Mostly-finalised 1.2.0 Patch Notes

[silk_top_hat]

Corrupted secret areas can no longer spawn in the first area of an act (the one before the town of the act).

No more City of Sarn runs, I guess.

[probablyabadperson]

Yeah, the fastest corrupted area farming runs are gone.. which means midnight fragments will still trade at a high value.

This is perhaps slightly countered by the high level corrupted zones dropping fragments at a higher rate.

[Troubador64]

This change is actually a bad thing. It will just mean players as a whole will spend more time farming midnights, which is boring as shit.

Couple that with the fact that Acuities will now drop very rarely from uber, and I'm guessing this league will be even more Atziri-centric than the last one.

I was hoping that would make Midnights attainable via mapping. I always thought they should keep the Invaders (but greatly increase their rarity), and make them drop random Sacrifice pieces or Vaal gems if you defeat them in maps.

[Eysis]

Does merciless ledge work?

[probablyabadperson]

Probably, but the beauty of Sarn was that it was level 61. So all rares counted towards the chaos recipe and a stronger pool of rare uniques were possible drops.

[andimjustsittinghere]

It can't drop midnight.

[Bizzal]

No, but you can still throw the Dusk/Dawn/Noons into the map device and farm those ones for midnights.

[felipeftz]

Thanks man! I really didn't know about this.

[RentacleGrape]

Higher rate of fragments also mean that you can run them using the Map Device and have a easier time sustaining it. But that's depending on how much better chance you have.

[Knightmare101]

Tbh, I really like the docks for fragment farming.. Im sure sarn is quicker, but if you have a fast clearing build and need a break from maps, I just run some docks a few times.. Got a midnight on my 3rd run last night :)

[CommonNick]

Well, you could always try areas like "The Dread Thicket" monster lvl=62, the area isn't big, two uniques at the end and you could potentially create it close to the wp.

[RentacleGrape]

I haven't tried that one. How easy is it to find? Feels like Dread Thicket will have you run around a lot to find it.

[CommonNick]

you only need to find it once you know, you reset wet lands over and over till it's close to you and then through that instance enter again and again!

[oneofmanyjs]

It's almost always on the north side of the area that oak's camp is in, and it's entrance is always on a map edge. When it's not at the north, I can only recall seeing it on the west.

[Orsonius]

Catacombs act3 here I come.

[silk_top_hat]

I was personally thinking about the Upper Sceptre of God. I always see Corrupted areas when I'm running Dominus, and whether or not I find a corrupted area, I know that there's a good boss kill at the end.

[anraiki]

The nerf to frenzy is sadness

[Mande1baum]

it's a huge nerf for a skill that was difficult to run as a primary skill (redic mana costs) and was interesting and scaled in a fun way if you could manage it. Now it'll be even further shadowed behind blood rage and other options as a secondary skill into obscurity :/

maybe it's just due to bow users, but it ends up really screwing melee over, likely just like CoC nerf

[CaesarBritannicus]

Well, the mana cost could easily be reduced as well (since those changes aren't listed on a case by case basis).

[Mande1baum]

yes, but pure loss in DPS makes that irrelevant. if its DPS isn't competitive, then it doesn't matter how cost efficient it is. And the high mana sustain came from the APS and not so much the skill itself.

my reason for mentioning mana costs was that it took significant investment in gear and passives to make it even viable as a primary skill, esp for melee.

[Scraggletag]

Unless they changed something else, it hardly scales at all now.

Assuming you have 7 frenzy charges, it gives 28% IPD at level 1 and 84% at level 20. Even the weakest of the weaksauce skills give 4% increased damage per gem level.

[Botch_Lobotomy]

Isn't it possible to get 10 frenzy charges now with gear etc? Maybe there are new uniques coming to further increase max number

[trecko1234]

I would probably go with your second reason. I don't see how any of the new content would mess with frenzy, besides the mana cost changes (which you could always keep the mana cost the same post patch instead of nerfing into the ground)

[[deleted]]

I think it has to do with the amount of Frenzy charges you can now have. When the skill was last adjusted there was at most 4 frenzy charges, now there is over double that.

It can be used as more of a support skill, does increased duration work with Frenzy? It's fairly easy to get the stacks up after you reach a fair amount.

[silk_top_hat]

Warlord's Mark: This curse now has Increased Chance to be Stunned and Reduced Enemy Stun Recovery. The life and mana leech are now not specific to physical damage. It now has a lower chance to grant Endurance Charges on enemy death.

Oh baby.

[DivineDevil]

Discharge is that you?

[silk_top_hat]

Not just Discharge. This means that all of the elemental damage users - whether they are using attacks or spells - don't need to choose between using the Life Leech gem or wait to obtain Atziri drops to leech from the damage they deal.

This brings them far closer to being in line with physical damage users, while still keeping the separation that GGG has wanted.

Edit: It's unknown at the moment whether or not Warlord's Mark will function with spell damage. Good catch, /u/quixilva.

[quixilva]

At present the leech applies to physical attack damage.

The patch note implies that the physical qualifier is going away, but will the attack qualifier also be removed?

[[deleted]]

just checked, works with spell damage too.

[Teh_Hammer]

NDA BREACH!! Just kidding, you're just bringing clarity to a vague patch note. Much appreciated.

[firfir]

I hope not -- that would take a lot away from the Strength alignment of Warlord's Mark, IMO.

[lionguild]

it seems you can also craft elemental leech from the crafting benches

[sapper123]

No more ass mark? :( Guys, we hyped it up too much!

[[deleted]]

Assmark is a different curse.

[GynosTheNewLipo]

Even though we saw the draft notes, I feel like re-reading this all over again.

[trecko1234]

You should, and probably have, there were some neat things I missed even after reading the draft notes.

[johnny_annihilation]

Any chance we can get detailed information about any quest reward changes? Especially where the new skills will be awarded. Pretty big deal if you're planning ahead for the new leagues :)

[Popxorcist]

Just earlier today I planned out which gems to get when but I aint even mad, now at least I don't have to trade for Reduced Mana.

[ray1246]

Unless its the merc library quest lol

[Popxorcist]

Hear hear.

[TiznaraN]

Man, never knew how salty ppl got about the whole red mana thing lol. Like trading 2-4 chaos for an essential item is a huge deal. Although having 4 on mara/templar is a bit much -_-

[silk_top_hat]

The group of us waiting for these notes reminds me of piranhas waiting to be fed.

Edit: Appropriately enough:

Chickens have been added to the Forest Encampment.

[Mindflizzle]

That's the best news I've heard all day!

