Unique Items

Melted heart of Selig

• Previous: Gain 60 Maximum Resource. When taking damage, 75% is Drained as 2 Resource for every 1% of Maximum Life you would have lost.
• Now: Damage is dealt to your Primary Resource before Life and damage taken this way is drastically reduced. Your Primary Resource is doubled but Maximum Life is reduced by 75%. Each point in your Primary Stat increases your Primary Resource by 3%[+] but you have 75% reduced life. Any damage you would take is dealt to your Primary Resource before your life. If you have not taken damage in 6 seconds, your Resource regenerates to full over 3 seconds.

Developer’s Note: Note that taking damage during the 3 second regeneration phase does not cancel the full regeneration.

• Resource Generation increased from 15% to 50% 100%.
• Damage Reduction affix replaced with +% of primary stat.

Shattered Vow

• Damage over time duration increased from 44% to 111%.

Tassets of the Dawning Sky

• Maximum Resistance per element replaced with 20-40% Resistance per element.
• Maximum Resistance to All Elements affix replaced with All Resistance %.

Tyrael's Might

• All Resistance updated to 80 All Resistance.
• Maximum Resistance affix replaced with Resistance % affix.

Andariel's Visage

• Inherent Poison Resistance affix removed.
• Maximum Poison Resistance affix replaced with 666 Poison Resistance affix.

Soulbrand

• Damage Reduction while Healthy affix replaced with Armor affix.
• Damage Reduction while you have a Barrier increased from 10-30% to 20-40%.

Temerity

• Maximum Life % affix replaced with Maximum Life affix.
• Damage Reduction while Healthy affix replaced with Armor % affix.

Tibault's Will

• Maximum Life affix replaced with Critical Strike Chance affix.
• Damage Reduction while Unstoppable affix replaced with Attack Speed affix.
• Resource gain when becoming Unstoppable increased from 50 to 100.

Flickerstep

• Inherent Evade grants Movement Speed affix removed.
• Damage Reduction from Close affix replaced with Life affix.
• Lightning Resistance affix replaced with All Resistance affix.

Banished Lord's Talisman

• Maximum Life % affix replaced with Life affix.

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Elements

• Renamed to "Of Elemental Fate".
• Previous: Gain 15-35% increased damage to a set of damage types for 7 seconds. This effect alternates between 2 sets:
  • Fire, Lightning, and Physical.
  • Cold, Poison, and Shadow.
• Now: Gain 15-35% increased damage to a set of damage types for 7 seconds alternating randomly between 2 sets:
  • Fire, Lightning, and Physical.
  • Cold, Poison, and Shadow.
  • Fate can favor you granting the same bonus more than once, stacking up to 6 times. At Maximum, it's your lucky day!

Needleflair Aspect

• Reduced its frequency in extreme situations.
• Chance for Thorns to activate explosions increased from 25-45% to 40-60%.

Assimilation Aspect

• Fortify reduced from 5-10% to 2-3% of Maximum Life.

Aspect of Inevitable Fate

• Now has 21 ranks, up from 16.

Wildbolt Aspect

• Now has 21 ranks, up from 16.

Sticker-thought Aspect

• Now has 21 ranks, up from 16.

Aspect of Sly Steps

• Now has 21 ranks, up from 16.

Aspect of the Dark Dance

• Now has 21 ranks, up from 16.

Aspect of Creeping Death

• Now has 21 ranks, up from 16.

Aspect of the Prudent Heat

• Now has 21 ranks, up from 16.

Mythic Unique Items

Ahavarion, Spear of Lycander

• Lucky Hit gain resource reduced from 66% to 22%.

Melted Heart of Selig

• Primary resource generation reduced to 50%.
• Previous (PTR): Each point in your Primary Stat increases your Primary Resource by 3% but you have 75% reduced life. Any damage you would take is dealt to your Primary Resource before your life. If you have not taken damage in 6 seconds, your Resource regenerates to full over 3 seconds.
• Now: Damage is dealt to your Primary Resource before Life and damage taken this way is drastically reduced. Your Primary Resource is doubled but Maximum Life is reduced by 75%.

Developer’s Note: To reduce the number of required caps in the game, we adjusted this effect. This now grants less Primary Resource, but should provide roughly as much durability as before.

Damage per 10 points of Strength increased from 1% to 1.1%.

Expertise

• The rank 10 Weapon Expertise bonus now also applies when equipped to the Weapon Technique Slot.

Skills

Enhanced Hammer of the Ancients

• Now increases maximum Fury, up to 100.
• Fury generation per enemy hit increased from 3% to 10%, up to 10 stacks.

Kick

• Damage increased from 60% to 100%.
• Width of the hitbox has been doubled.

Power Kick

• Reverted Fury cap from PTR.

Mighty Kick

• Increased collide damage from 54% to 100%.

Leap

• Now scales with Attack Speed.
• Adjusted attack speed scaling.

Upheaval

• Can now be cancelled slightly earlier with another skill.

