Patch 1.3.0 Build #49213 (All Platforms) was released on 23 January 2024. These are the changes, not bug fixes. This patch introduced Season 3, Season of the Malignant.
Class Updates
Developer’s Note: It’s important to us that when a player chooses to fully invest in a Skill, the payoff is immense. In pursuit of this goal, several of our new Unique and Legendary items are targeting Skills that have yet to reach their full potential. We’re excited to see what players accomplish with our new Unique items for Barbarian’s Rend, Druid’s Lightning Storm, and Sorcerer’s Meteor. We’re also targeting some pressing issues for each Class. Necromancers with Cult Leader should see their Minions strike a bit harder, Barbarians shouldn’t feel that 3 Shouts are a requirement for their success, and Sorceresses applying Vulnerable with Lightning Spear should open new build opportunities. There are also Class updates to items and Skills that are underperforming, such as the Rogue’s Ranged Unique Items, and the Necromancer’s Golem.
All Classes
New Items
Paingorger's Gauntlets – Unique Gloves
- Damaging enemies with a cast Non–Basic Skill marks them for 3 seconds. When a Basic Skill first hits a marked enemy, the Basic Skill’s damage is echoed to all marked enemies, dealing 100–200%[x] increased damage.
Aspect of Adaptability – Utility
- When cast below 50% Maximum Resource, Basic Skills generate 3 of your Primary Resource, once per cast.
- When cast at or above 50% Maximum Resource, Basic Skills deal 40–80% increased damage.
Juggernaut's_Aspect – Defensive
- Gain 0.75 –1.25 Armor, but your Evade has 100% increased Cooldown.
Item Updates
- The unique power has been changed.
- Previous: Casting a Core Skill reduces Resource cost of your Core Skills by 12%, up to a maximum of 40%. Resets upon using a non–Core Skill.
- New: Spending resources reduces your resource costs and increases your damage by x10% for 3 seconds, up to 40%.
- Offensive Aspect of the Expectant
- Damage bonus now has a 5-second duration to be used.
- All Stats increased to 2x normal value.
- Core Skill Damage changed to Movement Speed.
- Damage While Healthy increased to 3x normal value.
- Unique Power Changed
- Previous: Gain 30 Maximum Resource. In addition, when you take damage, drain 3 resources for every 1% of life you would have lost instead.
- New: Gain 60 maximum Resource. 75% of incoming damage drains 2 Resource for every 1% of Life you would have lost instead.
Overpower
- Overpower attacks now gain +1% damage, down from +2%, per 1% of your Base Life you have in Fortify.
- Overpower attacks now gain +1% damage, down from +2%, per 1% of your Base Life that you have in bonus life above your Base Life.
Barbarian
New items
- Rend’s duration is increased by 2.0–4.0 seconds. Damaging enemies with Brawling Skills applies 2 stacks of Rend’s Bleed. This effect can only occur once every 4 seconds per enemy.
Aspect of Sundered Ground – Offensive
- Every 25 seconds, Upheaval is guaranteed to Overpower and deals 10–20% increased damage. This timer is reduced by 4 seconds when Upheaval Overpowers a Boss or an Elite enemy.
Skills
- Base damage increased by 900%, from 0.25 to 2.50.
- Enhanced Charge terrain impact damage increased by 150%, from 0.6 to 1.5.
- Power Charge no longer requires a terrain impact to reduce the cooldown of Charge, and now charging a boss will reduce the cooldown by 6 seconds.
- Base damage increased by 30%.
Passives
- Overpower damage decreased from 15% to 8% per rank.
- Duration of each weapon bonus increased from 8 to 10 seconds.
- Additional damage from having all bonuses increased from 15% to 20%.
- Having all bonuses now also increases attack speed by 20%.
- Berserking damage bonus increased from 60% to 100%.
- Bonus bleed amount increased from 115% to 140%.
- Overpower explosion damage increased from 70% to 85%.
- Expertise levelling has been cut by 50%.