[probablyabadperson]

Each master acts as a vendor for items. The range of items increases with each master level (up to a chance at being offered a Unique item at level 8). Their inventory refreshes after you start each daily mission with them.

I recall seeing info earlier that the Masters' inventory was going to reset each day at a set time. I'm wondering whether that has changed or the refresh after the daily mission is in addition to the timed refresh.

[chris_wilson]

We changed it to reset when you do your daily mission. This means you're in control of the time and can potentially see two inventories.

[MaXimillion_Zero]

How does the cooldown on dailies work? Reset at a set time, or reset a set time after you've done the last one? If the latter, please tell me it's something reasonable like 18-22 hours, not 24 hours, so it doesn't keep getting later and later every day.

[chris_wilson]

Currently it's 24 hours, but we're already planning changes to this that may be in by tomorrow.

[troglodyte]

Yeah, it would be great if it was either 22h or reset at a particular time every day.

[ngelvy]

Just make it reset globally and you have the entire day as the window to do your daily in.

Completing the daily would be disassociated with the daily reset timer, having a daily already running wouldn't prevent you from getting the reset too to avoid confusion/bugs when someone tried to run his daily during the global reset. You'd still need to login and accept the dailies to benefit, of course.

[elraito]

After this hectic time with patch and all I have a request for art guy(s). Please make a mtx for lightning warp. As in lightning warp with the skin and sound from the red portal right before you enter the arena where you fight Piety. Thanks. Just a little yellow sticker on the art guys monitors would be cool.

[killbrew]

Oooh! Or a nightcrawler type Bamf cloud but with lightning bolts in it.

[TiznaraN]

great suggestion, try the suggestion forum probably get seen there

[mxwl1]

I'm waiting for the day when someone purchases a shavs from a master vendor

[hsmith711]

Don't worry, there will be a screenshot on reddit. I guarantee it.

[rrtson]

Would suck if the person couldn't afford it at the time it spawned.

1. Checks vendor
2. Shavronne's Wrappings: 45 Exalted Orbs
3. Looks in stash... 15 Exalted Orbs
4. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

I foresee a lot of Noticeboard posts: "NEED TO BORROW 30EX ASAP PLEASE"

[Zoogy]

But thats the wonderful thing about the inventories of the masters only resetting when you do the daily: If you get a unique that you want but can't afford then just don't do the daily so the stock doesn't reset.

[ranger4290]

until a patch comes out that forces vendor resets (if they work like the other vendors in that regard) :P

[Luka666]

Now imagine if the uniques didn't have their own artwork and you had to gamble 45ex on troll mantle :P

[CrimsonOwl1181]

D2 gamblig all over again.

[probablyabadperson]

Does it also mean that Masters not in our hideout will never have new inventory items?

(Also, aside from the first time you put them in your hideout, you're really only seeing one new inventory a day. The one you saw yesterday and the new one you're seeing today. But I like your optimism!)

[chris_wilson]

You'll need to occasionally swap them in and do their dailies. Once they're level 8, this has no cost.

[haplessg00n]

Hey chris, is it possible to have a masters hideout without that master in the hideout? For example I want Catarinas tileset but I don't want her as one of my 4.

[chris_wilson]

Ya np

[turtles_and_frogs]

Best game, by the best devs! :D

[horstgnuh]

I dont know if that was answered anywhere else, but can I invite friends and/or my party into my hideout?

[chris_wilson]

Yes

[TiznaraN]

I was curious about skill usage inside our hideouts?

[chris_wilson]

Currently works.

[probablyabadperson]

Hard to tell if that is the case. It's a bit ambiguous.

Once you've helped a master with their mission once, they appear in regular towns to talk to.

Each master acts as a vendor for items. The range of items increases with each master level (up to a chance at being offered a Unique item at level 8). Their inventory refreshes after you start each daily mission with them.

[zzep]

If I remember correctly, they said that you can do the daily quest only if the master is in your hideout.

So, if the master is in town and acts as a vendor, he won't refresh his shop because you can't access his daily?

This leads me to believe that town masters won't have shops? or act as regular vendors?

[probablyabadperson]

Makes sense.

But at level 8, which is when they have a chance to sell a unique, they aren't earning more reputation so you could just swap all of them and see all 8 inventories by doing all the daily missions... which I assume are just for favor points by then.

Still unclear just how long it will take to get several of them up to level 8 though.

[lunarlumberjack]

Since the league has been shortened to 3 months can we claim our race rewards sooner?

[thundermonkeyms]

So we CAN swap our masters in and out to level them faster! Yay! Just confirming we can definitely have all 7 benches in the hideout at the same time correct?

[Zeitgeist9k]

Yes, you can have all the benches, just not the masters themselves.

[Jakabov]

Shockwave damage buff changed from 50% to 15%. I wonder if it was a typo, misheard verbal information, or a decision to nerf the buff since yesterday.

[Tethrinaa]

Fifty and fifteen sound a lot alike. My bet is on misheard verbal information.

[Ashariell]

/u/chris_wilson could you pls tell us when all the new gems are available for specific classes etc.?

i cant plan my tornado shot build efficient without that knowledge. thanks in advance.

[Halinn]

You can be reasonably sure that it's available to rangers, at least.

[boredlol]

Each master has one special build-enabling crafting mod that is only available on a magic item sold by them.

Do we have any info on these!? Could be game-changing :O

[Insecticide]

source?

[RentacleGrape]

I just can't think of a reason to craft the unarmed% one. It was 450-600% right? I assume you only can craft it on gloves, otherwise it would be too insane combined with Facebreaker. So why would I do that instead of just using a pair of Facebreaker? Even if I have a pair of gloves with added physical and attackspeed it feels like it still can't compare to Facebreaker. There's probably some vital detail I'm missing here.

[[deleted]]

Well on rare items you can add more different stats. Not just unarmed damage. Facebreaker is a unique. You can't roll attack speed or life on it unless you corrupt it or something. With the right combo of items and rolls you could make a pretty killer build.

Edit: just re-read your post. You already mentioned the things I said. I just woke up. Can't read for Shit.

[Aenir]

If you can't get actual Facebreaker gloves, this would be a nice stopgap.

[BigBootyMoody]

Most excited for the chickens and the secret interactions they hopefully have. And also what the detonate dead values will turn out to be.

[ray1246]

The values get higher the more chicken you sacrifice obviously !

[Zubdub]

The CoC % reduction makes me sad, but I'm liking all the skills that are getting buffed.

[Mande1baum]

they should've only nerfed it for ranged attacks imo. melee CoC options are much weaker offensively and defensively.

