Increase the damage of Blessed Hammer to 640% weapon damage as Holy and increase its area of effect by 20 yards.

Note: Bloodshed caused performance issues when encountering high enemy density, particularly when combined with Whirlwind, Pain Enhancer, and Gem of Efficacious Toxin.

Deal damage equal to 20% of your recent Critical Hits to enemies within 20 yards every 1 second.

You can read the patch notes below for further details, or head on to the PTR now if you’re interested in testing them out. Several class sets are also getting significant damage buffs, likely to bring them in line with legendaries. Legendaries and set items are having their drop rates increased, which I view as a positive since I’ve been farming for the Immortal King’s Boulder Breaker forever and still haven’t gotten an Ancient one. Pretty much every item listed increases damage in some fashion, buffing abilities or otherwise strengthing damage output.

The item changes are oriented around flat out damage buffs, by and large.

Some of the changes to Necromancers also seem oriented around game performance issues, although some are also bug fixes. That’s not really surprising - it is the newest class and while it was tested before launch, there are always issues that are discovered once many more players start playing a class. After all, patch 2.6.0 and patch 2.6.0a haven’t been live long, and 2.6.1 is a pretty large patch with changes to classes, drop rates, and legendary items, which will affect various classes and their damaging abilities.įirst up we see changes to Barbarian and Crusader abilities that seem aimed at helping with game performance more than anything else, but a good deal of changes to the Necromancer. If you’ve been playing a lot of Diablo 3 lately - maybe you’re leveling a Necromancer, or maybe you just like Season play like I do - then today’s announcement that the patch 2.6.1 PTR is live will possibly come as a surprise.

Diablo 3 crusader condemn 2.6.1