Diablo 4 Patch 1.3.0 Notes!

New Items

Ring of the Ravenous

• Rend's duration is increased by 2.0–4.0 seconds. Damaging enemies with Brawling Skills applies 2 stacks of Rend's Bleed. This effect can only occur once every 4 seconds per enemy.

Aspect of Sundered Ground – Offensive

• Every 25 seconds, Upheaval is guaranteed to Overpower and deals 10–20% increased damage. This timer is reduced by 4 seconds when Upheaval Overpowers a Boss or an Elite enemy.

Skills

Charge

• Base damage increased by 900%, from 0.25 to 2.50.
• Enhanced Charge terrain impact damage increased by 150%, from 0.6 to 1.5.
• Power Charge no longer requires a terrain impact to reduce the cooldown of Charge, and now charging a boss will reduce the cooldown by 6 seconds.

Leap

• Base damage increased by 30%.

Passives

Brute Force

• Overpower damage decreased from 15% to 8% per rank.

Walking Arsenal

• Duration of each weapon bonus increased from 8 to 10 seconds.
• Additional damage from having all bonuses increased from 15% to 20%.
• Having all bonuses now also increases attack speed by 20%.

Unconstrained

• Berserking damage bonus increased from 60% to 100%.

Gushing Wounds

• Bonus bleed amount increased from 115% to 140%.
• Overpower explosion damage increased from 70% to 85%.

Weapon Expertise

• Expertise leveling has been cut by 50%.

Paragon

Marshal

• Now reduces the cooldown of every non-Shout skill by 4 seconds, instead of every other Shout skill by 1.2 seconds.

Item Updates

Echoing Fury

• You now generate 6–10 Fury per second while any Shout skill is active, instead of 2–4 Fury per second for each Shout skill active.

Limitless Rage

• Damage bonus now has a 5-second duration to be used.

the Expectant

• Damage bonus now has a 5-second duration to be used.

Veteran Brawler's

• Reduced bonus damage per stack from 15%–20% to 6%–8%, up to a reduced maximum bonus of 225%–300% to 30%–40%.

Ancestral Charge

• Reduced bonus damage from 75%–125% to 20%–30%.

Encroaching Wrath

• Reduced bonus Weapon Mastery damage from 82–100% to 40–60%.
• Damage bonus now has a 5-second duration to be used.

Ring of Red Furor

• Damage bonus now has a 5-second duration to be used.

New Items

Unsung Ascetic's Wraps

• Lightning Storm gains 1 additional strike each time it grows. Lightning Storm Critical Strikes cause lightning to strike twice, dealing 10–20% increased damage.

Virulent Aspect – Utility

• When Rabies infects an enemy, reduce its cooldown by 0.3–0.6 seconds. This cooldown reduction is tripled when infecting Elites.

Skills

Enhanced Rabies

• Maximum damage bonus increased from 30% to 60%.

Lacerate

• Cooldown reduced from 45 to 35 seconds.

Prime Lacerate

• Changed functionality: Lacerate hits Heal for 3% Maximum Life, increased to 6% on Critical Strikes.

Cataclysm

• Twister damage increased from 23% to 46%.
• Lightning damage increased from 77% to 95%.

Supreme Cataclysm

• Vulnerable duration increased from 3 to 6 seconds.

Passives

Mending

• Additional Healing received increased from 5% to 6% per rank.

Thick Hide

• Fortify gained increased from 6.4% to 10% per rank.

Unrestrained

• Control Impairing Effects duration reduction increased from 3% to 5% per rank.
• Increased benefit while over 50% Fortify reduced from tripled to doubled.

Natural Fortitude

• Fortify gained on Shapeshifting increased from 1.4% to 2% per rank.

Bestial Rampage

• Required Shapeshift duration reduced from 2.5 to 2 seconds.
• Attack Speed bonus increased from 25% to 30%.

Spirt Boons

Prickleskin

• Thorns increased from .15 to .6. (from 1,194 to 4776)

Gift of the Stag

• Maximum Spirit increased from 10 to 20.

Avian Wrath

• Critical Strike Damage bonus is now Multiplicative instead of Additive.

Paragon

Tectonic

• Bonus Lucky Hit Chance increased from 15% to 20%.

Poise

• Barrier increased from 5% of Maximum Health to 15%.
• Duration increased from 4 to 6 seconds.

Wilds

• Passive Companion damage bonus increased from 80% to 120%.

