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%.

Enhanced Flay

• Vulnerable proc chance increased from 15% to 50%.

Wrath of the Berserker

• No longer interrupts movement or channeling.
• Previous: Explode into rage, Knocking Back surrounding enemies and gaining Berserking and Unstoppable for 5 seconds. For the next 10 seconds, dealing direct damage with Basic Skills grants Berserking for 5 seconds.
• Now: Explode into rage, Knocking Back surrounding enemies and gaining Berserking and Unstoppable for 10 seconds.

Hammer of the Ancients

• Damage increased from 98% to 110%.

Leap

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

Mighty Leap

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

Whirlwind

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

Passives

Heavy Hitter

• Reduced damage bonus from 15%[x] to 10%[x].

Outburst

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

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

Legendary Aspects

Executioner's Aspect

• Earthquake damage bonus reduced from 200%[x] to 100%[x].

Unique Items

Hooves of the Mountain God - Unique Boots (new)

• 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.

Ugly Bastard Helm

• Damage bonus decreased from 80-100%[x] to 40-60[x].
• The Fire buff will now require Wrath of the Berserker to be active.

Twin Strikes

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

Hooves of the Mountain God

• Cleave radius increased from 135 to 150.

Arreat's Bearing

• Dust Devil damage reduced by 50%.

Unbroken Chain

• Replaced increased +% Movement Speed for increased +% Strength.

Tempering

Furious Augments

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

Vehement Augments Weapons Tempering Recipe

• Replaced Heavy Hitter with Wallop.

Paragon

Hemorrage

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

Blood Rage

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

Carnage

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

Decimator

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

Flawless Technique

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

Force of Nature

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

Rumble Glyph

• Earthquake damage bonus reduced from 35.1% to 30.1%.

Skills

Earth Spike

• Damage increased from 19% to 90%.

Wind Shear

• Damage increased from 20% to 60%.

Storm Strike

• After chaining, Storm Strike will now chain back to old targets after running out of new options to chain to.

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 110% to 150%.

Enhanced Pulverize

• Previous: Every 10 seconds, your next Pulverize will Overpower.
• Now: Pulverize deals 30% increased damage to Crowd Controlled enemies and Bosses.

Raging Pulverize

• Previous: Pulverize deals 75% increased Overpower damage. Enemies Overpowered by Pulverize are Stunned for 3 seconds.
• Now: Every 10 seconds, Pulverize is guaranteed to Overpower and make enemies take 20% more damage for 5 seconds.

Primal Pulverize

• Enemy damage reduction duration increased from 4 to 5 seconds.

Enhanced Debilitating Roar

• Fortify amount increased from 22% to 30%.

Innate Debilitating Roar

• Damage bonus increased from 15% to 25%.

Grizzly Rage

• Companion Skills are always usable during Grizzly Rage.
• Rank 5 Bonus:
  • Previous: Companion Skills can be Cast during Grizzly Rage.
  • Now: You gain 30% increased Armor while Grizzly Rage is active.

Prime Grizzly Rage

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

Passives

Toxic Claws

• Previous: You deal 5/10/15% increased Poison damage.
• Now: You deal 5/10/15% increased Poison damage. This is doubled while in Werewolf form and for 8 seconds after leaving it.

Vigilance

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

Abundance

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

Nature's Fury

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

Ursine Strength

• Previous: Gain 30% additional Maximum Life while in Werebear form and for 3 seconds after leaving Werebear form. While Healthy, deal 15% increased damage, and 70% increased Overpower damage.
• Now: Gain 30% Maximum Life, 20% more damage, and a 100% Overpower bonus while in Werebear form and for 8 seconds after leaving it.
• Bonuses remain for 8 seconds after leaving Werebear form, up from 5 seconds.

Provocation

• Previous: When you remain in Werebear form for at least 20/16/12 seconds, your next non-Defensive Skill will Overpower.
• Now: After 10 seconds of Werebear form, your next non-Defensive Skill will Overpower and deal 5/10/15% increased damage.

Legendary Aspects

Of The Ursine Horror

• Category changed from Offensive to Utility.
• Previous: Pulverize is now also an Earth Skill. After Casting Pulverize tectonic spikes continue to deal damage over 2 seconds.
• Now: Pulverize is now an Earth Skill. After it Overpowers, your Earth Skill Cooldowns are reduced by 0.5-1.25 seconds.
• Earth Skill Cooldown reduction reduced from 1-4 seconds to 0.5-1.25 seconds.

