Diablo III: Rise of the Necromancer Beta Patch 2.6.0 (45704)

Bone Prison: Bone Spear, Bone Spikes, and Bone Spirit have a 30% chance to trap enemies in a Bone Prison for 3 sec. (Before: 10%)

Bone Spear: The skill should now more reliably hit targets, especially moving targets.

Command Skeletons: The Kill Command now commands your skeletons to explode, dealing 215% weapon damage to enemies within 15 yards. (Before: 80%)

Corpse Explosion (Base Rune): Target an area exploding all corpses within 11 yards dealing 350% weapon damage to enemies within 20 yards. (Before: 250%)

Corpse Lance (Base Rune): The attack rate for all runes has been increased. Target an enemy to summon projectiles from nearby corpses that cause 1750% weapon damage to the target. (Before: 900%)

Skeletal Mage (Contamination Rune): Raise a contaminated mage that channels an aura of decay for 100% weapon damage for its duration. (Before: 175%)

Blood for Blood: Picking up a health globe removes the health cost of the next Blood spell. This effect can stack up to 10 times. (Before: 3 times)

Dark Reaping: While using a scythe gain 2% Essence and Life per kill. (Before: 1%)

Serration: Bone Spikes, Bone Spear, and Bone Spirit deal 1% increased damage for every 2 yards between you, up to a max of 20%. (Before: 15%)

• Fixed an issue where damage bonuses from the player’s attack speed were not being applied to the Skeletal Archer and Contamination runes on Skeletal Mage.
• Fixed an issue that caused Siphon Blood to continue to deal damage to enemies when they were invisible or untargetable.
• Fixed a bug where Devour (Ruthless) did not correctly restore 10 Essence per pet consumed.
• Fixed an issue which prevented damage stacks on Bone Ringer from being preserved if Command Skeletons was used again on the same target.

• Trag’Oul’s Corroded Fang: The Cursed Scythe rune for Grim Scythe now has a 100% chance to apply a curse and increases your damage against cursed enemies by 175-200%.
• Dreadgolem Spike: Renamed to Maltorius’ Petrified Spike. Bone Spear now costs 40 Essence and deals 375%-450% additional damage. (Before: 125-150% damage)
• Bloodtide Blade: Death Nova deals 20-30% increased damage for every enemy within 15 yards. (Before: 12-20% within 10 yards)
• Reilena’s Shadowhook: Bone Spikes generate an additional 2-5 Essence for each enemy hit and grants 0.5% increased damage for every point of max Essence you have.
• Death’s Scythe: Renamed to Nayr’s Black Death. Each different Poison skill you use increases the damage of your Poison skills by 50-65% for 15 sec. (Before: 75-100%)
• Spear of Jesseth: Renamed to Spear of Jairo. Your Thorns is increased by 10-15% for every enemy afflicted by one of your curses.
• Iron Rose: Attacking with Siphon Blood has a 40-50% chance to cast a free Blood Nova (Before: only while at full life, 15-25%)
• The Johnstone: Each corpse consumed in Land of the Dead grants a stack of Macabre Knowledge. Macabre Knowledge increases the damage of Corpse Lance and Corpse Explosion by 150-200% while outside Land of the Dead.
• Requiem Cereplate: Devour restores an additional 75-100% Essence and Life. In addition, when Devour restores Essence or Life above your max, the excess is granted over 3 sec.
• Fate’s Vow: Army of the Dead gains the effect of the Unconventional Warfare rune. (Removed: After consuming 15-20 corpses you unleash a free Death Nova.)
• Moribund Gauntlets: Your Golem sheds a corpse every second. (Before: Your Golem has a 10-15% chance to shed a corpse when it is hit by an enemy.)
• Golemskin Breaches: Your Golem’s damage is increased by 100-125% and you take 30% less damage while it is alive. (Before: 25% less damage while within 18 yards)
• Bryner’s Journey: Bone Spikes has a 20-30% chance to cast a Bone Nova at the target location. (Before: 10-15% chance)
• Dayntee’s Binding: You gain an additional 40-50% damage reduction when there is an enemy afflicted by your Decrepify. (Before: Decrepify gains an additional 20-30% damge reduction for attacks against you.)
• Circle of Nailuj: Renamed to Circle of Nailuj’s Evol. You now raise an additional Skeletal Mage with each cast and they last an additional 2-4 sec.
• Krysbin’s Sentence: You deal 75-100% increased damage against slowed enemies or triple this bonus against enemies afflicted by other type of control-imparing effect.
• Corpsewhisper Pauldrons: Corpse Lance damage is increased by 25-30% for 3 sec each time you consume a corpse. Max 20 stacks. (Before: 15-20%)

Bones of Rathma: (6) set bonus – Each active Skeleton Mage increases the damage of your minions and Army of the Dead by 250%. (Before: 200%)

Trag’Oul’s Avatar: (6) set bonus completely redesigned – Your Life-spending attacks deal 3300% increased damage but cost twice as much Life. Your healing from skills is increased by 100%.

Grace of Inarius: (6) set bonus: Bone Armor also activates a Bone Tornado damaging nearby enemies by 750% weapon damage per sec. Enemies hit by the tornado take 2750% additional damage from the Necromancer’s abilities and minions. (Before: 375% weapon damage and 850% additional damage)

Pestilence Master’s Shroud: (6) set bonus – Each corpse you consume grants you an Empowered Bone Spear charge that increases the damage of your next Bone Spear by 3000%. This effect stacks up to 100 times. (Before: 1000% and 30 times)

Jairoan Arms (2) Set: Renamed to Jesseth Arms.

• When the target of your Command Skeletons dies, your skeletons are automatically commanded to attack a nearby target.
• While your skeletons are commanded to attack a target, all of your minions deal 400% increased damage.
• REMOVED: Army of the Dead gains the effect of the Unconventional Warfare rune.

Zei’s Stone of Vengeance: When a pet deals damage with this gem equipped, bonuses are now always granted from the player to the enemy hit instead of from the pet to the enemy.