Item Updates

the Blurred Beast

• Previous: While dashing, Shred seeks out Nearby Poisoned enemies instantly dealing 70–100% of the Poisoning damage to them.
• New: While dashing, Shred seeks out Nearby Poisoned enemies and deals 20–40%[x] increased damage to them.

Metamorphic Stone

• Boulder Spirit Cost reduced from 50 to 40.

the Unsatiated

• Spirit Generation and bonus damage increased from 20–30% to 30–40%.

Retaliation

• Bonus damage reduced from 20–40% to 20–30%.

New Items

Mutilator Plate

• You are Blood Lanced, and when Blood Lance would deal damage to you it instead Fortifies you for 1–2% of your Maximum Life and has a 5% chance to form a Blood Orb. Blood Lance deals 10–20%[x] increased damage.

Shattered Spirit's Aspect – Offensive

• Casting Bone Spirit also launches 18 Bone Splinters in all directions, dealing 200–400%[x] increased damage and generating 6 Essence per enemy hit.

Skills

Iron Maiden

• Damage increased from 0.2 to 0.3.

Horrid Iron Maiden

• Bonus damage increased from 20% to 30%.

Corpse Explosion

• Lucky Hit Chance reduced from 40% to 25%.
• Base damage increased from 50% to 70%.
• Blighted Corpse Explosion damage decreased from 110% to 95%.

Blight

• Damage over time increased from 80% to 95%.

Sever

• Initial damage increased from 66% to 75%.
• Return damage increased from 21% to 25%.

Bone Spirit

• Damage is increased by 4% per Essence spent casting Bone Spirit, up from 3%.

Dreadful Bone Spirit

• Now restores 30% of your Maximum Essence, instead of a flat 30 Essence.

Acolyte's Decompose

• Previous: You and your Minions deal 10%[x] increased damage to enemies being Decomposed.
• New: Every 1.5 seconds, Decompose makes enemies Vulnerable for 4 seconds.

Initiate's Decompose

• Previous: Decompose Slows enemies by 50%.
• New: Decompose Slows enemies by 50%, and if you channel Decompose for at least 1.5 seconds, you gain 30%[+] Movement Speed for 5 second after ending the channel.

Dreadful Blood Mist

• Previous: Blood Mist Fortifies you for 0.5% of your Maximum Life each time it hits an enemy.
• New: You gain +10% Critical Strike Chance for 4 seconds after Blood Mist ends.

Bone Prison

• Friendly players and Minions can now freely pass through Bone Prison walls.
• The functionality of Enhanced Bone Prison and Ghastly Bone Prison have been swapped.

Enhanced Bone Prison

• Enemies inside of Bone Prison are Vulnerable.

Ghastly Bone Prison

• If an enemy is trapped by Bone Prison, gain 25 Essence, plus an additional 5 per enemy trapped.

Dreadful Bone Prison

• Previous: Fortify for 8% of your Maximum Life for each enemy trapped by Bone Prison.
• New: Reduce your active cooldowns by 0.5 seconds for each enemy trapped by Bone Prison, up to 3 seconds.

Passives

Ossified Essence

• Now displays the current bonus on the tooltip.

Book of the Dead

Golem

• When Golems finish casting their active ability, they will first try to target a new close enemy before reverting to their previous target.
• Blood Golem and Iron Golem
  • Basic Attacks now hit enemies in an area around the main target.
• Bone Golem
  • Active ability now grants the Golem Thorns equal to 70% of your Armor for the duration of the Taunt.
• Bone Mage
  • Upgrade now Fortifies based on your Maximum Life instead of Base Life.
• Skeleton Priest
  • Healing increased from 25% to 40% over the 8 second duration.

Paragon

Cult Leader Legendary Paragon Node

• Previous: Your Minions deal 15%[x] increased damage for each Minion type you have active.
• New: Your Minions deal 10%[x] increased damage for each 20%[+] of Attack Speed Bonus they have.

Golem

• Additional Bonus changed from 25% Health to 25% Damage.

Item Updates

Swelling Curse

• Previous: Bone Spirit deals increased damage based on distance traveled, up to 15-25%[x].
• New: Bone Spirit's Critical Strike Chance is increased by 15–25%[+]. Your Maximum Essence is increased by 2 for each enemy hit for 15 seconds.

