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‎PTR Season Two Legendaries

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Seasonal Legendaries are [[legendary]] items added to the game during Ladder [[Seasons]]. These items can '''''only''''' drop for Seasonal Characters over the course of that season. Once a season ends, all Seasonal Characters and their new gear are returned to the general character population, and that season's legendary items become findable for all characters in the game, whether Seasonal or not. This process repeats each time a season ends and a new season begins, with new seasonal legendary items created for each new season.

Seasonal Legendaries are not meant by the designers to be special, super-quality legendary items. They are just new weapons, armor, [[legendary follower items]], and/or [[legendary potions]] that may be better or worse than existing legendary gear. They are not meant to create a new higher tier of loot, though it seems likely that Blizzard will use these new legendaries to try to add variety and alternatives to some of the most powerful/popular current legendary items.

It's not known if we will see new [[Item Sets]] introduced via seasonal legendaries, but it seems likely, sooner or later.

==Season One Legendaries==

The first seasonal legendaries became available in mid-July 2014, while [[Patch 2.1]] was in testing on the [[PTR]]. There's no reason to expect future seasonal legendaries to require testing or to make an appearance on the PTR, unless they correspond in time with a major content patch. There is not yet an ETA on when Season One will begin or how long it will last.

The first seasonal legendaries were revealed in Patch 2.1 notes[http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/14569138/patch-210-ptr-patch-notes-updated-july-9-7-18-2014#seasonalitems], and were obviously a work in progress with several items lacking an official name, and no more info than the [[legendary affix]] given for the others. Some of these items may gain more details in the final patch, with inherent affixes and other preset properties.

[[Bottomless Potion of Rejuvenation]]
* Restores 15% of your primary resource when used below 25% Life

'''x1_FollowerItem_Legendary_03''' (Name still TBD)
* Equip on Follower: Reduces the cooldown of all Follower skills by 50%

[[Krelm's Buff Belt]]
* Grants a 20% Movement Speed bonus
* Taking damage causes you to lose this effect for 15 seconds

[[Krelm's Buff Bracers]]
* Grant you immunity to Knockback and Stun effects

[[Remorseless]]
* Barbarian: Legendary one-handed Mighty Weapon
* Grants [[Hammer of the Ancients]] a 25-30% chance to summon an [[Ancient]] for 20 seconds

'''P1_CruShield_norm_unique_01''' (Name still TBD)
* Legendary Crusader Shield
* Removes the cooldown of Condemn
* Condemn now costs 40 Wrath

[[Leonine Bow of Hashir]]
* Demon Hunter themed Legendary Bow
* Grants [[Bola Shot]] a 15-20% chance on explosion to pull in all enemies within 24 yards

[[Alabaster Gloves]]
* Monk themed Legendary Gloves
* Increases the duration of Sweeping Wind to 1 minute

Witch Doctor
* Seasonal Legendary not yet implemented

'''p1_Wand_norm_unique_01''' (Name still TBD)
* Wizard themed wand
* Removes the cooldown of Teleport
* Teleport now costs 25 Arcane Power

These item descriptions are not yet finalized (obviously).

==Seasonal Legendaries in Diablo II==

Diablo 2's ladders introduced the concept of adding new legendary items into the game just for ladder characters, but this development came late into Diablo 2's online life, when seasons ran for inconsistent lengths of time with little to no ongoing developer support. Diablo 2's ladder only Uniques and Runewords did not change in the new ladder season, and did not become findable by all characters after the season. They were, however, tradeable to non-ladder characters after each ladder ended and all the new characters reverted to the general character pool.

* {{iw|Ladder_Uniques Ladder Uniques in Diablo 2}}.
* {{iw|Ladder_Runewords Ladder Runewords in Diablo 2}}.

