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The Diablo 3 announcements at BlizzCon this year had Diablo players excited on the games upcoming updates. And the patch has arrived much sooner than expected. The PTR patch for Diablo 3 is live and players will be able to access 2.1.2 which will feature a throng of additional features. Players can download the PTR client on Battle.Net and can carry over an existing character to try the features out.
The PTR patch will include the much anticipated Ancients. Ancients are legendary items that have a chance on dropping on Torment 1 or higher. A lot of the existing Legendary items have also been updated to include a unique Legendary Power. Ever class has also been tweaked to a certain extend as well. Here are a few of the patch notes below:
General
- A message will now display in chat when a Treasure Goblin has been killed or escaped
- Players can no longer go Brawling while a Greater Rift they paid to enter is open
- Healing
- The “Healing” stat on the character sheet has been replaced with “Recovery”
- Recovery is an estimate of how much Toughness you are expected to be able to recover in combat and is calculated using a combination of your Healing, Life, and Toughness
- The Healing number will still be viewable in the character sheet if you mouse over the Recovery stat
- Life per Vitality has been increased from level 67 to 70
- Base Life at level 70 has been increased
- Healing from Health Globes has been reduced
- The “Healing” stat on the character sheet has been replaced with “Recovery”
- Social
- The total number of players in a Community and in Community chat will now be displayed on the roster page
- The presence information displayed in Clan and Community rosters, and the Friends List is now more detailed
- The Clan Roster will now display the duration that a member has been offline
- The Clan Roster can now be sorted by offline duration
Items
- Life on Hit and Life Regeneration have been increased by 25% at all levels
- Ancient items have been added to the game
- Ancient items are more powerful versions of Legendary items
- Ancient items roll from increased value ranges for certain affixes
- Ancient items can now drop at Torment I or higher
- The drop chance will increase with each Torment level
- Any Legendary or Set item has a chance to be dropped or crafted as an Ancient item
- Legendary or Set items purchased from Kadala have a chance to be an Ancient item
- Bottomless Potion of Fear
- New Legendary potion
- Fears enemies within 12 yards for 3-4 seconds on use
- Several existing Legendary items have been updated to include a unique Legendary power
- Note: Existing items will not be affected by the following changes. Only new versions of the items will roll with the added Legendary power
Head over to the games official site for a full list of these patch notes.
