Diablo III PATCH 2.4.2 - v2.4.2.38682
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Table of Contents:
General
Classes
Barbarian
Crusader
Demon Hunter
Monk
Witch Doctor
Wizard
Bug Fixes
Items
Class-Specific Items
Bug Fixes
Campaign Mode
Adventure Mode
Bounties
Nephalem Rifts
User Interface
GENERAL
Developer Comments
Players were finding that pulling monsters from extended ranges to a single point on the map and crowd controlling them onto that spot was the most effective strategy, especially in group play. Not only does this cause server performance issues, but it is a stagnant, non-interactive way to play. These changes are targeted at making crowd control more situational, ensuring individual contributors in a group can add to the damage of the party more frequently.
Gold rewards have been adjusted. The primary gold sink at the end-game is Empowered Rifts. We want to maintain a general ratio that when you are running Greater Rifts at a particular tier, you can empower approximately 1/3rd of them. Due to the rate at which gold rewards from Greater Rifts and empower costs were scaling it made the gold reward from Nephalem Rifts, Gilded Barons and The Vault feel insignificant by comparison. Lowering the growth rate of gold costs restores the relative value of these other activities while maintaining the ability to empower approximately 1/3rd of your Greater Rifts.
New difficulty levels, Torment XI-XIII have been added to the game
Gold rewards have been adjusted:
Greater Rift 26 and up has been rescaled to a flat 3% increase per tier
Torment VII-XIII has been changed to match Greater Rift reward scaling
The cost to empower a Greater Rift has been reduced to match the new gold reward rate
The amount of gold dropped by the Gilded Baron Treasure Goblin has been reduced
Knockbacks now apply a flat 40% increase to crowd control resistances
Monsters cannot be knocked back if they are over 65% crowd control resistant
Powers that apply knockbacks continuously, such as Black Hole, can bypass this resistance if they already knocked a monster back successfully. These powers increase the crowd control resistance by 20% per knockback instead of 40%
The following changes have been applied to the Season 7 Journey
Slayer
The Greater Rift requirement has been reduced from 35 to 30
Champion
The Greater Rift requirement has been reduced from 50 to 40
The Nephalem Rift timer has been increased from 6 minutes to 7 minutes
Destroyer
The Greater Rift requirement has been reduced from 60 to 50
Conqueror
The Greater Rift requirement has been reduced from 70 to 60
Guardian
The Greater Rift requirement has been reduced from 80 to 70
The time limit to defeat Azmodan has been increased from 15 seconds to 20 seconds
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CLASSES
Developer Comments
With a plethora of Hatred spending attacks available to the Demon Hunter we want to find a unique role for Spike Trap. The redesign gives players more control on where and when Spike Trap damage was done using a mechanic unique to it. Using a Hatred spender to detonate opens up the capabilities of Spike Trap by allowing players to time their damage just right.
We’ve adjusted several skills which provide buffs to groups. Taken together, these changes should encourage players in groups to contribute damage to their party, while also encouraging a more healthy variety of group compositions. For more information on this change please see this forum thread.