Mangled

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

Of the Rabid Bear

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

Runeworker's Conduit

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

Shockwave Aspect

• Will now trigger the puddle effect of Rotting Lightbringer.

Aspect of the Rabid Bear

• Poison Damage Bonus increased from 20-40% to 40-80%.

Aspect of the Rampaging Werebeast

• Damage bonus per stack increased from 3% to 5%, up to 100% from 60%.

Dire Wolf's Aspect

• Category changed from Offensive to Utility.
• Movement Speed increased from 10-30% to 20-40%.
• Spirit Cost Reduction reduced from 40-80% to 20-40%.

Aspect of Metamorphic Stone

• Boulder damage increased from 90-130% to 120-160% of normal damage.

Aspect of Seismic Shift

• Previous: Earth Spike deals 50-70% increased damage and launches spikes in a line.
• Now: Earth Spike deals 50-70% increased damage and launches 2 rows of spikes in a line.

Overcharged Aspect

• Previous: Lucky Hit has up to a 15-30% when dealing Lightning damage to overload the target for 3 seconds, causing any direct damage you deal to them to pulse additional damage to surrounding enemies.
• Now: Your direct Lightning damage makes your Storm Skills deal 0.8-1.3% more damage to the enemy, up to 40-65%. At maximum stacks, the target becomes Vulnerable.

Unique Items

Rotting Lightbringer – Unique Two-Handed Weapon (new)

• Affixes
  • Inherent: 110% Damage to Poisoned enemies.
  • 14-18% Willpower increased to 18-22%.
  • 114-150% Poison Damage increased to 406-550% Poison damage.
  • 26-35% Chance for Pulverize to Hit Twice
  • 26-35% Resource Cost Reduction
• Power:
  • Previous: Every 10 seconds, Pulverize forms a puddle that deals 200-400% of its damage as Poisoning damage over 6 seconds. Pulverizing the puddle splashes an additional 20-40% of the puddle's total damage within the area and around it.
  • Now: If no puddle is around you, Pulverize forms a puddle that guarantees its own Overpowers and deals 200-600% of its normal damage as Poisoning over 7 seconds. Pulverize causes all close puddles to splash 20-60% of their total damage within their areas and around them.
• Functionality Change:
  • Pulverize radius increase will affect the size of the puddle and its splashes.

Mjölnic Ryng

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

Greatstaff of the Crone

• Damage increased from 170-250% to 200-350%.

Dolmen Stone

• Boulder damage increased from 20-40% per boulder to 30-50%.

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%.

Supreme Blood Wave

• Number of Blood Orbs spawned reduced from 3 to 2.

Book of the Dead

Cold Mage Second Upgrade

• Previous: Cold Mage attacks make enemies Vulnerable for 4 seconds.
• Now: Cold Mage attacks make enemies Vulnerable for 4 seconds and have a 10% chance to instantly Freeze the target for 2.5 seconds.

Passives

Affliction

• Damage enemies take from you increased from 15% to 45%.
• Scaling percent increased from 30% to 120%.
• Base damage increased from 100% to 180%.
• Damage capped at 900%.

Ossified Essence

• Previous: Your Bone Skills deal 0.5% increased damage for each point of Essence you have above 50 upon cast. Current Bonus: X%
• Now: Your Essence Generation is increased by 50% and your Bone Skills deal 0.7% increased damage for each point of Essence you have when Cast, up to 140%[x]. Current Bonus: X%
• Damage per Essence used increased from 0.5% to 0.7%.
• Cap increased from 100% to 140%.

Shadowblight

• Base damage increased from 60% to 200%.
• Damage scaling reduced from 100% to 70%.
• Damage bonus capped at 450%.
• Now also scales with Shadow damage.
• Scaling percent increased from 20% to 70%.
• Damage cap increased from 300% to 450%.

Rathma's Vigor

• Overpower bonus reduced from 120% to 100%.

Serration

• Critical Chance increased from 0.3% to 1%.

Titan's Fall

• Previous: While Fortified, you deal 6% increased damage to Elites.
• Now: You deal 5% increased damage to Elites.