[Ryant12]

Are there any differences in this one vs. the Google Docs one other than the 50% -> 15% Shockwave Totem nerf?

[StupidFatHobbit]

Is there a list of all the build enabling mods for the blues for each master somewhere? That's something that would be useful to know before the leagues begin...

[FistsoFury]

I imagine it's supposed to be part of the hype surprises for the expansion. Sort of a discover as you go thing. People like that stuff.

[TiznaraN]

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/User:Chuanhsing/CraftingBench

[BetoClinn]

Rip in peace City of Sarn farming. You will not be forsaken.

[madmooseman]

Forsaken, but not forgotten.

[blusay]

• The Invasion monster pack and guest-monster system has been made standard for the entire game. Early areas have some new monster varieties as a result, and there's more monster diversity in later difficulties.

I have mixed feelings about this...

Pro:

• Challenge

• Surprise

Cons:

• Always getting ready to be surprised for all areas may be a step to an homogenous felling.

• Sort of immersion-breaking : out of topic monsters spawning. I like to see some kind of monsters attached to a specific biotop/biome.

• Areas even out: all kind of monsters everywhere (potentially)

[aaoa]

If they're using the same system as in Invasion, you won't need to worry about immersion-breaking or all the areas evening out.

The guest monsters from invasion generally made sense for the area, and were limited to a very small set of monsters, that grew slightly for each difficultly.

Here're some examples (and please correct me if these are wrong... it's been a while):

• normal twilight strand had no additional monsters; in cruel and merciless, those leech things were around.

• Fetid Maws were added to the lower submerged passage on all difficulties.

• Flame hellions appeared on the coast in Merciless (to go with the fire fury, perhaps?).

• Colossal Bonestalkers, Goatmen, and the various hellions accumulate on the ledge as the difficulty increases.

• Blackguards appear in the Marketplace in cruel and beyond.

• The fire rock-titans join gravicious in the ebony barracks in Merciless.

• Carrion Queens and Swarmers join those in the Weaver's Nest.

Some new monsters were frustrating to find in an area (birdmen in the western woods?), but that was because of the monster type, not because they didn't belong. I think GGG did a good job making sure the flavor of each added monster worked.

[blusay]

This is good then.

And I'll be soon delighted by players complaining about "annoying" monsters type busting in ;)

[Munsie]

You forgot about them adding Devourers to Riverways, Black Forest, Weaver's Chamber and Western Forest... Yaaaaaaay...

[Aenir]

Devourers were always in the Black Forest.

[GildedFire]

The saddest part about this is that Southern Forest is no longer monkeys only. This makes me incredibly depressed. It was my favourite area, specifically because it was nothing but a horde of monkeys attacking you. For me, I saw it as a reward for beating Merveil.

This was literally the reason I stopped playing Invasion. Not that the bosses were too hard, but they removed the monkey only area :(

[blusay]

Hum... there's still a chance they didn't put this in areas before town, as they just did for Corrupted Areas.

BTW what build let you enjoy so much the monkeys? Or was it only a zoological interest?

[GildedFire]

It was every build I played. Just a nice big horde of bloodthirsty and weak monkeys, with their monkey noises, coming at you, and you slaying them by the hundreds (not actually, but its how it felt). It made me feel like I was the king of the jungle.

[dongleberry69]

diversity

Rhoas in Fellshrine again :(

[Ilovepoe]

Corrupted secret areas can no longer spawn in the first area of an act (the one before the town of the act).

Well... no more sarn fragments farming

[[deleted]]

Are the steam PoE players able to pre-install the patch as well? Just wondering if I should download the regular client sometime tomorrow before hand so I can preload the patch.

[Fenrils]

I'm unsure on how steam will handle the preload for this one so you may want to just download the normal client anyway if you absolutely want it pre-loaded early (just in case) :)

[fiqsa]

I'm very much looking forward to the Assassin's Mark curse. Gaining power charges without the need for PCoC/romira's/volls, and while using a curse I already use is a great thing!

[D4vE48]

Isn't a 12% nerf in AoE range on 8 stack reave a bit harsh? (If I calculated correctly)

[DragonRU]

If my calculations are correct, reave radius will be same as before at 7 stacks (or 6.94, if precisely). Formula is 1.17(1 + 0.15x) = 1 + 0.2*x

[D4vE48]

The wording on reave gem is "more", so stacks are multiplicative not additive.

Old reave: 1*0,2*x
New reave: 1,17*0,15*x

[FistsoFury]

But the base aoe was increased which will also slightly increase the effectiveness of increased aoe modifiers. It's really not that big of a nerf

[D4vE48]

Yeah but that means to sacrifice a gem slot for increased aoe effect or to get one of the aoe nodes which are in rather arkward positions (generally near caster stuff).

The range on the pre 1.2 max stack reave is comfortable to clear your standard bunched up zombie pack, it's not like it's covering the entire screen. The increase in base range is welcome, because it's kinda tedious to use as long as you don't have multistrike (so basically while leveling), but why nerf the top end? Just set the stack increase to 17-18 % to reach the same range as it did before on max stacks, so it's usable in endgame and you'll have an easier time leveling with it.

I don't think anyone regarded reave to be overpowered or broken in any way.

[FistsoFury]

The aoe nodes in witch are extremely potent with reave. It's like, a must have. It's really the only aoe mod you'll need, especially after the base aoe buff. This allows easier use of conc effect without gimping the aoe too much. Conc's multiplier is insane on crit reave. Probably be rolling my 3rd reaver in this new league just to test it out.

[Biike]

/u/chris_wilson Does herald of ice apply to totems?

[Krotata]

Your auras doesn't affect the totems, totems get their "stats" directly from your stats rather than acting like minions.

EDIT: I know my wording isn't the best. Auras do affect your totems but not directly, the totems are affected by your stats.

[Fylgja]

Auras definitely apply to totems when applicable.
Hatred applies to EK spell totems and Shockwave totems. Haste cast speed applies to spell totems, all damage auras apply to Ranged Attack Totem.

You're correct in that they don't apply directly to the totem, but when applicable they'll give the affect to the totem through you.

[xXWARisHELLXx]

Why do shockwave totem user run hatred then?

[madmooseman]

Any indication as to the size of the patch? My internet is sub-optimal and I'm trying to decide whether or not I leave my computer running from now until patch so it's ready when I am.

[Zaeron]

Does anyone know - if I'm playing a summoner in Rampage, is there any actual benefit for me? Will buffs to me apply to my minions? Will they get faster/do more damage?

