Diablo II Ressurrected (Switch): all the updates (latest: Ver. 2.7)

On this page, you will find all there is to know about the various updates for Diablo II: Resurrected on Nintendo Switch (originally released on October 23rd 2021 in Europe and North America, and October 24th 2021 in Japan)!

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Diablo II: Resurrected – Ver. 2.7

• Release date: May 2nd 2023 (North America, Europe) / May 3rd 2023 (Japan)
• Patch notes:

Ladder Season 4

Our previous Ladder Seasons for Diablo II: Resurrected have showed just how adept adventurers were at saving Sanctuary, racing to be the first to cement their names on the Leaderboard, while striking fear into the tormented hearts of their demonic adversaries in the process.

Ladder Season 4 will begin on May 4, ushering in a new opportunity for brave adventurers to race to Level 99 and amass powerful loot along the way. We cannot wait to see which determined souls carve their name into the Leaderboard this time.

Ladder Season 4 Launch Timing:

North America	May 4, 5:00 p.m. PDT
Europe	May 5, 2:00 a.m. CET
Asia	May 5, 10:00 a.m. KST

As it was with previous seasons, Ladder Season 4 will feature different modes:

Version	Description
Pre-Expansion Ladder	The standard version of Ladder play that encompasses playing only with the original four acts.
Pre-Expansion Hardcore Ladder	The hardcore (only one life) version of Ladder play that encompasses playing only with the original four acts.
Ladder	The standard version of Ladder play that encompasses playing five acts, as it includes the “Lord of Destruction” expansion content.
Hardcore Ladder	The hardcore (only one life) version of Ladder play that encompasses playing five acts, as it includes the “Lord of Destruction” expansion content.

For those new to Ladder Seasons, you might be wondering what happens to your Shared Stash loot once the current season ends.

 

Once Ladder Season 3 ends, all Ladder characters will be transferred to their respective non-ladder group. All items in that character group’s shared stash go into a new Withdraw Only set of Shared Stash tabs, denoted by a check marked Past box. Any items from Ladder Season 2 stored in the Withdraw Only tabs will be lost at this time. You will have all of Ladder Season 4 to withdraw any items you would like to keep from Season 3. When Ladder Season 4 ends, this withdraw only set of stash tabs will be overridden with any items in the Ladder Season 4 Shared Stash. Be sure to get any items out before then or they will be forever lost!

Patch 2.7

Feature Adjustments

• Players will now have 4 additional Character Slots available across all Online Modes.
• The first time a Ladder character from a previous season is used in a non-Ladder game, the ability to Reset Stat and Skill Points at Akara will be reset. Characters from previous Ladder seasons who have already been used in non-Ladder games are ineligible.

Developer’s Note: We want to encourage players to experiment with their builds. If you have already burned through your Akara respecs while on Ladder, then you can do additional respecs for more experimentation after the character becomes a Non-Ladder character.

• All Chat Lobbies have been outfitted with an automated system which will remove malicious messages from those conversations.

Quality-of-Life Updates and Bug Fixes

Gameplay

• The Next Hit Delay system now only applies to missiles created by casting the same skill.
  • Each Assassin Martial Arts charge-up skill trigger is treated as a different cast of a skill for Next Hit Delay purposes.

Developer’s Note: We have revised Next Hit Delay to become an easier concept to grasp while still maintaining its original design goals. This change will alleviate some headaches in multiplayer and smooth the edges of certain character builds.

• Knockback has been removed from the Bul Kathos’ Sacred Charge 2-Handed Sword.

Developer’s Note: Bul Kathos is a powerful set, but the Knockback incurred from Sacred Charge made using it feel clunky for Melee characters. Considering the rarity of the set, we opted to increase the viability of the weapon and the weapon set as a whole.

• Druids are now able to shapeshift directly between their Werewolf and Werebear forms.

Developer’s Note: Shapeshifter Druids using the Metamorphosis Rune Word are encouraged to swap between their Werebear and Werewolf forms to get the most out of the bonuses. In practice, this is a little clunky because you must shapeshift to Werebear, hit a monster, shapeshift back into Human, wait a second, Shapeshift to Werewolf, then hit a monster (or wolf then bear, depending on your preference). We’re taking out the middleman (literally) to make swapping between forms feel cleaner.

• The Assassin’s trap skills now benefit from +% To Elemental Skill Damage modifiers.

Developer’s Note: We have identified an issue with +% to Lightning skill damage not applying to lightning sentries on Nintendo Switch offline games. We plan to amend this issue in a future patch and apologize for any inconvenience.

• Fixed an issue where Mephisto would drop from lower-level treasure classes when Terrorized.
• Fixed an issue where an Assassin dying with Martial Arts charges active could cause a crash in Offline play.
• Fixed the issue where the Assassin’s traps weren’t benefiting from resistance reduction in Offline play.

General

• Fixed a translation issue for the Reached max character limit text in Polish.
• Fixed an issue where progressing between towns and connected zones from Acts II, III, and V would cause an abrupt lighting change when terrorized.
• Fixed an issue where the icon to denote a monster is Terrorized wasn’t properly displaying in certain languages.
• Fixed an issue where the Amazon’s audio cue for dodging an attack would play when non-Amazon characters used the Evade skill granted by the Hustle Rune Word.
• Amended various stability issues encountered during Online play.

Ladder Play

• Fixed an issue where messaging for the next Ladder Season was inaccurate during the pause between seasons.
• Fixed an issue where characters that were recently converted from Ladder to Non-Ladder would not display as such and failed to join games.
• Fixed an issue where Rune Words exclusive to an upcoming Ladder Season could be created in the current season.
• Fixed an issue where converted Ladder characters would be incorrectly displayed with the Ladder flag.

Console Specific

• Fixed an issue where a player’s displayed location on the Friends List wouldn’t properly update on Xbox consoles.
• Fixed an issue where players on Nintendo Switch would not appear in the Recently Played With tab.
• Fixed an issue where the localized text for Personalized Items on console displayed all gendered pronouns at once in Polish and Spanish.

Modding

• Increased the total limit of state entries from 255 to 511.
• Added DataVersionBuild.txt. It is recommended that mod authors include this file in their mods to reduce unexpected errors between game versions.
• New columns have been added. Developers of existing Offline Single Player mods can remake their changes with new data or they can add new columns manually before merging.
  • TreasureClassEx.txt, cubemain.txt, UniqueItems.txt
    • “ladder” -> “firstLadderSeason”, “lastLadderSeason”
  • Runes.txt
    • “server” -> “firstLadderSeason”, “lastLadderSeason”

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Blizzard

Diablo II: Resurrected – Ver. 2.6

• Release date: February 15th 2023 (North America, Europe) / February 16th 2023 (Japan)
• Patch notes:

Ladder Season Three

Our first two Ladder Seasons for Diablo II: Resurrected showed just how adept your adventurers were at saving Sanctuary, racing to be the first to cement their names on the Leaderboard. All the while striking fear into the tormented hearts of their demonic adversaries in the process.

Ladder Season Three will begin on February 16, ushering in a new opportunity for brave adventurers to race to level 99 and amass powerful loot along the way. We cannot wait to see how the eight new Rune Words will influence the leaderboard, or hopefully, allow new players the opportunity to see their name on it for the first time.

We’re also introducing changes to the availability of Sundering Charms, existing Rune Words, and new Horadric Cube Recipes with the start of Ladder Season Three. More information about these can be found in the following sections.

Ladder Season Three Launch Timing:

North America	February 16, 5:00 p.m. PST
Europe	February 17, 2:00 a.m. CET
Asia	February 17, 10:00 a.m. KST

As it was with previous seasons, Ladder Season Three will feature four different modes:

Version	Description
Pre-Expansion Ladder	The standard version of Ladder play that encompasses playing only with the original four acts.
Pre-Expansion Hardcore Ladder	The hardcore (only one life) version of Ladder play that encompasses playing only with the original four acts.
Ladder	The standard version of Ladder play that encompasses playing five acts, as it includes the “Lord of Destruction” expansion content.
Hardcore Ladder	The hardcore (only one life) version of Ladder play that encompasses playing five acts, as it includes the “Lord of Destruction” expansion content.

For those new to Ladder Seasons, you might be wondering what happens to your Shared Stash loot once the current season ends.

 

Once Ladder Season Two ends, all Ladder characters will be transferred to their respective non-ladder group. All items in that character group’s shared stash go into a new Withdraw Only set of Shared Stash tabs, denoted by a check marked Past box. Any items from Ladder Season One stored in the Withdraw Only tabs will be lost at this time. You will have all of Ladder Season Three to withdraw any items you would like to keep from Season Two. When Ladder Season Three ends, this withdraw only set of stash tabs will be overridden with any items in the Ladder Season Three Shared Stash. Be sure to get any items out before then or they will be forever lost!

Eight New Rune Words

Individually they are mighty, but when uttered in unison, a greater force is awoken—this is the mystique of Rune Words. Call upon these archaic forces to transform your ordinary items into a wieldable force of destruction capable of smiting demonic hordes.

We are introducing eight new Rune Words for Ladder and Offline Single-Player play. Our intent with introducing these additional Rune Words to Diablo II: Resurrected is to sprinkle variety into the competitive meta, creating an opportunity for players to forge new strategies as they race to Level 99. The bulk of these Rune Words focus on bolstering resistance bonuses, while the other Rune Words are centered on movement speed, and Assassin and Druid builds.

New Rune Word	Rune Order	Allowed Items	Character Level Required	Final Stats
Bulwark	Shael + lo + Sol	Helm	35	+20% Faster Hit Recovery +4-6% Life stolen per hit +75-100% Enhanced Defense +10 to Vitality Increase Maximum Life 5% Replenish Life +30 Damage Reduced by 7 Physical Damage Received Reduced by 10-15%
Cure	Shael + lo + Tal	Helm	35	Level 1 Cleansing Aura when Equipped +20% Faster Hit Recovery +75-100% Enhanced Defense +10 to Vitality Increase Maximum Life 5% Poison Resist +40-60% Poison Length Reduced by 50% 75%
Ground	Shael + lo + Ort	Helm	35	+20% Faster Hit Recovery +75-100% Enhanced Defense +10 to Vitality Increase Maximum Life 5% Lightning Resist +40-60% Lightning Absorb +10-15%
Hearth	Shael + lo + Thul	Helm	35	+20% Faster Hit Recovery +75-100% Enhanced Defense +10 to Vitality Increase Maximum Life 5% Cold Resist +40-60% Cold Absorb +10-15% Cannot be Frozen
Temper	Shael + lo + Ral	Helm	35	+20% Faster Hit Recovery +75-100% Enhanced Defense +10 to Vitality Increase Maximum Life 5% Fire Resist +40-60% Fire Absorb +10-15%
Hustle	Shael + Ko + Eld	Any Weapon or Armor item	39	Armor: +65% +50% Faster Run/Walk +40% +20% Increased Attack Speed +20% Faster Hit Recovery +6 to Evade +10 to Dexterity 50% Slower Stamina Drain +All Resistances +10 Weapon: 5% Chance to cast level 1 9 Burst of Speed on striking Level 1 Fanaticism Aura +30% Increased Attack Speed +180-200% +130-150% Enhanced Damage +75% Damage to Undead +50 to Attack Rating against Undead +10 to Dexterity
Mosaic	Mal + Gul + Amn	Claw	53	+50% +25% chance for finishing moves to not consume charges When a finisher is executed this way, it now refreshes the expiration timer of the stack +2 to Martial Arts (Assassin only) +20% Increased Attack Speed +200-250% Enhanced Damage +20% Bonus to Attack Rating 7% Life Steal +8-15% to Cold Skill Damage +8-15% to Lightning Skill Damage +8-15% to Fire Skill Damage Adds 3-14 Cold Damage Prevent Monster Heal
Metamorphosis	lo + Cham + Fal	Helm	67	Werewolf strikes grant Mark for 180 seconds Mark of the Wolf: +30% +20% Bonus to Attack Rating Increase Maximum Life 40% Werebear strikes grant Mark for 180 seconds Mark of the Bear: +25% Attack Speed Physical Damage Received Reduced by 20% +5 to Shape Shifting Skills (Druid only) +25% Chance of Crushing Blow (No longer attached to Mark of the Bear) +50-80% Enhanced Defense +10 to Strength +10 to Vitality All Resistances +10 Cannot be Frozen

Developer’s Note:

• Bulwark, Temper, and Ground: We liked where they were at and opted for no change.
• Cure: Given Cure’s more niche use cases, we opted to strengthen it with the Cleansing Aura. Note that the base Poison Duration reduction on the item went down, but the addition of Cleansing Aura results in a net-buff to Poison Duration reduction.
• Hearth: To build on the theme of this Rune Word, we gave it a bit more oomph to solidify it as a go-to gear option when struggling with enemies who deal Cold Damage.
• Hustle: Most of the feedback we received was around the armor form. The bulk of our focus was to improve that form, but we also saw improvements we could make to the weapon form. For the Armor, we wanted to add more offensive utility and some defensive stats in the form of All Resistances. For the weapon, we wanted to make using it as a primary weapon a more attractive option to increase its viability beyond its pre-buff utility.
• Metamorphosis: We moved in the direction of a slight buff to Metamorphosis. We want this Rune Word to really compete for best-in-slot for Shapeshifter Druids.
• Mosaic: We went all-in on increasing the strength of the Mosaic Rune Word. We wanted to add extra flexibility by increasing the chance to not consume charges from 25% percent to 50% so you can either wield one to get that 50% chance or dual wield for that 100% chance of not consuming charges. We also added an extra effect to how not consuming charges interacts with charge maintenance.