Paragon
- Now reduces the cooldown of every non-Shout skill by 4 seconds, instead of every other Shout skill by 1.2 seconds.
Item Updates
Aspect of Echoing Fury - Resource
- You now generate 6–10 Fury per second while any Shout skill is active, instead of 2–4 Fury per second for each Shout skill active.
Aspect of Limitless Rage - Offensive
- Damage bonus now has a 5-second duration to be used.
Veteran_Brawler's_Aspect - Offensive
- Reduced bonus damage per stack from 15%–20% to 6%–8%, up to a reduced maximum bonus of 225%–300% to 30%–40%.
Aspect of Ancestral Charge - Offensive
- Reduced bonus damage from 75%–125% to 20%–30%.
Aspect of Encroaching Wrath - Offensive
- Reduced bonus Weapon Mastery damage from 82–100% to 40–60%.
- Damage bonus now has a 5-second duration to be used.
- Damage bonus now has a 5-second duration to be used.
New Items
- Lightning Storm gains 1 additional strike each time it grows. Lightning Storm Critical Strikes cause lightning to strike twice, dealing 10–20% increased damage.
Virulent Aspect – Utility
- When Rabies infects an enemy, reduce its cooldown by 0.3–0.6 seconds. This cooldown reduction is tripled when infecting Elites.
Druid
Skills
- Maximum damage bonus increased from 30% to 60%.
- Cooldown reduced from 45 to 35 seconds.
- Changed functionality: Lacerate hits Heal for 3% Maximum Life, increased to 6% on Critical Strikes.
- Twister damage increased from 23% to 46%.
- Lightning damage increased from 77% to 95%.
- Vulnerable duration increased from 3 to 6 seconds.
Passives
- Additional Healing received increased from 5% to 6% per rank.
- Fortify gained increased from 6.4% to 10% per rank.
- Control Impairing Effects duration reduction increased from 3% to 5% per rank.
- Increased benefit while over 50% Fortify reduced from tripled to doubled.
- Fortify gained on Shapeshifting increased from 1.4% to 2% per rank.
- Required Shapeshift duration reduced from 2.5 to 2 seconds.
- Attack Speed bonus increased from 25% to 30%.
Spirit Boons
- Thorns increased from .15 to .6. (from 1,194 to 4776)
- Maximum Spirit increased from 10 to 20.
- Critical Strike Damage bonus is now Multiplicative instead of Additive.
Paragon
- Bonus Lucky Hit Chance increased from 15% to 20%.
- Barrier increased from 5% of Maximum Health to 15%.
- Duration increased from 4 to 6 seconds.
- Passive Companion damage bonus increased from 80% to 120%.
Item Updates
- Previous: While dashing, Shred seeks out Nearby Poisoned enemies instantly dealing 70–100% of the Poisoning damage to them.
- New: While dashing, Shred seeks out Nearby Poisoned enemies and deals 20–40%[x] increased damage to them.
- Boulder Spirit Cost reduced from 50 to 40.
- Spirit Generation and bonus damage increased from 20–30% to 30–40%.
- Bonus damage reduced from 20–40% to 20–30%.
New Items
- You are Blood Lanced, and when Blood Lance would deal damage to you it instead Fortifies you for 1–2% of your Maximum Life and has a 5% chance to form a Blood Orb. Blood Lance deals 10–20%[x] increased damage.
Shattered Spirit's Aspect – Offensive
- Casting Bone Spirit also launches 18 Bone Splinters in all directions, dealing 200–400%[x] increased damage and generating 6 Essence per enemy hit.
Necromancer
Skills
- Damage increased from 0.2 to 0.3.
- Bonus damage increased from 20% to 30%.
- Lucky Hit Chance reduced from 40% to 25%.
- Base damage increased from 50% to 70%.
- Blighted Corpse Explosion damage decreased from 110% to 95%.
- Damage over time increased from 80% to 95%.
- Initial damage increased from 66% to 75%.
