Patch:Season 8

Season 8 Depravity - September 22nd 2023

Patch Notes S8

Patch Notes Document (Reddit Thread) NOTICE: Items with +X Open Wounds Damage per Second are being fundamentally changed this season. Old versions will cause compatibility errors and will need to be dropped or converted in singleplayer. GENERAL CHANGES Added a new mechanic called "Corrupted Zones" Any game that was hosted with the baal quest complete will have a "Corrupted Zone" These zones will have an area level of 85 and a much greater chance to drop worldstone shards The zone chosen on game creation will change every 15 minutes and will be server wide (An already created game will not have it's Corrupted Zone changed and will require creating a new game to do so) Crushing blow has been reworked to work at full value against regular monsters and bosses. Prime evils will have an aggressive diminishing return however crushing blow will still function all the way to 0% health Reworked throwing potions Throwing potions will now reduce enemies resistances for a short period Two new types of throwing potions have been added for the cold and light elements Added the ability to lock your equipment and charm slots Updated to the newest version of D2GL (Made by Bayaraa) This should fix issues for AMD users Added a new help screen that can be found by pressing H in game Added the ability to infuse a map orb or a stack of map orbs by combining the ingredients with them (This allows you to use just the infused orb alongside a map to complete the recipe) Enabled the recipe to reroll 2 white arrows into a white bolt or vice versa Shrine buffs will now be provided to all allies within proximity Your most recent messages will now be kept within your chat log (L) even when swapping between games When making player reports please include any associated chat logs Fixed mercenaries not activating multiple auras when you change equipment Added a new belt status feature that allows you to monitor the items within your belt The unique TP/ID tomes (Horadric Almanac & Horadric Navigator) now have a very low chance of dropping anywhere (fixed - wasn't mentioned) MAPS Reduced the drop rate of unique maps by 40% Added a new unique map "The Fallen Gardens" which has an increased chance to drop jewels as well as the boss dropping a Rainbow Facet Map Health Prefixes and Suffixes have had the following changes Health bonus tiers rescaled from 10-20% / 20-30% / 30-40% to 5-15% / 15-25% / 25-35% Associated experience bonuses have been increased from 5-6% / 6-7% / 7-8% to 6-8% / 8-10% / 10-12% Reduced the weight of health prefixes and suffixes by 50% Reduced the chance of the Gheed event selling high level items Kadala's Heirloom can now be found on single player Fixed a bug that allowed lower level than intended players to enter maps Increased the drop rates of Horadric Scarabs You can now use a stack of orbs of destruction on multiple maps at a time (fixed - reverted) Guardian of Fate map event monster can no longer be revived Zhar's Sanctum Reduced Heirophant's Blizzard level in Zhar's map 'Hidden Waterways' from level 17 to level 14 Negative all resistance modifier reduced from -30% to -20% to -10% Health modifier increased from 10-30% to 20-30% Stygian Caverns Reduced the size of the "Warlord of Blood" unique map by roughly 20% Fixed a bug that would cause the Warlord of Blood Boss to get stuck outside of the boss arena The "Warlord of Blood" unique map will now only drop corrupted items Stronghold of Acheron density increased by 55% Health modifier increased from 10-30% to 20-30% Dungeons Base experience bonus increased from 40-50% to 60-70% UBERS Reworked the difficulty scaling of Diablo Clone and Rathma into three Tiers Tier 1 is the easy difficulty and cannot drop a rare unique item (Can still drop an anni) Tier 2 is the regular difficulty, can drop the rare uniques and requires between a Vex-Sur to be combined with the Vision of Terror / Voidstone Tier 3 is the hardest difficulty, can drop the rare uniques at an increased rate and requires between a Ber-Zod to be combined with the Vision of Terror / Voidstone. Being one of the first three players of any class to complete the Tier 3 encounter will unlock a season wide aura