Skills
PLEASE READ the changes to skills carefully as many have changed. Some skills now have new names to represent their different effects or make more sense within the context of the character class.
Fixed skills being added to and/or removed from Shift activation when swapping weapons.
Increased the amount of Shields granted by skills that provide Shields.
Templar
Aura of Power, Aura of Renewal, Aura of Defense, and Aura of Salvation have been rebalanced. Additionally, their skill rank progressions have been normalized to provide a 33% increase in effectiveness per skill level. Blademasters and Guardians will now see more return on investment in these auras.
Investing a skill point into an Aura skill will no longer automatically cause it to activate.
Aura of Power
The power regeneration granted by Aura of Power has been decreased. At rank 10, Aura of Power grants 94% of the power it gave previously.
Blademaster
Path of Righteousness
Path of Righteousness now applies damage from offhand melee weapons.
Call of the Chosen
The Taunt and Fear Attack Strengths of this skill now properly scale with the Blademaster's level.
The range of Call Of The Chosen has been increased.
Crosscutter
Crosscutter now requires a target in order to use the skill.
Whirlwind
Fixed a bug which caused Whirlwind to immediately cancel itself.
Guardian
Prayer of Retribution can now be used while poisoned.
Prayer of Healing can no longer be used while poisoned.
Aura of Thorns
Aura of Thorns should now properly increase Thorns damage from items.
Aura of Thorns has been rebalanced to fit the standard Aura progression model.
Aura of Renewal
The initial health regeneration granted by Aura of Renewal has been slightly decreased. By rank 10, this aura provides significantly more health regeneration than it did previously.
Aura of Defense
The armor bonus granted by Aura of Defense has been decreased.
Aura of Salvation
The initial elemental attack defense granted by Aura of Salvation has been slightly decreased. By rank 10, this aura provides significantly more elemental attack defense than it did previously.
Grand Aura
This skill now provides an equal percentage increase to the Guardian's Holy Aura radius at each rank, ending with the same total increase at rank 5 as it did previously.
Challenge
The Taunt Attack Strength of this skill now properly scales with the Guardian's level.
Denounce
The Taunt Attack Strength of this skill now properly scales with the Guardian's level.
Cabalist
The Summon Ember and Summon Fire Elemental skills no longer conflict when granted through items.
Brom's Curse
This spell now heals a fixed amount based on the attacker's level instead of being based on a percentage of the attacker's health.
The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted. Brom's Curse affects up to 4 targets for 5 seconds at rank 1. The maximum number of targets is increased by 1, the duration increased by 1 second, and the amount healed is increased by 12.5% per rank.
This spell may now be cast while moving.
The range of Brom's Curse has been increased to 20 meters.
Fixed description for Brom’s Curse to match the actual health gained.
Afterlife
The power cost of this spell has been reduced.
Elemental Drain
The power cost of this spell has been greatly reduced.
The casting time has been reduced by 1 second.
Word of Fear
The Fear Attack Strength of this spell now properly scales with the caster's level.
The base Fear Attack Strength of this spell has been increased by 25%.
The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted. Word of Fear now gains 33% more Fear Attack Strength per rank.
Evokers
Fixed a bug that caused Drain Power to charge an upfront power cost.
Tempest’s targeting range has been increased and properly loses targets that move out of range.
Fixed a bug which prevented Boneshards from having any effect on every other cast.
Fixed a bug which prevented Evokers from using any other skills for two seconds after casting Boneshards.
Skill Rank bonus descriptions have been updated and normalized to be based on their initial rank 1 effect. For example, Spectral Bolt now displays no Phase Attack Strength bonus at rank 1, but displays a more clear bonus of 25% Phase Attack Strength per additional rank.
Spectral Curse
Spectral Curse now also reduces targets' movement speed by 10%.
The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted. Spectral Curse now affects up to 4 targets for a 5 seconds at rank 1. The maximum number of targets is increased by 1, the duration increased by 1 second, and movement speed penalty increased by 5% per rank.
This spell may now be cast while moving.
The power cost of has been reduced substantially, and the range has been increased to 20 meters.
The explosion damage caused by Spectral Curse has been increased.
Drain Power
The damage of this spell has been increased significantly.
Increasing ranks of Drain Power now work properly at all power ranges.
Drain Life
The damage of this spell has been doubled.
Arcane Shield
The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted, providing slightly less shields at lower ranks.
Arcane Shield is unaffected by the Evoker's movement.
This spell now lasts for 10 seconds with a 25 second recast time.
Concentrate Damage
The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted. Concentrate Damage now provides a lower initial damage bonus, but grants a greater bonus per rank. Concentrate Damage's new damage bonus progression surpasses its previous curve damage bonus progression at rank 4.
