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<p>Here come more community tools to help us gauge the gains from the new toy! Abattoir of Zir brought with it the new Tears of Blood Glyph which multiplicatively increases all player damage. </p>



<p>However, the number, like most Paragon Glyphs, is based on how many core stats you have around it, so it might be a little tricky to predict the increases. And considering entering the Abattoir has proven to be quite challenging for some, it&#8217;s good to know what exactly you&#8217;re pushing for. Luckily, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/nockeeee/">nockeeee</a> put together <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H5trXhsNRhndihLtdkHcElIOyh0bdT8pTwvwi-Vs6-4/edit#gid=0">a spreadsheet with all 200 potential upgrades</a> and how the effect your stats. All you have to do is create your own copy (in the File menu in the top right), enter your nodes and you&#8217;ll see the increases! </p>



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<p><br>Just how much time getting to those higher ranks will take has also been a bit of a sore topic in the community. However, Blizzard will be posting some changes to the Abattoir today or tomorrow, so we&#8217;ll have to see what those are before judging anything. </p>



<p>You can check out our <a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/guides/abattoir-of-zir-guide/">Abattoir of Zir overview here</a>, and our <a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/news/best-builds-of-abbatoir-of-zir-in-diablo-4-season-2/">class guides with all the best builds for it here</a>. </p>


Abattoir of Zir Tears of Blood Glyph Damage Increase Calculator


<p>It&#8217;s time to check out everything new and everything that&#8217;s changing for Barbarians in the upcoming PTR patch! We have a new Unique and Aspect, as well as a whole lot of tuning going on. Earthquake builds seem to be the focus of the season, with the new Unique detonating them via HotA, so get ready for some rumbling and exploding! </p>