Increased the drop rate of Prime Evil Soul Reduced the drop rate of Pure Demonic Essence Increased the drop rates of Diablo Clone and Rathma specific uniques (From Dungeons and Bosses) CLASSES Amazon Fire Arrow Base damage increased from 3-4 to 8.5-12 Level 1-8 scaling increased from 1-1.5 to 3.5-4.5 Level 8-16 scaling increased from 3.5 to 6 to 6-17.5 Level 16-22 scaling increased from 10-12 to 16-17.5 Level 22-28 scaling increased from 17.5-19.5 to 32-35 Level 28+ scaling increased from 25-27 to 48-52.5 Synergies reduced from 26% to 21% Magic Arrow Level 22-28 scaling reduced from 22.5-25.5 to 22-24 Level 28+ scaling reduced from 34-38 to 33-35 Fixed an issue that was causing the tooltip to display lower values than the actual damage Cold Arrow Synergies reduced from 22% to 20% Fixed an issue that was causing the tooltip to display incorrect values Jab Base damage bonus increased from 20% to 30% Damage per level increased from 14% to 18% Synergies increased from 12% to 14% Javelin and spear mastery Base enhanced damage bonus increased from 35% to 40% Damage per level increased from 10% to 12% Decoy Lowered the threat of decoys (decoys will now have similar aggro to mercenaries) Assassin Cobra Strike Synergies increased from 14% to 20% Dragon Claw Can no longer be interrupted Now procs all built up charges on both weapon attacks before consuming them Blade Sentinel Synergies increased from 10% to 12% Blade sentinel now releases an aoe burst when changing directions (cannot happen more than once per 12 frames) Blade Fury Synergies increased from 7% to 10% Phoenix Strike Third charge freeze duration reduced from 1 second to .5 Weapon Block Base parry chance set to 8% Now gains 1% faster block rate per soft point instead of hard points Now can be increased by increased block chance at a 1:5 ratio (weapon block : increased block chance) The blocking mechanic from weapon based blocks will now be called a "Parry" to differentiate it from normal block Parry chance cap reduced from 60% to 55% Blade Shield No longer uses durability Radius is no longer capped by weapon range Changed the frame delay on blade shield to scale with hard points. It now starts at 20 frame delay base level 1 and scales to 10 frame delay at level 20 (from 12 frames flat at all levels before) Now has an attack rating check Now has 40% attack rating base Now gains 15% attack rating per level Now uses "on striking" instead of "on attack" Can now apply the following effects (fixed - wasn't mentioned) Chance to Cast on Striking Crushing Blow Open Wounds Life after each Kill Mana after each Kill No longer procs Does not apply the following effects (they are usually applied by strikes) (fixed - these never applied in previous seasons, only briefly during the closed beta) Slow Freeze target Chance to flee Life gained on hit Blinds target Venom Now deals it's damage over 1 second instead of 2 Venom's damage has been doubled and top end increased slightly Traps Sentries will now be displayed similar to other pets Kick Damage Formula Reworked kick damage dex/str scaling: Removed strength from base feet damage calc, changed from dex/6 - dex/5 to dex/3 - dex/2 Lowered strength attribute bonus on boots from 120 -> 80 Mind blast Reverted back to 100% physical damage Fists of Fire First charge and third charge meteor fire burn damage per second Level 16-22 scaling increased from 3-4 to 4-6 Level 22-28 scaling increased from 4-5 to 7-9 Level 28+ scaling increased from 5-6 to 10-12 Second charge fire nova damage Level 22-28 scaling increased from 27-33 to 28-33 Level 28+ scaling increased from 33-40 to 41-48 Third charge meteor impact damage Level 22-28 scaling increased from 16-17 to 17-18 Level 28+ scaling increased from 22-23 to 25-26 Blades of Ice Base freeze duration change from 100 frames to 250 Removed the 10 frames per level freeze duration scaling Synergies increased from 20% to 22% Barbarian Deep Wounds Fixed an issue that was causing it's values to cap (No longer has any cap) Concentrate Synergies increased from 18% to 20% Berserk Enemy physical resistance penetration cap increased from -30% to -45% Double Throw Increased the max number of bounces from 5 to 7 Druid Fury Damage per level reduced from 14% to 