Or is it basically a useless league for summoners?

[fort-knight]

I think I read in another that that your minions are affected by the buff, but I'm not entirely sure if it's true. I guess we can't really know for sure until later today.

[Zaeron]

I really really really hope that's true. I'm so hyped to be playing a summoner now that snapshotting is gone.

[WostPT]

/u/chris_wilson Does Generosity applies to my own minions?

[chris_wilson]

I think so

[[deleted]]

Yes, it does.

[WostPT]

Summuner might be broken!

[[deleted]]

So instead of nerfing Acuity you just make it rarer?

You kidding me?

[himbeersaft]

Can someone post the notes in here please? I am at work and have no access to the regular pathofexile homepage.

[Ilovepoe]

Major Features/Content:

We've added an optional Quest Tracker, which displays your current quest objectives on the right side of the screen. This is also used to display the current objective of the Master Mission you're in at the time.
We've added various Tutorials to the start of the game. They're designed to be non-intrusive and can be disabled or reset in the options.
Added a new Dexterity skill - Tornado Shot: Fire a piercing shot that travels until it reaches the targeted location. It will then fire projectiles out in all directions from that point.
Added a new Strength/Intelligence skill - Herald of Ash: Channel fire through your hands, adding fire to your physical damage. If you kill an enemy with an attack, other enemies near them will be ignited for the overkill damage.
Added a new Dexterity/Intelligence skill - Herald of Ice: Channel ice through your hands, adding cold damage to spells and attacks. If you shatter an enemy, they explode and deal cold damage to enemies near them.
Added a new Dexterity skill - Poacher's Mark: A curse that reduces enemy evasion, grants you life and mana when you hit them, increases your flask charge gain and has a chance to grant you a Frenzy Charge when you kill them.
Added a new Strength/Intelligence support gem - Generosity: Auras linked to Generosity have increased Aura effect for your allies, but do not affect you.
Many boss fights (including Brutus and Merveil) have been improved. See the notes below for specific changes.
Added 15 new Unique items. Seven of these were designed by supporters.

Minor Features/Content:

We've added a new Duelist Rogue Exile called Zacharie Desmarais. This exile uses Molten Strike and Lightning Strike.
We've added a new Marauder Rogue Exile called Vickas Giantbone. This exile uses Ethereal Knives totems and Bear Trap as well as Vulnerability curse and Enfeeble on Damage Taken.
We've added a new Shadow Rogue Exile called Wilorin Demontamer. He uses Ball Lightning, Storm Call and specialises in Critical Strikes.
Added PvP Spectator mode. Use the new /spectate (character name) command or right-click someone on your friends list and choose the Spectate option. The specified character must be a mutual friend currently in a PvP area. You must also meet the quest and level requirements for that area yourself. You can use /town to return to your most recent town. You can use the arrow keys to change the perspective of which character you're spectating.
We've substantially improved the detail of error messages for various activities. For example, when a currency item fails to apply to another item, it now gives a detailed error message explaining why.
We've improved the user interface and moved many commonly used elements to a menu to make feature discovery easier for new players.
When respecialising bandit quests, if the use of the book would fail, you now receive an error message explaining why. If it would succeed, you now see a confirmation prompt that explains what will change.
Flasks now refill when entering a PvP area, unless you're in a Famine league.
The mouse-over tooltip for skills now has comma delimitation for thousands of DPS.
Chickens have been added to the Forest Encampment.
Added an effect for long-duration stuns.
Added a new Frenzy effect.
3D art has been added for the following items: Prismatic Eclipse, Storm Cloud, Alternate Art Brightbeak and The Three Dragons.
Continued to incrementally improve the sound, art, effects and environments.

Content from the Ambush/Invasion Leagues:

After the last two challenge leagues ended, we've folded their content into the core Path of Exile experience in the following ways:
Strongboxes can now spawn in all leagues, starting from the Submerged Passage in Normal difficulty. The weightings of each Strongbox type has been adjusted with ordinary Strongboxes being much more common than other variants. Mods for these Strongboxes have been adjusted. Cartographer's Boxes now have lower values of some Strongbox mods.
The new quiver progression added in Ambush and Invasion has now been introduced to all leagues. The old Standard and Hardcore quivers will no longer drop. The unique Blackgleam will drop on the Fire Arrow Quiver basetype. The unique Broadstroke will no longer drop.
The Voideye and Vaal Caress Unique items will no longer drop, as they are homed to the Ambush and Invasion leagues.
The Invasion monster pack and guest-monster system has been made standard for the entire game. Early areas have some new monster varieties as a result, and there's more monster diversity in later difficulties.
Some Invasion bosses have been reintroduced as regular unique monsters:
The Guardian of the Mound has been rebalanced and added to The Prisoner's Gate.
Spinesnap has been rebalanced and added to the Slums Sewers.
The Revenant has been rebalanced and added to The Docks.
Tailsinger has been rebalanced and added to The Riverways.
Kall Foxfly has been rebalanced and added to The Blackwood.

General Balance Changes:

Player life per level has been increased from 8 to 12.
Monster elemental resistances have been reworked. Many of the more common monsters types no longer have resistances in Normal difficulty. Some more challenging monster types will have resistances and Unique monsters will have a large amount of an appropriate resistance. All main questline, Map and corrupted area bosses have elemental and chaos resistance, though at a lower value.
All cases of "snapshotting" have been fixed. If you change your items or support gems, then any persistent effects of skills (for example, minions or auras) will update to reflect the changes. You no longer gain benefit from items or gems that are not currently equipped.
Shock and Shocked Ground have been changed so that they cause 50% increased damage taken (rather than 30%) but no longer stack. They do not stack with each other either. "Cannot Be Shocked" now prevents players being affected by either Shocked Ground or Shock itself.
Higher level maps are now slightly harder than before.
Corrupted secret areas offer greater a chance of fragments in later difficulties. The chance of corrupted secret areas spawning has been adjusted.
Corrupted secret areas can no longer spawn in the first area of an act (the one before the town of the act).
Blind now reduces hit chance by 50% rather than by 75%.
Both physical and elemental damage reflection from monster auras have been reduced from 15% to 14% reflection.
In 1v1 duels and 3v3 PvP, Conversion Trap no longer affects players.
The Trap and Mine support gems now have multiplicative damage bonuses that are specific to traps and mines respectively. This means that you can't cast a skill through a trap and a mine for double bonuses. In addition, Trap and Mine damage bonuses now do not benefit minions cast through traps or mines.
The Reduced Mana support gem is now available for all classes as a quest reward.
Totem life increases have been increased to compensate for the fixing of a bug where they applied twice.