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        <h2>New Unique Items, Aspects and Tempering Recipes</h2>
<p>Mantle of Mountain’s Fury – Unique Chest Armor</p>
<ul>
<li>Affixes
<ul>
<li>Inherent: 50% Hammer of the Ancients damage for 5 seconds after an Earthquake explodes</li>
<li>200-350 Armor</li>
<li>3-5 Ranks to Hammer of the Ancients</li>
<li>2-3 Skill Ranks of Defensive Stance</li>
<li>13.5-22.5% Chance for Earthquake to Deal Double Damage</li>
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<li>Power
<ul>
<li>Hammer of the Ancients also forms a seismic line that deals its damage and Slows enemies hit by 60-80% for 4 seconds. Any Earthquakes it passes through explode for their total damage and are consumed.</li>
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<p>Aspect of Incendiary Fissures – Offensive</p>
<ul>
<li>Your Earthquakes deal 35-50% increased damage and their damage is converted into Fire.</li>
</ul>
<p>Vehement Augments – New Weapon Tempering Recipe</p>
<ul>
<li>+Ranks of Warpath</li>
<li>+Ranks of Belligerence</li>
<li>+Ranks of Heavy Hitter</li>
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<h2>Tuning</h2>
<h2><b>Skills</b></h2>
<p>Hammer of the Ancients</p>
<ul>
<li>Damage increased from 70% to 80%.</li>
<li>Hammer of the Ancients can now strike ground areas without enemies, but will approach when a target is hovered.</li>
</ul>
<p>Furious Hammer of the Ancients</p>
<ul>
<li>Previous: Hammer of the Ancients gain 2% Critical Strike Chance for every 10 Fury you had when cast. Its Critical Strikes Knockdown enemies for 2 seconds.</li>
<li>Now: Hammer of the Ancients gain 3% Critical Strike Damage and Critical Strike Chance for every 10 Fury you had when cast. Its Critical Strikes Knockdown enemies for 2 seconds.</li>
</ul>
<p>Mighty Throw</p>
<ul>
<li>Impact damage increased from 80% to 105%.</li>
<li>Pulse damage increased from 35% to 50%.</li>
</ul>
<p>Kick</p>
<ul>
<li>Skill Ranks now increase Kick’s damage.</li>
</ul>
<p>Mighty Kick</p>
<ul>
<li>Knockdown duration increased from 2 to 4 seconds.</li>
</ul>
<p>Wrath of the Berserker</p>
<ul>
<li>Rank 5: Wrath of the Berserker Pulls in enemies instead of Knocking Back and deals 200% damage to them.</li>
</ul>
<p>Call of the Ancients</p>
<ul>
<li>Now has the Summoning tag.</li>
<li>New Rank 5 Bonus: While Call of the Ancients is active, gain 40% Movement Speed and 20% Distant Damage Reduction.</li>
</ul>
<p>Prime Call of the Ancients</p>
<ul>
<li>Damage bonus increased from 25% to 30%.</li>
</ul>
<p>Iron Maelstrom</p>
<ul>
<li>Two-Hand Bludgeoning Slam damage increased from 60% to 75%.</li>
<li>Duel Wield Swing damage increased from 33% to 43%.</li>
<li>New Rank 5 Bonus: Iron Maelstrom damage is increased by 80% of your Damage to Injured and Healthy bonuses.</li>
</ul>
<p>The following Skills Tree upgrades which directly deal damage will now scale up their damage with increased Skill Ranks of the base Skill.</p>
<ul>
<li>Enhanced Charge</li>
<li>Mighty Kick</li>
<li>Power Kick</li>
<li>Battle Lunging Strike</li>
<li>Enhanced Rupture</li>
</ul>
<h2><b>Passives</b></h2>
<p>Heavy Hitter</p>
<ul>
<li>Previous: Your Ultimate Skills deal 15% more damage.</li>
<li>Now: Your Ultimate Skills, Earthquakes, and Dust Devils deal 15% more damage.</li>
</ul>
<p>Defensive Stance</p>
<ul>
<li>Previous: Increase the Damage Reduction gained while you are Fortified by an additional 2%.</li>
<li>Now: While Fortified, you gain an additional 2% Damage Reduction and Heal 0.5% Maximum Life every second.</li>
</ul>
<p>Slaying Strike</p>
<ul>
<li>Previous: You deal 5% increased damage against Injured enemies.</li>
<li>Now: You deal 5% increased damage to Injured and Healthy enemies.</li>
</ul>
<p>Unbridled Rage</p>
<ul>
<li>Previous: Your Core Skills deal 45% increased damage but cost 100% more Fury.</li>
<li>Now: Your Core Skills deal 45% increased damage but cost 100% more Fury. The damage is doubled against Injured enemies.</li>
</ul>
<p>Walkling Arsenal</p>
<ul>
<li>Previous: Dealing direct damage with Two-Handed Bludgeoning, Two-Handed Slashing, or Dual-Wielded weapons grants 8% increased damage for 10 seconds. While all three damage bonuses are active, you gain an additional 10% increased damage and Attack Speed.</li>
<li>Now: Dealing direct damage with Two-Handed Bludgeoning, Two-Handed Slashing, or Dual-Wielded weapons grants 15% increased damage for 10 seconds. While all three bonuses are active, gain 20% Crowd Control Duration and Attack Speed.</li>
</ul>
<h2><b>Legendary Aspects</b></h2>
<p>Executioner’s</p>
<ul>
<li>Previous: Killing an enemy with an Overpower leaves behind an Earthquake at their location, dealing Physical damage over 4 seconds. Can only occur once every 4 seconds.</li>
<li>Now: Your Overpowers will spawn an Earthquake every 4 seconds that deals Physical damage over 4 seconds. Your Earthquake damage is increased by 25% for every 100 Strength you have.</li>
</ul>
<p>Of Earthquakes</p>
<ul>
<li>Previous: Ground Stomp creates an Earthquake damaging enemies for Physical damage over 4 seconds. While standing in Earthquakes, you deal 10-25% increased damage.</li>