The Seven Rune Words and handful of Horadric Cube recipes that were added in Ladder Season One can now be used in non-Ladder Online game modes.

Rune Words: Flickering Flame, Mist, Obsession, Pattern, Plague, Unbending Will, and Wisdom.

Horadric Cube Recipes:

1 Ral Rune + 1 Sol Rune + 1 Perfect Emerald + Normal Set Weapon	Exceptional Version of Set Weapon
1 Lum Rune + 1 Pul Rune + 1 Perfect Emerald + Exceptional Set Weapon	Elite Version of Set Weapon
1 Tal Rune + 1 Shael Rune + 1 Perfect Diamond + Normal Set Armor	Exceptional Version of Set Armor
1 Ko Rune + 1 Lem Rune + 1 Perfect Diamond + Exceptional Set Armor	Elite Version of Set Armor

 

Sundering Charms

Adventurer, keep a keen eye towards the floor as you cut through Hell’s legions—Sundering Charms can now drop from fallen foes in all non-Classic game modes.

Patch 2.6

On February 15 at 10:00 a.m. PST, changes to Terror Zones and a variety of quality-of-life updates and bug fixes will go live.

Terror Zones

To spice things up further, we have made changes to Terror Zones. Also, Terror Zones are now available in offline games! Offline Terror Zones will operate on a different schedule from their online counterpart but function the same otherwise. Remember, you can now receive Sundering Charms as a drop in offline Terror Zone games too.

The red font text below denotes which new zones may be terrorized or zones that will now be terrorized in unison. Here’s a complete list of all the zones that can become terrorized:

Act I

Blood Moor and Den of Evil

Cold Plains and The Cave

Burial Grounds, The Crypt, and the Mausoleum

Stony Field

Dark Wood/Underground Passage

Black Marsh/The Hole

The Forgotten Tower

Jail/Barracks

Cathedral and Catacombs

The Pit

Tristram

Moo Moo Farm

Act II

Sewers

Rocky Waste and Stony Tomb

Dry Hills and Halls of the Dead

Far Oasis

Lost City, Valley of Snakes, and Claw Viper Temple

Ancient Tunnels

Arcane Sanctuary

Tal Rasha’s Tombs

Act III

Spider Forest and Spider Cavern

Great Marsh

Flayer Jungle and Flayer Dungeon

Kurast Bazaar, Ruined Temple, and Disused Fane

Kurast Sewers

Travincal

Durance of Hate

Act IV

Outer Steppes and Plains of Despair

River of Flame/City of the Damned

Chaos Sanctuary

Act V

Bloody Foothills/Frigid Highlands/Abbadon

Glacial Trail/Drifter Cavern

Crystalline Passage and Frozen River

Arreat Plateau/Pit of Acheron

Nihlathak’s Temple, Halls of Anguish, Halls of Pain, and Halls of Vaught

Ancient’s Way and Icy Cellar

Worldstone Keep, Throne of Destruction, and Worldstone Chamber

Developer’s Note: Our adjustments are focused on adding more variety to the available Terror Zones and improving the playability of existing zones. We’ve added some new zones, broadened others, and even removed a zone that was generally unpopular with our players.

Quality-of-Life Updates and Bug Fixes

Gameplay

• Auras from another player or a mercenary no longer remove passive bonuses granted by the same skill. Such as Flickering Flame’s Resist Fire aura from a mercenary overwriting a Paladin’s base Resist Fire from their own hard points in Resist Fire.
  • This also fixes an issue where Paladin’s Blessed Aim Aura would overwrite the Attack Rating increase granted by Amazon’s Penetrate skill.
• Assassin
  • The Assassin’s trap skills now benefit from -% to Enemy Resistance.
  • Fixed an issue where missiles created from Martial Arts charge up skills would not gain the benefit of +% To Elemental Skill Damage modifiers.
• Amazon
  • Fixed an issue where Strafe was not applying bonus Attack Rating to attacks.
  • Fixed an issue where Strafe was still doing 75% weapon damage after a previous balance change.
  • Fixed issue where the +% Attack Rating on Power Strike was not being applied.
  • Fixed the tooltip for Multi Shot to reflect the synergy bonus.
• Sorceress
  • Cold Mastery is now applied at 1/5 effectiveness after an immunity is broken.

  Developer’s Note: We wanted to bring Cold Mastery in line with all other skill-based elemental resistance reducing effects for increased consistency.

  • Fixed an issue where Fire Mastery’s bonus to fire skill damage didn’t apply to the additional fire damage granted by Enchant on ranged weapons.
  • Updated the tooltip for Enchant to better reflect the skill’s effects.
• Druid
  • Fixed an underlying issue that caused the Druid’s Shockwave skill to do an unintended amount of damage.

  Developer’s Note: We wanted to implement targeted changes and buffs for the Druid instead of having a particular Druid build be strong because of a bug.

Terror Zones

• Fixed Terrorized treasure classes for certain super-unique monsters and bosses.
• Fixed an issue where an act boss’s quest treasure class would sometimes be used instead of the terrorized treasure class.
• Fixed an issue where the current terrorized zone was not properly marked in the Waypoint menu while using Legacy Graphics.
• Fixed an issue with translations that appear when The Pit is the current terrorized zone.

Controller

• Fixed an issue where skills granted by charges on a character’s alternate slot weapon would have their bound hotkeys unusable when loading into a game.
• Fixed an issue where the Loot to Cube skill would not function if bound to the shared interaction button.

General

• Fixed an issue where pressing the hotkey to open the inventory while loading into the game could cause the inventory UI to appear empty.
• Fixed an issue where the Shared Stash could exceed the memory limit, which caused items in the player’s inventory or Stash to be deleted.
• Fixed an issue where the tooltip on the Lobby’s season dropdown would show an inaccurate date.
• Fixed an issue where new entries on the leaderboard could display as Unknown.
• Fixed an issue where applying changes to controls would automatically close the settings menu.
• Fixed an issue where changes to controls would not be immediately applied.
• Fixed an issue where swapping between keyboard and mouse input and controller input would reset the difficulty filter in the PC Lobby game list.
• Added an appropriate error message when trying to create an online character with a name that is already taken on the player’s online character list.
• The Ladder flag in character creation will now be disabled when there is no active Ladder Season.
• Fixed an issue with a voice over line from Tyrael in Chinese.
• Fixed an issue with the Chinese version of Deckard Cain’s Stay a while and listen voice over dialogue.

Modding

• Moved the “% Damage Synergy” field for Multiple Shot (srvdofunc 8) from calc4 to calc5.
• New columns have been added. Developers of existing offline single-player mods can remake their changes with the new data, or they can add the new columns manually before merging.
  • skills.txt
    • “ItemUseRestrict”
  • skilldesc.txt
    • “item proc text”
    • “item proc descline count”
  • states.txt
    • “sunder-res-reduce”

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Blizzard

Diablo II: Resurrected – Ver. ???

• Release date: September 22nd 2022 (North America, Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

Terror Zones

The journey to level 99 is a celebrated experience for players and quite the milestone if achieved—a rite of passage, even. We want the journey to level 99 to be accessible to a larger population of players, offer more variety other than repeatedly farming Baal, Diablo, and Nihlathak, and most importantly, remain challenging. This is where Terror Zones come in. As we get into details, please note that players can choose to opt-out of Terror Zones if desired.

To unlock the Terror Zones feature, you must defeat Baal per character, per difficulty using any expansion character—existing characters that have already fulfilled the requirements will automatically have this feature unlocked. Once Ladder Season Two begins, players will need to meet the aforementioned requirements to unlock Terror Zones for their new ladder characters.

When playing a Terror Zone-enabled game, every hour, diabolical tremors infused with the Lord of Destruction’s unwavering corruption creep into specific zones, emboldening the monsters within, and terrorizing them. The monsters in these zones will be at least two levels higher than your current level or their original level, up to a maximum per difficulty. The experience received and the loot dropped by killing a terrorized monster will be based on this new level—terrorized monsters will also grant additional experience points.

Here are the level details for each monster type per difficulty:

Normal

• Standard Monsters: +2 player level up to 45
• Champion: +4 player level up to 47
• Unique: +5 player level up to 48

Nightmare

• Standard Monsters: +2 player level up to 71
• Champion: +4 player level up to 73
• Unique: +5 player level up to 74

Hell

• Standard Monsters: +2 player level up to 96
• Champion: +4 player level up to 98
• Unique: +5 player level up to 99

The base player level used for the above calculations are taken from the creator of the game. If the host leaves the game, a new player will be selected for the base once the next Terror Zone is announced. Terror Zone monsters will spawn at their new modified level or their original level, whichever is higher. Upon entering a Terror Zone-enabled game, you’ll be informed of the current terrorized areas through a message sent to you via the Chat Box. When the time for new terrorized zones draws near, you will be informed of the impending changes via the Chat Box.

In addition, you will be informed that you’re entering a terrorized area by several indicators:

• Unique iconography next to a terrorized monster’s name
• On-screen text and messaging
• Special audio cue
• In-game text on the auto-map
• Unique environmental lighting
• Ember visual effects

Waypoints have also received some changes to assist in locating the current Terror Zone:

• An icon will display on the Waypoint menu next to the Waypoint that is closest to the current Terror Zone.
• The Waypoint closest to the current Terror Zone will have its name displayed in a purple font.

Here’s a complete list of all the zones that can become terrorized:

Act I

Blood Moor and Den of Evil

Cold Plains and The Cave

Burial Grounds, The Crypt, and the Mausoleum

Stony Field

Dark Wood

The Forgotten Tower

Jail

Cathedral and Catacombs

The Pit

Tristram

Moo Moo Farm

Act II

Sewers

Rocky Waste and Stony Tomb

Dry Hills and Halls of the Dead

Far Oasis

Lost City, Valley of Snakes, and Claw Viper Temple

Arcane Sanctuary

Tal Rasha’s Tombs

Act III

Spider Forest and Spider Cavern

Flayer Jungle and Flayer Dungeon

Kurast Bazaar, Ruined Temple, and Disused Fane

Kurast Sewers

Travincal

Durance of Hate

Act IV

Outer Steppes and Plains of Despair

River of Flame/City of the Damned

Chaos Sanctuary

Act V

Bloody Foothills

Frigid Highlands

Glacial Trail

Crystalline Passage and Frozen River

Arreat Plateau

Nihlathak’s Temple, Halls of Anguish, Halls of Pain, and Halls of Vaught

Ancient’s Way and Icy Cellar

Worldstone Keep, Throne of Destruction, and Worldstone Chamber

Ladder Season Two

Our first Ladder Season for Diablo II: Resurrected has been an absolute success—adept heroes raced to save Sanctuary, some cementing their name on the leaderboard, but all of them striking fear into the tormented hearts of their demonic adversaries in the process.

Ladder Season Two will begin on October 6, ushering in a new opportunity for brave heroes to race to level 99 and amass powerful loot along the way. This will also be the first Ladder Season with Terror Zones! Can you handle the increased ferocity of the Burning Hells, or will you perish under their amplified might? We cannot wait to see how Terror Zones will influence the leaderboard, or hopefully, allow new players the opportunity to see their name on it for the first time.

Ladder Season Two Launch Timing:

North America	October 6, 5:00 p.m. PDT
Europe	October 7, 2:00 a.m. CEST
Asia	October 7, 9:00 a.m. KST

We’ll also introduce six new Sundering Charms with Ladder Season Two, more information about these can be found in the next section.

As it was with the previous season, Ladder Season Two will feature four different modes:

Version	Description
Pre-Expansion Ladder	The standard version of Ladder play that encompasses playing only with the original four acts.
Pre-Expansion Hardcore Ladder	The hardcore (only one life) version of Ladder play that encompasses playing only with the original four acts.
Ladder	The standard version of Ladder play that encompasses playing five acts, as it includes the “Lord of Destruction” expansion content.
Hardcore Ladder	The hardcore (only one life) version of Ladder play that encompasses playing five acts, as it includes the “Lord of Destruction” expansion content.

For those new to Ladder Seasons, you might be wondering what happens to your Shared Stash loot once the current season ends.

