Last updated October 12 @ 3:20 p.m. PDT.
Below you'll find the preliminary PTR patch notes for patch 2.6.1. Please note that this isn't the final version of the patch notes and that some changes may not be documented or described in full detail.
PTR PATCH 2.6.1 - v2.6.1.47710
To provide feedback on patch 2.6.1, please visit the PTR Feedback forum.
To report any issues you experience while playing, please visit the PTR Bug Report forum.
Please note that support for Vista / Windows XP will be ending at some point during the PTR. For more info, please see our forum post.
In order to test Necromancer changes, you will need to have purchased the Necromancer in the live game. The ability to purchase the class on the PTR has been disabled.
Table of Contents:
CLASSES
- Barbarian Skills
- Battle Rage
- Bloodshed
- Has been redesigned:
- Deal damage equal to 20% of your recent Critical Hits to enemies within 20 yards every 1 second.
- Note: Bloodshed caused performance issues when encountering high enemy density, particularly when combined with Whirlwind, Pain Enhancer, and Gem of Efficacious Toxin.
- Bloodshed
- Ground Stomp
- Jarring Slam
- Added a maximum threshold on the number of health globes that can spawn in a given time.
- Jarring Slam
- Battle Rage
- Crusader Skills
- Blessed Hammer
- Limitless
- Has been redesigned:
- Increase the damage of Blessed Hammer to 640% weapon damage as Holy and increase its area of effect by 20 yards.
- Note: The extra projectiles created by this rune were causing performance issues in cases with high enemy density.
- Limitless
- Blessed Hammer
- Monk Skills
- Tempest Rush
- Flurry
- Reduced the maximum number of stacks from 500 to 100
- Flurry
- Tempest Rush
- Necromancer Skills
- Command Skeletons
- Commanding your Skeletal Warriors will break crowd control effects on them
- Skeletal Warriors will no longer die after taking too many hits
- Design Philosophy: When we were first designing Command Skeletons, we wanted to capture the feeling of being an undead commander by having skeletons regularly spawn around the Necromancer and charge into battle during combat. It created a cool visual, but as the class evolved through Set bonuses and Legendary powers, it became clear that this visual began to hinder gameplay for some builds. Skeletal Warriors now have the same defenses as all other pets in the game.
- Devour
- Voracious
- Resource cost reduction stacks granted from this rune will now stack and are no longer overridden from multiple casts.
- Voracious
- Simulacrum
- Added a glow to the skill icon to indicate when Simulacrum is active.
- Skeletal Mage
- This skill will now display the duration of the oldest mage raised as a buff in addition to the total number of mages active
- Design Philosophy: This change is largely to provide transparency to players on the duration of their mage armor. This will be especially useful to players using the Bones of Rathma set. It’s our goal that players will no longer feel compelled to refresh their Skeletal Mage counter when they’re already at max.
- Bone Armor
- Essence cost removed
- Can now be cast while moving
- Army of the Dead
- Frozen Army
- The pulsing damage from this rune has been spread out
- Design Philosophy: This was done to ensure enemies within range are evenly hit and to better align with the visual. This will result in more targets being hit more consistently for the stated weapon damage amount.
- Frozen Army
- Command Skeletons
- Necromancer Passives
- Fueled By Death
- The movement speed bonus from this passive can now exceed the 25% cap
- Life from Death
- Added a maximum threshold on the number of health globes that can spawn in a given time.
- Fueled By Death
- Witch Doctor Skills
- Soul Harvest
- Adding a stack or refreshing Soul Harvest now refreshes all stacks of Soul Harvest.