Summon Ember
The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted. Additional ranks of this skill now provide 15% more damage instead of 20%, but the base damage of the Ember pet is significantly higher across all ranks.
The Ember's Health, Damage, Ignite Attack Strength, Critical Chance, Interrupt Strength, Interrupt Defense, and Armor have been increased.
Firestorm
The rank progression of this spell has been re-designed. Additional ranks of Firestorm now provide a 5% increase in damage rather than an increase in Ignite Attack Strength. Firestorm surpasses its previous damage at rank 3.
The Ignite Attack Strength of this spell has been reduced.
The range of this spell has been increased to 10 meters.
Flameshards
The Flameshards spell has been re-worked. The number of shards fired is now fixed at 7, but multiple shards stack with each other. Individual shard damage has been decreased slightly to take damage stacking into account.
Increased ranks in Flameshards now increases each shard's Ignite Attack Strength by 25%.
The spells now has a cool-down time of 2 seconds.
This spell's power cost has been decreased.
The base Ignite Attack Strength of this spell has been increased by 25%.
The range of this spell has been increased to 25 meters.
The explosion delay of Flameshards has been decreased to 1 second.
Hellfire
This spell's casting time and initial power cost have been reduced significantly. Additional ranks now provide a slightly smaller decrease in power cost.
This spell now has a cool-down time of 2 seconds.
The damage and Ignite Attack Strength of this spell have been increased substantially.
The range of Hellfire has been decreased to 25 meters.
The targeting of this spell has been fixed.
Hellfire can now be aimed as long as the skill trigger is held down, and fires once the trigger is released.
Spectral Bolt
The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted. Spectral Bolt now provides an additional 25% Phase Attack Strength per rank. The initial Phase Attack Strength of Spectral Bolt has been slightly increased.
The power cost of this spell has been decreased, and the Phase duration has been increased by 1 second.
The cooldown of Spectral Bolt has been decreased to 1 second.
The base Phase Attack Strength of this spell has been increased by 25%.
Spectral Lash
The damage of this spell has been increased by 35%.
Spectral Lash Mastery
The damage of the explosion caused by this spell has been doubled.
The rank bonus of this spell is now applied to the explosion effect properly.
Lightning Field
The damage of the Lightning Field has been increased substantially.
The power cost of this skill has been decreased.
This spell now has a cool-down time of 2 seconds.
The splash damage of the initial effect has been increased by an additional 17%.
The skill description has been corrected to match the actual increase in radius per rank.
Tempest
The casting time, power cost, and cool-down of Tempest have been decreased.
The base damage of Tempest has been decreased.
The strike frequency bonus per rank of Tempest has been decreased to 10% per rank.
Each Tempest cloud now lasts for 15 seconds and has a range of 15 meters.
The rank bonus of this spell now properly increases the frequency of lightning strikes.
Arc Legion
The rank progression bonus of this spell has been changed. Additional ranks now increase the Shock Attack Strength and Shock Effect Damage of Arc Legion by 25%.
The range of this spell has been fixed at 18 meters.
The damage of this spell has been increased.
Demonspine
The rank bonus of this spell has been slightly adjusted to a 25% increase in Stun Attack Strength per rank.
The power cost of this spell has been decreased.
The damage of this skill has been increased.
The base Stun Attack Strength of Demonspine has been increased by 20%.
Boneshards
The rank bonus of this spell has been slightly adjusted to a 50% increase in Stun Attack Strength per rank.
The damage of this spell has been increased by 60%.
The cooldown of this skill has been decreased to 6 seconds.
The base Stun Attack Strength of Boneshards has been increased by 25%.
The power cost of this skill has been increased.
Skullsplitter
The rank progression of this spell has been adjusted. Skullsplitter now begins with 12 fragments and gains 2 additional fragments per rank.
Skullsplitter now explodes into a significantly more predictable nova pattern.
The power cost and cool-down of this spell have been slightly decreased.
Venomous Spirit
The damage of this spell has been increased and the power cost has been decreased.
The Fear Attack Strength of this spell now scales properly with the caster's level and has been increased significantly. Additional ranks of Venomous Spirit no longer provide an increase in Fear Duration.
The travel speed of the Venomous Spirit has been increased significantly.
Venom Armor
Several bugs with which allowed the swarms created by Venom Armor to bypass its intended cool-down time have been fixed.
The damage of each swarm created by this spell has been increased, and each swarm now lasts for a fixed amount of time on their target.
The initial armor provided by this spell has been decreased, but the absolute bonus to armor per rank has been increased, reaching the previous maximum armor bonus at rank 10.
Swarm
The rank progression of this spell has changed. Additional ranks in Swarm now increase the Poison Attack Strength and Poison Duration of Swarm by 20%.
The cool-down of this spell is now fixed at 6 seconds.
The power cost of this spell has been decreased significantly.
