HEROES
DRs, and Bloodshards, and Thorns - Oh My!
Fixed an issue causing the curse [Bloodshard Volley] and reflected damage from [Thorns] on plant enemies to ignore player damage reductions.
With this change, [Thorns] now deal Physical damage.
[Bloodshard Volley] now deals Magic damage.
Stamina Adjustment 315+
The amount of Stamina found on item level 315+ items has been increased by 50%.
This amounts to approximately 26% increased maximum health for all heroes (except Tanks, more on this below).
The intention with this change is to grant healers a little more room to breathe and react to damage, in Eternal specifically.
For Meiko, Xavian, and Helena, the amount of Health gained from each point of Stamina has been reduced by 10%.
The changes to Stamina are not focused primarily on making any big changes to Tank’s - rather it is focused on DPS and Healers. As such, we have compensated the increase of Stamina found on 315+ items by reducing the amount of health Tanks gain from each point of Stamina.
The sum of these changes equate to an approximate 14.5% increase of maximum health for Meiko, Xavian, and Helena.
Consolidation of Absorb Shield
We have decided to update all absorbs in the game so that Absorbs always take 50% reduced damage. The intention is to ensure all Absorbs have the same “mechanical feel” to them, to provide players with a stronger intuitive sense of the value of any absorbs on their health bars.
Non-hero Absorb changes
Emerald Gem Bonus [Sentinel’s Bastion] now grants 5% / 15% max health absorb (was 10% / 30%)
Damage dealt to the shield is now reduced by 50% (was not reduced before).
Defensive Trait [Divine Mediation] absorb values are unchanged.
Damage dealt to the shield is now reduced by 50% (was not reduced before).
This results in a 100% increase to the effectiveness of its shields.
Eira, the Winter Witch’s Boon now grants an absorb equal to 25% of max health (was 50%)
Damage dealt to the shield is now reduced by 50% (was not reduced before).
Note: The boon still grants the player 50% damage reduction as it always has in addition to the above change.
Necklace Defensive Attunement [The Dragon’s] absorb value has been reduced for all heroes by 50%.
Damage dealt to the shield is now reduced by 50% (was not reduced before).
Meiko
All Meiko’s ability damage except [Earthfist Barrage] has been increased by 30%.
[Earthfist Barrage] now performs a total of 5 hits over 1.0 seconds (was 6 hits over 1.5 seconds) - the final hit is still a heavy hit like before.
[Earthfist Barrage] now triggers a Global Cooldown.
This allows Meiko players to comfortably queue up the next builder ability without being worried they may interrupt [Earthfist Barrage’s] channel too early and miss out on the final hit.
[Earthfist Barrage] itself is still off the Global Cooldown, as it has always been.
[Spirited Vortex] now hits up to 40 enemies with each tick (was 19).
Talent [Perfect Storm] now grants a 25% chance (was 50% chance) to have [Lashing Stormkick] perform an additional kick for 100% of the power (was 60% of the power).
The chance is now increased by your Haste.
For clarification: if you have 20% Haste, the chance is increased by 20% for a resulting 30% chance to trigger.
Xavian
Fixed an issue with [Solar Shield] causing it to sometimes not apply the new absorb on the target.
Mara
Mara’s [Creeping Death] mechanic was able to reach unintended levels of damage output through various means of stacking Haste. While we want to keep the mechanic, we have moved power out from [Creeping Death] and into [Hemorrhaging Strike’s] bleed, baseline. [Seething Burst] has now also been added to the list of [Creeping Death] benefactors.
[Hemorrhaging Strike’s] bleed damage has been increased by 30%.
[Creeping Death] now increases the damage of relevant abilities by 0.5% for every 1% Haste you have (was 1% for every 1% Haste you have).
Talent [Caustic Strikes] now clarifies on tooltip that the damage of [Caustic Poison] gains the benefit of [Creeping Death]
Talent [Seething Burst] now gains the benefit of [Creeping Death]. The tooltip has been updated to reflect this change.
Fixed an issue causing [Hemorrhaging Strike] reapplications to reset the tick timer on the bleed effect, causing no ticks to happen while the bleed was being reapplied repeatedly to the same targets.
Talent [Hemotoxin] no longer double-dips from % damage bonuses. This was an unintended interaction that caused [Hemotoxin] to deal much more damage than intended in certain situations where the player had buffs or effects that increase damage with a percentage.
Fixed an issue causing the Major Trait [Diamond Strike] to sometimes take Mara out of [Stealth] when her damage over time effects triggered it.
Gunde
Talent [Bloodcraze] now deals 25% Strength damage (was 20% Strength damage] and deals 150% more damage per stack of [Owed In Blood] consumed (was 170%).
In summary, Bloodcraze damage has been increased by approximately 10%.
Talent [Darkening Hearts] damage bonus to [Heart Splitter] direct damage has been reduced to 10% (was 30%).
[Darkening Hearts] was slightly overloaded in value for its 2 point cost.
Talent [Oathshatter] now deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets (was 5 targets).
Talent [Oathshatter] radius increased by 40%.
