Skills

Frenzy

• Damage increased from 30% to 70%.

Lunging Strike

• Damage increased from 33% to 90%.

Battle Lunging Strike

• Bleed damage increased from 20% to 40%.

Bash

• Damage increased from 33% to 90%.

Flay

• Damage Over Time increased from 48% to 115%.

Hammer of the Ancients

• Damage increased from 98% to 110%.

Leap

• Previously: Leap forward and slam down, dealing damage to and knocking back surrounding enemies.
• Now: Leap forward and slam down, dealing damage and slowing surrounding enemies by 70%.

Mighty Leap

• Previously: Enemies Damaged by Leap are slowed by 70%.
• Now: Leap deals 40%[x] increased damage. Enemies damaged by Leap are knocked back.

Whirlwind

• Movement Speed penalty while Whirlwinding is now additive instead of multiplicative.

Passives

Outburst

• Barbarian's Outburst passive now grants at least 1 Thorns per bonus Maximum Health threshold regardless of player level.

Developer’s Note: It's intended that the bonus Maximum Health threshold dynamically updates as the player levels, and that remains unchanged.

Unique Items

Ugly Bastard Helm

• Now Requires Wrath of the Berserker, instead of only Berserking, to be active to convert your damage to Fire.

Twin Strikes

• Updated the tooltip to make it more obvious that the Double Swing is doing 2 additional applications of damage per hit, per power instance, over the course of that 3 second window.

Tempering

Furious Augments

• Chance for Bash to Cleave changed to Chance for Bash to Hit Twice.

Paragon

Hemorrhage

• Previously: Your Bleeding damage is increased by 15%[x] of your Vulnerable Damage Bonus, up to a maximum of 45[%].
• Now: Applying a Bleed to a Vulnerable target deals 45%[x] increased damage.

Blood Rage

• Previously: Killing a Bleeding enemy has 10% chance to grant Berserking for 5 seconds. Your damage is increased by 10%[x] of your Damage while Berserking bonus, up to a maximum of 45%[x].
• Now: Killing a Bleeding enemy has 10% chance to grant Berserking for 5 seconds. You gain 45%[x] increased damage while Berserking.

Carnage

• Previously: While Berserking, Critical Strikes increase your Attack Speed by 2%[+], up to 16%[+], for 6 seconds.
• Now: Berserking now additionally grants 15%[+] Attack Speed.

Decimator

• Previously: Each time you make an enemy Vulnerable, your damage is increased by 20%[x] for 5 seconds. Overpowering a Vulnerable enemy grants an additional 20%[x] bonus for 5 seconds.
• Now: You deal 20%[x] increased damage to Vulnerable enemies. Your Overpower deals 20%[x] increased damage.

Flawless Technique

• Previously: Damaging enemies with One-Handed Weapons increases your Critical Strike chance by 1% for 4 seconds, up to 8%. This can only happen once per Skill cast, or twice per second while channeling Whirlwind.
• Now: Consecutive attacking with the same weapon increases your Critical Strike chance by 15%[+] for 4 seconds.

Force of Nature

• Previously: Your Earthquakes have a 75% chance to spawn a Dust Devil every second that deals 180% Weapon damage. Earthquake damage is increased by 40% of your Damage vs Close bonus, up to a maximum of 200%.
• Now: Your Earthquake deals 45%[x] increased damage and have a 75% chance to spawn a Dust Devil every second that deals 180% Weapon damage.

New Unique

Hooves of the Mountain God: Unique Boots

Affixes:

• Inherent: Attacks Reduce Evades Cooldown by 2.5 Seconds
• +17.5-23% Movement Speed
• +16-25% Basic Attack Speed
• +7-10 Fury Per Second
• +2-3 Ranks to Belligerence

Power:

• When reaching Maximum Fury, your Fury will rapidly drain until you run out and all your Basic skills now cleave and deal 70-100%[x] increased damage.

Skills

Earth Spike

• Damage increased from 19% to 90%.

Wind Shear

• Damage increased from 20% to 60%.

Storm Strike

• Damage increased from 20% to 60%.

Maul

• Damage increased from 26% to 80%.

Claw

• Damage increased from 28% to 80%.

Fierce Claw

• Poison Damage increased from 20% to 40%.

Pulverize

• Damage increased from 92% to 110%.