- Soul Harvest
- Witch Doctor Passives
- Creeping Death
- Increased the duration of Haunt, Locust Swarm, and the damage amplification of Piranhas when this passive is active from 3600 to
144001680019800 seconds - Note: There is currently a bug preventing this passive from affecting Piranhas; this will be fixed in an upcoming PTR patch
- Increased the duration of Haunt, Locust Swarm, and the damage amplification of Piranhas when this passive is active from 3600 to
- Creeping Death
- Wizard Skills
- Arcane Orb
- Frozen Orb
- Create an orb of frozen death that shreds an area with ice bolts, dealing
393%950% weapon damage as Cold - Increased projectile travel distance from 30 to
4540
- Create an orb of frozen death that shreds an area with ice bolts, dealing
- Frozen Orb
- Arcane Orb
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue which prevented Army of the Dead from sometimes triggering when the player is immediately afflicted by a monster’s crowd control after casting it
- Fixed an issue where enemy monsters could heal themselves when striking another monster afflicted by Leech
- Fixed a bug which caused Skeletal Mages to sometimes spawn up in the air
- Fixed an issue where the firewall left behind by Arcane Orb – Scorch was not dealing damage
- Fixed an issue which caused Skeletal Mages to lose their target when players used Command Skeletons to attack the same target
- Fixed an issue which caused connection issues when players used a channeling skill while attempting to force move at the same time
- Fixed an issue where your pets would double dip from the damage bonus granted by Wolf Companion
- (PTR Only) Fixed an issue with Battle Rage - Bloodshed where the damage from critical hits was not being scaled by the proc coefficient of the power doing damage
- Fixed an issue where the advanced tooltip for Bone Armor - Dislocation did not correctly state the rune did Poison damage
- Fixed an issue where Furious Charge would inherit the elemental damage type on your weapon when Vile Ward was equipped, as opposed to the damage type of the rune you chose
- Fixed an issue where Bone Armor: Dislocation did not apply the movement and attack speed reduction provided by Rigor Mortis
- Fixed an issue where Monk players could reset the Blood is Power cooldown for Necromancers allowing them to gain more cool down reduction than intended
- Fixed an issue where Creeping Death was not correctly affecting the duration of the Piranha’s damage debuff
- Fixed an issue where the tooltip for Spike Trap - Impaling Spines did not display its correct damage type
- Fixed an issue where the tooltip for Bone Armor - Harvest of Anguish did not display its correct damage type
ITEMS
- General
- Many Legendary and Set items have had their drop chance increased
- Legendary Items
- Barbarian
- Band of Might
- After casting Furious Charge, Ground Stomp, or Leap, take
50–60%60-80% reduced damage for 8 seconds
- After casting Furious Charge, Ground Stomp, or Leap, take
- Bracers of Destruction
- Seismic Slam deals
300–400%400-500% increased damage to the first 5 enemies it hits.
- Seismic Slam deals
- Bracers of the First Men
- Hammer of the Ancients attacks 50% faster and deals
150–200%300-400%400-500% increased damage
- Hammer of the Ancients attacks 50% faster and deals
- Fury of the Vanished Peak
- No longer rolls Legendary-strength bonus to Seismic Slam damage as an inherent affix. Can still roll 10-15% as a random affix.
- Reduces the Fury cost of Seismic Slam by
40-50% and increases its damage by 400-500%. - Note: Existing versions of this item will also be changed to include the damage roll in the orange text, but will always roll a damage roll equal to the previous maximum possible.
- Gavel of Judgement
- No longer rolls Legendary-strength bonus to Hammer of the Ancients damage as an inherent affix. Can still roll 10-15% as a random affix.
Hammer of the Ancients returns 20–25 Fury if it hits 3 or fewer enemies.The damage of Hammer of the Ancients is increased by400-500%600-800% and it returns 25 Fury if it hits 3 or fewer enemies- Note: Existing versions of this item will also be changed to include the damage roll in the orange text, but will always roll a damage roll equal to the previous maximum possible.
Note: The Legendary power on this item is currently not functioning; this will be fixed in an upcoming patch
- Girdle of Giants
- Seismic Slam increases Earthquake damage by
80–100%200-250% for 3 seconds.
- Seismic Slam increases Earthquake damage by
- Skull Grasp
- Increase the damage of Whirlwind by
250–300%400-500%300-400%
- Increase the damage of Whirlwind by
- Standoff
- Furious Charge deals increased damage equal to
200–250%400-500% of your bonus movement speed.
- Furious Charge deals increased damage equal to
- Band of Might
- Crusader
- Blade of Prophecy
- No longer rolls a bonus to Condemn damage as an inherent affix.
- Two Condemned enemies also trigger Condemn's explosion and the damage of Condemn is increased by
350-450%600-800%. - Note: Existing versions of this item will also be changed to include the damage roll in the orange text, but will always roll a damage roll equal to the previous maximum possible.
- Bracer of Fury
- Heaven's Fury deals
150–200%300-400% increased damage to enemies that are Blinded, Immobilized, or Stunned.
- Heaven's Fury deals
- Denial
- Each enemy hit by your Sweep Attack increases the damage of your next Sweep Attack by
30–40%100-125%, stacking up to 5 times.
- Each enemy hit by your Sweep Attack increases the damage of your next Sweep Attack by
- Faithful Memory
- Each enemy hit by Falling Sword increases the damage of Blessed Hammer by
50-60%60-80% for 10 seconds. Max 10 stacks.
- Each enemy hit by Falling Sword increases the damage of Blessed Hammer by
- Fate of the Fell
Gain two additional rays of Heaven’s Fury.- Heaven's Fury gains two additional rays and has its damage increased by
150-200%375-500%
- Frostburn
- No longer smart drops for Crusader.
