PTR Patch Notes Updates

• Whirlwind
  • Fury cost from 16 to 9 10
  • Current cost is now a flat value per cycle + an additional cost based on attack speed. Changing this slightly so that the new continual cost is 7 flat + 3 per cycle. The end result is that the cost discrepancy between slow weapons and fast weapons has been greatly reduced.

Demon Hunter

• Evasive Fire
  • Skill Rune – Shrapnel has been replaced with a new rune: “Hardened”
  • Hardened increases your Armor by 50% 25% for 3 seconds and replaces the backflip

Wizard

• Ice Armor
  • Now reduces damage from melee attacks by 8% 12%
• Skill Rune – Crystallize
  • Armor bonus per stack reduced from 30% to 20%
• Meteor
  • Delay between cast and impact reduced from 2 seconds to 1.25 seconds
  • Arcane Power cost reduced from 60 to 50
  • Skill Rune – Star Pact
    • Proc coefficient reduced from 0.1 to 0.05
  • Skill Rune – Meteor Shower
    • Proc coefficient reduced from 0.25 to 0.10625
  • Skill Rune – Liquefy
    • Proc coefficient reduced from 0.125 to 0.10625
• Ray of Frost
  • Skill Rune – Sleet Storm
  • Weapon damage increased from 215% to 333% 280%
  • Proc scalar reduced from 0.25 to 0.1875

• Spectral Blade
  • Proc coefficient reduced from 0.222 to 0.14
  • Skill Rune – Healing Blades
    • Removed Critical Hit requirement
    • Heal amount reduced from 8% to 5% of critical damage done
  • Skill Rune – Thrown Blades
  • Proc coefficient reduced from 0.111 to 0.08

• Storm Armor
  • Now triggers much more frequently

Bug Fixes

• Archon: Teleport
  • Now properly breaks roots when cast
• Magic Weapon
  • Skill Rune – Blood Magic
  • Blood Magic should now work with damge over time spells (such as Archon: Disintegrate, Ray of Frost, etc)
• Illusionist
  • Illusionist should now reset the cooldown of Archon: Teleport when it procs

Items

• The chance for Legendary and set items to drop has been doubled

Bug Fixes

• The Hellfire Ring can no longer be dropped on the ground
• Mara’s Kaleidoscope can now correctly roll 3 random affixes in addition to its 3 fixed affixes
• Fixed an issue with Nagelring and Unity legendary rings which caused them to not drop

Monsters

• Elite modifiers have been changed slightly at higher levels:
• The minimum stun duration required for most Elites is now 0.65 seconds (up from 0.5 seconds); stuns less than 0.65 seconds will have no effect
• The minimum stun duration required for Rares and bosses is now 0.85 seconds (up from 0.5 seconds); stuns less than 0.85 seconds will have no effect
• Lacunis now have a cooldown on their combo attack

Bug Fixes

• Monsters with the Desecrator affix will no longer occasionally cast desecrator pools on players more than 50 yards away
• Arcane Enchanted will now properly reduced their damage based on a players Damage Reduction Against Elites modifier