BALANCE

TALENTS

Alcaeus

• New T1 Talent - Alert: You have +20% to All Resistances. This bonus is lost for 4 seconds after being hit by an enemy.
  
• Relentless removed.
  
• Swapped Bloodfury and Phase Roll positions.
  

SKILLS

• Gain 5 stacks of Bloodthief. Damaging hits consume 1 stack to steal life from the target. 1% of damage dealt is collected in a pool that holds up to 50% of your maximum health and heals you over 5 seconds.
  
• Cooldown reduced from 15 to 2 seconds.
  
• Mana cost reduced from 125 to 100.
  
• Dev Note: Bloodthief granted by Vampiric Potion is unaffected by this change.
  

ITEMS

• Viscera Rework: Melee hits grant 1 stack of Vivacity, granting 3 Health Regeneration per stack for 5 seconds. Max 10 stacks. Increases the rate of healing over time from lifesteal effects by 10%.
  

MODS

• Attack Speed mod per level scaling reduced from .5% to .2% per level.
  
• Attack Speed mod base increased from 0% to 1%.
  
• Attack Speed passives reduced from 2.5% to 1.5% per point.
  

IMPROVED

• Updated the description of Exerted Strikes: "Melee hits gain additional base weapon damage equal to 5% of your current Stamina."
  
• Exerted Strikes now displays an estimated effect on Physical Power. This calculation does not update live and assumes Stamina is full.
  

FIXED

• Potential fixes for raid bosses not becoming invulnerable as intended.