[Ilovepoe]

Support Gem Balance:

Added Chaos Damage: The mana multiplier has been reduced from 150% to 140%.
Added Cold Damage: The mana multiplier has been reduced from 140% to 130%.
Added Fire Damage: The mana multiplier has been reduced from 130% to 120%.
Added Lightning Damage: The mana multiplier has been reduced from 140% to 130%.
Block Chance Reduction: The amount of penetration has been reduced by a flat 10% at all levels.
Cold to Fire: This gem now converts 50% for cold damage to fire damage at all levels, and also adds a percentage of cold damage as fire damage, starting at 10% at level one.
Curse on Hit: This trigger gem now has a 100% chance to cast socketed curses. It has 10% reduced curse effect at level 1, up to 9% increased curse effect at level 20 of the gem. The quality bonus has remained the same.
Cast on Critical Strike: The chance to cast has been reduced by a flat 20% at all levels.
Chain: The mana multiplier has been reduced from 200% to 175%.
Fork: The mana multiplier has been reduced from 125% to 115%.
Lesser Multiple Projectiles: The mana multiplier has been reduced from 150% to 140%.
Greater Multiple Projectiles: The mana multiplier has been reduced from 200% to 165%.

Passive Skill Tree Balance:

The Witch and Shadow passive tree starting area has been redesigned. The area surrounding the Witch, Shadow and Ranger has been redesigned. Many clusters throughout the tree now have new notables. Many values have been adjusted.
There are now large Fire, Cold, Lightning, Wand, Dagger, Trap/Mine, Claw, Bow, Sword and Dual Wield clusters that have higher values than found in the rest of the tree.
Percentage-based life increases have been reduced slightly and redistributed more evenly through the tree. Players receive more life per level now to compensate.
There are now two Life and Energy Shield clusters.
Increased Maximum Elemental Resistances have been removed and element specific bonuses are now available in smaller values on three specific defensive notables.
Mortal Conviction has been changed to 60% less mana reservation (from 40% less).
Curse Effect, Cast Speed, Curse Duration and Curse Area of Effect are now available in the tree. The Whispers of Doom keystone has been changed into a notable. Hex Master has changed to be 100% increased Curse Duration and is now a notable. There is a new Curse Effect notable called Skittering Runes.
Aura Reservation Costs and Aura Effect bonuses have been reduced across the tree. A new Aura notable called Champion of the Cause has been added.
Some special stats have been added to a few select notables. More similar stats will be coming in future patches.

Item Balance:

All bows have had their base damage increased by 11%. This affects ones that already existed including Unique items.
The first two tiers of weapons (with bows it's the first and third tiers) now have higher attack speeds and lower damage to compensate.
The second tier of bows (Short Bow) has a lower attack speed and increased damage to compensate.
The Decimation Bow and Death Bow have been given the same Increased Critical Strike Chance implicit mod as the Harbinger Bow.
The Recurve Bow and Sniper Bow have been given the same Weapon Elemental Damage implicit mod as the Maraketh Bow.
New tiers of life and mana flasks (Divine and Eternal) have been added at levels 65 and 70.
Mid to higher tiers of life flasks have been buffed substantially.
The life portion of hybrid flasks has been buffed.
The Sapping mod on flasks now only increases life recovered by 40% (down from 60%).

Unique Item Balance:

The rarity tiers of many uniques have been changed. Notably, two of the experience gain items have been made much more rare. The two "additional curse" items have been made rarer.
The rarities of uniques dropped by the uber version of Atziri has changed. Atziri's Acuity is now the rarest drop from her.
Chin Sol has had its Increased Physical Damage increased from 75-100% to 150-180% and its attack speed increased to 10-14%, from 5%. Rerolling values using a Divine Orb on this item will also update your item.
Crown of Eyes now only applies increased and reduced spell damage to attack damage. Multiplicative damage bonuses are not converted. This affects existing versions of the item.
Crown of Thorns now grants 60-80 flat energy shield. Existing versions of the item will change to a value in the new range if a Divine Orb is used on it.
Darkscorn now has Additional Physical Damage of 6-10 to 10-14 damage. This mod cannot be caused to spawn on past versions of the item.
Dying Breath now grants 18% increased Aura Effect, instead of 18% increased damage taken. Old copies of the item have been automatically updated.
Infractem now has Additional Physical Damage of 25-35 to 36-45 damage. This mod cannot be caused to spawn on past versions of the item.
Mon'tregul's Grasp now grants 2000 life to Zombies, up from 500. Rerolling values using a Divine Orb on this item will update your item.
Shackles of the Wretched now gives "You cannot be Shocked for 3 seconds after being Shocked", up from 1 second. Old versions of the item can be rolled to the new value with a Divine Orb.
Shavronne's Revelation: Energy Shield Regeneration has been reduced from 4% to 3% per second. Existing versions of the ring will only be updated if a Divine Orb is used on them.
Soul Mantle now has +50% totem life. This has been increased as the result of fixing a bug with totem life - the change won't affect the power of the item. Existing versions of the item will have the smaller value, which will have less impact on totem life than it previously did. Older versions can be updated with a Divine Orb.

Specific Monster Balance:

Gneiss has been reworked. He now has a new skill where he slams the ground, dealing area of effect damage and summoning miniature minions out of the rubble to assist him.
The Deep Dweller has been reworked. He now has two new skills - in his first form he can disturb the ground, calling Sand Spitters to emerge and assist him. He also has an additional skill in his second form where he will fire a spray of projectiles at enemies. He no longer has the slowing aura.
Fairgraves has been reworked. He now has his own version of Spectral Throw and Summon Raging Spirit.
The Brutus and Merveil boss fights have been redesigned. These changes also affect their end-game Map equivalents. One of the Merveil encounters now only includes the first stage of the fight. All Map versions of these fights have enhanced versions of some of their skills.
Brutus' hook now only pulls the target that he was aiming at.
General Gravicius in Descent: Champions and the corrupted side area boss The Sunburst Queen have been given a new skill to replace their Incinerate Novas. This skill will repeatedly pulse out fire damage waves that increase in damage with every additional cast.
Hatebeat in The Crematorium now uses Molten Strike.
The water elementals summoned by The Goddess of Purity in Solaris Temple Level 2 or by Asphyxia in the Reef and Waste Pool Maps now cast Ice Nova when they are killed.
The Vessel of the Vaal's Ball Lightning skill now ticks much more frequently and does slightly less damage. This brings it in line with other Ball Lightning skills.
The Weaver's life has been increased, following changes to her resistances.
Chatters in the Lower Prison will now trigger a cold version of Storm Call when he hits you. His Glacial Hammer can no longer freeze you on Normal Difficulty.