Once Ladder Season One ends, all Ladder characters will be transferred to their respective non-ladder group. All items in that character group’s shared stash go into a new Withdraw Only set of Shared Stash tabs, denoted by a check marked Past box. You will have all of Ladder Season Two to withdraw any items you would like to keep. When Ladder Season Two ends, this withdraw only set of stash tabs will be overridden with any items in the Ladder Season Two Shared Stash. Be sure to get any items out before then or they will be forever lost!

New Sundering Charms

In Hell difficulty, many monsters receive resistance to specific damage types. If their resistance increases above 100%, that monster is then immune to a specific damage type. Because there are only a handful of ways to reduce a monster’s immunity, only a minute portion of hero builds can successfully farm all zones in Diablo II: Resurrected. We realize that this can create scenarios where certain builds are unable to take full advantage of the current Terror Zone, thus missing out on the experience gains, and most importantly, the fun of these zones.

To promote increased class build diversity, we have introduced six Sundering Charms that allow the player to break specific monster immunity types while the charm is in their inventory. Once Ladder Season Two begins on October 6, Sundering Charms will be a possible drop for new Ladder characters. These new unique charms will only drop from Terrorized monsters of Champion, Unique, Superunique, or Boss difficulty.

You’ll notice a new keyword below called Sunder. This keyword means that if a monster has immunity to a specific damage type, their resistance will be reduced to 95% regardless of what their starting resistance percentage was—breaking their immunity and allowing damage of that type to be dealt to them. Sunder is applied before other resistance reducing modifiers and only affects non-players. There is one tradeoff that comes with the Sundering Charms: while they reduce a monster’s resistance, they also reduce your resistance to the same element, allowing you to receive more damage of that type. The specific percent that your resistance is reduced by the Sundering Charm will vary per charm, so look out for the charms offering the most advantageous percentages to maximize your build. Any abilities granted by a Sundering Charm will also extend to your pets and summons, so keep that in mind as you upgrade your character.

The Black Cleft

• Monster Magic Immunity is Sundered
• Magic Resist –45% to -65%

The Bone Break

• Monster Physical Immunity is Sundered
• Physical Damage Received Increased by 10% to 30%

The Cold Rupture

• Monster Cold Immunity is Sundered
• Cold Resist –70% to -90%

The Crack of the Heavens

• Monster Lightning Immunity is Sundered
• Lightning Resist –70% to -90%

The Flame Rift

• Monster Fire Immunity is Sundered
• Fire Resist –70% to -90%

The Rotting Fissure

• Monster Poison Immunity is Sundered
• Poison Resist –70% to -90%

Developer’s Note: We have heard much of the community’s thoughts on how the new Sunder Charms work with the sorceresses Cold Mastery ability. Looking at the percentage of monsters that are cold immune, the trade-offs of having to gain and equip a new grand charm, and re-checking our damage output, we feel the current behavior of Cold Mastery is not significantly more powerful than many of the other abilities affected by Sunder and does not need to change at this time.

Patch Notes

Gameplay/Quality of Life

• Added additional warning text to the mercenary confirmation prompt if your previous mercenary still has items equipped.
• Damage value for the Paladin’s Thorns aura is now present on the character menu.
• Dead Finger Mages now reset correctly to their original state when revived by Necromancers.
• Fixed an issue where casting delays could desync at very high ping.
• Fixed an issue where monster unique mods were triggering from another unique mod’s trigger. For example, monsters that were both lightning and fire enchanted created an explosion every time they were put into hit recovery (Ex: repeatedly hit by Warcry).
• Fixed a rare issue where item names on the ground would erratically flicker and shift while pathing around them.
• Fixed an issue where players and monsters were able to walk through doors that visually looked closed.
• Fixed an issue where certain Rune Words could not be repaired in the same game session they were created.
• Fixed an issue where loading a character on a console that was created on PC was causing texture and lighting issues on console.
• Fixed an issue that would occur when binding a skill to a multi-key binding (Ex: Ctrl + X, Alt + X) the action bound to the first key became unbound from that key.
• Fixed an issue where the game name and password were not properly updating and displaying in-game when toggling the setting for showing it.
• Fixed an issue where updates to stats, skills, or quests were displaying when no updates were available.
• Fixed an issue where hardcore character names were not displaying in red text on the character list.
• Fixed an issue with the Legacy Graphics gamble refresh icon containing graphical artifacts and corruption.
• Fixed an issue where single and dual-wielding basic attacks with Claw weapons could have inconsistent attack speeds.
• Fixed an issue where flags associated with previous characters (Ladder, Hardcore, and Classic) would persist for newly created characters in the Legacy Graphics Character Creation Screen.
• Fixed an issue where the “buy” button legend in the vendor window would not display on the first weapons tab.
• Fixed an issue where certain VFX were causing graphical corruption when fighting Uber Diablo.
• Fixed an issue where Iron Golems could lose the aura granted by the item they were created with when the Golem was frozen.
• Chosen game settings now persist in lobby game creation and filtering rather than being reset.
• Fixed an issue where Iron Golems created in a previous game would disappear instead of teleporting to you.
• Fixed an issue where performing a weapon swap during a trade would sometimes freeze the game.
• Fixed an issue where visuals effects granted by set bonuses would sometimes toggle on and off.
• Fixed an issue where environmental screen-space VFX were not playing.
• Fixed an issue where Iron Golems summoned through a charge of the skill (Ex: granted by Metalgrid) would disappear when performing an inventory update.
• Fixed an issue where Iron Golems created by a charged skill would not save between games.
• Fixed an issue where players on console and controller would sometimes get the red-flash indicator for health loss while performing an inventory update.
• Fixed an issue where the Horadric Cube could not be quick-dropped if there were items in it when playing on console or with a controller.
• Fixed an issue where similar items weren’t grouping together when auto-populating into the belt while using a controller.
• Fixed various issues when quick-moving a belt with items in the additional belt slots it provides while using a controller.
• Fixed an issue where you sometimes couldn’t quick-equip an item that has its requirement met by another equipped item.
• Fixed an issue where an item with requirement reductions would sometimes still show as requirements not met when equipped on a mercenary.
• Fixed a desync with mana values when the consumption and regeneration of mana happened in a short frame window.
• Fixed an issue where Quick Cast would sometimes restore the previous skill to the wrong mouse button.
• Act V Dual-Wielding mercenaries now accurately animates two attack swings instead of one.
• Fixed an issue where there were no corresponding Suicide Minion versions of the three guest Minion variants. These guest Minions will no longer visually transform into a skeleton and continuously stack explosion damage when whipped by Nihlathak or an Overseer.
• Fixed an issue where Fist of the Heavens could unintentionally be used when it was bound on controller or assigned to left click on M+KB.
• Fixed an issue where pets summoned by “chance to cast” skills on items would disappear after performing an inventory update.
• Fixed an issue where Ravens summoned by charged skills would disappear after a few seconds.
• Necromancer
  • Difficulty penalties for life drain now apply to the Blood Golem’s attacks.
  • Fixed an issue where Blood Golem was not correctly stealing life from a PvP opponent.
• Fixed an issue where the experience sharing calculation for an eight-player party would rarely overflow and award less experience than normal.
• Fixed an issue where item labels would stretch and become distorted while the character menu was open.
• Fixed an issue that prevented players with underscores in their Offline character’s name from playing a game.
• Fix an issue that allowed for character movement while in a loading screen.
• Fix an issue where the Find Item skill was always dropping a Sundering Charm when used on an eligible monster’s corpse.
• Fixed an issue where the Assassin’s Lightning Traps were not receiving benefits from Sundering Charms.

Console-Specific Fixes

• Character names are now correctly shown in the Game Details screen.
• Classic characters can no longer create a game targeting any non-classic content (Ex: Act V) in the Game Creator menu.
• Updated the icon on the Game Creator menu to further differentiate from the Search Menu.
• Updated the magnifying glass icon in the Game List Search to match the text color.
• Fixed an issue where the Ladder Season end message was incorrectly displaying on the front end.
• Fixed an issue where connecting a second controller that logs into a different user would cause the game to lose connection.
• Improved the Ladder leaderboard loading on PS4 / PS5.
• Fixed a rare issue where Unknown could appear in console’s language if language was changed while in-game.
• Fixed an issue on Switch where the quest log tab text was being cut off in Italian.
• Fixed an issue where the Ladder end time displayed the time inaccurately.
• Fixed an issue where dying would disable the Emote Wheel.
• Closing the inventory on controller with an item in your cursor will now try to place the item in your inventory before dropping it.

Localization

• Updated gender pronoun strings that referred to the player from “his / her” to the neutral counterpart “their.”
• Added a prefix for online Uber Diablo messages received in offline games.
• Added localization translations for the automap tooltip.
• Fixed an issue where the maximum gold in-game text for Polish, Russian, Mexican Spanish, and Portuguese languages were exceeding their bounds in the UI.
• Fixed a variety of equipped skill names that were exceeding their bounds in the UI for the Russian and Polish languages.
• Removed unnecessary spacing between tabs on PC in the quest log, waypoints, and player stash UI screens when playing with a controller while using the large font option.
• Changed the date formatting for Japan to be displayed as Year / Month / Day.
• Fixed a typo in the Japanese translations for quick equip and unequip to mercenary tooltip.
• Made additional improvements to localization translations.

Stability

• Fixed a crash on PC that occurred when resizing the client window while in the lobby.
• Improved game join and game create backend request for a smoother player experience.
• Various game stability improvements.

Sundering Charms

• Conviction and Lower Resist effectiveness will be 1/5 effective even after a Sundering Charm’s applied effects. (This change will go into effect on October 6 once Ladder Season Two begins).

Terror Zones

• Fixed an issue where the UI would not properly display chance to hit against higher level Terror Zone monsters.
• Fixed an issue where Terror Zone warning messages were inconsistently populating.
• Added an indication next to the automap to inform the player where the current Terror Zone is specifically located.

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Blizzard

Diablo II: Resurrected – Ver. 2.4.3

• Release date: June 27th 2022 (North America, Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

Backend Improvements

One common issue among players is that their Game List did not populate with enough games, even when they felt it should have. When you create a game in D2R, it gets hosted on one of many game sites in your region. Prior to ladder’s launch, the Game List would only populate with games from just one single game site in your region—whichever you had the best connection to. This was done to preserve a high-quality gameplay experience in any game you may join through the lobby, but we found our criteria to be overly aggressive. When ladder launched, we expanded this to provide players games from up to three game sites. This helped players see more games in their Game List without a cost to connection quality, but players still weren’t seeing enough games. We’ve decided to broaden it even further in Patch 2.4.3. Now, any number of game sites in your region that you have a strong enough connection to can contribute to the results in your Game List. To provide even more options for those looking to join a game, we’ve also doubled the maximum number of games that can appear in the Game List at a given time from 20 to 40. Plus, we’ve fine-tuned game details to refresh in almost real time. You still must manually refresh your Game List, which is something we decided to keep so the Game List would not shift while players select a game. These improvements have been applied to both the console and PC lobby experiences.

Console Lobby Updates

Following the successful launch of Ladder Season One, the team has turned their focus to features that required the most attention. Console Party Finder was the top item on our list by a large margin. Patch 2.4.3. brings multiple improvements to the console multiplayer experience, providing new and improved ways to create and find games by replacing Party Finder with Game Creator and Game List.

Three Options Lie Before You

Selecting the “Play” button on the main menu with your selected online hero will now present three options for online play:

Private: Enter a private game that will not populate to the Game List. The only way for others to join your game is through the Friends List or by being invited.

Game Creator: Create a public game that will populate on the games list.

Game List: View the games list, use the search feature, or join a public game.

 

Game Creator

Game Creator will equip you with the ability to quickly create the type of game you desire. To aid you in doing so, all previous game categories that were available in Party Finder have returned in the Game Creator. Selecting and confirming one of these game categories will generate a pre-made name for your game, accompanied by an assigned number—this is to prevent games with duplicate names from being created. Level Difference, which was previously only available as a Game Creation option for PC players, has been added as a game creation option.

We have also added an additional category called Custom—this category consists of two options:

Public Game: Create a public game to populate in the games list with a name of your choice.

Password-Protected Game: Create a public game with a password that must be entered to join. Just like in the PC lobby, a password-protected game will not appear in the games list but can be joined through a separate “Join Game” button found by pressing the “Search Game Name” button on the Game List menu and going to the Custom category.

A preview of your Custom or generated game name is displayed on the top-right portion of your screen. Once you are comfortable with your selections and confirm them, your journey to Sanctuary can begin.

Game List

Selecting the “Game List” button will display up to 40 matching games created by other players that your selected character is able to join. To aid in finding specific games, you can use the search feature to locate a specific game or filter games displayed using keywords. Within the filtering options you can set the following parameters:

Difficulty: Filter to display only Normal, Nightmare, Hell, or any combination of the three options.

Ping: Restrict your results to only display games of a particular connection quality or better.

