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Barbarian

• Active Skills
  • Ancient Spear
    • Now also roots the target in place for 1.5. seconds
    • Will now default to Basic Attack if on cooldown or if the player runs out of Fury
    
    
  • Bash
    • Fury generated increased from 6 to 8
    • Weapon damage increased from 150% to 165%
    • Skill Rune - Onslaught
      • Weapon damage increased from 22% to 25% per reverberation
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Punish
      • Bonus damage per stack increased from 6% to 8%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Instigation
      • Bonus Fury generated reduced from 6 to 4
    
    
  • Cleave
    • Weapon damage increased from 120% to 140%
    • Skill Rune - Reaping Swing
      • Proc coefficient increased from 0.667 to 0.8
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Broad Sweep
      • Weapon damage increased from 156% to 175%
      • Proc coefficient increased from 0.5 to 0.8
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Gathering Storm
      • Proc coefficient increased from 0.5 to 0.8
    
    
  • Hammer of the Ancients
    • Weapon damage increased from 200% to 325%
    • Skill Rune - Rolling Thunder
      • Weapon damage increased from 155% to 275%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Smash
      • Weapon damage increased from 270% to 406%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - The Devil's Anvil
      • Proc coefficient reduced from 1 to 0.08
    
    
  • Leap
    • Can now be used while immobilized by crowd control effects (such as Jailer)
      • Note: Leap will not break CC effects, but that it can still be used while under the effect
    
    
  • Overpower
    • Skill Rune - Crushing Advance
      • Can no longer trigger On Hit procs
      • Amount of damage reflected increased from 30% to 35%
    
    
  • Rend
    • Weapon damage increased from 210% over 3 seconds to 700% over 5 seconds
    • Skill Rune - Lacerate
      • Weapon damage increased from 271% over 3 seconds to 903% over 5 seconds
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Bloodbath
      • Weapon damage increased from 60% over 3 seconds to 100% over 5 seconds
    
    
  • Seismic Slam
    • Weapon damage increased from 155% to 240%
    • Skill Rune - Shattered Ground
      • Weapon damage increased from 202% to 288%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Cracking Rift
      • Weapon damage increased from 255% to 340%
    
    
  • Weapon Throw
    • Weapon damage increased from 100% to 130%
    • Will now default to Basic Attack if the player runs out of Fury
    • Skill Rune - Mighty Throw
      • Weapon damage increased 130% to 169%
    
    
  • Whirlwind
    • Weapon damage increased from 110% to 145%
    • Skill Rune - Volcanic Eruption
      • Weapon damage increased from 143% to 188%

Demon Hunter

• Active Skills
  • Bola Shot
    • Weapon damage to the primary target increased from 130% to 160%
    • Skill Rune - Thunder Ball
      • Weapon damage increased from 130% to 160%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Acid Strike
      • Weapon damage of each bola increased from 130% to 160%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Imminent Doom
      • Weapon damage to the primary target increased from 182% to 216%
    
    
  • Caltrops
    • Skill Rune - Jagged Spikes
      • Can no longer trigger procs
    
    
  • Chakram
    • Weapon damage increased from 150% to 170%
    • Skill Rune - Twin Chakrams
      • Weapon damage increased from 100% to 114%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Serpentine
      • Weapon damage increased from 203% to 230%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Razor Disk
      • Weapon damage increased from 165% to 187%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Boomerang
      • Weapon damage increased from 188% to 230%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Shuriken Cloud
      • Weapon damage increased from 30% to 34%
      • Proc coefficient reduced from 0.333 to 0.125
    
    
  • Cluster Arrow
    • Initial bomb weapon damage increased from 200% to 225%
    • Skill Rune - Maelstrom
      • Weapon damage increased from 145% to 165%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Loaded for Bear
      • Weapon damage increased from 290% to 304%
    
    
  • Entangling Shot
    • Weapon damage of base skill and all rune variants increased from 75% to 90%
    • Skill Rune - Shock Collar
      • Now deals an additional 70% weapon damage over 2 seconds
      • Weapon damage % is no longer based on attack speed
    
