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Diablo IV Patch Notes

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2.1.3 Build #62672 (All Platforms)—March 4, 2025

Vessel of Hatred

Game Updates

Spiritborn

Sunstained War-Crozier

• Potency Skill damage increased from 10-20% per stack to 15-25%, and maximum increased from 100-200% to 150-250%.

Wushe Nak Pa

• Primary Spirit Hall Potency increased from 100-200% to 200-300%.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the fog wall in the Ancient Nexus could not be passed by one player in the party if another started the encounter before every party member entered the arena.
• Fixed an issue where taking a portal to a party member who just failed a Kurast Undercity run could teleport the player to a new Undercity instance with no affixes.
• Fixed an issue where monsters could get stuck in the walls in the Windswept Altar Dungeon.
• Fixed an issue where no warning was present when trying to load an Armory loadout with more than 2 Runewords.

Base Game

Game Updates

Season of Witchcraft

Grow

• Damage per rank increased from 1% to 2.5%, maximum increased from 45% 75%.

Doom Orb

• Damage bonus on kills and boss damage increased from 5% to 8%, maximum damage increased from 100% to 160%.

Firebat Servants

• Damage increased from 20% to 40% per hit.

Wave of Woe

• Bounce damage increased from 15% to 25%.

Hex of Flames

• Damage increased from 40% to 60%.

Poison Frog

• Poison damage total increased from 40% to 90% per rank.
• Explosion damage total increased from 50% to 120% per rank.

Druid

Waxing Gibbous

• Inherent additive Critical Strike damage replaced with +50% chance for Shred to deal double damage.

Wolf's Rain

• Hurricane damage per Wolf increased from 5-15% to 15-25%.

Rogue

Assassin's Stride

• Shadow Imbued potency increased from 40-80% to 60-120%.

Sorcerer

Skills and Passives

Ball Lightning

• Damage increased from 24% to 30%.

Glass cannon

• Damage increased from 6/12/18%[x] to 8/16/24%[x].

Vyr's Mastery

• Chance for your Shock skill to arc to another enemy increased from 10% to 15%.

Esu's Ferocity

• Fire Critical Strike Damage increased from 50% to 75%.
• Fire Critical Strike Chance increased from 10% to 40%.

Unique Items

Axial Conduit

• Explosion now scales with Chain Lightning ranks.

Okun's Catalyst

• This unique power has been reworded for clarity.
  • Previous: Ball Lightning orbits you creating a static field that damages all enemies within for 140 - 180%[x] of Ball Lightning's damage per active ball. You are Unhindered as long as the field is active.
  • Now: Casting Ball Lightning instead creates a separate static field around you that damages all enemies within for 140-180% Ball Lightning's damage per active ball. You are Unhindered as long as the field is active.

Strike of Stormhorn

• Increased damage from 160-200% to 175-225%.
• Now scales with rRanks of Ball Lightning.
• The unique power has been reworded for clarity.
  • Previous: Ball Lightning splashes on impact for 160 - 200%[x] increased damage.
  • Ball Lightning splashes on impact dealing 175-225% of its total damage instantly.

Season of Witchcraft

• The message that displays when an Uprooted Cocoon is emerged has been updated to not suggest a Head could be present in non-Torment difficulties.

Miscellaneous

• The default search parameters for Party Finder now include and are ordered by the player's current difficulty level and one difficulty level lower.
• The damage of Conduit Shrines has been adjusted to aggressively scale with player level and Paragon level.

Developer's Note: For example, the average increase in damage from Conduit Shrines has increased by approximately 37x in Torment III.

Bug Fixes

Accessibility

• Fixed a rare issue where Paragon nodes could not be read properly by the Screen Reader.
• Fixed an issue where the Screen Reader did not announce the warning for refunding a Paragon node which broke the connection to other nodes.
• Fixed an issue where the Screen Reader did not read the Class Icon in the tooltip for the Aspect awarded on completed Dungeons when viewing the map.
• Fixed an issue where the Screen Reader did not properly function in the Stats and Materials window.