Iron Skin

• Previous: Steel yourself, gaining a Barrier that absorbs 50% of your missing Life for 5 seconds.
• Now: Steel yourself, increasing only your Maximum Life by 30% and gaining a Barrier that absorbs 80% of your missing Life for 5 seconds.

Enhanced Ground Stomp

• Previous: Ground Stomp generates 60 Fury and has a 2 second increased Stun duration.
• Now: Ground Stomp generates 60 Fury and Pulls in enemies.

Call of the Ancients

• Duration increased from 6 to 10 seconds.

Iron Maelstrom

• Two-Handed Bludgeoning damage increased from 75% to 150%.
• Two-Handed Slashing initial damage increased from 20% to 40%.
• Two-Handed Slashing bleeding damage increased from 120% to 240%.
• Dual Wield damage increased from 43% to 86%.

Enhanced Bash

• Fortify reduced from 20% to 10% of Maximum Life.

Strategic Iron Skin

• Fortify reduced from 30% to 10% of Maximum Life.

Enhanced War Cry

• Fortify reduced from 15% to 8% of Maximum Life.

Strategic Rallying Cry

• Previous: Rallying Cry grants you 10% Maximum Life as Fortify. While Rallying Cry is active, you gain an additional 2% Maximum Life as Fortify each time you take or deal direct damage.
• Now: While Rallying Cry is active, gain 1% Maximum Life as Fortify every second.

Passives

Counteroffensive

• Previous: While you have Fortify for over 50% of your Maximum Life, you deal 4% increased damage.
• Now: While Fortified, deal 4% increased damage.

Defensive Stance

• Previous: While Fortified, you gain an additional 2% Damage Reduction and you Heal for .5% Maximum Life every second.
• Now: While Fortified, gain 3% Damage Reduction.

Irrepressible

• Fortify reduced from 10% to 3% of Maximum Life.

Thick Skin

• Fortify reduced from .6% to .1% of Maximum Life.

Legendary Aspects

Chainscourge Mail

• The shorter cooldown for the last Brawling skill used before re-enabling all of them now scales based on attack speed.

Fields of Crimson

• Blood Pool bonus damage no longer only applies to the casting player.

Aspect of the Veteran Brawler

• Previous: Each time a Core Skill deals direct damage to an enemy, your next Charge, Leap, or Kick deals 4-10%[x] increased damage, up to 20-50%[x].
• Now: Each time a Brawling Skill deals direct damage to an enemy, your Charge, Leap, or Kick deals 4-10%[x] increased damage for 5 seconds, up to 20-50%[x].

Aspect of the Dire Whirlwind

• Previous: Whirlwind's Critical Strike Chance and Critical Strike Damage are increased by 6-10%[x] for each second it is channeled, up to 28-50%[x].
• Now: Whirlwind's Critical Strike Chance and Critical Strike Damage are increased by 6-10%[x] for each second it is channeled, up to 28-50%[x]. This bonus persists for 5 seconds after Whirlwind ends.

Aspect of Numbing Wrath

• Previous: Each point of Fury generated while at Maximum Fury grants 4-28 Fortify.
• Now: Every 100 Fury generated while at Maximum Fury grants 2-3% Max Life Fortify.

Steadfast Berserker's Aspect

• Previous: Gain 147-671 Fortify whenever you deal direct damage while Berserking.
• Now: Gain .1-.3% Max Life Fortify whenever you deal direct damage while Berserking.

Aspect of Tempering Blows

• Previous: After swapping weapons 5 times, gain 98-622 Fortify.
• Now: After swapping weapons 5 times, gain 2-3% Max Life Fortify.

Aspect of Anger Management

• Now has 21 ranks, up from 16.
• Previous: While above 55-40 Fury, you are Berserk, but 2 Fury Drains per second.
• Now: While above 50 Fury, deal 10-30%x increased damage and gain Berserking, but 3 Fury Drains per second.

Executioner's Aspect

• Now has 21 ranks, up from 16.

Aspect of the Fortress

• Now has 21 ranks, up from 16.

Unique Items

Bane of Ahjad-Den

• Previous: Every 12 seconds, your next Mighty Throw detonates its pulses instantly as Fire Damage and deals 400-600%[x] increased damage.
• Now: Every 6 seconds, your next Mighty Throw detonates its pulses instantly as Fire Damage and deals 200-300%[x] increased damage.

Paragon

Hemorrhage Legendary Node

• Increased damage increased from 45%[x] to 60%[x].

Blood Rage Legendary Node

• Increased damage increased from 45%[x] to 60%[x].

Carnage Legendary Node

• Increased damage increased from 30%[x] to 45%[x].

Decimator Legendary Node

• Increased damage increased from 20%[x] to 25%[x].

Flawless Technique Legendary Node

• Increased Critical Strike Damage increased from 30%[x] to 45%[x].

Undaunted Glyph

• Maximum Damaging Reduction from Fortify increased from 10% to 15%.

Dominate Glyph

• Reduced Overpower timer from 12 to 6 seconds.

