Diablo Three replace 2.four.Three goes dwell with that 20 yr anniversary retrovision dungeon – full patch notes

05.01.2017

Games

General

New Feature: 20th Anniversary Event

A mysterious group of Cultists is stirring up hassle! Hunt them down in Adventure Mode to uncover clues that reveal a portal into Tristram’s previous, and rediscover the terrifying darkness that took maintain of the city so a few years in the past…
This occasion is just out there in January. Please word that future anniversary occasions will characteristic a pre-cursor occasion out there from January 1-Three.

Hardware Support

Support has been added for the Corsair Utility Engine (CUE) SDK and Razer peripherals
- Supported backlit keyboards will reply to sure in-game conditions like Legendary and Set merchandise drops, characters leveling up, and extra
- Players might want to replace their firmware for supported units to make use of this characteristic
Added a 64-bit consumer as default for 64-bit Microsoft Windows working programs
- With this, gamers ought to see enhancements to system efficiency and quicker loading instances
- This change makes use of DirectX 11 natively, which brings assist for regular maps, per pixel lighting and improved anti-aliasing choices
- The 32-bit consumer continues to be out there as an possibility by the Battle.web Launcher
Added a display screen area ambient occlusion (SSAO) pixel shader possibility
Added a big cursor possibility
Improved assist for 60Hz+ screens

Bug Fixes

Resolved a difficulty that might trigger crashes in some situations

Classes

Barbarian

Overpower
- Now has Three expenses
- Cooldown per cost stays 12 seconds with an opportunity to be decreased barely by important strikes

Bug Fixes

Fixed a difficulty which induced Wave of Light to generally fail to deal harm when gamers have been underneath the impact of Epiphany
Fixed a bug which prevented a Hydra from being spawned when two Mirror Images tried to forged Summon Hydra on the similar time
Fixed a difficulty which induced the energetic impact of Earth Ally and Fire Ally to not profit from Attacks Per Second or +Mystic Ally harm
Fixed a difficulty which prevented the Archon model of Teleport from accurately incorporating the participant’s assaults per second

Items

Legendary Items

Red Soulstone Shard – New Legendary Gem
- Periodically wrestle for management, unleashing a hoop of Fire that inflicts 12,500% weapon harm to enemies it passes by
- With the above change, the first impact of the gem offers considerably extra harm on the gem’s base degree, however scales extra slowly with further ranges
- After gaining a degree, your useful resource prices are eliminated and cooldowns on abilities are decreased by 75% for 30 seconds (Requires Rank 25)

Class Specific Items (1)

Crusader
- Armor of Akkhan: Talisman of Akkhan (Amulet)
- Has been added as a seventh piece to Armor of Akkhan
- The set’s present bonuses and powers stay the identical
- This amulet will all the time roll with Critical Hit Chance along with Three different random affixes

Class Specific Items (2)

Barbarian: Saffron Wrap
- The harm of your subsequent Overpower is elevated by 40-50% for every enemy hit, as much as a most of 20 enemies
Crusader: Faithful Memory
- Each enemy hit by Falling Sword will increase the harm of Blessed Hammer by 50-60% for 10 seconds, stacking as much as 10 instances
Demon Hunter: Hellcat Waistguard
- Grenades have an opportunity to bounce Three-5 instances, dealing a further 50% harm on every bounce. This bonus is elevated to 800% on the ultimate bounce. The following abilities are affected by this energy:
  - Cluster Arrow – Dazzling Arrow, Cluster Bombs, Loaded for Bear, No Rune
  - Rain of Vengeance – Anathema
  - Strafe – Demolition
  - Rapid Fire – Bombardment
Monk: Rabid Strike
- Spirit spenders that teleport you whereas Epiphany is energetic are additionally mimicked on a distant goal totally free
Witch Doctor: The Barber
- Instead of dealing direct harm, your Spirit Barrage now accumulates on the goal
- When you cease casting, it explodes dealing the amassed harm to all enemies inside 15 yards
Wizard: Manald Heal
- Enemies surprised with Paralysis additionally take 13,00Zero-14,00Zero% weapon harm as Lightning

Class Specific Items (Three)

Crusader: Defender of Westmarch
- Can not summon a wolf greater than as soon as per second
- Damage executed by the wolf is elevated for every block made in the course of the interim
Witch Doctor: Jeram’s Bracers
- The minimal degree for this merchandise to drop has modified from 12 to 31 as a way to match the extent at which Wall of Death unlocks