<li>Now: Ground Stomp creates an Earthquake that deals Physical damage over 4 seconds. While standing in Earthquakes and for 4 seconds afterwards, you deal 10-25% increased damage. Your Earthquakes deal 10-25% increased damage.</li>
</ul>
<p>Of Bul-Kathos</p>
<ul>
<li>Previous: Leap creates an Earthquake that deals Physical damage over 4 seconds. While standing in Earthquakes, you gain 10-25% increased Damage Reduction.</li>
<li>Now: Leap creates an Earthquake that deals Physical damage over 4 seconds. While standing in Earthquakes and for 4 seconds afterwards, you gain 10-25% increased Damage Reduction. Your Earthquakes deal 10-25% increased damage.</li>
</ul>
<p>Of Ancestral Echoes</p>
<ul>
<li>Now gives a 20-40% Summoning Skill damage bonus.</li>
</ul>
<p>Of Ancestral Charge</p>
<ul>
<li>Now gives a 20-40% Summoning Skill damage bonus.</li>
</ul>
<p>Of Encroaching Wrath</p>
<ul>
<li>Previous: After spending 100 Fury, your next Weapon Mastery Skill within 5 seconds deals 40-70% increased damage.</li>
<li>Now: After spending 100 Fury, your next Weapon Mastery or Brawling Skill within 8 seconds deals 50-80% increased damage.</li>
</ul>
<p>Of Herculean Spectacle</p>
<ul>
<li>Mighty Throw damage increased from 15-35% to 25-45%.</li>
</ul>
<h2><b>Unique Items</b></h2>
<p>Twin Strikes</p>
<ul>
<li>Previous: After casting Double Swing 4 times, your next Double Swing will hit 2 additional times, each dealing 50-80% increased damage.</li>
<li>Now: After casting Double Swing 4 times, your next Double Swing will hit 2 additional times, each dealing 50-80% increased damage and Stunning for 1 second.</li>
</ul>
<p>Unbroken Chain</p>
<ul>
<li>1-2 Skill Ranks of Pit Fighter swapped to 2-3 Skill Ranks of Slaying Strike.</li>
<li>Enemy Damage Reduction increased from 10-30% to 20-40%.</li>
</ul>
<p>Ugly Bastard Helm</p>
<ul>
<li>Fire damage bonus increased from 60-80% to 80-100%.</li>
<li>Inherent Fire Resistance increased from 50% to 100%.</li>
</ul>
<h2><b>Paragon</b></h2>
<p>Bone Breaker – Legendary Node</p>
<ul>
<li>Previous: Every 12 seconds, your next Skill is guaranteed to Overpower.</li>
<li>Now: Every 12 seconds, your next Skill is guaranteed to Overpower. Whenever you Overpower, your Ultimate Skills deal 10% increased damage for 10 seconds, up to 80%.</li>
</ul>
<p>Weapons Master – Legendary Node</p>
<ul>
<li>Previous: Swapping weapons grants you 8% of your Maximum Fury.</li>
<li>Now: Swapping weapons grants you 8% of your Maximum Fury. You deal 30% increased damage to Injured and Healthy enemies.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Summons and Minions Update</h2>
<p>All skills that summon entities, such as Necromancer Minions, Druid Companions, Sorcerer Conjurations, are now all tagged as Summon skills for consistency across classes.</p>
<ul>
<li>Added the Summoning Skill Tag to Druid Companion Skills, Sorcerer Conjuration Skills, Rogue Shadow Clone, <strong>Barbarian Call of the Ancients</strong>, in addition to Necromancer Raise Skeleton, Golem, and Army of the Dead.</li>
<li>Units created by these Skills are now collectively referred to as Summons.</li>
<li>All damage from Summons is attributed to the player’s character, rather than the Summoned unit.</li>
<li>Updated wording on various effects to use the new Summons terminology where appropriate. Many effects still interact only with the class specific version of these Summons.</li>
<li>Updated wording on various effects to remove “You and your Summons” where it is now redundant to specifically call out your Summons.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote><p><strong>Developer’s Note: </strong><em>Summoning Skills have behaved inconsistently across the Classes, making it hard to know how to scale their damage or what effects would interact with your Summons. This update aims to standardize their interactions across the board by attributing the damage they deal to the player, rather than the Summoned unit. This means that damage from your Summons will be able to trigger all of your Lucky Hit effects, and interact with all of your damage modifiers, multipliers, and triggers. Note that effects such as Ring of Mendeln still properly increase their damage output based on the damage bonuses you have for the specific Minion type that triggered the effect. Additionally, specific changes for Necromancer have been implemented to reflect these changes, which can be seen above in the relevant section.</em></p></blockquote>
<h2><strong>Bug Fixes</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li>Fixed an issue where Barbarian’s Mighty Throw could snapshot bonuses from the initial instance to the rest of the explosions.</li>
<li>Fixed an issue where Earthquakes were not properly consumed by the Seismic Line spawned by Hammer of the Ancients when using Mantle of the Mountain’s Fury.</li>
<li>Fixed an issue where the description for Power Kick did not mention that the upgrade made Kick a Core Skill.</li>
<li>Fixed an issue where Tactical Iron Skin would Heal for more than intended.</li>
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It’s Quake Time! All Barbarian Changes in PTR Patch 2.1/Season 7