Might Glyph

• Legendary Bonus now includes damage to Injured enemies.

Weapons Master Legendary Node

• Previous: Swapping Weapons restores 8% of your maximum Fury.
• Now: Swapping Weapons restores 12 Fury.
• Increased damage to Injured and Healthy increased from 30%[x] to 45%[x].

Warbringer Legendary Node

• Previous: For every 75 Fury you spend, gain 15% of your Maximum Life as Fortify.
• Now: For every 300 Fury you spend, gain 10% of your Maximum Life as Fortify.

New Items

Chainscourged Mail (Unique Pants)

Affixes

• +51-65 All Stats
• +424-457 Maximum Life
• 8.1-8.8% Cooldown Reduction
• +2-3 to Brawling Skills

Unique Power

• Casting a damaging Brawling Skill disables it afterwards. When all of these Skills that are on your Action Bar are disabled, they become re-enabled with their Cooldowns refreshed. Your Brawling Skills deal 50-100%[x] increased damage for each disabled Skill.

Associated Lair Boss

• Lord Zir

Tempering

Berserking Finesse

• Affixes Removed: Damage while War Cry is Active.

Arsenal Finesse

• No longer available.

Weapon Attunement

• Affixes Removed:
  • Resource Generations with Two-Handed Bludgeoning Weapons
  • Resource Generations with Dual Wielded Weapons
  • Resource Generations with Two-Handed Slashing Weapons

Spirit Boons

Bolster

• Fortify reduced from 50% to 5% of Maximum Life.

Skills

Stoneburst

• Lucky Hit chance for the channeled damage increased from 2% to 6%.

Grizzly Rage

• Stacking duration is no longer a part of the ability, and Cooldown doesn't start until the ability ends.
• Stacking Damage per second removed and Damage Bonus increased to 60%.
• Skill Ranks of Grizzly Rage now grant bonus damage instead of reducing Cooldown.
• Cooldown reduced from 50 to 35 seconds.
• Duration increased from 10 to 12 seconds.
• Damage Reduction increased from 20% to 30%.
• Rank 5:
  • Previous: You gain 30%[+] increased Armor while Grizzly Rage is active.
  • Now: Cooldown reduced by 10 seconds.

Natural Boulder

• Critical Strike Chance while Fortified increased from 20% to 25%.

Enhanced Maul

• Fortify reduced from 8% to 2% of Maximum Life.

Enhanced Debilitating Roar

• Fortify reduced from 20% to 15% of Maximum Life.

Preserving Earthen Bulwark

• Fortify reduced from 18% to 10% of Maximum Life.

Fierce Earth Spike

• Fortify reduced from 12% to 3% of Maximum Life.

Supreme Grizzly Rage

• Fortify per second reduced from 8% to 2% of Maximum Life.

Natural Trample

• Fortify reduced from 12% to 3% of Maximum Life.

Ferocious Wolf Pack

• Fortify reduced from 8% to 3% of Maximum Life.

Passives

Bad Omen

• Now also calls Lightning Strikes when applying Immobilize and Stun.
• Ranks in this passive now increase the damage of the Lightning Bolts instead of the chance to strike enemies.

Energize

• Now restores 100 Spirit instead of fully restoring Spirit when the effect is activated. Now restores 100 spirit instead of fully restoring Spirit.

Earthen Might

• Now restores 100 Spirit instead of fully restoring Spirit when the effect is activated. Now restores 100 spirit instead of fully restoring Spirit.
• Damage against immobilized enemies increased from 15%[x] to 25%[x].
• Critical Strike Damage increased from 15%[x] to 20%[x].

Stone Guard

• Previous: While you have Fortify for over 50% of your Maximum Life, your Earth Skills deal 4% increased damage.
• Now: While Fortified, your Earth Skills deal 4% increased damage.

Unrestrained

• Previous: Reduce the duration of Control Impairing Effects by 5%. Double this effect while you have Fortify for over 50% of your Maximum Life.
• Now: Reduce the duration of Control Impairing Effects by 5%. Double this effect while Fortified.

Defensive Posture

• Previous: Increases the amount of Fortify you gain from all sources by 5% and you gain 3% Damage Reduction while Fortified.
• Now: Increases the amount of Fortify you gain from all sources by 5%.

Safeguard

• Fortify reduced from 3% to .1% of Maximum Life.

Natural Fortitude

• Fortify reduced from 2% to .2% of Maximum Life.

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of the Rampaging Werebeast

• Previous: The duration of Grizzly Rage is increased by 3-10 seconds. In addition, Critical Strikes while Grizzly Rage is active increase your Critical Strike Damage by 10%[x] for the duration, up to maximum of 200%[x].
• Now: Critical Strikes while in Grizzly Rage increases your damage by 3%[x] for 60 seconds, up to 120%[x].

Aspect of the Rabid Beast Bear

• Changed to Aspect of the Rabid Beast.
• Previous: While Grizzly Rage is active, your direct damage is converted into Poison damage, you deal x[40 - 80]% more Poison damage, and you passively spread Rabies.
• Now: Deal 40-80%[x] more Poison Damage. While Shapeshifted, your direct damage is converted into Poison damage.