Barbarian
Active Skills
Threatening Shout
Skill Rune - Falter
Can no longer stack with casts from other sources
Crusader
Active Skills
Consecration
The healing provided from multiple active Consecrations will no longer stack
Judgment
Skill Rune - Resolved
The increased Critical Hit Chance has been reduced from 20% to 8%
Laws of Valor
Skill Rune - Critical
The Critical Hit Damage bonus has been reduced from 100% to 50%
Demon Hunter
Active Skills
Companion
Skill Rune - Wolf Companion
The Active Skill damage bonus has been reduced from 30% to 15%
Marked for Death
The damage bonus has been reduced from 20% to 15%
Skill Rune - Grim Reaper
The damage bonus has been reduced from 20% to 15%
Multishot
Skill Rune - Wind Chill
The increased Critical Hit Chance against the target has been reduced from 15% to 8%
Spike Trap
Has been redesigned
Traps no longer have an arming time
Traps now only detonate once
Now has 2 charges each with a 10 second recharge time
All active traps are now detonated by the next Hatred spender you cast
Damage increased from 340% to 1160% weapon damage
Hatred cost reduced from 30 to 15
Skill Rune - Echoing Blast
Damage increased from 575% to 2020% weapon damage
Has been redesigned
Enemies are now slowed by 70% when the trap is detonated
Skill Rune - Lightning Rod
Damage increased from 880% weapon damage over 10 hits to 2010% weapon damage over 3 hits
Decreased the radius that lightning can arc to other traps from 75 to 25 yards
Skill Rune - Long Fuse
Has been removed
Replaced with
Impaling Spines
While the trap is active, enemies within range are instantly immobilized for 3 seconds
Increases damage to 1930% weapon damage
Skill Rune - Scatter
Now places 2 traps side by side and consumes 1 charge of Spike Trap
Skill Rune - Sticky Trap
Has been removed
Replaced with
Custom Trigger
Your Hatred generators now detonate Spike Traps
Increases damage to 1900% weapon damage
Monk
Active Skills
Blinding Flash
Skill Rune - Crippling Light
The damage reduction applied to blinded enemies has been reduced from 40% to 25%
Epiphany
Skill Rune - Soothing Mist
Healing has been reduced by 60% from 40232 Life per ability to 16093 Life. The heal amount of your health globe healing bonus has been reduced from 10% to 4%
Exploding Palm
Skill Rune - Flesh is Weak
The damage bonus has been reduced from 20% to 15%
Inner Sanctuary
Skill Rune - Forbidden Palace
No longer increased the damage taken by enemies inside Inner Sanctuary
Mantra of Conviction
The damage of the passive component of the skill has been reduced from 10% to 8%
The damage of the active component of the skill has been reduced from 20% to 16%
Skill Rune - Overawe
The damage bonus has been reduced from 16% to 12%
Mantra of Conviction
Skill Rune - Fists of Fury
The maximum stack value is no longer determined by your attack speed and is capped at 15 stacks
Way of the Hundred Fists
Skill Rune – Fists of Fury
The maximum stack value is no longer determined by your attack speed and is capped at 15 stacks
Passive Skills
Mythic Rhythm
The damage bonus from Mythic Rhythm is now consumed on manually applied Spirit spenders and not automatically from items or set bonuses.
Witch Doctor
Active Skills
Big Bad Voodoo
The attack speed bonus has been reduced from 20% to 15%
Skill Rune - Slam Dance
The damage bonus provided to allies has been decreased from 30% to 15%
Haunt
Skill Rune - Poisoned Spirit
The damage increase provided to your allies has been removed. The skill will now benefit your own damage and your pets' damage
Hex
No longer increases the damage taken by the target
Skill Rune - Jinx
The damage bonus to the target has been reduced from 30% to 15%
Skill Rune - Toad of Hugeness
The damage bonus to the target has been reduced from 25% to 15%
Mass Confusion
Skill Rune - Paranoia
Can no longer stack with casts from other sources
Piranhas
Can no longer stack with casts from other sources
Spirit Barrage
Skill Rune - Phantasm
Damage increased from 675% over 5 seconds to 750% over 5 seconds
Summon Zombie Dogs
Skill Rune - Chilled to the Bone
No longer increases damage done to targets by 15%
Wizard
Active Skills
Arcane Orb
Skill Rune - Spark
The damage increase of your next Lightning spell now has a maximum of 30%
Energy Twister
Twisters (excluding those created with the Wicked Wind rune) will now despawn if they stop moving
This applies only to the PC/Mac version
Passive Skills
Elemental Exposure
The damage bonus no longer applies to your allies
Power Hungry
Has been redesigned
Deal 30% additional damage to enemies more than 30 yards away
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue that prevented Ray of Frost - Black Ice from creating an ice patch when the player didn't land the killing blow
Fixed an issue that prevented the maximum of 8 Energy Twisters from applying
Fixed an issue that was causing stacks of Archon from a previous cast due to The Swami to stack multiplicatively instead of additively with a subsequent, overlapping cast of Archon
Fixed an issue that prevented Wolf Companion’s active ability from applying the 15% damage buff to pets and followers
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ITEMS
Developer Comments
With Haedrig’s Gift, Blood Shards and Kanai’s Cube, the need for the Magic Find stat has diminished since the game’s original release. Replacing the Magic Find property with Resource Cost Reduction made sense. We expect the Topaz will hone some existing builds and open up possibilities for some new ones.