<p>The patch 2.1/Season 7 PTR brings many changes to all classes, with the Spiritborn probably getting the most. With nerfs to over-performing builds, buffs to others, many Unique item changes and more, there&#8217;s plenty to see in the upcoming testing period. </p>



<p>Razor Wings and Stinger get some base skill buffs, and all Ultimate skills get a major buff at rank 5. The Centipede Spirit Hall also gets some improvements, as do many Aspects and Uniques, so let&#8217;s dive in. </p>



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<p><b>Skills</b></p>
<p>Enhanced Thunderspike</p>
<ul>
<li>Vigor generated increased from 5 to 7.</li>
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<p>Accelerated Thunderspike</p>
<ul>
<li>Vulnerable duration increased from 2 to 3 seconds.</li>
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<p>Sharp Thrash</p>
<ul>
<li>Ferocity gain increased from 1 to 2.</li>
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<p>Stinger</p>
<ul>
<li>Damage increased from 70% to 77%.</li>
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<p>Enhanced Stinger</p>
<ul>
<li>Damage increased from 50% to 60% of its Base damage.</li>
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<p>Concussive Stomp</p>
<ul>
<li>Damage increased from 40% to 50%.</li>
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<p>Enhanced Concussive Stomp</p>
<ul>
<li>Maximum Barrier increased from 30% to 40% of your Maximum Life.</li>
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<p>Invasive Payback</p>
<ul>
<li>Cooldown reduced from 15 to 8 seconds.</li>
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<p>Touch of Death</p>
<ul>
<li>Touch of Death’s swarm now ignores Invulnerable enemies.</li>
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<p>Razor Wings</p>
<ul>
<li>Maximum active Razor Wings increased from 12 to 15.</li>
</ul>
<p>Endurance</p>
<ul>
<li>Vigor generated increased from 5/10/15 to 10/20/30.</li>
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<p>Velocity</p>
<ul>
<li>Previous: If you’ve dealt damage within the last 5 seconds and are moving, you generate 1/2/3 Vigor per second.</li>
<li>Now: Generate 1/2/3 Vigor per second while moving.</li>
</ul>
<p>Bastion</p>
<ul>
<li>Thorns increased from 40/80/120 to 120/240/360.</li>
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<p>Acceleration</p>
<ul>
<li>Previous: Gain 1/2/3 additional Evade Charges. After you Evade your next Eagle Skill deals 10/20/30%[x] increased damage.</li>
<li>Now: Gain 1 additional Evade Charge. After you Evade, your Eagle Skills deal 8/16/24%[x] increased damage for 2 seconds.</li>
</ul>
<p>Auspicious</p>
<ul>
<li>Delay to gain Barrier after taking damage reduced from 5 to 2 seconds.</li>
</ul>
<p>The Protector</p>
<ul>
<li>Rank 5: The Protector’s domain pulses 100% of your Thorns as Physical damage to enemies within every second.</li>
</ul>
<p>The Seeker</p>
<ul>
<li>Rank 5: The Seeker’s damage is increased by 50% of your Critical Strike and Vulnerable Damage bonuses.</li>
</ul>
<p>The Hunter</p>
<ul>
<li>Rank 5: The Hunter’s initial damage will Execute Injured Non-Boss enemies.</li>
</ul>
<p>The Devourer</p>
<ul>
<li>Rank 5: The Devourer’s damage is increased by 150% of your Healing Received bonus.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Spirit Hall</b></p>
<p>Centipede Primary Spirit Hall</p>
<ul>
<li>Previous: Hitting an enemy with a Centipede Skill reduces their Damage by 2.5% and Slows them by 10% for 3 seconds, stacking up to a maximum of 8 times. All Skills are now also Centipede Skills.</li>
<li>Now: Hitting an enemy with a Centipede Skill reduces their Damage by 2%, Slows them by 10%, and deals 70% Poisoning damage over 6 seconds, stacking up to a maximum of 8 times. All Skills are now also Centipede Skills.</li>
</ul>
<p>Eagle Secondary Spirit Hall</p>
<ul>
<li>Delay before the bonus is reset increased from 2 to 4 seconds.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Tempering Recipes</b></p>
<p>Sky Augments – Weapons Recipe</p>
<ul>
<li>Chance for Razor Wings Projectiles to be Cast Twice replaced with Chance for Razor Wings to Deal Double Damage.</li>
<li>Brilliance Skill Ranks Removed.</li>
</ul>
<p>Spiritborn Resolve – Defensive Recipe</p>
<ul>
<li>Maximum Resolve Stacks replaced with Armor +X%.</li>
</ul>
<p>Soil Augments – Weapons Recipe</p>
<ul>
<li>Chance for Touch of Death Swarms to Reinfect on hit replaced with increase to Touch of Death duration.</li>
</ul>
<p>Centipede Innovation – Utility Recipe</p>
<ul>
<li>Touch of Death Swarm Duration removed.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Legendary Aspects</b></p>
<p>Bristleback Aspect</p>
<ul>
<li>Thorns damage increased from 100-160% to 100-200%.</li>
</ul>
<p>Ruthless Aspect</p>
<ul>
<li>Additional functionality: Now always grants Jaguar Skills 15% Critical Strike Chance.</li>
</ul>
<p>Aspect of Layered Wards</p>
<ul>
<li>Blocked Damage Reduction increased from 10-30% to 20-40%.</li>
</ul>
<p>Aspect of Reactive Armor</p>
<ul>
<li>Blocked attacks no longer have to come from a Close enemy.</li>
</ul>
<p>Sticker-thought Aspect</p>
<ul>
<li>No longer drops for the Spiritborn, as they do not have Channeled Skills.</li>
</ul>
<p>Aspect of Rallying Reversal</p>
<ul>
<li>Aspect Category changed from Offensive to Utility.</li>
</ul>
<p>Aspect of Exhilaration</p>
<ul>
