Path of Exile (PoE) Trial of the Ancestors 3.22 Patch Notes

As is usual with every new Path of Exile league, Grinding Gear Games has released the full patch notes for the new season, Trial of the Ancestors. The patch notes are full of new content and features that are coming with the new league, as well as information on the new skills. Overall it looks like a very big update.

Even though this is a hefty chunk of patch notes—over 10,000 words—it feels like there’s a lot missing. A huge chunk of the changes listed here are specifically for Ruthless Mode, a very niche and challenging mode that not many people play. It’s very bizarre, because players expected a lot of balance changes coming with this patch and there’s really none, other than those ascendancies they got reworked.

It’s possible such changes were omitted for some reason, or maybe aren’t even finalized yet. However, as of today, we’re exactly one week from the release of patch 3.22, Trial of the Ancestors. This makes it more likely that there just aren’t sweeping class changes with this season, so feel free to play your favorite 3.21 build from the Crucible season.

Here’s all of the Path of Exile (PoE) Trial of the Ancestors 3.22 Patch Notes.

Trial of the Ancestors 3.22 Patch Notes

The Ancestor Challenge League

• Challenge leagues are a great opportunity for a fresh start in a new economy. All of your old characters and items are still present in the Standard and Hardcore leagues, but you’re encouraged to join the new leagues, complete challenges and demonstrate your mastery of Path of Exile!
• In the Ancestor Challenge League, you’ll visit the Karui afterlife and defeat ten tribes in a series of tournaments to earn valuable new rewards.
• As you play through the league, you’ll find tradeable Silver coins which are used to gain passage to the Karui Afterlife. You’ll start out with a basic team of three Karui warriors to enter the Trial of the Ancestors.
• In each match, you can select which tribe to compete against, based on the reward offered. You can examine the battlefield configuration of the enemy team and strategically place your warriors to challenge theirs. Then you and your party will compete alongside your warriors to destroy the opposing team’s totems and win the match.
• When you compete in tournaments, you’ll accumulate favour with each of the tribes. This can be spent on recruiting warriors and purchasing field items and equipment to power up your team. Each tribe has their own specialities and you can mix and match warriors from different tribes to build a team that embodies your strategy.
• For more information about this expansion, check out pathofexile.com/ancestor
• With 3.22.0, there are Standard, Hardcore, Solo Self-Found and Ruthless variations of the Ancestor challenge league available. They have the same core mechanics and items. You can create private league versions of these leagues, with mods that make the game harder.
• The new Ancestor challenge league includes a set of 40 new challenges, and 8 new challenges in Ruthless Ancestor. There are microtransaction rewards for completing challenges that are only obtainable in this league. These rewards will be revealed in an upcoming news post.