In addition to being one of the least popular gems, Invigorating Gemstone had a mechanic that was simply unappealing to many players. Our goal with Legendary Gems is to supply unique tools that complement a build. A gem that increases your healing is truly invigorating!
When reviewing items for this patch, Twisted Sword stood out as needing a revision. While we want items to feel powerful, we also want the gameplay style associated with the items to be fun. We heard loud and clear that using Twisted Sword to stack Energy Twister in places where the tornado did not move was effective but boring. We’ve made adjustments to Twisted Sword to prevent this from occurring.
Socketing a Topaz into your helm will now provide Resource Cost Reduction rather than Magic Find. This grants the same percentage bonus as Cooldown Reduction and caps at 12.5%
Bottomless Potion of Chaos
New Legendary Potion
Teleport to another location when used below 40% health
Graphical and sound effects have been added to the teleport
Added a camera smoothing effect to the teleport
Invigorating Gemstone
Has been redesigned
Each hit done increases healing received by 1% for 5 seconds
Stacks up to 10 times
You are now immune to Crowd Control effects at Rank 25
Class-Specific Items
Crusader
Armor of Akkhan
(6) Set Bonus
Damage bonus increased from 450% to 600%
Now also reduces damage taken by 15% while Akarat's Champion is active
Khassett’s Cord of Righteousness
New Legendary Belt
Fist of the Heavens costs 40% less Wrath and deals 150% more damage
Darklight
Has been redesigned
Now gives Fist of the Heavens a chance to be cast a second time at the targeted location
Thorns of the Invoker
(6) Set Bonus
The 800% Thorns damage dealt to the first enemy hit can now benefit from +% Physical Damage
Demon Hunter
Calamity
Now always uses your Marked for Death Rune type and cannot stack with overlapping casts of your Marked for Death
Note: This change is retroactive to existing items
The Demon's Demise
Has been redesigned
The blast from Spike Trap will damage all enemies again after 1 second.
Monk
Gyana Na Kashu
The damage bonus granted to the fireball from Lashing Tail Kick has been increased from 525-700% to 1050-1400%
Raiment of a Thousand Storms
(6) Set Bonus
The damage bonus granted to Spirit Generators after casting Dashing Strike increased from 300% to 1250%
Witch Doctor
Helltooth Harness
(2) Set Bonus
The Necrosis bonus damage no longer amplifies the damage of your allies. The skill will now benefit your own damage and your pets' damage
Homunculus
Sacrifice damage bonus increased from 25-30% to 50-60%
Ring of Emptiness
Haunt and Locust Swarm damage bonus increased from 75-100% to 250-300%
Wizard
Firebird's Finery
(4) Set Bonus
Has been redesigned
Dealing Fire damage with one of your skills causes the enemy to take 1000% weapon damage as Fire for 3 seconds. This effect can be repeated a second and third time by different skills. If an enemy is burning due to three different skills simultaneously the enemy will Ignite, dealing 3000% weapon damage per second until they die
(6) Set Bonus
Has been redesigned
Your damage is increased by 120% 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.
The Twisted Sword
Can now only benefit from a maximum of 5 Energy Twisters
Several existing class-specific Legendary items have been updated to include a unique Legendary power
Note: Existing items will not be affected by the following changes. Only new versions of the items will roll with the added Legendary power.
Barbarian
Girdle of Giants
Legendary power added
Seismic Slam Increases Earthquake damage by 80-100% for 15 3 seconds.