    
  • Evasive Fire
    • Weapon damage increased from 125% to 130%
    • Skill Rune - Covering Fire
      • Weapon damage increased from 125% to 130% weapon
    
    
  • Grenades
    • Skill Rune - Gas Grenades
      • Proc coefficient reduced from 0.5 to 0.165
    
    
  • Impale
    • Weapon damage increased from 250% to 265%
    • Skill Rune - Chemical Burn
      • Weapon damage increased from 125% to 220%
    
    
  • Multishot
    • Hatred cost lowered from 40 to 30
    • Skill Rune - Fire at Will
      • Now reduces Hatred cost to 15
    
    
  • Rain of Vengeance
    • Changed from 75% weapon damage for 5 seconds to 715% weapon damage over 5 seconds
    • Skill Rune - Dark Cloud
      • Changed from 34% weapon damage for 12 seconds to 792% weapon damage over 12 seconds
      • Can now find targets in a larger radius around the player
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Beastly Bombs
      • Weapon damage increased from 125% to 245% per bomb
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Stampede
      • Weapon damage increased from 75% to 120% per strike
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Anathema
      • Changed from 115% weapon damage for 10 seconds to 3300% weapon damage over 15 seconds
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Flying Strike
      • Weapon damage increased from 60% to 100%
    
    
  • Rapid Fire
    • Weapon damage increased from 228% to 276%
    • Skill Rune - Bombardment
      • Weapon damage increased from 276% to 345%
    
    
  • Sentry
    • Turret weapon damage increased from 20% to 55%
    • Skill Rune - Chain of Torment
      • Maximum tether length increased to 45 yards
      • Weapon damage increased from 48% to 80%
    
    
  • Smoke Screen
    • Skill Rune - Choking Gas
      • Now does 700% weapon damage over 5 seconds
      • Weapon damage % is no longer based on attack speed
    
    
  • Strafe
    • Weapon damage increased from 120% to 156%
    • Skill Rune - Demolition
      • Weapon damage increased from 144% to 187%
    
    
  • Vault
    • Skill Rune - Action Shot
      • Will now always shoot 4 arrows
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Trail of Cinders
      • Now leaves a trail of fire behind the player dealing 1500% weapon damage over 3 seconds
  
  
• Passive Skills
  • Brooding
    • No longer requires player to not be damaged for 3 seconds to regenerate 1% of maximum Life per second
  
  
• Bug Fixes
  • Rain of Vengeance
    • Skill Rune - Anathema
      • Shadow Beast should now drop the appropriate amount of grenades

Monk

• Active Skills
  • Crippling Wave
    • Spirit generated increased from 6 to 7
    
    
  • Cyclone Strike
    • Proc coefficient increased from 0 to 0.125
    
    
  • Dashing Strike
    • Weapon damage increased from 100% to 160%
    
    
  • Exploding Palm
    • Changed from 220% weapon damage over 3 seconds to 745% weapon damage over 9 seconds
    • Skill Rune - Impending Doom
      • Duration increased from 6 seconds to 15 seconds.
    
    
  • Lashing Tail Kick
    • Weapon damage increased from 200% to 235% (this also benefits Sweeping Armada, Scorpion Sting, and Hand of Ytar)
    • Skill Rune - Vulture Claw Kick
      • Weapon damage increased from 220% to 258%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Spinning Flame Kick
      • Weapon damage increased 240% to 294%
    
    
  • Mystic Ally
    • Can no longer trigger procs
    
    
  • Seven-Sided Strike
    • Weapon damage increased from 777% to 1777% over 7 hits
    • Skill Rune - Sudden Assault
      • Weapon damage increased from 1007%to 2309% over 7 hits
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Several-Sided Strike
      • The 2 extra hits now also increase the total duration of the spell (which increases the amount of time that you are invulnerable)
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Fulminating Onslaught
      • Weapon damage of each explosion increased from 111% to 254%
    
