'One With Everything' is Replaced in Patch 2.1

Nope!



No date to share at this time. In fact, I'll go ahead and say right now that we won't reveal the release date ahead of time. At present, however, we are currently looking to launch the 2.1.0 PTR sometime this month (but that of course may change depending on our development schedule).

Once the PTR is available, we'll provide our standard "PTR Now Available" messaging on the front page as well as the current set of PTR patch notes.



Correct! See above answer. :)

This is correct. The number of Health Globes that drop isn't changing, which should reduce the impact for items or skills that proc off of collecting them.

With Patch 2.1 around the corner, many classes are receiving some substantial revisions to core functionalities. These changes have equally substantial philosophy behind them, so we want to prepare you in advance for the kinds of adjustments you should expect.

Preparation (Punishment) was creating less than ideal gameplay by encouraging the conversion of Discipline to direct DPS. The byproduct of this was Demon Hunters frequently finding themselves without their defensive or utility skills, often resulting in more frequent character death. To address this, we are reworking this rune to no longer cost Discipline, but have a 20 second cooldown.

While this change may initially seem severe, it has several major benefits we hope players will take the opportunity to explore and experiment with:

• All Discipline is now reserved for defensive and utility skills, encouraging Demon Hunters to take greater advantage of these skills.
• Nightstalker will feel less mandatory in conjunction with Punishment, freeing up a Passive slot in many builds.
• If you choose to keep Preparation (Punishment) in your build, the cooldown corresponds with roughly how long it would take to regenerate the appropriate amount of Discipline (unless you had a large amount of Resource Cost Reduction).
• Cooldown Reduction is now a more attractive stat, and this may open up new CDR-focused builds.

We know this changes builds and the gameplay pattern for some Demon Hunters. We’re also working hard to adjust other skills as well as introduce Legendary items both in this patch and constantly in the future in order to continue opening up new and exciting ways to play.

This change will soon be available on the PTR, and we hope that you will take the opportunity to try it out and let us know how it feels. We're eager to hear your feedback on this and other changes coming in Patch 2.1.

With Patch 2.1 around the corner, many classes are receiving some substantial revisions to core functionalities. These changes have equally substantial philosophy behind them, so we want to prepare you in advance for the kinds of adjustments you should expect.

Adjustments to One With Everything has been a long-standing community request, but we wanted to make sure we could address this in a way that solves all of its components without reducing the Monk's survivability. There are two major issues with One With Everything:

• It's too good, to the point it feels mandatory for all Monks to use.
• It forces Monks to gear a specific way, which is difficult and frustrating.

We are addressing this issue in two ways. First, both Monks and Demon Hunters will no longer receive Dodge from Dexterity. Instead, they will receive Armor, similar to Barbarians and Crusaders. For more information on this change, please refer to our Patch 2.1.0 PTR Preview blog.

Second, One With Everything is being replaced with a new passive called Harmony. Harmony allows 30% of your single elemental resistances from items to apply to all elements.

With these two changes, we can move away from a place where Monks are forced to rely on their secondary affixes for Toughness. It’s possible you may see your Toughness as a lower number after this change is in effect, depending on how you've previously geared. However, the exchange of Dodge to more reliable survivability stats like Armor and more accessible All Resist should provide you roughly the same amount of survivability, and overall you shouldn't notice a big difference.

These changes will soon be available on the PTR, and we hope that you will take the opportunity to try them out and let us know how they feel. We're eager to hear your feedback on this and other changes coming in Patch 2.1.

Greater Rift leaderboards will indeed be separated by class for solo play.



Season-Only Leaderboards will not, since the relevant data will be tracked at the account level rather than at the character level.



https://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/14244559/

Note that this is currently how Leaderboards function in 2.1.0, but that the functionality is subject to change before patch ships. :)

That's definitely feedback we can take into consideration and, of course, will be mindful of (if not actively looking for) during the public testing phase.

As noted in the preview, some Conquests will require your character to be in Hardcore mode to achieve. In fact, we intend to have the number of Conquests per Season split evenly between both Hardcore and Normal game modes.

The goal with Conquests in general is to encourage different styles of play, or at least target those different styles to some degree. That's under our current philosophy, at least; Conquests are still development and may see some iteration during the PTR. :)

Nope, not currently. There are no Leaderboards planned at this time that would track Paragon levels (or even total experience gained) within a Season. It was a conscious choice on our end to shift Leaderboards for Seasonal characters away from a pure level grind towards more objective-based (or even skill-based) goals like Greater Rifts, Seasonal achievement points, and Conquests.

Standard caveat: This is all according to current design. Details and functionality subject to change pending testing and feedback.