  • Overturn changed to Recuperate.

Inner Beast

  • Determination
    • Critical Strike Damage changed to All Damage.

Constricting Tendrils

  • Devastation
    • Nature Damage changed to increased Damage Over Time.
  • Superiority
    • Bonus now applies to Max Life instead of Damage to Crowd Controlled enemies.
    • Damage to Crowd Control changed to Lucky Hit.

Ancestral guidance

  • Spiritual Power
    • Basic Attack Damage changed to Basic Attack Speed.
  • Natural attunement
    • Max spirit changed to Bonus Resource Generation.

Untamed

  • Ferocity
    • Companion Cooldown Reduction increased from 2.5 to 3.

Necromancer

Hulking Monstrosity

  • Flesh Horror
    • Minion Resistance to all elements changed to all resistances.
    • Golems Armor changed to Armor.
  • Miscreation
    • Summon Damage changed to Golem Life %.

Flesh Easter

  • Critical Strike Damage changed to Corpse Attack Speed.

Scent of Death

  • Ruin changed to Suffused Resistance.
  • Corrective changed to Restorative.
  • Seethe
    • Damage replaced with Damage to Healthy.

Bone Graft

  • Splinter
    • Bone Critical Strike Damage changed to Critical Strike Damage.
  • Calcified changed to Suffused Resistance.

Blood Begets Blood

  • Blood Empowered
    • Blood Orb damage changed to Blood damage.
  • Vampiric Blood
    • Orb Healing has been Doubled.
  • Blooddrinker
    • Orb Healing has been Doubled.
  • Invigorated
    • Blood Orb Damage changed to Blood Damage.

Bloodbath

  • Thick Hide
    • Bonus now applies to Maximum Life instead of Damage While Fortified.
  • Powerhouse
    • Damage while Healthy changed to Healing Received.

Wither

  • Lingering Shadows
    • Shadow Damage changed to Resource Cost Reduction.

Rogue

Eldritch Bounty

  • Imbue damage has been increased across the board by 2.5 times.

Tricks of the Trade

  • Surgical
    • Damage changed to Cutthroat Damage.
  • Focused
    • Damage to Elites changed to Marksman Damage.
  • Ranger
    • Bonus now applies to Damage Reduction from Distant Enemies instead of bonus damage to Distant Enemies.
  • Brawler
    • Bonus now applies to Damage Reduction from Close Enemies instead of bonus damage to Close Enemies.
  • Haven
    • Bonus now applies to maximum life instead of Armor.

Cheapshot

  • Artifice
    • Vulnerable Damage changed to Damage.
  • Calculated
    • Bonus now applies to armor instead of bonus to Crowd Controlled Enemies.

Deadly Ambush

  • Trapper
    • Trap Damage changed to Trap Size.
    • Damage to Trapped changed to Critical Chance.

Leyrana's Instinct

  • Punishment
    • Physical Damage changed to Damage.
  • Veiled changed to Restorative.

No Witnesses

  • Knowledge
    • Intelligence changed to Dexterity.
  • Training
    • Poison Resistance changed to All Resistances.

Exploit Weakness

  • Exploit
    • Damage to Injured changed to Lucky Hit Chance.
  • Revitalize
    • Healing Received changed to Max Life.

Sorcerer

Burning Instinct

  • Kindling
    • Damage to Elites changed to Critical Strike Damage.

Icefall

  • Polar Rime
    • Damage to Chilled changed to Lucky Hit (as secondary).
  • Frosts
    • Damage to Chilled changed to Vulnerable Damage.

Static Surge

  • Overwhelming changed to Blessing.
  • Incapacitate
    • Damage to Stunned changed to Lightning Damage.
  • Electro
    • Vulnerable Damage changed to Critical Strike Damage.
  • Paralyzing
    • Max Mana changed to Cost Reduction.

Ceaseless Conduit

  • Devastate
    • Critical Strike Damage changed to Crackling Energy Damage.
  • Conduit
    • Crackling Energy Damage changed to Critical Strike Chance.

Elemental Summoner

  • Reservoir
    • Max Mana changed to Conjuration Cooldown Reduction.

Enchantment Master

  • Blessing
    • Healing Received changed to Max Life.
  • Ruinous
    • Damage to Elites changed to Attack Speed.

Miscellaneous

  • The audio for a Mythic Unique dropping now takes priority over other sounds.
  • Health values for monsters in Dungeons have been increased to have less of a jump between them and the boss to smoothen the transition between encounters.
    • Super Elite Life increased by +50%
    • Elite Life increased by +25%
    • Standard Monster increased by +11%
  • Scrolls of Restoration will be acquirable through the Season Journey.
  • Penitent Difficulty is now unlocked upon completing Diablo IV’s base campaign. This includes using the skip campaign feature.
  • The formula for calculating Damage Reduction from Armor has been adjusted to grant higher amounts of Damage Reduction at lower armor amounts than before.
    • Additionally, lower-level items will have higher amounts of Armor than before.
  • Intensity scaling has been moved into Torment Difficulties I-IV. Scaling has been adjusted to be more noticeable.

Developer’s Note: Intensity causes monsters to move faster, their cooldowns to recharge faster, and they're better at aiming projectile attacks.

  • The 2x increase applied to Main Stat contribution to Skill damage has been reverted to pre-patch 2.0 values.

Bug Fixes

Class Specific

  • Fixed an issue where Pets could despawn when going between zones with the One With Nature Key Passive learned.
  • Fixed an issue where Prime Grizzly Rage did not grant Unstoppable.
  • Fixed an issue where the Tempering Recipe for Ravens Attack Speed did not function.
  • Fixed an issue where The Unmaker could allow Necromancers to equip 2 Ultimate Skills.
  • Fixed an issue where the following Necromancer skills had incorrect values.
    • Reap
    • Hemorrhage
    • Bone Splinters
    • Blight Corpse Tendrils
    • Rathma's Vigor
  • Fixed an issue where the additional Severs from Reaping Lotus Aspect were not leaving Desecrated Ground when using Greaves of the Empty Tomb.
  • Fixed an issue where the Druid Aspect of the Mighty Storm could drop for Necromancers.
  • Fixed an issue where Titan's Fall passive was granting its bonus while you had any Fortified health rather than while Fortified.
  • Fixed an issue where Familiar always counted as a Fire Skill for granting stacks of Enlightenment.
  • Fixed an issue where Fireball didn't deal damage when Gloves of the Illuminator were equipped.

Items and Tempering

  • Fixed an issue where several Legendary aspect values were lower than intended.
  • Fixed an issue where Heir of Perdition's damage bonus against Angels and Demons was multiplicative instead of additive.
  • Fixed an issue where Ancestral Legendary Items weren't dropping in Torment Difficulty IV Nightmare Dungeons.
  • Fixed an issue where Whisper Caches dropped items of lower item power than expected at higher levels.
  • Fixed an issue where the Elemental Surge tempering recipe was restricted to Expert Difficulty, instead of just restricted by level.
  • Fixed an issue where Tempering was immediately accessible at Level 1 on new accounts, instead of unlocking at Level 15.
  • Fixed an issue where legacy items migrated from characters created before Season of Hatred were capped at Item Power 520 instead of 540.
  • Fixed several instances where Fists of Fate was not properly adjusting damage with its power.

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed an issue where the tooltip for Armor was not green when the Armor cap was met.
  • Fixed an issue where the Seaside Descent dungeon could not be completed when interacting with the Gate Release before defeating the 2 Avaricious Captains.
  • Fixed an issue where certain Nightmare Dungeon sigil affixes were missing descriptions.
  • Fixed an issue where the required amounts for Boss Summoning items were inaccurately displayed in tooltips.
  • Fixed an issue where the Eliminator glyph was missing its additional threshold bonus.
  • Fixed multiple instances where Glyph descriptions were inaccurate.
  • Fixed an issue where the tutorial quest for Torment Difficulties could keep appearing each time a Pit Tier was completed.
  • Fixed an issue where other pieces of equipment could appear on the character in unexpected ways, such as pants floating in front of the character. (Side Quests—Act I: The Trousers From Hell, completed!)

Game Updates

Accessibility

  • Players may now enable Hybrid Targeting, a new feature that allows for proximity selection of interactables to be used when mouse movement is disabled. This is meant to assist with item selection in instances where cursor targeting could prove challenging.

Gem Changes

  • The drop quantity of Gem Fragments now increases as you ascend Difficulties.
  • New Gem Tier: Grand
    • Requires 100,000 gem fragments, 30 Forgotten Souls, and 10,000,000 Gold to craft.
    • Grand provides a 50% increase in power from the previous tier, Royal.
  • Some Gem effects have been reworked
    • Ruby armor effect changed from % Max Life to + Strength.
    • Amethyst armor effect changed from +Strength to +% Barrier Generation.
    • Diamond armor effect changed from +% Barrier Generation to + All Stats.
  • Many Gem stat bonuses have been adjusted to better reflect Patch 2.0 numbers.
  • Gem stat updates, starting with Chipped, ending with Grand:
    • Ruby (+ Strength), Emerald (+ Dexterity), Topaz (+ Intelligence), Sapphire (+ Willpower): +25/50/75/100/150.
    • Amethyst (+% Barrier Generation): +2/4/6/8/12.
    • Diamond (+ All Stats): +8/16/24/32/50.
    • Skull (+% Healing Received): +4/6/8/10/15.

Additions

All Classes

Mythic Unique Items

Heir of Perdition - Mythic Unique Helm

  • Affixes
    • Inherent: +200% Damage to Angels and Demons
    • +20% Critical Strike Chance
    • +20% Lucky Hit Chance
    • +20% Movement Speed
    • +2 to Core Skills
  • Power
    • Succumb to hatred and earn Mother’s Favor, increasing your damage dealt by 60%[x]. Briefly steal Mother’s Favor from Nearby allies by slaughtering enemies.

Shroud of False Death - Mythic Unique Chest Armor

  • Affixes
    • Inherent: +1 to All Passives
    • +111 All Stats
    • +222 Maximum Life
    • +333% Damage on Next Attack After Entering Stealth
    • 11.1% Resource Generation
  • Power
    • If you haven't dealt damage in the last 2 seconds, gain Stealth and 40%[+] Movement Speed.

Shattered Vow - Mythic Unique Polearm

  • Affixes
    • Inherent: +400% Damage to Healthy Enemies
    • +444 Maximum Life
    • +29.6% Attack Speed while Berserking
    • +444.4% Damage Over Time
    • Lucky Hit: Up to a +44.4% Chance to Become Berserking
  • Power
    • Enemies afflicted by more Damage over Time than remaining Life are Executed.

Aspect of Assistance - Generic Utility Aspect

  • Your Reinforcement Cooldown is reduced by 23-33%[x]. After casting your Ultimate Skill, call your Mercenary for Reinforcement.

Developer’s Note: Because this Aspect is related to Mercenaries, it is exclusive to Vessel of Hatred.

Tempering

New Recipe Sharpened Finesse

  • +X% Basic Skill Damage
  • +X% Core Skill Damage
  • +X% Ultimate Skill Damage (Moved from Worldly Finesse)

Elemental Surge Tempering Recipe has been split into two recipes

  • Elemental Surge - Night
    • Lucky Hit: Chance to Deal Cold Damage
    • Lucky Hit: Chance to Deal Poison Damage
    • Lucky Hit: Chance to Deal Shadow Damage
  • Elemental Surge - Day
    • Lucky Hit: Chance to Deal Physical Damage
    • Lucky Hit: Chance to Deal Fire Damage
    • Lucky Hit: Chance to Deal Lightning Damage

Skill Tree

All class's Skill Trees have been updated to create new connections between nodes.

Barbarian

Active Skill

Mighty Throw - Weapon Mastery Skill - 12 second Cooldown

  • Base Skill: Hurl your weapon, dealing 60 80% Weapon damage upon impact and sticking in the ground. While in the ground, your weapon pulses and deals 153% Weapon damage every second for 4 seconds.
    • Impact Lucky Hit Chance: 15%.
  • Enhanced Mighty Throw: While a thrown weapon is out, gain 25% [+] increased Attack Speed.
  • Fighter's Mighty Throw: Swapping weapons near any of your thrown weapons creates an additional pulse. Each extra pulse generates 5 3% of your Maximum Life as a Barrier for 5 6 seconds.
  • Warrior's Mighty Throw: Mighty Throw's impact deals 200%[x] increased damage and Stuns enemies for 2 seconds.

Passive Skills

Barbed Carapace

  • Key Passive: For every 25 Fury you spend, you gain 10%[+] Thorns for 8 seconds, up to 120%. Casting a Skill with a Cooldown grants you Unhindered for 5 seconds. During this time, you deal 100% of your Thorns as physical damage to Close enemies every second.

Belligerence

  • Damaging an enemy with a Basic Skill increases your damage by 3/6/9%[x] for 4 seconds.