Game Name: Pressing the Triangle button on a PlayStation controller, Y button on an Xbox controller, or X button on a Nintendo Switch controller while on the Game List menu will open the Search Game Name menu. Here, you can search for both Custom and pre-made game names using the same familiar layout you would use during Game Creation. Searching for a game name using the Custom category will only return game results that were created using the Custom category. Searching using one of our pre-made categories will only return game results that were created using that same pre-made category. For example, selecting the pre-made Den of Evil search option will only yield pre-made game results. Inversely, searching “Den of Evil” under the Custom category will yield Custom game names with those phrases within them. Custom games, with or without a password, can be joined directly through the Search Game Name menu.

Modifying any of these filters will refresh your list of games and return a new list of games (up to 40) based on the criteria you selected. Players also have a refresh button available to them to manually refresh the list at any time.

Magic Find Bonus

You feel an intense rush of energy coursing through your veins, a faint internal humming overriding your own pulse. From June 30–July 4, a mysterious energy source will grant you a 50% buff to Magic Find, providing an increased chance to receive Magic, Rare, Set, or Unique loot as a drop from slain foes. This bonus stacks with any additional increases to Magic Find provided by your items.

 

Quality of Life Improvements

Gameplay

• Players can now start a new Whirlwind, Leap, or Leap Attack immediately after a Whirlwind ends.
• Changed the logic for determining how often Whirlwind attacks occur. Whirlwind now incorporates Increased Attack Speed (IAS) from all equipment. The frames between each Whirlwind attack are equal to the attack frame of a basic attack for that character (modified by increased attack speed). While dual wielding, the attack frame for each weapon will be averaged (rounding up). Overall, Whirlwind attacks should be at least as fast as they were before. Slower weapons will attack notably faster.
• Added a new “Loot to Cube” skill for controllers in the general skills menu. Using this skill on an item will pick it up and place it in your Horadric Cube, if there is space.
• Added a bindable hotkey for mouse and keyboard to directly open the Horadric Cube if it is in your inventory.
• Added a new button shortcut to open the Horadric Cube from the inventory menu.
• Players can now bulk assign stat points using a controller.
• A confirmation prompt will now appear when bulk assigning all remaining stat points on both PC and console. This option is unavailable while using legacy graphics.
• Added an Automap Auto Open setting to allow players to set their preferred Automap position.
• Barbarian Update
  • Whirlwind: Improve the skill at lower levels.
  • Starting damage% increased from -50 to +30.
  • Damage% per level reduced from +8 to +5.
  • Starting Attack increased from 0 to +50.

Online

• You can now double click on a game to join it in the PC lobby.
• Players on Switch can now join a friend’s game via the in-game Friends List.
• Game List size has been doubled from 20 to 40.
• Game list details in both the details panel and in the Game List now load faster upon selecting a game.
• Friends playing D2R are now sorted to the top of the Friends List.
• Console players now have an option in the options menu to toggle Game Name visibility.

Bug Fixes

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue where Deckard Cain was not able to identify items in the Horadric Cube. Now he will do so when the Cube is in your main inventory.
• Fixed an issue where short-distance whirlwinds could end without executing a single attack.
• Fixed an issue where Whirlwind would still apply properties and damage from a broken weapon.
• Fixed an issue where the first attack of Whirlwind was treated different from the rest. When dual wielding, the first attack will choose two targets, just like all the other attacks.
• Fixed an issue where resurrect costs were inconsistent for high-level mercenaries.
• Fixed an issue where corpse skills were not auto-targeting corpses when using just right click.

Online

• Fixed an issue where you couldn’t select and join lobby games on PC with a controller.
• Fixed an issue where players could impersonate developers by mimicking the chat font color used to display system messages.
• Fixed an issue where lobby figurines would disappear while whispering.
• Fixed an issue that would rarely prevent players from joining a private game.
• Fixed an issue in Hardcore where both players had to mutually flag each other to be able to loot a corpse, even if the dead player had the other player flagged.
• Fixed an issue where ladder rankings with six or more digits would begin to overlap the character name.

Character Select

• Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause the most recently played characters to not sort to the top of the list.
• Fixed an issue where an off-hand flail could fail to animate on the front end.

Language

• Fixed miscellaneous localization bugs.

Stability and Performance

• Fixed a performance issue that could occur when spamming refresh at a vendor for an extended period.
• Miscellaneous crash and stability fixes.

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Blizzard

Diablo II: Resurrected – Ver. 2.4

• Release date: April 29th 2022 (North America, Europe, Japan)
• Patch notes:

LADDER DETAILS

We are excited to invite you the Diablo II: Resurrected competitive Ladder system starting on April 28, PT. The Ladder launch represents an optional ranked competitive system of the game through a series of modes available to select from with a fresh Ladder-specific character. Each mode will have their own leaderboard where players compete to strategically gain experience within a limited timeframe while having access to Ladder-specific content. When the Ladder season ends, leaderboard rankings will reset, transitioning characters to non-ladder mode, giving players an opportunity to store their hard-earned treasured loot as a new Ladder season awaits them.

Like Diablo II Legacy, Diablo II: Resurrected will feature four different Ladder modes, including:

Version	Description
Classic Ladder	The normal version of Ladder play that encompasses playing with four acts.
Hardcore Classic Ladder	The hardcore (only 1 life) version of Ladder play that encompasses playing with four acts.
Expansion Ladder	The normal version of Ladder play that encompasses playing five acts, as it includes the “Lord of Destruction” expansion content.
Hardcore Expansion Ladder	The hardcore (only 1 life) version of Ladder play that encompasses playing five acts, as it includes the “Lord of Destruction” expansion content.

Feature details:

• Select Diablo II: Resurrected content will be exclusively for Ladder modes
• Players can use /ladder and /helpladder chat commands to retrieve season start and end information
• Ladder information is made available in the leaderboard UI, and for console, players will be updated upon loading into each game
• At the end of a season, your Ladder character will be converted to a non- Ladder character, along with any Ladder -exclusive items your character has equipped or in their inventory
• Once a season ends, you will have until the start of the season after next to retrieve items from your seasonal Ladder shared stash tab to bring into your normal online play
  • For example, once Season 1 ends, you have until Season 3 begins to retrieve items from your Season 1 stash. Any items not retrieved will be lost forever

Ladder Launch Timing:

North America	April 28 at 5PM PDT
Europe	April 29 at 2AM CEST
Asia	April 29 at 9AM KST

 

THE INFERNAL RACE – LADDER SHOWCASE

In celebration of the first Ladder season for Diablo II: Resurrected, we will be hosting a special broadcast and competition between fan favorite content creators from North America, Australia, and Korea as they work together and against each other to race to the top of the ladder leaderboards! The Infernal Race will be broadcasted on the official Diablo and the Diablo Korea Twitch channels beginning at the start of the Ladder season at 5PM PDT April 28^th / 9AM KST April 29^th so make sure to tune and watch the best of the best compete!

English Competitors	MrLlamaSC mekalb LuckyLuciano_6 Kano
English Casters	BTNeandertha1 MacroBioBoi
Korean Competitors	Dan WaterBear Lossi JJONGEJJ Rene Affection PigKing Dongsin Dr.Lee
Korean Casters	Sanghyeon Park Seungwon Lee Useo Jung

CLASS BALANCE CHANGES

We’re thrilled to share new balance changes are coming to your favorite heroes in Diablo II: Resurrected! As fans ourselves, we’re just as eager as you to find new ways to play. This is incredibly special, as the last patch to make balance changes to classes in Diablo II was Patch 1.13c, which was released back on March 23, 2010! Now, twelve years later, we’re making new changes to expand character build diversity, and retain class fantasy and specialty! These goals are crucial. We’ve reviewed many aspects of the game in order to fulfill these goals.

We want to empower you to be creative with the builds you want to play, but we don’t want to “reinvent the wheel” and steer classes from their core purposes. Dive deep below and review our various Class changes for Patch 2.4.

Amazon

Javelin And Spear Skills

Impale

• This skill is now an uninterruptible attack
• Attack Rating modification has been removed, now this skill will always hit the target
• This skill now slows the target by a percentage for a duration
• Animation speed increased by 30%

Fend

• Attack Speed increased by 100% (Reduced the rollback frames value between each attack)

Power Strike

• Removed synergy from Lightning Fury skill
• Lightning Bolt synergy increased from +10% to +14%
• Charged Strike synergy increased from +10% to +14%
• Lightning Strike synergy increased from +10% to +14%

Charged Strike

• Removed synergy from Lightning Fury skill
• Power Strike synergy increased from +10% to +14%
• Lightning Bolt synergy increased from +10% to +14%
• Lightning Strike synergy increased from +10% to +14%

Lightning Strike

• Removed synergy from Lightning Fury skill
• Power Strike synergy increased from +8% to +11%
• Lightning Bolt synergy increased from +8% to +11%
• Charged Strike synergy increased from +8% to +11%

Poison Javelin

• This skill’s damage scaling at high levels has been slightly adjusted
• Casting Delay will no longer share its cooldown with other skills that have Casting Delays
• Tooltip updated to now display Casting Delay

Plague Javelin

• Plague Javelin poison duration and damage has been adjusted. This should net out to a 20% damage-per-second increase at level 1 and up to a 33% damage-per-second increase at max level
• Poison Javelin synergy increased from +10% to +14%
• Casting Delay reduced from 4 seconds to 1 second
• Casting Delay will no longer share its cooldown with other skills that have Casting Delays
• Tooltip updated to now display Casting Delay

Developer Comments: We wanted to give more advantages for using Amazon melee skills, so we are freeing up skill synergy reliance on “Lightning Fury”, which will make the lightning melee skills a cheaper skill point alternative to build around. Also, we are improving the power of the lesser-used melee skills such as “Impale” and “Fend.” Lastly, “Plague Javelin” has received improvements with Casting Delay, damage synergy, and duration scaling, to further diversify its usage compared to “Poison Javelin.”

Passive And Magic Skills

Inner Sight

• This skill’s radius has increased by 35%

Slow Missiles

• Missile slow now scales instead of staying at a flat base of 33%
• This skill’s radius has increased by 35%
• This skill will now reduce enemy missile damage based on skill level

Valkyrie

• Casting Delay reduced from 6 seconds to 0.6 seconds
• Casting Delay will no longer share its cooldown with other skills that have Casting Delays
• Tooltip updated to now display Casting Delay

Dodge

• The animation can now be interrupted and will no longer lock out the Amazon from performing other actions

Avoid

• The animation can now be interrupted and will no longer lock out the Amazon from performing other actions

Developer Comments: We wanted to add some quality-of-life changes to certain Passive and Magic Skills. We improved the radius for “Inner Sight” and “Slow Missiles”, and we gave more reason to invest skill points for “Slow Missiles.” Also, we wanted to alleviate the disadvantage of the animation lockout from using the “Dodge” and “Avoid” skills so that players are more willing to spend points on these skills.

Bow And Crossbow Skills

Freezing Arrow

• Mana Cost per level reduced from +0.5 to +0.25

Magic Arrow

• Increased the amount of physical damage converted to magic damage for the base level and per level

Multiple Shot

• Added synergy from Guided Arrow: +12% physical damage per level

Guided Arrow

• Damage bonus per level increased from +5% to +7%
• Added synergy from Multiple Shot: +12% physical damage per level

Strafe

• Removed the 25% weapon damage reduction from this skill
• Now also gives increased Attack Rating with +30% baseline and +9% per level
• Added Synergy from Multiple Shot: +5% physical damage per level
• Added Synergy from Guided Arrow: +10% physical damage per level

Fire Arrow

• Mana Cost no longer increases per level

Exploding Arrow

• Damage scaling increased by about 50% for higher skill levels
• Fire Arrow synergy increased from +12% to +14%
• Mana Cost per level reduced from +0.5 to +0.25

Immolation Arrow

• Average Fire Damage per second scaling increased by about 100%
• Cooldown reduced by 40%
• Mana Cost per level reduced from +0.5 to +0.25
• Casting Delay will no longer share its cooldown with other skills that have Casting Delays
• Tooltip updated to now display Casting Delay

Developer Comments: Fire bow skills are receiving damage scaling improvements at higher levels so that they consistently fulfill their fire elemental damage type roles for their level tier. Also, mana costs were reduced for the elemental arrow skills to give them more general usage. “Strafe” will no longer have weapon damage reduction and will also provide Attack Rating so that it can have distinctive advantages over the other physical bow skills. Finally, we believe it felt odd that the physical bow skills don’t have any synergies like the cold and fire bow skills do. We hope that giving some synergies to the physical bow skills help them remain viable.