Class Specific Items (four)

Barbarian: Wrath of the Wastes (6) Set Bonus
- Whirlwind positive factors the impact of the Dust Devils rune and all Whirlwind harm is elevated by 800%
- The harm of your Dust Devils is elevated by 180%
- Please word that these modifications won’t be mirrored within the merchandise’s tooltip
Crusader: Roland’s Legacy (four) Set Bonus
- Increase the harm of Shield Bash and Sweep Attack by 1250%
Crusader: Roland’s Legacy (6) Set Bonus
- Every use of Shield Bash or Sweep Attack that hits an enemy grants 50% elevated Attack Speed and 15% harm discount for eight seconds. This impact stacks as much as 5 instances.
Demon Hunter: Embodiment of the Marauder (6) Set Bonus
- Your main abilities, Elemental Arrow, Chakram, Impale, Multishot, Cluster Arrow, Companions, and Vengeance deal 1200% elevated harm for each energetic Sentry
Monk: Inna’s Mantra (6) Set Bonus
- Gain the 5 runed Mystic Allies always and your harm is elevated by 100% for every Mystic Ally you may have out
Witch Doctor: Spirit of Arachyr (6) Set Bonus
- The harm of your creature abilities is elevated by 2400%. Creature abilities are Corpse Spiders, Plague of Toads, Firebats, Locust Swarm, Hex, and Piranhas.
Wizard: Delsere’s Magnum Opus (6) Set Bonus
- Enemies affected by your Slow Time take 2800% elevated harm out of your Arcane Orb, Energy Twister, Explosive Blast, Magic Missile, Shock Pulse, Spectral Blade, and Wave of Force skills.

Class Item Bug Fixes

Hellfire Amulet
- Fixed a difficulty the place Fetishes spawned by this merchandise with the Fetish Sycophants passive wouldn’t scale back the cooldown of Big Bad Voodoo accurately when Starmetal Kukri was outfitted
Illusory Boots
- Will now correctly permit Crusaders utilizing Steed Charge to go by partitions
Pinto’s Pride
- Fixed a bug the place the bonus Wave of Light harm from this merchandise was not being calculated accurately
Flail of the Ascended
- Now takes under consideration +Shield Bash affix bonuses in its harm
- Damage stacks will now persist when altering gear and choosing up gadgets
Faithful Memory
- Fixed a difficulty the place Faithful Memory was not correctly buffing harm from sure Blessed Hammer runes
Fixed a difficulty which generally induced beauty pets to be dismissed unintentionally, requiring the participant to resummon them by the collections UI
Fixed a bug inflicting transmogrify choices to not correctly unlock generally when first buying an merchandise which grants a brand new transmogrify possibility
Fixed a bug which induced the buff from the Legendary merchandise Ahvarion, Spear of Lycander to finish when altering flooring in a Greater Rift
Fixed a difficulty which induced the Bones beauty pet to incorrectly produce sound when gamers interacted with some consumer interface components
Fixed a difficulty which induced +Elemental harm bonuses on weapons to override the harm bonus granted to Ancient Spear by Skular’s Salvation and its elemental kind
Fixed a difficulty which allowed Necrosis harm from the Helltooth Harness set to be mirrored again by some enemies onto Witch Doctors utilizing projectiles like Poison Dart

Seasons

Season Journey

The Destroyer and Guardian tiers of the Season Journey will not require gamers to enhance an Ancient Legendary merchandise utilizing degree 30 or larger and degree 40 or larger Legendary gems, respectively
Along with this, the Conqueror tier now requires gamers to enhance one Ancient Legendary merchandise utilizing a Legendary Gem at degree 50 or larger
Starting with Season 9, gamers will be capable to full the Sanctuary’s Most Wanted goal within the Season Journey throughout a number of video games

Adventure Mode

Bounties

Kill Aloysius
Kill Axegrave
Kill Bholen
Kill Captain Donn Adams
Kill The Crusher

Rifts

Enemy density and total map dimension have been decreased
This space can now seem because the beginning dungeon in Rifts and Greater Rifts