Skinwalker's Aspect

• Previous: When you use a Shapeshifting Skill that changes your form, Heal for 5-20% of your Maximum Life. If you are at full Life, gain the same amount as Fortify.
• Now: When you use a Shapeshifting Skill that changes your form, Fortify for 2-3% of your Maximum Life.

Aspect of Calm Breeze

• Now restores 100 Spirit in your resource meter instead of fully restoring Spirit when the effect is activated. Now restores 100 spirit instead of fully restoring Spirit.

Rejuvenating Aspect

• Now has 21 ranks, up from 16.

Spirt Bond Aspect

• Now has 21 ranks, up from 16.

Unique Items

Vasily's Prayer

• Fortify reduced from 2-5% to .2-.5% of Maximum Life.

Mjölnic Ring

• Now restores 100 Spirit in your resource meter instead of fully restoring Spirit when the effect is activated. Now restores 500 spirit instead of fully restoring Spirit.

New Items

Khamsin Steppewalkers (Unique Boots)

Affixes

• Inherent: Attacks Reduce Evade's Cooldown by 0.5 Seconds
• +1-2 Ranks of Endless Tempest +16.5-25.0% Movement Speed
• +41.5-55.0% Crowd Control Duration
• 16-25% Nature Magic Cooldown Reduction
• +2-3 to Bad Omen
• Power
  • Previous (PTR): Damaging [200 - 100] Enemies with Storm Skills grants a charge. Casting any Defensive Skill will grant Max Movement Speed and Unhindered for 1 second for each charge used. While Charged, enemies you run into are Immobilized for 1 second.
  • Now: Damaging 150-100 Enemies with Nature Magic Skills grants Max Movement Speed and Unhindered for 4-8 seconds. Enemies you run through are Immobilized for 1 second.
• Affixes
  • Movement Speed Affix replaced with 1-2 ranks of Endless Tempest.

Associated Lair Boss

• Grigoire, the Galvanic Saint

Paragon

Earthen Devastation

• Previous: Your Earth Skills deal 10%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage, increased by 20%[x] of your Damage vs Crowd Controlled bonus, up to 60%[x].
• Now: Your Earth Skills deal 70%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage.

Constricting Tendrils

• Previous: Nature Magic Skills deal 35%[x] increased damage to Poisoned enemies. Lucky Hit: Nature Magic Skills have up to a 40% chance to Poison the enemy for 800% damage over 4 seconds.
• Now: Deal 40%[x] increased damage to Poisoned enemies. Lucky Hit: Nature Magic Skills have up to a 40% chance to Poison the enemy for 1000% damage over 4 seconds.

Tempering

Druid Motion

• Affixes Removed:
  • Digitigrade Gait

Book of the Dead

Golem

• Respawn timer reduced from 20 seconds to 10 seconds.
• If the Golem's active ability targets an enemy, your Skeletal Warriors and Mages will focus their attacks on that target.
• Unstoppable duration when using Golem's active increased from 1.5 to 3 seconds.

Iron Golem

• Attack Speed increased by 25%.

Skeleton Mage, Bone

• Fortify on attack reduced from 3% to .1% of Maximum Life.

Skills

Corpse Explosion

• Damage increased from 85% to 110%.

Blighted Corpse Explosion

• Damage increased from 110% to 145%.

Bone Spirit

• Reverted Essence cap from PTR.

Passives

Hellbent Commander

• Removed the requirement for controlling 7 or more Minions.

Rathma's Vigor

• Timer for Overpower reduced from 15 to 10 seconds.

Kalan's Edict

• Previous: Your Minions gain 3%[+] Attack Speed and 3%[x] increased damage for each active Minion. When one of your Minions die, your other Minions enrage, dealing 20%[x] increased damage for 3 seconds.
• Now: Your Minions gain 40%[+] Attack Speed and 40%[x] increased damage. When one of your Minions die, your other Minions enrage, dealing 20%[x] increased damage for 3 seconds.

Necrotic Carapace

• Fortify reduced from 5% to .2% of Maximum Life.

Drain Vitality

• Fortify reduced from 2.5% to .5% of Maximum Life.

Supernatural Blood Surge

• Previous: Each time an enemy is hit by Blood Surge's nova, you are Fortified for 1% of your Maximum Life. While you have Fortify for over 50% of your Maximum Life, Blood Surge deals 50% increased damage.
• Now: While Fortified, Blood Surge deals 65% increased damage.

Initiate's Hemorrhage

• Previous: Hemorrhage grants 1.6% of your Maximum Life as Fortify each time it hits an enemy, and has a 1.5% chance per enemy hit to Fortify you for 100% of your Maximum Life.
• Now: Hemorrhage grants 1% of your Maximum Life as Fortify, and has a 3% chance to Fortify you for 100% of your Maximum Life.

