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Season of the Infernal Hordes is here!
There’s something to cheer for Diablo 4 fans as the new season looms. Blizzard has revealed what’s in store in the next patch. There are the usual class reworks, some buffs, a few nerfs and much more. Here’s everything that is new in Diablo 4 Season 5’s Patch 1.5.0.
Infernal Hordes
General
Developer’s Note:We’ve received a lot of feedback that this made party flow awkward and wasn’t obvious, we’ve decided to remove it.
Game Updates
New Items and Tempering Recipes
The Alchemist Control Rogue Temper Manual will not be available in Patch 1.5.0. It will return with Patch 1.5.1.
Existing Tempering Recipe Additions
Balance Updates
All Unique items have received an update to better align them with our current design philosophy for Unique items. A visual gallery showcasing the changes to each item can be found at the end of these patch notes.
Hammer of the Ancients
Book of the Dead
Legendary Aspects
Blighted Aspect
Developer’s Note:Blighted Aspect has been a disproportionately large source of damage for Shadowblight based Necromancers, giving far more power than we normally give for a single Aspect. To compensate for this change, we are increasing the baseline power of the Darkness Core Skills and Shadowblight with the goal of keeping these builds at approximately the same overall power level.
Blood Begets Blood Legendary Node
Tempering
Developer’s Note:Values provided for Tempering Recipe updates reflect their values at Legendary rank. Magic and Rare recipes have also been similarly adjusted.
Skills
Blade Shift
Developer’s Note:Unhindered allows you to move through enemies and prevents your Movement Speed from being lowered.
Malice
Alchemical Advantage
Developer’s Note:The maximum stack potential increases by 5% with each Skill Rank.
Exploit Weakness – Legendary Node
No Witnesses – Legendary Node
Developer’s Note:This is to compensate for increased sources of Ultimate Skill Damage added to the Rogue Paragon Board this season.
Shocking impact
Combustion
Vyr’s Mastery
Developer’s Note:Shock Sorcerer is often highly incentivized to play in close combat. This rework aims to open up the Shock Sorcerer playstyle, allowing for both close and ranged options while maintaining the defensive capability of the original design that players love.
User Interface and User Experience
Miscellaneous
Developer’s Note:Obols received from Helltide Chests were part of the Season 4: Loot Reborn Blessings only.
Developer’s Note:This change was necessary due to increased XP gain rates that were allowing players to reach the character level requirement for Smoldering Ashes before they reached the corresponding Tier in the Battle Pass. We want to avoid instances that allow players to purchase Tier Skips to gain the benefits from of the Smoldering Ashes ahead of players who aren’t purchasing them. We will continue to iterate on this system in future seasons.
Developer’s Note:We’ve made this change to reduce the amount of one-shots that happen when fighting bosses in the Pit. Players should have more room to get hit by boss attacks up to a certain point.
With the patch notes being revealed a few days before the official launch of the new season, fans are very excited to see what it brings. Many of the comments to the announcement were to siply push the button and release the new patch immediately. However, Diablo Season of the Infernal Hordes Patch will release on August 6.
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