New Content and Features

• Added The Forbidden Sanctum to the core game, with a few adjustments. Please read the Forbidden Sanctum Changes section for more information.
• Added a new Strength Support Gem – Controlled Blaze: Supports melee attack skills, providing them with a chance to Ignite. For each Ignite inflicted with the Skill recently, it deals less Damage but more Ignite Damage.
• Added a new Strength Support Gem – Corrupting Cry: Supports Warcry Skills, making them inflict corrupted blood on enemies affected by the warcry or by the attacks that it exerts.
• Added a new Strength Support Gem – Trauma: Supports strike skills you use yourself, causing you to gain Trauma the first time a Supported Attack Hits an Enemy. Supported Attacks deal added Physical Damage per Trauma, but also make you take Physical Damage per Trauma. Supported Skills can only be used with Axes, Maces, Sceptres or Staves.
• Added a new Strength Support Gem – Volatility: Supports attack skills, causing them to deal more Maximum Attack Damage, but less Minimum Attack Damage. Supported Skills also deal increased Damage.
• Added a new Strength/Intelligence Support Gem – Flamewood: Supports skills which summon totems, triggering Avenging Flame when a Totem from Supported Skills is Hit by an Enemy. Avenging Flame fires a mortar up in the air, which falls down upon a target, and deals area damage where it lands.
• Added a new Strength/Intelligence Support Gem – Guardian’s Blessing: Must support both a skill that creates minions which can be damaged, and an aura skill that creates permanent auras around you. Supported Aura Skills have no Reservation, and count as Blessing Skills. They cannot apply Auras on you unless you have Minions from a Supported Skill, but these Minions take a percentage of their Maximum Life as Physical Damage per second while you have an Aura from a Supported Skill on you.
• Added a new Dexterity Support Gem – Returning Projectiles: Supports Projectile Skills. Projectiles from Supported Skills Return to you.
• Added a new Dexterity/Strength Support Gem – Sadism: Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing Damaging Ailments inflicted by them to deal damage faster, but causes the inflicted Ailments to have less Duration.
• Added a new Dexterity/Intelligence Support Gem – Locus Mine: Supports attack skills that use bows or wands and fire projectiles ahead. Instead of using that skill, you will throw mines in an arc that use that skill for you, targeting your location when you detonate them.
• Added a new Intelligence Support Gem – Frigid Bond: Supports Link Skills. Supported Skills Damage and Chill Enemies between you and Linked Targets.
• Added a new Intelligence Support Gem – Fresh Meat: Supports skills that create minions. Minions created by Supported Skills gain Wakened Fury and Adrenaline for 10% of their Duration, up to a maximum of 10 seconds.
• Added a new Intelligence Support Gem – Sacrifice: Supports spell skills that deal damage with hits and have no reservation. These spells sacrifice a percentage of your current life, to gain additional chaos damage based on how much life was sacrificed. Cannot support orb skills, brand skills, channelling skills, Vaal skills or skills used by traps or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
• Added a new Intelligence/Strength Support Gem – Spellblade: Supports spells that hit enemies, causing them to have Added Spell Damage equal to a percentage of Damage of Equipped One Handed Melee Weapons. If two Weapons are Equipped, each contributes 60% as much Added Damage. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
• Added a new Intelligence/Dexterity Support Gem – Devour: Supports any skill that hits enemies. Killing Blows from Supported Skills Consume corpses to Recover life and Mana.
• Added 15 new Unique Items, including 1 designed by the winner of the Crucible Boss Kill Event.
• Added 2 new Divination Cards, designed by our supporters.
• Added a new Atlas Keystone Passive Skill, Extreme Archaeology, which grants “200% increased Explosive Radius in your Maps”, “100% increased Explosive Placement Range in your Maps”, “Expedition Monsters in your Maps spawn with an additional 10% of Life missing” and “Number of Explosives is one”.
• Added a new Atlas Keystone Passive Skill, Lucid Dreams, which grants “Vaal Side Areas in your Maps are no longer Corrupted”.
• Added a new Atlas Keystone Passive Skill, Destructive Play, which grants “The Maven summons 1 to 3 additional Bosses when Witnessing Map Bosses. Modifiers to the Final Map Boss in each Map also apply to these summoned Bosses.”
• Added a new Atlas Keystone Passive Skill, All Hands, which grants “Your Maps have +40% chance to contain a random Master encounter”, “Modifiers to chance to grant an additional Master Mission on Map Completion instead apply to chance for that Master to be randomly encountered in your Maps at 150% of their value” and “Your Maps do not grant Master Missions when Completed”.
• Added a new Atlas Keystone Passive Skill, Cassia’s Pride, which grants “Blight Monsters in your Maps take 75% less Damage from Players and their Minions” and “Blight Towers and their Minions in your Maps deal 300% more damage”.
• Added a new Atlas Keystone Passive, Speaker of the Dead, which grants “Tormented Spirits in your Maps can Possess Players for 20 seconds” and “Tormented Spirits in your Maps cannot Possess Monsters”.
• Added a new Atlas Keystone Passive, Endless Tide, which grants “Beyond Portals in your Maps cannot spawn Unique Bosses” and “Beyond Portals in your Maps have 50% less Merging Radius”.
• Added a new Atlas Keystone Passive Skill, Arbitrary Tenets, which grants “Favours at Ritual Altars in your Maps randomly cost between 90% less and 80% more”.
• Added a new Atlas Keystone Passive Skill, Immutable Dogma, which grants “Cannot Reroll Favours at Ritual Altars in your Maps” and “Monsters Sacrificed at Ritual Altars in your Maps grant 100% more Tribute”.
• Added a new Atlas Keystone Passive Skill, Unending Nightmare, which grants “Delirium Fog in your Maps never dissipates”, “Delirium Orbs cannot be found in your Maps” and “Simulacrum Splinters cannot be found in your Maps”.
• Added a new Atlas Keystone Passive, Timeless Conflict, which grants “Legion Encounters in your Maps have no Timer”, “Breaking out Monsters and Chests that are in stasis progressively causes a Schism”, and “Legion Encounters in your Maps begin once the Schism has occurred.”
• Added a new Atlas Keystone Passive Skill, Crop Rotation, which grants “Harvest Crops in your Maps contain only Tier 1 Plants” and “Harvesting Crops in your Maps has a chance to upgrade the Tier of Plants of different colours”.
• Added a new Atlas Keystone Passive Skill, Bold Undertakings, which grants “Fortune Favours the Brave applies an additional random Option” and “100% more cost of the Fortune Favours the Brave Map Crafting Option”.
• Added a new Atlas Keystone Passive Skill, Overloaded Circuits, which grants “League Map Crafting Options also choose 3 random Notable Atlas Passive Skills associated with that League to treat as allocated” and “100% more cost of Map Crafting Options”.
• Added a new Atlas Keystone Passive Skill, Meticulous Appraiser, which grants “Modifiers to Quantity of Items found in your Maps instead apply to Rarity of Items found in your Maps at 300% of their value”.
• Added a new Atlas Keystone Passive Skill, The Seventh Gate, which grants “All possible League Map Crafting Options are Available while six Gateways are Allocated”.
• Holding Alt on a Currency item or stackable Fragment will now show the count of that Currency or Fragment within the same inventory, including trade windows.
• Continued to incrementally improve the sound, art, effects and environments.