- Frydehr’s Wrath
- No longer rolls Legendary-strength bonus to Condemn damage as an inherent affix. Can still roll 10-15% as a random affix.
- Condemn has no cooldown and has its damage increased by
450-600%600-800%, but instead costs 40 Wrath. - Note: Existing versions of this item will also be changed to include the damage roll in the orange text, but will always roll a damage roll equal to the previous maximum possible.
- Golden Flense
- No longer rolls Legendary-strength bonus to Sweep Attack damage as an inherent affix.
- Sweep Attack restores 6 Wrath for each enemy hit and has its damage increased by 225-300%
- Note: Existing versions of this item will also be changed to include the damage roll in the orange text, but will always roll a damage roll equal to the previous maximum possible.
- Gyrfalcon’s Foote
- Removes the resource cost of Blessed Shield and increases Blessed Shield damage by
400-500%275-350%.
- Removes the resource cost of Blessed Shield and increases Blessed Shield damage by
- Jekangbord
- No longer rolls Legendary-strength bonus to Blessed Shield damage as an inherent affix. Can still roll 10-15% as a random affix.
- Blessed Shield ricochets to 6 additional enemies and has its damage increased by
300-400%225-300%. - Note: Existing versions of this item will also be changed to include the damage roll in the orange text, but will always roll a damage roll equal to the previous maximum possible.
- Blade of Prophecy
- Demon Hunter
- Dead Man’s Legacy
- No longer rolls Legendary-strength bonus to Multishot damage as an inherent affix. Can still roll 10-15% as a random affix.
- Legendary power now also increases Multishot damage, now reads Multishot hits enemies below
50-60% health twice and its damage is increased by125-150%150-200%. - Note: Existing versions of this item will also be changed to include the damage roll in the orange text, but will always roll a damage roll equal to the previous maximum possible.
- Karlei’s Point
- The damage of Impale is increased by
60-80%225-300%300-375% andImpaleit returns10–15 Hatred if it hits an enemy already Impaled.
- The damage of Impale is increased by
- Lord Greenstone’s Fan
- Every second, gain
160–200%300-400% increased damage for your next Fan of Knives. Stacks up to 30 times.
- Every second, gain
- Manticore
- No longer rolls Legendary-strength bonus to Multishot damage as an inherent affix. Can still roll 10-15% as a random affix.
- Reduces the Hatred cost of Cluster Arrow by
40-50% and increases its damage by 250-300%. - Note: Existing versions of this item will also be changed to include the damage roll in the orange text, but will always roll a damage roll equal to the previous maximum possible.
- Yang’s Recurve
- Multishot attacks 50% faster and its damage is increased by
125-150%150-200%.
- Multishot attacks 50% faster and its damage is increased by
- Wraps of Clarity
- Your Hatred Generators reduce your damage taken by
30–35%40-50% for 5 seconds.
- Your Hatred Generators reduce your damage taken by
- Dead Man’s Legacy
- Monk
- Binding of the Lost
- Each hit with Seven-Sided Strike grants
3.0–3.5%4-5% damage reduction for 7 seconds.
- Each hit with Seven-Sided Strike grants
- Balance
- No longer rolls Legendary-strength bonus to Tempest Rush damage as an inherent affix. Can still roll 10-15% as a random affix.
- The damage of Tempest Rush is increased by 450-600% and when your Tempest Rush hits 3 or fewer enemies, it gains 100% Critical Hit Chance..
- Note: Existing versions of this item will also be changed to include the damage roll in the orange text, but will always roll a damage roll equal to the previous maximum possible.
- Cesar's Memento
- Enemies take
300–400%600-800% increased damage from your Tempest Rush for 5 seconds after you hit them with a Blind, Freeze, or Stun
- Enemies take
- The Fist of Az’Turrasq
- Exploding Palm's on-death explosion damage is increased by
250–300%400-500%.
- Exploding Palm's on-death explosion damage is increased by
- Incense Torch of the Grand Temple
- No longer rolls Legendary-strength bonus to Wave of Light damage as an inherent affix. Can still roll 10-15% as a random affix.
- Reduces the Spirit cost of Wave of Light by
40–50% and increases its damage by 450-500%. - Note: Existing versions of this item will also be changed to include the damage roll in the orange text, but will always roll a damage roll equal to the previous maximum possible.
- Scarbringer
- The damage of Lashing Tail Kick is increased by
300%450-600% to the first 7 enemies hit
- The damage of Lashing Tail Kick is increased by
- Spirit Guards
- Your Spirit Generators reduce your damage taken by
30–40%45-60% for 3 seconds.