Enhanced Pulverize

• Previously: Your next Pulverize will Overpower every 12 seconds while you remain Healthy.
• Now: Every 10 seconds, your next Pulverize will Overpower.

Enhanced Debilitating Roar

• Fortify amount increased from 22% to 30%.

Innate Debilitating Roar

• Damage bonus increased from 15% to 25%.

Grizzly Rage

• Damage bonus per second in the form increased from 3% to 4%.

Prime Grizzly Rage

• Previously: Grizzly Rage makes you Unstoppable for 6 seconds.
• Now: You are Unstoppable while Grizzly Rage is active.

Passives

Toxic Claws

• Previously: Shred and Lacerate deals an additional 24/48/ 72% of their Base damage as Poisoning damage over 4 seconds.
• Now: You deal 5/10/15% increased Poison damage.

Vigilance

• Damage Reduction reduced from 7/14/21% to 5/10/15%.

Abundance

• Basic Skill Spirit generation bonus increased from 10/20/30% to 15/30/45%.

Nature's Fury

• Previously: Casting or Channeling an Earth Skill has a 40% chance to trigger a free Storm Skill of the same category, and vice versa. In addition, these free Skills count as both Earth and Storm Skills.
• Now: Casting or Channeling an Earth Skill has a 40% chance to trigger a free Storm Skill of the same category, and vice versa. In addition, you deal 20% more Earth and Storm damage and these free Skills count as both.

Ursine Strength

• Previously: Gain 30% additional Maximum Life while in Werebear form and for 3 seconds after leaving Werebear form. While Healthy, deal 15% increased damage, and 70% increased Overpower damage.
• Now: Gain 30% Maximum Life, 20% more damage, and a 100% Overpower bonus while in Werebear form and for 5 seconds after leaving it.

Legendary Aspects

Of The Ursine Horror

• Previously: Pulverize is now also an Earth Skill. After Casting Pulverize tectonic spikes continue to deal damage over 2 seconds.
• Now: Pulverize is now an Earth Skill. After it Overpowers, your Earth Skill Cooldowns are reduced by 1.0-4.0 seconds.

Mangled

• Previously: While in Werebear form, you gain 10-25 Spirit every 8 seconds.
• Now: While in Werebear form, you gain 5-10% Maximum Spirit Generation per second.

Of the Rabid Bear

• Previously: While Grizzy Rage is active, Skills that Critically Strike apply Rabies and your Poison damage is increased by 60-105%.
• Now: While Grizzy Rage is active, your direct damage is converted into Poison damage, you deal 20-40% more Poison damage, and you passively spread Rabies.

Runeworker's Conduit

• The secondary effect has been changed.
  • Previously: Your Lightning Bolt damage is increased by 15%[x] for every 100 Willpower you have.
  • Now: Your Lightning Bolts deal 25-40% increased damage.

Unique Items

Mjölnic Ryng

• Damage bonus reduced from 40-100% to 20-40%.

New Unique

Noxious Spine-Breaker: Unique 2H Weapon

Affixes:

• Inherent: 110% Damage to Poisoned enemies
• 14-18% Willpower
• 114-150% Poison Damage
• 26-35% Chance for Pulverize to Hit Twice
• 26-35% Resource Cost Reduction

Power:

• Every 10 seconds, Pulverize forms a puddle that deals 200-400% of its damage as Poisoning damage over 6 seconds. Pulverizing the puddle splashes an additional 20-40% of the puddle's total damage within the area and around it.

Skills

Reap

• Damage increased from 20% to 50%.

Hemorrhage

• Damage increased from 40% to 80%.

Decompose

• Damage increased from 60% to 150%.

Enhanced Decompose

• Damage increased from 40% to 100%.

Bone Splinters

• Damage increased from 15% to 30%.

Soul Rift

• Soul Rift no longer grants a Barrier.
• Damage bonus on Prime Soul Rift reduced from 75% to 15%.

Passives

Affliction

• Damage bonus capped at 400%.

Ossified Essence

• Previously: Your Bone Skills deal 0.5% increased damage for each point of Essence you have above 50 upon cast. Current Bonus: X%.
• Now: Your Essence Generation is increased by 50% and your Bone Skills deal 0.5% increased damage for each point of Essence you have when Cast, up to 100%[x]. Current Bonus: X%.