    
  • Sweeping Wind
    • Skill Rune - Master of Wind
      • Increased the duration of the vortex from 10 to 20 seconds
    
    
  • Tempest Rush
    • Weapon damage increased from 50% to 85%
    
    
  • Wave of Light
    • Weapon damage of initial strike increased from 215% to 390%
    • Skill Rune - Wall of Light
      • Weapon damage bonus to initial strike increased from 312% to 566%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Explosive Light
      • Weapon damage increased from 285% to 430%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Pillar of the Ancients
      • Weapon damage on both the initial strike and delayed explosion increased from 210% to 280%
    
    
  • Way of the Hundred Fists
    • Spirit generated increased from 6 to 8
    • Skill Rune - Fists of Fury
      • Now does 100% weapon damage over 5 seconds
  
  
• Passive Skills
  • Exalted Soul
    • Now also generates 1 Spirit per second
    
    
  • Fleet Footed
    • Movement speed bonus no longer counts toward the 25% movement speed increase cap
    
    
  • The Guardian's Path
    • Two-handed weapon Spirit generation bonus increased from 25% to 35%
  
  
• Bug Fixes
  • Exploding Palm
    • Fixed a bug that allowed players to gain multiple rare item drops from a single Champion or Rare pack by killing all remaining monsters in the pack at the same time using Exploding Palm
    
    
  • Mystic Ally
    • All Mystic Ally variants are now summoned with full health
    
    
  • Wave of Light
    • Fixed an issue that was causing enemies affected by Wave of Light to not always receive the full damage

Witch Doctor

• General
  • Base Mana regeneration increased from 20 per second to 45 per second
  • The spellcasting animations for the following skills have been modified to allow the effect to occur quicker and for the player to move sooner after casting: Acid Cloud, Corpse Spiders, Firebomb, Locust Swarm, Poison Dart, and Zombie Charger
  
  
• Active Skills
  • Acid Cloud
    • Range increased from 45 yards to 50 yards
    • Now deals 115% weapon damage plus 150% weapon damage over 3 seconds (up from 100% weapon damage followed by 75% weapon damage over 3 seconds); also benefits Acid Rain
    • Skill Rune - Lob Blob Bomb
      • Now increases base damage of Acid Cloud to 115% weapon damage
      • Slime weapon damage increased from 25% to 50% per second
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Slow Burn
      • Now increases base damage of Acid Cloud to 115% weapon damage, and deals and additional 300% weapon damage over 6 seconds
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Kiss of Death
      • Cloud of acid weapon damage increased from 110% to 126%
      • Weapon damage done to enemies who remain in the affected area increased from 83% to 165%, and damage is now dealt over 3 seconds
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Corpse Bomb
      • Weapon damage increased from 200% to 230%
      • When casting Acid Cloud, your witch doctor will no longer attempt to walk closer to targets that are out of range
    
    
  • Corpse Spiders
    • Will now inherit +Critical Damage bonuses from the player
    • Can now proc Life on Hit for the player
    • Are aware of enemies from further away
    • Have increased speed when pursuing enemies
    • Skill Rune - Spider Queen
      • Changed from 16% weapon damage per second for 15 seconds to 630% weapon damage over 15 seconds
      • Tooltip has been updated to clarify that you may only have one Spider Queen active at a time
    
    
  • Firebats
    • Weapon damage increased from 150% to 180%
    • Skill Rune - Plague Bats
      • Maximum weapon damage increased from 225% to 270%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Hungry Bats
      • Weapon damage increased from 280% to 350%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Cloud of Bats
      • The damage of the bats will now increase by 20% (up from 10%) every second, up to a maximum of 100% additional damage (up from 50%)
    
    
  • Firebomb
    • Weapon damage increased from 85% to 110% (this benefits all runes except Pyrogeist)
    • Skill Rune - Fire Pit
      • Changed from 8% weapon damage for 3 seconds to 36% weapon damage over 3 seconds
      • Proc coefficient reduced from 0.67 to 0.067
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Pyrogeist
      • Changed from 140% weapon damage over 3 seconds to 640% weapon damage over 6 seconds
      • Tooltip has been updated to clarify that only one column of flame can be active at a time
    
    
  • Gargantuan
    • Gargantuan survivability has been increased:
      • Maximum Life now scales with the player's Maximum Life
        • At level 60, the Gargantuan will receive an additional 50% of the player’s Maximum Life
        
        
      • The amount of damage a Gargantuan can take from a single hit is now capped. The cap scales with the player's level, and is further reduced by the player’s Armor and Resistance.
      