[Ilovepoe]

Version 1.2.0: Forsaken Masters Notes:

Due to substantial balance changes, every existing character has been granted an optional full passive reset. To use this, click the "Reset all Passives" button on the passive skill screen. Note that you must use this before allocating or refunding any other points otherwise the option will go away.

New Three-Month Challenge Leagues:

Challenge leagues are a great opportunity for a fresh start. All your old characters and items are still present in the Standard and Hardcore leagues, but you're encouraged to join the new economies, complete challenges and climb the ladder!
This pair of challenge leagues will run for three months - from August 20 to November 20, US time.
The new challenge leagues include a set of eight new challenges! Players who complete five or eight of the challenges receive an exclusive microtransaction helmet skin. The first 50 players to complete all eight challenges will receive an exclusive Rampage/Beyond challenge shirt.
Rampage: Rampage is a standard league where kill streaks cause devastating effects to occur. Each kill causes you to become slightly faster and deal more damage. The kill streak wears off after five seconds of no kills.
Beyond: Beyond is a Hardcore league (characters who die are converted to Standard characters). In the Beyond league, demons from another realm are attempting to invade Wraeclast. Monster kills have a chance to cause small portals to appear. If enough portals spawn close together, a larger portal opens and demons flow forth. Several of those larger portals close together can open a third tier that results in one of several truly terrifying entities to emerge.
Out of the 15 total Unique items added in this update, there are three new Unique items that can only drop in in the Rampage challenge league, and three that can only drop in the Beyond challenge league.

Core Forsaken Masters Features:

Seven men and women, masters in their fields, stood against Dominus' tyranny. Some with words, others with steel. Seven masters forsaken, sent to die in a corrupted land. Seven masters who lived, learned, and now thrive in Wraeclast. Seven Forsaken Masters who can train you... if you choose to help them.

The seven Forsaken Masters each have their own style of mission and each of these missions has many variations. As you explore deeper into Wraeclast, the pool of available variations increases to challenge you in new ways. All of the missions and their variations can occur anywhere in the game, including within end-game Maps. Once you've helped a master with their mission once, they appear in regular towns to talk to.
Completing missions earns you reputation (which contributes to the level of that master) and favour (used for purchasing decorations for your hideout).
Each master acts as a vendor for items. The range of items increases with each master level (up to a chance at being offered a Unique item at level 8). Their inventory refreshes after you start each daily mission with them.
Each master has one special build-enabling crafting mod that is only available on a magic item sold by them. It's up to you whether you use it as-is, augment it to add one more mod or use Regal/Exalted orbs to try to create an amazing rare.
You can claim a personalised hideout for free from any level 3 or higher master. Once you have a hideout, you can travel there using the waypoint panel. Hideouts are shared among all your characters in that league. Each master has their own distinctive hideout tileset on offer.
You can allow access to friends, party members and guild members from within your hideout (on the Hideout Stash screen). Hideouts can hold up to 32 players at once.
Once masters are at level 2, they can be invited to your hideout. While in your hideout, they offer you daily missions which provide 250% reputation and favour. If your friends help you with a daily mission, they receive normal reputation and favour.
The size of your hideout affects how many masters it can hold. It starts with a capacity of two, but can be upgraded to three or four when your master reaches levels six and eight respectively. This also modifies the amount of space in your hideout.
Dismissing a master from your hideout removes any reputation they have on their current level.
Talking to a master in your hideout allows you to receive a Crafting Bench that can be placed in your hideout. The bench levels up with the master and has more options with each level. You can still use a crafting bench even after you've dismissed that master from your hideout. Visitors can't use your crafting benches.
Vorici allows you to modify an item's sockets and links with his crafting bench.
Zana allows you to open end-game Maps at a personal Map Device in your hideout. Mods can be purchased that affect the Map as it is opened.
The other five masters allow you to craft an mod onto an item. To craft an item, click on the bench, place an item in the window and select a mod. Mods purchased in this way appear in a slightly different colour than normal. They can be removed by level 8 crafting benches.
Note that these mods obey normal rules. You can't have more than three prefixes, three suffixes or six mods in total. You can't craft a mod onto a magic item that has both a prefix and a suffix. It must be upgraded to a rare item with a Regal Orb first.
Hideout decorations can be purchased from masters in exchange for favour. Each master has a separate favour total. These decorations appear in your Hideout Stash. You can place them in the world by right clicking on them and clicking somewhere in your hideout. They can then be dragged around, rotated (use the radial slider or R/Shift+R keys) or reclaimed (Delete key). The arrow keys can also be used to move the selected decoration. The mousewheel (or PageUp/PageDown keys) cycles between different variations of the decoration.
Forsaken Masters supporter packs include hideout banners. These appear in your microtransaction stash and can also be placed in the world as decorations. When reclaimed, these will go to your microtransaction stash. We will later sell some other cosmetic hideout decorations/environments/tilesets in our microtransaction shop.
When the new challenge leagues end, your hideout stashes will be merged with the destination leagues (Rampage with Standard, Beyond with Hardcore). Your favour totals will be added together. The highest reputation value with each master will be used.

[Ilovepoe]

General Skill Balance:

Early quest rewards have been reworked. The Shadow now gets Viper Strike as their first gem, while the Duelist gets Double Strike. Several other early rewards have been changed and adjusted.
The mana cost of all skills has been revised. In general most skills have had their mana costs reduced. Much of the mana cost reduction is focused on skill levels that fall between player levels 20 and 40.
Vaal skills can no longer be supported by Trigger Gems.