Season of Witchcraft

• Fixed an issue where duplicate icons for the Seeker Bounty could appear in Headhunt Zones.
• Fixed an issue where the visual effect for the Firebat Servants power was too intense in certain contexts.
• Fixed an issue where bosses in Rootholds could evade through the wall in certain scenarios.
• Fixed an issue where the Overgrown Tenement dungeon during the Oaths and Debts quest could be reset, allowing the player to infinitely farm Fugitive Heads.
• Fixed an issue where Seekers could spawn outside of the highlighted areas for the Seeker Bounty.

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue where Aspect of Reanimation was not correctly increasing the damage of Ring of Mendeln, Shademist Aspect, or Aspect of Fel Gluttony.
• Fixed an issue where the Necromancer's Golem, Warrior, and Mage Paragon Glyphs were not correctly increasing the damage of their Minions.
• Fixed an issue where Barbarian's Supreme Call of the Ancients did not function properly.
• Fixed an issue where Raging Pulverize did less damage than displayed in the tooltip.
• Fixed an issue where the Maximum rank for the Aspect of Ultimate Shadow was not achievable in the Codex of Power.
• Fixed an issue where damage from Rogue's Shadow Clone was not correctly inheriting additional skill tags, such as those granted from the Voice of the Stars Occult Gem.
• Fixed an issue where the damage from Poison Imbuement and Shadow Imbuement was not properly attributed to the player when it was dealt by a Shadow Clone using Aspect of Imitated Imbuement.
• Fixed an issue where Sorcerer's Barrier would drop after being attacked when using aspect of Mind's Awakening with the Energy Focus passive.
• Fixed an issue where the Council Gate in Infernal Hordes could not be passed through immediately after opening it.

User Interface and User Experience

• Fixed an issue where various menus could malfunction if your World State changed while they were open. An example of this interaction would be joining a party and then transferring to the leader's world while viewing wares at the Occultist.
• Fixed an issue where the camera did not zoom out properly while fighting World Bosses in certain scenarios.

Miscellaneous

• Fixed an issue where some crafted caches could fail to grant any items.
• Fixed an issue where the appearance for Mantle of Mountain's Fury was not granted when Salvaging the item.
• Fixed an issue where equipment appearances selected in the Wardrobe could sometimes revert to previously applied appearances.
• Various stability, Performance, Visual, UI, and Audio improvements.

 

[Joramun]

so I swapped to the blood wave build because all of the buggery surrounding the minion build and Mendeln ring, and I do have to say the ass clap (because to me the character is clapping its ass cheeks to summon the wave) build is unbeatable holy moly

that's what I'm running and my gear isn't optimised and it's doing very well

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

that's what I'm running and my gear isn't optimised and it's doing very well

As long as you have the unique legs, you're set everything else is just for fun and pit running.

 

[Rentahamster]

Join Our 2.2.0 PTR Campfire chat

Tune in to our next Campfire Chat, where we’ll discuss the upcoming 2.2.0 Public Test Realm.

news.blizzard.com

Our next Campfire Chat begins on March 7 at 11 a.m. PST and gives a preview of our upcoming 2.2.0 Public Test Realm (PTR) for our next Season. Join members of the development team as they reveal how to access, and what to expect in this next Public Test Realm available to PC Battle.net users.

Tune in to learn more about the PTR, balance updates, and more. There will also be a Q&A segment at the end of the stream for players to field their questions directly to the team.

Visit our official Diablo Twitch, YouTube, X, and TikTok channels to watch live! Following the Campfire Chat's conclusion, we'll post another article with a video of the chat so you can catch up on the details if you miss them.

 

[Rentahamster]

Join Our 2.2.0 PTR Campfire chat

Tune in to our next Campfire Chat, where we’ll discuss the upcoming 2.2.0 Public Test Realm.

news.blizzard.com

Our next Campfire Chat begins on March 7 at 11 a.m. PST and gives a preview of our upcoming 2.2.0 Public Test Realm (PTR) for our next Season. Join members of the development team as they reveal how to access, and what to expect in this next Public Test Realm available to PC Battle.net users.

Tune in to learn more about the PTR, balance updates, and more. There will also be a Q&A segment at the end of the stream for players to field their questions directly to the team.