Necrotic Fortitude

• Lucky Hit chance per level increased from 5% to 7%.

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Swelling Curse - Renamed to Aspect of Decaying Humerus

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

Of Plunging Darkness

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

Blighted

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

Blood Soaked

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

Of Creeping Mist - Renamed to Creeping Cadaver

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

Coldbringer's

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

Bone Duster's Aspect

• Previous: Bone Spear is guaranteed to Overpower enemies within Bone Prison and deals 30-45%[x] increased damage to them.
• Now: Bone Spear deals 30-45%[x] increased damage to enemies within Bone Prison and the first Bone Spear to hit each enemy within it is guaranteed to Overpower.

Unique Items

The Hand of Naz - Unique Gloves (new)

• 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.
  • Arch-Mage size slightly increased.
  • Arch-Mages now become unstoppable for a moment after teleporting.
  • Delay between when Arch-Mage splinters can fire again reduced.

Deathless Visage

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

Indira's Memory

• Damage bonus reduced from 40-80% to 20-40%.
• Adjusted the tooltip for Indira's Memory to clarify that only the player's Bone Spears can consume corpses.

Bloodless Scream

• Affixes
  • Intelligence bonus normalized with other weapons values.
  • Freeze Duration affix replaced with Lucky Hit: Chance to restore resource.
  • Lucky Hit Chance affix replaced with Lucky Hit: Up to a 40% chance to deal 8500-13500 Shadow damage.
  • Ranks to Darkness Skills increased from 1-2 to 2-4.
• Powers
  • Previous: Your Darkness Skills Chill enemies for up to 100% and deal 100-200% increased damage to Frozen enemies. Lucky Hit: Your Darkness Skills have up to a 100% chance to generate 15-25 additional Essence against Frozen targets.
  • Now:Your Darkness Skills Chill enemies for up to 100% and deal 100-200% increased damage to Frozen enemies, and Bosses. Every 800 times you damage enemies with Darkness Skills, all Nearby enemies are Feared for 0.25 seconds before Freezing for 3 more seconds.

Paragon

Bloodbath

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

Flesh Eater

• Corpse requirement reduced from 5 to 3.

Hulking Monstrosity

• Previous: Your Golem has 40% increased Maximum Life and deals 100%[x] increased damage.
• Now: Your Golem has 40% increased Maximum Life and deals 100%[x] increased damage.
• Skeletal Mages and Warriors Sacrifice bonuses grant an additional 35%[x] Golem damage.

Bone Graft

• Number of total stacks reduced from 8 to 4.
• Damage per stack increased from 1% to 5%.

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.

Death Trap

• No longer reduces cooldown from kills or overpowers baseline.
• Rank 5
  • Previous: Death Trap has an additional Pull In effect when it appears.
  • Now: Killing or Overpowering an enemy with Death Trap has a 20% chance to reset its Cooldown.
• Skill Ranks beyond 5 increase the chance for Death Trap to reset by 1% per rank.
• Damage reduced from 300% to 200%.

Supreme Death Trap

• Damage to enemies who resist the pull reduced from 180% to 60%.
• Now properly damages Unstoppable enemies.

Advanced Flurry

• Previous: Successive casts of Flurry increase its damage by 10%[x] and reduce its Energy cost 15%, up to 3 times.
• Now: Successive casts of Flurry increase its damage by 10%[x] and store 10 Energy, up to 3 times. Casting a different Skill resets this bonus and grants all stored Energy.

Developer’s Note: In combination with the new Unique, this upgrade made it harder to achieve the powered-up state. This change hopes to compensate for that while granting a similar bonus.

Improved Flurry

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

Subverting Concealment

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

Shadow Clone

• Damage reduced from 60% to 40%.

Supreme Shadow Clone

• Previous: Shadow Clone deals 20% additional damage.
• Now: Shadow Clone engulfs you in its visage granting 20% Damage Reduction for the duration.

Passives

Close Quarter's Combat

• The % of Damage to Close increased from 25% to 50%.
• Damage bonus is capped at 90%.
• Percentage of Damage to Close for scaling increased from 10% to 50%.

Precision

• Percentage of Critical Strike Damage bonus for scaling increased from 20% to 100%.
• Damage bonus is capped at 360%.