<li>No longer requires enemies to be Vulnerable for its effect to activate.</li>
<li>Lucky Hit bonus per stack of Ferocity increased from 3% to 5%.</li>
</ul>
<p>Aspect of Pestilence</p>
<ul>
<li>Pestilent Swarm Duration increased from 1.5 to 3 seconds.</li>
<li>Additional Swarm Duration reduced from 100% to 50%, increasing the Swarm Duration from 3 to 4.5 seconds.</li>
</ul>
<p>Aspect of Tenacity</p>
<ul>
<li>Previous: You gain Resolve for each 30-10 Vigor you gain over 100.</li>
<li>Now: You gain Resolve for each 40-20 Vigor you gain while at maximum Vigor. This Resolve can overfill your maximum Resolve stacks by 5.</li>
</ul>
<p>Aspect of Binding Morass</p>
<ul>
<li>Previous: Close enemies or those you deal indirect damage to are Slowed by 30-70% for 3 seconds. You deal 20% increased damage to Slowed enemies.</li>
<li>Now: Close enemies or those you deal indirect damage to are Slowed by 30-70% for 3 seconds. You deal 10-30% increased damage to Slowed enemies.</li>
</ul>
<p>Aspect of Deflection</p>
<ul>
<li>Invasive Razor Wings upgrade now causes reflected Razor Wings to spiral outwards.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Unique Items</b></p>
<p>Scorn of the Earth Unique Boots</p>
<ul>
<li>Effects that reduce Evade’s cooldown now affect Soar’s Evade Override.</li>
<li>Soar Deals Damage Based on Distance Traveled increased from 203-275% to 308-425%.</li>
<li>Soar Grants Maximum Life as Barrier replaced with Lightning Resistance.</li>
<li>Bonus Soar damage increased from 10-50%[X] to 50-100%[X].</li>
</ul>
<p>Band of First Breath Unique Ring</p>
<ul>
<li>Lucky Hit Chance while you Have a Barrier replaced with Critical Strike Chance.</li>
<li>Bonus Damage after Gaining Resolve replaced with Resource Generated when Losing Resolve.</li>
<li>Ranks to Auspicious replaced with Maximum Resolve stacks.Previous: Casting Evade consumes 1 stack of Resolve to generate 20-40 Vigor. Gain Armored Hide’s Passive Effect.</li>
<li>New: Casting Evade consumes 1 stack of Resolve to increase your damage dealt by 20-40%[X] for 5 seconds. Gain Armored Hide’s Passive Effect.</li>
</ul>
<p>Wushe Nak Pa Unique Glaive</p>
<ul>
<li>Casting an Ultimate Skill Restores Primary Resource replaced with Maximum Life.</li>
<li>Primary Spirit Hall Potency increased from 50-100% to 100-200%.</li>
</ul>
<p>Ring of Writhing Moon Unique Ring</p>
<ul>
<li>Ranks of Unrestrained Power replaced with Chance for Pestilent Swarms to deal Double Damage.</li>
<li>Pestilent Swarm damage increased from 35-65% to 60-120%.</li>
<li>Delay between spawning Pestilent Swarms decreased from 10 to 4 seconds.</li>
<li>Pestilent Swarm Duration increased from 1.5 to 3 seconds.</li>
<li>Vigor generated when Pestilent Swarm hits an enemy increased from 1 to 3.</li>
</ul>
<p>Rod of Kepeleke Unique Quarterstaff</p>
<ul>
<li>Ranks of Velocity replaced with Ranks of Vigorous.</li>
<li>No longer reduces Core Skill damage dealt by up to 30%.</li>
<li>Bonus Critical Strike Damage for each point of Vigor consumed reduced from 1-3% to .1-.5%.</li>
</ul>
<p>Jacinth Shell</p>
<ul>
<li>Life on Hit replaced with Armor +%.</li>
<li>Remaining Cooldown duration reduction reduced from 3 to 2 seconds.</li>
<li>Spending Vigor Healing increased from 1-10% to 5-10%.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Paragon</b></p>
<p>Hubris Legendary Glyph</p>
<ul>
<li>Maximum Thorns increased from 2,000 to 3,000.</li>
</ul>
<p>Spiney Skin Legendary Node</p>
<ul>
<li>Bonus Thorns increased from 20% to 35%.</li>
</ul>
<p>Bitter Medicine Legendary Node</p>
<ul>
<li>Previous: When you heal for 100% of your Maximum Life, deal 20% damage to Close enemies. This damage is increased by your Healing Received bonus.</li>
<li>Now: When you heal for 100% of your Maximum Life, afflict Close enemies, dealing 200% Poisoning damage and causing them to take 10%[x] increased Poisoning damage for 6 seconds, up to 40%.</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Bug Fixes</h2>
<ul>
<li>Fixed an issue where a Damage Resistance Aura could be removed by activating Mystic Circles with the Aspect of Soil Power.</li>
<li>Fixed an issue where the tooltip for Bristling Vengeance did not show the correct amount of Thorns applied by Payback.</li>
<li>Fixed an issue where Replenishing Ravager spent 5 stacks instead of 4 and would not stack multiple hits on the same Elite enemy.</li>
<li>Fixed an issue where the Health drain effect of Jacinth Shell did not trigger from Rushing Claw or Razor Wings.</li>
<li>Fixed an issue where non-damaging abilities could consume the buff from Enhanced Vortex.</li>
<li>Fixed an issue where Rod of Kepeleke could provide stacks towards Crown of Lucion or Banished Lord’s Talisman without costing anything.</li>
<li>Fixed an issue where the damage increase from Viscous Shield was calculated incorrectly and was granting far more increased damage than intended.</li>
<li>Fixed an issue where the Critical Strike Damage bonus from the Aspect of Redirected Force could be much higher than intended.</li>
<li>Fixed an issue where extra damage from Ravager, the primary Gorilla Spirit Hall upgrade, and the Dominant Passive could trigger off making enemies Vulnerable.</li>
<li>Fixed an issue where Quill Volley’s Feathers that hit a wall could not return to the player when using the Rebounding Aspect.</li>
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All Spiritborn Changes on the Diablo 4 Season 7 PTR