Assassin

Martial Arts

Fist of Fire

• Attack Rating bonus increased from +15% to +25% baseline, and from +7% to +10% per level

Claws of Thunder

• Attack Rating bonus increased from +15% to +25% baseline, and from +7% to +10% per level

Blades of Ice

• Attack Rating bonus increased from +15% to +25% baseline, and from +7% to +10% per level

Tiger Strike

• Attack Rating bonus increased from +15% to +25% baseline, and from +7% to +10% per level

Cobra Strike

• Attack Rating bonus increased from +15% to +25% baseline, and from +7% to +10% per level

Phoenix Strike

• Attack Rating bonus increased from +15% to +25% baseline, and from +7% to +10% per level

Dragon Talon

• Now consumes only 1 of each Martial Arts charge when cast
• Now always hits the target only if the Assassin has any Martial Arts charges

Dragon Claw

• Now consumes only 1 of each Martial Arts charge when cast
• Now always hits the target only if the Assassin has any Martial Arts charges
• Damage bonus per level increased from 5% to 15%

Dragon Tail

• Now consumes only 1 of each Martial Arts charge when cast
• Now always hits the target only if the Assassin has any Martial Arts charges
• Damage bonus per level increased from 10% to 20%

Dragon Flight

• Now consumes only 1 of each Martial Arts charge when cast
• Now guarantee hits the target only if the Assassin has any Martial Arts charges
• Casting Delay removed
• Damage bonus per level increased from 25% to 35%

Developer Comments: Martial Arts skills are receiving a significant change with having Finishing Moves (including the Attack skill) only consume 1 of each charge at a time instead of all 3 at once. We feel like this will allow Martial Arts to perform smoother during combat by better maintaining current charges instead of having to re-acquire charges too often. In addition to this, we are increasing Attack Rating for Charge-up skills to compliment the smoothness of gaining and spending charges Lastly, we wanted to improve damage payoff for the lesser used Finishing Move skills.

Shadow Disciplines

Fade

• Tooltip updated to now show the physical damage resist reduction

Venom

• Buff Duration scaling per level changed from 4 seconds to 12 seconds (matching Burst of Speed and Fade)

Shadow Warrior

• Casting Delay reduced from 6 seconds to 0.6 seconds
• Casting Delay will no longer share its cooldown with other skills that have Casting Delays
• Tooltip updated to now display Casting Delay

Shadow Master

• Casting Delay reduced from 6 seconds to 0.6 seconds
• Casting Delay will no longer share its cooldown with other skills that have Casting Delays
• Tooltip updated to now display Casting Delay

Developer Comments: We felt that Shadow Disciplines are generally widely used and effective, but we wanted to add some quality-of-life changes, so we added tooltip clarity, buff duration consistency improvements, and casting delay changes.

Traps

Shock Web

• Removed synergy from Death Sentry skill
• Charged Bolt Sentry synergy increased from +11% to +17%
• Lightning Sentry synergy increased from +11% to +17%
• Casting Delay will no longer share its cooldown with other skills that have Casting Delays
• Tooltip updated to now display Casting Delay

Charged Bolt Sentry

• Removed synergy from Death Sentry skill
• Fire Blast synergy increased from +6% to +9%
• Lightning Sentry synergy increased from +6% to +9%

Lightning Sentry

• Removed synergy from Death Sentry skill
• Shock Web synergy increased from +12% to +18%
• Charged Bolt Sentry synergy increased from +12% to +18%

Fire Blast

• Removed synergy from Death Sentry skill
• Shock Web synergy increased from +9% to +11%
• Charged Bolt Sentry synergy increased from +9% to +11%
• Wake of Fire synergy increased from +9% to +11%
• Lightning Sentry synergy increased from +9% to +11%
• Wake of Inferno Sentry synergy increased from +9% to +11%

Wake of Fire

• Fire Blast synergy increased from +8% to +10%
• Wake of Inferno synergy increased from +8% to +10%

Wake of Inferno

• Removed synergy from Death Sentry
• Fire Blast synergy increased from +10% to +18%
• Wake of Fire synergy increased from +7% to +18%
• Added yards calculation to the Wake of Inferno tooltip

Blade Sentinel

• Casting Delay reduced from 2 seconds to 1 second
• Casting Delay will no longer share its cooldown with other skills that have Casting Delays
• Tooltip updated to now display Casting Delay
• Missile speed increased by 20%
• Weapon Damage increased from 37% to 75%
• Blade Fury synergy added: +10% Damage per level
• Blade Shield synergy added: +10% Damage per level

Blade Fury

• Blade Sentinel synergy added: +10% Damage per level
• Blade Shield synergy added: +10% Damage per level
• Attack rating increased by 10% per level

Blade Shield

• Duration baseline value increased from 20 seconds to 120 seconds (matching Burst of Speed and Fade)
• Duration scaling per level increased from 5 seconds to 12 seconds (matching Burst of Speed and Fade)
• Weapon Damage increased from 25% to 75%
• Blade Sentinel synergy added: +10% Damage per level
• Blade Fury synergy added: +10% Damage per level
• Tooltip updated to now display Radius

Developer Comments: With Trap skills, there are multiple underused skills that can be more effective or have improved synergy distribution. For Lightning and Fire Traps, we are freeing up synergy reliance on “Death Sentry” to give more build possibilities elsewhere. Also, Fire traps are receiving damage synergy improvements to make them more effective at higher difficulties. Lastly, the Blade skills are receiving multiple improvements to make them more viable to dedicate builds around these skills.

Barbarian

Warcries

General

• Tooltip updated to now display Radius

Howl

• Tooltip updated to now display Radius

Battle Cry

• Tooltip updated to now display Radius

War Cry

• Damage increased by about 30%
• Tooltip updated to now display Radius
• War Cry’s mana cost now increases by only 0.75 per level instead of 1

Shout

• Duration baseline increased from 20 seconds to 30 seconds (matching Battle Orders)
• Tooltip updated to now display Radius

Battle Orders

• Tooltip updated to now display Radius

Battle Command

• Duration baseline increased from 5 seconds to 30 seconds (matching Battle Orders)
• Tooltip updated to now display Radius

Grim Ward

• Radius baseline value increased
• Now also Slows and increases Damage Taken for nearby enemies.
• Find Potion synergy added: +5% Damage Taken per level

Developer Comments: We are adding more tooltip descriptions to Warcries for clarification on hidden skill mechanics. “Shout” and “Battle Command” durations were updated to be consistent with each other for quality-of-life purposes. For “War Cry,” we want to make it more effective and rewarding to use at higher difficulties. Lastly, with “Grim Ward”, we are adding a new functionality and synergy to give more reason to use the skill, which also gives more reason to spend skill points on “Find Potion.”

Combat Masteries

Sword Mastery

• Renamed to Blade Mastery
• Now affects daggers in addition to swords
• Increased base attack rating bonus to 40% (from 28%)

Axe Mastery

• Increased base attack rating bonus to 40% (from 28%)

Mace Mastery

• Increased base attack rating bonus to 40% (from 28%)

Polearm Mastery

• Increased base attack rating bonus to 40% (from 28%)

Spear Mastery

• Increased base attack rating bonus to 40% (from 28%)

Throwing Mastery

• Increased base attack rating bonus to 44% (from 30%)
• Added chance to not consume quantity per level up to 55% chance at level 20
• Critical strikes with throwing weapons now replenish quantity
• Added chance to pierce

Developer Comments: Barbarians run out of throwing weapon quantity far too quickly. Adding chances to not consume as well as chance to replenish will allow a throwing barbarian to be viable without having to return to town frequently.

Combat Skills

Whirlwind

• When targeting an enemy with Whirlwind, the Barbarian will move to the initial position of the enemy – it will not track them as they move
• Whirlwind will be performed even when targeting adjacent enemies (used to perform a basic attack)

Leap

• Baseline minimum distance increased
• Speed of the leap motion increased by 75%
• Leap now has a minimum jump height and duration
• Tooltip updated to now display Knockback Radius

Leap Attack

• Speed of the leap motion increased by 75%
• Leap attack now has a minimum jump height and duration
• Damage baseline increased from 100% to 200%
• Attack Rating baseline increased from 50% to 100%
• Attack Rating per level increased from 15% to 20%
• The Barbarian now deals extra physical damage to surrounding enemies within a range of 4.6 yards when landing from a Leap Attack. Damage scales per level – increased scaling compared to the PTR implementation
• Leap synergy bonus applies to the AoE damage in addition to the attack
• Increased mana cost of Leap Attack from 9 to 10
• Leap Attack will be performed even when targeting adjacent enemies (used to perform a basic attack)

Developer Comments: Leap Attack has received a lot of changes: increased movement speed, smoother trajectory, improved controls, and increased attack rating and damage. Perhaps the biggest change is that Leap Attack now deals AOE damage to surrounding enemies when landing. This gives the Barbarian a strong multi-target skill as early as level 18. This damage does not scale with your weapon, so it’s perfect for leveling up a Barbarian in Normal and Nightmare difficulties. The AOE damage won’t make as much of an impact on Hell difficulty, but Leap Attack’s primary attack and mobility will remain valuable.

Berserk

• Shout synergy replaced with Battle Orders

Double Throw

• Added damage bonus with 16% baseline and 8% damage increase per level

Frenzy

• Increased Stamina synergy added: +0.4 Seconds per Level

Developer Comments: For “Berserk”, the existing “Shout” synergy is changing to “Battle Orders,” because the Defense loss from the skill contradicts the usage of “Shout,” and this will better connect with other skill synergy build possibilities. “Double Throw” will now have a baseline damage increase so that it will not purely rely on synergies for damage. “Frenzy” is receiving a new synergy from the lesser used “Increased Stamina” skill to give more reasons to invest skill points there and add new build diversity.

Druid

Elemental Skills

Firestorm

• Casting Delay will no longer share its cooldown with other skills that have Casting Delays
• Tooltip updated to now display Casting Delay

Molten Boulder

• Missile speed increased by 100%. Missile range decreased by 50% (The overall travel length remains the same)
• Casting Delay reduced from 2 seconds to 1 second
• Casting Delay will no longer share its cooldown with other skills that have Casting Delays
• Tooltip updated to now display Casting Delay
• Volcano synergy increased from 10% to 12%

Fissure

• Casting Delay will no longer share its cooldown with other skills that have Casting Delays
• Tooltip updated to now display Casting Delay

Volcano

• Molten Boulder synergy increased from 12% to 16%
• Tooltip updated to now show Volcano duration
• Casting Delay will no longer share its cooldown with other skills that have Casting Delays
• Tooltip updated to now display Casting Delay

Armageddon

• Casting Delay has been removed for this skill
• Physical Damage significantly increased
• Tooltip updated to now display Physical Damage
• Volcano synergy changed to increase Physical Damage instead of Fire Damage, and increased from 14% to 18%
• Removed the Hurricane skill requirement
• Increased the missile damage radius by 33% (from 3 to 4)
• Increased the missile drop rate by about 30% (from ~3 per second to ~4)”

Arctic Blast

• Removed synergy from Hurricane
• Base damage and level scaling increased by ~100% (also to compensate for the incorrect damage calculation in the past)
• Controls are updated so that the skill now casts in free form and no longer locks onto one target at a time

Cyclone Armor

• Can now be cast while in Werewolf or Werebear form

Twister

• Damage scaling increased by 50%
• Arctic Blast synergy added: +20% Stun Duration per level

Hurricane

• Casting Delay removed
• Can now be cast while in Werewolf or Werebear form

Developer Comments: With the Casting Delay changes, Druid Fire skills are generally going to be more widely used. In addition, we are increasing the physical damage scaling for Fire skills to be a reliable alternative damage source. We felt that “Arctic Blast” is generally lacking power, so we are increasing the damage scaling, reducing the synergy requirements to free up skill points, and improving the general player controls to allow for smoother freeform targeting. In addition, we wanted to complement the “Arctic Blast” changes with improvements to “Twister” to add more build possibilities. Lastly, we are allowing Shapeshift forms to cast each of the elemental buff skills to avoid the current hassle of having to change forms to continuously maintain these active buffs.

Shape Shifting Skills

Werewolf

• Werewolf now only uses the new attack speed calculation that was originally introduced in the PTR
• Raised Werewolf attack speed cap from +75% to +150%
• Tooltip updated to now display Casting Delay

Rabies

• Attack Rating bonus increased from +7% to +10% per level
• Poison Creeper synergy increased from 18% to 20%

Fury

• Attack Rating bonus increased from +7% to +10% per level
• Attack Speed increased by 40% (Reduced the rollback frames value between each attack)

Werebear

• Werebear now only uses the new attack speed calculation that was originally introduced in the PTR
• Raised Werebear attack speed cap from +75% to +150%
• Damage bonus per level increased from 8% to 15%
• Base defense value increased from 25% to 40%
• Defense bonus per level increased from 6% to 10%
• Cannot be interrupted while performing attacks or skills
• Tooltip updated to now display Casting Delay

Maul

• Now grants +3% attack speed per charge
• Damage bonus per level increased from 20% to 30%
• Attack Rating bonus increased from +20% to +40% baseline, and +10% to +15% per level
• Tooltip Stun value will now properly cap at 10 seconds, which follows the core game’s Stun duration cap

Shock Wave

• Maul synergy increased from 5% to 10%

Fire Claws

• Damage increased by 75%
• Removed synergy from Fissure
• Removed synergy from Volcano

Developer Comments: We’ve debated on the best way to bring shapeshifting Druids forward. Both forms use a new attack speed calculation that allows more weapons to be used effectively and properly incentivizes IAS gear. With the improved Fury, the Werewolf can reach even faster attack speeds than it could previously. As for werebear – we want to deliver on the fantasy of a powerful, unstoppable, killing machine. We’ve introduced uninterruptible attacks and skills, as well as increased damage and defense. While this will change the way players have played the Werebear in the past, we feel like it is more in line with the intended fantasy. For players who loved their fast werebear builds, we’ve added attack speed bonuses to Maul, but we also hope the new Werewolf changes will offer them the same style of play, as it is now the faster form.