- Your Spirit Generators reduce your damage taken by
- Binding of the Lost
- Necromancer
- Bloodsong Mail
- While in the Land of the Dead, Command Skeletons
gains the effect of all runes anddeals 100–125% additional damage and gains the effect of the Enforcer, Frenzy, Dark Mending and Freezing Grasp runes.
- While in the Land of the Dead, Command Skeletons
- Bloodtide Blade
- Death Nova deals
20–30%80-100% increased damage for every enemy within1525 yards..
- Death Nova deals
- Dayntee’s Binding
- You gain an additional 40–50% damage reduction when there is an enemy afflicted by
your Decrepifyany of your curses.
- You gain an additional 40–50% damage reduction when there is an enemy afflicted by
- Defiler Cuisses
- Your Bone Spirit's damage is increased by
75–100%400-500% for every second it is active.
- Your Bone Spirit's damage is increased by
- Fate’s Vow
- Army of the Dead now deals an additional 200-250% damage and gains the effect of the Unconventional Warfare rune.
- Golemskin Breeches
Your Golem's damage is increased by 100–125% andYou take 30% less damage whileityour Golem is alive and the cooldown on Command Golem is reduced by 20-25 seconds.
- Leger’s Disdain
- Grim Scythe deals an additional
7–10%65-80% damage for each point of essence it restores.
- Grim Scythe deals an additional
- Lost Time
- Your cold skills reduce the movement speed of enemies by 30%. In addition, your movement speed is increased by
4–5%8-10% for 5 seconds. Maximum 5 stacks.
- Your cold skills reduce the movement speed of enemies by 30%. In addition, your movement speed is increased by
- Maltorius’ Petrified Spike
- Bone Spear now costs 40 Essence and deals
375–450%550-700% increased damage.
- Bone Spear now costs 40 Essence and deals
- Mask of Scarlet Death
- When paired with the Revive: Purgatory rune, the mega-revived monster will drop the same number of corpses were used to create it on death.
- This item will now attempt to give preference to the strongest monster to become the mega-revive when selecting a group of corpses.
- Nayr’s Black Death
- Each different poison skill you use increases the damage of your poison skills by
50–65%75-100% for 15 seconds.
- Each different poison skill you use increases the damage of your poison skills by
- Scythe of the Cycle
- Your Secondary skills deal
250–300%350-400% additional damage while Bone Armor is active but reduce the remaining duration of Bone Armor by 4 seconds.
- Your Secondary skills deal
- Steuart’s Greaves
- You gain
40–50%75-100% increased movement speed for210 seconds after using Blood Rush.
- You gain
- The Johnstone
Each corpse consumed in the Land of the Dead gGrants a 50 stacks of Macabre Knowledge when Land of the Dead expires. Macabre Knowledge increases the damage of Corpse Lance and Corpse Explosion by 150–200%while outside Land of the Dead.
- Bloodsong Mail
- Witch Doctor
- Bakuli Jungle Wraps
- Firebats deals
150–200%250-300% increased damage to enemies affected by Locust Swarm or Piranhas.
- Firebats deals
- Mask of Jeram
- Pets deal
75–100%150-200% increased damage.
- Pets deal
- Staff of Chiroptera
- No longer rolls Legendary-strength bonus to Firebats damage as an inherent affix. Can still roll 10-15% as a random affix.
- Firebats attacks 100% faster, and costs
70-75% less Mana, and has its damage increased by150-200%125-150%. - Note: Existing versions of this item will also be changed to include the damage roll in the orange text, but will always roll a damage roll equal to the previous maximum possible.
- The Short Man’s Finger
- Gargantuan instead summons three smaller gargantuans
each more powerful than beforethat have their damage increased by 500-650%. - Note: Existing versions of this item will also be changed to include the damage roll in the orange text, but will always roll a damage roll equal to the previous maximum possible.
Note: There is currently a bug which causes the new and old versions of the ring to not work when both are equipped; this will be fixed in an upcoming PTR patch
- Gargantuan instead summons three smaller gargantuans
- Bakuli Jungle Wraps
- Wizard
- Deathwish
- While channeling Arcane Torrent, Disintegrate, or Ray of Frost, all damage is increased by
30–35%250-325%.
- While channeling Arcane Torrent, Disintegrate, or Ray of Frost, all damage is increased by
- Etched Sigil
Your Arcane Torrent, Disintegrate, and Ray of Frost also cast one of your other damaging Arcane Power Spenders which deal 125-150% increased damage every second.- While channeling Arcane Torrent, Disintegrate, or Ray of Frost, the damage of your Arcane Power Spenders is increased by 125-150% and you also cast one of your other damaging Arcane Power Spenders every second.