Heavy Hitter

  • Your Ultimate Skills deal 15/30/45%[x] more damage.

Warpath

  • After Overpowering, you deal 4/8/12%[x] increased damage for 4 seconds.

Irrepressible

  • Casting a Weapon Mastery Skill Fortifies you for 10/20/30% of your Maximum Life.

Unique Item

Ugly Bastard Helm - Unique Helm

  • Affixes
    • +X% Resistance to All Elements
    • Inherent: +X% Fire Resistance
    • X% Wrath of the Berserker Cooldown Reduction
    • Lucky Hit: Up to a 40% Chance to deal +X Fire Damage
    • +X to Prolific Fury
    • +X to Aggressive Resistance
  • Power
    • Explode when activating Wrath of the Berserker, dealing [100-300% Weapon Damage] Fire damage to enemies. While Berserking, damage you would deal is converted to Fire damage. You deal 60-80%[x] increased Fire damage.

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Shattering Steel - Offensive Aspect

  • Steel Grasp and Iron Maelstrom launch up to 10 metal shards that deal (120-420% 80-280% of Weapon Damage) Physical damage.

Aspect of the Flaming Rampage - Offensive Aspect

  • Charge gains an additional Charge. Each target hit by it explodes for [69-129% of Weapon Damage] Fire damage to surrounding enemies.

Aspect of Herculean Spectacle - Offensive Aspect

  • Mighty Throw deals 15-35%[x] increased damage and hurls another 2 weapons.

Tempering Recipes

Bleed Innovation – New Utility Recipe

  • +X% Rend Effect Size (Moved from Bleed Augments)
  • +X% Rupture Size (Moved from Bleed Augments)
  • +X Skill Ranks to Hamstring Passive

Barbarian Breach – New Utility Recipe

  • +X Skill Ranks to Expose Vulnerability Passive (Moved from Bleed Augments)
  • +X Skill Ranks to Pressure Point Passive (Moved from Bleed Augments)
  • +X% Kick Vulnerable Duration (Moved from Barbarian Innovation)

Brute Innovation – New Utility Recipe

  • +X% Hammer of the Ancients Effect Size (Moved from Furious Augments)
  • +X% Upheaval Size (Moved from Furious Augments)
  • +X% Mighty Throw Size

Core Augments – Barbarian New Weapon Recipe

  • +X% Chance for Hammer of the Ancients to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Whirlwind to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Upheaval to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Double Swing to Hit Twice

Brawling Augments – New Weapon Recipe

  • +X% Chance for Charge to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Kick to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Leap to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Ground Stomp to Hit Twice

Weapon Augments – New Weapon Recipe

  • +X% Chance for Mighty Throw to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Steel Grasp to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Death Blow to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Iron Maelstrom to Hit Twice

Paragon Board

Legendary Node

  • Force of Nature: Your Earthquakes have a 75% chance to spawn a Dust Devil every second that deals 180% Weapon damage. Earthquake damage is increased by 30% of your Damage vs Close bonus, up to a maximum of 150%.

Rare Nodes:

  • Squall: +10.0% Dust Devil Damage, +10 Strength
  • Catalyst: +45.0% Earthquake Damage, +10.0% Physical Damage
  • Alloyed: +45.0% Earthquake Duration, + 20 Armor
  • Raw Power Might: +10.0% Physical Damage, +10 Strength
  • Denial: +3.0% Resistance to All Elements, +20 Armor
  • Tenacity: 4.0% Maximum Life, +20 Armor

Druid

Active Skill

Stone Burst - Earth Core Skill - 30 Spirit Cost

  • Base Skill: Gather stones beneath your enemies then detonate them dealing 120 80% Weapon damage. Channeling deals 20% Weapon damage and increases the size of the affected area, up to a 400% increase after 1.0 seconds.
  • Enhanced Stone Burst: Stone Burst's final explosion damage is increased by 25%[x] within the initial radius.
  • Primal Stone Burst: While Channeling Stone Burst and for 2 seconds afterwards, you gain 30%[+] Attack Speed.
  • Raging Stone Burst: Stone Burst costs 66%[x] more Spirit, and its final explosion deals 50%[x] more damage.

Passive Skills

One With Nature

  • Key Passive: Your Companion Skills each gain 1 additional companion and deal 60 50%[x] increased damage. Gain the Passive Effect of Ravens, Wolves and Poison Creeper.

Humanity

  • You deal 5/10/15%[x] more damage while in Human form.

Calamity

  • You deal 5/10/15%[x] more damage for 8 seconds after casting an Ultimate skill.

Feral Aptitude

  • You deal 3%[x] increased damage while Healthy and 3%[x] increased damage while above 100% Movement Speed. These bonuses can stack.

Backlash

  • You deal 4%[x] increased damage for 5 seconds after casting a Defensive Skill.

Unique Item

Stone of Vehemen - Unique Totem

  • Affixes
    • Inherent: +X% Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies
    • +X Willpower
    • +X% Critical Strike Damage
    • +X% Chance for Stone Burst Projectiles to Cast Twice
    • +X to Stone Burst
  • Power
    • While Channeling Stone Burst, and for 2 seconds afterwards, gain 15% Damage Reduction.
    • Stone Burst's final explosion deals 10-15%[x] increased damage, further increased by 10-15%[x] for each size increase.

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of the Agile Wolf - Utility Aspect

  • Shred gains a 4th dash attack that hits all surrounding enemies, deals 20-60%[x] increased damage and Knocks Down enemies for 2 seconds.

Aspect of the Rabid Bear - Offensive Aspect

  • While Grizzly Rage is active, Skills that Critically Strike apply Rabies and your Poison damage is increased by 30-90%[x].

Stormcrow's Aspect - Offensive Aspect

  • Ravens now deal Lightning damage which is increased by 60-100%[x]. Ravens Active deals its full damage in half the time, and enemies inside it are Stunned.

Aspect of Shattered Defenses - Offensive Aspect

  • Stone Burst causes enemies to take 30-50%[x] increased damage from your other Skills for 5 seconds. Stone Burst's Spirit cost is reduced by 10.

Aspect of Anticline Burst - Offensive Aspect

  • Stone Burst deals 15-35%[x] increased damage and when Cast at or above 75 Spirit, it is immediately at its maximum size.

Tempering Recipes

Lightning Augments

  • +X% Chance for Stormstrike to Hit Twice
  • +X% Chance for Lightning Storm to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Cataclysm to Deal Double Damage

Paragon Board

Legendary Node

  • Untamed: Casting a Companion Skill grants 20%[x] increased Companion damage for 5 seconds, stacking up to 80%[x].

Rare Nodes

  • Apex: +25% Companion Damage, +10 Willpower 6.5% Damage Reduction from Elites
  • Ferocity: +2.5% Companion Cooldown Reduction, +20 Armor
  • Fortune: +25% Companion Damage +5.0% Lucky Hit Chance, +10 Willpower
  • Resolve: +3% Resistance to All Elements, +10 Willpower
  • Tempest: +10.0% Vulnerable Damage, +15.0% Critical Strike Damage
  • Superiority: +15.0% Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies, +4.0% Maximum Life
  • Lucky Winds: +5% Lucky Hit Chance, +10% Vulnerable Damage
  • Eminence: +6.5% Damage Reduction from Elites, 4% Maximum Life

Necromancer

Active Skill

Soulrift - Darkness Ultimate Skill - 50 second Cooldown

  • Base Skill: For 8 seconds, you corrupt surrounding enemies, dealing 65% Weapon damage per second.
  • Supreme Soulrift: Every soul absorbed increases your damage by 1%, up to 30%. This bonus persists for 5 seconds after Soulrift ends.
  • Prime Soulrift: Enemies with their souls absorbed become Vulnerable for 2 seconds. When damaging enemies affected by Soulrift, you have a 5% chance to absorb their soul.

Passive Skills

Affliction

  • Key Passive: Enemies affected by Vulnerable, Crowd Control, or Shadow Damage over Time are infected with Affliction and take 15%[x] increased damage from you and your Minions. Your Curse Skills deal 30% (Weapon Damage) Shadow damage to enemies that have Affliction. This amount increases by 30%[x] of your damage to Crowd Control, Vulnerable, and Shadow Damage over Time combined.

Titan's Fall

  • While Fortified you deal 6/12/18% increased damage to Elites.

Precision Decay

  • Your Lucky Hit chance is increased by 5/10/15%.

Finality

  • You deal 5/10/15%[x] increased damage for 8 seconds after casting an Ultimate Skill.

Necrotic Fortitude

  • Lucky Hit: Lucky Hit: Up to a 5/10/15% chance to grant yourself a Barrier for 7 5% of your Maximum Life for 6 seconds.

Unique Item

The Unmaker - Unique Helm

  • Affixes
    • X% Damage Reduction while you Have a Barrier
    • X% Resource Generation
    • X% Chance for Soulrift to Deal Double Damage
    • +X to Imperfectly Balanced
  • Power
    • Soulrift's duration is increased by 0.5 seconds for every 30 Essence you spend while it is active, up to 8 seconds. Soulrift deals 100-200% of its Shadow damage per second to surrounding enemies for every 30 Essence you gain while it is active.

Legendary Aspects

Reaping Lotus' Aspect - Offensive Aspect

  • Sever no longer returns and instead splits into 3 specters that expand out and back from its apex. Sever deals 80-120% of normal damage.

Phasing Poltergeist's Aspect - Offensive Aspect

  • When Bone Spirit explodes, it spawns 3 spirits that seek nearby enemies and deal 20-40% of its damage. This effect can only occur once per cast.

Aspect of Fel Gluttony - Offensive Aspect

  • Your Golem Active also causes your Golem to erupt, dealing (200-400% of Weapon Damage) Physical damage to surrounding enemies. Your Golem consumes Corpses to reduce its remaining Cooldown by 1 second.

Tempering Recipes

Bone Innovation - New Utility Recipe

  • +X% Bone Storm Duration
  • +X% Bone Spirit Explosion Size
  • +X% Bone Prison Duration

Blood Innovation - New Utility Recipe

  • +X% Blood Surge Nova Size
  • +X% Hemorrhage explosion size
  • +X% Blood Lance Duration

Decay Innovation - New Utility Recipe

  • +X% Blight Size
  • +X% Decompose Explosion Size
  • +X% Soulrift Duration

Execution Innovation - New Utility Recipe

  • +X% Sever Effect Size
  • +X% Reap Effect Duration
  • +X% Skeleton Priest Effect Duration

Paragon Board

Legendary Node

  • Frailty: Cursed enemies take 10%[x] increased damage from you and your Minions, increased by 10%[x] each second they are Cursed, up to 40%[x].

Rare Nodes

  • Lingering Shadow: +10% Shadow Damage Over Time, +10% Shadow Damage
  • Shadow Resilience: +10% Shadow Resistance, 4% Maximum Life
  • Calculated: +15% Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies, +20 Armor Meticulous: 3% Resistance to All Elements, +30 Armor
  • Preservation: +10 Intelligence, +20 Armor +15% Damage to Crowd Controlled enemies, +10 Intelligence
  • Eradicate: +10% Vulnerable Damage, +10 Intelligence
  • Relentless: +2.5% Attack Speed, +4% Maximum Life

Rogue

Active Skill

Dance of Knives - Cutthroat Agility Skill - 6 Charges, 1 second Charge Cooldown

  • Base Skill: Channel to launch knives at surrounding enemies, consuming one Charge per second and each knife dealing 42 58% damage. You gain 20%[+] Movement Speed and 10% Dodge Chance while Channeling Dance of Knives.
  • Enhanced Dance: Moving 30 meters while Channeling Dance of Knives grants 4 Charges.
  • Methodical Dance: When you stop Channeling Dance of Knives, drop up to 12 Stun Grenades, each dealing 20% Weapon damage. The Channeled duration determines how many are dropped.
  • Disciplined Dance: Each Dance of Knives knife Slows enemies by 25% for 3 seconds and has a 20% chance to pierce.

Passive Skills

Alchemical Admixture

  • Key Passive: Dealing 3 different types of Non-Physical damage increases the Potency of your Imbuement skills by 40% for 5 seconds. This Potency is further increased by 20% of the total amount of your Bonus Damage to Poison, Shadow, and Cold.

Target Practice

  • 3/6/9% [+] Critical Strike Chance with Marksman and Cutthroat Skills.

Balestra

  • 4/8/12%[x] Damage for 4 seconds after using Evade.

Evasive

  • After Dodging an attack, gain 2/4/6% Damage Reduction for 4 seconds.

Unto Dawn

  • Your Ultimate skills deal 15/30/45%[x] increased damage.