Shadowblight

• Base damage increased from 60% to 200%.
• Damage scaling reduced from 100% to 20%.
• Damage bonus capped at 300%.
• Now also scales with Shadow damage.

Rathma's Vigor

• Overpower bonus reduced from 120% to 100%.

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Swelling Curse: Renamed to Aspect of Decaying Humerus

• Previously: Bone Spirit's Critical Strike Chance is increased by 10-30%. Each enemy hit by Bone Spirit increases your Essence by 2 for 15 seconds, up to 50.
• Now: Your Bone Skills now deal Shadow damage instead of Physical. Enemies take 15-25% increased Shadow damage after being hit with a Bone Skill.

Of Plunging Darkness

• Previously: Bone Prison is now a Darkness Skill and spawns a pool of Blight that deals 80-140% bonus damage over 6 seconds.
• Now: Bone Prison is now a Darkness Skill and spawns a pool of Blight for 6 seconds. Your Blights deal 40-60% increased damage while Bone Prison is active.

Blighted

• Previously: You deal 35-55%[x] increased damage for 6 seconds after the Shadowblight Key Passive damages enemies 10 times.
• Now: Consecutive hits with the Shadowblight Key Passive deal 15-25%[x] increased damage for each hit, resetting 6 seconds after the first.

Blood Soaked

• Previously: Blood Mist leaves a trail of Desecrated Ground that lasts for 4 seconds and deals 45-65% Corrupting damage per second. Gain +20% Movement Speed while Blood Mist is active.
• Now: Blood Mist leaves a trail of Desecrated Ground that lasts for 8 seconds and dealing 35-55% Corrupting damage per second. Gain +30% Movement Speed while Blood Mist is active and while standing on Desecrated Ground.
• Is now a Mobility Aspect rather than offensive.

Of Creeping Mist - Renamed to Creeping Cadaver

• Previously: Gain 20-40% Evade Cooldown Reduction. You can now Evade during Blood Mist, traveling twice as far. Entering or exiting Blood Mist resets your Evade Cooldown.
• Now: Consuming a Corpse increases your Movement Speed by 20-40% for 8 seconds.

Coldbringer's

• Time between Blizzard casts reduced from 6 to 4 seconds.

Unique Items

Deathless Visage

• Echo damage reduced from 40-80% to 20-40%.

Indira's Memory

• Damage bonus reduced from 40-80% to 20-40%.

Bloodless Scream

• Previously: Your Darkness Skills Chill enemies for up to 100% and deal 100-200% increased damage to Frozen enemies. Lucky Hit: Your Darkness Skills have up to a 100% chance to generate 15-25 additional Essence against Frozen targets.
• Now: Your Darkness Skills Chill enemies for up to 100% and deal 100-200% increased damage to Frozen enemies, and Bosses. Every 800 times you damage enemies with Darkness Skills, all Nearby enemies are Feared for 0.25 seconds before Freezing for 3 more seconds.

Paragon

Bloodbath

• Overpower damage bonus reduced from 100%[x] to 40%[x].

New Unique

The Hand of Naz: Unique Gloves

Affixes:

• 77.5-100% Skeletal Mage Damage
• 10.5-15% Attack Speed
• +424-457 Maximum Life
• +2-4 Skeletal Mage Mastery

Power:

• Sacrificing both Skeletal Warriors and Golems grants an additional Skeletal Mage for each Minion sacrificed.
• When a Skeletal Mage attacks enemies 25 times without dying it upgrades to a Skeletal Arch-Mage.
• Skeletal Arch-Mages teleport to safety when attacked and their attacks occasionally shatter on impact dealing 50-100% increased damage to the target and up to 3 additional targets.

Skills

Puncture

• Damage increased from 21% to 45%.

Heartseeker

• Damage increased from 24% to 50%.

Forceful Arrow

• Damage increased from 33% to 50%.

Invigorating Strike

• Damage increased from 45% to 65%.

Blade Shift

• Damage increased from 30% to 45%.

Enhanced Dance of Knives

• Meters required to gain charges increased from 30 to 34.

Developer’s Note: This will slightly increase the movement speed requirement needed to make Dance of Knives infinite.