Forbidden Sanctum Changes

• The Forbidden Sanctum has been added to the core game. You’ll initially meet Divinia in the Oriath Docks in Act 10, who provides you with access to the Forbidden Sanctum.
• The Forbidden Sanctum has a maximum Area Level of 83.
• Introduced Forbidden Tomes, which are tradeable items that are found in the end game. A Forbidden Tome represents the entire first floor of the Forbidden Sanctum, and its rooms can be played back to back.
• Upon successfully completing a Sanctum floor, the next floor is generated as a tradable item with the state of your Sanctum built in, including your Boons, Afflictions, Resolve, Relics and Aureus.
• Relics have also returned and are now tradeable. They are locked in at the beginning of the first Sanctum floor, and cannot be changed for the remainder of the Sanctum run.
• Completing a Forbidden Sanctum run now requires killing Lycia in both her first and second form. She will always drop a Unique Relic, which have also been reworked and replaced as we rebalanced the Forbidden Sanctum.
• Primary defences now have some effect on protecting your Resolve. Armour provides Resolve Mitigation from Enemy Hits, Evasion grants a chance to Avoid Resolve loss from Enemy Hits, while Energy Shield provides you with Resolve Aegis, which is a mechanic that behaves similarly to how Energy Shield behaves for Life.
• The difficulty of Forbidden Sanctum has been increased, especially in the later floors. Monsters generally have more Life, and deal slightly more Resolve damage.
• Rare Monsters can now be found within the Forbidden Sanctum, and completing a room now requires killing all Rare Monsters present.
• Monsters in the Forbidden Sanctum are immune to damage if there is no player within 100 units of them.
• Boons and Afflictions have been reviewed and rebalanced, and we’ve also added new Boons and Afflictions themed around the new defensive mechanics.
• The Rusted Mallet minor Affliction that causes Monsters to have Knockback has been removed.
• Relic modifiers have also been reviewed and rebalanced. We’ve also added new Relic modifiers for the new defensive mechanics.
• We’ve also added more hazards and room variety to the Forbidden Sanctum.
• The Forbidden Sanctum has also been adjusted for Ruthless.

