Where Can I see the new idols?
Amazing. Love me some good patch notes and a coffee.
Unequipping an item which grants levels to a skill will remove points from its tree unless you have an equal or greater number of unspent points. Nodes which have had points removed in this way will have a red glow when the skill tree is next opened.
I’m mainly looking at this part: “unless you have an equal or greater number of unspent points”. Does this mean that, in this situation, if you unequip gear with skill levels, the game will automatically spend skill points that you have in the bank in order to try to compensate for the skill points you lost due to the gear coming off? If so, that sounds kind of strange to me. If I had skill points saved up I probably didn’t spend them for a reason and I don’t think I’d want to have them spent automatically. For instance, maybe I was just trying on another piece of gear for a moment in town, or I accidentally switched gear.
No, that’s not what it does. If you have 3 unspent skill points in swipe and you unequip an item which grants +1 swipe then you will now have 2 unspent skill points in swipe. It simply takes from the unspent first. If you don’t have enough in your unspent, only then will it auto select a node to remove points from.
Loving what I’m reading. I won’t be able to get into it much tonight but I did look at the character selection screen and the art looks awesome!
It’s amazing! Thanks for the great job! 
Think I found a typo under burning branch.
- Now grants 12 to 16 spell fire damage.
- Now grants 10% to 20% ignite chance.
- Now grants -3 spell fire damage.
The third line should be mana cost, correct?
Holy crap! What an update! I’m really excited about a lot of this. Particularly the implicit rerolling in crafting, new uniques, all the refinement, the new item affixes, and bug fixes.
I’m really surprised that some Sentinel (particularly Forge Guard) passives weren’t reworked.
I’m glad to see Rogue is getting scaled back a bit.
I also really wish that Last Laugh had a more powerful base item, or that we were able to upgrade that. As it is, it’s okay for midgame but too weak for endgame. But the unique bonuses would make it a good contender for endgame two-hand. I think 2h needs some help in comparison to dual wielding.
Patch notes are getting longer and longer x.x
Good grief… This update feels like a new game!
Cannot wait for the 2GB update to complete and see how much all of this affected my builds… Definitely motivates starting a whole new batch of characters and I am really hoping that the hundreds of items I have in my stash (especially uniques) may actually be worth trying to use again.
Love the effort. Actually fun being part of the game and seeing how it matures…
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Awesome!!! Thanks for the new patch!!!
What was the point of Alchemists Laddle changes?
You now have a wand that does no melee damage but gets melee attack speed and chance on melee hit to inflict burn, chill, shock , Slow, Blind & Poison.
What good is a melee weapon that does 0 melee damage?
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Thanks! 
Good stuff as always, but gosh I’m very, very unhappy with lounge sharing shield bash CD and Smite, skill where do u have to spec into to make it movement skill as well share the same CD as well. This changes are kinda game breaking for me honestly. I was looking forward to use Surge and Teleport too.
Quite bumped with the ‘‘we revisited all skills from the game’’ too, I don’t think number changes is good enough for most of those. Some need major rework but I understand its a lot of work. Maybe another patch
Anyway, keep up the good work
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Wow… I uhh kind of hate what I just read. I have 1 character for each mastery currently available and roughly 75% of them just got nerfed hard by these changes. I haven’t launched it yet so maybe it isn’t as bad as it seems but my top 4 favorite builds were just utterly destroyed by these changes. And I am not even talking about the changes to affixes! I think I am going to take some time to cool off before I try this patch out.
I also had some builds and fun ideas crushed by the changes. More specifically, 8 or more ways to play scorpion/baby scorpion have become 2 or 3, so with no obvious reason for the changes, I would encourage the dev’s to look at what they have definitely lost vs what they believe they gain or might gain from gating that skill at level 35 beastmaster.
On the other hand, I have found the minion survivability changes a step in the right direction, so if they can also fix acolyte minion AI, a lot of other ideas become viable.
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Out of curiosity, what builds were “utterly destroyed”?
Ok I admit to a bit of hyperbole there. The affected builds are probably not actually destroyed, but they are either significantly nerfed or changed to the point that I will basically have to start over in their itemization to make them viable again given the increased health and damage that was given to monsters.
My bladedancer rogue relied on crit multi and area scaling for shadow cascade, so that build feels like it just got hit by dozens of multiplicative nerfs from the changes to the rogue and bladedancer trees, the bug fixes that I didn’t realize were bugs, and the tuning of shadow cascade. It wasn’t particularly strong before so now I’m fairly sure it just won’t be viable anymore.
My marksman rogue feels like it is in the same boat, but maybe to a lesser degree as flurry and multshot weren’t adjusted as much. Though the changes to the marksman tree seem more heavy handed than the bladedancer ones so it is hard to tell.
My shaman primalist was using the scorpion… which it now has to spend 20 more passive points to unlock. Yeah that is not happening so that build is dead.
My void knight sentinel was a smite caster, but I’m fairly sure that build is completely dead now that the lightning can’t multi-hit a single target. That is like a ~85% multiplicative nerf to everything it did.
My paladin build relied pretty heavily on block, which from the changes sounds much harder to actually get to 100% chance now. Combined with the cooldown changes to sentinel movement skills I am not confident this build will still be viable either.
My lich acolyte was built around rip blood, which may have just improved or may have just died. After all the other changes listed I kind of just assumed the worst here.
I don’t think either of my mage builds were changed, but if I had to level them up again they would level quite differently due to when skills unlock now. Their itemization has, but I am fairly sure every build’s itemization has to some degree.
My druid and beastmaster primalists seem mostly unaffected, aside from items of course.
My forge guard sentinel is probably affected by the general changes to sentinel, though the degree of this is hard to determine. It should be less affected than my other sentinels, but I can’t tell how much less.
It sounds like my necromancer acolyte might actually have been buffed a bit due to the minion changes, but ironically this was my least favorite build. C’est la vie.
I’m sure the changes have also enabled other builds as well, and maybe the changes do represent an overall buff to player power after we adapt to them. But my initial reaction certainly doesn’t feel that way when judging from the impacts it seems to have on my characters. I was expecting some rogue nerfs and some significant itemization changes but the rest caught me by surprise. I’ll still try it out and see how it feels, I just need to give it time before I do so so my initial impression doesn’t color my judgement when actually playing around with it.
Lightning smite multi-hitting the same target was unintended mechanic, it was going to be fixed at some point. It was fun while it lasted though! Void smitter is still pretty decent overall.
Rip blood is still very strong.