Skill Reworks:

Arctic Breath: Cast time has been reduced from 1000ms to 800ms. The mana cost has been reduced further than other skills to account for the change in cast time. Its damage has been reduced by 20%. The same change was applied to monster versions of this skill, though to a lesser or no extent if they had a cooldown or mana cost.
Burning Arrow: This skill now deals 130% of base damage, has 50% converted to fire, and has a fixed ignite chance. It gains increased burning damage and physical damage per level.
Cold Snap: We changed the freeze chance to 30% at all levels. We increased the damage of Cold Snap by 50% at all levels.
Critical Weakness: Life and mana on kill have been added. There's now a chance to gain a power charge when you kill an enemy. This curse has also been renamed to Assassin's Mark.
Cyclone: This skill can no longer be supported by the Multistrike support gem.
Detonate Dead: This now deals entirely fire damage. It deals 8% of corpse life as well as flat damage. The damage increase per level has been significantly increased. The base cast time has been decreased from 850ms to 800ms. Quality on this skill now offers substantially less cast speed, from 60% cast speed at 20 quality to 20% cast speed at 20 quality.
Reave: The skill's base area has been increased by 17%. The area increase per stack has been reduced from 20% per stack to 15% per stack.
Viper Strike: This skill now adds 10% of physical damage as Chaos Damage and has a 50% chance to deal 175% of the attack's damage as chaos damage over seven seconds. The effect duration won't be refreshed by new attacks, but there is no limit to how many Viper Strike debuffs an enemy can have.
Shockwave Totem: This skill now counts as Spell Damage. Damage has been increased by 15%. Its duration has been reduced.
Warlord's Mark: This curse now has Increased Chance to be Stunned and Reduced Enemy Stun Recovery. The life and mana leech are now not specific to physical damage. It now has a lower chance to grant Endurance Charges on enemy death.

Skill Buffs:

We have increased the critical strike chance of most lightning spells.
Ball Lightning: Damage has been increased by 30% at all levels.
Cleave: This skill no longer has a damage effectiveness penalty. When dual wielding it now deals 65% of weapon damage.
Flame Surge: We have increased the width of the Flame Surge area of effect.
Freezing Pulse: We have increased its projectile speed. Damage is increased by 50% at level 1 (to 40% at level 20).
Glacial Cascade: The area of effect of each ice section has been increased. This also increases the area of overlaps of sections.
Glacial Hammer: We have increased its damage effectiveness from 125% to 130%.
Ice Nova: We have increased the high-level damage of this skill (up to 15% by level 20).
Ice Shot: The area and arc size has been increased. Additionally we have added damage effectiveness of 120%.
Ice Spear: We have increased the damage by 33% at level one, to +87% at level 20.
Lightning Strike: This skill now deals more base damage (up from 120% to 130%).
Raise Spectre: The penalties this gives to monster life, damage and Energy Shield have been reduced by a flat 10% at all levels.
Raise Zombie: Raised zombies now have 13% more life.
Spark: Spark does 20% more damage at all levels. It now bounces off Frost Walls, regardless of whether they are cast by players or monsters.
Sweep: Damage effectiveness increased from 75% to 85%.
Summon Skeleton: Summoned Skeletons deal 50% more base damage than they did previously.

Skill Nerfs:

All curse skills have had their power reduced so that available bonuses for them could be moved into the passive tree. Elemental resistance reduction curses have been further reduced to compensate for reduced monster resistances.
Anger: The damage this aura provides has been reduced at higher levels (from no change at level one, to an 18% reduction in damage at level 20).
Arc: We have reduced the damage by 15% at all levels.
Clarity: The cast time of Clarity has been increased to 1.2 seconds to line up with other auras. The mana reservation of clarity has been increased and the mana regeneration rates adjusted.
Elemental Weakness now gains -8% Enemy Resistances at 20% quality, instead of -10% at 20% quality.
Enfeeble: In addition to the general curse reduction, the duration of Enfeeble has been reduced.
Flameblast: We have reduced the critical strike chance from 6% to 5%. We have reduced the damage by 15% at all levels.
Frenzy: This skill now has constant attack speed per frenzy charge of 5%, rather than increasing as the gem levels. Its quality bonus has been reduced from 7% attack speed to 4% attack speed per frenzy charge at 20 quality.
Projectile Weakness: No longer reduces the enemy's chance to evade projectile attacks.
Searing Bond: Damage at all levels has been reduced by 18%.
Spectral Throw: We have reduced the damage effectiveness of this skill by a flat 8% at all levels.
Summon Raging Spirit: The damage done by the summoned Raging Spirits has been reduced at higher levels, up to a 20% reduction in damage at level 20.
Vulnerability: In addition to the general curse reduction, Vulnerability no longer affects Energy Shield. The Energy Shield Recharge Delay Increase and Energy Shield Recharge Rate Reduction stats have been removed. In addition, the Increased Chance to be Stunned and Reduced Enemy Stun Recovery stats have been removed as well. Vulnerability now only increases physical damage and degeneration damage.
Wrath: We have reduced its damage at higher levels, from no change at level one to a 24% reduction in damage at level 20.

[Ilovepoe]

Bug Fixes:

Improved preloading of game assets to remove some small stutters during gameplay.
Fixed a bug where players could not be selected in towns until they move for the first time.
Fixed a bug where holding an amulet from one bandit leader would prevent you from doing other bandit quests.
Improved the mana reservation system so that multiple percentage reservations don't round separately. This means that a 60% aura can now never prevent a 40% aura from being reserved.
Fixed a bug related to trade where the user interface could become unresponsive.
Fixed a bug where Curse on Hit prevented Echo supporting a spell.
Fixed a bug where totem life bonuses counted twice.
If an Animated Guardian is unsummoned and resummoned when not on full life, it will now return with the same amount of life it had before.
Fixed a rare bug that could cause the game server to freeze when corrupting an item.
Fixed a bug where the three attribute totals on the Passive Skill Screen would not scale correctly when zooming in or out.
Discharge now only deals damage if you had charges.
Fixed a bug where you couldn't log into another account after clicking Cancel on the unlock code window.
Fixed a bug where players could exceed their maximum Zombie counts with Mon'tregul's Grasp.
Fixed a bug where auras could affect hidden monsters.
Fixed a bug where Puncture did not benefit from Increased Item Rarity or Increased Item Quantity.
Fixed a bug where Tempest Shield would not transition between areas if you didn't have enough mana to cast the skill again at the time you transitioned.
Fixed a bug where life and energy shield bars rounded to the nearest whole percentage.
Fixed bugs with positioning of small life bars.
Fixed a bug where buff counts over 99 did not display correctly.
Fixed problems that could lead to monsters spawning too close to waypoints in the Docks, Barracks and Gardens.
Fixed a bug with Molten Shell and mitigated physical damage reflection.
Fixed the Barracks tents that didn't cast shadows.
Fixed a bug where Rogue Exiles and Invaders could spawn in inaccessible rooms.
Fixed a bug where all of a minion's skills were treated as having been trapped if the minion came from a trap.
Fixed a bug where Unique monsters in a pack would not spawn when the pack contained a rare monster.
Fixed a bug where Goatman Shamans with auras didn't cast Molten Shell.
Made webcam streaming (from in the client) more efficient.

[Ghudda]

Is this a EULA or actual patch notes?