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Shielding Storm

• Barrier reduced from 1-8% to 1-3% of Maximum Health.

Sanguivor, Blade of Zir

• Consuming a Corpse now contributes 3 souls to Vampiric Curse, up from 1.
• Damage bonus increased from 15-25% to 20-30% per soul.

Cruor’s Embrace

• Damage increased from 40-80% to 60-120% of weapon damage.

Mutilator Plate

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

Ring of Mendeln

• Damage increased from 520-900% to 650-1100% of weapon damage.
• Bone Golem's combo attack of two swings now counts as a single attack for the purposes of Ring of Mendeln, rather than two separate attacks.

Aspect of Hungry Blood

• Previous: Each Cast of Blood Lance will launch an additional Blood Lance at a Nearby enemy when it first hits an enemy that is already lanced, dealing 60-100% of normal damage.
• Now: Each Cast of Blood Lance will launch an additional Blood Lance at a Nearby enemy when it first hits an enemy, dealing 60-100% of normal damage.

Aspect of the Cursed Aura

• Now has 21 ranks, up from 16.

Shademist Aspect

• Now has 21 ranks, up from 16.

Unique Items

Mutilator Plate

• Fortify reduced from 1-4% to 1% of Maximum Life.
• Maximum Life % affix replaced with Maximum Life affix.
• Damage Reduction from Enemies affected by Blood Skills replaced with Intelligence affix.

Kessime's Legacy

• Inherent Blood Wave Fortifies affix removed.
• Damage Reduction while Fortified affix replaced with Intelligence affix.

Indira's Memory

• Previous: Blood Wave is additionally a Bone Skill. It spawns a Bone Prison at its end point and increases your Blood Skill damage by 20-40% for 8 seconds when Cast. All Bone Spears are additionally Blood Skills. Your Bone Spears consume a Corpse to launch another Bone Spear and drain 10% of your Maximum Life.
• Now: Bone Spear deals 20-40% additional damage and is a Blood Skill. Casting Bone Spear will launch another Bone Spear if it can consume a nearby Corpse and 5% of your Maximum Life.
• The Inherent affix where Bone Spear reduces Blood Wave's cooldown has been removed.
• Damage Reduction while Injured affix replaced with Intelligence affix.
• Maximum Life % affix replaced with Life.

Greaves of the Empty Tomb

• Damage Reduction from Corrupted Enemies affix replaced with Intelligence.

The Unmaker

• Damage Reduction while you have a Barrier affix replaced with Cooldown Reduction.

Cruor's Embrace

• Maximum Life % affix replaced with Intelligence.

Tempering

• Minions Chance to Fortify reduced from 15.5-20% to 5-7%.

Weapon Attunement

• Affixes Removed:
  • Resource Generation with Two-Handed Weapons.
  • Resource Generation while Wielding a Shield.

Paragon

Gravekeeper Glyph

• Legendary Bonus now includes damage to Injured enemies.

Blood-drinker Glyph

• Fortify reduced from 10% to 3% of Maximum Life.

Exhumation Glyph

• Fortify reduced from 4% to 1% of Maximum Life.
• Damage Reduction increased from 4% to 6%.
• Duration increased from 4 to 8 seconds.

New Items

Gravebloom (Unique One-Handed Mace)

Affixes

• Inherent Affix: 10% Attack Speed
• +80-94 Intelligence
• +521-561 Maximum Life
• +36.5-50% Chance for Golem to Hit Twice
• +1-2 Golem Mastery

Unique Power

• You raise 3 smaller Golems that each deal 40-60% of normal damage and gain 30%[+] Attack Speed. Your Golems respawn 50% faster.

Associated Lair Boss

• Best in Ice

Damage scaling per 10 points of Dexterity increased from 1.1% to 1.25%.

Specialization

Inner Sight

• Previous: Attack enemies to fill your Inner Sight gauge. Marked enemies fill it faster. When full, gain unlimited Energy and 25%[+] Critical Strike Chance for 4 seconds.
• Now: Attack enemies to fill your Inner Sight gauge. Marked enemies fill it faster. When full, restore 300 Energy, and gain 100% Energy Cost Reduction, 25%[+] Critical Strike Chance, and 25%[x] Critical Strike Damage.

Skills

Shadow Clone

• Shadow Clone's copied skills will now more consistently target the initial target of the skill.

Improved Flurry

• Healing reduced from 10% to 6%.

Passives

Siphoning Strikes

• Healing per Rank reduced from 1% to .5% of Maximum Health.

Legendary Aspects

Trickshot Aspect

• Damage increased from 10-30% to 20-40%.

Bladedancer's Aspect

• Damage increased from 100-120% to 100-140%.

Aspect of Star Shards

• Dance of Knives damage increased by 30% per Combo Point spent.

Galvanized Slasher's Aspect

• Now restores 100 current Energy in your resource meter instead of fully restoring Energy when the effect is activated. Now restores 100 energy instead of full restoring.

Unique Items

Beastfall Boots

• Reverted Energy cap from PTR.