      
    • Weapon damage increased from 25% to 100%, but can no longer trigger procs
    • Skill Rune - Humongoid
      • Weapon damage increased from 32% to 130%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Wrathful Protector
      • Weapon damage increased from 55% to 110%
      
      
    • Skill Rune – Bruiser
      • Weapon damage increased from 100% to 200%
    
    
  • Grasp of the Dead
    • Now does 320% weapon damage over 8 seconds
    • Skill Rune - Death is Life
      • Now has a 10% chance to produce health globe or summon a Zombie Dog
    
    
  • Horrify
    • Cooldown reduced from 20 seconds to 16 seconds
    
    
  • Plague of Toads
    • Mana cost reduced from 34 to 12
    
    
  • Poison Dart
    • Skill Rune - Spined Dart
      • Mana return on hit increased from 24 to 29
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Flaming Dart
      • Weapon damage increased from 160% to 180%
    
    
  • Spirit Barrage
    • Weapon damage increased from 190% to 230%
    • Skill Rune - Well of Souls
      • Weapon damage increased from 30% to 65% for each of the bonus projectiles
      
      
    • Skill Rune – Manitou
      
      
      • Changed from 28% weapon damage every second for 20 seconds (for a total of 560% weapon damage) to 1667% weapon damage over 20 seconds
      • Search radius for targets has been increased from 20 yards to 30 yards
      • Proc coefficient reduced from 0.5 to 0.125
      • No longer shows a buff icon
    
    
  • Spirit Walk
    • Skill Rune - Umbral Shock
      • Weapon damage of explosion increased from 85% to 310% but is no longer increased by attack speed
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Severance
      • Changed from 100% weapon damage per second to 450% weapon damage over 2 seconds
    
    
  • Soul Harvest
    • Skill Rune - Languish
      • Movement speed reduction increased from 60% to 80%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Vengeful Spirit
      • Weapon damage increased from 70% to 230%
    
    
  • Summon Zombie Dogs
    • Zombie Dog survivability has been increased:
      • Now also receive 35% of the player's Maximum Life
      • The amount of damage a Zombie Dog can take from a single hit is now capped. The cap scales with the player’s level, and is further reduced by the player’s Armor and Resistance.
      
      
    • Cooldown reduced from 60 seconds to 45 seconds
    • Skill Rune - Rabid Dogs
      • Proc coefficient has been reduced from 1.0 to 0.10
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Burning Dogs
      • Proc coefficient has been reduced from 1.0 to 0.05
    
    
  • Wall of Zombies
    • Now does 800% weapon damage over 5 seconds
    
    
  • Zombie Charger
    
    
    • Skill Rune - Leprous Zombie
      • Changed from 25% weapon damage for 3 seconds to 240% weapon damage over 3 seconds
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Wave of Zombies
      • Weapon damage increased from 72% to 115% per zombie
  
  
• Passive Skills
  • Circle of Life
    • Chance to summon a Zombie Dog when an enemy dies increased from 5% to 30%
    
    
  • Grave Injustice
    • Mana and Life gain increased from 1% to 2% of their maximum values whenever a nearby enemy dies
    
    
  • Rush of Essence
    • Now returns a flat amount of Mana over 10 seconds (49 Mana at level 60)
    
    
  • Spirit Vessel
    • Spirit realm duration reduced from 3 seconds to 2 seconds
    • Heal increased from 10% to 15% of player’s maximum Life
    • While in the spirit realm, players can now walk through enemy monsters
    