Summoning Skills

General

• Druids can now have spirit wolves, dire wolves, and bears all summoned at the same time

Oak Sage

• Min Life and Max Life values are averaged to always be the same, accurate to the tooltip
• Physical Damage Resist in Normal Difficulty increased from 0% to 25%
• Physical Damage Resist in Nightmare Difficulty reduced from 100% to 25%
• Physical Damage Resist in Hell Difficulty increased from 0% to 25%

Heart of the Wolverine

• Min Life and Max Life values are averaged to always be the same, accurate to the tooltip
• Physical Damage Resist in Normal Difficulty increased from 0% to 25%
• Physical Damage Resist in Nightmare Difficulty reduced from 100% to 25%
• Physical Damage Resist in Hell Difficulty increased from 0% to 25%

Spirit of Barbs

• Min Life and Max Life values are averaged to always be the same, accurate to the tooltip
• Aura no longer returns a percentage of damage when hit. Now the aura will deal a flat amount of damage when the aura-effected targets are attacked.
• Physical Damage Resist in Normal Difficulty increased from 0% to 25%
• Physical Damage Resist in Nightmare Difficulty reduced from 100% to 25%
• Physical Damage Resist in Hell Difficulty increased from 0% to 25%

Raven

• Attack Rating bonus per level increased from 15% to 30% (now also displays in the tooltip)
• Modified the AI so that the Ravens attack more often
• Damage level scaling significantly increased
• Summon Spirit Wolf synergy added: +12% Damage per level
• Summon Dire Wolf synergy added: +12% Damage per level
• Summon Grizzly synergy added: +12% Damage per level

Summon Spirit Wolf

• Min Life and Max Life values are averaged to always be the same, accurate to the tooltip
• Attacks now deal cold damage and chill for a duration (Provides utility with chilling and acts as an alternative damage type compared to Dire Wolves)
• Damage level scaling increased by 10%
• Base Life increased by about 80%
• Life now increases by 10% per level
• Updated the tooltip to display each synergy bonus value

Summon Dire Wolf

• Min Life and Max Life values are averaged to always be the same, accurate to the tooltip
• Damage level scaling increased by 30%
• Base Life increased by about 90%
• Life synergy reduced from 25% to 15% (This is because the base life was increased, and Spirit Wolf and Grizzly now gain Life per level)
• Updated the tooltip to display each synergy bonus value

Summon Grizzly

• Min Life and Max Life values are averaged to always be the same, accurate to the tooltip
• Base Life increased by ~15%
• Life now increases by 10% per level
• Updated the tooltip to display each synergy bonus value

Poison Creeper

• Min Life and Max Life values are averaged to always be the same, accurate to the tooltip
• Poison damage level scaling significantly increased
• Life scaling increased by 100%
• Rabies synergy added: +10% Poison Damage per level

Carrion Vine

• Min Life and Max Life values are averaged to always be the same, accurate to the tooltip
• Life recovery has been reworked to be +1% Healing per level, instead of using a diminishing calculation ranging from 3%-12%

Solar Creeper

• Min Life and Max Life values are averaged to always be the same, accurate to the tooltip
• Mana recovery has been reworked to be +3% Mana baseline with +1% Mana per level, instead of using a diminishing calculation ranging from 1%-8%

Developer Comments: The restriction of the Druid being allowed only one type of summonable at a time has restricted the viability of this build and has hampered the fantasy of a Druid Summoner from living up to its full potential. We feel that a druid being able to summon all of his allies at once will make for a more interesting and fun playstyle. In general, all summons will no longer have hidden randomized health values so that the tooltip is more accurate and so summons perform more consistently. Ravens are getting significant changes to help them function as a spell-like skill for summoning Druids to use, and this includes damage scaling buffs and new synergies from other summons to fuel their damage. Wolves are getting improvements to give them more of an identity as damage-dealing summons. The spirit summons are receiving a physical damage resist change across each difficulty to make them survive more consistently. ”Spirit of Barbs” is receiving changes to Thorns to make it a more reliable source of damage. Lastly, each of the creeper summons are receiving improvements to give more reason to invest skill points and to have them perform better at higher levels.

Necromancer

Summoning Skills

Raise Skeletal Mage

• Percentage HP per level increased from 7% to 10%
• Poison total damage scaling increased by about 750%. Poison duration no longer scales and now lasts 4 seconds
• Cold damage scaling increased by about 50%
• Lightning damage scaling increased by about 5%
• The tooltip will now properly display the Life scaling per level

Blood Golem

• Attack damage increased by about 20%
• 20% reduction in mana cost applied per level
• Now gains Max Life per level
• Damage scaling per level has been increased

Iron Golem

• Thorns no longer return a percentage of damage when hit. Now thorns will deal a flat amount of damage when the aura-effected targets are attacked

Fire Golem

• 20% reduction in mana cost applied per level
• Holy Fire damage increased by an average of 50%
• Fire attack damage increased by an average of 30%
• Fixed a bug which caused the Fire Golem’s Holy Fire damage max value to display as half of its true value

Developer Comments: We saw a good opportunity to improve lesser-used summons for the Necromancer. Skeletal Mages have received significant damage scaling improvements so that their elemental damage values are more consistent. This means that Cold damage is more effective but still slightly weaker than Fire damage because of its chill utility, and Poison damage is much more reliable with a fixed duration and better damage scaling. “Blood Golem“ and “Fire Golem” are receiving damage improvements to make them more competitive with the other Golems. For “Iron Golem,” we are changing the “Thorns” aura to deal more reliable damage to improve its source of effectiveness (See Paladin changes below for more details).

Poison And Bone Skills

Bone Armor

• Damage Absorbed per level increased from 10 to 15

Bone Spear

• Teeth synergy increased from 7% to 8%
• Bone Wall synergy increased from 7% to 8%
• Bone Spear synergy increased from 7% to 8%
• Bone Prison synergy increased from 7% to 8%

Bone Spirit

• Teeth synergy increased from 6% to 8%
• Bone Wall synergy increased from 6% to 8%
• Bone Spear synergy increased from 6% to 8%
• Bone Prison synergy increased from 6% to 8%

Developer Comments: Bone skills are generally well performing but we saw an opportunity to improve synergy bonuses to better scale in the late game and to make their heavy skill point investment more valuable. Additionally, “Bone Armor” is receiving better damage absorb scaling to make it more rewarding to spend points on the skill itself instead of relying too heavily on its synergies.

Curses

Weaken

• Damage reduction now scales based on level, from just 33%, to now 33% and +1% per level

Decrepify

• Tooltip updated to now show the status changes

Developer Comments: For the “Weaken” skill, we added new damage reduction scaling to give more reason to spend additional points on the skill and to give it a more powerful identity.

Paladin

Defensive Auras

Resist Fire

• Tooltip now displays max resist bonus

Resist Cold

• Tooltip now displays max resist bonus

Resist Lightning

• Tooltip now displays max resist bonus

Developer Comments: We added more information to tooltips to describe hidden functionality for certain Defensive Auras.

Offensive Auras

Blessed Aim

• Tooltip now displays passive Attack Rating bonus

Holy Fire

• Damage scales based on distance to the caster. Aura will deal double damage at melee range and linearly scale to normal damage at maximum range
• Tooltip: The maximum Area Damage values now incorporate the maximum proximity damage bonus
• Resist Fire Synergy increased from 18 to 21%
• Damage level scaling increased to 70%
• Salvation synergy increased from 6% to 10%

Holy Freeze

• Damage scales based on distance to the caster. Aura will deal double damage at melee range and linearly scale to normal damage at maximum range
• Tooltip: The maximum Area Damage values now incorporate the maximum proximity damage bonus

Holy Shock

• Damage scales based on distance to the caster. Aura will deal double damage at melee range and linearly scale to normal damage at maximum range
• Tooltip: The maximum Area Damage values now incorporate the maximum proximity damage bonus

Sanctuary

• Damage scales based on distance to the caster. Aura will deal double damage at melee range and linearly scale to normal damage at maximum range
• Tooltip: The maximum Area Damage values now incorporate the maximum proximity damage bonus

Thorns

• Now deals a flat amount of damage when attacked in addition to returning a percentage of damage taken to the enemy when hit

Developer Comments: We wanted to add more potential to the AoE (Area of Effect) Damage auras since they are a capable way for the Paladin to handle groups of monsters. By increasing damage based on distance to the caster, each AoE damage aura will have increased effectiveness while still maintaining the same cadence of visual VFX on the screen. Also, we saw that “Holy Fire” should scale better at higher skill levels to be consistent with general Fire Damage power compared to the other elements. For “Thorns”, we want to improve the gameplay around getting hit to deal damage, so we are making the skill deal flat damage based on attack attempts in addition to returning damage after getting hit. This will allow Thorns to have a more consistent combat performance instead of unpredictable and riskier results.

Combat Skills

Sacrifice

• Damage to self now reduces per level, from 8% to 8%-1%

Conversion

• Maximum conversion chance increased from 50% to 90%

Smite

• Tooltip now shows that the skill always hits

Holy Bolt

• Now damages Demons in addition to Undead
• Removed synergy Blessed Hammer
• Damage increased by 50%
• Now pierces targets (Friendly and Hostile)
• Prayer synergy increased from 15% to 20%

Fist of the Heavens

• Now damages Demons in addition to Undead
• Casting Delay reduced from 1 second to 0.4 seconds
• Casting Delay will no longer share its cooldown with other skills that have Casting Delays
• Tooltip updated to now display Casting Delay
• Holy Bolts now pierce targets
• No longer forces you to attack when out of mana
• Improved targeting functionality for auto acquiring enemies

Developer Comments: We wanted to improve the lesser-used Combat skills to give more viable build options. “Holy Bolt” will now pierce to increase its combat use cases and will have less skill point synergy investment to open more possibilities to spend skill points elsewhere. “Fist of the Heavens” is also getting the same “Holy Bolt” pierce changes and will now have less Casting Delay and improved controls to help make it a more effective Level 30 skill to use. By allowing both Holy Bolt and Fist of the Heavens to damage Demons in addition to Undead, we hope to open it up as a viable build to use in more situations.

Sorceress

Cold Skills

Frost Nova

• Damage level scaling increased by about 25%

Blizzard

• Casting Delay will no longer share its cooldown with other skills that have Casting Delays
• Tooltip updated to now display Casting Delay

Frozen Orb

• Casting Delay will no longer share its cooldown with other skills that have Casting Delays
• Tooltip updated to now display Casting Delay

Frozen Armor

• Base duration increased from 120 seconds to 144 seconds

Shiver Armor

• Damage level scaling increased by about 25%
• Base duration increased from 120 seconds to 144 seconds

Chilling Armor

• Damage level scaling increased by about 200%
• Duration bonus per level increased from 6 seconds to 12 seconds
• Chill length bonus per level for level 16+ increased from 1 second to 2 seconds (matching Shiver Armor)
• Defense baseline increased from 45% to 60%
• Defense bonus per level increased from 5% to 7%
• Frozen Armor damage synergy increased from 7% to 9%
• Chilling Armor damage synergy increased from 7% to 9%

Developer Comments: With the cold armor skills, we want to further diversify them by ensuring that each has distinctive advantages. After these changes, “Chilling Armor” will have the greatest Defense bonus and damage potential while still only triggering on ranged attacks. Also, “Frost Nova” is receiving damage scaling improvements to give it more power where it was lacking in the later game.

Lightning Skills

Nova

• Static Field synergy added: +5% Lightning Damage per level
• Nova mana cost reduced. The initial mana cost is now 13 from 15

Thunder Storm

• Static Field synergy added: +7% Lightning Damage per level
• Duration baseline increased from 32 seconds to 144 seconds
• Duration bonus per level increased from 8 seconds to 24 seconds
• Tooltip updated to now display Radius

Energy Shield

• Tooltip updated to display more information about the Mana consumed and the Telekinesis synergy

Developer Comments: We saw an opportunity to add new synergies for lesser used Lightning skills to increase their damage potential and create new skill build possibilities.

