Diablo III PTR 2.6.9 Patch Notes

• The elements have deemed you worthy. With you as their champion, the burning hells will face the Trials of Tempests!
  • Your character will occasionally (every 2 minutes) channel an elemental power which unleashes into the environment for a limited time:
    • Meteors rain from the skies around you.
    • Breathe lightning.
    • A wall of flame engulfs everything.
    • Release twisters of pure energy.
    • Crush your foes under the weight of rolling snowballs.
• Two unique new rewards, a portrait frame and a pet, will be granted to players who complete the Season 21 Journey.

Demon Hunter

• New Demon Hunter Set: Gears of Dreadlands
  • 2-Piece Bonus
    • Gain a Momentum stack when attacking with a Primary skill. Each Momentum stack lasts 2 seconds at a maximum duration of 10 seconds. Your Primary skills deal 10% more damage per stack of Momentum.
  • 4-Piece Bonus
    • Casting Strafe against enemies will automatically shoot your last used primary skill, and also give 60% damage reduction while strafing and for 5 seconds after. While casting Strafe, you move faster per stack of Momentum.
  • 6-Piece Bonus
    • Your primary skills deal 10000% more damage
• Leonine Bow of Hashir
  • Bolas have a
    30%
    100%
    chance on explosion to pull in all enemies within 24 yards,
    and also deal 100-150% increased damage.
• Emimei's Duffel
  • Bolas now explode instantly
    and deal 150-175% increased damage.
• The Ninth Cirri Satchel
  • Hungering Arrow has
    20-25%
    is guaranteed to pierce
    and
    also deals 450-600% increased damage.
• Odyssey's End
  • Enemies snared by your Entangling Shots take
    20-25%
    100-150%
    increased damage from all sources.
• Hunter's Wrath
  • Your primary skills attack 30% faster and deal
    45-60%
    150-200%
    increased damage.
• Holy Point Shot
  • Impale throws 2 additional knives
    and deals 75-100% increased damage.

Necromancer

• New Necromancer Set: Masquerade of Burning Carnival
  • 2-Piece Bonus
    • Your Simulacrums no longer take damage, gains all runes, and its cooldown is refreshed when you die.
  • 4-Piece Bonus
    • While you have a Simulacrum, damage is reduced by 50%. Damage you take is split with your Simulacrums as well.
  • 6-Piece Bonus
    • Your Bone Spear deals 10,000% increased damage. Simulacrums gain triple this bonus.
• Grasps of Essence
  • When an exploded corpse damages at least one enemy, Your Corpse Explosion deals
    75-100%
    150-200%
    increased damage for 6 seconds, stacking up to 5 times.
• Haunted Visions
  • Simulacrum now drains
    5%
    1%
    of your maximum life every second and lasts
    twice as long
    forever.
    They can now duplicate Grim Scythe instead of Skeletal Mage.
• Razeth's Volition
  • Skeletal Mage gains the effect of the Gift of Death
    and Singularity
    runes.
    You gain 35-50% damage reduction if your Essence is not full.
• Jesseth Arms
  • 2-Piece Set Bonus:
    While your skeletons are commanded to attack a target, you deal 400% increased damage.
• Grace of Inarius
  • 4-Piece Set Bonus:
    Bone Armor grants an additional
    2%
    3%
    damage reduction per enemy hit.
• Pestilence Master's Shroud
  • 6-Piece Set Bonus: Each corpse you consume grants you an Empowered Bone Spear charge that increases the damage of your next Bone Spear by 3300%. In addition, Corpse Lance and Corpse Explosion damage is increased by
    1650%
    3300%.

Crusader

• Shield of Fury
  • This effect may stack up to 20 10 times.

General

• Stone of Jordan
  • Added power:
    All elemental damage bonuses to skills are now equal to your highest elemental bonus to skills.
• Reaper's Wraps
  • Added a 2-second internal cooldown to the Health globe effect.
• Mantle of Channeling
  • Now works with the Necromancer's Siphon Blood.
• Convention of Elements

  • Added "non-static" to the wording of the legendary power's description. The functionality is unchanged

• Necromancer

  • Final Service

    • No longer consumes pets.

  • Bone Prison
    • Simulacrums now benefit from this passive skill.
  • Serration
    • Simulacrums now benefit from this passive skill.
  • Corpse Explosion
    • Damage increased from 350% to 1050%.
• Witch Doctor
  • Spirit Barrage
    • The Spectres from the Phantasm rune no longer benefit from pet bonuses.

• General
  • Fixed a rare issue where players could enter a locked party and become unable to enter games or change game settings
• Necromancer
  • Fixed an issue where Skeletal Mages were not attacking certain creatures