- Return damage increased from 21% to 25%.
- Damage is increased by 4% per Essence spent casting Bone Spirit, up from 3%.
- Now restores 30% of your Maximum Essence, instead of a flat 30 Essence.
- Previous: You and your Minions deal 10%[x] increased damage to enemies being Decomposed.
- New: Every 1.5 seconds, Decompose makes enemies Vulnerable for 4 seconds.
- Previous: Decompose Slows enemies by 50%.
- New: Decompose Slows enemies by 50%, and if you channel Decompose for at least 1.5 seconds, you gain 30%[+] Movement Speed for 5 second after ending the channel.
- Previous: Blood Mist Fortifies you for 0.5% of your Maximum Life each time it hits an enemy.
- New: You gain +10% Critical Strike Chance for 4 seconds after Blood Mist ends.
- Friendly players and Minions can now freely pass through Bone Prison walls.
- The functionality of Enhanced Bone Prison and Ghastly Bone Prison have been swapped.
- Enemies inside of Bone Prison are Vulnerable.
- If an enemy is trapped by Bone Prison, gain 25 Essence, plus an additional 5 per enemy trapped.
- Previous: Fortify for 8% of your Maximum Life for each enemy trapped by Bone Prison.
- New: Reduce your active cooldowns by 0.5 seconds for each enemy trapped by Bone Prison, up to 3 seconds.
Passives
- Now displays the current bonus on the tooltip.
Book of the Dead
- When Golems finish casting their active ability, they will first try to target a new close enemy before reverting to their previous target.
- Blood Golem and Iron Golem
- Basic Attacks now hit enemies in an area around the main target.
- Bone Golem
- Active ability now grants the Golem Thorns equal to 70% of your Armor for the duration of the Taunt.
- Bone Mage
- Upgrade now Fortifies based on your Maximum Life instead of Base Life.
- Skeleton Priest
- Healing increased from 25% to 40% over the 8 second duration.
Paragon
Cult Leader Legendary Paragon Node
- Previous: Your Minions deal 15%[x] increased damage for each Minion type you have active.
- New: Your Minions deal 10%[x] increased damage for each 20%[+] of Attack Speed Bonus they have.
- Additional Bonus changed from 25% Health to 25% Damage.
Item Updates
- Previous: Bone Spirit deals increased damage based on distance traveled, up to 15-25%[x].
- New: Bone Spirit’s Critical Strike Chance is increased by 15–25%[+]. Your Maximum Essence is increased by 2 for each enemy hit for 15 seconds.
- Previous: Enemies afflicted by your Iron Maiden have a [15–25]% chance to be Stunned for 1 Second when they deal direct damage.
- New: Iron Maiden is now also a Darkness skill and deals Shadow damage. Enemies afflicted by your Iron Maiden have a [15–25]% chance to be Stunned for 1 second when they deal direct damage.
- Chance to spawn additional corpses increased from 30–60% to 50–100%.
- Chance to reduce Golem’s active cooldown increased from 2–5% to 4–10%.
- Chance to spawn a Corpse increased from 1.0–2.5% to 2%–5%.
New Items
- When you cast an Ultimate skill, your next Core skill consumes all of your energy and deals 0.5–1.5% increased damage per Energy consumed. Using a Cooldown restores 5 energy.
Resistant Assailant's Aspect – Defensive
- Breaking Concealment grants +10% Resistance and Maximum Resist to all elements for 4 seconds. Killing an Elite enemy reduces Concealment’s cooldown by 6–10 seconds.
Rogue
Skills
- Damage increased from 16% to 20%.
- Duration increased from 3 seconds to 4 seconds.
Fundamental Invigorating Strike
- Vulnerable now applies while you are below 85% Energy, up from 75% Energy.
- Previous: Enemies takes 5%[x] increased damage from you each second they are in Caltrops.
- New: Enemies in Caltrops take 10%[x] increased damage from you, increased by 5%[x] each second.