Supreme Death Trap

• Damage to enemies who resist the pull reduced from 180% to 60%.
• Now properly damages unstoppable enemies.
• Deals twice as much damage instead of an extra hit from the Rank 5 pull.

Improved Flurry

• Previously: Casting Flurry dashes you to the target and Heals for 10% of your Maximum life.
• Now: Casting Flurry dashes you to the target and Heals for 10% of your Maximum life over 1.5 seconds.

Subverting Concealment

• Previously: The Skill that breaks Concealment will always be a guaranteed Critical Strike and makes enemies Vulnerable for 6 seconds.
• Now: Breaking Concealment causes all Skills for 4 seconds to be guaranteed Critical Strikes and make enemies Vulnerable for 3 seconds.

Passives

Close Quarter's Combat

• % of Damage to Close reduced from 25% to 10%.
• Damage bonus is capped at 90%.

Precision

• Damage bonus is capped at 360%.

Alchemical Admixture

• % of Cold, Poison, Shadow reduced from 40% to 12%.
• Potency bonus capped at 150%.

Victimize

• % of Vulnerable damage reduced from 150% to 20%.
• Victimize damage bonus capped at 300%.
• Victimize base damage increased from 60% to 90%.

Legendary Aspects

Energizing Aspect

• Previously: Damaging an Elite enemy with a Basic Skill generates 4 Energy. Gain 10-45 Energy after killing an Elite enemy with a Basic Skill.
• Now: Damaging an enemy with a Basic Skill generates 6 Energy. Gain 10-30 Energy after killing an Elite enemy.

Infiltrator's

• Previously: Poison Trap no longer breaks Stealth and triggers no Cooldown or arm time while you are in Stealth. All Poison Traps activate when you exit Stealth and Poison Trap's Cooldown will be 8-4 seconds per trap placed.
• Now: Poison Trap no longer breaks Stealth and triggers no Cooldown or arm time while you are in Stealth. All Poison Traps activate when you exit Stealth and begin Poison Trap's Cooldown. Poison Trap's Cooldown is reduced by 10-50%.
• Now a Utility Legendary rather than Offensive.

Cheat's

• Previously: You take 10-30% less damage from Crowd Controlled enemies. Whenever a Crowd Controlled enemy deals direct damage to you, gain 15% Movement Speed for 2 seconds.
• Now: You have 5-15% increased Damage Reduction and 10% increased Movement Speed, doubled while below 50% Maximum Life.

Of Volatile Shadows

• Previously: When a Dark Shroud shadow is removed you trigger an explosion that deals x Shadow damage and applies Shadow Imbuement to each enemy it hits.
• Now: Shadow Imbuement deals 10%[x] increased damage per Skill Rank of the Imbued Skill. Every 10 seconds, when your imbued Skill hits an enemy you trigger a large explosion dealing x Shadow damage and applying Shadow Imbuement to each enemy it hits.

Aspect of Bursting Venoms

• Previously: Lucky Hit: Poison Imbued Skills have up to a 15% chance to create a toxic pool that deals [280-364]% Poisoning damage over 3 seconds to enemies within. While standing in the pool, your Poison Imbuement Skill has no Cooldown and no Charge limit.
• Now: Lucky Hit: Poison Imbued Skills have up to a [15-35]% chance to deploy a Poison Trap while you have Poison Trap equipped.

Of The Dark Dance

• Damage bonus is now multiplicative instead of additive.

Unique Items

Eaglehorn

• Previously: Penetrating Shot makes enemies vulnerable for 2 seconds. Every 4th Penetrating Shot bounces off walls and deals 50-150%[x] increased damage.
• Now: Penetrating Shot bounces off walls and deals 40-80%[x] increased damage.

Eyes in the Dark

• Previously: Death Trap deals 50-150% increased damage and will rearm itself once after activating.
• Now: Your next Death Trap will deal 100-200% increased damage and rearm itself after activating. This can only happen once every 10 seconds.

Paragon

Danse Macabre

• Previously: Casting a Mobility or Subterfuge Skill increases the damage of your next Skill by 75%[x].
• Now: Casting a Mobility or Subterfuge Skill increases your damage by 30%[x] for 10 seconds.

Tricks of the Trade

• Previously: Your Marksman Skills grant your Cutthroat Skills 25%[x] increased damage for 8 seconds. Your Cutthroat Skills grant your Marksman Skills 25%[x] increased damage for 8 seconds.
• Now: Enemies damaged by your Marksman Skills take 30% increased damage from your Cutthroat Skills, and vice versa.