Atlas Changes

• The following Maps have been added back to the Atlas: Academy, Acid Caverns, Arena, Basilica, Bazaar, Bog, Cage, Carcass, Channel, Courthouse, Dark Forest, Estuary, Forking River, Glacier, Grave Trough, Graveyard, Haunted Mansion, Iceberg, Ivory Temple, Lava Chamber, Lava Lake, Lookout, Mausoleum, Mesa, Mud Geyser, Palace, Pen, Reef, Spider Forest, Summit, Sunken City, Vault, and Waterways.
• The following Maps have been removed from the Atlas: Arid Lake, Armoury, Arsenal, Belfry, Canyon, Conservatory, Coral Ruins, Core, Crater, Crimson Township, Crystal Ore, Defiled Cathedral, Desert Spring, Dig, Dry Sea, Fields, Forbidden Woods, Foundry, Grotto, Jungle Valley, Laboratory, Lair, Lighthouse, Marshes, Overgrown Ruin, Plaza, Ramparts, Relic Chambers, Scriptorium, Shipyard, Shrine, Toxic Sewer, and Waste Pool.
• Map tiers and locations have been shuffled (though the ‘pin’ locations for maps has not changed). Most maps are now initially found at a different tier.
• Some of the Map Bosses you are required to defeat to upgrade your Pantheon have changed as a result of these Atlas changes.
• Crafting Recipes that were previously unlocked in Maps that have been removed from the Atlas are now found within other Maps currently on the Atlas.
• Some Divination Cards have found new homes as a result of these Atlas Changes:
• The Scarred Meadow and Tranquillity can now be found in the Orchard Map.
• The Whiteout can now be found in the Channel Map.
• Unique Maps are no longer offered as a mission when rerolling Kirac’s missions with an Explorer’s Scouting Report.
• The Sextant modifiers that cause the Final Map Boss in each Map to drop an additional Shaper Guardian, Elder Guardian, or Conqueror Map have been changed to drop upon Completing your Maps.
• When adding the new Lucid Dreams Keystone Atlas Passive, we also took time to review Vaal Side Areas in Maps and the modifiers present on them.
• All modifiers, except one, no longer grant additional packs of Corrupted Vaal Monsters. This has been moved to be an Implicit modifier instead.
• Modifiers with upsides no longer have Increased Item Quantity or Item Corruption Chance, unless that is the only thing they do.
• Modifiers with downsides no longer have variable Item Corruption Chance. This is now a fixed value relative to the perceived difficulty of the modifier.
• Vaal Side Areas can no longer roll regular Map modifiers.
• Modifiers that add extra Monsters are now Suffixes.
• The Explicit Item Corruption Chance modifier has been removed.
• The values provided by modifiers have also been rebalanced.
• Added some new modifiers, including one that causes Vaal Vessels to contain an additional Level 21 Corrupted Gem.
• Map Bosses in Corrupted Maps no longer have the “Corrupted” tag, and no longer drop additional Vaal items.
• The Vaal Temple Map can no longer be obtained outside of Corruption, Vaal Side Areas, or Divination Cards.
• The Beastcraft obtained from Einhar’s Memory of Harvest Beasts that created a Vaal Temple Map now creates a Synthesis Unique Map.
• We’ve also added 3 new Unique Vaal Side Areas. Happy hunting!