Greater Rifts

The Greater Rift progress bar now shows the proportion completion on the finish of the bar when it’s almost stuffed
Monsters ought to now be extra evenly distributed on every flooring in Greater Rifts. Along with this, the expertise and Greater Rift development awarded for defeating many smaller monsters has been elevated
The dimension of every flooring in a Greater Rift is now extra constant. On common, a rift ought to take between two and 4 flooring to clear
There is not an elevated likelihood to see the identical tile set if you enterprise down a flooring in a Greater Rift
There is now a assured space on the entrance of every flooring with no monsters. This space is simply massive sufficient for ranged characters to manoeuvre
Several further monster varieties can now seem as Champions and Elites
Greater Rifts now spawn Hellhide Tremors, Disentombed Hulks, Sand Dwellers, and Colossol Golgors with different monsters in considerably bigger teams
Greater Rifts now spawn considerably fewer Sand Wasps and Fallen Grunts on flooring the place they seem
The stacking impact of the next is now cleared upon getting into a Greater Rift
- The gadgets Lord Greenstone’s Fan, Fortress Ballista and Flail of the Ascended
- The abilities Arcane Dynamo and Mythic Rhythm
The gold reward and empower price for Greater Rift 25 and above have been elevated. The ratio between gold reward and empower price stays about the identical
Players will now get an additional likelihood to improve their Legendary Gems if they don’t die in a Greater Rift

Greed’s Realm

The portal to Greed’s Realm will now shut 60 seconds after opening Greed’s chest. With this, gamers could now open a number of portals to the realm in a single sport

Zones

The waypoint for Pandemonium Fortress Level 2 in Adventure Mode has been moved from the doorway to the midpoint of the extent as a way to present faster entry to some bounties. With this variation, bounties requiring you to kill distinctive enemies will solely spawn these enemies within the first half of the dungeon, and all monsters on the map will contribute to bounty progress

Bug Fixes

Fixed a difficulty stopping the scene for Bounty: Research Problems from spawning
Fixed bugs that led to massive open areas with no monsters in some rooms in Greater Rifts, which was particularly frequent close to the doorway to sure flooring

Monsters

Enemies

Several enemies that leap on the participant can now be killed in mid-air, together with Winged Assassins, Punishers, Lacuni Huntresses, and Burrowing Leapers
Several enemies that may change into un-attackable, resembling Sandsharks, Snakemen, and Rockworms now spend extra time weak. When these enemies do burrow or stealth, they not stay on this state for greater than Three seconds. In addition, rising Rockworms now all the time present floor cracks to assist attentive gamers keep away from their preliminary assault
The Succubus’ Bloodstar assault has had its harm decreased by 15% and the projectile’s journey distance has been decreased
The harm from Khazra spears has been decreased by 15%
The harm from Ice Porcupine icicles has been decreased by 15%

Enemy Affixes

Shielding
- Will now be cancelled instantly if the shielded monster is the final remaining monster in a pack
Reflects Damage
- Now fires a projectile as a substitute of immediately dealing harm to the participant
- The warning length for this affix has been decreased from 2 seconds to 1, and its energetic length has been decreased from 6 seconds to four
Electrified
- Crawling lightning generated by this affix now pierces, permitting it to wreck a number of targets in succession
- With this, the harm attributable to this affix has been decreased by about 35%
Juggernaut – new enemy affix
- Juggernaut monsters are completely proof against crowd management results, however transfer extra slowly than regular monsters
- Along with this variation, enemies with this affix take 30% extra harm from all sources
- Only a uncommon Elite enemy is usually a Juggernaut
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a difficulty which induced Winged Assassins to generally journey throughout the bottom as a substitute of by the air when leaping
- Fixed a difficulty which prevented Greater Rift Guardians from reliably teleporting to gamers after they spawned various screens away
- Fixed a difficulty which generally trigger Rift Guardians to spawn in a location the place they couldn’t be focused

Bosses

Belial

Now transitions extra swiftly between his regular and bigger model boss phases

Achievements

Bug Fixes

Fixed the wording on the “Socket To Me” achievement to make clear that socketing just one gem is required

Quality of Life

Dyes

Can now be accessed by a brand new tab on the Mystic
This consists of Collector’s Edition dyes
With this variation, dyes will not be offered by distributors

Bug Fixes

Fixed show and textual content points with some abilities and gadgets
Fixed a difficulty inflicting keybind points when the UI was hidden
Fixed a bug which induced Followers to generally change into idle in fight
Fixed a difficulty which prevented Followers from being dismissed whereas they have been incapacitated in battle
Fixed a difficulty which allowed pets and Followers to be attacked instantly after exiting a portal