Summoners
Fixed a bug which sometimes caused the Warper minion icon to not display.
Master of the Flame skill effects now display properly in the skill description tooltip.
Hand of Nostrum
Hand of Nostrum should now properly increase the number of healing beams used by the Witch Doctor.
Hunters
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused grenades to not fire properly when the skill is being repeated.
Phase Grenade
Fixed a bug which caused the Phase Grenade to not receive the proper Attack Rating from the user. This caused the Phase Grenade to do less damage than intended against armored targets (but did not affect damage done to Shields).
Tactical Stance
Now also gives a base Firing Accuracy bonus of 50.
Changed the Critical Chance bonus effect (3% at rank 1 and 1% per additional rank) to a damage bonus of 15% at rank 1 and 5% per additional rank.
Escape
Escape now provides 1 second of invulnerability when it is activated.
Escape should now prevent enemy players in PVP from seeing the user.
The cool-down for this skill now starts when the skill is used, not when it is cleared.
The cool-down for this skill has been increased to 30 seconds.
The duration for this skill has been decreased from 6 seconds to 3 seconds at rank 1, increasing by 1 second per additional rank.
The rank cap on this skill has been increased from 5 to 7.
Escape now clears all other speed boost effects while it is active, including Adrenaline Pills and Sprint. Using any skill or item that boosts speed will clear Escape, including Sprint.
Precision Strikes
Precision Strikes now have direct synergies with all other Precision Strikes.
Precision Strikes no longer have skill prerequisites
Decreased the shared cool-down of all Precision Strikes from 20 seconds to 12 seconds.
Napalm Strike
Increased base Damage by roughly 300%.
Ranks in Napalm Strike now increase the Duration of all Precision Strikes by 50%.
Decreased base radius by 50%.
Smackdown
Ranks in Smackdown now increase the Elemental Attack Strengths of all Precision Strikes by 25%.
Increased base damage by roughly 300%.
Decreased base radius by 50%.
Shock and Awe
Decreased base Damage by roughly 25%.
Ranks in Shock and Awe now increase the Radius of all Precision Strikes by 15%.
Decreased base radius by 75%.
Engineers
Engineer Drone behavior improved.
Fixed a bug that allowed Repair Drone to be used at no cost.
Drones will now level properly along with their owner. Existing Drones that are below your character’s level will automatically be raised to the correct level.
Drones now receive correct health bonuses with skill level after they are re-summoned.
Engineer Drones now come with a base armor rating.
Engineer Drones now properly receive Armor bonuses from Armor affixes.
Fixed bugs that caused Engineer Drones to receive more than twice as much Armor than intended.
Fixed a bug that prevented the effects of Medpak Retrofit and Shield Generator Retrofit to properly scale up with additional levels.
Engineers should no longer erroneously receive bonuses from items which grant the Overshield skill.
Summoned pets should no longer fail to spawn when summoned.
Beacon
Decreased the base effect to 15% from 25%.
Marksmen
Rebounder Rounds (formerly Ricochet)
“The Marksman uses modified ammunition that has a chance to ricochet off enemies and walls.”
This skill is now an Active skill. You must use this skill in order to gain the effect and functions similarly to how “fire both weapons” works.
There is no power cost for using this skill.
This skill has a chance to proc its effect (based on the skill and increasing based on the rank of the skill) for each individual firing of the skill. Since its effect is no longer dependent upon landing a critical hit, the effect of this skills will be seen much more commonly at all skill ranks and character levels.
This skill has indirect synergies with the other skills in the “Ballistics” line. Each rank in Rebounder Rounds has a chance (albeit smaller) to proc when either Ravager Rounds or Concussion Rounds are used.
EXAMPLE: The first rank of Rebounder Rounds gives a 10% chance for shots to ricochet while using Rebounder Rounds. Due to skill synergy, Ravager Rounds and Concussion Rounds have a 7% chance for this effect to occur while using either of those skills.
Ravager Rounds (formerly Reflected Shot)
“The Marksman uses modified ammunition that has a chance to blow through and subsequently retarget additional enemies.”
This skill is now an Active skill. You must use this skill in order to gain the effect and functions similarly to how “fire both weapons” works.
There is no power cost for using this skill.
This skill has a chance to proc its effect (based on the skill and increasing based on the rank of the skill) for each individual firing of the skill. Since its effect is no longer dependent upon landing a critical hit, the effect of this skills will be seen much more commonly at all skill ranks and character levels.
This skill has indirect synergies with the other skills in the “Ballistics” line. Each rank in Ravager Rounds has a chance (albeit smaller) to proc when either Rebounder Rounds or Concussion Rounds are used.