<p>Season 7 is bringing changes to Nightmare Dungeons, including the addition of a brand new affix and adjustments to drop rates. Here&#8217;s what you need to know!</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">New Affix: Elemental Totems</h2>



<p>A new challenge awaits players in the form of <strong>Elemental Totems</strong>, which can spawn during combat. These totems affect nearby monsters with unique buffs depending on the type of the totem:</p>



<ul>
<li><strong>Cold Totem</strong>: Monsters slow players and apply <strong>Vulnerable</strong> on hit.</li>



<li><strong>Demonic Totem</strong>: Monsters move and attack faster.</li>



<li><strong>Spirit Totem:</strong> Monsters revive once when killed. Revived monsters won&#8217;t grant loot or experience!</li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Totem Mechanics</h2>



<ul>
<li>Monsters only receive buffs while within the totem&#8217;s area of effect.</li>



<li>Totems can be destroyed by attacking them or they&#8217;ll decay automatically over 20 seconds.</li>



<li>Destroying totems as soon as possible is important to mitigate the buffs they provide.</li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Infernal Compass Drop Rate Adjustments</h2>



<p>The drop rate of <span class="icy-gtnbrg-tooltip"><a class="icy-gtnbrg-link" href="#"><img decoding="async" class="icy-gtnbrg-tooltip-img" src="https://static.icy-veins.com/wp/static/d4/latest/images/icons/2DInventory_DungeonSigils_7.webp" alt="Infernal Compass"><span class="tooltip-spell-name" data-item-type="Reputation Cache" data-item-quality="magic">Infernal Compass</span></a></span>es from Nightmare Dungeons has been decreased. </p>



<p>Don&#8217;t forget to check out the <a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/news/nightmare-dungeon-rotation-for-season-7-full-list-and-breakdown/">Nightmare Dungeon rotation for Season 7</a>!</p>


Nightmare Dungeon Changes in Season 7: New Affix and Adjustments


<p>Season 7’s <a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/guides/nightmare-dungeon-guide/">Nightmare Dungeon</a> rotation is here, offering players plenty of challenges across a mix of <strong>Vessel of Hatred dungeons</strong> and <strong>base game dungeons</strong>. Here&#8217;s a full breakdown!</p>



<p>Don&#8217;t forget to check out the <a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/news/nightmare-dungeon-changes-in-season-7-new-affix-and-adjustments/">changes coming to Nightmare Dungeons in Patch 2.1</a>!</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Dungeon Breakdown</h2>



<p>The upcoming Season 7 introduces 88 dungeons:</p>



<ul>
<li><strong>Vessel of Hatred</strong>: 16 dungeons</li>



<li><strong>Base Game</strong>: 72 dungeons</li>
</ul>



<p><strong>Vessel of Hatred Dungeons</strong></p>



<p>The following dungeons from the newest expansion will be on rotation in Season 7:</p>