Eldritch Bounty

• Previously: When you attack with an Imbued Skill you gain 3% Maximum Resistance and 30% increased damage for that Imbuement's Element for 9 seconds.
• Now: Each equipped Imbuement Skill grants 3% Maximum Resistance and 30% increased damage for that Imbuement's Element.

New Unique

Deathmask of Nirmitruq: Unique Helm

Affixes:

• +424-457 Maximum Life
• +2-3 Skillranks to Flurry
• +16-25 Movement Speed
• +224-296 Armor

Power:

• You can now overexert yourself while Casting Flurry, spending 10% life when you don't have enough Energy. Spending life to Cast Flurry increases its damage by 30-50% and your Attack Speed by 50% for 5 seconds.

Developer’s Note: Flurry will fail to cast when the player has neither enough energy nor health available.

Skills

Frost Bolt

• Damage increased from 38% to 90%.

Arc Lash

• Damage increased from 42% to 80%.

Fire Bolt

• Damage Over Time increased from 44% to 90%.

Spark

• Damage increased from 12% to 25%.

Enhanced Spark

• Damage increased from 9% to 20%.

Lightning Spear

• Damage increased from 16% to 80%.

Invoked Lightning Spear

• Stun Duration reduced from 2 seconds to 0.5 seconds.

Hydra

• No longer has a Mana cost.
• Damage increased from 23% to 35%.
• Lucky Hit Chance increased from 2.5% to 5%.

Firewall

• Base damage increased from 230% to 300%.

Incinerate

• Starting damage increased from 120% to 150%.
• Maximum ramp up damage increased from 162% to 203%.

Inferno

• Damage increased from 354% to 425%.

Passives

Combustion

• Previously: Your Burning effects deal 60%[x] increased damage, and an additional 25%[x] of your Burning Damage and Damage to Burning target bonuses.
• Now: Your Burning effects deal 50%[x] increased damage, and an additional 20%[x] of your Burning Damage and Damage to Burning target bonuses, up to 100%[x].

Vyr's Mastery

• Previously: While Charged: Critical Strikes have a 15% chance to arc as Lightning damage to another nearby enemy, or if there are no other targets you hit the target again for 500% of the damage.
• Now: While Charged: Critical Strikes have a 25% chance to arc as Lightning damage to up to 3 other surrounding enemies or if there are no other targets you hit the target again for 300% of the damage.

Enlightenment

• Previously: While Enlightened your Damage Bonuses with Fire, Lightning, and Cold are equal to them combined and you gain:
  • 25%[x] Damage
  • 45%[+] Mana Regeneration
  • 20%[+] Attack Speed
• Now: While Enlightened your Damage Bonuses with Fire, Lightning, and Cold are equal to the highest bonus among them and you gain:
  • 70%[x] Damage
  • 45%[+] Mana Regeneration
  • 30%[+] Attack Speed

Legendary Aspects

Serpentine Aspect

• Previously: You may have 1 additional Hydra active, and Hydra's duration is increased by 10-30%.
• Now: Casting Hydra Consumes all your Mana to increase its damage by 0.5-2.5% per Mana spent.

Aspect of Three Curses: Renamed to Flash Fire Aspect

• Previously: Increases the Critical Strike Damage of Fireball and Meteor by 25-45%[x]. Double this bonus against Healthy targets.
• Now: Increases the Critical Strike Damage of Pyromancy Skills by 25-45%[x]. Double this bonus against Healthy targets.

Battle Caster's Aspect

• Maximum stacks increased from 5 to 10.

Shivering Aspect

• Updated wording to reference how much Chill or Staggering they have built up instead of how much they are Chilled or Staggering.

Aspect of Splintering Energy

• Previously: Critical Hits with Lightning Spear cause the spear to arc to the target and up to 5 other enemies. This damage is increased by 60-100%[x] of your Critical Strike Damage Bonus.
• Now: Critical Hits with Lightning Spear cause the spear to arc to the target and up to 5 other enemies, dealing 60%[x] of normal damage. Lightning Spear deals 20-40%[x] increased damage.