The Legendary [Band of the Bleeding Heart] now additionally grants +100% critical strike chance to [Heart Splitter] when striking enemies above 80% health.
Tariq
The Talent [Schism] now allows for up to 2 stacks of each [Schism] proc to be held at any one time. The proc now has a 20 second duration.
Ardeos
Fixed an issue causing [Wildfire] to still increase the tick rate by 20%. Now properly grants 30% tick rate to all Ardeos’ damage over time effects.
Fixed an issue causing [Searing Blaze] reapplications to reset the tick timer on the damage-over-time effect, causing no ticks to happen while [Searing Blaze] was being reapplied repeatedly to the same targets.
Elarion
[Spirit Refunds] now apply 5 stacks (was 3) of [Lunarlight Mark] to the main target and 2 stacks (was 1) to up to 2 additional targets.
[Highwind Arrow] damage has been increased by approximately 41%.
[Highwind Arrow] ricochets now deal 50% of [Highwind Arrow] power (was 70%).
[Heartseeker Barrage] damage has been reduced by 5%.
[Heartseeker Barrage’s] chance to cause [Lunarlight Marks] to [Erupt] has been increased to 25% (was 20%).
[Lunarlight Marks] that [Erupt] when triggered by [Heartseeker Barrage] now deal damage to up to 40 enemies (was 12). The damage is reduced beyond 12 targets.
[Lunarlight Marks] that [Erupt] now still deal the normal [Lunarlight:Salvo] damage to the main target, and the [Erupt] damage is only dealt to other enemies near the target.
This change causes [Lunarlight Marks] triggered by [Heartseeker Barrage] to always deal its full damage to the main target without any reductions as a result of target count.
[Lunarlight: Salvo] damage has been reduced by 3%.
[Lunarlight: Erupt] damage has been reduced by 3%.
Talent [Repeating Stars] no longer reduces cooldown of [Starfall Volley] per [Multishot] hit. Now reduces the cooldown of [Starfall Volley] by 1.5 seconds per cast. [Empowered Multishots] reduce the cooldown of [Starfall Volley] by 3.0 seconds per cast.
[Starfall Volley] damage has been reduced by 20%.
[Starfall Volley] now deals reduced damage beyond 12 targets (was 10).
The Legendary [Master Astronomer’s Bracers] now causes [Starfall Volley] to deal 100% more damage to the main target, in addition to its existing effects.
The Legendary [Master Astronomer’s Bracers] now increases the base duration of [Starfall Volley] by 3 seconds (was 2 seconds).
The Legendary [Master Astronomer’s Bracers] now gains 0.25 seconds duration per [Multishot] cast (was 0.5 seconds).
The Legendary [Shimmering Silver Cape] now increases damage you deal by 8% per stack (was 10%).
Vigour
All Vigour’s ability damage has been increased by approximately 15%.
Fixed an issue causing [Soulbrand] reapplications to reset the tick timer on the damage-over-time effect, causing no ticks to happen while [Soulbrand] was being reapplied repeatedly to the same targets.
[Luminous Barrier] absorb value increased by 25%.
Damage dealt to [Luminous Barrier’s] shield is now reduced by 50% (was 65%).
[Residual Luminosity] now reduces damage taken by 15% (was 10%).
Talent [Ruptured Soul] now deals 16% of the remaining damage to nearby enemies (was 12%).
Fixed an issue with the Talent [Meticulous Runesmith] causing the absorb limit to not be increased by Expertise.
The Legendary [Ring of Harmonizing Refractions] buff duration has been increased to 18 seconds (was 12 seconds).
Aeona
Aeona’s [Spirit Refunds] no longer generate 30 Chrona. Now grants 1 stack of [Clairvoyance] for 12 seconds, causing your next Chrona Spender to have no cost. You can have up 3 stacks of [Clairvoyance] at any one time.
[Aura of Deferred Fate] can now hold up to 60% of a player’s maximum health in [Stagger] (was 50%).
[Amend Fate’s] amount of [Stagger] cleanse has been increased by 37.5%, while the healing multiplier has been reduced to 200% (was 275%).
This equates to the same raw healing output, but with a larger portion of [Stagger] being cleansed per cast.
The amount of Mana replenished when cleansing [Stagger] with [Amend Fate] and [Restore Continuity] has been increased by 400%.
[Epoch Break] no longer pauses Aeona’s ability cooldowns as part of its effect.
Fixed an issue causing [Echoes of Ruin] reapplications to reset the tick timer on the damage-over-time effect, causing no ticks to happen while [Echoes of Ruin] was being reapplied repeatedly to the same targets.
[Flash Revision] healing has been increased by 20% and it now applies 30% of the healing as Stagger on the target (was 35%).
[Flash Revision] Mana Cost has been reduced to 67 (was 88).
The Talent [Quickening] now has a 25% chance to trigger (was 20% chance).
The Talent [Resonant Fate] has been redesigned with a new payoff effect. Once you reach 100 stacks, your next [Amend Fate] that removes [Stagger] from a player also grants that player 12% Damage Reduction for 15 seconds.