<ul>
<li>Beast Graveyard</li>



<li>Farai Cliffs</li>



<li>Feeding Grounds</li>



<li>Forge of Malice</li>



<li>Forgotten Remains</li>



<li>Hallowed Stones</li>



<li>Hierophant Pyre</li>



<li>Iron Cenotaph</li>



<li>Murmuring Spiral</li>



<li>Putrescent Larder</li>



<li>Razak’s Descent</li>



<li>Remnants of Rage</li>



<li>Ruined Wild</li>



<li>Seething Underpass</li>



<li>Sleepless Hollow</li>



<li>Ularian Sepulcher</li>
</ul>



<p><strong>Base Game Dungeons</strong></p>



<p>These base game dungeons will be on rotation in Season 7:</p>



<ul>
<li>Black Asylum</li>



<li>Caldera Gate</li>



<li>Dead Man’s Dredge</li>



<li>Derelict Lodge</li>



<li>Forbidden City</li>



<li>Forsaken Quarry</li>



<li>Hallowed Ossuary</li>



<li>Hoarfrost Demise</li>



<li>Kor Dragan Barracks</li>



<li>Light’s Watch</li>



<li>Maulwood</li>



<li>Mercy’s Reach</li>



<li>Nostrava Deepwood</li>



<li>Zenith</li>



<li>Akkhan’s Grasp</li>



<li>Ancient Reservoir</li>



<li>Bastion Of Faith</li>



<li>Belfry Zakara</li>



<li>Blind Burrows</li>



<li>Faceless Shrine</li>



<li>Haunted Refuge</li>



<li>Heathen’s Keep</li>



<li>Iron Hold</li>



<li>Leviathan’s Maw</li>



<li>Lost Keep</li>



<li>Maugan’s Works</li>



<li>Oblivion</li>



<li>Witchwater</li>



<li>Abandoned Mineworks</li>



<li>Collapsed Vault</li>



<li>Conclave</li>



<li>Corrupted Grotto</li>



<li>Deserted Underpass</li>



<li>Forgotten Ruins</li>



<li>Hakan’s Refuge</li>



<li>Halls of the Damned</li>



<li>Heretic’s Asylum</li>



<li>Inferno</li>



<li>Putrid Aquifer</li>



<li>Shivta Ruins</li>



<li>Sirocco Caverns</li>



<li>Sunken Library</li>



<li>Tomb of the Saints</li>



<li>Uldur’s Cave</li>



<li>Vile Hive</li>



<li>Calibel’s Mine</li>



<li>Domhainne Tunnels</li>



<li>Garan Hold</li>



<li>Hive</li>



<li>Howling Warren</li>



<li>Luban’s Rest</li>



<li>Maddux Watch</li>



<li>Mariner’s Refuge</li>



<li>Oldstones</li>



<li>Sarat’s Lair</li>



<li>Sunken Ruins</li>



<li>Whispering Pines</li>



<li>Ancient’s Lament</li>



<li>Betrayer’s Row</li>



<li>Bloodsoaked Crag</li>



<li>Buried Halls</li>



<li>Carrion Fields</li>



<li>Champion’s Demise</li>



<li>Charnel House</li>



<li>Grinning Labyrinth</li>



<li>Komdor Temple</li>



<li>Mournfield</li>



<li>Path of the Blind</li>



<li>Sealed Archives</li>



<li>Seaside Descent</li>
</ul>


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<p>There are big changes coming to class quests in patch 2.1/Season 7! From account-wide completion to new rewards, let&#8217;s take a look at all of them. </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">One and Done</h2>



<p>First off, Blizzard announced that all class quests will only need to be completed once per account starting with Season 7. Once you finish a class&#8217;s quest all future characters of the same class on that account, even in new seasons, will have the class feature unlock automatically at the intended levels. No more remembering to do class quests late and leveling without them for far too long! </p>



<p>Class quests will also now grant players a reward at the end. A legendary cache with loot specifically tailored for the class will drop at the end of the questline. </p>


Account-Wide Completion and Legendary Rewards: Class Quest Changes in Diablo 4 Season 7


<p>Patch 2.1 AKA Season 7 is bringing some major improvements to both legendary Aspects and Unique items! </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Legendary Aspects</h2>



<p>First off we have the already announced improvement to Ancestral Aspects. In Season 6 players have been very frustrated by the very difficult process by which we can get Aspect ranks. Once we reach a certain Aspect rank in the Codex, only Ancestral items can have high enough Aspect values to upgrade our rank. However, those values were rolled completely randomly. So despite getting an Ancestral legendary, you could still get a lower Aspect roll than what you need to upgrade it for the Codex. </p>



<p>Luckily that&#8217;s about to change in Season 7. We now have the full details of the (massive) improvement to Ancestrals. The minimum roll on an Ancestral legendary item&#8217;s Aspect values will now be equal to the maximum of a non-Ancestral legendary! So now it will be much easier to rank up those Codex Aspects and get some solid builds going! </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Unique Items</h2>