Atlas Passive Tree Changes

• The Shaping the Seas and Shaping the Valley Atlas Notable Passive Skills have been removed from the Atlas Tree, and the new Bold Undertakings and Overloaded Circuits Keystones have taken their position. There are now 6 Atlas Passive Skills in this cluster (previously 5), which each provide “Maps found have 5% chance to be 1 tier higher” (previously 4%).
• Added a new Maps cluster to the Atlas Passive Tree. The Notable, Shaping the World, partially compensates for the loss of Shaping the Valleys and Shaping the Seas. It provides “Final Map Boss in each Map has 5% chance to drop an additional connected Map” and “Maps found have 10% chance to be 1 tier higher”, while the 2 small Atlas Passive Skills each provide “Maps found have 5% chance to be 1 tier higher.”
• Added a new Beyond cluster to the Atlas Passive Tree. There are 3 Notables in this cluster, Swarming Hive grants “Beyond Demons in your Maps have 100% increased chance to be followers of K’tash” and “30% more Divination Cards found from Beyond Demons in your Maps that are followers of K’Tash”. Pale Clarion grants “Beyond Demons in your Maps have 100% increased chance to be followers of Beidat” and “30% more Basic Currency Items found from Beyond Demons in your Maps that are followers of Beidat”. Voracious Throng grants “Beyond Demons in your Maps have 100% increased chance to be followers of Ghorr” and “30% more Unique Items found from Beyond Demons in your Maps that are followers of Ghorr.” The 4 small Atlas Passive Skills in the cluster each grant 5% increased Quantity of Items dropped by Beyond Demons in your Maps.
• Added a new Torment cluster to the Atlas Passive Tree. The Notable, Paranormal Meeting, grants “Your Maps are haunted by an additional Tormented Spirit”, while the 3 small Atlas Passive Skills each grant “Tormented Spirits in your Maps have 25% increased Duration.”
• Added a new Vaal Side Areas Cluster to the Atlas Passive Skill Tree. The Notable, Unimaginable Horrors grants “Unique Bosses in Vaal Side Areas in your Maps deal 30% more Damage”, “Unique Bosses in Vaal Side Areas in your Maps have 100% more Life” and “Vaal Side Areas in your Maps have 20% chance for Rewards from Vaal Vessels to be Duplicated.” The 3 small Atlas Passive Skills each provide “Your Maps have +2% chance to contain a Vaal Side Area.”
• Another Adjacent Map Drop Chance small Atlas Passive Skill has been added around Hunting Season, Archaeology Tour, Covert Stakeouts and Mining Partnership Notable Atlas Passive Skills to make space for the new All Hands Keystone.
• The Sturdy Construction Atlas Passive Skill no longer has “Blight Towers and their Minions in your Maps deal 20% more Damage”. Instead, it now has “Blight Monsters in your Maps take 12% increased Damage”.
• The Delirium Difficulty and Persistence small Atlas Passive Skill that provides “Delirium in your Maps increases 5% faster with distance from the mirror” and “Delirium Fog in your Maps dissipates 4% slower” has been removed from the Atlas Passive Tree.
• The Seance and Unrelenting Torment Notable Atlas Passive Skills have swapped locations on the Atlas Tree.
• Some other Atlas Passive Skills have moved location to make space for the new Keystones and Clusters added.

Legion

• The Domain of Timeless Conflict now has a minimum area level of 80. Specific Timeless Emblems and Unrelenting Timeless Emblems no longer provide additional area levels.
• Additional area levels are now added based on the number of Emblems used. 4 Emblems increases the area level by 1, and 5 Emblems increases it by 2.
• Each Unrelenting Timeless Emblem increases the area level by 0.5 area level (rounding down). Meaning with 5 emblems the maximum area level is 84.
• The 20% increased Experience gain for each Timeless Emblem has been removed.
• Each Unrelenting Timeless Emblems now adds 10% increased Experience Gain (previously 20%), and this is now stated on the item tooltip.
• Each Timeless Emblem and Unrelenting Timeless Emblem now adds 15% more Monster Life (previously 10%), and now also adds 10% increased Monster Damage.

Delirium

• The number of monster kills required to gain Delirium rewards in the following Maps has been increased in order to be more consistent with other Maps: Bramble Valley, Cold River, Crimson Township, Dry Sea, Forbidden Woods, Foundry, Frozen Cabins, Silo, and Stagnation.

