Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Beta Build 21390 Patch Notes

GENERAL

• The amount of experience needed per level from 64 onward has been increased
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an issue where Covetous Shen’s unique side quest could not be completed
  • Fixed an issue where the Soul Crucibles in Gideon’s Row and Nobles Rest could not be damaged by certain abilities during the quest “Orbs of Death”
  • Fixed an issue where the entrance to the Musty Cellar was floating in mid-air in front of Haedrig’s cart in the Survivor’s Enclave

ADVENTURE MODE

• Kadala, the Blood Shard vendor, now has a chance to randomly produce Legendaries when purchasing randomized items
• Lorath Nahr is now no longer a vendor
• Bounties:
  • In Adventure Mode, each Act now rolls a random boss kill, dungeon clear, unique kill, event complete, and random non-boss bounty
• Nephalem Rifts:
  • The Greater Horadric Cache has been removed
    • The loot that previously came from these bags will now drop from Rift Guardians
  • Several changes have been made to Nephalem Rift maps
• Bug Fixes
  • Kadala’s inventory has been updated to include bows and crossbows
  • “Bounty: Kill Lurk” can now be completed
  • The shy female Lacuni who were refusing to jump down from their perches in the Caverns of Frost have been removed from Adventure Mode
  • Fixed an issue where some lower level bounties were providing level 70 rewards

CLASSES

• Barbarian
  • Active Skills
    • Avalanche
      • Fixed a bug that was causing Avalanche to deal ~20% more damage than listed
      • Skill Rune – Snow-Capped Mountain
        • Increased the damage area width from 30 to 40 yards
        • Reduced the damage from 2000% to 1600% weapon damage
      • Skill Rune – Volcano
        • Increased damage from 2400% to 3000% weapon damage
        • Increased the randomness of the volcano damage targeting
• Crusader
  • Active Skills
    • Akarat’s Champion
      • Skill Rune – Fire Starter
        • Has been redesigned. Whenever the player spends 20 Wrath, they will explode with fire, dealing weapon damage to nearby enemies
    • Laws of Hope
      • Cooldown increased to 45 seconds
      • The active effect of the base skill and all runes no longer heals players and allies. Instead, it now puts a shield on all players for 3 seconds.
    • Laws of Justice
      • Cooldown increased to 45 seconds
      • Skill Rune – Faith’s Armor
        • Now has a 3 second expiration timer on the shield
    • Laws of Valor
      • Cooldown increased to 45 seconds
  • Passive Skills
    • Fantacism
      • Has been renamed Righteousness
  • Bug Fixes
    • Heaven’s Fury
      • Skill Rune – Split Fury
        • An enemy can now only be targeted by a single beam
    • Laws of Hope
      • Skill Rune – Wings of Angels
        • Crusaders with this skill rune activated will no longer be able to pass through sand doors in the Storm Halls and Unknown Depths

• Demon Hunter
  • Active Skills
    • Vengeance
      • Vault will now trigger Side Cannons and Homing Rockets while Vengeance is active
      • Skill Rune – Dark Heart
        • Increased damage from 300% to 325% weapon damage per sec
      • Skill Rune – Personal Mortar
        • No longer fires homing rockets
        • Changed damage type from Physical to Fire
      • Skill Rune – Stimulants
        • This rune has been replaced with Side Cannons
        • Replaces the side guns with cannons that deal 150% weapon damage and heal you for 1.5% of maximum life per enemy hit
• Witch Doctor
  • Bug Fixes
    • Piranhas
      • Grave Injustice now correctly affects the cooldown of this skill
• Wizard
  • Active Skills
    • Black Hole
      • Skill Rune – Absolute Zero
        • Reduced Cold damage bonus per enemy hit to 3%
  • Passive Skills
    • Audacity
      • Reduced damage bonus to 15%

CRAFTING

• All Legendary crafting recipes now require a unique material
• Unique crafting materials for Legendaries now only drop at level 70
• Unique Legendary crafting materials now display as Rare quality (instead of Legendary quality)
• The chance for a crafting plan to drop from Horadric Caches has been reduced