- Cast time reduced by 15%.
- The first wave of arrows now hits closer to the player.
- Chill amount now increases by 5% per skill rank, up from 2.5%.
- Removed the Critical Strike requirement, and increased the Lucky Hit chance from 20% to 35%.
- Previous: Lucky Hit: Poison Imbued skills have up to a 30% chance to apply double the amount of Poisoning damage over time.
- New: Lucky Hit: Poison Imbued skills have up to a 30% chance to reduce Poison Imbuement’s cooldown by 2 seconds.
- Vulnerable duration increased from 3 to 5 seconds.
- Previous: Penetrating Shot deals 10%[x] increased damage per enemy it pierces.
- Now: Penetrating Shot has a 10%[+] increased Critical Strike Chance. If Penetrating Shot damages at least 3 enemies, gain 10%[+] Critical Strike Chance for 5 seconds.
- Previous: If Penetrating Shot damage at least 3 enemies, your next Penetrating Shot has 20%[+] increased Critical Strike Chance.
- New: Penetrating Shot deals an additional 10%[x] increased damage per enemy it hits.
Passives
- Amount of Damage vs Crowd Controlled bonus conversion percent reduced from 40% to 10%.
- Attack Speed per stack increased from 10% to 15%.
- Previous: Critical Strike with Marksman Skills grant you Precision. You gain 4%[x] Critical Strike Damage per stack of Precision, up to a maximum of 20%[x]. When you reach maximum Precision, your next Marksman Skill is guaranteed to Critically Strike, and deals 40%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage, then consumes all stacks of Precision.
- New: Each Marksman skill cast grants 1 stack of Precision, or 2 if it has Critically Struck. When you reach 6 stacks, your next Marksman Core or Ultimate Skill is a guaranteed Critical Strike that deals x50% increased Critical Strike Damage, consuming all stacks of Precision. This damage is further increased by an amount equal to x15% of your Critical Strike Damage bonus.
- Previous: Chilled enemies have their Movement speed further reduced by 10/20/30%.
- New: Chilled enemies have their movement speed further reduced by up to 10/20/30%, and you gain 5/10/15%[x] increased Chill effect.
- Previous: After Knocking Back or Knocking Down an enemy, you gain 4% increased Critical Strike Chance against them for 4 seconds.
- New: After Knocking Back or Knocking Down an enemy, you gain 4% increased Critical Strike Chance for 4 seconds.
Paragon
- Previous: When Inner Sight’s gauge becomes full, you gain 100%[+] Dodge Chance for 1.5 seconds.
- New: When Inner Sight’s gauge becomes full, you gain 100%[+] Dodge Chance for 2 seconds. Your next 3 Core skills deal additional damage equal to 20%[x] of your Core Skill Damage bonus.
Item Updates
- The orbiting blades can now hit each enemy 2 times, reduced from 3.
Developer’s Note: This change was made to properly match the visuals of 2 rotations around the player.
- Previous: Twisting Blades orbit for a short time after they return to you, dealing 10–15% of Twisting Blade’s return damage per hit. Based on the distance the blades returning, the orbit damage increases up to 20–30% of the return damage.
- New: Twisting Blades orbit for a short time after they return to you, dealing 20–30% of Twisting Blade’s return damage per hit.
- Previous: Each stack of Momentum Key Passive Heals you for 0.04–0.08 Life per second.
- New: Each stack of Momentum Key Passive Heals you for 0.04–0.08 Life per second and grants you 5% Damage Reduction.
- Previous: Lucky Hit: Damaging a Chilled or Frozen enemy with a Shadow Imbued Skill has up to a 75% chance to release an explosion that deals 0.3–0.48 Cold damage to the target and surrounding enemies, Chilling them for 25%.
- New: Lucky Hit: Shadow Imbued Skill have up to a 75% chance to release an explosion that deals 0.3–0.48 Cold damage to the target and surrounding enemies, Chilling them for 25%. If they were already Chilled or Frozen, increase this damage by 100%[x].