Unique Item

Pitfighter’s Gull - Unique Ring

  • Affixes
    • Inherent: +X% Shadow Resistance
    • Inherent: +X% Resistance to All Elements
    • +X% Critical Strike Chance
    • +X% Damage on Next Attack After Entering Stealth
    • X% Smoke Grenade Cooldown Reduction
    • +X to Mending Obscurity
  • Power
    • Casting Smoke Grenade increases your Critical Strike Damage by 33[x] for 3-6 seconds and leaves behind a cloud of shadows. While within the cloud, you gain Stealth once per second.

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Poisonous Clouds: Offensive Aspect

  • When entering Stealth, create a cloud that deals (600-780% of Weapon Damage) Poison damage over 6 seconds.

Aspect of Splintering Shards: Offensive Aspect

  • Lucky Hit: Up to a 100% chance when hitting or killing a Frozen enemy to create an ice splinter that fires away from them dealing (25%-50% of Weapon Damage) Cold damage and Chilling for 20-30%.

Aspect of Star Shards: Offensive Aspect

  • Knives from Dance of Knives have a 50% chance to shatter into 6 shards of metal on hit, dealing 100-120% Physical damage. Dance of Knives now spends Combo Points, granting up to 3 additional Charges that can exceed the Maximum.

Tempering Recipes

Agile Augments - New Weapon Recipe

  • +X% Chance for Flurry to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Dance of Knives to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Dash to Deal Double Damage

Assassin Augments - New Weapon Recipe

  • Shadow Step Cleaves for +X% Damage
  • +X% Chance for Rain of Arrows to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Smoke Grenade to Deal Double Damage

Cutthroat Augments - New Weapon Recipe

  • +X% Chance for Twisting Blades to Hit Twice
  • +X% Chance for Blade Shift to Deal Double Damage
  • Invigorating Strike Cleaves for +X% Damage

Basic Augments — Rogue

  • Renamed to Marksman Augments — Basic to better reflect its existing contents

Core Augments — Rogue

  • Renamed to Marksman Augments — Core to better reflect its existing contents

Paragon Board

Legendary Node

  • Danse Macabre: Casting a Mobility or Subterfuge Skill increases the damage of your next Skill by 50%[x].

Rare Nodes

  • Assassin: 2.5% Mobility Cooldown Reduction +25% Damage to Healthy Enemies, +4% Maximum Life
  • Acrobat: +16% Damage to Elites, +10 Dexterity +2.5% Mobility Cooldown Reduction, +10 Dexterity
  • Skulker: +25% Damage to Healthy Enemies, +4% Maximum Life +2.5% Subterfuge Cooldown Reduction, +10 Dexterity
  • Giant Killer: 2.5% Subterfuge Cooldown Reduction +16% Damage to Elites, +3% Resistance to All Elements
  • Brawler: 4.5% Damage reduction from Close Enemies, +12% Damage to Close Enemies
  • Ranger: 6% Damage Reduction from Distant Enemies, +15% Damage to Distant Enemies

Sorcerer

Active Skill

Familiar - Conjuration Skill - 3 Charges, 12 second Charge Cooldown

  • Base Skill:
    • Summon a familiar matching the element of your last cast Skill for 8 seconds. It seeks enemies and periodically explodes, dealing 40% of its element's damage.
  • You may have up to 6 Familiars active at a time.
  • Enhancement: Familiars apply effects around them every 0.5 seconds according to their element.
    • Fire: Applies 94% Burning damage over 4 seconds to enemies.
    • Cold: Applies 15% Chill to enemies.
    • Lightning: Stuns enemies for 1 second.
  • Summoned Familiar:
    • Your Familiars' elements no longer depends on your previous cast Skill, and instead follows a set sequence of Fire to Cold, Cold to Lightning, and Lightning to Fire.
    • While you have at least two different element Familiars active, you gain 3% Damage Reduction.
  • Invoked Familiar: While you have an active Familiar, you deal 10% increased damage of its type.

Passive Skills

Enlightenment

  • Key Passive: Casting any Skill grants 1 stack of Enlightenment, or grants 15 if your previous cast Skill was a different Element. After gaining 100 stacks you become Enlightened, can no longer gain stacks, and lose 10 stacks per second. While Enlightened your Bonus Damage with Fire, Lightning, and Cold are equal to them combined and you gain:
    • 25% increased damage
    • 45% Mana Regeneration
    • 20% Attack Speed

Evocation

  • Reduce all cooldowns by 4/8/12%.

Energy Focus

  • You generate a 6 second Barrier for 0.5/1.0/1.5% of your Maximum Life every second up to 30%. This effect is lost for 5 seconds after losing health.

Dampen Layer

  • You gain 2/4/6% Damage Reduction while you have an active Barrier.

Elemental Synergies

  • Your Frost, Shock, and Pyromancy Skills deal 1/2/3% increased damage for each Skill you have equipped of their type.

Unique Item

Sidhe's Bindings - Unique Gloves

  • Affixes:
    • +X% Non-Physical Damage
    • +X% Familiar Explosion Size
    • +X% Chance for Familiar to Hit Twice
    • +X to Familiar
  • Casting Familiar now summons all three elemental variants at once. Familiar's duration is increased by 25-50%[x] and its Cooldown is reduced by 2 seconds, but its maximum Charges are reduced by 1.

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Charged Flash - Offensive Aspect

  • After Charged Bolts hits enemies 50 times, your next 3 casts of Charged Bolts become waves that pierce and deal (200-240% Weapon Damage) Critical Shock Damage.

Aspect of Elemental Constellation - Offensive Aspect

  • Casting Pyromancy, Shock, and Frost Skills conjures a matching Elemental Dagger around you that pierces through enemies dealing (50-70% Weapon Damage) damage after 3 seconds. The damage increases by 100% per matching elemental skill you cast.

Aspect of Overheating - Offensive Aspect

  • After channeling Incinerate for 2 seconds it deals (30-70% Weapon Damage) Critical Fire damage per second for 5 seconds. Casting Incinerate refreshes and maintains this bonus.

Tempering Recipes

Pyromancy Augments - Fiery - Weapon Recipe

  • +% Chance for Incinerate to do Double Damage.
  • +% Chance for Firewall to do Double Damage.
  • +% Chance for Meteorites to do Double Damage.
  • +%Chance for Inferno to Deal Double Damage

Frozen Augments - Frozen - Weapon Recipe

  • +% Chance for Blizzard to do Double Damage.
  • +% Chance for Ice Spike to do Double Damage.
  • +% Chance for Deep Freeze to do Double Damage.

Sorcerer Innovation - Utility Recipe

  • +% Frost Nova Size
  • +% Blizzard Size
  • +% Teleport Nova Size

Paragon Board

Legendary Node

  • Fundamental Release: Each Fire, Lightning, and Cold attack you make against an enemy increases the damage it takes from your attacks by 10%[x] per element, up to 30%[x].

Rare Nodes

  • Lightning Cutter: +10% Vulnerable Damage / +10 Intelligence
  • Elemental Balance: +10% Non-Physical Damage / +10 Intelligence
  • Overdrive: 5% Damage Reduction from Burning Enemies / +20 Armor
  • Electromagnetism: 5% Damage Reduction from Vulnerable Enemies / +4% Maximum Life
  • Kindling: +10% Damage to Burning Enemies / 16% Damage to Eiltes
  • Suffused Resilience: 6.5% Damage Taken Over Time Reduction / 3% Resistance to All Elements

Balance Updates

Game Difficulties

  • Monster HP was increased by 25%.
  • Low level Elite, Unique Elite, Super Elite, Minion and Boss enemies have had their Health and Damage reduced.
  • Max level Super Elite Health was increased by 50%.
  • Max level Elite Health was increased by 20%.
  • Elite, Unique Elite and Super Elite damage has been equalized. Unique Elite and Super Elite damage now matches Elite damage.
    • This change was made to afford more predictability in damage received from Elite affixes.

All Classes

General

  • Ultimate skills can now have additional ranks. Players can invest up to 5 skill points into their Ultimate Skill, and bonus ranks of Ultimate Skills now exist. The limitation of having one Ultimate Skill remains. Additionally, bonus to all skill ranks (i.e. from Harlequin's Crest) will only grant ranks to the Ultimate the player has learned.
  • Life Generation affixes now trigger when at Full Life, to contribute to Overhealing effects.
  • All Weapon Tempering affixes now grant multiplicative damage. See each class's section for more info.
  • All Classes now have innate 15% Blocked Damage Reduction.
    • Shield's inherent Blocked Damage Reduction reduced by 15%.
  • Paragon nodes that give increased damage to Healthy Enemies increased from 6.3% to 12.5%.

Legendary Aspects

Deflecting Barrier

  • Previous: While you have a Barrier active, there is a 5-15% chance to ignore incoming direct damage from Distant enemies.
  • Now: You have a 5-12% chance after taking direct damage to gain a Barrier equal to 20% of your Maximum Life. This chance is doubled against Distant enemies.

Aspect of Slaughter

  • Previous: You Gain 20% Movement speed. This bonus is lost for 2.5-5.0 seconds after taking damage.
  • Now: You gain 20% Movement speed. Lose this bonus for 2.0-5.0 seconds after taking damage from a Close Enemy.

Starlight Aspect

  • Previous: Gain 25-40 Primary Resource for every 20% Life that you Heal.
  • Now: Gain 25-40 Primary Resource for every 20% Life that you Heal or every 120 200% that you Overheal when at Maximum Life.

Andariel's Visage

  • Explosions now happen less frequently in extreme situations.

Barbarian

Skills

Frenzy

  • Fury generation increased from 4 to 7.
  • Damage increased from 13% to 15%.

Enhanced Frenzy

  • Before – While Frenzy is granting 60% bonus Attack Speed, it also generates 3 additional Fury.
  • Now – While Frenzy is granting 60% bonus Attack Speed, the Fury costs of your Core Skills are reduced by 25%.

Combat Frenzy

  • Before – You gain 8% Damage Reduction for each stack of Frenzy you currently have.
  • Now – You gain 5% Damage Reduction and 5% Movement Speed per stack of Frenzy you currently have.

Battle Frenzy

  • Attack Speed per stack of Frenzy increased from 5% to 6%.

Ground Stomp

  • Damage increased from 9.5% to 35 20% Weapon Damage.

Enhanced Ground Stomp

  • Before – Increase Ground Stomp's duration by 2 1 second.
  • Now – Ground Stomp generates 60 Fury and has a 2 1 second increased Stun duration.

Tactical Ground Stomp

  • Before – Ground Stomp generates 60 Fury.
  • Now – Ground Stomp is now a Brawling Skill and deals 900 800% increased damage to Bosses. It also applies Vulnerable for 4 seconds.

Strategic Ground Stomp

  • Before – Reduce the Cooldown of your Ultimate Skill by 2 seconds for each enemy damaged by Ground Stomp.
  • Now – Reduce the Cooldown of your Ultimate Skill by 4 seconds per enemy damaged by Ground Stomp, up to 12 seconds.

Upheaval

  • Damage increased from 88% to 100%.

Furious Upheaval

  • Damage bonus increased from 12% to 15%.
  • Maximum stacks increased from 6 to 8.

Passives

Hamstring

  • Before – Your Bleeding effects Slow Healthy enemies by 20%.
  • Now – Your Bleeding effects have a 15% chance to Slow Healthy and Injured enemies by 70% each time they deal damage.

Slaying Strike

  • Damage to Injured reduced from 8% to 5%.

Unconstrained

  • Before – Increase Berserking's maximum duration by 5 seconds and increase its damage bonus to 60%.
  • Now – Berserking's damage bonus is increased to 60%. While below 65% Life, you are always Berserk and gain a 30 25% Physical Damage Reduction bonus.

Martial Vigor

  • Elite Damage Reduction increased from 4% to 6%.

Tempering

The following lists all the affixes now available for each Tempering recipe.

Bleed Augments – Weapon Recipe

  • +X Skill Ranks to Cut to the Bone
  • +X% Chance for Rend to Hit Twice
  • +X% Chance for Rupture to Deal Double Damage

Furious Augments – Weapon Recipe

  • Bash Cleaves for +Y% Damage
  • +X% Chance for Frenzy to Hit Twice
  • +X% Chance for Lunging Strike to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Flay Duration (Moved from Bleed Augments)

Berserking Augments

  • Changed to a Utility recipe.
  • Renamed to Berserking Innovation.

Berserking Finesse – Offensive Recipe

  • +X% Dust Devil Damage added to this recipe. (Moved from Sandstorm Augments)

Barbarian Innovation – Utility Recipe

  • +X% Earthquake Size (Moved from Wasteland Augments)
  • +X% Frenzy Duration
  • +X% Stun Duration (Moved from Barbarian Control)

Wasteland Augments – Renamed to Wasteland Innovation

  • +X% Ground Stomp Size
  • +X% Leap Size
  • +X% Dust Devil Size (Moved from Sandstorm Augments)

Sandstorm Augments – Weapon Recipe

  • Renamed to Wasteland Augments
  • +X% Dust Devil Damage (additive) removed
  • +X% Chance for Dust Devils to Cast Twice
  • +X% Chance for Earthquakes to Cast Twice
  • +X% Earthquake Duration (Moved from Barbarian Innovation)

Demolition Finesse – Offensive Recipe

  • +X% Brawling Skill Damage
  • +X% Weapon Mastery Damage
  • +X% Damage When Swapping Weapons
  • The additive damage recipes for Death Blow, Charge, and Kick have been removed. Replacements have been added in new Weapon Tempering recipes.