Existing Earthquakes will have their damage increased when Seismic Slam is used with Girdle of Giants
Demon Hunter
Trag'Oul Coils
Legendary power added
Spike Traps gain the effect of the Impaling Spines rune and are deployed twice as fast
Monk
Scarbringer
Legendary power added
Lashing Tail Kick deals an additional 300% damage to the first 5-7 enemies hit
Witch Doctor
Gazing Demise
Legendary power added
Spirit Barrage gains the Phantasm rune. For each active Phantasm (max 3), the damage of Spirit Barrage is increased by 40-50%
Wizard
Starfire
Legendary power added
Lightning damage done is increased by 15% for every 10 yards you are from the target up to a maximum of 60%
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue that prevented the buff from the Orb of the Infinite from being applied if the damage killed the enemy
Fixed an issue that caused the Firebird's Finery (2) Set Bonus to proc early if there was another damage shield on the player
Fixed an issue that caused the Treasure Goblin spawned by the legacy Puzzle Ring to pick up Transmog items
Fixed an issue that caused Girdle of Giants to increase the damage of all skills by the percentage it applied to Earthquake damage
Fixed an issue that caused Scarbringer to grant a damage bonus of 200%. It has been increased to 300% to match the tooltip
Fixed an issue that caused Lashing Tail Kick (Vulture Claw Kick) DoT to not benefit from the bonus damage granted by Scarbringer
Fixed an issue that caused the Fireball proc from Gyana Na Kashu to not do damage to a target if the target has previously been hit with the amplified damage of Lashing Tail Kick from Scarbringer
Fixed an issue that caused Lashing Tail Kick – Vulture Claw Kick to give all targets the amplified damage from Scarbringer instead of the first 5-7 hit
Fixed an issue that caused Lashing Tail Kick - Vulture Kick to apply 230% weapon damage per second instead of 230% over 3 seconds
Fixed an issue that prevented Bracers of Destruction’s Seismic Slam bonus damage from being applied to the Rumble rune
Fixed an issue with Blade of the Warlord that prevented the Fury spent with Bash from triggering the 2-piece Might of the Earth set bonus and reducing the cooldown of Earthquake, Ground Stomp, Leap, and Avalanche
Fixed an issue that prevented Kyoshiro’s Soul from activating the 4pc Set bonus from the Monkey King’s Garb set
Fixed an issue that prevented the Sweeping Wind bonus provided by Kyoshiro’s Soul from expiring after transitioning between level areas
Fixed an issue that caused the old and new versions of Darklight to each proc their special ability when one was equipped and the other was used in Kanai’s Cube
Fixed an issue that was causing player attack speed to snapshot and dynamically update along with their stacks of Archon
Fixed an issue that caused the Archon buff icon to remain even after players had right clicked and removed the buff granted by the Swami
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CAMPAIGN MODE
The Skeleton King will now drop Leoric's Crown beginning at Level 5
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ADVENTURE MODE
Developer Comments
The experience rewards for the actual completion of a Nephalem Rift felt too low, reducing the feeling of accomplishment for defeating the Rift Guardian and closing the Rift. This change is aimed at ensuring that the bulk of your reward is earned upon completion.
Infernal Machine drop rates have been adjusted:
Torment levels V-XIII have an increasing chance for a second machine to drop
There is now a 50% chance for a machine to drop on Torment I increasing to 100% on Torment IV
Nephalem Rifts
Greater Rift Keys are now guaranteed from any Nephalem Rift and increasing the difficulty now increases your chance of getting a second or third key
Greater Rifts
Some of the Experience earned in a Greater Rift has been shifted from killing monsters to the reward for closing the rift. The overall amount of Experience earned should be roughly the same
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USER INTERFACE
Pylons in Nephalem Rifts now have unique minimap icons
A hotkey has been added to the game to hide the UI
When the Blacksmith is trained to maximum level his recipe list will now start collapsed
The Menagerist Goblin now has a unique minimap icon
. As for alts, I am a serial alt whore so was going to try stick to one this time around and get as high as poss. I usually end up getting to the point where I have the whole set for the build I need, and half ancients then re-roll a new class lol.