Torturous

• Previous: Enemies afflicted by your Iron Maiden have a [15–25]% chance to be Stunned for 1 Second when they deal direct damage.
• New: Iron Maiden is now also a Darkness skill and deals Shadow damage. Enemies afflicted by your Iron Maiden have a [15–25]% chance to be Stunned for 1 second when they deal direct damage.

Rotting

• Chance to spawn additional corpses increased from 30–60% to 50–100%.

Hulking

• Chance to reduce Golem's active cooldown increased from 2–5% to 4–10%.
• Chance to spawn a Corpse increased from 1.0–2.5% to 2%–5%.

New Items

Beastfall Boots

• When you cast an Ultimate skill, your next Core skill consumes all of your energy and deals 0.5–1.5% increased damage per Energy consumed. Using a Cooldown restores 5 energy.

Resistant Assailant's Aspect – Defensive

• Breaking Concealment grants +10% Resistance and Maximum Resist to all elements for 4 seconds. Killing an Elite enemy reduces Concealment's cooldown by 6–10 seconds.

Skills

Blade Shift

• Damage increased from 16% to 20%.
• Duration increased from 3 seconds to 4 seconds.

Fundamental Invigorating Strike

• Vulnerable now applies while you are below 85% Energy, up from 75% Energy.

Enhanced Caltrops

• Previous: Enemies takes 5%[x] increased damage from you each second they are in Caltrops.
• New: Enemies in Caltrops take 10%[x] increased damage from you, increased by 5%[x] each second.

Rain of Arrows

• Cast time reduced by 15%.
• The first wave of arrows now hits closer to the player.

Cold Imbuement

• Chill amount now increases by 5% per skill rank, up from 2.5%.

Blended Cold Imbuement

• Removed the Critical Strike requirement, and increased the Lucky Hit chance from 20% to 35%.

Mixed Poison Imbuement

• Previous: Lucky Hit: Poison Imbued skills have up to a 30% chance to apply double the amount of Poisoning damage over time.
• New: Lucky Hit: Poison Imbued skills have up to a 30% chance to reduce Poison Imbuement's cooldown by 2 seconds.

Forceful Arrow

• Vulnerable duration increased from 3 to 5 seconds.

Enhanced Penetrating Shot

• Previous: Penetrating Shot deals 10%[x] increased damage per enemy it pierces.
• Now: Penetrating Shot has a 10%[+] increased Critical Strike Chance. If Penetrating Shot damages at least 3 enemies, gain 10%[+] Critical Strike Chance for 5 seconds.

Improved Penetrating Shot

• Previous: If Penetrating Shot damage at least 3 enemies, your next Penetrating Shot has 20%[+] increased Critical Strike Chance.
• New: Penetrating Shot deals an additional 10%[x] increased damage per enemy it hits.

Passives

Close Quarters Combat

• Amount of Damage vs Crowd Controlled bonus conversion percent reduced from 40% to 10%.
• Attack Speed per stack increased from 10% to 15%.

Precision

• Previous: Critical Strike with Marksman Skills grant you Precision. You gain 4%[x] Critical Strike Damage per stack of Precision, up to a maximum of 20%[x]. When you reach maximum Precision, your next Marksman Skill is guaranteed to Critically Strike, and deals 40%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage, then consumes all stacks of Precision.
• New: Each Marksman skill cast grants 1 stack of Precision, or 2 if it has Critically Struck. When you reach 6 stacks, your next Marksman Core or Ultimate Skill is a guaranteed Critical Strike that deals x50% increased Critical Strike Damage, consuming all stacks of Precision. This damage is further increased by an amount equal to x15% of your Critical Strike Damage bonus.

Chilling Weight

• Previous: Chilled enemies have their Movement speed further reduced by 10/20/30%.
• New: Chilled enemies have their movement speed further reduced by up to 10/20/30%, and you gain 5/10/15%[x] increased Chill effect.

Concussive

• Previous: After Knocking Back or Knocking Down an enemy, you gain 4% increased Critical Strike Chance against them for 4 seconds.
• New: After Knocking Back or Knocking Down an enemy, you gain 4% increased Critical Strike Chance for 4 seconds.

Paragon

Leyrana's Instinct

• Previous: When Inner Sight's gauge becomes full, you gain 100%[+] Dodge Chance for 1.5 seconds.
• New: When Inner Sight's gauge becomes full, you gain 100%[+] Dodge Chance for 2 seconds. Your next 3 Core skills deal additional damage equal to 20%[x] of your Core Skill Damage bonus.

Item Updates

Bladedancer's

• The orbiting blades can now hit each enemy 2 times, reduced from 3.

