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Diablo III Game Guide Patch Notes

PATCH 2.4.2
Patch 2.4.2
PATCH 2.4.1
Patch 2.4.2

PATCH 2.4.0
Patch 2.4.2 08/02/2016

PATCH 2.3.0
Diablo III patch 2.4.2 is now live in the Americas for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One!
Check out the full PC patch notes below to learn all about the latest changes. To
view our console patch notes, click here.
PATCH 2.2.1

IMPORTANT:
Please note that you will not be prompted to download patch 2.4.2 until the patch is
PATCH 2.2.0
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Additionally, if your home region is in the Americas, you will be unable to log into
PATCH 2.1.2
Europe or Asia using Global Play after patch 2.4.2 is live until those regions have
also patched.
PATCH 2.1.1

PATCH 2.1.0
DIABLO III PATCH 2.4.2 - V2.4.2.38682
Visit our Bug Report forum for a list of known issues.
PATCH 2.0.6

If you are experiencing technical issues with the patching process, connecting to
Battle.net after installing the patch, or errors while playing a newly-patched game,
PATCH 2.0.5
please visit our support site or post in the Technical Support forum for assistance. 

PATCH 2.0.4 Table of Contents:

General
Classes
PATCH 2.0.3
Barbarian
Crusader
PATCH 2.0.2
Demon Hunter
Monk
Witch Doctor
PATCH 2.0.1
Wizard
Bug Fixes
 Items
PATCH 1.0.8
Class-Specific Items
Bug Fixes
PATCH 1.0.7
Campaign Mode
Adventure Mode

PATCH 1.0.6
Bounties
Nephalem Rifts

User Interface
PATCH 1.0.5

PATCH 1.0.4

GENERAL

Developer Comments

Players were finding that pulling monsters from extended ranges to a single point
on the map and crowd controlling them onto that spot was the most effective
strategy, especially in group play. Not only does this cause server performance
issues, but it is a stagnant, non-interactive way to play. These changes are
targeted at making crowd control more situational, ensuring individual contributors
in a group can add to the damage of the party more frequently.
Gold rewards have been adjusted. The primary gold sink at the end-game is
Empowered Rifts. We want to maintain a general ratio that when you are running
Greater Rifts at a particular tier, you can empower approximately 1/3rd of them.
Due to the rate at which gold rewards from Greater Rifts and empower costs were
scaling it made the gold reward from Nephalem Rifts, Gilded Barons and The Vault
feel insignificant by comparison. Lowering the growth rate of gold costs restores
the relative value of these other activities while maintaining the ability to empower
approximately 1/3rd of your Greater Rifts.

New difficulty levels, Torment XI-XIII have been added to the game
Gold rewards have been adjusted:

Greater Rift 26 and up has been rescaled to a flat 3% increase per tier
Torment VII-XIII has been changed to match Greater Rift reward scaling
The cost to empower a Greater Rift has been reduced to match the new gold
reward rate
The amount of gold dropped by the Gilded Baron Treasure Goblin has been
reduced

Knockbacks now apply a flat 40% increase to crowd control resistances

Monsters cannot be knocked back if they are over 65% crowd control resistant
Powers that apply knockbacks continuously, such as Black Hole, can bypass this
resistance if they already knocked a monster back successfully. These powers
increase the crowd control resistance by 20% per knockback instead of 40%

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CLASSES
Developer Comments

With a plethora of Hatred spending attacks available to the Demon Hunter we want
to find a unique role for Spike Trap.  The redesign gives players more control on
 where and when Spike Trap damage was done using a mechanic unique to it.
Using a Hatred spender to detonate opens up the capabilities of Spike Trap by
allowing players to time their damage just right.
We’ve adjusted several skills which provide buffs to groups. Taken together, these
changes should encourage players in groups to contribute damage to their party,
while also encouraging a more healthy variety of group compositions. For more
information on this change please see this forum thread.

