Devourer Demon Hunter
Demon HunterDevelopers’ notes: Cancelled casts of Collapsing Star have been a noted pain point since Devourer’s introduction, and the changes in this update are aimed at alleviating some of that frustration. Until now there has been a cooldown enforced on Collapsing Star after it was interrupted or cancelled; this was in place to discourage gameplay that would capitalize on the slowed Fury drain during its cast to extend Void Metamorphosis and land a Collapsing Star at the ‘right’ time. While it was effective at that primary goal, the cooldown was also jarring for players when a cast was interrupted or manually cancelled for very normal gameplay reasons. We hope the changes to Collapsing Star in this update will be able to find a middle ground where normal gameplay will not be punished and rarely notice the new underlying restriction, while still minimizing the opportunity and incentive to manipulate its slowed Fury drain mechanic. Second, because of Collapsing Star’s long cast time combined with its medium range, the circumstances where Collapsing Star would be cancelled by its target moving out of range were too common. We’re giving Collapsing Star more wiggle room to finish its cast by giving it extra range after its cast begins. Developers' notes: We are shuffling some talents around to make it a little easier for builds to access core functional effects. The final gate was very dense and two of its talents are moving to the middle gate. The final gate’s capstone talents also notably included effects that are core building blocks: The Hunt is featured for Void-Scarred builds, and Eradicate is a key component of any build’s AoE damage. Those two talents are moving to more accessible locations in the middle gate of the tree, with other talents moving into their capstone positions. Developers’ notes: The Void-Scarred talent tree had multiple powerful bonuses that all centered around entering Void Metamorphosis, which was discouraging players from casting Collapsing Star because doing so would delay how long it would be until entering Void Metamorphosis and benefiting from those bonuses again. Collapsing Star is intended to be a feature ability of Devourer’s rotation regardless of which Hero Talents are selected, so some of Void-Scarred’s bonuses will now be granted by casting Collapsing Star instead of only being granted by entering Void Metamorphosis.
- Collapsing Star now has increased range after it starts casting, reducing the circumstances where it will fail from the target moving out of range.
- Collapsing Star no longer goes on cooldown for 5 seconds when its cast is cancelled.
- Collapsing Star will now only slow Fury drain during its cast for a limited time.
- If Collapsing Star's cast is cancelled then cast again, it will only be able to slow Fury drain for a total time of approximately 1.5 full casts.
- After that time limit has been reached, Fury drain will resume in full regardless of whether or not a cast is interrupted or starts again.
- Soulforged Blades now increases the critical strike chance of Hungering Slash and Voidblade by 18% (was 15%).
- Voidpurge now reduces the cooldown of Void Ray during Void Metamorphosis by 2.5 seconds (was 2 seconds).
- Many talents have changed positions.
Void-Scarred
- Demonic Intensity now causes Collapsing Star to reset the cooldown of The Hunt.
- Demonic Intensity's empower effect for The Hunt now increases its damage by 30%.
- Violent Transformation now resets the cooldown of Soul Immolation.
- Violent Transformation no longer resets the cooldown of The Hunt.
- Violent Transformation no longer increases the damage of The Hunt (was 25%) or causes it to reset the cooldown of Soul Immolation.
- Monster Rising now increases Intellect by 10% while not in demon form (was 15%).
- Monster Rising now increases Collapsing Star damage by 20% (was 15%).