- Halo of Karini
- You take
45–60%60-80% less damage for345 seconds after your Storm Armor electrocutes an enemy more than3015 yards away
- You take
- Nilfur's Boast
- Increase the damage of Meteor by
200%600%. When your Meteor hits 3 or fewer enemies, the damage is increased by275–350%675-900%
- Increase the damage of Meteor by
- Orb of Infinite Depth
- Each time you hit an enemy with Explosive Blast your damage is increased by
4%8-10% and your damage reduction is increased by15%20% for 6 seconds. This effect can stack up to 4 times.
- Each time you hit an enemy with Explosive Blast your damage is increased by
- Ranslor’s Folly
- Energy Twister does 225-300% more damage and periodically pulls in lesser enemies within 30 yards.
- The Grand Vizier
- No longer rolls Legendary-strength bonus to Meteor damage as an inherent affix.
- Reduces the Arcane Power cost of Meteor by 50% and increases its damage by
30%375-500%300-400% - Note: Existing versions of this item will also be changed to include the damage roll in the orange text, but will always roll a damage roll equal to the previous maximum possible.
- Triumvirate
- Your Signature Spells increase the damage of Arcane Orb by
150–200%300-400% for 6 seconds, stacking up to 3 times.
- Your Signature Spells increase the damage of Arcane Orb by
- Unstable Scepter
- No longer rolls Legendary-strength bonus to Arcane Orb damage as an inherent affix.
- The damage of Arcane Orb
’sis increased by 350-450% and its explosion triggers an additional time.. - Note: Existing versions of this item will also be changed to include the damage roll in the orange text, but will always roll a damage roll equal to the previous maximum possible.
- Wand of Woh
- No longer rolls Legendary-strength bonus to Explosive Blast damage as an inherent affix.
- The damage of Explosive Blast is increased by 300-400% and 3 additional blasts are triggered after casting Explosive Blast.
- Note: Existing versions of this item will also be changed to include the damage roll in the orange text, but will always roll a damage roll equal to the previous maximum possible.
- Deathwish
- Set Items
- Barbarian
- Immortal King’s Call
- (6) Set
- While both Wrath of the Berserker and Call of the Ancients is active, you deal
400%750%1500% increased damage.
- While both Wrath of the Berserker and Call of the Ancients is active, you deal
- (6) Set
- Might of the Earth
- (6) Set
- Increase the damage of Earthquake, Avalanche, Leap, Ground Stomp, Ancient Spear and Seismic Slam by
1200%3000%5600%.
- Increase the damage of Earthquake, Avalanche, Leap, Ground Stomp, Ancient Spear and Seismic Slam by
- (6) Set
- The Legacy of Raekor
- (4) Set
- Furious Charge gains the effect of every rune and deals
300%500%1000% increased damage.
- Furious Charge gains the effect of every rune and deals
- (6) Set
- Every use of Furious Charge increases the damage of your next Fury-spending attack by
750%1500%2800%. This effect stacks. Every use of a Fury-spending attack consumes up to 5 stacks.
- Every use of Furious Charge increases the damage of your next Fury-spending attack by
- (4) Set
- Wrath of the Wastes
- (4) Set
- During Whirlwind and for 3 seconds after, you gain 50% damage reduction and your applied Rends deal triple damage.
- (6) Set
- Whirlwind gains the effect of the Dust Devils rune and all Whirlwind damage is increased by
800%1700%3400%3000%.
- Whirlwind gains the effect of the Dust Devils rune and all Whirlwind damage is increased by
- (4) Set
- Bul-Kathos' Oath
- (2) Set
- Increases Fury Generation by
1015 - During Whirlwind you gain
30%45% increased attack speed and movement speed
- Increases Fury Generation by
- (2) Set
- Immortal King’s Call
- Crusader
- Armor of Akkhan
- (6) Set
- While Akarat's Champion is active, you deal
600%900%1000%1300%1500% increased damage and take15%20%50% less damage.
- While Akarat's Champion is active, you deal
- (6) Set
- Roland's Legacymonke
- (4) Set
- Increase the damage of Shield Bash and Sweep Attack by
2500%3300%.
- Increase the damage of Shield Bash and Sweep Attack by
- (4) Set
- Seeker of the Light
- (6) Set
- Increase the damage of Blessed Hammer by
1250%1500%2000% and Falling Sword by500%1000%.