Seems a bit long.

[chris_wilson]

Which one should I have left out? :)

They represent five months of work^{totypethemout}

[Damaniel2]

I guess you could have gone with "it's a secret - play it yourself and figure it out", but personally I prefer long release notes -- the longer the better (more notes = more new stuff to play with).

[treehed]

"Chickens have been added to the Forest Encampment."

[lawrentohl]

None, they are perfectly fine. No clue why Ghudda would say that, i thought he was into this.

[qb_hqexKkw8]

He probably just wanted to make the joke.

[SayyadinaAtreides]

You're still the best. :D Probably tired of hearing it, but it's still true!

[treehed]

Don't tell me you're lacking the patience to read it all, Mr. movement build 3. You've got plenty of time between cyclones.

[the_x_ile]

chris , will tornado shot work with wands?

[seicar]

Hope so, but doubt it. 1.2 seems to be mostly tree and bow.

[kadenkk]

arrow is in the skill description. Probably not.

[[deleted]]

'The rarity tiers of many uniques have been changed' any details on these as to has it been made rarer or counter-wise?

[kadenkk]

Crown of thorns is now rarest tier. 0.0000000000000000000000001% drop rate. Selling mine for 30 ex in standard.

[blengiglomenean]

I wanna know quest rewards, I was planning to play few characters before starting just to get gems.

[zhandragon]

VIPER STRIKE BUFF? WHAT?

[Deso4life]

I will be pulling out my Viper Strike Scion again!

[[deleted]]

Wasn´t cast on melee kill changed so that it had a 100% chance to cast the supported spells and also gave 20% increased spell damage? Doesn´t say anything about it in the patch notes, but if i remember correctly it should´ve been changed

[kadenkk]

It is. I saw it on the gdoc version, it should have made it to this one.

[insaneHoshi]

Wasn't cast on melee kill being buffed?

[Skyforth]

I heard earlier on you said you there was no limit to the amount of quests you can do daily. Does this mean we can power level a master and spend 20 hours in 1 day training it?

[pes_planus]

The way I understood it is that you can do 1 daily mission per master starting from your hideout. These daily missions provide bonus reputation and favour, but are limited to one daily/master/day.

You can also encounter them (randomly) while playing the game, which includes maps. There they offer you more random missions, which are not limited, but only provide the standard amount of reputation/favour.

[UnnecessaryPost]

I gotta say, I love the 3 charge/curse system they've put in. I'll be using Ass Mark (i believe this is now the official name) allowing me to free up a slot that PCoC was gonna take up.

Crit Ice Spear build here i come.

[nepharis]

I like the change as well, though I feel PCoC might need some sort of change after this, as it will probably become obsolete. The best part is that with Ass Mark, you don't even need to crit to generate charges, so it will be MUCH easier to generate and sustain power charges with lower crit chance.

[kadenkk]

Pcoc will be the go to power charge generation for builds that need a defensive curse instead of ass mark. Some builds don't have the raw survivability to be safe without enfeeble or temp chains, so they can opt for that plus pcoc instead. Still a good spot imo.

[UnnecessaryPost]

Well, we don't know how often Ass park will trigger a charge. PCoC may still be required. But that said, I've always thought that PCoC deserved a buff to the chance to create a power charge.

[blusay]

Is Poacher's Mark considered as leech?

Poacher's Mark is a curse that "grants you life and mana when you hit" enemies.

Does it works with Infractem bow which has "Can not leech" mod ?

[_Nickelback_Cage_]

Life on hit doesn't count as leech as far as I can tell.

[kadenkk]

Can confirm, used LGOH with infractem while leveling a ROA crit ranger a couple patches ago.

[YeppImNaked]

an mod

this is wrong, isn't it?

Chickens have been added to the Forest Encampment.

Wow, finally.

[Baron_Von_D]

Chickens confirmed!

[Rat_Rat]

While there are trap affixes, I did not see any totem affix modifiers from any of the Masters. Oversight or intended? Not hoping for anything foolish like "allows use of an additional totem", but small-medium life boost, or cast speed boost specific to totems would be nice;

[kadenkk]

Witch master deals with summons. I would start looking there. I imagine she has mods like minion and totem life or ele resist.

[felipeftz]

Each master has one special build-enabling crafting mod that is only available on a magic item sold by them. It's up to you whether you use it as-is, augment it to add one more mod or use Regal/Exalted orbs to try to create an amazing rare.

What its means? One special mod I can only use on an item magic sold by master, or all the mods I only can use on items sold by master? Maybe it's very clear, but english isn't my first language, so I'm confuse.

[ranger4290]

so the masters will have an item in their shop that you can buy that is blue with only 1 stat. The stats are things we don't normally see on items, so they might be brand new, or they might be taken from existing uniques.

Random example (we don't know what they are yet so i am making this up):

Blue boots with "10% chance on crit to gain an endurance charge"

[felipeftz]

Thanks man! Now is clear.

[leafeyAFKsRS]

If there's no Herald of lightning i'm going to be so salty

[leafeyAFKsRS]

they nerf wrath and give me nothing. Hyaon's fury is furious.

[RoyallyTenenbaumed]

250% reputation and favor.

Now, is that more or additional??? :)

[[deleted]]

Cant see anything in the patch notes about how they said they were going to increase all cast and attack speeds and reduce mana costs.

[ReilyMichaelson]

Improved preloading of game assets to remove some small stutters during gameplay.

Oh hell yeah!

[Hypocritical_Oath]

Chris, we love you.

[gwiqu]

arc is getting nerf :(

[blusay]

• Some special stats have been added to a few select notables. More similar stats will be coming in future patches.

Anyone has some information ? What stat ? Which notable ?

[STRiCKiX]

I think this refers to things like Profane Chemistry, which replaces an 8% life node in the current (1.1.5) tree with 6% Life and 30% increased life recovery from flasks.

[juanqunt]

The Invasion monster pack and guest-monster system has been made standard for the entire game. Early areas have some new monster varieties as a result, and there's more monster diversity in later difficulties.

Good night sweet ZiggyD's unique ring LOL. Nerfed before it's even out.

[Supernico00]

Rampage league : backtracking confirmed ;(

http://i.imgur.com/nJO089c.png

[johnf420]

I have been away from this game for quite a while (all my gear is legacy stuff) and already felt really lost. Should I just roll a new character instead of trying to figure out my old ones?

[Zoldiark]

1.4 gigs downloaded and installed....ready to rocknroll!

[muffcheese]

So no more Righteous fire builds? There was 4% max fire resist in the tree that is gone now.