Torment

• Tormented Spirits now have ~20% more Life per level from level 55, scaling up to ~560% more at level 83.
• They now have a tapering less damage taken buff which activates upon entering their range, and eventually scales down to no damage reduction after 15 seconds.
• For every enemy a Tormented Spirit touches, it increases the damage the spirit takes by 5%.
• Their AI has also changed quite considerably. Spirits now more aggressively touch monsters that aren’t already touched, and more aggressively possess Rare or Unique monsters.
• Stats that add Tormented Spirits to an area are now all consistently described as “haunted by” instead of sometimes being “contains”.

Guardian

• Harmony of Purpose: No longer provides “Nearby Enemies cannot gain Power, Frenzy or Endurance Charges”, “You and nearby Party Members Share Power, Frenzy and Endurance Charges” or “20% chance to gain a Power, Frenzy or Endurance Charge on Hit”. It now grants “Linked Targets and Allies in your Link Beams have +5% to all Maximum Elemental Resistances”, “Enemies in your Link Beams cannot apply Elemental Ailments” and “Enemies in your Link Beams have -20% to all Elemental Resistances.” The small Ascendancy Passive Skill prior no longer provides 15% increased Endurance, Frenzy and Power Charge Duration. It now provides “Link Skills have 5% increased Buff Effect”.
• Radiant Faith: No longer grants Armour equal to 160% of your Reserved Life to you and nearby Allies. Instead, it now grants Armour equal to 25% of your Reserved Mana to you and nearby Allies.
• Unwavering Faith: No longer provides “Auras from your Skills grant +1% Physical Damage Reduction to you and Allies” or “Auras from your Skills grant 0.2% of Life Regenerated per second to you and Allies”. Instead, it now provides “Auras from your Skills grant 5% increased Recovery Rate of Life, Mana and Energy Shield to you and Allies”.
• Time of Need: No longer provides 80% reduced Effect of Curses on you. It now provides “Every 4 seconds, remove Curses and Elemental Ailments from you” and “Every 4 seconds, Regenerate 100% of Life over one second” (previously 30%).
• Radiant Crusade: No longer provides +20% to all Elemental Resistances, “While there are at least five nearby Allies, you and nearby Allies have Onslaught”, or “While there is at least one nearby Ally, you and nearby Allies deal 10% more damage”. It now grants Level 20 Summon Sentinel of Radiance Skill, and “10% of Damage from Hits is taken from your Sentinel of Radiance’s Life before you”.
• Unwavering Crusade: No longer provides “Nearby Allies have 20% increased Attack, Cast and Movement Speed”, “Nearby Allies have 30% increased Area of Effect”, “Nearby Allies Intimidate Enemies for 4 seconds on Hit”, or “Nearby Allies Unnerve Enemies for 4 seconds on Hit”. It now provides a 25% chance to Trigger Level 20 Summon Elemental Relic when you or a nearby Ally Kill an Enemy, or Hit a Rare or Unique Enemy.
• Bastion of Hope: No longer provides +50% Chance to Block Attack Damage for 2 seconds every 5 seconds, or “If you’ve Blocked in the past 10 seconds, you and nearby Allies cannot be Stunned”. It now provides “If you’ve Attacked Recently, you and nearby Allies have +25% Chance to Block Attack Damage” (previously +10%), and “If you’ve Cast a Spell Recently, you and nearby Allies have +25% Chance to Block Spell Damage” (previously +10%). The small Ascendancy Passive Skill prior no longer provides +2% Chance to Block Attack Damage. Instead, it now provides 30% increased Block Recovery.