- Increase the damage of Blessed Hammer by
- (6) Set
- Thorns of the Invoker
- (2) Set
- Your Thorns damage now hits all enemies in a 15 yard radius around you. Each time you hit an enemy with Punish, Slash, or block an attack your Thorns is increased by
35%115%70%140% for 2 seconds.Note: There is currently an issue which causes the actual Thorns increase to be 35% instead of 70%; this will be fixed in an upcoming PTR patch
- Your Thorns damage now hits all enemies in a 15 yard radius around you. Each time you hit an enemy with Punish, Slash, or block an attack your Thorns is increased by
- (6) Set
- The attack speed of Punish and Slash are increased by 50% and deal
800%1600%2700%5400% of your Thorns damage to the first enemy hit.
- The attack speed of Punish and Slash are increased by 50% and deal
- (2) Set
- Armor of Akkhan
- Demon Hunter
- Embodiment of the Marauder
- (4) Set
- Sentries deal
400%100%400% increased damage and cast Elemental Arrow, Chakram, Impale, Multishot, and Cluster Arrow when you do
- Sentries deal
- (6) Set
- Your primary skills, Elemental Arrow, Chakram, Impale, Multishot, Cluster Arrow, Companions, and Vengeance deal
1200%2100%2400%2500%3000% increased damage for every active Sentry
- Your primary skills, Elemental Arrow, Chakram, Impale, Multishot, Cluster Arrow, Companions, and Vengeance deal
- (4) Set
- Natalya’s Vengeance
- (6) Set
- After casting Rain of Vengeance, deal
500%750%2500%3500% increased damage and take 60% reduced damage for 10 seconds
- After casting Rain of Vengeance, deal
- (6) Set
- The Shadow's Mantle
- (6) Set
- Impale deals an additional
40000%50000% weapon damage to the first enemy hit.
- Impale deals an additional
- (6) Set
- Unhallowed Essence
- (6) Set
- Your generators, Multishot, and Vengeance deal
40%70%100% increased damage for every point of Discipline you have.
- Your generators, Multishot, and Vengeance deal
- (6) Set
- Embodiment of the Marauder
- Monk
- Inna’s Mantra
- (6) Set
- Gain the five runed Mystic Allies at all times and your damage is increased by
125%150% for each Mystic Ally you have out.
- Gain the five runed Mystic Allies at all times and your damage is increased by
- (6) Set
- Monkey King’s Garb
- (6) Set
- Has been redesigned.
- Lashing Tail Kick, Tempest Rush, and Wave of Light have their damage increased by
600%1000% for each stack of Sweeping Wind you have.
- (6) Set
- Raiment of a Thousand Storms
- (6) Set
- Your Spirit Generators increase the weapon damage of Dashing Strike to
12500%13000% for 6 seconds and Dashing Strike increases the damage of your Spirit Generators by1250%1300% for 6 seconds.
- Your Spirit Generators increase the weapon damage of Dashing Strike to
- (6) Set
- Uliana’s Stratagem
- (4) Set
- Your Seven-Sided Strike deals
double777% its total damage with each hit.
- Your Seven-Sided Strike deals
- (6) Set
- Increase the damage of your Exploding Palm by
250%1800%2100% and your Seven-Sided Strike detonates your Exploding Palm
- Increase the damage of your Exploding Palm by
- (4) Set
- Shenlong's Spirit
- The damage of your Spirit Generators is increased by
1.5%2% for each point of Spirit you have - When reaching maximum Spirit, all damage is increased by
150%200%, but you no longer passively regenerate Spirit and 65 Spirit is drained every second until you run out of Spirit
- The damage of your Spirit Generators is increased by
- Inna’s Mantra
- Necromancer
- Bones of Rathma
- (6) Set
- Each active Skeletal Mage increases the damage of your minions and Army of the Dead by
625%1000%.
- Each active Skeletal Mage increases the damage of your minions and Army of the Dead by
- (6) Set
- Grace of Inarius
- (6) Set
- Bone Armor also activates a swirling tornado of bone, damaging nearby enemies for
750%1000% weapon damage and increasing the damage they take from the Necromancer by2750%3750%.
- Bone Armor also activates a swirling tornado of bone, damaging nearby enemies for
- (6) Set
- Pestilence Master’s Shroud
- (4) Set
- Each enemy you hit with Bone Spear, Corpse Lance or Corpse Explosion reduces your damage taken by 2%, up to a maximum of 50%. Lasts 15 seconds.
- (6) Set
- Each corpse you consume grants you an Empowered Bone Spear charge that increases the damage of your next Bone Spear by
3000%4000%3300%. In addition, Corpse Lance and Corpse Explosion damage is increased by1500%2000%1650%.
