Passive Skill Tree Updates
- Druid Expansion: Over 250 new Passive Skills added specifically for the Druid class.
- Elemental Archon Unification: All nodes granting specific Flame, Ice, or Lightning Archons now grant generic Elemental Archon, making multi-element builds significantly easier to sustain.
- Hollow Palm Rework: Now grants 1% more Attack Speed per 75 Evasion on Armour (previously 25) and sets Unarmed base attack time to 1.65s (buffed from 1.4s).
- Remnant Buffs: "Remnant Attraction" cluster added. Principal Infusion and various small nodes now allow collecting Remnants from significantly further away.
- Keystone Shifts:
- Walker of the Wilds removed (moved to a Lineage Support).
- Elemental Equilibrium now rotates Remnant types (e.g., Cold creates Fire remnants).
- Crimson Assault now grants 50% more Bleeding Magnitude.
Support Gem Overhaul
- Disabled Gems: Font of Rage and Ricochet III have been disabled.
- Lineage Support Buffs: Xoph, Esh, Tul, and Uul-Netol supports now grant 40% of Damage as Extra Chaos (doubled from 20%).
- New Support: Nova Projectiles II added (6 additional projectiles, 50% less damage, 8s cooldown).
- Chain Changes: Chain I, II, and III rebalanced. Chain II now chains +2 times but deals 50% less damage.
- Impact Shockwave: Now creates actual Aftershocks (benefiting from aftershock modifiers) and supports non-strike Wind attacks.
Skill Gem Balance & Mechanical Changes
- New [Wind] Tag: Added to roughly 8 skills (including Tornado Shot, Twister, and Whirling Slash), enabling new synergies.
- Physical Conversion Buffs: Many skills (Electrocuting Arrow, Glacial Cascade, Ice Shot, Lightning Arrow, etc.) now convert 80% of Physical Damage to their element (up from 50-60%).
- Rhoa Mount QoL: Now grants 100% reduced Movement Speed penalty while using skills (you no longer slow down while attacking on the mount).
- Summoner Updates:
- Spectres: Base variants and endgame variants of monsters have been buffed.
- Raise Zombie: Empowered Zombie deals significantly more damage (up to 253%).
- Major Skill Buffs:
- Arctic Armour: Massive damage scaling buff and 100% more Freeze Buildup.
- Ball Lightning: Shock chance increased to 375% (was 750% "more," calculation adjusted) and damage scaling increased.
- Lightning Warp: New behavior—if used on an enemy not yet cullable, it applies a debuff to auto-warp when they reach the cull threshold.
- Glacial Cascade: Final burst now converts 100% Physical to Cold.
See the full patch notes from grinding gear games pathofexile.com