Tempering

Conjuration Fortune

• Magic Rarity
  • Conjuration Lucky Hit Chance increased from 2.5-4.0% to 6.0-8.0%.
• Rare Rarity
  • Conjuration Lucky Hit Chance increased from 3.0-5.0% to 8.0-10.0%.
• Legendary Rarity
  • Conjuration Lucky Hit Chance increased from 4.0-6.0% to 8.0-12.5%.

New Unique

Ophidian Iris: Unique Amulet

Affixes:

• Inherent: +30% Resistance to all Elements
• Inherent: Casted Hydras Have +2 Heads
• +11.5-15.7% Intelligence
• +5.2-6.0 Critical Strike Chance
• +77.5-100% Pyromancy Damage
• +1-2 to Devouring Blaze

Power:

• Hydra is now a Core Skill and always Summons a 3-headed Hydra whose attacks explode on impact.
• For each head above 3 that it would have had, the Hydra instead grows larger and deals 50-100%[x] increased damage.

Skills

Thrash

• Damage increased from 18% to 40%.
• Third hit damage increased from 27% to 70%.

Withering Fist

• Damage Over Time increased from 36% to 65%.

Thunderspike

• Damage increased from 15% to 45%.
• Third hit damage increased from 32% to 65%.

Rock Splitter

• Damage increased from 20% to 50%.
• Third hit damage increased from 28% to 80%.

Exalted Hunter

• Previously: Killing an enemy while The Hunter is present has a 40% chance to instantly reset its Cooldown. This chance is halved after each consecutive reset.
• Now: Killing an enemy while The Hunter is present reduces this cooldown by 5 seconds. Hitting a boss reduces its cooldown by 1 second.

Passives

Noxious Resonance

• Previously: Your Critical Strikes cause your Poisoning on an enemy to burst, dealing 100% of the total Poisoning instantly to them and 20% of it to surrounding enemies before removing the Poisoning effect from the primary target. This damage is increased by 30% of your Critical Strike Damage bonus.
• Now: Your Critical Strikes cause your Poisoning on an enemy to burst, dealing 180% of the total Poisoning instantly to them and 20% of the burst to surrounding enemies before removing the Poisoning effect from the primary target.

Nourishment

• Damage bonus now applies to all Poison damage instead of just Poisoning Damage.

Acceleration

• Previously: Gain 1 additional Evade Charge. After you Evade, your Eagle Skills deal 8%[x] increased damage for 2 seconds.
• Now: Gain 1 additional Evade Charge. After you Evade or use a Mobility Skill, your Eagle Skills deal 8%[x] increased damage for 3 seconds.

Items

Deflection Aspect

• Previously: While active, Counterattack reflects incoming Razor Wings back out again. Other Small Missiles are also deflected back at enemies and deal 26-54% of Counterattack's Base damage on impact.
• Now: While active, Counterattack reflects incoming Razor Wings back out again with 30-50%[x] increased damage. Other Small Missiles are also deflected back at enemies and deal 30-50% of Counterattack's Base damage on impact.

Sepazontec

• Damage bonus reduced from 80-130%[x] to 50-100%[x].

Paragon

In-Fighter

• Previously: When you Dodge or Block an attack you gain 2.0%[+] increased Attack Speed and 1.0%[x] increased Damage for 5 seconds, stacking up to 9 times.
• Now: When you Dodge or Block an attack, gain 20%[+] increased Attack Speed and 15%[x] increased Damage for 5 seconds.

Drive

• Each stack no longer has an individual timer.

Convergence

• Previously: You deal bonus damage equal to 20%[x] of your 2 highest bonuses to Damage with Physical, Fire, Lightning, Cold, Poison, and Shadow combined, up to 30% total.
• Now: You deal bonus damage equal to 3.5%[x] of all your bonuses to Damage with Physical, Fire, Lightning, Cold, Poison, and Shadow combined, up to 30% total.

New Unique

Balazan's Maxtlatl: Unique Pants

Affixes:

• +107-121 Dexterity
• +424-457 Maximum Life
• +268-373 Thorns
• +2-3 Ranks to Bastion

Power:

• Each attack damages Close enemies for 200-300% of your Thorns and deals 100% of this damage as Poisoning over 3 seconds.
• Each time you've retaliated with Thorns, for 5 seconds the Poisoning damage is increased by 100%, up to 300%.