• Previous: Twisting Blades orbit for a short time after they return to you, dealing 10–15% of Twisting Blades's return damage per hit. Based on the distance the blades returning, the orbit damage increases up to 20–30% of the return damage.
• New: Twisting Blades orbit for a short time after they return to you, dealing 20–30% of Twisting Blades's return damage per hit.

Stolen Vigor

• Previous: Each stack of Momentum Key Passive Heals you for 0.04–0.08 Life per second.
• New: Each stack of Momentum Key Passive Heals you for 0.04–0.08 Life per second and grants you 5% Damage Reduction.

Icy Alchemist's

• Previous: Lucky Hit: Damaging a Chilled or Frozen enemy with a Shadow Imbued Skill has up to a 75% chance to release an explosion that deals 0.3–0.48 Cold damage to the target and surrounding enemies, Chilling them for 25%.
• New: Lucky Hit: Shadow Imbued Skill have up to a 75% chance to release an explosion that deals 0.3–0.48 Cold damage to the target and surrounding enemies, Chilling them for 25%. If they were already Chilled or Frozen, increase this damage by 100%[x].

Toxic Alchemist's

• Previous: Lucky Hit: Damaging a Poisoned enemy with a Shadow Imbued Skill has up to a 75% chance to create a toxic explosion that applies 0.15–0.2 Poisoning damage over 5 seconds to the target and surrounding enemies.
• New: Lucky Hit: Shadow Imbued Skills have up to a 75% chance to create a toxic explosion that applies 0.2–0.3 Poisoning damage over 5 seconds to the target and surrounding enemies. If the enemy was already Poisoned, increase this damage by 100%[x].

Windforce

• Lucky Hit Chance increased from 20%–30% to 30%–40%.

Skyhunter

• Inherent affix changed from Damage to Distant Enemies to Critical Strike Damage.
• Critical Strike Damage affix value increased by ~100%. This does not apply to the inherent Critical Strike Damage Affix.
• Effect updated to reflect changes to the Precision Key Passive.
  • Previous: The first direct damage you deal to an enemy is a guaranteed Critical Strike. If you had maximum stacks of the Precision Key Passive when you cast the Skill, gain 20–30 energy, this can only happen once per cast.
  • New: The first direct damage you deal to an enemy is a guaranteed Critical Strike. When you consume Precision casting a Skill, that Skill gains x10–30% increased Critical Strike Damage and you gain 20–40 Energy.

Eaglehorn

• Previous: Penetrating Shot has a 30–80% chance to fire an arrow that bounced off walls and scenery. Damaging 5 enemies with Penetrating Shot will cause your next cast to make enemies hit Vulnerable for 3 seconds.
• New: Penetrating Shot makes enemies Vulnerable for 3 seconds. Every 4th cast bounces off walls and scenery and deals 20%–40%[x] bonus damage.

Starfall Coronet

• Meteor now has 2 charges and a 11–6 second Charge Cooldown instead of a Mana cost and drops 3 additional meteors around the target. Meteor's Enchantment effect and Enhanced Meteor drop 1 additional meteor.

Aspect of Shredding Blades – Offensive

• Ice Blades's chance to apply Vulnerable is increased by 20%[+] and the Vulnerable duration is increased by 4 seconds. You gain 15–25%[x] Vulnerable Damage.

Skills

Ball Lightning

• Enhanced Ball Lightning changed to have its attack rate increase with attack speed, up to 25%.

Blizzard

• Mage's Blizzard condition to be cast while over 50 mana has been removed.

Lightning Spear

• Critical Strikes now apply Vulnerable for 3 seconds.

Paragon

Searing Heat

• Fixed an issue where the Critical Strike Chance bonus was not properly applying.
• Critical Strike Chance bonus increased from +10% to 12%.

Elemental Summoner

• Conjuration damage bonus increased from x3% to x5% of the total amount of your Bonus Damage with Fire, Lightning, and Cold.

Burning Instinct

• Amount of Intelligence required to gain x1% bonus Burning Damage reduced from 75 to 25.

Item Updates

Shattered Stars

• Meteorite damage has been changed to be 20–30% of the casted Meteor's damage.

Staff of Lam Esen

• Increased Charged Bolts chance to be attracted to enemies from 30–50% to 40–60%.

Iceheart Brais

• Chance to unleash a Frost Nova when enemies die increased from 11–20% to 21–30%.