10% Feral Rage Damage per level reduced from 12% to 10% Synergy values reduced from 8% to 6% Werewolf Damage per level reduced from 10% to 8% Werebear Defense per level increased from 8% to 10% +10% max health bonus now displays on tooltip Rabies Synergies reduced from 12% to 10% Level 16-22 scaling reduced from 16-16 to 15-15 Level 22-28 scaling reduced from 24-24 to 23-23 Level 28+ scaling reduced from 32-32 to 31-31 Lycanthropy Base max life per level bonus reduced from 10% to 5% Level 22+ max life bonus per level reduced from 2% to 1% Ravens Level 16-22 scaling reduced from 17-18 to 14-15 Level 22-28 scaling reduced from 22-23 to 21-22 Level 28+ scaling increased from 27-28 to 28-29 Twister Synergies increased from 22% to 24% Tornado Synergies increased from 14% to 16% (fixed - incorrectly said 16% to 18%) Necromancer Teeth Level 22-28 scaling reduced from 15-18 to 15-17 Level 28+ scaling reduced from 23-27 to 22-25 Synergies reduced from 25% to 24% Bone spear Synergies increased from 10% to 14% Bone spirit Synergies increased from 10% to 14% Poison Strike Synergies increased from 22% to 25% Base poison resistance penetration increase from -2% to -5% Poison Nova Synergies increased from 10% to 12% Desecrate Level 22-28 scaling reduced from 21-21 to 19-19 Level 28+ scaling increased from 21-21 to 24-24 Corpses now decay after 16 seconds to prevent "shenk bug" (This bug is when there are too many sprites on screen causing things to vanish or flicker) Disabled druid vines from providing health/mana when eating corpses generated from desecrate Corpse Explosion Level 8-16 scaling increased from 2-4 to 3-5 Level 16-22 scaling increased from 5-10 to 6-10 Synergies increased from 8% to 10% Radius increased from 10 yards to 12 yards Dark Pact Fixed dark pact not working in maps with "Monsters have reduced curse duration" Revive Fixed the panther javelin throwing monster's javelin hit collide type so that it will deal damage as a revive Fire Golem Fire Golem Melee Attack Base damage reduced from 20-25 to 12-15 Level 1-8 scaling reduced from 10-12 to 4-5 Level 8-16 scaling reduced from 11-13 to 7-9 Level 16-22 scaling reduced from 12-14 to 11-13 Level 22-28 scaling increased from 13-15 to 13-16 Level 28+ scaling reduced from 14-16 to 13-16 Synergies increased from 4% to 5% Fire Golem Holy Fire Aura Base damage reduced from 25-35 to 21-29 Level 1-8 scaling reduced 15-17 to 13-14 Level 8-16 scaling reduced from 20-22 to 17-18 Level 16-22 scaling reduced from 25-27 to 21-22 Level 22-28 scaling reduced from 30-32 to 25-26 Level 28+ scaling reduced from 30-32 to 27-28 Synergies increased from 4% to 5% Paladin Smite Base damage bonus increased from 20% to 40% No longer knocks back in PvE Zeal Added +20% base bonus damage Now gains it's +20% damage per level bonus from level 1-4 instead of gaining +0% Synergies reduced from 20% to 15% Holy Shield Level 28+ damage scaling increased from 4-4 to 5-5 Sanctuary Added 50% base attack rating Added 5% attack rating per level Synergies increased from 7% to 8% Now has holy sword instead of conversion as a synergy Holy Fire Added 50% base attack rating Added 5% attack rating per level Level 1-8 scaling increased from 1-1 to 1-2 Level 8-16 scaling increased from 3-3 to 3-4 Level 16-22 scaling increased from 10-10 to 10-12 Level 22-28 scaling increased from 19-19 to 18-21 Level 28+ scaling increased from 23-25 to 25-30 Synergies reduced from 18% to 15% Holy Shock Added 50% base attack rating Added 5% attack rating per level Synergies increased from 8% to 9% Holy Freeze Added 50% base attack rating Added 5% attack rating per level Replaced Conversion with a new skill: Holy Sword Allows the paladin to gain parry chance while wielding two handed swords (Similar to Weapon Block) Provides the paladin with increased damage to demons and undead Sacrifice Synergies increased from 20% to 25% Lowered the delay for the AoE explosion on death Joust Items that reduce cooldown will now allow you to reduce the cooldown below the 1.5 second minimum cooldown Charge Charge was previously not gaining it's enhanced damage bonus, this has been fixed Enhanced damage per level reduced from 30% to 25% Synergies reduced from 25% to 20% Sorceress Energy shield Cap increased