Visit our official Diablo Twitch, YouTube, X, and TikTok channels to watch live! Following the Campfire Chat's conclusion, we'll post another article with a video of the chat so you can catch up on the details if you miss them.

It was... okay I guess. I feel like they spend way too much time fixing mistakes which prevents them from dedicating time to make new compelling content.

 

[Rentahamster]

Too long to copy paste

The 2.2.0 PTR: What You Need to Know

Crush powerful foes and siphon their abilities to gain new Boss Powers that will enhance your build in the 2.2.0 PTR.

news.blizzard.com

 

[cormack12]

I sat out s7, the only season j haven't done. Getting a bit tired of basically chasing the meta. It's way too difficult to conjure up your own builds in a single season length and get attached enough to it to improve it.

Figure out resource gen, figure what you want to proc, then figure out the synergy, then the aspects etc. Then you have status, affixes on top of that as well as constantly relearning the material rotation (i know they are changing to lair keys). Then you may have uniques as well, then runes or gems etc.

They really need to streamline some of this stuff and do a better job of surfacing the background synergies etc. The crowd control issue is a perfect example of things proccing and the player doesn't even know why

 

[Rentahamster]

I tried out the Season 8 PTR, leveling from 1 to 60. It was a little harder, but not that much.

The new boss powers are pretty neat, and fairly strong. Getting to T1 as fast as you can and beating each boss once to get their power will be effective.

 

[Fess]

What's the most fun class for essentially first time Diablo players?
I've only played a couple hours of Diablo 3. Nothing else.
Just installed Diablo IV but have no idea what class to pick. Started playing a bit with the barbarian but the combat didn't feel as satisfying as I thought it would feel, two presses on A and everything is dead.

 

[Codeblew]

What's the most fun class for essentially first time Diablo players?
I've only played a couple hours of Diablo 3. Nothing else.
Just installed Diablo IV but have no idea what class to pick. Started playing a bit with the barbarian but the combat didn't feel as satisfying as I thought it would feel, two presses on A and everything is dead.

You could try a mage. They are a bit more squishy but you can counteract with some of their defensive skills. If it seems too easy, you can always up the difficulty level. I would just try all of the classes up to level 20 or so until you find one that clicks with you.

 

[Fess]

You could try a mage. They are a bit more squishy but you can counteract with some of their defensive skills. If it seems too easy, you can always up the difficulty level. I would just try all of the classes up to level 20 or so until you find one that clicks with you.

Yeah I was considering the last thing but just play for an hour or so on each class to get a rough idea how they feel.
Rogue seems fun too but I heard it's auto target with a controller so might have to install on the desktop PC instead for direct mouse aiming. Have it installed on the couch PC now.

Can it be played offline? I see some random people pop up. I don't want any of that.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Yeah I was considering the last thing but just play for an hour or so on each class to get a rough idea how they feel.
Rogue seems fun too but I heard it's auto target with a controller so might have to install on the desktop PC instead for direct mouse aiming. Have it installed on the couch PC now.

Can it be played offline? I see some random people pop up. I don't want any of that.

Always online.

 

[Fess]

Always online.

Meh!
Oh well, been playing as a Rogue for awhile now, trying to understand what's going on. It's extremely chaotic, some helltide thing keeps spawning like 20 enemies that jump on me at once as soon as I'm out of the first city, I can't see shit, explosions everywhere, just keeps on mashing A.

 

[Fess]

Okay it's about 10,000 times better when playing Rogue with mouse, you have to actively aim now, no auto target. Just took down my first tomb lord. Fun! But is there a way to lock movements? Sometimes I click at the wrong spot and starts walking into the group of enemies when I just want to stand still in the distance and lob arrows.

 

[Rentahamster]

Meh!
Oh well, been playing as a Rogue for awhile now, trying to understand what's going on. It's extremely chaotic, some helltide thing keeps spawning like 20 enemies that jump on me at once as soon as I'm out of the first city, I can't see shit, explosions everywhere, just keeps on mashing A.

If you want a controller friendly build, try dance of knives.