- Previous: Lucky Hit: Damaging a Poisoned enemy with a Shadow Imbued Skill has up to a 75% chance to create a toxic explosion that applies 0.15–0.2 Poisoning damage over 5 seconds to the target and surrounding enemies.
- New: Lucky Hit: Shadow Imbued Skills have up to a 75% chance to create a toxic explosion that applies 0.2–0.3 Poisoning damage over 5 seconds to the target and surrounding enemies. If the enemy was already Poisoned, increase this damage by 100%[x].
- Lucky Hit Chance increased from 20%–30% to 30%–40%.
- Inherent affix changed from Damage to Distant Enemies to Critical Strike Damage.
- Critical Strike Damage affix value increased by ~100%. This does not apply to the inherent Critical Strike Damage Affix.
- Effect updated to reflect changes to the Precision Key Passive.
- Previous: The first direct damage you deal to an enemy is a guaranteed Critical Strike. If you had maximum stacks of the Precision Key Passive when you cast the Skill, gain 20–30 energy, this can only happen once per cast.
- New: The first direct damage you deal to an enemy is a guaranteed Critical Strike. When you consume Precision casting a Skill, that Skill gains x10–30% increased Critical Strike Damage and you gain 20–40 Energy.
- Previous: Penetrating Shot has a 30–80% chance to fire an arrow that bounced off walls and scenery. Damaging 5 enemies with Penetrating Shot will cause your next cast to make enemies hit Vulnerable for 3 seconds.
- New: Penetrating Shot makes enemies Vulnerable for 3 seconds. Every 4th cast bounces off walls and scenery and deals 20%–40%[x] bonus damage.
New Items
- Meteor now has 2 charges and a 11–6 second Charge Cooldown instead of a Mana cost and drops 3 additional meteors around the target. Meteor’s Enchantment effect and Enhanced Meteor drop 1 additional meteor.
Aspect of the Shredding Blades – Offensive
- Ice Blades’ chance to apply Vulnerable is increased by 20%[+] and the Vulnerable duration is increased by 4 seconds. You gain 15–25%[x] Vulnerable Damage.
Sorcerer
Skills
- Enhanced Ball Lightning changed to have its attack rate increase with attack speed, up to 25%.
- Mage’s Blizzard condition to be cast while over 50 mana has been removed.
- Critical Strikes now apply Vulnerable for 3 seconds.
Paragon
- Fixed an issue where the Critical Strike Chance bonus was not properly applying.
- Critical Strike Chance bonus increased from +10% to 12%.
- Conjuration damage bonus increased from x3% to x5% of the total amount of your Bonus Damage with Fire, Lightning, and Cold.
- Amount of Intelligence required to gain x1% bonus Burning Damage reduced from 75 to 25.
Item Updates
Aspect of Shattered Stars - Offensive
- Meteorite damage has been changed to be 20–30% of the casted Meteor’s damage.
- Increased Charged Bolt chance to be attracted to enemies from 30–50% to 40–60%.
- Chance to unleash a Frost Nova when enemies die increased from 11–20% to 21–30%.
Gameplay
End-Game Activities
- Helltide will now be active every hour on the hour, with a 5-minute gap in between. Helltide will be active 55 minutes of every hour.
- So players can more consistently acquire Distilled Fear, we’ve reworked how Distilled Fear is collected from Nightmare Dungeons.
- Players will always gain a Distilled Fear after completing a Nightmare Dungeon of at least Tier 30.
- Every 10 Tiers after Tier 30 there’s an increasing chance for additional Distilled Fears to be rewarded.
- Completing Tier 90 Nightmare Dungeons and beyond will always grant 3 Distilled Fears.
- The Purified Sigil reward for completing a Nightmare Dungeon will now always grant a Sigil 1 Tier greater than the Nightmare Dungeon just completed.
Items
- Scrolls of Escape
- Now will populate in the lost items stash if the player missed one that was dropped.