[Resonant Fate] no longer interacts with Flash Revision, and no longer applies additional healing.
The Talent [Chrona Tap] now stacks up to 10 times (was 5) and the Mana gain has been reduced to 1.3% of your maximum Mana per stack (was 1.5%).
The Talent [Echoes of Divinity] now clears Stagger equal to 10% of the target’s maximum health (was 7.5%) over 4 seconds (was 5 seconds).
The Talent [Oblivion’s Embrace] now has the correct name in damage meters.
The Talent [Oblivion’s Embrace] now creates an absorb for 25% of any overhealing caused (was 50%) up to a maximum absorb of 15% of the target’s maximum health (was 30%).
Damage dealt to [Oblivion’s Embrace’s] shield is now reduced by 50% (was not reduced before).
Fixed an issue with the Talent [Oblivion’s Embrace] causing the absorb limit to not be increased by Expertise.
Sylvie
Sylvie’s [Natural Selection] aura has been reduced to grant 25% maximum health to allies (was 30%).
This reduction is to adjust for the universal increase to all hero health pools due to the Stamina increases on items.
Fixed an issue causing [Fluttercall: Restore Life] reapplications to reset the tick timer on the heal-over-time effect, causing no ticks to happen while [Fluttercall: Restore Life] was being reapplied repeatedly to the same target.
Talent: [Natural Protector] absorb value reduced by 29%.
Damage dealt to [Natural Protector’s] shield is now reduced by 50% (was 30%).
The Legendary [Loop of Unyielding Bloom] now applies absorbs on allies equal to 50% of any overhealing caused by [Heart Bloom] (was 75%) up to a maximum absorb value equal to 1000% of your intellect (was 1602%).
Damage dealt to the absorb created by The Legendary [Loop of Unyielding Bloom] is now reduced by 50% (was 20%).
Fixed an issue with the Legendary [Loop of Unyielding Bloom] causing the absorb limit to not be increased by Expertise.
ITEMIZATION
Set Bonuses
[Dark Prophecy] set bonus is no longer triggered by non combat abilities such as mounting.
[Torment of Bael’Aurum] now increases MainStat by 5% (was 4%) and heals a player who dips below 20% health for 40% of their maximum health (was 35%).
Traits
Heroic Trait [Hunter’s Focus] no longer triggers off of Crowd Control abilities.
Defensive Trait [Latent Resurgence] will now attempt to save your life if the damage brings you below zero health.
Defensive Trait [Latent Resurgence] PPM has been increased to 3.3 (was 2.8) and the PPM now scales with Haste.
Defensive Trait [Heart of Stone] now grants 2.5% / 4.7% / 7% / 9.3% more health from stamina (was 2% / 3.8% / 5.6% / 7.4%).
Defensive Trait [Grounded Spirit] now heals the lowest player for 60% / 116% / 172% / 228% MainStat per stack (was 30% / 58% / 86% / 114%).
Defensive Trait [Divine Mediation] shield now takes 50% reduced damage. (was not reduced before).
Defensive Trait [Divine Mediation] PPM has been increased to 1.0 (was 0.8).
Defensive Trait [Iron Spikes] PPM has been increased to 1.5 (was 1.4).
Defensive Trait [Stalwart Readiness] now stacks to a maximum of 3 stacks on all four ranks. Each rank now instead increases the damage reduction granted as follows 2% / 3% / 4.5% / 6%.
Defensive Trait [Stalwart Readiness] now gains 1 stack every 4 seconds in combat (was every 8 seconds).
Major Trait [Marshall Initiative] now carries over a portion of its duration when refreshed while still active.
Major Trait [Diamond Strike] is no longer triggered by damage or healing events caused by Traits.
Major Trait [Ruby Storm] is now only triggered by offensive, targeted abilities.
Blessings
Fixed an issue with [The Monarch] causing it to also accelerate the duration of effects applied by [Major Abilities]. Now only accelerates the cooldowns, as intended.
[The Philosopher] now carries over a portion of its duration when refreshed while still active.
[The Usurper] damage and healing has been increased by 20%.
Necklace Defensive Attunements
The absorb value granted by [The Dragon] has been reduced for all heroes by 50%.
Damage dealt to [The Dragon’s] shield is now reduced by 50% (was not reduced before).
We have updated icons and names on some of the Necklace Defensive Attunements.
[The Viper] has a new icon.
[The River] has been renamed to [The Tower] and has a new icon.
[The Mountain] has a new icon.
[The Stag] has a new icon.
[The Wolf] has a new icon.
[The Basilisk] has been renamed to [The Shadow] and has a new icon.
[The Boar] has been renamed to [The Beetle] and has a new icon.
[The Dragon] has a new icon.
[The Oak] has a new icon.
[The Done] has a new icon.
[The Lake] has a new icon.
Pinnacle Rare Mount Drops
We have seen fewer than we would like. The drop chance is now 5x higher for all 3 variants.
DUNGEONS
[Face Stabber’s] ability [Throw Knife] was incorrectly set to Magic Damage. Now deals Physical Damage as intended.