Barbarian

Active Skills

Threatening Shout

Skill Rune - Falter

Can no longer stack with casts from other sources

Crusader

Active Skills

Consecration

The healing provided from multiple active Consecrations will no longer

stack

Judgment

Skill Rune - Resolved

The increased Critical Hit Chance has been reduced from 20% to 8%

Laws of Valor

Skill Rune - Critical

The Critical Hit Damage bonus has been reduced from 100% to 50%

Demon Hunter

Active Skills

Companion

Skill Rune - Wolf Companion

The Active Skill damage bonus has been reduced from 30% to 15%

Marked for Death

The damage bonus has been reduced from 20% to 15%

Skill Rune - Grim Reaper

The damage bonus has been reduced from 20% to 15%

Multishot

Skill Rune - Wind Chill

The increased Critical Hit Chance against the target has been reduced
from 15% to 8%

Spike Trap

Has been redesigned

Traps no longer have an arming time

Traps now only detonate once
Now has 2 charges each with a 10 second recharge time
All active traps are now detonated by the next Hatred spender you cast

Damage increased from 340% to 1160% weapon damage

Hatred cost reduced from 30 to 15
Skill Rune - Echoing Blast
 Damage increased from 575% to 2020% weapon damage
Has been redesigned

Enemies are now slowed by 70% when the trap is detonated

Skill Rune - Lightning Rod

Damage increased from 880% weapon damage over 10 hits to 2010%

weapon damage over 3 hits
Decreased the radius that lightning can arc to other traps from 75 to 25
yards

Skill Rune - Long Fuse

Has been removed

Replaced with

Impaling Spines

While the trap is active, enemies within range are instantly

immobilized for 3 seconds
Increases damage to 1930% weapon damage

Skill Rune - Scatter

Now places 2 traps side by side and consumes 1 charge of Spike Trap

Skill Rune - Sticky Trap

Has been removed

Replaced with

Custom Trigger

Your Hatred generators now detonate Spike Traps

Increases damage to 1900% weapon damage

Monk

Active Skills

Blinding Flash

Skill Rune - Crippling Light

The damage reduction applied to blinded enemies has been reduced

from 40% to 25%

Epiphany

Skill Rune - Soothing Mist

Healing has been reduced by 60% from 40232 Life per ability to 16093
Life. The heal amount of your health globe healing bonus has been
reduced from 10% to 4%

Exploding Palm

Skill Rune - Flesh is Weak

The damage bonus has been reduced from 20% to 15%

Inner Sanctuary

Skill Rune - Forbidden Palace

No longer increased the damage taken by enemies inside Inner

Sanctuary

Mantra of Conviction

The damage of the passive component of the skill has been reduced from
10% to 8%
The damage of the active component of the skill has been reduced from
20% to 16%
Skill Rune - Overawe
 The damage bonus has been reduced from 16% to 12%

Mantra of Conviction

Skill Rune - Fists of Fury

The maximum stack value is no longer determined by your attack speed

and is capped at 15 stacks

Way of the Hundred Fists

Skill Rune – Fists of Fury

The maximum stack value is no longer determined by your attack speed

and is capped at 15 stacks

Passive Skills

Mythic Rhythm

The damage bonus from Mythic Rhythm is now consumed on manually

applied Spirit spenders and not automatically from items or set bonuses.

Witch Doctor

Active Skills

Big Bad Voodoo

The attack speed bonus has been reduced from 20% to 15%
Skill Rune - Slam Dance

The damage bonus provided to allies has been decreased from 30% to
15%

Haunt

Skill Rune - Poisoned Spirit

The damage increase provided to your allies has been removed. The skill
will now benefit your own damage and your pets' damage

Hex

No longer increases the damage taken by the target

Skill Rune - Jinx

The damage bonus to the target has been reduced from 30% to 15%

Skill Rune - Toad of Hugeness

The damage bonus to the target has been reduced from 25% to 15%

Mass Confusion

Skill Rune - Paranoia

Can no longer stack with casts from other sources

Piranhas

Can no longer stack with casts from other sources

Spirit Barrage

Skill Rune - Phantasm

Damage increased from 675% over 5 seconds to 750% over 5 seconds

Summon Zombie Dogs

Skill Rune - Chilled to the Bone

No longer increases damage done to targets by 15%

Wizard

Active Skills
 Arcane Orb

Skill Rune - Spark

The damage increase of your next Lightning spell now has a maximum
of 30%

Energy Twister

Twisters (excluding those created with the Wicked Wind rune) will now
despawn if they stop moving
This applies only to the PC/Mac version