<p>Uniques are getting a similar treatment, but instead of Ancestrals being affected, it&#8217;s Greater Affixes. Unique power rolls on items will now get higher rolls for each Greater Affix present on the item. This means the more GA&#8217;s you get on a Unique, the higher the baseline roll for its power values will be! And that&#8217;s not all, as all Uniques are getting a baseline reduction in variance on their power values as well. So it&#8217;s better numbers on Unique powers all around! </p>



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Unique Item and Legendary Aspect Power Rolls Increased on Ancestral and Greater Affix Drops


<p>Season 7 is bringing some serious improvements to Infernal Hordes! From quality of live benefits to more Compasses, increased gold rewards and more, let&#8217;s dive in. </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Stackable Compasses</h2>



<p>In today&#8217;s patch 2.1/Season 7 notes Blizzard shared that <a class="icy-gtnbrg-link" href="#"><span class="icy-gtnbrg-tooltip"><img decoding="async" class="icy-gtnbrg-tooltip-img" src="https://static.icy-veins.com/wp/static/d4/latest/images/icons/2DInventory_DungeonSigils_7.webp" alt="Infernal Compass"><span class="tooltip-spell-name" data-item-type="Reputation Cache" data-item-quality="magic">Infernal Compass</span></span></a>es will now stack in player inventories! We will still need a few slots for them, as only the same tier compasses will stack. But that&#8217;s still a huge win for our inventory space! Their stack limit is 99, so let&#8217;s see if anyone can gather up enough to have one tier take up more than one slot. Old ones on Eternal realms will be changed to &#8220;Broken Compass&#8221;, but you can just use that to generate a new random, stackable version. </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">A More Consistent Source</h2>



<p>The way compasses drop is also getting changed. Greater Helltide chests will now have a higher chance of dropping them, while other activities will have lower drop rates. Whisper bounties, Nightmare Dungeons, Lesser Helltide chests and the Pit will drop compasses less frequently. So now we have a very specific way in which to get access to Infernal Hordes, and with the changes to Cinder drop rates (if they remain this insane in Season 7) it should be easier than ever to get in there! </p>



<p>There is also a brand new way to get compasses, as a new Whisper Cache will be added to the game, and it drops 3 compasses and 3 NMD sigils! </p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Infernal Hordes Activity Changes</h2>



<p>A particularly nasty bug that caused progression in hordes to just stop was hopefully fixed for good this time. Enemies could become untargetable, which would brick your compass, and Blizzard say this will be fixed in the new season.</p>



<p>We&#8217;re also getting more gold from the Gold chest at the end of the activity! The amount wasn&#8217;t specified, but it should be significant if it deserved its own patch note.</p>



<p></p>



<p>So it&#8217;s time to get into Infernal Hordes more frequently and consistently, get more gold, AND potentially not have your progress halted! Season 7 should arrive on January 21st, according to the Season 6 Battle Pass, but that may change.  </p>


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<p>Here&#8217;s a good news-bad news scenario, as a player gathered up a whole lot of Mythic uniques and runes to get a good Greater Affix (GA) roll on a <a class="icy-gtnbrg-link" href="#"><span class="icy-gtnbrg-tooltip"><img decoding="async" class="icy-gtnbrg-tooltip-img" src="https://static.icy-veins.com/wp/static/d4/latest/images/icons/2DInventory_Items_Torso_Generic_14.webp" alt="Shroud of False Death"><span class="tooltip-spell-name" data-item-type="Chest Armor" data-item-quality="mythic">Shroud of False Death</span></span></a>. Except before they took the plunge and started crafting, an almost perfect one dropped the regular way! </p>



<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/raphattack/">Raphattack</a> was gathering a whole lot of runes and potential Resplendent Sparks to mass-craft a whole lot of Shrouds. Even then they were well aware of the almost futile nature of it. They already had a regular Shroud, but were going to roll the dice on more than one Greater Affix. Fully expecting to make 20 or so Shrouds and have none of them be better than 1 GA, a miracle happened and a triple one dropped just out of the blue! Andariel was the generous boss that made it all happen. </p>



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<p>We even got a breakdown of all the Mythics present in the bank tab, which was also changed to purple &#8211; which you clearly need when you have a full stash tab of Mythics).</p>



<ul>
<li>6x Andy&#8217;s.</li>



<li>5x Shakos, zero cooldown reduction :(.</li>



<li>2x Heir of Perditions</li>



<li>2x Tyrael&#8217;s</li>



<li>2x Shroud</li>



<li>9x Shattered Vow</li>



<li>9x Nesekem, The Herald</li>



<li>11x Ring of Starless Skies, zero +core skills 🙁</li>



<li>4x Melted Heart</li>
</ul>



<p></p>



<p>So if you were planning on crafting a whole lot of a specific Mythic, maybe do them one by one, and not 20 at a time and save yourself some materials! </p>


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