Windforce

• Chance to deal triple damage to Knocked Down enemies increased from 50-75% to 50-100%.

Scoudrel's Kiss

• Bonus damage increased from 35-55% to 50-70%.

Deathmask of Nirmitruq

• Bonus damage increased from 70-100% to 70-130%.

Scoundrel's Leathers

• Damage Reduction from Trapped Enemies affix replaced with Dexterity.

Eyes in the Dark

• Damage Reduction from Trapped Enemies affix replaced with Dexterity.

Bands of Ichorous Rose

• Maximum Poison Resistance affix replaced with Dexterity.

Paragon

Deadly Ambush

• Previous: You deal 50%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage to enemies affected by your Trap Skills.
• Now: You deal 50%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage and Damage Over Time to enemies affected by your Trap Skills.

New Items

Death's Pavane (Unique Pants)

Affixes

• Inherent: +15% Dodge Chance while Channeling Dance of Knives
• +9.0-11.0% Critical Strike Chance
• +16.0-25.0% Movement Speed
• +2-3 to Dance of Knives
• +62.5-85.0% Agility Damage

Unique Power

• Dance of Knives drops knives from enemies hit. Picking them up grants you 1 Charge and increases your Dance of Knives damage by 10-20% for 6 seconds, stacking up to 3 times.

Associated Lair Bosses

• Andariel
• Duriel

Tempering

Rogue Motion

• Affixes Removed:
  • Ranks to Stutter Step

Rogue Persistence

• No longer available.

Developer’s Note: We heard the feedback from PTR loud and clear, and decided to revisit the suite of Teleport changes for the start of the season. We decided to keep the overall changes to Teleport Enchantment, but we wanted to give more of the cooldown reduction power lost there and put it back into itemization. You should have a clearer choice to invest using item slots or tempering to get a fully reset cooldown Teleport, while also maintaining a middle-ground level of investment that gives you a low cooldown option.

Skills

Teleport

• Damage increased from 35% to 90%.

Mystical Teleport

• Previous: Teleport deals 500% increased damage. It also forms Crackling Energy for each enemy it hits, up to 3.
• Now: Teleport generates 3 Charges of Crackling Energy.

Shimmering Teleport

• Previous (PTR): Teleport Dazes enemies at its end point for 1.5 seconds.
• Now: You gain 25%[+] All Resistance for 3 seconds after Teleporting.

Frozen Orb

• Chill amount reduced from 9% to 5%.

Enhanced Frozen Orb

• Previous: While Healthy, the explosion of Frozen Orb deals 45% increased damage.
• Now: Frozen Orb's explosion deals 50% more damage.

Shimmering Frost Nova

• Now restores 20 mana per enemy instead of 10% per enemy.
• Now restores 200 mana instead of fully restoring mana when hitting a boss.

Passives

Potent Warding

• Previous: Casting a Skill grants 3%[+] All Resistance and 2%[+] Maximum Resistance to that Skill's Element for 9 seconds.
• Now: Casting a Skill grants 3%[+] All Resistance and 5%[+] Resistance to that Skill's Element for 9 seconds.

Energy Focus

• Maximum Barrier reduced from 30% to 20% of Maximum Health.

Protection

• Barrier per Rank reduced from 10% to 5% of Maximum Health.

Warmth

• Healing reduced from 1% per Rank to .2% of Maximum Health.
• Healing from Bosses reduced from 4% to 2% of Maximum Health.

Primordial Binding

• Previous: Gain a stacking bonus for each active Summon, up to 10 stacks: 2/4/6% Summon Damage, 2/4/6% Movement Speed, 4/8/12% Mana Regeneration.
• Now: Gain 6/12/18% Summon Damage.

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Mind's Awakening

• Barrier reduced from 3-6% to 1.5-3% of Maximum Health.

Serpentine Aspect

• Reverted Mana cap from Season of Infernal Chaos.

Aspect of the Bounding Conduit

• Teleport's Cooldown reduction increased from 1-2.5 to 3-4.5 seconds.

Aspect of Biting Cold

• Previous: When you Freeze an enemy there is a [25-45%] chance they become Vulnerable for 3 seconds.
• New: Frost Skills deal 20-30%x increased damage and have a 40% chance to apply Vulnerable for 4 seconds.

Aspect Of Tenuous Destruction

• Changed from an Offensive to a Defensive Aspect.
• Renamed to Aspect of Tenuous Survival.
• Previous: Deal 30-50% increased damage while you have no Defensive Skills on your Action Bar.
• Now: Gain 100-600 increased Armor and Heal 5% Maximum Life a second while you have no Defensive Skills on your Action Bar.

Aspect of Tenuous Agility

• Previous: Gain 5-20% Movement Speed. This bonus is tripled if you haven't used a Defensive Skill in the last 8 seconds.
• Now: Gain 20-80% Movement Speed. This bonus is removed for 10 seconds after you Cast any Defensive Skill.

Developer’s Note: Free-casted Defensive Skills will no longer remove this Movement Speed bonus.