    
  • Vision Quest
    • Vision Quest has been redesigned and now grants 30% increased Mana regeneration for 5 seconds after doing damage with Corpse Spiders, Firebomb, Plague of Toads, or Poison Dart
    
    
  • Tribal Rites
    • Now also benefits Gargantuan, Mass Confusion, and Summon Zombie Dogs
  
  
• Bug Fixes
  • Corpse Spiders
    • Skill Rune - Leaping Spiders
      • Spiders will now always leap to their target as soon as it’s in range

Wizard

• Active Skills
  • Arcane Torrent
    • Arcane Power cost reduced from 20 to 16
    • Weapon damage increased from 175% to 210%
    • Skill Rune - Death Blossom
      • Projectiles are now less random
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Arcane Mines
      • Weapon damage increased from 150% to 180%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Cascade
      • Weapon damage increased from 175% to 210%
    
    
  • Archon
    • Slow Time duration increased from 8 seconds to 15 seconds
    • Skill Rune - Arcane Destruction
      • Weapon damage increased from 450% to 1600%
    
    
  • Diamond Skin
    • Skill Rune - Mirror Skin
      • Amount of damage reflection increased from 50% to 100%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Enduring Skin
      • Duration bonus increased from 8 seconds to 9 seconds
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Diamond Shards
      • Weapon damage increased from 155% to 210%
    
    
  • Electrocute
    • Weapon damage increased from 80% to 90%  (this also benefits Chain Lightning, Forked Lightning, and Surge of Power)
    • Skill Rune - Forked Lightning
      • Weapon damage increased from 46% to 55% per charged bolt
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Lightning Blast
      • Weapon damage increased from 80% to 86%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Arc Lightning
      • Weapon damage increased from 80% to 115%
    
    
  • Energy Twister
    • Proc coefficient reduced from 0.25 to 0.125
    
    
  • Explosive Blast
    • Skill Rune - Time Bomb
      • Weapon damage increased from 293% to 315%
    
    
  • Hydra
    • Skill Rune - Arcane Hydra
      • Weapon damage increased from 28% to 60% per Arcane Orb
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Lightning Hydra
      • Weapon damage increased from 34% to 64%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Frost Hydra
      • Weapon damage increase from 31% to 36%
      • Cone width changed from 15 yards with a 60 degree spread to 35 yards with a 30 degree spread
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Mammoth Hydra
      • Weapon damage increased from 22% to 67%
    
    
  • Ice Armor
    • Increased the likelihood that attackers will be Frozen rather than Chilled
    • Skill Rune - Crystallize
      • Armor bonus per stack increased from 15% to 30%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Jagged Ice
      • Weapon damage as Cold increased from 100% to 130%
    
    
  • Meteor
    • Weapon damage increased from 200% + 60% over 3 seconds to 260% + 60% over 3 seconds
    • Skill Rune - Molten Impact
      • Weapon damage increased from 260% +78% over 3 seconds to 390% + 90% over 3 seconds
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Meteor Shower
      • Weapon damage increased from 80% to 104%  for each smaller Meteor
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Comet
      • Weapon damage of initial hit increased from 240% to 312%
    
    
  • Shock Pulse
    • Skill Rune - Fire Bolts
      • Weapon damage increased from 136% to 152%
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Lightning Affinity
      • Arcane Power restored per pulse increased from 2 to 3
    
    
  • Spectral Blade
    • Skill Rune - Impactful Blades
      • Now guarantees to Slow the movement speed of enemies by 80% for 1 second (rather than a 5% chance to cause Knockback and Slow the moment speed of enemies by 60% for 1 second)
      
      
    • Skill Rune - Siphoning Blades
      
      
      • Arcane Power restored per hit increased from 1 to 3
    
    
  • Teleport
    • Skill Rune - Calamity
      • Weapon damage increased from 75% to 265%
  
  
• Bug Fixes
  • Cold Blooded
    • Tooltip has been updated to clarify that all damage is increased by 20% to Frozen or Chilled targets, not just Cold damage (functionality of the skill has not changed)