Alchemical Admixture

• Previous: Dealing 2 different types of Non-Physical damage increases the Potency of your Imbuement Skills by 40%[x] for 5 seconds. This Potency is further increased by 40% of the total amount of your Bonus damage to Poison, Shadow, and Cold. Current bonus is a multiplicative percentage based off your current stats.
• Now: Dealing 2 different types of Non-Physical damage increases the Potency of your Imbuement Skills by 100% and Non-Physical Damage by 50%[x] for 8 seconds.

Victimize

• Previous: Lucky Hit: Dealing direct damage to a Vulnerable enemy has up to a 50% chance to cause an explosion, dealing 60% damage of the same type to them and surrounding enemies. Victimize's damage is increased by 150%[x] of your Vulnerable Damage Bonus.
• Now: Lucky Hit: Dealing direct damage to a Vulnerable enemy has up to a 50% chance to cause an explosion, dealing 200% damage of the same type to them and surrounding enemies.
• Enemies hit by Victimize's explosion take 75%[x] increased damage from you for 3 seconds.

Legendary Aspects

Energizing Aspect

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

Infiltrator's

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

Cheat's

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

Of Volatile Shadows

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

Aspect of Bursting Venoms

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

Of The Dark Dance

• Damage bonus is now multiplicative instead of additive.

Coldclip

• Previous: Your Basic skills are always Cold Imbued. You deal 5-20% increased damage to enemies that are Chilled or Frozen.
• Now: You deal 20-40% increased damage to enemies that are Chilled or Frozen. Your Basic Skills are always Cold Imbued at 50% potency and gain this damage bonus against Bosses.
• Damage now properly scales with Ancestral versions.

Ravager's

• Previous: Shadow Step has an additional Charge. Killing an enemy with Shadow Step refunds a Charge and increases the damage of Shadow Step by 4.5 - 12% for 2 seconds, up to 27 - 87%.
• Now: Shadow Step has an additional Charge and gains a charge when it kills an enemy. Casting Shadow Step increases its damage by 9 - 18% for 5 seconds, up to 45 - 90%.

Unique Items

Deathmask of Nirmitruq - Unique Helm (new)

• Affixes
  • +424-457 Maximum Life
  • +2-3 Skillranks to Flurry
  • +16-25 Movement Speed
  • +224-296 Armor
• Power
  • You can now overexert yourself while Casting Flurry, spending 8% life when you don't have enough Energy. Spending life to Cast Flurry increases its damage by 50-70% and your Attack Speed by 50% for 5 seconds.
  • Developer's Note: Flurry will fail to cast when the player has neither enough energy or health available.
  • Damage bonus increased from 30-50% to 50-70%.
  • Health damage lost reduced from 10% to 8%.

Eaglehorn

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

• Developer’s Note: What did it bounce off of? Yes.

Eyes in the Dark

• Previous: Death Trap deals 50-150% increased damage and will rearm itself once after activating.
• Now: Death Trap deals 40-60%[x] damage and will rearm itself after activating, once every 10 seconds.
• Damage bonus reduced from 100-200% to 40-60%.
• Now always grants the bonus, rather than only on the additional cast.

Paragon

Danse Macabre

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

Developer’s Note: We've updated this to improve the gameplay feel around this legendary node.

Tricks of the Trade

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

Eldritch Bounty

• Previous: When you attack with an Imbued Skill you gain 3% Maximum Resistance and 30% increased damage for that Imbuement's Element for 9 seconds.
• Now: Poison, Shadow, and Cold gain 3% Maximum Resistance and 30%[x] increased damage.

No Witnesses

• Previous: Your Ultimate Skills gain an additional 20%[x] damage from your Damage with Ultimate bonus and grant this bonus to all Skills for 10 seconds when cast. Maximum 60%[x].
• Now: Your Ultimate Skills gain an additional 20%[x] damage from your Damage with Ultimate bonus and grant this bonus to all other Skills for 10 seconds when cast. Maximum 40%[x].

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%.
• Hydra heads now attack immediately upon spawn, unless Hydra has been cast multiple times rapidly in succession.

Developer’s Note: This change is intended to make Hydra feel snappy and responsive after casting in most situations, but it should also discourage repeatedly spamming Hydra casts at high attack speed to trigger more immediate attacks.

