PoE Atlas Passive Tree Changes & Ascendancy Changes 3.28

Atlas Passive Tree Changes 3.28

• The Shadow Shaping, Bold Undertakings, and Singular Focus Atlas Keystone Passives have been removed.
• Added a new Atlas Keystone Passive, The Paths Not Taken, which grants Divination Cards found in your Maps are from two random other Maps instead of the one you’re in.
• Added a new Atlas Keystone Synthesised Stability, which grants Completing a Map Objective within a Shaped Region instead collapses a different Map within the Shaped Region.
• The Overloaded Circuits Atlas Keystone now grants "Your Maps are opened with 5 additional random Unallocated Notable Atlas Passives".
• The Refiner's Bargain Atlas Keystone now has Lifeforce found in your Maps is granted as a random Crop instead at 250% of the value (previously 150%), and Sulphite found in your Maps is granted as a random Ore instead at 10% of the value (previously 15%).
• The Ancient Conflict Atlas Passive now grants Abyssal Troves and Stygian Spires a 10% chance to drop an Abyss Scarab (previously 3%).
• The Ancient Decay Atlas Passive now has one less small node to reach the notable, and each small node now grants 25% slower Expedition Detonation speed (previously 5%).
• Two new small Passives leading to Ancient Decay have also been added, which grant 25% faster Expedition Detonation Speed, for those that would like a change of pace.
• The Chiselled Perfection Atlas Passive has been renamed to "Multiplying Modifiers" and now grants "3% increased effect of Explicit Modifiers on your Maps per Fragment used with Map".
• The Deadly Prey Atlas Passive now has Beasts in your Maps have Bestial Rage and Defeating Beasts grants a stack of Hunter's Cunning (previously this passive granted Beasts have 50% chance to break free and gain a stack of Bestial Rage and Defeating Beasts grants a stack of Hunter's Cunning per stack of Bestial Rage).
• The For Love of the Queen Atlas Passive now grants a 25% chance for Vaal Side Areas in your Maps to be Alluring Vaal Side areas (previously 20%) as well as Your Maps have a +6% chance to contain a Vaal Side Area (previously +4%).
• The small Passives leading to the For Love of the Queen Atlas Passive now grant Your Maps have a +3% chance to contain a Vaal Side Area (previously +2%).
• The Immune Response Atlas Passive now has Blight Monsters in your Maps spawn 150% faster (previously 100%) and no longer has Blight Encounters in your Maps spawn 50% more Non-Unique Monsters.
• The small Passives near Immune Response that granted Blight Encounters in your Maps spawn more Non-Unique Monsters now instead grant increased Quantity of Items dropped from Blighted Monsters in your Maps.
• The Pillage and Plunder Atlas Passive now has Veiled Items dropped by Defeated Syndicate Members in your Maps have a 5% chance to drop with a Fractured Veiled Modifier and no longer has 25% increased Rarity of Items from Defeated Syndicate Members in your Maps per Equipment Item they have.
• The Sulphite Infusion Atlas Passive now grants 400 Sulphite on Completing a White Tier map (previously 200), 700 Sulphite on Completing a Yellow Tier Map (previously 350) and 1000 Sulphite on Completing a Red Tier Map (previously 500).
• Small Passives that grant increased Sulphite gain from Sulphite Veins and Chests in your Maps now grant 6% (previously 3%).
• The Secret Stash Atlas Passive now grants Your Maps have +30% chance to contain a Smuggler's Cache (previously +12%).
• Small Passives that grant a chance for your Maps to contain a Smuggler's Cache now grant +10% chance each (previously +4%).
• The Shaping the Mountains Atlas Passive no longer has 10% chance on Completing your Maps to gain a free use of a random Map Crafting option. It now has 10% increased number of Rare Monsters in your Maps.
• The Shaping the Skies Atlas Passive no longer has 3% chance on Completing your Maps to gain a free use of a special Map Crafting option. It now has 10% increased number of Magic Monsters in your Maps.
• The Straight and Narrow Atlas Passive has been reinstated in the Atlas Passive Tree for Standard Leagues.
• The Trial of Glory Atlas Passive now grants a 25% chance for Labyrinth Trials in your Maps to award an Improved Offering to the Goddess (previously 20%), as well as Your Maps have a +6% chance to contain a Trial of Ascendancy (previously +4%).
• The small Passives leading to the Trial of Glory Atlas Passive now grant Your Maps have a +3% chance to contain a Trial of Ascendancy (previously +2%).
• The Two-Hearted Hunt Atlas Passive now has Red Beasts Captured in your Maps have a 100% chance to gain a Modifier that provides a chance to not be consumed when sacrificed at the Blood Altar (previously 50%). These types of modifiers now only give up to a 20% chance for the Beast to not be consumed (previously up to 40%).
• The Unimaginable Horrors Atlas Passive now grants Vaal Side Areas in your Maps have a 25% chance for Rewards from Vaal Vessels to be Duplicated (previously 20%).
• The small Passives leading to the Friends in High Places Atlas Passive now grant the following instead of Heist Contract Level Chance: Heist Contracts found in your Maps are 100% more likely to require Lockpicking, Brute Force or Perception, Heist Contracts found in your Maps are 100% more likely to require Demolition, Counter-Thaumaturgy or Trap Disarmament, or Heist Contracts found in your Maps are 100% more likely to require Agility, Deception or Engineering.
• The small Passives leading to the No Honour Among Thieves Atlas Passive now grant Your Maps that contain Smuggler's Caches have a 20% chance to contain an additional Smuggler's Cache (previously 10%).
• The No Honour Among Thieves Atlas Passive now has Your Maps that contain Smuggler's Caches have a 15% chance to contain 6 additional Smuggler's Caches (previously 5% chance). Unchanged in Ruthless.
• The small Passives prior to the Backup Cache Notable Atlas Passive now also grant Strongboxes in your Maps have 30% increased chance to be an Artisan's Strongbox (this is a 25% increased chance in Ruthless Leagues).
• Small Atlas Passives that granted 2% chance for one Monster in each of your Maps to drop an additional connected Map instead now grant 2% increased Maps found in your Maps.