Fire Skills

Inferno

• Base damage and level scaling increased by about 75% (also to compensate for the incorrect damage calculation in the past)
• Warmth synergy increased from 13% to 16%
• Controls are updated so that the skill now casts in free form and no longer locks onto one target at a time
• Mana Cost baseline reduced from 7 Mana per second to 4 Mana per second
• Range baseline increased by 75%

Blaze

• Damage scaling increased by about 60%
• Warmth synergy increased from 4% to 6%
• Removed synergy from Fire Wall
• Now also increases Run/Walk Speed by 2% per level
• Tooltip now also displays Blaze duration

Fire Wall

• Casting Delay will no longer share its cooldown with other skills that have Casting Delays
• Tooltip updated to now display Casting Delay

Meteor

• Casting Delay will no longer share its cooldown with other skills that have Casting Delays
• Tooltip updated to now display Casting Delay

Hydra

• You can now spawn multiple hydras on controller when holding the button down
• Casting delay removed
• Limited max number of Hydra groups to 6

Developer Comments: We wanted to improve the lesser used Fire skills and give more reasons to use them. Inferno is receiving player control improvements with free form casting, like Arctic Blast, and better damage scaling. Blaze is an often-ignored skill, so we wanted to free up synergy requirements and provide more utility and power with damage increases and a new Run/Walk Speed buff for extra utility. Lastly, with Hydra, we wanted to improve the gameplay of summoning Hydras to make it easier to use to skill in combat situations. The removal of Casting Delay and the new limitation on max Hydras will match the maximum Hydra count achievable from before the changes, but now players will have a much easier time to summon that amount.

ITEM TOOLTIP CHANGES

Old Tooltip	New Tooltip
Piercing Attack	+X% Piercing Attack
Quantity: [CURRENT STACK]	Quantity: [CURRENT STACK] of [TOTAL]
X% Chance of Open Wounds	+X% Chance of Open Wounds
X% Damage Taken Goes to Mana	+X% Damage Taken Goes to Mana
X% Chance of Crushing Blow	+X% Chance of Crushing Blow
Fire Absorb X%	Fire Absorb +X%
Cold Absorb X%	Cold Absorb +X%
Lightning Absorb X%	Lightning Absorb +X%
Magic Absorb X%	Magic Absorb +X%
X% Deadly Strike	+X% Deadly Strike
Hit Causes Monster to Flee X%	Hit Causes Monster to Flee +X%

Developer Comments: The Piercing Attack tooltip now will display its pierce chance value in the tooltip. The quantity value of throwing weapons, ammo, and tome item tooltips will now always show the total amount to be clearer for players. Also, consistency improvements have been made to existing item modifier tooltips so that it is clearer that they can stack with themselves.

UBER DIABLO CHANGES

The way that players summon Uber Diablo in Diablo II: Resurrected today will remain the same as it was first introduced in v1.10, by selling Stone of Jordan rings. However, we have updated how and where that progress is calculated to improve the experience for the entire community.

Uber Diablo progress for each game type will now be kept by the regional database. When the threshold is met by selling enough Stone of Jordan rings, Uber Diablo will spawn for everyone in the same region, not only those on the same server instance.

Progress towards Uber Diablo is now tracked per game type. Gathering a total of 8 progressions being tracked. Those being Classic, Classic Hardcore (HC), Classic Ladder, Classic HC Ladder, Expansion, Expansion HC, Expansion Ladder, Expansion HC Ladder. Given this change, we have added new messaging for players to help them anticipate when Uber Diablo may spawn. This messaging will be sent out to all players in the region at certain tiers of progress and can be manually checked by using a /uberdiablo chat command. We hope these changes allow more players to get to experience the true terror that is Uber Diablo.

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MERCENARIES

Hiring a Mercenary in Expansion mode will now always offer mercenaries that match your character’s Level, instead of having a randomized Level difference from your character’s Level.

Act 1 – Rogue Archer

• Updated each stat/skill gains in each difficulty to match so that there is no disadvantage of leveling up a Hell difficulty mercenary versus a Normal difficulty mercenary
• Can now use Amazon Bows
• Can now gain + Amazon skill bonuses from gear

Cold Arrow

• Added Freezing Arrow

Fire Arrow

• Added Explosion Arrow

Developer Comments: The Rogue Archer is getting new flavored ranged skills that will scale as she levels up. These new skills should improve her AoE (Area of Effect) damage effectiveness and thus make her a more effective ranged damage dealer.

Act 2 – Desert Mercenary

• Updated each stat/skill gains in each difficulty to match so that there is no disadvantage of leveling up a Hell difficulty mercenary versus a Normal difficulty mercenary
• Nightmare and Hell difficulty now have all 6 different aura types available from the Hire menu, instead of separating them out by 3 per difficulty. Normal is unchanged

Thorns (Combat – Nightmare)

• Thorns aura level scaling increased and will now continue scaling up beyond the highest-level threshold up to max level

Developer Comments: The Desert Mercenary is already popular, but we saw an opportunity to add some quality-of-life improvements by allowing players to hire all six different Aura types in Nightmare and Hell difficulty, rather than having to switch between modes. With the general improvements to “Thorns,” we wanted to improve the level scaling to make this aura mercenary type more meaningful.

Act 3 – Iron Wolf

• Updated each stat/skill gains in each difficulty to match so that there is no disadvantage of leveling up a Hell difficulty mercenary versus a Normal difficulty mercenary
• Life baseline and scaling increased by about 25% (Now has Life similar to the Rogue Archer)
• Defense baseline and scaling increased by about 40% (Now has defense closer to the Rogue Archer)
• Resistances baseline and scaling increased by about 20% (Now has the highest resistances baseline compared to other mercenaries)

Cold

• Now casts Glacial Spike more often
• Glacial Spike level scaling increased
• Swapped Frozen Armor for Chilling Armor

Fire

• Removed Inferno
• Added Fire Bolt
• Increased chance of the Iron Wolf casting Fire Ball
• Added Enchant – Now the Iron Wolf will cast Enchant on himself, the player, and nearby allies

Lightning

• Added Static Field
• Charged Bolt level scaling increased
• Increased chance of the Iron Wolf casting Lightning

Developer Comments: The Iron Wolves are great elemental sorcerers, but we saw they have been underperforming in higher difficulties. We improved their core stats so that they are more in line with other mercenaries while also having a distinct advantage with having the most resistance values. For skills, we wanted to embrace their elemental fantasies, so we decided to give new flavorful utility skills, to further incentivize reasons to want to use these mercenary types.

Act 5 – Barbarian Warrior

• Can now gain + Barbarian skill bonuses from gear
• Updated each stat/skill gains in each difficulty to match so that there is no disadvantage of leveling up a Hell difficulty mercenary versus a Normal difficulty mercenary
• Life baseline scaling increased (Now has the most life compared to other mercenaries)
• Defense baseline and scaling increased and the scaling at higher levels was reduced (Now has the highest defense baseline compared to other mercenaries)

Dual Wielding

• A new ferocious Barbarian is available for hire from Qual-Kehk. These warriors cannot use two-handed swords, but are well trained in the art of dual wielding. Utilizing the Frenzy, Taunt, and Iron Skin abilities, they lure enemies in and unleash a fierce barrage of attacks

Two-handed

• Bash level scaling increased and will no longer be capped at level 80
• Stun level scaling increased and will no longer be capped at level 80
• Added Battle Cry

Developer Comments: We want to give the Barbarian Warrior more identity while still maintaining his Barbarian fantasy. So, we decided to give him the “Battle Cry” skill as a new way for him to debuff enemies, which should prove to be a useful utility for players. In addition, we wanted to increase his Life and Defense scaling to ensure that he is the tougher mercenary type. By adding a new dual wielding Barbarian Mercenary, we hope to provide a powerful, fast-hitting merc that challenges the status-quo of common mercenary choice among players.

RUNE WORDS

For the first time, players will have the chance to unlock a host of new Rune Words in the Ladder system! These will be exclusive to Ladder like the previous set of Ladder-only Rune Words in the original Diablo II experience. At the end of a Ladder season, players who successfully made these Rune Words will have their Ladder characters be moved into a “non-Ladder” version of the game.

Insight

• Now can also be used with Bows and Crossbows

Infinity

• Can now be used by Spears and Amazon Spears

Obedience

• Can now be used by Spears and Amazon Spears

Pride

• Can now be used by Spears and Amazon Spears

Developer Comments: Insight is a popular Rune Word, and we feel that allowing it on ranged weapons will promote more build possibilities that complement the skill and mercenary changes seen above.

New Rune Word	Allowed Items	Rune Order	Completed Stats
Plague	Sword, Claws, Daggers	Cham + Shael + Um	20% Chance to cast level 12 Lower Resist when struck 25% Chance to cast level 15 Poison Nova on striking Level 13-17 Cleansing Aura When Equipped (varies) +1-2 All Skills +20% Increased Attack Speed +220-320% Enhanced Damage (varies) -23% To Enemy Poison Resistance 0.3% (0-29.7) Deadly Strike (Based on Character Level) +25% Chance of Open Wounds Freezes Target +3
Pattern	Claw	Tal + Ort + Thul	+30% Faster Block Rate +40-80% Enhanced Damage (varies) 10% Bonus to Attack Rating Adds 17-62 Fire Damage Adds 1-50 Lightning Damage Adds 3-14 Cold Damage +75 Poison Damage Over 5 Seconds +6 to Strength +6 to Dexterity All Resistances +15
Unbending Will	Sword	Fal + Io + Ith + Eld + El + Hel	18% Chance to cast Level 18 Taunt on striking +3 To Combat Skills (Barbarian Only) +20-30% Increased Attack Speed (varies) +300-350% Enhanced Damage (varies) +9 To Maximum Damage +50 To Attack Rating +75% Damage to Undead +50 Attack Rating Against Undead 8-10% Life Stolen Per Hit (varies) Prevent Monster Heal +10 To Strength +10 To Vitality Damage Reduced By 8 +1 Light Radius Requirements -20%
Wisdom	Helm	Pul + Ith + Eld	+33% Piercing Attack +15-25% Bonus to Attack Rating (varies) 4-8% Mana Stolen Per Hit (varies) +30% Enhanced Defense +10 Energy 15% Slower Stamina Drain Cannot Be Frozen +5 Mana After Each Kill 15% Damage Taken Goes to Mana
Obsession	Staff	Zod + Ist + Lem + Lum + Io + Nef	Indestructible 24% Chance to cast level 10 Weaken when struck +4 To All Skills +65% Faster Cast Rate +60% Faster Hit Recovery Knockback +10 To Vitality +10 To Energy Increase Maximum Life 15-25% (varies) Regenerate Mana 15-30% (varies) All Resistances +60-70 (varies) 75% Extra Gold from Monsters 30% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
Flickering Flame	Helm	Nef + Pul + Vex	Level 4-8 Resist Fire Aura When Equipped (varies) +3 To Fire Skills -10-15% to Enemy Fire Resistance (varies) +30% Enhanced Defense +30 Defense Vs. Missile +50-75 To Mana (varies) Half Freeze Duration +5% To Maximum Fire Resist Poison Length Reduced by 50%
Mist	Bow & Crossbow	Cham + Shael + Gul + Thul + Ith	Level 8-12 Concentration Aura When Equipped (varies) +3 To All Skills 20% Increased Attack Speed +100% Piercing Attack +325-375% Enhanced Damage (varies) +9 To Maximum Damage 20% Bonus to Attack Rating Adds 3-14 Cold Damage Freeze Target +3 +24 Vitality All Resistances +40

Developer Comments: For new Rune Words, we focused on complementing the skill and mercenary changes seen above, along with giving underused runes more usage. “Plague” and “Pattern” Rune Words previously existed in data but were never enabled, so we made some additional tweaks, and they are finally now available to be used in game.

NEW HORADRIC CUBE RECIPES

 

New Horadric Cube recipes are ladder exclusive.

1 Ral Rune + 1 Sol Rune + 1 Perfect Emerald + Normal Set Weapon	Exceptional Version of Set Weapon
1 Lum Rune + 1 Pul Rune + 1 Perfect Emerald + Exceptional Set Weapon	Elite Version of Set Weapon
1 Tal Rune + 1 Shael Rune + 1 Perfect Diamond + Normal Set Armor	Exceptional Version of Set Armor
1 Ko Rune + 1 Lem Rune + 1 Perfect Diamond + Exceptional Set Armor	Elite Version of Set Armor

Developer Comments: We felt that players enjoy the current Horadric Cube recipes for upgrading Unique items, so we decided to offer the same capability for upgrading Set items. This can add more possibilities by using lower-level Set items for more character builds.