Legendary Aspect

Of Giant Strides

  • Cooldown per enemy hit reduced from 2.5-5.0 to 1.3-2.5 seconds.
  • Maximum reduction reduced from 9 to 7 seconds.

Of Bul-Kathos

  • Earthquake damage increased by 30%. (From 105-165% to 137-217% Weapon Damage)

Of Earthquakes

  • Earthquake damage increased by 30%. (From 85-145% to 111-191% Weapon Damage)

Of Sundered Ground

  • Damage bonus increased from 15-30% to 30-45%.

Bold Chieftain's Aspect

  • Previous: Whenever you cast a Shout Skill, its Cooldown is reduced by 1.0-3.0 seconds per Nearby enemy, up to a maximum of 6 seconds.
  • Now: Whenever you cast a Shout Skill, its active Cooldown is reduced by 10-30% per Nearby enemy, up to a maximum of 50%.

Unique Items

Twin Strikes

  • Damage increased from 10-40% to 30-60%.

Overkill

  • Damage increased from 25-45% to 40-60%.

Ring of Red Furor

  • Critical Strike Damage bonus increased from 10-40% to 30-60%.

Hellhammer

  • Fire damage increased by 33%. (1.5-2.5 to 2- 3.3)
  • Damage bonus per 100 Strength increased from 20% to 25%.

Paragon

Hemorrhage Board

  • Grit (replacing Flayer)
    • Previous: 4% Damage Reduction from Bleeding Enemies / +10 Strength
    • Now: (Flayer) +10% Vulnerable Damage / +10 Strength
  • Flayer (replacing Bloodbathed)
    • Previous: +10% Physical Damage Over Time / +10% Damage to Bleeding Enemies
    • Now: (Bloodbathed) 4% Damage Reduction from Bleeding Enemies / +10% Fire Resistance

Blood Rage Board

  • Enraged (replacing Grit)
    • Previous: +10% Damage while Berserking / +15% Berserking Duration
    • Now: (Grit) 4% Damage Reduction from Bleeding / +4% Healing Received
  • Grit (replacing Wrath)
    • Previous: 4% Damage Reduction from Bleeding Enemies / +10 Strength
    • Now: (Wrath) +10% Damage while Berserking / +10 Strength

Carnage Board

  • Berserker (replacing Brash)
    • Previous: +5% Damage While Berserking / +16% Damage to Elites
    • Now: (Brash) 4% Damage Reduction from Close Enemies / +10% Fire Resistance
  • Brash (replacing Berserker)
    • Previous: 4% Damage Reduction from Close Enemies / +10 Strength
    • Now: (Berserker) +16% Damage to Elites / +10 Strength

Decimator Board

  • Arrogance (replacing Destroyer)
    • Previous: 4% Damage Reduction from Vulnerable Enemies and +10 Strength
    • Now: (Destroyer) +10% Physical Damage and +10 Strength
  • Destroyer (replacing Arrogance)
    • Previous: +10% Damage with Two-Handed Slashing Weapons / +10% Vulnerable Damage
    • Now: (Arrogance) 4% Damage Reduction from Vulnerable Enemies / 4% Healing Received

Bone Breaker Board

  • Bludgeoner (replacing Vigor)
    • Previous: +10% Damage with Two-Handed Bludgeoning Weapons / +45% Overpower Damage
    • Now: (Vigor) 5% Damage Reduction while Healthy / 4% Healing Received
  • Vigor (replacing Bludgeoner)
    • Previous: 5% Damage Reduction while Healthy / +10 Strength
    • Now: (Bludgeoner) +10% Damage with Two-Handed Bludgeoning Weapons / +10 Strength

Flawless Technique Board

  • Wild Force (replacing Brash)
    • Previous: +5% Damage While Berserking / +16% Damage to Elites
    • Now: (Brash) 4% Damage Reduction from Close Enemies / +10% Fire Resistance
  • Brash (replacing Wild Force)
    • Previous: 4% Damage Reduction from Close Enemies / +10 Strength
    • Now: (Wild Force) +10% Damage with One-Handed Weapons / +10 Strength

Warbringer Board

  • Conditioned (replacing Brute Force)
    • Previous: +3% Resistance to All Elements / +10 Strength
    • Now: (Brute Force) +10% Damage while Fortified / +10 Strength
  • Guarded Advance (replacing Conditioned)
    • Previous: +10% Damage while Fortified / +6.5% Fortify Generation
    • Now: (Conditioned) +3% Resistance to All Elements / +4% Healing Received

Weapons Master Board

  • Iron Strength
    • Previous: +20 Armor / +10 Strength
    • Now: +16% Damage to Elites / +10 Strength

Squall Rare Node

  • Dust Devil damage bonus increased from 10% to 25%.

Brawl Rare Glyph

  • Brawling Skill damage bonus increased from 18% to 25%.

Dominate Rare Glyph

  • Guaranteed Overpower timer reduced from 20 to 15 seconds.

Druid

Skills

Innate Debilitating Roar reworked

  • Previous - Debilitating Roar also slows enemies for 65% for its duration.
  • Now - Debilitating Roar increases your damage by 15%[x] for its duration.

Preserving Debilitating Roar

  • Healing increased from 4% to 6% of your Maximum Life per second while active.

Earthen Bulwark

  • Innate Earthen Bulwark's damage increased from 30% to 60% Weapon Damage.

Trample

  • Updated to more consistently Trample to your target destination, rather than stopping immediately upon hitting terrain.

Cataclysm

  • Lightning Strike damage increased from 95% to 115% Weapon Damage.
  • Lightning Strikes now cannot hit the same target more than once every 0.5 seconds.

Developer’s Note: Cataclysm was previously updated to be guaranteed to hit an enemy with its lightning strikes, if one is in range. While this felt better to use, it turned out to be a bit overpowered. Now we’re limiting how frequently Cataclysm's lightning strikes can repeatedly hit the same target to ensure that other Ultimate Skills can still be a competitive option in single target situations. The damage of the lightning strikes is being increased to compensate.

Ursine Strength

  • Damage bonus while Healthy reduced from 30%[x] to 15%[x].
  • Maximum Health bonus increased from 20%[x] to 30%[x].
  • Overpower damage bonus increased from 30%[x] to 45%[x].

Developer’s Note: Ursine Strength is one of the most popular Key Passives for Druids, and was designed with Werebear and or Overpower focused builds in mind. However, it is often being used in builds that have little interest in Werebear Skills or Overpower effects, because the 30%[x] Damage bonus while Healthy was generically powerful. We are reducing the power of this effect, while increasing the Maximum Health and Overpower damage bonuses to better support its Werebear and Overpower niche, versus other builds that it was not intended for.

Grizzly Rage

  • Overpowering Bosses now extends duration by 5 seconds.

Wolves

  • Wolf Companion's Attack Speed increased by 15%.

Petrify

  • Previous: Encase all Nearby enemies in stone, Stunning them for 3 seconds. You deal 30%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage to enemies affected by Petrify. Against Bosses the Critical Strike Damage bonus is increased to 50%[x] and its duration is increased to 6 seconds.
  • Now: Generates 100 Spirit. Encase all Nearby enemies in stone, Stunning them for 4 seconds.

Developer’s Note: Triggering Petrify through the Yom rune will grant 100 of the Primary Resource for your class.

Prime Petrify

  • Previous: Petrify grants 50 Spirit when cast and its effect durations are increased by 1 second.
  • Now: You deal 30%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage to enemies affected by Petrify. Against Bosses the Critical Strike Damage bonus is increased to 50%[x] and its duration is increased to 7 seconds.
  • Bonus Critical Strike Damage now applies to damage done by your Companions.

Passives

Quickshift

  • Previous: When Shapeshifting into a new animal form, you deal 1/2/3%[x] increased damage for 8 seconds, up to 8/16/24%[x].
  • Now: Shapeshifting into a new animal form grants 1/2/3%[x] increased damage, up to 6/12/18%[x]. This bonus is lost after 3 seconds in Human form.

Heightened Senses

  • Previous: When Shapeshifting into an animal form, Werebear grants 3/6/9% Damage Reduction and Werewolf grants 2/4/6%[+] Movement Speed for 6 seconds. Bonuses are doubled while both are active.
  • Now: When Shapeshifting, Werebear grants 3/6/9% Damage Reduction and Werewolf grants 2/4/6%[+] Movement Speed. Both bonuses persist as long as you are in either animal form and are doubled while both are active. They are lost after 3 seconds in Human form.

Bestial Rampage

  • Previous: After being a Werewolf for 2 seconds, gain 30%[+] Attack Speed for 15 seconds. After being a Werebear for 2 seconds, deal 50%[x] increased damage for 15 seconds.
  • Now: When Shapeshifting, Werebear grants 30%[x] increases damage and Werewolf grants 20%[+] Attack Speed. Both bonuses persist as long as you are in either animal form, but are lost after 3 seconds in Human form.

Perfect Storm

  • Storm Skill damage bonus increased from 40%[x] to 45%[x].

Nature's Fury

  • Fixed an issue where the Passive incorrectly triggered from skills other than Casts.

Developer’s Note: Nature's Fury triggered more than intended when using Landslide along with the Earthbreaker Unique Ring. It should only trigger from Casts, which happen once when you press a Skill button that is on your Action Bar. Not from the extra effects from various Legendary or Unique items. This is a substantial decrease in power for builds that were using this interaction, and to compensate, Earthbreaker has been made more potent (see below).

Spirit Boons

Overload Spirit Boon

  • Damage increased from 25% to 100%.

Bolster Spirit Boon

  • Fortify amount increased from 25% to 50% of Maximum Life.

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of the Blurred Beast

  • Shred's bonus damage while seeking out Poisoned enemies increased from 40-60%[x] to 55-75%[x].

Shockwave Aspect

  • Shockwave damage increased from 70-110% to 80-120% of Pulverize's Damage.

Stormclaw's Aspect

  • Damage increased from 25-45% to 40-60% of the damage done by Shred's Critical Strikes.

Aspect of the Ursine Horror

  • Tectonic spikes damage increased from 60-100% to 120-200% of Weapon Damage.

Seismic-shift Aspect

  • Ranks increased from 17 to 21.
  • Earth Spike bonus damage increased from 35-59%[x] to 50-70%[x].

Stormshifter's Aspect

  • Ranks of Shapeshifting Skills while Hurricane is active increased from 2 to 5.

Aspect of Retaliation

  • Core Skill damage based on Fortify increased from 25-45%[x] to 35-75%[x].

Crashstone Aspect

  • Previous: Earth Skills deal 25-45%[x] more Critical Strike Damage to Crowd Controlled enemies.
  • Now: Earth Skills deal 35-75%[x] increased damage to Crowd Controlled enemies.

Bold Chieftain's Aspect

  • Previous: Whenever you cast a Shout Skill, its Cooldown is reduced by 1.0-3.0 seconds per Nearby enemy, up to a maximum of 6 seconds.
  • Now: Whenever you cast a Shout Skill, its active Cooldown is reduced by 10-30% per Nearby enemy, up to a maximum of 50%.

Unique Items

Fleshrender

  • Damage increased from 100-300% to 200-400% of Weapon Damage.
  • Damage increase per 100 Willpower increased from 30%[x] to 50%[x].
  • Cooldown Reduction affix replaced with Defensive Cooldown Reduction affix.
  • Maximum Health affix replaced with Ranks of Backlash Passive.

Dolmen Stone

  • Boulders that are rotating in your Hurricane now Knockback enemies less to allow you to more consistently hit enemies with multiple Boulders. Boulders now more consistently hit enemies that are within your melee range.

Wildheart Hunger

  • Previous: When you Shapeshift into a Werewolf or Werebear, gain Wildheart for 5 seconds. Wildheart grants you 1-3%[x] stacking damage every 2 seconds, up to 20-60%[x].
  • Now: Shapeshifting into a new animal form increases the value of your Bestial Rampage bonuses by 2.0-5.0%, up to 20-50%[+]. This bonus decays by 2% per second.

Hunter’s Zenith

  • Previous: Gain a bonus when you kill with a Shapeshifting Skill: Werewolf: Your next Non-Ultimate Werebear Skill costs no Spirit and has no Cooldown. Werebear: Your next Werewolf Skill will Heal you for 104-522 when damage is first dealt.
  • Now: Every 30 seconds you spend in an animal form, your next Core Skill is guaranteed to Overpower and Critically Strike and deals 30-60%[x] increased damage. Casting Shapeshifting Skills reduces this timer by 1 second, or 2 seconds if you change to a new animal form.