EVENTS

• Cursed Chests
  • All Acts can now spawn Cursed Chests in many zones that may summon a handful of monsters, Champions, Rares, or even Bosses (these chests are different from “Wave” and “Horde” chest types)
    • These chests only appear in Adventure Mode
    • These chest events can be failed
    • These chest events cannot be Bounties
    • Chest rewards for these kinds of chests are currently being tuned
• Infernal Machine
  • The Keywardens now spawn in both Campaign and Adventure Mode from level 60-70
  • Level 70 Keywardens now also have a small chance to drop a random key from other Acts
  • The following keys now drop at level 70 from Keywardens (these keys are used to craft the level 70 Infernal Machine device):
    • Key of Bones
    • Key of Gluttony
    • Key of War
    • Key of Evil
  • The Blacksmith can now craft the following level 70 devices:
    • The Infernal Machine of Bones
    • The Infernal Machine of Gluttony
    • The Infernal Machine of War
    • The Infernal Machine of Evil
  • The new Infernal Machine recipes now drop off any Keywardens at level 70
  • Level 70 Infernal Machine bosses now drop the following components (these items are used to craft the level 70 Hellfire Ring):
    • Leoric’s Regret
    • Vial of Putridness
    • Idol of Terror
    • Heart of Evil
  • The Jeweler can now craft a level 70 version of the Hellfire Ring:
    • There is only one version of the new Hellfire Ring; when crafting, it will roll using the Smart Loot system for the character that crafted it
    • This crafting plan can be purchased from Squirt in Act II
  • The drop rates for level 70 keys and organs for the Infernal Machine event have temporarily been set to 100%
    • This is to encourage testing in the next phase

ITEMS

• A new item affix has been added: +% damage to Piranhas
• Death’s Breath now drops more frequently from Champion and Elite packs
• Piro Marella (Crusader shield) is now a crafted item
• Golden Scourge (Crusader flail) is now a crafted item
• Legendary Items:
  • Ahavarion, Spear of Lycander
    • Reduced chance on killing a demon to gain a Shrine buff from 2% to 0.5%
  • Alabaster Gloves
    • Now heals allies for 50% of health potion amount
  • Band of the Rue Chambers
    • Increased minimum Spirit Generation bonus from Spirit Generators to 60%
  • Cord of the Sherma
    • Increased internal cooldown to 10 seconds
    • Increased radius to 27.5 yards to match the visual effect
  • Eye of Peshkov
    • Increased minimum cooldown on Breath of Heaven roll to 38%
  • Falcon Wing
    • Now works on dodges
  • Fulminator
    • Increased minimum Lightning Rod weapon damage per second to 167%
  • The Furnace
    • Increased internal cooldown to 1 second
  • Golden Gorget of Leoric
    • Reduced Skeleton duration to 10 seconds
  • Hexing Pants of Mr. Yan
    • While stationary, the resource regeneration and damage is now reduced by 20-25%
  • The Laws of Seph
    • Increased Spirit gain on casting Blinding Flash from 45-60 to 75-100
  • The Magistrate
    • Increased coolup before Frost Nova to 4.5 seconds
    • Reduced cooldown between Frost Novas to 4.5 seconds
    • Reduced Freeze duration to 2 seconds
  • Mask of Lies
    • Now always rolls with +Maximum Arcane Power
  • Salvation
    • Reduced party-wide healing amount on block from 100% to 20%-30% of the amount blocked
  • Schaefer’s Hammer
    • Increased the Lightning Damage roll to 30%-40%
    • Removed internal cooldown
  • Thunderfury
    • Increased movement and attack speed slow to 30%
    • Increased proc chance to 60%
    • Fixed a bug where the proc chance wasn’t rolling against the triggering power’s proc scalar
    • Changed internal cooldown to 1 / Attacks Per Second
    • Increased maximum targets to 5
  • Thundergod’s Vigor
    • No longer a Barbarian Belt and can roll for any class
    • Now rolls 150-200 Lightning Resist
    • Now rolls 10%-15% more damage with Lightning Skills
  • Trag’oul Coils
    • Will now also reduce all cooldowns by 45-60 seconds when you use a healing well, in addition to its previous effect of replenishing all resources
  • New Legendary – Halcyon’s Ascent (may also be listed as “Strobe”)
    • Rolls Primary stat, Cooldown Reduction, Increased Damage Against Elites 10%-15% and Reduced Damage From Elites 10%-15%
    • Legendary Power:
      • Barbarian – When you use Wrath of the Berserker, you mesmerize nearby enemies with your skill, causing them to jump uncontrollably for 6-8 seconds
      • Crusader – When you use Akarat’s Champion, you mesmerize nearby enemies with your skill, causing them to jump uncontrollably for 6-8 seconds
      • Demon Hunter – When you use Vengeance, you mesmerize nearby enemies with your skill, causing them to jump uncontrollably for 6-8 seconds
      • Monk – When you use Epiphany, you mesmerize nearby enemies with your skill, causing them to jump uncontrollably for 6-8 seconds
      • Witch Doctor – When you use Big Bad Voodoo, you mesmerize nearby enemies with your skill, causing them to jump uncontrollably for 6-8 seconds
      • Wizard – When you use Archon, you mesmerize nearby enemies with your skill, causing them to jump uncontrollably for 6-8 seconds

USER INTERFACE

• Torment difficulties III-VI now have difficulty descriptions
• The Waypoint UI now displays the appropriate gold/experience values for Bounty turn-in rewards