- Stack limit increased from 20 to 99.
- Appear as Legendary so that they are harder to miss when dropped on the ground.
- The chance for Scattered Prisms to drop when defeating an Elite Monster has been reduced.
- Scattered Prisms can now be acquired from Legion Event Chests.
- The Material cap has been increased from 99,999 to 999,999.
- Treasure Goblins spawned while fighting Avarice now have the same loot potential as normally encountered treasure goblins.
- World Tier III and IV World Boss weekly caches can now drop Unique Items.
- The increased cap for Item Power on drops from World Bosses has been adjusted.
- Previous: +100 to min, +100 to max
- New: +65 to min, +25 to max
Developer’s Note: World Bosses are intended to reward powerful loot for your level. With this change, at a high level, players will see maximum Item Power gear from World Bosses at higher levels.
- The Item Power ranges for items dropped by end-game bosses, such as Varshan and Zir, have been decreased for Rare and Legendary Items. Unique Item Power has not been changed. Examples (note that the current range for Unique Items was previously the range for all items):
- Varshan in WT3 (Level 55)
- Unique Item Power Range: 675-750
- Rare/Legendary Range: 650-725
- Grigoire in WT4 (Level 75)
- Unique Item Power Range: 850-925
- Rare/Legendary Range: 800-875
- Beast in the Ice (Level 85)
- Unique Item Power Range: 900-925
- Rare/Legendary Range: 850-925
- Duriel remains unchanged (always drops 925)
- Varshan in WT3 (Level 55)
- Nightmare Dungeon Item Power scaling has been adjusted to more consistently drop high Item Power loot in high Tier Nightmare Dungeons. Examples:
- Monsters at level 100
- Legendary Item Power Range
- Previous: 820-925
- New: 845-925
- Rare Item Power Range
- Previous: 785-925
- New: 810-925
- Legendary Item Power Range
- Monsters at level 125
- Legendary Item Power Range
- Previous: 845-925
- New: 910-925
- Rare Item Power Range
- Previous: 810-925
- New: 885-925
- Legendary Item Power Range
- Monsters at level 100
- All monsters above Level 144 (Nightmare Dungeon Tier 90+) now are guaranteed to drop 925 Item Power gear.
Miscellaneous
- Potion count will no longer be reset after dying and being revived by another player.
- The Hatred’s Chosen syphon effect is no longer based on Lucky Hit.
- The Greed Shrine effect also now will drop additional Gold after the effect expires. The amount of Gold dropped is determined by how many enemies were killed while the Shrine buff was active.
- Uber-Unique Items can now be unlocked as transmogs.
User Interface and User Experience
- New settings have been added to allow navigation in the world with full Keyboard controls—including movement using the W-A-S-D keys—instead of your mouse.
- Bonuses from keywords, such as Berserking, now also denote whether any associated damage bonus is additive or multiplicative.
- Event Timers are now displayed on the world map.
- The visual effect for being Chilled will now visually increase in intensity to denote how close the Chilled character is to being Frozen.
- The default button bindings for Mount actions have been adjusted to be more intuitive on controller.
- An additional stash tab is now available to be purchased in-game with Gold. Maximum stash tabs available are now 6.
- The icons for the Helltide Chest of Mysteries and Living Steel Chest have been updated to make them more visually distinctive from the other chest icons.
- The button for confirming Gold amount in the trade interface on controller has been changed to Yor Triangle on console. This will allow pressing A or X on console to bring up the virtual keyboard to manually enter Gold amounts when trading.
- We have introduced a new way for players to approach reworking their Skill Tree.
- Players can now refund whole paths orSkill clumps whilst seeing a preview of it all.
- Players can also see how many Skill points will be refunded to them and how much Gold it will cost in advance.
Developer’s Note: he new Respec options allows players to easily refund or re-add their Skills in a flexible way. Our goal with these additionsis to make purchasing and refunding Nodes less time consuming while encouraging players to experiment more.