EXAMPLE: The first rank of Ravager Rounds gives a 3% chance for shots to blow through and re-target a new enemy while using Ravager Rounds. Due to skill synergy, Rebounder Rounds and Concussion Rounds have a 2% chance for this effect to occur while using either of those skills.
Concussion Rounds (replaces Homing Shot)
“The Marksman uses modified ammunition designed for maximum impact.”
This skill is now an Active skill. You must use this skill in order to gain the effect and functions similarly to how “fire both weapons” works.
There is no power cost for using this skill.
This skill increases the Interrupt Strength (indirect chance to proc) of the Marksman’s weapons (based on the skill and increasing based on the rank of the skill) while the skill is used.
This skill has indirect synergies with the other skills in the “Ballistics” line. Each rank in Concussion Rounds increases Interrupt Strength (albeit by lesser amount) when either Ravager Rounds or Rebounder Rounds are used.
EXAMPLE: The first rank of Concussion Rounds gives a 12% increased Interrupt Strength for shots fired while using Concussion Rounds. Due to skill synergy, Ravager Rounds and Rebounder Rounds have a 8% increased Interrupt Strength when using either of those skills.
Weapon Master (formerly Hollow Points)
Increased the Critical Damage bonus of this skill from 20% at rank 1 and 10% per additional rank, to a flat 30% bonus per rank.
Beacon
Decreased the power cost by 33%.
Increased the per-rank bonus to 7% from 5%.
Decreased the base effect to 21% from 45%.
Duration is now fixed at 6 seconds.
Beacon may now be used on targets who already have the Beacon effect to refresh the timer.
The Multi Beacon and Beacon effects no longer stack.
Elemental Beacon
Now also decreases the target’s Elemental Attack Strengths.
Gives increasing Elemental Attack and Defense penalties per rank that scales with the character’s level.
Multi Beacon
Fixed a bug which caused increasing ranks in Multi Beacon to not provide any bonuses.
Increased the cooldown to 12 seconds from 2 seconds.
Duration is now fixed at 6 seconds.
The Multi Beacon and Beacon effects no longer stack.
Sniper
Is now available at level 5.
No longer forces the Marksman to crouch and stop moving when used. The character now moves at 50% speed while the skill is active (in addition to the Armor and Weapon Energy Consumption penalties).
Weapon Accuracy, Range, and Missile Velocity bonuses are now fixed at 60%, 60%, and 25%, respectively.
Damage bonus has been decreased from 200% to 150%.
Rank progression now decreases its rate of use and rate of fire penalties by 3% per rank, beginning at a 50% penalty at rank 1 and ending at a 23% penalty at rank 10.
Master Sniper
Now provides a 1% Critical Chance bonus per rank, in addition to its previous 20% Critical Damage bonus.
Rapid Fire
Now clears Multishot when used.
Multishot
This skill has been moved under Weapon Master in the skill tree. It required two points in Weapon Master to unlock, thus requiring fewer total points to unlock than before.
Overshield
Overshield now gives the correct amount of shields.
Increased the Shields bonus per additional rank from 33% to 100%.
Overshield now grants Shields in a fixed ratio: the Marksman's current Shields Percentage will not change when the skill is activated or deactivated.
Escape Artist
The Movement Speed bonus has been increased to 25% per rank.
The rank cap on this skill has been increased from 5 to 7.
Grenades
Grenades now have direct synergies with all other Grenades.
Increased the damage of all Grenade skills by roughly 70% in addition to individual Grenade skill damage changes.
Increased the cool-down of all Grenade skills from 5 to 6 seconds.
Explosive Grenade
Explosive Grenades now explode on impact with monsters (but not objects) and have a 2 second fuse.
Decreased base Damage by 23%.
Decreased base Ignite Attack Strength by 33%.
Ranks in Explosive Grenade now increase the Damage of all grenades by 12%.
Phase Grenade
Increased base Damage by 6%.
Ranks in Phase Grenade now increase the Elemental Attack Strengths of all grenades by 30%.
Toxic Grenade
Toxic Grenades now bounce off of objects (ignoring monsters) before exploding after 1.5 seconds.
Toxic Grenades now create a field that lasts for 4 seconds, dealing field damage.
Decreased base Poison Attack Strength by 50%.
Ranks in Toxic Grenade now increase the splash or field radius of all grenades by 10%.
Flashcrasher Grenade
Increased base Damage by 12%.
Decreased base Stun Attack Strength by 50%.
Ranks in Flashcracker Grenade now grant and increase the Shield Penetration of all grenades by 10%.
Re: [Patch] Le ultime novita'
Originariamente Scritto da ScizLor
Abbiamo una versione quasi-finale della patch 1.2 per il singleplayer: rispetto alla precedente sono stati corretti alcuni bugLa versione finale dovrebbe uscire entro pochi giorni e, dicono, apparire come scaricabile già dal programmino di lancio.
