Public Playtest Patch Notes - March 1

Hi Fellows!

We'll be releasing a patch today to fix crashes and add some balancing changes. We'll be bringing down the servers temporarily for maintenance as well. ⚒️

Below are the notes for today's patch.

**GENERAL

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• Discovered and fixed another issue causing crashes related to cooldown recovery.

• Fixed an issue causing players who rejoin an ongoing dungeon to not be targetable.

• Fixed an issue causing players who rejoin an ongoing dungeon to not get loot from the end of dungeon chest.

• Players who rejoin an ongoing dungeon that have an empty health bar will no longer need to restart the game again. The health bar will update upon taking damage.

• Fixed an issue causing all ability cooldowns to reset when players rejoined an ongoing dungeon.

**RELICS

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• Fixed the tooltip for Blood Rite Drums. Now correctly states that it provides +50% Cooldown Recovery for the duration of the effect.

• The cooldown of Blood Rite Drums has been increased to 3 minutes, up from 2.5 minutes.

• The cooldown of Salt Wash Elixir has been reduced to 2 minutes, down from 5 minutes.

• The cooldown of Ancient Wardstone has been reduced to 2 minutes, down from 5 minutes.

• The cooldown of Sinbinding Stone has been reduced to 3 minutes, down from 5 minutes.

• The cooldown of Chalice of Al'zerac's Essence has been reduced to 3 minutes, down from 5 minutes.

**RIME

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• Rime Talent: Avalanche now causes Icy Comet to have a 20% chance to strike twice and a 4% chance to strike three times, down from 30% / 8%.

• Rime Talent: Soulfrost Torrent now increases the damage of Freezing Torrent by 50%, down from 100% - resulting in a total of 200% increased damage on a full channel considering the increased duration of the channel still being double.

• Rime Talent: Soulfrost Torrent's proc per minute reduced to 1.5 (was 2.0).

• Rime Talent: Winter's Blessing now converts 30% of damage to healing, down from 100%.

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SYLVIE

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• Safe Haven cooldown reduced to 120 seconds, down from 180 seconds.

• Safe Haven duration increased to 15 seconds, up from 12 seconds.

• Safe Haven damage reduction increased to 25%, up from 20%.

• Fluttercall: Jubilee now redistributes health in the group every 2 seconds, down from every 3 seconds.

TARIQ

• Focused Wrath now increases the damage of your next two Skull Crushers or Hammer Storms by 50%, up from 30%.

• Raging Currents damage increased by 50%.

**STORMWATCH & DEMONBRAND RUINS

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• Mancatchers will now wait longer after initiated to use their Grip ability.

• Mancatcher's Grip damage reduced by 40%.

• The minimum range of Mancatcher's Grip ability has been increased to 1500, up from 1000.

**SAILOR'S ABYSS

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• Vengeful Shade's Witherbane Toxin now deals damage every 3 seconds, up from every 2 seconds.

• Coral Lasher's Disgorged Muck cooldown increased to 12 seconds, up from 8 seconds.

• Water Elemental's Hydro Bolt cooldown increased to 15 seconds, up from 12 seconds.

**THE WYRMHEART

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• Coldheart Assassin's Wicked Strikes damage reduced by 20%.

• Coldheart Assassin's Poison Dagger damage reduced by 35%.

• Greater Ice Elemental's Stomp ability damage reduced by 28%.