Conceal, imbue, then spin to win.

 

[cormack12]

None of the classes are complex, there's only really 3 builds per class that rotate if you're looking for endgame stuff. And that's fine, the objective is to get to the good loot in the fastest time.

Try a druid.

 

[Fess]

If you want a controller friendly build, try dance of knives.

Conceal, imbue, then spin to win.

Right now I enjoy playing with mouse as a bow man Rogue. Evade feels random but otherwise it plays great.
I set a couple points into a sword attack skill that seems to be fairly powerful, don't remember the name. But it eat up energy too fast. I maxed out the base arrow attack instead and it's quite satisfying, 1-2 shots to end most smaller enemies, canon fodder essentially.

Another thing about the game in general. Loot drops are actually useful! Nice! I've been playing a lot of Avowed and the loot there is mostly upgrade parts, incredibly boring.

 

[Fess]

That dance of knives skill just plows through everything!

 

[Rentahamster]

That dance of knives skill just plows through everything!

Told ya lol

The key in the early game is to use concealment with the ability to guarantee the next hit is a critical strike. That way, if you use it for dance or knives, the entire duration is 100% crits.

 

[Fess]

Told ya lol

The key in the early game is to use concealment with the ability to guarantee the next hit is a critical strike. That way, if you use it for dance or knives, the entire duration is 100% crits.

Lmao yeah you said spin to win and it wasn't an exaggeration, more like an understatement!

I use another skill too where the character unleash a serie of sword thrusts that is really powerful too, not sure what it's called, maybe flurry? But it's eating up energy fast. Combining that skill and dance with knives seems to work well, took down a dungeon boss in like 10 seconds that was probably meant to be somewhat challenging.

Might need to increase the difficulty, I play on normal now.

 

[Codeblew]

Lmao yeah you said spin to win and it wasn't an exaggeration, more like an understatement!

I use another skill too where the character unleash a serie of sword thrusts that is really powerful too, not sure what it's called, maybe flurry? But it's eating up energy fast. Combining that skill and dance with knives seems to work well, took down a dungeon boss in like 10 seconds that was probably meant to be somewhat challenging.

Might need to increase the difficulty, I play on normal now.

More difficulty, more rewards. But don't overdo the difficulty too much to where it becomes more inefficient.

 

[Fess]

More difficulty, more rewards. But don't overdo the difficulty too much to where it becomes more inefficient.

Okay so you get better loot with higher difficulty?
I'm a noob on this IP, as said just a little bit on D3 is all I've played before this.
I saw my brother play D1 back in the days. Death there meant you had to go back and find your stuff. How is it in D4? I've been super careful to not die yet…

 

[Rentahamster]

How is it in D4? I've been super careful to not die yet…

Dying is pretty casual in D4. It doesn't mean shit. The durability of your gear goes down, but even when your status bar says your gear is broken, nothing happens.

 

[Rentahamster]

Fess Also be on the look out for the Aspect of Star Shards or something like that. It allows your dance of knives to split up on hit, so you get more of an AoE effect. It's very effective. I think you might get it naturally from the season journey caches.

 

[Fess]

Couple noob questions:

Are there any consequences from crafting gems? All you can craft? Are the materials used for anything else?

And I found a pair of pants with a life per second buff which conveniently fill up the health orb. Is that a good approach for health regeneration? Or is life per kill a better buff?

 

[Fess]

Fess Also be on the look out for the Aspect of Star Shards or something like that. It allows your dance of knives to split up on hit, so you get more of an AoE effect. It's very effective. I think you might get it naturally from the season journey caches.

Thanks, I'll look into that
I have something similar for arrows, when I right click I shoot arrows that twist and turn into nearby enemies.
Then I have a 25% chance of kicking off a special that rain arrows for maybe 2 seconds too. Nothing lives when I get it all going!

 

[Rentahamster]

Are there any consequences from crafting gems? All you can craft? Are the materials used for anything else?

It depends if you're playing season or eternal. My advice would be don't think about it too much. Just make do with the second to the highest quality gems until you can save enough to craft the highest tier gems.