- Each corpse you consume grants you an Empowered Bone Spear charge that increases the damage of your next Bone Spear by
- (4) Set
- Trag’Oul’s Avatar
- (6) Set
- Your Life-spending abilities deal 3300% increased damage
but cost twice as much Life. Your healing from skills is increased by 100%.
- Your Life-spending abilities deal 3300% increased damage
- (6) Set
- Bones of Rathma
- Witch Doctor
- Helltooth Harness
- (2) Set
- Enemies hit by your primary skills, Acid Cloud, Firebats, Zombie Charger, Zombie Dogs, Gargantuan, Grasp of the Dead, Piranhas, or Wall of Death are afflicted by Necrosis, becoming Slowed, taking 1500% weapon damage every second
, and taking 20% increased damage from your attacks for 10 seconds.
- Enemies hit by your primary skills, Acid Cloud, Firebats, Zombie Charger, Zombie Dogs, Gargantuan, Grasp of the Dead, Piranhas, or Wall of Death are afflicted by Necrosis, becoming Slowed, taking 1500% weapon damage every second
- (6) Set
- After casting Wall of Death, gain
1400%1700%5100%3700%4400% increased damage for 15 seconds to your primary skills, Acid Cloud, Firebats, Zombie Charger, Zombie Dogs, Gargantuan, Grasp of the Dead, Piranhas, and Wall of Death. Note: This set bonus is being temporarily disabled to fix an issue with the set. It will be re-enabled in a later PTR patch.
- After casting Wall of Death, gain
- Note: The damage bonus for you against enemies affected with Necrosis causes performance issues when encountering high density. This change is not intended to be a nerf and, when coupled with the six-piece change, should be a net buff for the complete set. This change should not change the gameplay style of this set.
- (2) Set
- Raiment of the Jade Harvester
- (2) Set
- When Haunt lands on an enemy already affected by Haunt, it instantly deals
120480560 seconds worth of Haunt damage.
- When Haunt lands on an enemy already affected by Haunt, it instantly deals
- (6) Set
- Soul Harvest reduces damage taken by 50% for 12 seconds and consumes your damage over time effects on enemies, instantly dealing
300120014001650 seconds worth of remaining damage.
- Soul Harvest reduces damage taken by 50% for 12 seconds and consumes your damage over time effects on enemies, instantly dealing
- (2) Set
- Spirit of Arachyr
- (6) Set
- The damage of your creature skills is increased by
2400%4500%3900%4500%. Creature skills are Corpse Spiders, Plague of Toads, Firebats, Locust Swarm, Hex, and Piranhas.
- The damage of your creature skills is increased by
- (6) Set
- Zunimassa's Haunt
- (6) Set
- Enemies hit by your Mana spenders take
2500%5500% increased damage from your pets for 8 seconds.
- Enemies hit by your Mana spenders take
- (6) Set
- Helltooth Harness
- Wizard
- Delsere’s Magnum Opus
- (6) Set
- Enemies affected by your Slow Time and for 5 seconds after exiting take
3500%4100%3800% increased damage from your Arcane Orb, Energy Twister, Explosive Blast, Magic Missile, Shock Pulse, Spectral Blade, and Wave of Force abilities.
- Enemies affected by your Slow Time and for 5 seconds after exiting take
- (6) Set
- Firebird’s Finery
- (6) Set
- Your damage is increased by
120%200%150%250%200% and damage taken reduced by 3% for each enemy that is Ignited. This effect can stack up to 20 times. You always receive the maximum bonus whenever a nearby Elite monster is Ignited.
- Your damage is increased by
- (6) Set
- Vyr’s Amazing Arcana
- (6) Set
Increased number of Archon stacks gained when hitting with an Archon ability from 1 to 2- You also gain Archon stacks when you hit with an Archon ability. Archon stacks now also reduce damage taken by 0.15% and have their damage bonus increased to
18%25%50%
- (6) Set
- Chantodo's Resolve
- (2) Set
- Every second while in Archon form you expel a Wave of Destruction, dealing
350%600%1000% weapon damage to enemies within 30 yards - Every time you hit with an attack while not in Archon form,
350%600% weapon damage is added to the Wave of Destruction, stacking up to 20 times
- Every second while in Archon form you expel a Wave of Destruction, dealing
- (2) Set
- Delsere’s Magnum Opus
- Barbarian
- Other Items
- Shields acquired by Necromancer players can now properly roll the +Max Essence affix
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where Mimics created from Rabid Strike were not correctly inheriting the player’s bonus damage from Lashing Tail Kick, Seven Sided Strike, Cyclone Strike, Exploding Palm and Wave of Light.
- Fixed an issue where after dying, the pet damage bonus granted from Jesseth Arms could sometimes be lost if skeletons are re-commanded onto the same target.
