Diablo III | PTR 2.7.0 Has Ended!

[Isend-2850]

Rathma

Your minions no longer take damage
Does it means Command Skeletons / Kill Command stay alive ?

PTR 2.7.0 - Rathma - Command Skeletons / Kill Command - Staying Alive!

Bones of Rathma 2-Piece Set Your skeletal warriors spawn faster (…) Bones of Rathma 4-Piece Set Your minions no longer take damage (…) – Expectations Does it means Command Skeletons / Kill Command (Poison) no longer die ? Skeletons just explode without dying ? Skeletons stay alive ? That would be awesome for a Poison build (Nayr’s Black Death).

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Bone Spirit’s (…) will also freeze enemies on impact
Freeze is bad for Thorns. Please consider immobilize.

PTR 2.7.0 - Rathma - Thorns - Immobilize rather than freeze

Defiler Cuisses Bone Spirit’s damage is increased by 400% to 500% for every second it is active and will also freeze immobilize enemies on impact. – This way Defiler Cuisses is Thorns friendly. Of course immobilize has to work on bosses. In addition, Freezing is not needed since ennemies will focus on minions and minions no longer take damage. They can tank efficiently and restitute Thorns damage.

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Please consider scaling Sanguinary Vambraces with minions

PTR 2.7.0 - Rathma - Thorns - Sanguinary Vambraces scales with minions

Sanguinary Vambraces Chance on being hit to deal 1000% of your Thorns damage to nearby enemies Each active minion increases the damage of you Thorns by 250% Bones of Rathma 6-Piece Set Each active minion increases the damage of Army of the Dead and Bone Spirit by 1000%, and your Thorns by 250%. Band of Hollow Whispers This ring occasionally haunts nearby enemies. Your Skeletal Mages do no longer expire, can be targeted, and their damage is reduced by 99%. – This way Sanguinary Vambraces’ T…

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Please consider a synergy between Bone Ringer and Army of the Dead

PTR 2.7.0 - Rathma - Bone Ringer for Army of the Dead & Revive

Bone Ringer The damage bonus of Revive, Army of Dead and Command Skeletons increases by 27% per second they spend attacking the same target. This effect stacks up to 60 times. – Boost Command Skeletons through Revive Boost Command Skeletons through Command Skeletons Boost Command Skeletons through Army of the Dead duration * Boost Revive through Revive Boost Revive through Command Skeletons Boost Revive through Army of the Dead duration * Boost Army of the Dead through Revive Boost Army…

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Please consider the Amulet Golden Gorget of Leoric as a source of minions

PTR 2.7.0 - Rathma - Golden Gorget of Leoric

Golden Gorget of Leoric After earning a massacre bonus you land a critical hit or a zone damage, 4 - 6 5 Skeletons counting as minions are summoned to fight by your side for 10 seconds. Max 10 active Skeletons. – Available as an Emanate item. All classes can benefit of the skeletons tanks distracting monsters. But of course, the new Bones of Rathma benefits the most.

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Emanate

There is no mention of Belts, Feet, Weapons and Off-hands a Emanate items.
Why ?

There a lots of bounties / weak items that could be candidate.

Belts
Goldwrap, String of Ears, Cord of the Sherma, Sash of Knives

Boots
Illusory Boots, Ice climbers, Boots of Disregard, Fire Walkers

Weapons
Genzaniku, Hack, The Butcher’s Sickle, Sky Splitter, The Burning Axe of Sankis,
Envious Blade, Eun-jang-do, Odyn Son, Mad Monarch’s Scepter, Solanium,
Rimeheart, Fulminator, Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker, Skycutter, Azurewrath, Shard of Hate, Burst of Wrath, Fire Brand, Arthef’s Spark of Life, Soulsmasher, Cataclysm, Schaefer’s Hammer, Bovine Bardiche, Vigilance, Ahavarion, Spear of Lycander, Maloth’s Focus, The Tormentor, Scourge, Stalgard’s Decimator, Maximus, Blood Brother, Corrupted Ashbringer, The Raven’s Wing, Cluckeye, Demon Machine, Pus Spitter, Hellrack

Off-hands
Coven’s Criterion, Wall of Bone, Freeze of Deflection, Defender of Westmarch,

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Also, please consider additional items :