And I found a pair of pants with a life per second buff which conveniently fill up the health orb. Is that a good approach for health regeneration? Or is life per kill a better buff?

Life per second is terrible. Just use a healing potion lol. I always enchant away life per second affixes.

 

[Fess]

Life per second is terrible. Just use a healing potion lol. I always enchant away life per second affixes.

I thought it was good lol, no need to fill up health after a fight. But there are usually plenty of health potions laying about on the battlefield so I get what you're saying.

 

[Mikado]

Ugh at some point very recently it looks like they broke (deliberately disabled?) the ability to color the "unequipped look" pieces - you used to be able to color them by long-pressing on a different piece.

Easiest uninstall ever.

 

[Fess]

Rentahamster Just want to say thanks a ton for all the help! I've had an awesome weekend, complete noob on this game but I'm ending the weekend as a level 24 dance of knives focused Rogue and a lot more positive about the game. It's been fun!

 

[Rentahamster]

Rentahamster Just want to say thanks a ton for all the help! I've had an awesome weekend, complete noob on this game but I'm ending the weekend as a level 24 dance of knives focused Rogue and a lot more positive about the game. It's been fun!

I'm glad it helped! ARPG enjoyers let's gooo

 

[Codeblew]

Okay so you get better loot with higher difficulty?

On the early level jumps, I think you just get more gold and more experience. At higher levels, you also get more loot. It will tell you in the UI, exactly what the benefit is as you are switching. In order to get into the torment levels, you need to complete pit runs up to certain levels. You don't need to worry about torment levels until you are higher level. I think there will be a quest guiding you to the pit but if not, it is in Cerrigar.

 

[Spukc]

Rentahamster thanks for this thread!
i really hope they will reach diablo 3 unfuckery level soon. Them i will play this game again! <3

 

[Rentahamster]

Rentahamster thanks for this thread!
i really hope they will reach diablo 3 unfuckery level soon. Them i will play this game again! <3

Antwix made this thread lol. I just made the guild

I hear ya about the D3-ification of D4. I had hoped with D4 they would keep the good things about D3 and leave out the bad things about D3, but it seems like they implemented the bad things about D3 and didn't put in the good things about D3 (until recently at least).

 

[cormack12]

Antwix made this thread lol. I just made the guild

I hear ya about the D3-ification of D4. I had hoped with D4 they would keep the good things about D3 and leave out the bad things about D3, but it seems like they implemented the bad things about D3 and didn't put in the good things about D3 (until recently at least).

Do i have to opt in the guild each season? I was in it, but this new toon I started isn't in it

 

[Codeblew]

Do i have to opt in the guild each season? I was in it, but this new toon I started isn't in it

No, it stays through seasons. There probably isn't a whole lot of people in the guild playing right now since it is mid-season. Most activity is at the start of new seasons from my experience.

 

[Rentahamster]

Do i have to opt in the guild each season? I was in it, but this new toon I started isn't in it

Erm, I don't think so. Unless Eternal and Seasonal are separated.

 

[Chuck Berry]

I was thinking about starting up a fresh campaign with a barbarian. Haven't played since launch and barely scratched the surface.

Is there a list of improvements or tweaks they've made to the regular campaign? Any QoL goodies?

 

[cormack12]

I was thinking about starting up a fresh campaign with a barbarian. Haven't played since launch and barely scratched the surface.

Is there a list of improvements or tweaks they've made to the regular campaign? Any QoL goodies?

Read this:

Galvanize your Legend in Season 4: Loot Reborn

Season 4: Loot Reborn arrives with sweeping changes to Itemization, bold updates to Helltide, and a new Seasonal Questline.

news.blizzard.com

Then just read the season notes. Tuning and build changes are always happening. If you're getting VoH then read the campaign specific stuff there and the spiritborn stuff too

 

[Fess]

So…. Is there any way to cancel the main story skip that is apparently default setting when you start a new character? Can you transfer the same character to play the main story? A hack/mod?

Just realized that my now level 25 character have no access to main quests at all, all I've done is side quests…

Do I have to replay everything if I want to experience the main story?