Passive Skills

Elemental Exposure

The damage bonus no longer applies to your allies

Power Hungry

Has been redesigned

Deal 30% additional damage to enemies more than 30 yards away

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that prevented Ray of Frost - Black Ice from creating an ice patch
when the player didn't land the killing blow
Fixed an issue that prevented the maximum of 8 Energy Twisters from applying
Fixed an issue that was causing stacks of Archon from a previous cast due to The
Swami to stack multiplicatively instead of additively with a subsequent,
overlapping cast of Archon
Fixed an issue that prevented Wolf Companion’s active ability from applying the
15% damage buff to pets and followers

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ITEMS
Developer Comments

With Haedrig’s Gift, Blood Shards and Kanai’s Cube, the need for the Magic Find
stat has diminished since the game’s original release. Replacing the Magic Find
property with Resource Cost Reduction made sense. We expect the Topaz will
hone some existing builds and open up possibilities for some new ones.
In addition to being one of the least popular gems, Invigorating Gemstone had a
mechanic that was simply unappealing to many players. Our goal with Legendary
Gems is to supply unique tools that complement a build. A gem that increases
your healing is truly invigorating!
When reviewing items for this patch, Twisted Sword stood out as needing a
revision. While we want items to feel powerful, we also want the gameplay style
associated with the items to be fun. We heard loud and clear that using Twisted
Sword to stack Energy Twister in places where the tornado did not move was
effective but boring. We’ve made adjustments to Twisted Sword to prevent this
from occurring.

Socketing a Topaz into your helm will now provide Resource Cost Reduction rather
than Magic Find. This grants the same percentage bonus as Cooldown Reduction and
caps at 12.5%
Bottomless Potion of Chaos

New Legendary Potion

Teleport to another location when used below 40% health

Graphical and sound effects have been added to the teleport

Added a camera smoothing effect to the teleport
Invigorating Gemstone

Has been redesigned

Each hit done increases healing received by 1% for 5 seconds

Stacks up to 10 times
You are now immune to Crowd Control effects at Rank 25

Class-Specific Items

Crusader

Armor of Akkhan

(6) Set Bonus

Damage bonus increased from 450% to 600%

Now also reduces damage taken by 15% while Akarat's Champion is
active

Khassett’s Cord of Righteousness

New Legendary Belt

Fist of the Heavens costs 40% less Wrath and deals 150% more
damage

Darklight

Has been redesigned

Now gives Fist of the Heavens a chance to be cast a second time at

the targeted location

Thorns of the Invoker

(6) Set Bonus

The 800% Thorns damage dealt to the first enemy hit can now benefit from
+% Physical Damage

Demon Hunter

Calamity

Now always uses your Marked for Death Rune type and cannot stack with
overlapping casts of your Marked for Death

Note: This change is retroactive to existing items

The Demon's Demise

Has been redesigned

The blast from Spike Trap will damage all enemies again after 1 second.

Monk

Gyana Na Kashu

The damage bonus granted to the fireball from Lashing Tail Kick has been
increased from 525-700% to 1050-1400%

Raiment of a Thousand Storms

(6) Set Bonus

The damage bonus granted to Spirit Generators after casting Dashing

Strike increased from 300% to 1250%

Witch Doctor

Helltooth Harness

(2) Set Bonus

The Necrosis bonus damage no longer amplifies the damage of your

allies. The skill will now benefit your own damage and your pets' damage
 Homunculus

Sacrifice damage bonus increased from 25-30% to 50-60%

Ring of Emptiness

Haunt and Locust Swarm damage bonus increased from 75-100% to 250-
300%

Wizard

Firebird's Finery

(4) Set Bonus

Has been redesigned

Dealing Fire damage with one of your skills causes the enemy to take
1000% weapon damage as Fire for 3 seconds. This effect can be
repeated a second and third time by different skills. If an enemy is
burning due to three different skills simultaneously the enemy will
Ignite, dealing 3000% weapon damage per second until they die

(6) Set Bonus

Has been redesigned

Your damage is increased by 120% and damage taken reduced by 3%

for each enemy that is Ignited. This effect can stack up to 20 times.
You always receive the maximum bonus whenever a nearby Elite
monster is Ignited.