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[[category:items]]
[[category:Weapons]]
[[category:Legendary]]
[[category:Seasonal Legendary]]
[[category:Ladders]]

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-==PTR Season Two Legendaries==
+==PTR Season One, Part II==
-Season Two began on the PTR August 5, 2014, with a major patch.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-3-ptr-2-1-0-patch-notes-5-august/] The switch over allowed Blizzard to test and debug all of their plans for live season changes, and ran fairly smoothly. With the new season, several of the Season One legendaries were updated, and some new seasonal legendaries were added.
+More legendary items were added in a patch to the PTR on August 5, 2014, with a test run for ending a season and beginning a new one.[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-3-ptr-2-1-0-patch-notes-5-august/] The switch over allowed Blizzard to test and debug all of their plans for live season changes, and ran fairly smoothly. With the new season, several of the Season One legendaries were updated, and some new seasonal legendaries were added.
 ===Crusader===
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 * New Legendary Fist Weapon
 * Increases the maximum stack count of Sweeping Winds by 3 (initially  5-7)
-This item was introduced with a different type of [[Sweeping Wind]] boost after the Season One [[Alabaster Gloves]] were removed.
+This item was introduced with a different type of [[Sweeping Wind]] boost after the [[Alabaster Gloves]] were removed during Season One testing.
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 p1_CeremonialDagger_norm_unique_02 (Name still TBD)
 * New Ceremonial Dagger
 * Your Poison Darts and your Fetishes' Poison Darts now pierce
+(Removed from seasonal and added to normal legendary item pool.)
 ==Seasonal Legendaries in Diablo II==

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-==PTR Season One Legendaries==
+==PTR Patch 2.1 Legendaries==
-The first seasonal legendaries became available in mid-July 2014, while [[Patch 2.1]] was in testing on the [[PTR]]. There's no reason to expect future seasonal legendaries to require testing or to make an appearance on the PTR, unless they correspond in time with a major content patch.  There is not yet an ETA on when Season One will begin or how long it will last.
+The first seasonal legendaries became available while [[Patch 2.1]] was in testing on the [[PTR]] from July-August 2014. More seasonal legendary items were added during the long testing of Patch 2.1, and there were multiple seasons[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-3-ladders-info-season-one-ends-ptr][http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/another-new-diablo-3-ptr-season-begins] during the Patch 2.1 PTR testing, as Blizzard needed to test the season ending/beginning software, but all the items can be regarded as Patch 2.1 PTR Season One legendaries as they all remained seasonal for the duration of the PTR of Patch 2.1
-The first seasonal legendaries were revealed in Patch 2.1 notes[http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/14569138/patch-210-ptr-patch-notes-updated-july-9-7-18-2014#seasonalitems], and were obviously a work in progress with several items lacking an official name, and no more info than the [[legendary affix]] given for the others. The names and features of these items were changed multiple times in small patches during the PTR testing.
+The first seasonal legendaries were revealed in Patch 2.1 notes[http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/14569138/patch-210-ptr-patch-notes-updated-july-9-7-18-2014#seasonalitems], and they were obviously [[WiP]] with "TBD" names and stats. Many of the items changed in name and/or properties during the PTR testing period.

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 The first seasonal legendaries became available in mid-July 2014, while [[Patch 2.1]] was in testing on the [[PTR]]. There's no reason to expect future seasonal legendaries to require testing or to make an appearance on the PTR, unless they correspond in time with a major content patch.  There is not yet an ETA on when Season One will begin or how long it will last.
-The first seasonal legendaries were revealed in Patch 2.1 notes[http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/14569138/patch-210-ptr-patch-notes-updated-july-9-7-18-2014#seasonalitems], and were obviously a work in progress with several items lacking an official name, and no more info than the [[legendary affix]] given for the others. Some of these items may gain more details in the final patch, with inherent affixes and other preset properties.
+The first seasonal legendaries were revealed in Patch 2.1 notes[http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/14569138/patch-210-ptr-patch-notes-updated-july-9-7-18-2014#seasonalitems], and were obviously a work in progress with several items lacking an official name, and no more info than the [[legendary affix]] given for the others. The names and features of these items were changed multiple times in small patches during the PTR testing.
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 ===Monk===
-p1_fistWeapon_norm_unique_02 (Name still TBD.)
+[[Vengeful Wind]] (Formerly: p1_fistWeapon_norm_unique_02, Name still TBD.)
 * New Legendary Fist Weapon
-* Increases the maximum stack count of Sweeping Winds by 5-7
+* Increases the maximum stack count of Sweeping Winds by 3 (initially  5-7)
 This item was introduced with a different type of [[Sweeping Wind]] boost after the Season One [[Alabaster Gloves]] were removed.
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 p1_CeremonialDagger_norm_unique_02 (Name still TBD)
 * New Ceremonial Dagger
 * Your Poison Darts and your Fetishes' Poison Darts now pierce

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 ===Crusader===
-New Crusader Armor Set (Name still TBD)
+New Crusader Armor Set (Name eventually set as [[Roland's Legacy]])
 * (2) Set Bonus
 ** +500 Strength
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-[[Amazonian Parma]]
+[[Unrelenting Phalanx]] (Initially called Amazonian Parma)
 *New Crusader Shield
 **Allows Phalanx to summon twice as many Avatars
 **Applies to all rune variants
-The Amazonian Parma was initially a normal shield, but was quickly switched to a Crusader Shield. [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blizzard-tracker/devthread/us/13732903257] That's actually a benefit for Crusaders as it's more likely to drop for them, and can spawn with +damage to specific Crusader shields, and Cooldown Reduction (which normal shields can not).
+This item was initially a normal shield, but was quickly switched to a Crusader Shield. [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blizzard-tracker/devthread/us/13732903257] That's actually a benefit for Crusaders as it's more likely to drop for them, and can spawn with +damage to specific Crusader shields, and Cooldown Reduction (which normal shields can not).
 ===Demon Hunter===

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 Seasonal Legendaries are not meant by the designers to be special, super-quality legendary items. They are just new weapons, armor, [[legendary follower items]], and/or [[legendary potions]] that may be better or worse than existing legendary gear. They are not meant to create a new higher tier of loot, though it seems likely that Blizzard will use these new legendaries to try to add variety and alternatives to some of the most powerful/popular current legendary items.
-It's not known if we will see new [[Item Sets]] introduced via seasonal legendaries, but it seems likely, sooner or later.
 ==PTR Patch 2.1 Legendaries==
-The first seasonal legendaries became available while [[Patch 2.1]] was in testing on the [[PTR]] from July-August 2014. More seasonal legendary items were added during the long testing of Patch 2.1, and there were multiple seasons[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-3-ladders-info-season-one-ends-ptr][http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/another-new-diablo-3-ptr-season-begins] during the Patch 2.1 PTR testing, as Blizzard needed to test the season ending/beginning software, but all the items can be regarded as Patch 2.1 PTR Season One legendaries as they all remained seasonal for the duration of the PTR of Patch 2.1
+The first seasonal legendaries were created while [[Patch 2.1]] was in testing on the [[PTR]] from June-August 2014. The items were clearly works in progress with temporary names and changing stats. Some items were even removed entirely during testing, or replaced by others. There were multiple seasons as well, though the same items remained available in all of them[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-3-ladders-info-season-one-ends-ptr][http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/another-new-diablo-3-ptr-season-begins] during the Patch 2.1 PTR testing, as Blizzard needed to test the season ending/beginning software.
 [[Bottomless Potion of Rejuvenation]]
 * Restores 15% of your primary resource when used below 25% Life
 '''x1_FollowerItem_Legendary_03''' (Name still TBD)
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 * Grants a 20% Movement Speed bonus
 * Taking damage causes you to lose this effect for 15 seconds
 [[Krelm's Buff Bracers]]
 * Grant you immunity to Knockback and Stun effects
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 This item was initially a normal shield, but was quickly switched to a Crusader Shield. [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blizzard-tracker/devthread/us/13732903257] That's actually a benefit for Crusaders as it's more likely to drop for them, and can spawn with +damage to specific Crusader shields, and Cooldown Reduction (which normal shields can not).
 ===Demon Hunter===

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-==Season One Legendaries==
+==PTR Season One Legendaries==
 The first seasonal legendaries became available in mid-July 2014, while [[Patch 2.1]] was in testing on the [[PTR]]. There's no reason to expect future seasonal legendaries to require testing or to make an appearance on the PTR, unless they correspond in time with a major content patch.  There is not yet an ETA on when Season One will begin or how long it will last.
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-[[Alabaster Gloves]]
+[[Alabaster Gloves]] (Removed)
 * Monk themed Legendary Gloves
 * Increases the duration of Sweeping Wind to 1 minute
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 [[category:Weapons]]
 [[category:Legendary]]
-[[category:Seasonal Legendary]]
+[[category:Seasonal Legendaries]]
 [[category:Ladders]]