Invoked Hydra

• Previously: After you Critically Strike, your Hydras gain 30%[+] Critical Strike Chance for 3 seconds.
• Now: Hydras gain 50%[x] Critical Strike damage and 20%[+] Critical Strike Chance.

Firewall

• Base damage increased from 230% to 300%.

Incinerate

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

Inferno

• Damage increased from 354% to 425%.

Passives

Combustion

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

Vyr's Mastery

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

Enlightenment

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

Paragon

Searing Heat Legendary Paragon Node

• Pyromancy Skills Critical Strike Chance increased from 12%[+] to 15%[+].

Icefall Legendary Paragon Node

• Frost Skill damage increased from 25%[x] to 35%[x].

Legendary Aspects

• Aspect of Three Curses - Renamed to Flash Fire Aspect.
• Previous: Increases the Critical Strike Damage of Fireball and Meteor by 25-45%[x]. Double this bonus against Healthy targets.
• Now: Increases the Critical Strike Damage of Pyromancy Skills by 25-45%[x]. Double this bonus against Healthy targets.

Battle Caster's Aspect

• Maximum stacks increased from 5 to 10.

Shivering Aspect

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

Aspect of Splintering Energy

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

Serpentine Aspect

• Previously: Casting Hydra Consumes all of your Mana to increase its damage by 0.5-2.5%[x] per Mana spent.
• Now: Hydras deals 0.50-1.50%[x] increased damage per Mana you had when Summoned. Casting Hydra Consumes all of your Mana.

Developer’s Note: This update allows the Hydra Enchantment to benefit from Serpentine Aspect without consuming all of your Mana, which is only consumed when the skill is cast.

Firestarter Aspect

• Ranks increased from 16 to 21.
• Previous: When newly Burning an enemy, you deal an additional 75-150% Fire damage to them. This effect is treated as a Pyromancy Skill.
• Now: Gain 10-30%[x] increased Fire Damage. When newly Burning an enemy, you deal an additional 150% Pyromancy Fire damage to them. This effect is treated as a Pyromancy Skill.

Unique items

Ophidian Iris - Unique Amulet (new)

• Affixes
  • Inherent: +30% Resistance to all Elements
  • Inherent: Casted Hydras Have +2 Heads.
  • +11.5-15.7% Intelligence
  • +10.5-15 Attack Speed
  • +77.5-100% Pyromancy Damage
  • +1-2 to Primordial Binding
• Power
  • Hydra is now a Core Skill and always summons a 3-headed Hydra whose attacks explode on impact.
  • For each head above 3 that it would have had, the Hydra instead grows larger and deals 50-100%[x] increased damage.

Ophidian Iris

• Skill Ranks of Devouring Blaze affix replaced with Skill Ranks of Primordial Binding.
• Critical Strike Chance affix replaced with Attack Speed.

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%.

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%.

Harmonious Hunter

• Damage bonus to Injured decreased from 100%[x] to 50%[x].
• Reduced maximum Ferocity gained from 4 to 2.

Exalted Hunter

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

Harmonious Devourer

• Enemies affected by toxic globs also take 50% [x] increased Poison Damage.

Harmonious Seeker

• Player attacks are guaranteed to Critically Strike for the duration of the Eagle Spirit.

Exalted Protector

• Player deals 25%[x] increased damage while in The Protector's area.

Passives

Noxious Resonance

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

Nourishment

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

Acceleration

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

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Deflection

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

Aspect Of Fleet Wings

• Active ability changed to now increase Potency damage by 3-5%[x] for each active Razor Wing.
• Now an offensive aspect.

Unique Items

Balazan's Maxtlatl - Unique Pants (new)

• Affixes
  • +107-121 Dexterity
  • +424-457 Maximum Life
  • +268-373 Thorns
  • +2-3 Ranks to Bastion
• Power
  • Each attack damages Close enemies for 200-300% of your Thorns also deals 100% of this damage as Poisoning over 3 seconds.
  • Each time you've retaliated with Thorns, for 5 seconds the Poisoning damage is increased by 100%, up to 300%.
  • Thorns Damage decreased from 200-300% to 100-150%.

Sepazontec

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

Paragon

In-Fighter

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

Drive

• Each Stack no longer has an individual timer.

Convergence

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