SET ITEM BONUS CHANGES

Arcanna’s Tricks

• Increased +25 Mana to +50 Mana (2 Items)
• Added Regenerate Mana 12% (3 Items)
• Added +1 to All Skills (Full Set)

Arctic Gear

• Changed 6-14 Cold Damage to +2-198 to Maximum Cold Damage (+2 Per Character Level) (Full Set)

Bul-Kathos’ Children

• Increased +20 Fire Damage to +200 Fire Damage (Full Set)
• Increased +25 Defense to +200 Defense (Full Set)
• Added 10% Life Stolen Per Hit (Full Set)
• Added +20% Deadly Strike (Full Set)

Cathan’s Traps

• Added Regenerate Mana 16% (2 Items)

Civerb’s Vestments

• Increased Fire Resist +15% to Fire Resist +25% (2 Items)
• Added 25% Bonus to Attack Rating (Full Set)
• Added +50 Defense (Full Set)

Cow King’s Leathers

• Added +100 Defense (Full Set)
• Added +100 to Life (Full Set)
• Added +1 To All Skills (Full Set)

Infernal Tools

• Added Maximum Mana 20% (Full Set)
• Added Cannot Be Frozen (Full Set)

Iratha’s Finery

• Added +24% Piercing Attack (3 Items)

Milabrega’s Regalia

• Added Cannot Be Frozen (3 Items)
• Added +2-198 To Lightning Damage (+2 Per Character Level) (2 Items)

Naj’s Ancient Vestige

• Added 1-148% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items (+1.5 Per Character Level) (2 Items)
• Increased Replenish Life +10 to Replenish Life +20 (Full Set)
• Added +2 To Fire Skills (Full Set)
• Added Increased Maximum Life 12% (Full Set)

Sazabi’s Grand Tribute

• Added Poison Length Reduced by 75% (2 Items)
• Added +1 To All Skills (Full Set)
• Added Damage Reduced by 16% (Full Set)

Vidala’s Rig

• Added 7% Mana Stolen Per Hit (2 Items)
• Changed Adds 15-20 Cold Damage to +1-148 to Maximum Cold Damage (+1.5 Per Character Level) (Full Set)

Developer Comments: Many improvements have been made to Set items that are generally underused by players. These will offer more reasons to equip multiple of these Set pieces and to give some Sets new capabilities to make them stand out more, which further fuels more build diversity.

LEVEL AREA CHANGES

• Players now must smash the Compelling Orb to enter the Durance of Hate, instead of killing the Council. This means the “Khalim’s Will” quest needs to be completed to use the Durance of Hate Level 2 waypoint.
  

  Developer Comments: We saw that due to a logic glitch, players often chose to skip required content within Act III by bypassing “Khalim’s Will” quest and not experiencing much of what Act III has to offer. We decided to make the “Khalim’s Will” quest a proper requirement to complete Act III, much like how players need to assemble the Horadric Staff to enter Tal Rasha’s Chamber in Act II.

• Monster Levels in the following areas have been increased for Hell Difficulty:

Area	Previous Hell Level	New Hell Level
Act 1 – Underground Passage Level 2	83	85
Act 2 – Stony Tomb Level 1	78	85
Act 2 – Stony Tomb Level 2	79	85
Act 3 – Arachnid Lair	79	85
Act 3 – Swampy Pit Level 1	80	85
Act 3 – Swampy Pit Level 2	81	85
Act 3 – Swampy Pit Level 3	82	85
Act 3 – Disused Fane	84	85
Act 3 – Ruined Temple	84	85
Act 3 – Forgotten Reliquary	84	85
Act 3 – Sewer Levels 1	84	85
Act 5 – Abaddon	81	85
Act 5 – Pit of Acheron	82	85
Act 5 – Infernal Pit	83	85
Act 5 – Drifter Cavern	84	85
Act 5 – Icy Cellar	83	85

Developer Comments: We felt that certain optional areas in Diablo II often get ignored on Hell difficulty, so we decided to increase their monster levels to add more incentives with risk vs reward gameplay. We hope this provides more reasons to find loot in these areas.

QUALITY OF LIFE UPDATES

General

• Added language support for non-ASCII written language
• Added player messaging for when a player tries to launch the game on an out of date patch version
• Added ‘Message of the Day’ capabilities to the main menu to allow us to share important game updates with all players

New Feature – Legacy Graphics Emulation

• There is now an option in the Graphics Settings Menu under ‘Legacy’ that allows you to choose between 3 different emulation options for the Legacy game graphics. The options are ‘GDI’, ‘Glide’, and ‘Resurrected’.
  • ‘GDI’ emulates the software rasterization of the original legacy game and does not apply any filtering
  • ‘Glide’ emulates the hardware accelerated backend of the original legacy game with bilinear filtering
  • ‘Resurrected’ uses the Glide emulation with additional fixes in place to address an artifact that would occur with the original Glide rendering

Developer Comments: We feel ‘Resurrected’ is the definitive emulation mode players should use, but we noticed feedback during PTR that some players preferred the style of legacy graphics released at launch, which did not have any filtering and most closely resembled the software rasterization of the original legacy game. We hope these emulation modes provide players the means to choose the legacy graphics they prefer.

AI

• Improved the reliability of pets, summons, and mercenaries teleporting to the player instead of being despawned

Barbarian

• Updated Barbarian Leap and Leap attack animation behavior to give it a smoother trajectory that should keep the Barbarian on-screen at all times, and reduce jerkiness when he lands

Character Selection

• Newly created characters will now sort to the top of the character selection list

Gameplay

• When holding down a mouse button to target an enemy with a skill, the skill will continue to execute after that target dies
• Minimap will now automatically re-open after death if you had it open prior to dying
• Arrow and Bolt max quantity increased to 500
• Throwing weapon quantity has been increased by 50%
• Blocking will no longer interrupt a player while performing a skill or attack. If a player character triggers a block during this time, the damage will still be negated, but the animation will not play
• Changed how attack speed is determined while dual-wielding weapons. Swapping weapons between hands should no longer result in dramatically different attack speeds
• Character hit recovery will now have diminishing returns when being hit by another player
• Quick cast skills behavior has been unified such that left click quick cast skills behave in the way the right click behavior operated

Developer Comments: We want to fix some of the awkward lockouts that reject player input from casting skills. For PVP, we added a way to reduce hit recovery spam to prevent edge cases of characters being locked out for too long.

Mercenaries

• Mercenary UIs will now display if the mercenary cannot use a skill because they are too low level

Online

• Added messaging if a player attempts to create a private channel with a name longer than the character limit
• Added a /offline chat command which sets your user presence to ‘Offline’
• Added an option for players to control join access to their private games on consoles
• Added a toggle button to show/hide your game password

Vendors

• Players can now buy pre-filled tomes and keys when using a controller

Performance

• Optimized particle effects on some console platforms
• Added a VFX quality option for PC players
• Optimized inventory quick-move actions to reduce delay

Settings

• The Offline Game Difficulty Scale setting will now persist between game sessions.
• Added an option to choose whether or not to confine your mouse cursor to the game screen
• Added a VRAM usage bar in the settings menu

BUG FIXES

Accessibility

• Fixed some issues in the UI that could occur when using Large Font Mode

Assassin

• Fixed an issue where Cloak of Shadows defense calculation was incorrect

Druid

• Fixed an issue where Hunger was not costing mana if it was cast without a target selected
• Druid Solar Creeper will now properly consume corpses and restore mana whenever the Druid is missing mana
• Rabies now properly consumes mana when your attack misses

Paladin

• Fixed an issue where you wouldn’t be able to weapon swap if you were wielding a bow with no ammo as a Paladin on controller
• Fixed an issue where you could not disable auras as a Paladin if you were using a bow without ammunition on controller
• Fixed an issue where the Conviction Aura Tooltip would display incorrect information
• Fixed an issue where Sanctuary aura was not granting its bonus damage to Undead

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue where Unique monster packs with mana drain were draining way more mana than was intended
• Fixed an issue where fire enchanted monsters were doing too much damage in Nightmare difficulty
• Fixed an issue with attacking as a Werebear with two weapons equipped. The primary weapon will be used exclusively when attacking while transformed
• Fixed an issue where using a skill could be interrupted if a player dodges, avoids, or blocks while executing a skill
• Fixed an issue where uninterruptible skills could be interrupted within a 1 frame window if you were using the skill repeatedly
• Fixed an issue where the skills granted by items sometimes couldn’t be used on a controller
• Fixed an issue where you could be blocked from talking to an NPC if a player initiates a trade request with you while you are talking to an NPC
• Fixed an issue where weapon swap was not updating Faster Run/Walk on the game client
• Fixed an issue where skill bindings for OSkills wouldn’t persist after dying and joining a new game
• Fixed an issue where one of the Chaos Sanctuary seals was difficult to select
• Fixed an issue where the Glacial Trail entrance wouldn’t highlight
• Fixed an issue where continuing to move after running out of stamina could cause the stamina bar to not refill
• Fixed an issue where a room in Act 1 Caves had misplaced walls
• Fixed an issue where a few melee skills would often miss when attacking moving targets (Amazon Fend, Druid Fury, Paladin Sacrifice, Paladin Zeal)
• Fixed an issue where Quick Cast melee skills would sometimes fail to execute properly under certain circumstances
• Fixed an issue where Force Move and Quick Cast skills could still operate when in a full screen UI menu in Legacy Mode
• Fixed an issue that could cause players to miss their attack when using melee skills against enemies that are just barely within striking range and moving away
• Fixed a rare issue where casting spells rapidly could result in incorrect mana cost in certain networking situations
• Fixed an issue where Replenishing and Propagation item modifiers were not triggering when Quantity was removed from melee skills
• Fixed an issue where mercenary damage bonuses were being applied inconsistently. This will mostly affect damage when no weapon is equipped
• Fixed an issue where the mercenary damage UI would display inconsistent damage values
• Fixed an issue where scrolls weren’t auto-populating to a belt slot when purchased
• Fixed an issue where the lower resist tooltip didn’t list the percentage by which the target’s resistance is lowered

Character Creation

• Fixed an issue where some players could bypass character name validation and create invalid offline character names. Those characters can now be repaired – affected players will be prompted to rename the invalid characters

Controls

• Fixed on issue where using a PlayStation controller on PC, some button prompts could appear with an Xbox controller button icon
• Fixed an issue where binding a skill to Key 2 without binding anything to Key 1 would show the keybind UI to not show

Graphics

• Fixed artifacting that could occur on certain VFX when using DLSS
• Fixed an issue where the player would become invisible if using Fade behind a transparent wall
• Fixed an issue where ethereal items were appearing invisible when standing behind transparent walls
• Fixed an issue where grass in Tamoe Highland could pop in and out while traversing
• Fixed an issue where VFX could become missing after playing for an extended period of time on consoles
• Fixed an issue where VFX could appear as black boxes on PS4 in high memory usage scenarios
• Fixed a DLSS-related ghosting artifact that could occur on moving objects while the game camera is stationary

Localization

• Fixed some localization issues with skill tooltips
• Fixed some localization issues related to user presence in the Xbox social menus
• Fixed some localization issues in the Settings menu
• Fixed miscellaneous issues related to localization of chat commands

Online

• Fixed an issue where users in Europe or Korea were unable to block or report users
• Fixed an issue where the right click context menu options in the Friends List would not consistently function
• Fixed an issue where you could not highlight game names and join if using a controller in the Lobby menu
• Fixed an issue where you could get stuck in an ‘attempting to join’ state if you tried to join a game through the friends list while you were rate limited
• Fixed an issue where swapping between Keyboard and Controller on the front end could rarely force you into the Offline character tab and prevent access to the online tab for a small amount of time
• Fixed an issue on consoles where online friends who have their presence set to appear ‘Offline’ in their platform settings would appear in the friends list sorted into other online friends rather than with their other offline friends
• Fixed an issue on Switch where if you remove someone from your friends list, they may not correctly get removed
• Fixed a visual issue that could occur when opening the Horadric Cube while in the middle of a trade with another player
• Auto-generated game name and password from game sessions generated using the main menu ‘Play’ button will now be hidden
• Fixed an issue where your character selection wouldn’t persist if you exited the lobby
• Fixed a rare issue that could cause your character to display the wrong name if you join a game from the friend’s list

Performance

• Fixed an issue where users with 3050 series GPUs would have incorrect default graphics settings
• Fixed a crash that could occur when exiting the game
• Fixed a crash that could occur during the Pandemonium event
• Miscellaneous crash/stability fixes

Settings

• Fixed an issue where your game difficulty settings on Lobby would not update properly after changing characters

• Additional notes: none.
• Source: Blizzard

How to download updates for Diablo II: Resurrected for the Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates for Diablo II: Resurrected, you have three options:

• let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off

If not…

• try to launch the game from the Home Menu while being connected to the internet. You should get a prompt when doing so: simply follow the instructions on screen;

OR

• select the game > press either + or – to go to the Options page > select Software update > select Via the Internet.

To check that you have the latest version installed, simply select the game on the Home Menu, and press – or + to go to the Options: the version number is displayed just below the game title.