Diablo 4 Update Brings Back Popular Season 1 Feature, Full Patch Notes

11/07/2023 06:20 pm EST

Diablo 4 is in the thick of its second season, meaning players are deep into their hunt to take down the vampiric presence that took over Sanctuary. However, the developers at Blizzard Entertainment aren't content to let the season play out without adding anything new. Today, the team revealed the next Diablo 4 mid-season patch and this one is a doozy. While there are a ton of requested bug fixes, the big change is that Diablo 4 is adding five new Unique class-specific rings to both Seasonal and Eternal realms. These are incredibly powerful tools that players will want to hunt down because they repurpose the popular Malignant Powers players saw during Season 1.

The new Malignant Rings are Blizzard's way of taking the most popular Malignant Powers from Season 1 and bringing them forward. Remember, seasonal content doesn't stick around, so if Blizzard wants to continue building on it, the team has to do something like this. This seems to signify that Blizzard is more than willing to bring back popular seasonal features and make them a constant part of the game. It'll be interesting to see how this affects Diablo 4's power creep, but Blizzard can always add new challenges to ensure its most dedicated players are still engaged.

Outside of the addition of Malignant Rings, the latest Diablo 4 patch fixes several issues related to the Season of Blood's new mechanics and endgame fights. That includes some changes to the Lord Zir boss fight that irons out problems players were encountering with his adds. This patch isn't as comprehensive as a full seasonal patch, but it's definitely substantial.

Below, you'll find the full patch notes for the mid-season patch. Diablo 4 is available now on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC platforms.

Diablo 4 Season 2 Mid-Season Patch Notes

Gameplay Updates

Malignant Rings

Five new Unique Rings have been added to the game, one for each class. These are based on popular Malignant Powers from Season of the Malignant, and are immediately available in both Seasonal and Eternal realms.

• Ring of Red Furor (Barbarian Unique Ring)
  • After spending 100 Fury within 3 seconds, your next cast of Hammer of the Ancients, Upheaval, or Death Blow is a guaranteed Critical Strike and deals 10—30% (multiplicative damage) [x] bonus Critical Strike Damage.
• Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop (Sorcerer Unique Ring)
  • For each type of Elemental damage you deal, gain 10—15%[x] increased damage for 4 seconds. Dealing Elemental damage refreshes all bonuses.
• Airidah's Inexorable Will (Druid Unique Ring)
  • When casting an Ultimate Skill and again 5 seconds after, Pull in Distant enemies and deal 0.5-1.0 Physical damage to them. This damage is increased by 1%[x] per 1 point of Willpower you have.
• Writhing Band of Trickery (Rogue Unique Ring)
  • Casting a Subterfuge Skill leaves behind a Decoy Trap that continuously Taunts and lures enemies. The Decoy Trap explodes after 3 seconds dealing 2.0-3.0 Shadow damage. Can occur every 12 seconds.
• Ring of the Sacrilegious Soul (Necromancer Unique Ring)
  • Automatically activate the following equipped Skills on Corpses around you:
    • Raise Skeleton every 1-2 seconds.
    • Corpse Explosion every 1-2 seconds.
    • Corpse Tendrils every 8-16 seconds.

Developer's Note: Creating the Malignant Rings are a way for us to take popular Seasonal content that resonated with Players and reintroduce it in a way that can persist beyond the Season and into the Eternal realm.

Season of Blood

The following adjustments have been made for the Sanguine Battery Event.

• Pillar health has been increased from 75% to 85%.
• Pillar repair time has been decreased from 3 seconds to 1 second.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the additional enemies in the Lord Zir boss fight would not get stunned when Lord Zir gets staggered.
• Fixed an issue where Metamorphosis would not trigger temporary movement speed bonuses.
• Fixed an issue where the Anticipation Vampiric Power didn't display Cooldown Reduction for Ultimate abilities when in town.
• Fixed an issue where the Hectic Vampiric Power did not reduce the cooldown of skills with charges.
• Fixed an issue where the seasonal quest "Battle of Fear" and "Faith" could be completed without completing Chapter 3 of the Season Journey.
• Fixed an issue where the upgrade button for Vampiric Powers could be interacted with when there are no new powers available, wasting 25 Potent Blood.
• Fixed an issue where Lord Zir could not respawn if the player re-entered the boss arena too quickly after respawning.
• Fixed an issue where Evade and non-damaging Skills could trigger Hemomancy.

Dungeons and Events

• Fixed an issue where progression would be blocked when an enemy spawned behind the locked door in the Luban's Rest dungeon.
• Fixed an issue where monsters could spawn from a Nightmare Portal location after the portal had teleported or been destroyed.

Quests

• Fixed multiple instances where the quest marker could disappear when leaving the area during multiple quests.
• Fixed an issue where Prava and her knights could stop progressing through the area during the Scouring of Caldeum if certain Elites were killed from a distance during the "Kill Demons Attacking from Above" quest.

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue where Lilith could still launch area-of-effect attacks after she is defeated following the first phase in the Echo of Lilith.
• Fixed an issue where Angelbreath or Potions could randomly spawn when The Beast in the Ice spawned.
• Fixed an issue where followers could get stuck when going back and forth over a traversal.
• Fixed an issue where Inner Sight didn't trigger properly against Training Dummies.
• Fixed an issue where Necromancer Minions and Druid Companions wouldn't attack Training Dummies.

Accessibility

• Fixed an issue where the Screen Reader wouldn't properly read life totals above 999.
• Fixed an issue where the Screen Reader on PS4 didn't read all the text in Vendor and Crafting displays.

Miscellaneous

• Fixed an issue where achievements related to the Hatred's Chosen buff could not trigger appropriately.
• Various visual, performance, and stability improvements.

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