Heroes!
We know it hasn't been long since you last heard from us, but we have so many new cool things that we just couldn't wait. Hope you're ready.
The Twilight Paragon
- [New Legendary Enchant]: Twilight Paragon - Dealing damage with Smite and Holy Fire grants you Paragon of Light, increasing your critical strike chance by 1%, stacking up to 10 times. But darkness lurks within…
Casting Exorcism reveals your true form, consuming the stacks to inflict massive Twilight damage and making you a Paragon of Darkness for one second per stack consumed. While active your Mind Flay is empowered and deals additional Twilight damage.
Twilight damage is a combination of the Shadow and Holy schools, and will benefit from the highest modifier to either school.
Even in the most Holy of souls, a Darkness can grow. This Legendary enchant unleashes that duality and lets you combine Shadow and Holy magic to subdue your enemies.
The Swift Justice mystic enchant has also had a rework to make it fit better into builds that combine Holy damage spells with other types of magic:
- Swift Justice has been reworked. The tooltip now reads: When Surge of Light triggers from a non-Holy spell, it no longer prevents critically hitting with Smite or Flash Heal. Consuming Surge of Light grants you 1% spell haste for 12 seconds, stacking up to 5 times.
Holy Warriors
- [New Capstone]: Improved Judgements - With the final rank of this talent, Smite and Holy Fire can trigger your active seal for 15 seconds after using Judgement.
- [New Capstone]: Swift Retribution - With the final rank of this talent, each stack of Swift Retribution also increases the damage of your Holy Fire and Smite by 5% of your attack power.
- The buff granted by Swift Retribution now increases the casters' spell haste in addition to melee haste and now stacks to 3 times, from 2.
- Sanctity of Battle no longer increases the number of ticks of your Consecration, but instead makes your next Holy Fire deal 20% less damage but be a guaranteed critical strike.
These changes will bridge the gap between Holy caster and Holy melee builds, making it easier for you to build your character in a way that matches your fantasy and suits your playstyle.
If you instead want to play a Holy melee that doesn’t rely on using spells? Well, then take a look at this:
- Consecrated Strikes has been buffed. The new tooltip reads as follows:
"Your Crusader Strike, Divine Storm and Hammer of the Righteous abilities have a chance to consecrate the ground beneath your feet. Consecrated Ground deals Holy damage every second to your enemies, increases the Strength of your allies by 5% and increases your Strength by 10% and your spell damage by 30% of your Strength.
Consecrated Ground will also imbue your weapon with pure light, giving your melee abilities a chance to deal additional physical damage. This damage can trigger your Seal of Command. Does not stack with other temporary weapon enchants."
New toys for melee builds
- [New Epic Enchant]: Weapon Command - Increases your melee attack speed by 10% and expertise by 10 when wielding a single Two-Handed weapon.
- [New Epic Enchant]: Wild Aggression - Your Mongoose Bite restores 20 energy. If this puts you at full energy, the damage of your next Rogue ability is increased by 20% (or 10% if the target is a player).
- [New Epic Enchant]: Deadly Combo - Your finishers have a 20% chance per combo point to trigger your Sudden Death talent. This ignores the Sudden Death cooldown, but requires the final rank of Sudden Death.
- [New Capstone]: Static Shock - With the final rank of this talent, your Stormstrike adds 3 charges to your Lightning Shield.
- Fury of the Titans has been buffed. The damage of Titanic Strike per combo point is increased from 60/80/100/120/140% to 60/90/120/150/180%. In addition, the Titanic Fury also makes your auto-attacks generate Combo Points.
THe Locust Ranger
- [New Legendary Enchant]: Locust Ranger - Teaches you Locust Shot if you know Steady Shot. Locust Shot deals Nature damage based on your ranged weapon damage, scales with Steady Shot modifiers and is increased by your spell damage. This ability is castable while moving. When it deals non-critical damage it triggers Wild Quiver (requires rank 3 of the Wild Quiver talent). When it deals critical damage, it reduces the cooldown of your Chimera shot by 2 seconds.
- [New Capstone]: Combat Experience - With the final rank of this talent, you gain 10% of your Agility as Spell Hit Rating.
- Versatile Power now makes your Expose Weakness grant 66% as much Spell Damage as it gives attack power, up from 33%.
- Wild Wrath has been adjusted: Dealing damage with Wild Quiver makes your next Wrath cast instant and gives it a 10% ranged attack power scaling, stacking up to 3 times. Casting Wrath refreshes the duration of your Insect Swarm and consumes all stacks.
More is still to come
The full changelog will be posted, patches uploaded and servers restarted shortly. Until then, here are a handful more new things to get excited about!
- [New Legendary Enchant]: Consumed by Fire - Your Soul Fire can trigger Hot Streak. When your Pyroblast deals damage it refreshes the duration of your Corruption and Decimation now also increases the damage of your Pyroblast by 50% against monsters. In addition, your Immolate now triggers Backdraft.
- [New Capstone]: Focused Rage - With the final rank of this talent, you gain 5 rage every time the target of your Vigilance takes damage. This effect can only occur once every second.
- [New Epic Enchant]: Graceful Prayer - Your Prayer of Healing trigger the Grace effect and has a 20% increased chance to critically heal but has an 8 second cooldown.
As an added bonus, all Legendary and Epic enchants will be exchangeable for the rest of the month.
We hope you are as excited for these changes as we are.
We. Can't. Wait.