Chieftain

• Hinekora, Death’s Fury: No longer requires Ngamahu, Flame’s Advance or Ramako, Sun’s Light. No longer provides 1% of Fire Damage Leeched as Life, “Cover Rare or Unique Enemies in Ash for 10 Seconds on Hit” or 10% increased Strength. It now provides “Enemies you Kill have 5% chance to Explode, dealing 500% of their maximum Life as Fire Damage.”
• Tasalio, Cleansing Water: No longer provides “+100% to Fire Resistance”, “20% of Physical Damage from Hits taken as Fire Damage” or “20% increased Life Recovery Rate if you’ve taken Fire Damage from an Enemy Hit Recently”. It now provides “Modifiers to Fire Resistance also apply to Cold and Lightning Resistance at 50% of their Value.” The small Ascendancy Passive Skill prior now provides +15% to Fire Resistance (previously +10%).
• Valako, Storm’s Embrace: Now requires Tasalio, Cleansing Water. No longer provides “Regenerate 0.5% of Life per second per Endurance Charge”, “15% more Damage if you’ve lost an Endurance Charge in the past 8 seconds”, “Gain 1 Endurance Charge every second if you’ve used a Warcry Recently”, or “+1 to Maximum Endurance Charges.” It now provides “Modifiers to Maximum Fire Resistance also apply to Maximum Cold and Lightning Resistances”. The small Ascendancy Passive Skill prior no longer provides 5% chance to gain an Endurance Charge on Kill. Instead, it now provides +15% to Fire Resistance.
• Arohongui, Moon’s Presence: No longer provides “Totems are Immune to Fire Damage”, “Enemies near your Totems deal 8% less Damage”, “Enemies near your Totems take 16% increased Physical and Fire Damage”, or “25% increased Area of Effect while you have a totem.” Instead, it now provides “Recoup 25% of Damage Taken by your Totems as Life”, “Totems Regenerate 1 Life per second per 4 of your Life Recovery per second from Regeneration” and “Totems Taunt Enemies around them for 4 seconds when Summoned.”
• Ngamahu, Flame’s Advance: No longer provides “50% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage” or “Every 10 seconds, gain 100% of Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage for 4 seconds.” It now provides “Non-Unique Jewels cause Increases and Reductions to other Damage Types in a Large Radius to be Transformed to apply to Fire Damage” and “Non-Unique Jewels cause Small and Notable Passive Skills in a Large Radius to also grant +3 to Strength.”
• Tawhoa, Forest’s Strength: Now provides “Trigger Level 20 Tawhoa’s Chosen when you Attack with a Non-Vaal Slam or Strike Skill near an Enemy” (previously Non-Vaal Slam Skill). The small Ascendancy Passive Skill prior no longer provides 10% increased Area of Effect, it now provides 10% increased Melee Damage.
• Tukohama, War’s Herald: Now requires Tawhoa, Forest’s Strength. No longer provides “2% of Damage dealt by your Totems is Leeched to you as Life”, “100% increased Effect of Buffs your Ancestor Totems grant while Active” or “Ancestor Totems have 100% increased Activation range.” It now provides “Skills from Equipped Body Armour are Supported by Level 30 Ancestral Call” and “Skills from Equipped Body Armour are Supported by Level 20 Fist of War”. The small Ascendancy Passive Skill prior no longer provides 10% increased Totem Placement Speed, it now provides 10% increased Melee Damage.
• Ramako, Sun’s Light: No longer provides “+25% to Fire Damage over Time Multiplier”, “25% chance to Ignite” or “Damage Penetrates 15% Fire Resistance”. It now provides “Nearby Enemies’ Fire Resistance is 0% against Damage over Time while you are Stationary.”