Earthbreaker

  • Tectonic Spikes damage increased from 60-120% of Weapon Damage to 150-300% Weapon Damage.

Mad Wolf's Glee

  • Ranks of Werewolf Skills increased from 2-5 to 4-7.

Greatstaff of the Crone

  • Critical Strike Damage Affix replaced with Chance for Stormstrike to Hit Twice.
  • Bonus Stormstrike damage increased from 120-200%[x] to 170-250%[x].

Tempering

All Weapon Tempering recipes have been updated with the following stats.

Storm Augments

  • +X% Chance for Wind Shear Projectiles to Cast Twice
  • +X% Chance for Tornado Projectiles to Cast Twice
  • +X% Chance for Hurricane to Deal Double Damage

Lightning Augments

  • +X% Chance for Stormstrike to Hit Twice
  • +X% Chance for Lightning Storm to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Cataclysm to Deal Double Damage

Earth Augments

  • +X% Chance for Landslide Projectiles to Cast Twice
  • +X% Chance for Earth Spike Projectiles to Cast Twice
  • +X% Chance for Boulder Projectiles to Cast Twice
  • +X% Chance for Stone Burst Projectiles to Cast Twice

Werewolf Augments

  • +X% Chance for Shred to Hit Twice
  • +X% Rabies Duration
  • +X% Lacerate Duration
  • +X% Chance for Claw to Deal Double Damage

Werebear Augments

  • +X% Chance for Maul to Hit Twice
  • +X% Chance for Pulverize to Hit Twice
  • +X% Chance for Trample to Deal Double Damage

Companion Augments

  • +X% Chance for Wolves to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Poison Creeper to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Raven to Deal Double Damage

Moved or Removed Recipes

  • Companion Finesse Offensive Recipe converted to Companion Augments Weapon Recipe.
  • Hurricane Damage and Cataclysm Damage removed from Storm Finesse.
  • Boulder Damage and Earth Overpower Damage removed from Earth Finesse.
  • Trample Damage, Rabies Damage, and Lacerate Damage removed from Shapeshifting Finesse.
  • Grizzly Rage Duration moved from Werebear Augments to Shapeshifting Finesse.
  • Hurricane Duration moved from Storm Augments to Nature Magic Innovation.
  • Lightning Storm Duration Removed from Nature Magic Innovation.

Paragon

Starter Board

  • Reclaim (replacing Resolve)
    • Previous: +3% Resistance to All Elements / +10 Willpower
    • Now: (Reclaim) +16% Damage to Elites / +10 Willpower

Thunderstruck Board

  • Concentrated (replacing Hubris)
    • Previous: 4% Damage Reduction from Vulnerable Enemies / +10 Willpower
    • Now: (Concentrated) +16% Damage to Elites / +10 Willpower
  • Hubris (replacing Restorative)
    • Previous: +4% Potion Healing / 4% Maximum Life
    • Now: (Hubris) 4% Damage Reduction from Vulnerable Enemies / +4% Healing Received

Earthen Devastation Board

  • Crushing Earth (replacing Resolve)
    • Previous: +3% Resistance to All Elements / +10 Willpower
    • Now: (Crushing Earth) +15% Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies / +10 Willpower
  • Resolve (replacing Crushing Earth)
    • Previous: +10% Earth Damage / +15% Critical Strike Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies
    • Now: (Resolve) +3% Resistance to All Elements / 4% Maximum Life

Survival Instincts Board

  • Battleworn Hide
    • Previous: +2% Total Armor while in Werebear Form / +10 Willpower
    • Now: +16% Damage to Elites / +10 Willpower
  • Ursine
    • Previous: +10% Damage while in Werebear Form / +45% Overpower Damage
    • Now: +2% Total Armor while in Werebear Form / 4% Maximum Life

Lust for Carnage Board

  • Ripper (replacing Regenerative)
    • Previous: +4% Healing Received / +10 Willpower
    • Now: (Ripper) +15% Critical Strike Damage / +10 Willpower
  • Ferocity
    • Previous: +10% Werewolf Damage / +15% Critical Strike Damage
    • Now: +3% Resistance to All Elements / 4% Maximum Life
  • Lust for Carnage
    • Previous: Critical Strikes with Werewolf Skills restore 2 Spirit.
    • Now: Critical Strikes with Werewolf Skills restore 2 Spirit and deal 50%[x] increased damage.

Heightened Malice Board

  • Toxic Bane (replacing Nature-born)
    • Previous: 4% Damage Reduction from Poisoned Enemies / +10 Willpower
    • Now: (Toxic Bane) +16% Damage to Elites / +10 Willpower
  • Nature-born (replacing Toxic Bane)
    • Previous: +10% Damage to Poisoned Enemies / +10% Poison Damage
    • Now: (Nature-born) 4% Damage Reduction from Poisoned Enemies / +4% Healing Received

Inner Beast Board

  • Determination
    • Previous: +100 Armor / +10 Willpower
    • Now: +15% Critical Strike Damage / +10 Willpower
  • Wilds (replacing Havoc)
    • Previous: +15% Critical Strike Damage / +10% Physical Damage
    • Now: (Wilds) +3% Resistance to All Elements / +4% Healing Received

Constricting Tendrils Board

  • Devastation (replacing Courage)
    • Previous: 4% Maximum Life / +10 Willpower
    • Now: (Devastation) +10% Nature Magic Damage / +10 Willpower
  • Courage (replacing Devastation)
    • Previous: +10% Nature Magic Damage / +16% Damage to Elites
    • Now: (Courage) 4% Maximum Life / +20 Armor

Ancestral Guidance Board

  • Resolve (replacing Recuperate)
    • Previous: +4% Potion Healing / +10 Life per Second
    • Now: (Resolve) +3% Resistance to All Elements / 4% Maximum Life
  • Ancestral Guidance
    • Damage bonus after spending 75 Spirit increased from 30%[x] to 40%[x].
  • Guidance (replacing Resolve)
    • Previous: +3% Resistance to All Elements / +10 Willpower
    • Now: (Guidance) +10% Damage / +10 Willpower

Necromancer

Skills

Blight

  • Enhanced Blight
    • Previous - Blight Slows enemies by 25%.
    • Now - Blight's radius is increased by 15%.
  • Paranormal Blight Reworked
    • Previous - Blight has a 30% chance to Immobilize enemies for 2.5 seconds on impact.
    • Now - Blight Chills enemies for 15% every second.

Reap

  • Damage Reduction duration increased from 2 to 4 seconds.
  • Enhanced Reap's Attack Speed duration increased from 3 to 4 seconds.

Blood Lance

  • Blood Lance now always pierces through enemies who are currently lanced, dealing 10% reduced damage to subsequent enemies beyond the first.
  • Enhanced Blood Lance Reworked
    • Previous - Blood Lance pierces through enemies who are currently lanced, dealing 10% reduced damage to subsequent enemies beyond the first.
    • Now - After casting Blood Lance 8 times, your next cast of Blood Lance is guaranteed to Overpower and spawns a Blood Orb under the first enemy hit.
  • Supernatural Blood Lance Reworked
    • Previous - After casting Blood Lance 8 times, your next cast of Blood Lance is guaranteed to Overpower and spawns a Blood Orb under the first enemy hit.
    • Now - Blood Lance deals 15%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage and 15%[x] increased Overpower Damage.

Blood Wave

  • Prime Blood Wave Reworked
    • Previous - Blood Wave Slows enemies by 50% for 4 seconds.
    • Now - Casting Blood Wave grants 20% Damage Reduction for 10 seconds.
  • Supreme Blood Wave
    • Blood Orbs spawned increased from 3 to 6.

Army of the Dead

  • Damage increased from 45% to 90%.
  • Cooldown reduced from 70 to 60 seconds.

Passives

Transfusion - Cooldown for spawning a Blood Orb reduced from 4 to 2 seconds.

Death's Approach - Movement Speed increased from 4/8/12% [+] to 5/10/15% [+].

Kalan's Edict

  • Previous: Your Minions gain 3%[+] Attack Speed for each active Minion.
  • Now: Your Minions gain 3%[+] Attack Speed and deal 3%[x] increased damage for each active Minion.

Bonded in Essence

  • Skeleton Priest Healing timer reduced from 8 to 5 seconds.

Death's Defense

  • Minion Armor bonus increased from 4/8/12%[+] to 8/16/24%[+].

Necrotic Carapace

  • Fortify amount increased from 2/4/6% to 5/10/15% of Maximum Life.

Book of the Dead

Bone Golem Active Skill

  • Armor conversion to Thorns increased from 70% to 200%.

Blood Golem Sacrifice

  • Maximum Life increased from 15%[x] to 20%[x].

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Cursed Aura

  • Tooltip updated to clarify that Curses are not cast, and so the curses would not benefit from Tempering.

Tidal Aspect

  • Additional Blood Waves now deal 100-120% of normal damage instead of dealing 50-30% reduced damage.

Shademist Aspect

  • The damage is now attributed to your Minions, and thus will scale with Minion Damage bonuses.

Aspect of Fel Gluttony

  • The damage is now attributed to your Golem, and thus will scale with Minion and Golem Damage bonuses.

Aspect of the Damned

  • Damage bonus now also applies to damage from your Minions.

Unique Items

The Mortacrux

  • Previous Affixes
    • Inherent: +50% Damage
    • +126-180 Intelligence
    • +98-125% Critical Strike Damage
    • +70-85% Vulnerable Damage
    • +3-5 Ranks of Hewed Flesh Passive
  • New Affixes
    • Inherent: +100% Macabre and Corpse Damage
    • +126-180 Intelligence
    • +36.5-50% Chance For Corpse Explosion to Deal Double Damage
    • Hewed Flesh also grants a Barrier for 8-10% Maximum Life for 4 seconds
    • +3-5 Ranks of Hewed Flesh Passive

Black River

  • +126-180 Intelligence Affix replaced with +36.5-50% Chance for Corpse Explosion to Deal Double Damage.

Greaves of the Empty Tomb

  • Ranks of Reaper's Pursuit Affix replaced with Movement Speed.

Ring of Mendeln

  • The damage is now attributed to your Minions, and thus will scale with Minion Damage bonuses.

Lidless Wall

  • Armor Affix replaced with Chance for Bone Storm to Deal Double Damage.

Mutilator Plate

  • Blood Lance Duration affix replaced with Chance for Blood Lance to Deal Double Damage.

Tempering

All Weapon Tempering recipes have been updated with the following stats.

Bone Augments

  • +X% Chance for Bone Spirit to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Bone Splinter Projectiles to Cast Twice
  • +X% Chance for Bone Spear Projectiles to Cast Twice
  • +X% Chance for Bone Storm to Deal Double Damage

Blood Augments

  • +X% Chance for Blood Surge to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Blood Lance to Hit Twice
  • +X% Chance for Blood Lance to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Hemorrhage to Hit Twice
  • +X% Chance for Blood Wave to Deal Double Damage

Shadow Augments - Decay

  • +X% Chance for Blight Projectiles to Cast Twice
  • +X% Chance for Decompose to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Soulrift to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Affliction to Deal Double Damage

Shadow Augments - Execution

  • +X% Chance for Sever Projectiles to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Reap to Hit Twice
  • +X% Chance for Corpse Explosion to Deal Double Damage

Summoning Augments

  • +X% Chance for Army of the Dead to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Skeleton Mages Attacks to Cast Twice
  • +X% Chance for Skeleton Warriors to Hit Twice
  • +X% Chance for Golem to Hit Twice

Thorn Army

  • Skeleton Mages Inherit X% of your Thorns affix removed from this recipe.
  • Skeleton Warriors Inherit X% of your Thorns affix removed from this recipe.
  • Golem Inherit X% of your Thorns affix removed from this recipe.
  • Ranks of Spiked Armor added to this recipe’s Weapon Attunement.
  • Resource Generation while Wielding a Scythe affix replaced with Resource Generation with Two-Handed Weapons affix.

Other Tempering Updates:

  • +X% Corpse Explosion Damage removed from Shadow Finesse
  • +X% Bone Spirit Damage removed from Bone Finesse
  • +X% Blight Slow Potency Tempering affix changed to +X% Blight Chill Potency on the Profane Cage

Paragon

Starter Board

  • Grasp (replacing Preservation)
    • Previous: +200 Armor / +10 Intelligence
    • Now: (Grasp) +16% Damage to Elites / +10 Intelligence
  • Cult Leader
    • Minion Damage per 20% Attack Speed Bonus increased from 30%[x] to 40%[x].