Snowveiled Aspect

• Previous: Casting Ice Armor makes you Unstoppable and grants 25% Damage Reduction for 3.5-5.5 seconds.
• Now: Ice Armor makes you Unstoppable and grants 200-400 Armor.

Developer’s Note: Free-casted Defensive Skills will now interact with this aspect.

Aspect of the Firebird

• Previous: Gain the Flame Shield Enchantment for free. When Flame Shield activates, Meteorites fall around you dealing Fire damage.
• Now: While Flame Shield is active, Meteorites cascade around you and deal Fire damage. Your Meteorites gain 2% Lucky Hit Chance.

Jolting Aspect

• Now has 21 ranks, up from 16.

Winter Touch Aspect

• Now has 21 ranks, up from 16.

Unique Items

Raiment of the Infinite

• Power
  • Previous (PTR): After Casting Teleport, Close enemies are Pulled Inwards and it has a 10-30% chance to reset from each enemy it kills.
  • Now: Teleport pulls Close enemies to you and grants 10-30% Damage Reduction.
• Affixes
  • Ranks to Elemental Attunement replaced with All Resistance.
  • Ranks to Shocking Impact replaced with 30-40% Teleport CDR.

The Oculus

• Inherent Affix
  • Previous: Attacks reduce Evade's Cooldown by 1 second. Gain 1 Evade Charge.
  • Now: 55% Teleport Nova Size.
• Unique Power
  • Previous (PTR): Casting Teleport grants a stack of Galvanization, increasing its damage by 30-50% for 8 seconds. Becoming Injured Teleports you to a random location.
  • Now: Each enemy hit by Teleport increases the damage by 5-15%|x| and reduces the Cooldown by 0.5 seconds of the next cast. Becoming Injured will Teleport you to a random location.

Developer’s Note: This option has been treated as mandatory for too long. We're reducing the frequency of its procs and cutting away some of its synergies to allow the Teleport Skill to be your premiere source of mobility and utility.

Fractured Winterglass

• Ranks of Primordial Binding changed to 2-4 Skill Ranks of Frozen Orb.
• Previous: Casting Frozen Orb has a 35-65% chance to spawn a random Conjuration on your Action Bar when it explodes. Lucky Hit: Your Conjurations have up to a 50-90% chance to launch a Frozen Orb at Nearby enemies.
• Now: Frozen Orbs deal 4-8% more damage per active Summon and have a 65% chance to create a random Conjuration when Cast. Lucky Hit: Your Summons have up to a 90% chance to launch a Frozen Orb at a Nearby enemy.

Developer’s Note: We are making changes that will allow this Unique Item to, first and foremost, serve as a Frozen Orb Item for scaling its damage. We've also updated it to function better with Summons as a whole.

Axial Conduit

• Resource Generation and Maximum affix replaced with Resource Generation.
• Damage Reduction affix replaced with Intelligence affix.

Okun's Catalyst

• Damage Reduction for each Active Ball Lightning affix replaced with Intelligence.

Esadora's Overflowing Cameo

• Damage Reduction per Crackling Energy charge affix replaced with Cooldown Reduction affix.

Helm of Verglas

• Inherent Maximum Cold Resistance affix removed.
• Inherent Cold Resistance affix increased to 300.

Enchantments

Ice Armor Enchantment

• Previous: Upon getting hit, you have a 5% chance to apply Ice Armor.
• Now: Healing Potions apply Ice Armor and have a 25% chance to refund themselves.

Frost Nova Enchantment

• Previous: Lucky Hit: Your Conjuration Skills have up to a 35% chance to unleash a Frost Nova when hitting enemies.
• Now: Lucky Hit: Up to a 10% chance to unleash a Frost Nova after hitting an enemy.

Teleport Enchantment

• Previous: Evade is replaced with a short range Teleport on a 17 second Cooldown. This version does not make you Unstoppable.
• Now: Evade becomes a Teleport with a 5 second Cooldown that cannot be reduced.
• Adjusted the description to specify that it invokes Teleport and doesn't Cast it.

Developer’s Note: This option has been treated as mandatory for too long. We're reducing the frequency of its procs and cutting away some of its synergies to allow the Teleport Skill to be your premiere source of mobility and utility.

Frozen Orb Enchantment

• Previous: Whenever you Cast a non-Basic Skill, you have a 30% chance to launch a Frozen Orb at a Nearby enemy.
• Now: Casting a Skill has a 30% chance to launch a Frozen Orb at a Nearby enemy.

New Items

Orsivane (Unique One-Handed Mace)

Affixes

• +99-113 Intelligence
• +424-457 Maximum Life
• +57.0-75.0% Non-Physical Damage
• +3-4 to Core Skills

Unique Power

• For each Defensive Skill not on your Action Bar, you deal 20-40% increased damage and gain its associated Enchantment effect.