Ascendant

• Guardian: No longer provides “25% reduced Effect of Curses on you”, “Auras from your Skills grant +1% Physical Damage Reduction to you and your Allies”, “You and nearby Party Members Share Power, Frenzy and Endurance Charges with each other”, or “While there are at least five nearby Allies, you and nearby Allies have Onslaught.” It now provides “Auras from your Skills grant 3% increased Recovery Rate of Life, Mana and Energy Shield to you and Allies”, “If you’ve Attacked Recently, you and nearby Allies have +10% Chance to Block Attack Damage”, and “If you’ve Cast a Spell Recently, you and nearby Allies have +10% Chance to Block Spell Damage.” It also now provides “Every 4 seconds, Regenerate 50% of Life over one second” (previously 20%).
• Chieftain: No longer provides “40% increased Fire Damage”, “Regenerate 2% of Life per second”, or “1% of Damage dealt by your Totems is Leeched to you as Life.” It now provides “Totems Taunt Enemies around them for 2 seconds when Summoned”, “Unaffected by Ignite” and “10% increased Strength.”

Occultist

• Due to the discovery of a bug where Frigid Wake was incorrectly using a fixed-duration freeze, causing it to not be affected by freeze duration modifiers, we have made the below change. The described bug has also been fixed.
• Frigid Wake: No longer has “Every 4 seconds, 33% chance to Freeze nearby Chilled Unique Enemies for 0.6 seconds” or “Every 4 seconds, Freeze nearby Chilled Non-Unique Enemies for 0.6 seconds.” It now has “Every 4 seconds, 50% chance to Freeze nearby Non-Frozen Enemies for 0.6 seconds.”

Passive Skill Tree Balance

• Added a new Fire Damage with Attack Skills cluster to the Passive Skill Tree to the south-west of the Marauder’s starting location. The Lava Lash Notable Passive has been moved into this new cluster, which contains two other Notables, Settling Ash, which provides “Nearby Enemies are Covered in Ash if you haven’t moved in the past 2 seconds”, and Concussive Force, which provides “Hits Stun as though dealing 50% more Melee Fire Damage” and “Ignites from Stunning Melee Hits deal 20% more Damage.”
• Added a new Ignite and Bleeding Duration cluster to the Passive Skill Tree to the south-west of the Marauder’s starting location. The Notable, Cauterisation, provides “Bleeding enemies cannot inflict Bleeding on you” and “Ignited enemies cannot Ignite you.” The Harvester of Foes cluster has been shifted down slightly to make space for the new cluster.
• Added a new Fire Damage with Attack Skills cluster to the Passive Skill Tree to the south-west of the Duelist’s starting location. The Notable, Invigorating Blaze, provides “+10% to Fire Damage over Time Multiplier with Attack Skills”, and “Recover 2% of Life when you Ignite a non-Ignited Enemy.” The Champion of the Cause and Bannerman cluster has been moved to Lava Lash’s old location to make space for this new cluster.
• The Magmatic Strikes Notable Passive Skill no longer provides “Gain 10% of Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage.” Instead, it now provides “Every 10 seconds, gain 30% of Physical Damage as Extra Fire Damage for 4 seconds.”
• The Dirty Techniques Notable Passive Skill no longer provides +10% to Damage over Time Multiplier for Ailments. It now causes Damaging Ailments to deal damage 15% faster (previously 10%). The two small Passive Skills prior both now cause Damaging Ailments to deal damage 5% faster (previously 15% increased Duration of Ailments on Enemies, and 15% increased Damage with Ailments).
• The Vengeant Cascade Anointed Notable Passive Skill no longer provides 15% increased Projectile Speed, “Attack Projectiles Return to you”, or “Returning Projectiles Pierce all Targets.” Instead, it now provides “Returning Projectiles have 150% increased Speed.”
• Quality on the Anomalous Faster Projectiles Support now grants Projectiles from Supported Skills have 0-10% chance to Return to you (previously 0-60%).
• The Timeless Jewel-exclusive Strength of Blood Keystone no longer provides 1% less Damage taken for every 2% Life Recovery per second from Leech. Instead, it now provides 2% additional Physical Damage Reduction for every 3% Life Recovery per second from Leech.
• Added a new Charge Mastery: Nearby Enemies cannot gain Power, Frenzy or Endurance Charges.
• The “Totems Taunt Enemies around them for 1 second when Summoned” Totem Mastery has been replaced with “1% of Physical Attack Damage dealt by your Totems is Leeched to you as Life.”