Hulking Monstrosity

  • Miscreation
    • Previous: +14% Golems Armor / +10 Intelligence
    • Now: +10% Summon Damage / +10 Intelligence

Flesh-Eater Board

  • Rend (replacing Erudite)
    • Previous: +3% Resistance to All Elements / +10 Intelligence
    • Now: (Rend) +10% Damage / +10 Intelligence
  • Erudite (replacing Culler)
    • Previous: +35% Ultimate Damage / +2.5% Attack Speed
    • Now: (Erudite) +3% Resistance to All Elements / 4% Maximum Life

Scent of Death

  • Seethe (replacing Preservation)
    • Previous: +100 Armor / +10 Intelligence
    • Now: (Seethe) +10% Damage / +10 Intelligence
  • Ruin
    • Previous: +35% Ultimate Damage / +15% Crtitical Strike Damage
    • Now: 4% Damage Reduction from Vulnerable Enemies / +20 Armor

Bone Graft Board

  • Erudite (replacing Tenacity)
    • Previous: 4% Maximum/ +100 Armor
    • Now: (Erudite) +3% Resistance to All Elements / 4% Maximum Life
  • Calcified
    • Previous: +15% Bone Critical Strike Damage / +10% Bone Damage
    • Now: +20 Armor / 4% Damage Reduction from Vulnerable Enemies
  • Splinter (replacing Erudite)
    • Previous: +3% Resistance to All Elements / +10 Intelligence
    • Now: (Splinter) +15% Bone Critical Strike Damage / +10 Intelligence

Blood Begets Blood Board

  • Aggression (replacing Blooddrinker)
    • Previous: +5% Blood Orb Healing / +10 Intelligence
    • Now: (Aggression) +12.5% Damage while Healthy / +10 Intelligence
  • Blooddrinker (replacing Aggression)
    • Previous: +45% Overpower Damage / +10% Damage
    • Now: (Blooddrinker) +5% Blood Orb Healing / 4% Maximum Life

Bloodbath Board

  • Guarded Advance
    • Previous: +10% Damage while Fortified / +6.5% Fortify Generation
    • Now: 4% Damage Reduction while Fortified / +6.5% Fortify Generation
  • Remedy
    • Previous: +4% Healing Received / +10 Intelligence
    • Now: +45% Overpower Damage / +10 Intelligence

Wither Board

  • Gnawing Darkness (replacing Gloom)
    • Previous: +10% Shadow Resistance / +10 Intelligence
    • Now: (Gnawing Darkness) +10% Damage to Shadow Damage Over Time-Affected Enemies / +10 Intelligence
  • Gloom (replacing Gnawing Darkness)
    • Previous: +10% Damage to Shadow Damage Over Time-Affected Enemies / +16% Damage to Elites
    • Now: (Gloom) +10% Shadow Resistance / +20 Armor

Rogue

Skills

Enhanced Blade Shift

  • Previous: While Blade Shift is active you gain 20% Movement speed.
  • Now: While Blade Shift is active you gain 20% Movement speed. Moving through enemies refreshes its duration.

Fundamental Blade Shift

  • Previous: Moving through enemies while blade shift is active refreshes its duration. After moving through 3 enemies your next blade shift will daze enemies for 2 seconds.
  • Now: Casting a skill that isn't Blade Shift empowers your next Blade Shift to deal 100%[x] more damage.

Invigorating Strike

  • Damage increased from 30% to 35%.

Fundamental Invigorating Strike

  • Threshold to cause Vulnerable changed from 85% life to 95% life.

Enhanced Invigorating Strike

  • Energy regeneration bonus increased from 30% to 50%.

Disciplined Shadow Step

  • Previous: Damaging an enemy with Shadow Step stuns them for 2 seconds and reduces its cooldown by 3 seconds.
  • Now: Shadow Step deals 200%[x] more damage. Casting Shadow Step reduces its cooldown by 3 seconds.

Concealment

  • Now also grants Unhindered.

Subverting Concealment

  • Previous: The Skill that breaks Concealment always makes enemies Vulnerable for 6 seconds.
  • Now: The Skill that breaks Concealment is always a Critical Strike and makes enemies Vulnerable for 6 seconds.

Countering Concealment

  • Previous: The Skill that breaks Concealment will always be a guaranteed Critical Strike.
  • Now: Casting Concealment grants 10% Dodge Chance and increases the Movement Speed bonus to 60%[+] for 5 seconds.

Prime Shadow Clone

  • Previous: You are Unstoppable for 5 seconds after Casting Shadow Clone.
  • Now: You gain Stealth and Unstoppable for 5 seconds after casting Shadow Clone.

Death Trap

  • Baseline: If Death Trap kills an enemy, its cooldown is reduced by 10 seconds.

Supreme Death Trap

  • Previous: If Death Trap kills an enemy, its cooldown is reduced by 12 seconds.
  • Now: Enemies that resist Death Trap's pull in are hit again for 120% of Death Trap's damage.

Rain of Arrows

  • Baseline first wave knocks down enemies for 3 seconds.

Supreme Rain of Arrows

  • Previous: Rain of Arrows' first wave knocks down enemies for 3 seconds.
  • Now: Rain of Arrows deals 60 40%[x] increased damage to Crowd Controlled enemies.

Prime Rain of Arrows

  • Imbuement Bonus increased from 30% to 50%.

Passives

Weapon Mastery

  • Tooltip now states: Gain a bonus based on the weapons used in your attack.

Close Quarters Combat

  • Now scales from 15% of Damage to Close rather than 10% of Damage vs Crowd Controlled.

Adrenaline Rush

  • Energy regen while moving increased from 5/10/15% to 7/14/21%.

Impetus

  • Now gains damage to Basic skills along with Agility/Subterfuge while the buff is active.

Victimize

  • Previous: Lucky Hit: Dealing direct damage to a Vulnerable enemy has up to a 50% chance to cause an explosion, dealing 62% of the damage to them and surrounding enemies.
  • Now: Lucky Hit: Dealing direct damage to a Vulnerable enemy has up to a 50% chance to cause an explosion, dealing [60%] damage to them and surrounding enemies. Victimize's damage is increased by 120%[x] of your Vulnerable Damage Bonus.
  • Additionally, the effect now happens less frequently but stores up the damage of instances it would trigger for the next instance.
  • Base Damage Reduced to 60% from 80%.

Momentum

  • Now counts for Channeled Cutthroat Skills.
  • Now only removes stacks when casting Marksman skills.

Mending Obscurity

  • Healing while in stealth increased from 5% to 7%.

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of True Sight

  • Previous: You deal 70-100% Critical Strike Damage to enemies marked by Inner Sight.
  • Now: You deal 70-100% Critical Strike Damage to enemies marked by Inner Sight. While Inner Sight is full, you gain 21-30%[x] increased damage.

Resistant Assailant's

  • Now gives resistance on casting Concealment cast rather than when breaking stealth.

Uncanny Treachery

  • Previous: Dealing damage to a Dazed enemy with an Agility skill grants Stealth for 4 seconds. When Stealth breaks you gain 5-15% dodge chance for 2 seconds.
  • Now: Dealing direct damage with a non-Agility Skill after casting an Agility skill grants Stealth for 2 seconds. When Stealth breaks you gain 10-18% dodge chance for 2 seconds.

Opportunists

  • Grenades now drop on your target if exiting Stealth with Shadow Step.

Icy Alchemists Aspect

  • Damage increased from 60-100% to 90-130%.
  • Now happens less frequently in extreme situations.

Toxic Alchemists Aspect

  • Now happens less frequently in extreme situations.

Ravager's

  • Maximum stacks increased from 4 to 6, increasing maximum damage bonus from 58% to 87%.

Bladedancer's Aspect

  • Damage increased from 25-45% to 40-60%.

Encircling Blades

  • Damage increased from 25-45% to 35-55%.

Of Iron Rain

  • Chance to spawn an arrow storm increased from 35-55% to 80-100%.

Escape Artist's

  • Window to dodge attacks reduced from 10 to 5 seconds.
  • Cooldown reduced from 20 to 10 seconds.

Unique Items

Word of Hakan

  • Skill ranks of Imbuement Skills increased from 2-3 to 4-6.
  • Rain of Arrows Fires Twice affix is now Double Damage for Rain of Arrows.

Tempering

All Weapon Tempering recipes have been updated with the following stats.

Trap Augments

  • +X% Chance for Caltrops to Consume No Charges
  • +X% Chance for Death Trap to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Poison Trap Duration

Marksmen Augments Basic - Rogue

  • +X% Chance for Puncture Projectiles to Cast Twice
  • +X% Chance for Heartseeker Projectiles to Cast Twice
  • +X% Chance for Forceful Arrow Projectiles to Cast Twice

Marksman Augments Core - Rogue

  • +X% Chance for Barrage Projectiles to Cast Twice
  • +X% Chance for Rapid Fire Projectiles to Cast Twice
  • +X% Chance for Penetrating Shot Projectiles to Cast Twice

Agile Augments

  • +X% Chance for Flurry to Hit Twice
  • +X% Chance for Dance of Knives Projectiles to Cast Twice
  • Invigorating Strike Cleaves for +X% Damage
  • +X% Chance for Dash to Deal Double Damage

Assassin Augments

  • Shadow Step Cleaves for +X% Damage
  • +X% Chance for Blade Shift to Deal Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Twisting Blades to Hit Twice
  • +X% Chance for Rain of Arrows Waves to Cast Twice

Other Tempering Changes:

  • Smoke Grenade Damage removed from Subterfuge Expertise Recipe.
  • Rogue Cloaking Temper Recipe: Ranks to Agile replaced with Ranks to Aftermath.
  • Persistence Temper Recipe: Ranks to Aftermath removed.

Paragon

Devious Glyph

  • Now applies its damage bonus against Bosses.

Starter Board

  • Outlaw (replacing Lawless)
    • Previous: +200 Armor / +10 Dexterity
    • Now: (Outlaw) +16% Damage to Elites / +10 Dexterity

Eldritch Bounty Board

  • Imbuer
    • Previous: +15% Imbued Damage / +10% Non-physical Damage
    • Now: +3% Resistance to All Elements / +20 Armor
  • Concoction (replacing Dosage)
    • Previous: +4% Potion Healing / +10 Dexterity
    • Now: (Concoction) +10% Non-physical Damage / +10 Dexterity

Tricks of the Trade Board

  • Surgical (replacing Lawless)
    • Previous: +100 Armor / +10 Dexterity
    • Now: (Surgical) +10% Damage / +10 Dexterity
  • Haven (replacing Havoc)
    • Previous: +15% Critical Strike Damage / +10% Physical Damage
    • Now: (Haven) +20 Armor / 4% Maximum Life

Cheap Shot Board

  • Artificer (replacing Wiles)
    • Previous: 6% Damage Reduction from Slowed Enemies / +10 Dexterity
    • Now: (Artificer) +10% Vulnerable Damage / +10 Dexterity
  • Deviant (replacing Oppress)
    • Previous: +15% Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies / +15% Critical Strike Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies
    • Now: (Deviant) +3% Resistance to All Elements / 4% Maximum Life

Deadly Ambush Board

  • Ensnarement (replacing Cunning)
    • Previous: 4% Damage Reduction from Enemies Affected by Trap Skills / +10 Dexterity
    • Now: (Ensnarement) +15% Critical Strike Damage / +10 Dexterity
  • Cunning (replacing Slayer)
    • Previous: +100 Armor / +4% Potion Healing
    • Now: (Cunning) 4% Damage Reduction from Enemies Affected by Trap Skills / +3% Resistance to All Elements

Leyrana’s Instinct Board

  • Essential (replacing Feint)
    • Previous: +12.5% Damage for 4 Seconds After Dodging an Attack / +10 Dexterity
    • Now: (Essential) +14% Core Damage / +10 Dexterity
  • Punishment (replacing Tolerance)
    • Previous: +3% Resistance to All Elements / +10 Dexterity
    • Now: (Punishment) +10% Physical Damage / +10 Dexterity
  • Targeted (replacing Discerning)
    • Previous: +12.5% Damage for 4 Seconds After Dodging an Attack / +16% Damage to Elites
    • Now: (Targeted) +14% Core Damage / +16% Damage to Elites

No Witnesses Board

  • Deliverance (replacing Training)
    • Previous: 4% Maximum Life / +10 Dexterity
    • Now: (Deliverance) +35% Ultimate Damage / +10 Dexterity
  • Training (replacing Ruin)
    • Previous: +35% Ultimate Damage / +15% Critical Strike Damage
    • Now: (Training) 4% Maximum Life / +10% Poison Resistance

Exploit Weakness Board

  • Misery (replacing Dosage)
    • Previous: +4% Potion Healing / +10 Dexterity
    • Now: (Misery) +16% Damage to Elites / +10 Dexterity
  • Revitalize (replacing Hunter Killer)
    • Previous: +16% Damage to Elites / +14% Movement Speed for 4 Seconds After Killing an Elite
    • Now: (Revitalize) +4% Healing Received / +20 Armor

Cunning Stratagem Board

  • Fundamentals (replacing Lawless)
    • Previous: +100 Armor / +10 Dexterity
    • Now: (Fundamentals) +10% Damage / +10 Dexterity
  • Lawless (replacing Fundamentals)
    • Previous: +35% Basic Damage / +10% Damage
    • Now: (Lawless) +20 Armor / 4% Maximum Life

Sorcerer

Skills

Enhanced Charged Bolts

  • Lightning surge now also hits the original target as well as surrounding enemies.