 

[Fess]

Licked my wounds and started over, level 18 now on a new rogue. Pleased to see the stash shared between characters!
Great game so far!

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Licked my wounds and started over, level 18 now on a new rogue. Pleased to see the stash shared between characters!
Great game so far!

Enjoy the story! I think they did a great job with it.

 

[Fess]

Enjoy the story! I think they did a great job with it.

Yeah from what I've seen it's not boring black and white, hell and heaven, there are layers of complexity to both sides and the core philosophies are more in the gray areas in between. I'm new to the IP so trying to catch up on the lore of Sanctuary as much as I can, no skipping dialogue here. I can already guess where it'll go though so might be predictable, unless I'm wrong. But I like the side stories too. And the general gameplay is great!

 

[Joramun]

I sat out s7, the only season j haven't done. Getting a bit tired of basically chasing the meta. It's way too difficult to conjure up your own builds in a single season length and get attached enough to it to improve it.

Figure out resource gen, figure what you want to proc, then figure out the synergy, then the aspects etc. Then you have status, affixes on top of that as well as constantly relearning the material rotation (i know they are changing to lair keys). Then you may have uniques as well, then runes or gems etc.

They really need to streamline some of this stuff and do a better job of surfacing the background synergies etc. The crowd control issue is a perfect example of things proccing and the player doesn't even know why

IMO

I sat out s7, the only season j haven't done. Getting a bit tired of basically chasing the meta. It's way too difficult to conjure up your own builds in a single season length and get attached enough to it to improve it.

Figure out resource gen, figure what you want to proc, then figure out the synergy, then the aspects etc. Then you have status, affixes on top of that as well as constantly relearning the material rotation (i know they are changing to lair keys). Then you may have uniques as well, then runes or gems etc.

They really need to streamline some of this stuff and do a better job of surfacing the background synergies etc. The crowd control issue is a perfect example of things proccing and the player doesn't even know why

they should make seasons every 4 months. make the content a bit harder. they'll have extra time to work on things

 

[Rentahamster]

Yeah from what I've seen it's not boring black and white, hell and heaven, there are layers of complexity to both sides and the core philosophies are more in the gray areas in between. I'm new to the IP so trying to catch up on the lore of Sanctuary as much as I can, no skipping dialogue here. I can already guess where it'll go though so might be predictable, unless I'm wrong. But I like the side stories too. And the general gameplay is great!

If you want to catch up on the lore from the previous games, this is a good series.

Diablo Lore — Rhykker Official Website

The story and lore of Diablo 1, Diablo 2, Diablo 3, Diablo Immortal, and Diablo 4

www.rhykker.com

 

[Fess]

If you want to catch up on the lore from the previous games, this is a good series.

Diablo Lore — Rhykker Official Website

The story and lore of Diablo 1, Diablo 2, Diablo 3, Diablo Immortal, and Diablo 4

www.rhykker.com

Thanks, will check that out

Level 22 now, almost where I was at the end of last weekend, I've been able to swap the bow from my previous character to the new one too so I'm getting the positive vibes back again. Currently have a bow that trigger arrow storms which I really like.

 

[cormack12]

Any of you grown ups want to help me complete the season journey. Started late on a whim and just gonna miss out on it I think.

Tomorrow mabes?

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

Damn, need to follow up myself! Cannot remember if I cleared the season pass or not.

 

[Fess]

Level 52! I'm enjoying nearly everything about the game so far.
Well no there is too much insignificant loot, and I had to increase the difficulty to Expert to have a challenge and it's still fairly easy. But definitely not below 9/10 from my perspective. I love how free the gear upgrade and crafting system is; add socket, unsocket, refund skill, replace affix etc, it's pushing you to experiment. Love it!

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

Level 52! I'm enjoying nearly everything about the game so far.
Well no there is too much insignificant loot, and I had to increase the difficulty to Expert to have a challenge and it's still fairly easy. But definitely not below 9/10 from my perspective. I love how free the gear upgrade and crafting system is; add socket, unsocket, refund skill, replace affix etc, it's pushing you to experiment. Love it!

The difficulty progression has been much improved, glad you are enjoying it!