- Fixed an issue preventing the free Blood Nova granted by the Iron Rose from correctly granting the damage bonus from the Trag’Oul’s six-piece bonus.
- Fixed an issue causing certain items to drop for the Necromancer which are not able to be equipped by the class.
- Fixed an issue preventing Necromancer primary skills from taunting enemies when Boyarsky’s Chip is equipped.
- Fixed an issue which prevented the +% Thorns damage bonus granted by Aberrant Animator from applying correctly to items such as the Spear of Jairo
- Fixed an issue where you would not gain the buff from Crystal Fist when you had the buff from Channeling Pylon and Raiment of a Thousand Storms equipped
- (PTR Only) Fixed an issue with Etched Sigil where the internal cooldown for casting another spender was scaling with the item’s damage roll
- (PTR Only) Fixed an issue where minions summoned by the Demon Hunter's Companion skill would double dip on damage from the (6) Set bonus on Embodiment of the Marauder
- (PTR Only) Fixed an issue where Gargantuan would double dip on damage from the (6) Set bonus on Helltooth Harness
- (PTR Only) Fixed an issue where Hydra would double dip on damage from the (6) Set bonus of Tal Rasha's Elements
- Fixed an issue with the (2) Set power of Vyr's Amazing Arcana where your Arcane Blast and Arcane Strike would not Freeze enemies unless you had the Slow Time rune chosen
- (PTR Only) Fixed an issue where equipping certain Legendary items to a follower would cause performance issues
- (PTR Only) Fixed an issue which caused the change to Dayntee's Binding to incorrectly affect existing versions of the item
- Fixed an issue where the Wave of Destruction was doing slightly less damage than intended
- (PTR Only) Fixed an issue where the Legendary power on Gavel of Judgement was not being applied when the item was equipped
- (PTR Only) Fixed an issue where the equipping the new version and then the old version of The Short Man's Finger would result in no Legendary power from either being applied
- (PTR Only) Fixed an issue where the legacy version of the Legendary power on Dayntee's Binding did not upgrade to the new version of this item’s power in Kanai’s Cube
- (PTR Only) Fixed an issue where you could equip the legacy and new version of the Legendary power on Gavel of Judgement at the same time
- (PTR Only) Fixed an issue where every rune except for Shattering Throw was not benefitting from the increased damage from Akkhan’s Leniency
- (PTR Only) Fixed an issue where where Lashing Tail Kicks cast by mimics spawned by Rabid Strike were not having their damage increased by Scarbringer
- (PTR Only) Fixed an issue where the new version of Fate's Vow was not displaying the correct visuals per rune selected with Army of the Dead
- (PTR Only) Fixed an issue where Fate's Vow was not providing the maximum bonus to Army of the Dead when used in Kanai’s Cube
- (PTR Only) Fixed an issue where it was possible to reach zero HP and live when using Haunting Visions and Simulacrum
- (PTR Only) Fixed an issue where the damage over time effect left on the ground by Meteor was not being increased by the legacy version of Nilfur’s Boast.
- Barbarian
ADVENTURE MODE
- Rifts
- Reduced the number of deadends when Rifts choose the Temple of the Firstborn tileset
- Increased the amount of experience and Rift progress granted by the Hematic Disciple
- Increased the amount of experience and Rift progress granted by Blazing Guardians
- Increased the amount of experience and Rift progress granted by Smoldering Constructs
- Reduced the fog effect in the Shrouded Moors tilesets in Rifts
- The
Shrouded Moors tileset and thelarge Temple of the Firstborn tileset can no longer be selected for Greater Rifts - The amount of experience and Rift / Greater Rift progress that Shock Towers provide has been increased
- Shield Pylons no longer reflects damage back to attackers
- Note: Reflecting damage back to attackers caused performance issues when encountering high density.
CHALLENGE RIFTS
- Increased the amount of materials that the Challenge Rift Cache drops
- The Challenge Rift Cache now always drops 10 Death’s Breath
MONSTERS
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed a champion spawn rate issue for certain monsters required for the achievement ‘We Are the Champions’. The following monsters were adjusted and should spawn with the same frequency as other champion packs:
- Fallen Conjurer
- Fallen Peon
- Fallen Cur
- Fallen Grunt
- Fallen Overlord
- Fallen Slavelord
- Fixed a champion spawn rate issue for certain monsters required for the achievement ‘We Are the Champions’. The following monsters were adjusted and should spawn with the same frequency as other champion packs:
PTR ONLY
- D’jank Miem
- Players can exchange Blood Shards with this vendor for bags containing Legendary items