Associated Lair Boss

• Varshan

Tempering

Sorcerer Motion

• Affixes Removed:
  • Ranks to Conduction

Frost Finesse

• Affixes Added:
  • Frost Critical Strike Chance

New Item

Path of the Emissary: Unique Boots

Affixes

• +30% Movement Speed (Inherent)
• +16-25% Movement speed
• +155-200% Core Skill damage
• +1-2 Core Skill ranks
• +26.5-40% Impairment Reduction

Power

• Every 12-4 meters you move, invoke a Core Skill from your primary Spirit Hall.

Associated Lair Boss:

• Lord Zir

Skills

Rushing Claw

• Damage increased from 80% to 160%.

Adaptable Concussive Stomp

• Previous: When enemies recover from Concussive Stomp, you dodge their next 3 attacks.
• Now: When enemies recover from a Concussive Stomp that you Cast, you block their next 3 attacks.

Poised Payback

• Reverted Vigor cap from PTR.

Poised Rushing Claw

• Now reduces the time to recharge charges by 5 seconds.

Passives

Fueled

• Previous: Gain Life On Kill equal to 5% of your Maximum Life while you have at least 4 stacks of Ferocity.
• Now: Gain 1-181 (depending on level) Life On Hit while you have at least 4 stacks of Ferocity.

Potent

• Previous (PTR): Gain 2/4/6% Jaguar Attack Speed and Cooldown Reduction.
• Now: Jaguar Skills deal 6/12/18%[x] increased direct damage to up to 3 of the Closest enemies to you.

Unique Items

Ring of the Midday Hunt

• Previous: Your Maximum Vigor is increased by 50%, and killing an enemy grants you 1 - 7 Vigor. While you have Ferocity, your Poisoning effects deal their damage across 33% of the normal duration.
• Now: Your Maximum Vigor is increased by 50%, and killing an enemy grants you 1 - 7 Vigor. While you have Ferocity, your new Poisoning effects last 33% longer.

Ring of Writhing Moon

• Previous: A Pestilent Swarm spawns from you every 4 seconds, dealing x Poison damage per hit. Your Pestilent Swarms now orbit around you and generate 3 Vigor per hit.
• Now: A Pestilent Swarm spawns from you every 4 seconds, dealing x Poison damage per hit. Your Pestilent Swarms now orbit around you and reduce an equipped Eagle Skill's cooldown by 0.25 seconds per hit.

Peacemonger's Signet

• Previous: While you have at least 4 stacks of Ferocity, you gain 1 - 7 Vigor per second. Gaining Ferocity also grants Resolve.
• Now: While you have at least 4 stacks of Ferocity, you gain 5-15%[x] increased damage and Armor. Gaining Ferocity also grants Resolve.
• Dodge chance changed to Dexterity.

Band of First Breath

• Max Life percentage has been replaced with additive Max Life.
• Critical Strike Chance replaced with Resolve generation rate.

Rod of Kepeleke

• Reverted Vigor cap from PTR.

Harmony of Ebewaka

• Damage Reduction affix replaced with Dexterity affix.

Loyalty's Mantle

• Damage Reduction affix replaced with Dexterity affix.

Wound Drinker

• Damage Reduction from Poisoned Enemies affix replaced with Armor affix.

Jacinth Shell

• Armor percentage affix replaced with All Resistance affix.
• Damage Reduction while Injured affix replaced with Dexterity affix.

Protection of the Prime

• Damage Reduction while Standing Still affix replaced with Armor affix.

Spirit Hall

All

• All main Spirit Hall potency affixes changed to main Spirit Hall Damage.
• Updated the tooltips to display the damage that scales with the above affix in blue.

Jaguar

• Previous: Every 15th time you deal direct damage to an enemy with a Jaguar Skill, unleash additional slashes dealing 20% of the damage you have dealt to them in the last 0.5 seconds. All Skills are now also Jaguar Skills.
• Now: Every 15th time you deal direct damage with a Jaguar Skill, unleash a Beast Strike for (100% Weapon damage), increasing all damage you deal by 3% and doubling Beast Strike's damage, stacking 5 times. You lose all stacks when you stop attacking for 1 second.

Eagle

• Now scales damage rather than Vulnerable duration.

Gorilla

• Now only scales Thorns damage.
• Barrier per hit reduced from 5% to 2.5%.
• No longer has a cap of 30% Barrier.
• Updated the tooltip to clarify that Gorilla skills do not need to be Cast to gain the effect.

Centipede

• Now scales damage rather than Slow and Damage reduction.
• Damage Reduction per stack increased from 2% to 4%.
• Increased the debuff duration from 6 to 8 seconds.
• Increased the total poison amount from 70% to 160%.

Legendary Aspects

Reactive armor

• Fixed the tooltip to clarify it invokes a free Concussive stomp rather than Casting.

Aspect of Forest Power

• Barrier reduced from 25% to 15% of Maximum Health.

Paragon

Sapping Legendary Node

• Vigor Restoration changed from 15% to 15 Vigor.

Tempering

• Mystic Circle Potency moved from Jaguar Finesse (Offensive) to Plains Augments (Weapon).