Enhanced Fireball

  • Previous: Casting Fireball increases its radius by 50%.
  • Now: Casting Fireball increases its radius by 50% and Burns enemies for 10% damage over 6 seconds.

Prime Deep Freeze

  • Barrier amount now scales with Maximum life instead of Base Life.

Chain Lightning Enchantment

  • Cooldown reduced from 4 seconds to 1 second.

Hydra Enchantment

  • Duration increased from 5 to 10 seconds.

Arc Lash Enchantment

  • Stun duration increased from 0.5 to 1 second.

Incinerate Enchantment

  • Cooldown reduced from 14 to 8 seconds.

Passives

Endless Pyre

  • Previous: You deal increased Burning damage to enemies for each second they remain Burning, up to 5%[x] after 5 seconds.
  • Now: You deal 6/12/18%[x] increased Burning damage. This bonus is increased to 25/50/75%[x] to enemies while they are affected by more Damage Over Time than their total Life.

Conjuration Mastery

  • Now caps its bonuses at 30 active Conjurations. Tooltip updated for clarity.

Legendary Aspects

Storm Swell Aspect

  • Previous: You deal 15-30% more damage to Vulnerable enemies while you have a barrier.
  • Now: You deal 15-35% increased damage while Ice Armor is active. This amount is increased by another 15% against Frozen enemies.

Aspect of Engulfing Flames

  • Previous: You deal 30-45%[x] increased Burning damage to enemies below 50% Life. Additionally, you deal 70-100%[x] increased Burning damage to enemies while they are affected by more Damage Over Time than their total Life.
  • Now: You deal 6%[x] increased Burning damage to enemies for each second they remain Burning, up to 30%[x] after 5 seconds. Additionally, you deal 10-30%[x] increased Burning damage to enemies below 50% Life.

Aspect of Armageddon

  • Now drops more Meteorites.

Meteorites from Aspect of Armageddon and Aspect of Shattered Stars now more consistently land around or on the enemies near the cast target.

Unique Items

Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop

  • Previous: For each type of Elemental damage you deal, gain 10-15% increased damage for 4 seconds, up to 40-60%. Dealing Elemental damage refreshes all bonuses.
  • Now: Casting a Pyromancy, Shock, or Frost Skill increases your damage by 10-25% for 8 5 seconds, stacking once per element. Casting again refreshes all bonuses if the previous skill was a different Element.

Axial Conduit

  • +X% Chance for Chain Lightning Projectiles to Cast Twice affix changed to +X% Chance for Chain Lightning to Hit Twice.

Gloves of the Illuminator

  • Effect reworded, but functionality unchanged.
  • Previous: Fireball now bounces as it travels, exploding each time it hits the ground, but its explosion deals 30-0% less damage.
  • Now: Fireball now bounces as it travels, exploding each time it hits the ground, but its explosion deals 70-100% of normal damage.

Tempering

All Weapon Tempering recipes have been updated with the following stats.

Pyromancy Augments

  • +X% Chance for Fire Bolt Projectiles to Cast Twice
  • +X% Chance for Fireball Projectiles to Cast Twice
  • +X% Chance for Meteor to do Double Damage

Pyromancy Augments - Fiery

  • +X% Chance for Incinerate to do Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Firewall to do Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Meteorites to do Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Inferno to Deal Double Damage

Frost Augments - Frozen

  • +X% Chance for Blizzard to do Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Ice Spike to do Double Damage
  • +X% Chance for Deep Freeze to do Double Damage

Frost Augments

  • +X% Chance for Frost Bolt Projectiles to Cast Twice
  • +X% Chance for Frozen Orb Projectiles to Cast Twice
  • +X% Chance for Ice Shards Projectiles to Cast Twice

Conjuration Augments

  • Casted Hydras have +X Heads
  • +X% Chance for a Second Ice Blades when Cast
  • +X% Chance for Familiar to Hit Twice
  • +X% Chance for Lightning Spear to Deal Double Damage

Shock Augments - Discharge

  • +X% Chance for Teleport to Hit Twice
  • +X% Chance for Arc Lash to Swipe Twice
  • +X% Chance for Charged Bolts Projectiles to Cast Twice

Shock Augments - Surge

  • +X% Chance for Spark Projectiles to Cast Twice
  • +X% Chance for Chain Lightning to Hit Twice
  • +X% Chance for Ball Lightning Projectiles to Cast Twice

Other Tempering Updates:

  • Incinerate Size, Meteor Size, and Firewall Size removed from the Pyromancy Augments Recipe.
  • Blizzard Damage and Ice Spike Damage removed from the Frost Finesse Recipe.
  • Teleport Damage removed from the Shock Finesse Recipe.
  • Chance for Chain Lightning Projectiles to Cast Twice affix changed to Chance for Chain Lightning to Hit Twice.
  • Teleport Nova Size moved from Shock Augments - Discharge recipe to the new Sorcerer. Innovation Utility recipe.
  • Frost Nova Size moved from Sorcerer Control recipe to the new Sorcerer Innovation Utility recipe.
  • Blizzard Size moved from Frost Augments recipe to the new Sorcerer Innovation Utility recipe.
  • Conjuration Damage replaced with Familiar Damage on the Conjuration Finesse Offensive recipe.
  • Fire Damage Over Time removed from the Pyromancy Finesse recipe.
  • Familiar Lucky Hit Chance added to the Conjuration Fortune Utility recipe.

Paragon

Starting Board

  • Studied (replacing Erudite)
    • Previous: +3% Resistance to All Elements / +10 Intelligence
    • Now: (Studied) +16% Damage to Elites / +10 Intelligence

Searing Heat Board

  • Explosive (replacing Ashes)
    • Previous: +10% Fire Resistance / +10 Intelligence
    • Now: (Explosive) 15% Critical Strike Damage / +10 Intelligence
  • Recuperate
    • Previous: +4% Potion Healing / +10 Life per Second
    • Now: +4% Potion Healing / +25 Life per 5 Seconds
  • Ashes (replacing Pyromancy)
    • Previous: +10% Fire Damage / +10% Fire Damage Over Time
    • Now: (Ashes) +10% Fire Resistance / +25 Life per 5 Seconds

Burning Instinct Board

  • Safeguard
    • Previous: +6.5% Damage Reduction from Elites / +100 Armor
    • Now: +6.5% Damage Reduction from Elites / +20 Armor
  • Smoldering Embers (replacing Culler)
    • Previous: +35% Ultimate Damage / +2.5% Attack Speed
    • Now: (Smoldering Embers) 5% Damage Reduction from Burning Enemies / +4% Healing Received
  • Explosive (replacing Smoldering Embers)
    • Previous: 5% Damage Reduction from Enemies / +10 Intelligence
    • Now: (Explosive) +15% Critical Strike Damage / +10 Intelligence

Frigid Fate Board

  • Elemental Favor (replacing Chilling)
    • Previous: +10% Cold Resistance / +10 Intelligence
    • Now: (Elemental Favor) +10% Non-physical Damage / +10 Intelligence

Icefall Board

  • Frigid (replacing Cryomancy)
    • Previous: +10% Cold Damage / 4% Chill Application
    • Now: (Frigid) 6% Damage Reduction from Chilled / 4% Maximum Life
  • Cryomancy (replacing Frigid)
    • Previous: 6% Damage Reduction from Chilled / +10 Intelligence
    • Now: (Cryomancy) +10% Cold Damage / +10 Intelligence

Static Surge Board

  • Overwhelming
    • Previous: +15% Damage to Stunned Enemies / +16% Damage to Elites
    • Now: +10% Lightning Resistance / +20 Armor
  • Electro
    • Previous: +10% Lightning Resistance / +10 Intelligence
    • Now: +10% Vulnerable Damage / +10 Intelligence

Ceaseless Conduit Board

  • Shock Resistant (replacing Recuperate)
    • Previous: +4% Potion Healing / +10 Life per Second
    • Now: (Shock Resistant) +10% Lightning Resistance / 4% Maximum Life
  • Shelter (replacing Hunter Killer)
    • Previous: +16% Damage to Elites / +14% Movement Speed for 4 Seconds After Killing an Elite
    • Now: (Shelter) 4% Maximum Life / +20 Armor
  • Devastate (replacing Electro)
    • Previous: +10% Lightning Resistance / +10 Intelligence
    • Now: (Devastate) +17% Critical Strike Damage / +10 Intelligence

Elemental Summoner Board

  • Keeper of Elements (replacing Erudite)
    • Previous: +3% Resistance to All Elements / +10 Intelligence
    • Now: (Keeper of Elements) +10% Non-physical Damage / +10 Intelligence
  • Resistant (replacing Keeper of Elements)
    • Previous: +10% Non-physical Damage / +3% Resistance to All Elements
    • Now: (Resistant) +3% Resistance to All Elements / +20 Armor

Enchantment Master Board

  • Tactical (replacing Erudite)
    • Previous: +3% Resistance to All Elements / +10 Intelligence
    • Now: (Tactical) +16% Damage to Elites / +10 Intelligence
  • Toughened (replacing Elementalist)
    • Previous: +10% Non-physical Damage / 4% Maximum Life
    • Now: (Toughened) +20 Armor / 4% Maximum Life
  • Blessing (replacing Recuperate)
    • Previous: +4% Potion Healing / +10 Life per Second
    • Now: (Blessing) +3% Resistance to All Elements / +4% Healing Received

Paragon Updates

  • Glyphs can now be upgraded up to level 100.
  • At level 46, they become Legendary and gain several additional benefits.
    • One additional major affix.
    • A radius size increase.
  • Upgrading to Legendary requires Gem Fragments.
  • Magic Glyphs have been removed.
  • Glyph Experience has moved from Nightmare Dungeons to the Pit.
  • The Paragon board cap has been reduced to 4, plus the starting board.
  • Max Paragon Level is now 300.

Shrine Updates

  • The following Shrines now scale off Weapon Damage, like Skills.
    • Artillery Shrine
    • Blast Wave Shrine
    • Conduit Shrine

Boss Ladder

  • All Unique items now have a single boss for target farming.
    • Removed from Grigoire
      • Barbarian
        • Ramaladni's Magnum Opus
        • Ancients' Oath
      • Druid
        • Mjölnic Ring
      • Necromancer
        • Blood Artisan's Cuirass
      • Rogue
        • Windforce
      • Sorcerer
        • Gloves of the Illuminator
    • Removed from Lord Zir
      • Barbarian
        • Rage of Harrogath
        • Gohr's Devastating Grips
      • Druid
        • Mad Wolf's Glee
        • Vasily's Prayer
        • Greatstaff of the Crone
      • Necromancer
        • Deathless Visage
        • Greaves of the Empty Tomb
      • Rogue
        • Eyes in the Dark
        • Grasp of Shadow
        • Skyhunter
      • Sorcerer
        • Iceheart Brais
        • Staff of Endless Rage
        • Raiment of the Infinite
      • All Classes
        • Penitent Greaves
        • The Butcher's Cleaver
    • Removed from Beast in the Ice
      • Barbarian
        • 100,000 Steps
        • Battle Trance
        • Fields of Crimson
      • Druid
        • Insatiable Fury
        • Hunter's Zenith
        • Waxing Gibbous
      • Necromancer
        • Howl from Below
        • Deathspeaker's Pendant
        • Bloodless Scream
      • Rogue
        • Condemnation
        • Word of Hakan
      • Sorcerer
        • Esu's Heirloom
        • Staff of Lam Esen
      • All Classes
        • Frostburn
        • Mother's Embrace
    • Added
      • The Butcher's Cleaver now drops for Necromancers from Grigoire.
    • Moved
      • Mjölnic Ring moved from Grigoire to Lord Zir.
  • The summoning material requirements have been adjusted and standardized for the following bosses.
    • Echo of Varshan
      • Previous: 2(WT3)/5(WT4) Malignant Hearts
      • New: 4 Malignant Hearts
    • Grigoire
      • Previous: 2(WT3)/5(WT4) Living Steel
      • New: 12 Living Steel
    • Beast in the Ice
      • Previous: 9 Distilled Fear
      • New: 12 Distilled Fear
    • Lord Zir
      • Previous: 9 Exquisite Blood
      • New: 12 Exquisite Blood

User Interface and User Experience

  • The icon denoting that there are additional Skill/Paragon points to spend now also displays how many points are available to spend.
  • The tooltips for Dungeons viewed in the Map have been improved to have more information at a glance.
  • New settings have been added in the gameplay options menu to hide certain warning messages and announcements, such as "You need more mana".
  • The sound that plays when arriving at a pinned destination has been made more prominent.
  • Druid's Sprit Offerings have been moved to the Consumables tab, and the stack count has been increased to 999.
  • Up to 3 currencies can be pinned in the player's inventory, with Obols and Gold being pinned by default.
  • The descriptions of multiple items that implied if a skill tag was removed or added have been clarified.