The Twisted Sword

Can now only benefit from a maximum of 5 Energy Twisters

Several existing class-specific Legendary items have been updated to include a

unique Legendary power

Note: Existing items will not be affected by the following changes. Only new
versions of the items will roll with the added Legendary power.
Barbarian

Girdle of Giants

Legendary power added

Seismic Slam Increases Earthquake damage by 80-100% for 15 3

seconds.
Existing Earthquakes will have their damage increased when Seismic
Slam is used with Girdle of Giants

Demon Hunter

Trag'Oul Coils

Legendary power added

Spike Traps gain the effect of the Impaling Spines rune and are
deployed twice as fast

Monk

Scarbringer

Legendary power added

Lashing Tail Kick deals an additional 300% damage to the first 5-7
enemies hit

Witch Doctor

Gazing Demise

Legendary power added

 Spirit Barrage gains the Phantasm rune. For each active Phantasm
(max 3), the damage of Spirit Barrage is increased by 40-50%

Wizard

Starfire

Legendary power added

Lightning damage done is increased by 15% for every 10 yards you

are from the target up to a maximum of 60%

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that prevented the buff from the Orb of the Infinite from being
applied if the damage killed the enemy
Fixed an issue that caused the Firebird's Finery (2) Set Bonus to proc early if there
was another damage shield on the player
Fixed an issue that caused the Treasure Goblin spawned by the legacy Puzzle Ring
to pick up Transmog items
Fixed an issue that caused Girdle of Giants to increase the damage of all skills by
the percentage it applied to Earthquake damage
Fixed an issue that caused Scarbringer to grant a damage bonus of 200%. It has
been increased to 300% to match the tooltip
Fixed an issue that caused Lashing Tail Kick (Vulture Claw Kick) DoT to not benefit
from the bonus damage granted by Scarbringer
Fixed an issue that caused the Fireball proc from Gyana Na Kashu to not do
damage to a target if the target has previously been hit with the amplified damage
of Lashing Tail Kick from Scarbringer
Fixed an issue that caused Lashing Tail Kick – Vulture Claw Kick to give all targets
the amplified damage from Scarbringer instead of the first 5-7 hit
Fixed an issue that caused Lashing Tail Kick - Vulture Kick to apply 230% weapon
damage per second instead of 230% over 3 seconds
Fixed an issue that prevented Bracers of Destruction’s Seismic Slam bonus
damage from being applied to the Rumble rune
Fixed an issue with Blade of the Warlord that prevented the Fury spent with Bash
from triggering the 2-piece Might of the Earth set bonus and reducing the
cooldown of Earthquake, Ground Stomp, Leap, and Avalanche
Fixed an issue that prevented Kyoshiro’s Soul from activating the 4pc Set bonus
from the Monkey King’s Garb set
Fixed an issue that prevented the Sweeping Wind bonus provided by Kyoshiro’s
Soul from expiring after transitioning between level areas
Fixed an issue that caused the old and new versions of Darklight to each proc their
special ability when one was equipped and the other was used in Kanai’s Cube
Fixed an issue that was causing player attack speed to snapshot and dynamically
update along with their stacks of Archon
Fixed an issue that caused the Archon buff icon to remain even after players had
right clicked and removed the buff granted by the Swami 

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CAMPAIGN MODE
The Skeleton King will now drop Leoric's Crown beginning at Level 5

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ADVENTURE MODE
Developer Comments

The experience rewards for the actual completion of a Nephalem Rift felt too
low, reducing the feeling of accomplishment for defeating the Rift Guardian and
 closing the Rift. This change is aimed at ensuring that the bulk of your reward is
earned upon completion.

Infernal Machine drop rates have been adjusted:

Torment levels V-XIII have an increasing chance for a second machine to drop
There is now a 50% chance for a machine to drop on Torment I increasing to
100% on Torment IV

Nephalem Rifts

Greater Rift Keys are now guaranteed from any Nephalem Rift and increasing the
difficulty now increases your chance of getting a second or third key
Greater Rifts

Some of the Experience earned in a Greater Rift has been shifted from killing
monsters to the reward for closing the rift. The overall amount of Experience
earned should be roughly the same

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USER INTERFACE
Pylons in Nephalem Rifts now have unique minimap icons
A hotkey has been added to the game to hide the UI
When the Blacksmith is trained to maximum level his recipe list will now start
collapsed
The Menagerist Goblin now has a unique minimap icon

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