Ascendancy Changes 3.28

Chieftain

• The Hinekora, Death's Fury Notable now has Enemies you or your Totems Kill have 10% chance to Explode (from 5), dealing 250% of their maximum Life as Fire Damage (from 500).

Guardian

• The Guardian's Sentinel of Radiance Minion no longer has duration (it is a permanent minion) and has approximately 36% more Movement Speed. Note the Sentinel still doesn't persist between areas.
• Effects that grant random Shrine buffs such as Guardian's Harmony of Purpose Notable or The Golden Charlatan Unique Sword instead now grant Greater Shocking, Freezing and Skeletal Shrine (instead of the regular versions of these Shrines).
• The Time of Need Notable now has Every 4 seconds, remove Curses and Ailments from you (previously removed Curses and Elemental Ailments).
• The Guardian now has an additional 2-point Ascendancy Notable: Marshal of Divinity. This Notable grants Inflict Hallowing Flame on Melee Hit, You can inflict +1 Hallowing Flame on Enemies, and Gain 10% of Physical Damage as Extra Lightning Damage for each of your Hallowing Flames that have been removed by an allied hit recently, up to 80%.

Warden

• The Lesson of the Seasons Notable now grants -25 Damage taken of each Damage Type from Spell Hits per Bark (previously -15 Fire, Cold and Lightning Damage taken).
• The Avatar of the Wilds now grants 100% more Elemental Damage while Unbound (previously 80%).

Assassin

• The Opportunistic Notable now provides Damage cannot be Reflected (previously Damage from your Critical Strikes cannot be Reflected).

Saboteur

• The Perfect Crime Notable now has 30% less Damage with Triggered Spells (previously 35%).
• The Like Clockwork Notable has 50% increased Cooldown Recovery Rate (previously 40%).
• The Calculated Risk Notable now has Damage of Enemies Hitting you is Unlucky.

Elementalist

• The Liege of the Primordial Notable no longer has 50% increased Effect of Buffs granted by your Golems.

Ascendant

• The Assassin Notable now provides Damage Cannot be Reflected (previously Damage from your Critical Strikes cannot be Reflected).

Passive Skill Tree Changes 3.28

• Added two new clusters to the west of the Templar starting area: one granting Accuracy and Effect of Consecrated Ground, the other granting Accuracy and Attack Area of Effect.
• Added a new Protection Mastery that provides 50% of Damage from your Hits cannot be Reflected (replacing the Mastery that granted 65% reduced effect of Wither on You).
• The Defiled Forces Notable Passive no longer refreshes the Duration of Ignite on Enemies you Curse, and instead has Curse Skills have 15% increased Cast Speed.
• The Evasion and Energy Shield Mastery now has 1% increased Evasion Rating per 10 Intelligence (previously per 5 Intelligence).
• The Fire Mastery that granted 50% chance to refresh Ignite Duration on Critical Strike has been replaced with a Mastery granting +12% to Fire Damage over Time Multiplier and 50% increased Ignite Duration on You.