Amulets
Hellfire Amulet (hot !!!), Golden Gorget of Leoric (see modification proposal in this post), Overwhelming Desire, Moonlight Ward, Talisman of Aranoch, Countess Julia’s Cameo, Haunt of Vaxo, The Star of Azkaranth,
Xephirian Amulet

Rings
Hellfire Ring, Pandemonium Loop, Leoric’s Signet, Broken Promises, Rechel’s Ring of Larceny, Arcstone, Rogar’s Huge Stone, Lornelle’s Sunstone, Justice Lantern, Bul-Kathos’s Wedding Band, Band of Hollow Whispers

Helms
Pride’s Fall, Deathseer’s Cowl, Andariel’s Visage

Legs
Pox Faulds,
Death’s Bargain

Hands
St. Archew’s Gage, Magefist, Frostburn

Wrists
Warzechian Armguards, Ancient Parthan Defenders, Promise of Glory, Strongarm Bracers, Reaper’s Wraps

Torso
Heart of Iron, Chaingmail, Cindercoat, Shi Mizu’s Haori

Shoulders
Pauldrons of the Skeleton King, Death Watch Mantle

[Balbero-2581]

@Kilometer-11340

or you can bring your follower to group play in Season 23.

NOPE !
No Follower in Groups.

Gladly it say the Follower you have hired ^^
So i doub, that it will work with the Ashara

[Perusoe-1251]

@Kindran-11838

@Kindran-11838

You are missing the entire point of the wording change.

It. Does. Not. Say. Each. Active. Phantasm.

You can hash this out amongst yourselves. I’m not familiar with the Witch Doctor, but this is what I see:

@Isend-2850

Rathma

Your minions no longer take damage
Does it means Command Skeletons / Kill Command stay alive ?

I believe there’s a difference between Skeletons taking Damage from enemies and sacrificing themselves to save your Life. (But, I’m just guessing here – If it’s part of the Season Theme, it could be a buff/bonus).

@Balbero-2581

Gladly it say the Follower you have hired ^^
So i doub, that it will work with the Ashara

Oh…   good point. (I hadn’t thought of that).

[Apache222-1831]

Love the quality of life improvements. The follower stuff looks super. Imagine having so many powers at once! Also love the leaderboard filter and toggles. Please include paragon also if its not already there.

[LastProphecy-21962]

I hope old items like unity will work like before. otherwise builds like R6 are even squishier than now.

[Solaris-21929]

Just add all non-class-specific legendaries and craftable sets available for the follower and lets see what happens.

Isn’t that what the PTR is for ?

You can always disable broken ones later.

[evilone-2735]

You missed the point of “Each active phantasm … increases the damage … by 120%”.

[Balbero-2581]

@LastProphecy-21962

I hope old items like unity will work like before.

It still works …
The Point why everyone uses it, is coz the Follower cant take dmg due to his Relikt.
And thats unchanged.

[evilone-2735]

Let’s say you have a damage of 1000.

With the old gazing demise and the 120% increase after one phantasm it’s 2200 dmg, after two 4840 dmg, and the third brings you to 10648 dmg.

With the new flat 150% increase you get 2500 dmg at the end.

EDIT: My current one is at 142% per phantasm … even worse. I’m instant dead.

[Randomice-2950]

@clueso-2790

Another minor idea to think about is that there could be a mechanic that increases your minions damage by xxx% for x seconds after you casted Bone Spirit, to kinda double down on the interaction of Bone Spirit, Army of the Dead and your minions

Tie it too the new bone spirit item. When bone spirit is alive damag increases for BS by 300-400% a second and your minions by 3000-4000%

[Demonmonger-1509]

Even with them coming out every 30 seconds, if you fully gear each of them, the damage throughput could be insane assuming that their skills still interact the same way even if they are not the active follower.

[Demonmonger-1509]

Is there a player that you know that never plays solo? Pretty confident that every player pushes the solo leaderboard to some extent.

Thus this change impacts everyone, it just has no direct impact on the group play aspect of a season, but it still buffs group focused players interaction with solo play.

[Meteorblade-2266]

You might need to take a look at the blog’s How to Participate section with how the updated Battlenet client has altered the layout of the launcher. For example…

Instructions say…

Step 2: Navigate to the Diablo III tab on the left-hand menu.

But the games are no longer on a tab along the left of the launcher.