from 85% to 90% Ice Barrage Explosion radius increased from 4 yards to 4.6 Lightning Mastery Lightning damage per level bonus reduced from 12% to 10% Thunder storm Synergies increased from 6% to 8% Telekinesis Synergies increased from 14% to 15% ITEMS The following weapons have had their ranges increased from 2 to 3 Javelin Pilum Short Spear Glaive Throwing Spear War Javelin Great Pilum Simbilan Spiculum Harpoon Hyperion Javelin Stygian Pilum Balrog Spear Ghost Glaive Winged Harpoon Maiden Javelin Ceremonial Javelin Matriarchal Javelin The following weapons have had their ranges increased from 3 to 4 Spear Trident War Spear Fuscina Hyperion Spear Stygian Pike UNIQUES Doombringer 210-280% enhanced damage increased to 260-320% 8% chance to cast level 15 weaken increased to 14% chance to cast level 21 weaken +5-7% life stolen per hit increased to +8-10% Hellslayer +150-300 to 400-500 fire damage changed to 300-500 Rune master +10-20% curse resistance increased to +20% Razor's Edge 225-300% Enhanced damage increased to +225-325% Stormrider 25% chance to cast Level 27 charged bolt on striking increased to 30% Stone Crusher +180-220% enhanced damage increased to +220-260% Stormlash 20% chance to cast level 28 tornado on striking increased to +30% Horizon's Tornado 20% chance to cast level 28 tornado on striking increased to +25% Baranar's Star 1-300 fire damage increased to 50-300 1-300 cold damage increased to 50-300 1-300 lightning damage increased to 50-300 Swordguard +10-20% all resistance increased to +20-30% Grandfather Removed +3-5 warcries (barbarian only) Added +2-3 to war cry (barbarian only) Added +2 to all skills Added repairs 1 durability in 4 seconds Odium Adds 180-220 to 320-360 cold damage increased to 255-450 Lightsabre 5% chance to cast level 28 chain lightning on attack increased to 8% Flamebellow 12% chance to cast level 16 firestorm increased to level 22 +5% fire absorb removed Added +40% increased attack speed Ghostflame +240-340% enhanced damage increased +280-340% Wraith Flight Readded Ethereal +190-250% enhanced damage reduced to +190-240% The Scalper +480-600 open wounds damage per second increased to +500-700 Deathbit 5% reanimate as returned increased to 7% Death's Web +1-2 to poison and bone spells (necromancer only) increased to +2-3 Suicide Branch +1-2 to blood warp increased to +2-3 The Oculus +10-25 all resistances increased to +15-25 Tempest 30% chance to cast level 16 energy shield when struck replaced with level 16 energy shield when equipped Shadow Killer 33% chance to cast level 18 frost nova on striking increased to level 24 Zerae's Resolve +2 to valkyrie (amazon only) removed Added +2 to passive and magic skills +220-270% enhanced damage increased to +240-285% Lycander's Flank +50-100% enhanced defense removed Physical damage taken reduced by 10% increased to +10-20% Spirit Keeper 5-8% cold absorb reduced to 4-6% +1-2 to druid skills increased to +2 Nightwing's Veil +5-15% cold damage increased to +8-15% Andariel's Visage -30% fire resist reduced to -20% Vampire Gaze +6-22 cold damage increased to 30-60 Dark Abyss +3-5 to mana after each kill reduced to +3-4 +3-5 to life after each kill reduced to +3-4 Blackoak Shield 8% chance to cast level 15 decrepify when struck replaced with level 11 shiver armor when equipped Radament's Sphere +20% increased chance of blocking increased to +30% Tiamat's Rebuke 15% chance to cast level 6 hydra when struck increased to level 12 Dracul's Grasp 7-10% life stolen per hit increased to +8-12% +10-15 strength increased to +10-20 Tearhaunch +1-2 to defensive auras (paladin only) increased to +2 Added a new item: Leoric's Mithril Bane Added a new item: Uldyssian's Awakening RUNEWORDS Added a new chest runeword: Hustle Added a new chest runeword: Innocence Asylum Can now be made in two handed swords Chaos Reduced enhanced damage from 250-300% to 200-250% Reduced magic damage from 216-471 to 200-400 Ferocity +8-10 to zeal increased to +12-14 Breath of the Dying +8-10% life stolen per hit increased to +8-12% +20-30 to all attributes increased to +30 SET ITEMS Bul-Kathos' Tribal Guardian Now has a +50% enhanced damage bonus (two piece bonus) Bul-Kathos' Sacred Charge Now has a +30% attack speed (two piece bonus) