Patch 2.0.4

Diablo III Patch 2.0.4 - v2.0.4.23119 - 8 April 2014.

General

• Greatly increased the survivability of pets summoned by several items and skills, including:

• Skycutter
• Maximus
• The Gidbinn
• Genzaniku
• Litany of the Undaunted
• Call of the Ancients
• Falling Sword – Rise Brothers

• All Town hubs have had the placement of the Nephalem Rift Obelisk, Orek, and Kadala adjusted to help reduce the chance of accidental clicking
• The Blacksmith’s Belongings box in Act I no longer has collision

Barbarian

Philosophy

Many skills that spend Fury feel great, but when it comes time to generate Fury the single-target options don't feel meaty compared to the generators that can hit more than one target at a time. As a result, we are increasing the potency of those single-target generators to be more competitive.

Active Skills

Bash (db)

• Increased base damage from 170% to 215% weapon damage
• Skill Rune - Clobber (db)

* Increased chance to stun for 1.5 seconds from 30% to 35%

• Skill Rune - Onslaught (db)

• Increased additional damage from 80% to 100% weapon damage

Frenzy (db)

• Increased base damage from 120% to 155% weapon damage

War Cry (db)

• Bug Fix: Fixed an issue preventing the 5 seconds of paused Fury degeneration after casting War Cry from working.

Weapon Throw (db)

• Increased base damage from 150% to 185% weapon damage

• Skill Rune - Mighty Throw (db)

• Increased damage from 210% to 270% weapon damage

• Skill Rune - Throwing Hammer (db)

• Increased chance to stun from 30% to 40%

Crusader

Philosophy

Many of the Crusader's Wrath spenders are below where we would like, while Heaven's Fury - Fires of Heaven was over-performing. We are toning back Fires of Heaven while increasing the potency of most of the other Crusader spenders to encourage greater build exploration.

The single-target Wrath generator spells, Punish and Justice, don't feel meaty compared to generators that can hit more than one target at a time. As a result, we are increasing the potency of Punish and Justice to be more competitive.

We are making a few adjustments to improve Steed Charge. The cooldown and duration of the skill have both been reduced. Overall, this makes the total uptime for the skill slightly higher and, more importantly, you'll be able to hit the button more often. We're removing the ability for Steed Charge to break stuns, which allows us to focus on Steed Charge being primarily a mobility skill that can still get you out of root effects, such as Jailer. We still want Steed Charge to be useful in combat, so we're also increasing the damage on damage-focused runes.

General

• Crusaders now take 15% less damage from all sources

Active Skills

Akarat's Champion (db)

• Skill Rune - Rally (db)

• Fixed an issue where Rally would not reduce the cooldown of Condemn

Blessed Hammer (db)

• Skill Rune - Burning Wrath (db)

• Increased radius from 5 to 8 yards
• Increased pool damage from 95% to 150% weapon damage

• Skill Rune - Icebound Hammer (db)

• Bug Fix: Fixed an issue where Icebound Hammer wasn't chilling enemies
• Icebound Hammer no longer goes away when exploding

Blessed Shield (db)

• Increased base skill damage from 280% to 340% weapon damage
• Skill Rune - Combust (db)

• Increased damage from 105% to 270% weapon damage

• Skill Rune - Shattering Throw (db)

• Increased damage from 50% to 333% weapon damage
• Known Issue: The tooltip for this skill rune does not reflect this change

Fist of Heavens (db)

• Increased base skill's impact damage from 250% to 340% weapon damage
• Increased base skill's bolt damage from 210% to 340% weapon damage
• Skill Rune - Divine Well (db)

• Increased damage from 14% to 80% weapon damage
• Increased bolt zap search radius from 12 to 18 yards

• Skill Rune - Fissure (db)

• Increased area of effect damage from 80% to 400% weapon damage over 5 seconds
• Increased Arc capsule damage radius from 3 to 6 yards

• Skill Rune - Heaven's Tempest (db)

• Bug Fix: Fixed an issue where Heaven's Tempest was not moving around in its intended pattern

Heaven's Fury (db)

• Skill Rune - Fires of Heaven (db)

• Reduced damage from 950% to 735% weapon damage

Justice (db)

• Increased base skill damage from 175% to 240% weapon damage
• Skill Rune - Burst (db)

• Increased damage from 25% to 30% weapon damage

• Skill Rune - Hammer of Pursuit (db)

• Hammer of Pursuit now seeks targets more quickly after cast
• Increased damage from 200% to 300% weapon damage

Phalanx (db)

• Increased base skill damage from 295% to 380% weapon damage
• Skill Rune - Bowmen (db)

• Increased damage from 85% to 160% weapon damage

• Skill Rune - Bodyguard db)

• Increased damage from 200% to 285% weapon damage

• Skill Rune - Shield Charge (db)

• Increased damage from 75% to 180% weapon damage

• Skill Rune - Stampede (db)

• Increased Stun chance from 25% to 30%

Punish (db)

• Increased base skill damage from 200% to 270% weapon damage
• Skill Rune - Retaliate (db)

• Increased damage from 70% to 94% weapon damage

Shield Bash (db)

• Increased base skill damage from 325% to 370% weapon damage
• Skill Rune - Crumble (db)

• Increased on death proc damage from 550% to 660% weapon damage

• Skill Rune - Pound (db)

• Increased damage from 550% to 740% weapon damage
• Increased bonus damage from shield Block Chance from 150% to 500%

Steed Charge (db)

• Reduced base skill cooldown from 25 to 16 seconds
• Reduced base skill duration from 2 to 1.5 seconds
• No longer breaks Stun
• Skill Rune - Endurance db)

• Reduced duration from 3 to 2 seconds

• Skill Rune - Ramming Speed (db)

• Increased damage from 475% to 515% weapon damage

• Skill Rune - Nightmare (db)

• Bug Fix: Fixed an issue where the Fire pools were not lasting their full intended duration

• Skill Rune - Draw and Quarter (db)
• Increased damage from 125% to 185% weapon damage

Sweep Attack (db)

• Increased base damage from 400% to 440% weapon damage

Passive Skills

Lord Commander (db)

• Now reduces the cooldown of Steed Charge by 25% and Bombardment by 35%