The instructions say…

Step 3: On the Diablo III screen, there is a drop-down menu right above the “Play” button (note that this may say “Install” if you do not have Diablo III currently installed). Select “PTR: Diablo III” from this drop-down menu before proceeding.

But what you need to select is Public Test Realm.

https://i.imgur.com/sTibwn1.jpg

Any friendly TL3 that could embed this? Would appreciate it.

[Demonmonger-1509]

They removed the “minions” part of the damage bonus though, so it really does not matter if they stay alive after their explosion?

[Zymurgeist-1185]

@Meteorblade-2266

If the only seasonal exclusive is the pet / portrait frame for Guardian, and there’s no theme, as the Follower stuff affects seasonal and non-seasonal, I foresee a lot of people getting the cosmetics and then heading straight back to their high paragon non-seasonal heroes.

So just like every other season.

[Isend-2850]

@Demonmonger-1509

They removed the “minions” part of the damage bonus though

Can you develop ? What do you mean exactly ?

[Isend-2850]

@clueso-2790

let attacks of your minions reduce the recharge time of Bone Spirit

And reduce a lot the casting time.
Bone Spirit is so slow to cast, it takes eons.
The casting animation just breaks your run, your are forced to stand until animation ends. That’s boring.

@clueso-2790

Defiler Cuisses could simply increase the damage of Bone Spirit by a static, but large amount (e.g. 3000%) instead of increasing the amount based on how long the spirit travels.

Yeah I think we all agree here to say that “how long the spirit travels” is a clumsy mechanic.

@clueso-2790

Another minor idea to think about is that there could be a mechanic that increases your minions damage by xxx% for x seconds after you casted Bone Spirit

It would solve the Thorns incompatibility, but directly increasing the minions damage might just compete with the LOD Mages.

[Demonmonger-1509]

Minions no longer get a damage bonus from the set. It just says bone spirit and army of the dead now.

Which is confusing to why they would even add revive then.

[Alternative4-21669]

sure when brain damaged once you can do anything about it… while people waiting to rise wd again…devs nerfed again… they so clever or we so stup.d… sure “as intented”

[MeganeSenpai-1314]

Well, my overall thought:

Great to finally have some actual game-changing update. I was quite blown away by this. Too bad you guys didn’t give it a short panel at BlizzConline.

It’s good that you decided to nerf GOD build instead of, you know, trying to buff all others to its level. The game needs more nerf than buff now.

The Emanate system seems good overall. But please add more viable options to some of the armor pieces (only armors, I think rings and others are fine). I can’t see people equip their follower Goldskin or Gloves of Worship for any build. May each armor slot needs at least a viable options while doesn’t increase the power of the players too much. Some safe options that I can see: Ilusionary Boot, Stone Gauntlet, Cindercoat or Pride’s Fall. Please do not, not ever, put something like Convention of Element to it. And maybe add the Boon of the Hoarder gem to this system.

I cannot yet test the followers but from the skills remake clearly the Enchantress are now totally drwafted the other two, especially the Templar. Templar and Scoundrel need some changes to support the player more while the enchantress only need some tweaks, like:

• Hysteria: increasing all damage done by 3% for 3 to 6 seconds increasing all critical hit damage by 3-6% for 3 seconds, max 3 stacks.
• Vanish: Adding effect: And you can travel through objects.
• Heal and Loyalty: Adding passive: Also increase your armor by 10-20% based on the Templar’s strength.
• Onslaught: * * Delivers a massive blow to an enemy for 800% weapon damage and causes the target and nearby enemies to take 10% increased damage for 3 to 6 seconds 10 to 15 seconds based on the Templar’s Strength.
• Guardian: healing you for 15% to 25% life 30% to 40% max life. Cooldown xx seconds.
• Prophetic Harmony: Reduce your and the Enchantress’ Cooldowns by 5% to 10% 3% to 6% based on the Enchantress’s Intelligence.

Blackthorn’s Jousting Mail: I don’t think changing one property can bring a set to life. This set needs a total rework.

Also I have some questions:

• What is the cooldown time of the cheat death skill from the follower as well as from the Firebird set? Or no cooldown at all? Are we gonna be immortal? /s
• Will there be any change for the seasonal journey quest: “Fully equip one of your follower”?
• Also, next time maybe you could use text format like I did above, as well as like Nev did before (ex: old value new value), it’s easier to read and provides more clarity.