Miscellaneous

  • The number of available character slots has been increased from 12 to 14 13.
  • Dodge chance can no longer reach 100% through any means. The Dodge Chance bonuses from the handful of related aspects have been swapped from additive to inverse multiplicative, matching typical Dodge Chance modifiers.
  • The Gauntlet will be disabled for Season 6 while the meta settles with the introduction of the Spiritborn and all other system updates.
  • Common items now stop dropping after Level 10.
  • The allowance cache that contained items helpful for leveling has been updated.
    • No longer has a level restriction.
    • Contains one legendary item of a random equipment slot, with a small chance to be Unique or Mythic Unique.
    • Has multiple tiers that scale with level, with greater rewards and greater costs at higher levels.
    • The cost has been adjusted so it is no longer a cheap source of Legendary Aspects.
    • Is now crafted at the Blacksmith instead of the Alchemist.

Developer’s Note: Since this cache has been very popular, we are making it more accessible while also broadening its applications. The highest tier cache is intended to be a late-game material dump.

  • Ancestral Items are now guaranteed to have at least one greater affix.
  • Nightmare Dungeons are now the source of Masterworking materials now that Glyph Experience has been moved to the Pit.
  • All beneficial Nightmare Dungeon Affixes have been removed, with the exception of Experience and Gold increases.
  • How Smoldering Ashes are acquired has been updated
    • We’ve removed the character level requirement on those tiers and implemented a new system where Smoldering Ashes can only be unlocked with Earned Favor.
    • Earned Favor is all the Favor you earn in-game by killing monsters, completing quests, and engaging with the Season Journey.
      • It does not include Favor awarded for anything outside of playing the game (tier skips).

Developer’s Note: These changes to Smoldering Ashes continue to ensure those who use Tier Skips cannot gain access to the benefits of Smoldering Ashes any sooner than players who don’t. You will also be able to claim and use Smoldering Ashes as soon as you’ve earned enough Favor—no more waiting around for your character to reach the level requirement. There’s a new icon on the Battle Pass reward track that displays your Earned Favor progress, so you’ll know exactly how far you are from unlocking your next Smoldering Ashes.

Bug Fixes

Gameplay

Barbarian

  • Fixed an issue where excessive skill ranks of Martial Vigor and Guttural Yell could result in 100% Damage reduction.

Developer’s Note: This was only possible on the Eternal Realm since the tempering recipe for additional ranks of these skills was removed in the Season of Infernal Hordes. The Damage Reduction from these passives is now capped at 80%, which requires 20 Ranks of the Skill.

  • Fixed an issue where Leap had to fully complete its animation before being able to cast Leap again.
  • Fixed an issue where the Dust Devil's Aspect could activate more frequently if Whirlwind was cancelled.
  • Fixed an issue where the tooltip for Call of the Ancients showed a higher damage value than it was dealing.

Developer’s Note: Call of the Ancients has been slightly rebalanced to compensate for this issue, dealing less damage for low-level Barbarians, and dealing more damage for Barbarians with stronger late game gear.

  • Fixed an issue where assigning a skill point to Tactical Rallying Cry did not upgrade the tooltip for Rallying Cry.

Druid

  • Fixed an issue where the buffs from Clarity and Vigilance could be unexpectedly lost.
  • Fixed an issue where the cooldown reduction from the Virulent aspect was inconsistent between Bosses and Elites.
  • Fixed an issue where the Iron Fur buff would persist after swapping between Insatiable Fury and Mad Wolf's Glee.
  • Fixed an issue where bonuses to Poison Creeper Duration did not properly update all related tooltips for duration.
  • Fixed an issue where bonuses to Lightning Bolt Damage didn't properly update all related tooltips for damage.
  • Fixed an issue where the Aspect of Vocalized Empowerment didn't grant resource generation when using Blood Howl.
  • Fixed an issue where the Aspect of the Blurred Beast did not gain damage against targets poisoned by Poison Creeper.
  • Fixed an issue where Earthen Bulwark's barrier scaled off Base Life instead of Maximum Life.
  • Fixed an issue where Nature's Fury was not triggering Hurricane when casting bolder while using Metamorphic Stone Aspect.
  • Fixed an issue where the guaranteed overpower from Obsidian slam could be consumed by non-damaging abilities.
  • Fixed an issue where Mad Wolf's Glee and Insatiable Fury could grant fewer Skill Ranks than displayed on its tooltip.
  • Fixed an issue where Petrify from The Basilisk was not properly interacting with the Supreme Petrify upgrade.
  • Fixed an issue where the Hemorrhage Legendary Paragon Node granted a lower Bleeding damage bonus than expected.
  • Fixed an issue where Landslides from Earthbreaker could trigger Nature's Fury.

Necromancer

  • Fixed an issue where Blood Orbs would remain after dying during an Encounter.
  • Fixed an issue where killing a vulnerable enemy with a Bone Skill could not generate essence when using the Aspect of Exposed Flesh.
  • Fixed an issue where higher Item Power on Bloodless Scream could have lower affix ranges than intended.
  • Fixed an issue where Bonus projectiles fired from the effect of Path of Trag'oul overlapped, which made it appear that bonus projectiles were never fired through this method.
  • Fixed an issue where the Bone Golem upgrade for shedding additional corpses was inconsistent.
  • Fixed an issue where curses cast by minions while using Blood Moon Breeches could curse the player. (Curse upon your house, wanderer!)
  • Fixed an issue where the tooltip for Unyielding Commander displayed the bonus as additive instead of multiplicative.
  • Fixed an issue where the Whither Legendary Paragon Node did not respect the 1200 Intelligence cap.
  • Fixed an issue where the Whither Legendary Paragon Node applied to damage over time inflicted on the player by the player, such as through Endurant Faith.

Rogue

  • Fixed an issue where the bonus from the Deadly Ambush legendary node could affect non-critical strike damage.
  • Fixed an issue where Rapid Fire used with Scoundrel's Kiss couldn't fire through Chilling Winds.
  • Fixed an issue where Victimize's Vulnerable Damage bonus did not properly scale with the listed value.
  • Fixed an issue where Weakened Ice barricades could not be attacked with Rapid Fire using Scoundrel's Kiss.
  • Fixed an issue where the dash from Improved Flurry was less responsive than intended.
  • Fixed an issue where Rain of Arrows was gaining more benefit from Imbuement Skills than intended. As compensation for this change, we have also increased the benefit of Prime Rain of Arrows and Word of Hakan. These changes can be seen in the Rogue section for balance changes.
  • Fixed an issue where Bursting Venoms was triggering Lucky Hit effects more often than intended.

Sorcerer

  • Fixed an issue where the damage modifier for Destructive Fireball was additive instead of multiplicative.
  • Fixed an issue where the Ball Lightning Enchantment did not properly benefit from the Gravitational Aspect.
  • Fixed an issue where Crackling Energy motes would remain after dying during an Encounter.
  • Fixed an issue where Blizzards from the Blizzard Enchantment did not benefit from the duration increase granted by Mage's Blizzard.
  • Fixed an issue where Flickerstep triggered inconsistently with Teleport Enchant evades.
  • Fixed an issue where Crackling Energy triggers chained to additional enemies in the opposite way as intended. (Ex: 70% chance was a better chance for it to happen than 90%. 100% chance was actually 0% chance. (Joke? 100% of the time, it works none of the time)
  • Fixed an issue where active Chain Lightnings would not dissipate after the player died when Axial Conduit was equipped.
  • Fixed an issue where the Attacks Reduce Evade Cooldown affix did not reduce the first Teleport Enchantment cooldown applied when equipping the Oculus.
  • Fixed an issue where Conjuration Mastery stacks were not being removed if a player unequipped the Hydra skill while Hydras were active.
  • Fixed an issue where the Elementalist aspect didn't trigger for skills that didn't cost mana, such as Meteor augmented by Starfall Coronet.
  • Fixed an issue where Inferno's tooltip did not show a damage percentage when Advanced Tooltips Information was enabled.
  • Fixed an issue where Incinerate beams from Flamethrowers Aspect were not scaling with Incinerate Size Tempering Affixes.

General

  • Fixed an issue where Mythic Unique Items could not drop for lower-level players.
  • Fixed an issue where the damage over time from Andariel's Visage didn't trigger if an affected monster was far away from the player.
  • Fixed an issue where the Aspect of Voracious Rage did not refund resource in all expected contexts.
  • Fixed an issue where Yen's Blessing could be triggered by collecting volatile blood dropped by the Blood Boiling aspect.
  • Fixed an issue where players would not gain the elemental resistance of Tassets of the Dawning Sky when taking damage from damage over time effects.
  • Fixed an issue where the objective to slay the infernal tormentor in Túr Dúlra wouldn't complete properly if Baelgemoth was killed too quickly.
  • Fixed an issue where quest progression for the Depths of Despair could be blocked if Demotath was killed too quickly.
  • Fixed an issue where Incense could be dispelled by talking to a side quest NPC.
  • Fixed an issue where enemies with post-death effects, such as Bloated Corpsefiends exploding, could delay wave completion for the Sole Survivor Event.
  • The speed of the post-death effects from Bloated Corpsefiends and Spider Hosts have been increased.
  • Fixed an issue where the Vampire Boss affix in the Pit did not appear in Pit Tiers 31 and above.
  • Fixed an issue where the following Defensive and Utility Aspects could not be imprinted on Shields.
    • Sly Steps
    • Prudent Heart
    • Assimilation
    • Concussive Strikes
  • Fixed an issue where an error could occur that would prevent progression in the Onyx Watchtower Stronghold.
  • Fixed an issue where Tempering Recipes and Pit tier Progression carried over for new Seasonal characters.
  • Fixed an issue where Whisper Invaders could drop Blackened Femurs, Gurgling Heads, and Trembling Hands.
  • Fixed an issue where the following damage effect sources did more damage to Tormented bosses than intended:
    • Vyr's Mastery
    • Gohr's Devastating Grips
    • Skullbreaker's Aspect
    • Stormclaw's Aspect
  • Fixed multiple instances where NPCs sometimes did not spawn for various quests, which block quest progression.
  • Fixed an issue where Tyrael's Might could be spammed more quickly than intended when being used with channeled skills.
  • Fixed an issue where Fists of Fate was not triggering its effect in multiple cases.

User Interface and User Experience

  • Fixed an issue where Item names in the Transmutation tab were inconsistent.
  • Fixed an issue where the tooltip for Ground Stomp didn't display the modifiers for the Enhanced and Tactical upgrades.
  • Fixed an issue where the Blast-Trapper's and Infiltrator's Aspects weren't associated with the Trap keyword when searching the Codex of Power.
  • Fixed an issue where the Aspect of Bursting Venoms and the Toxic Alchemist Aspect weren't associated with the Poison keyword when searching the Codex of Power.
  • Fixed an issue where the tooltips for Boss summoning items were inconsistent between the inventory and the summoning menu.
  • Fixed an issue where the highlighting of Necromancer Minions was inconsistent throughout various tooltips.
  • Fixed an issue where the Aspect of Vocalized Empowerment was still labeled as Aspect of Echoing Fury in the Delver Challenge aspect list.
  • Fixed an issue where Frostburn's Lucky Hit to Freeze was not displayed in Character Stats.
  • Fixed an issue where several aspects would not properly show up when using the keyword search filter in the Codex of Power.
  • Fixed an issue where there wasn't a quest marker over the Medical notes dropped by the witch in Alcarnus.
  • Fixed an issue where Life total could display as slightly above or slight below max health when affixes with bonus maximum life were present.
  • Fixed an issue where the quest pin would disappear after running away from the Frightened Pilgrims during the To Walk a Dark Path quest.
  • Fixed an issue where Temerity was not gaining the proper amount of barrier based on healing.
  • Fixed an issue where hero details was not displaying healing received from Willpower.
  • Fixed an issue where the button prompts for Modify and Unequip on Paragon Glyphs displayed as unavailable despite being functional.
  • Fixed an issue where damage bonus from the Dark Dance Aspect was displayed as multiplicative instead of additive in the tooltip.
  • Fixed an issue where the icon for Rogue's Inner Sight could remain on slain enemies.

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed an issue where items could become un-droppable after interacting with the stash while sitting on a chair.
  • Various performance, stability, and visual improvements.

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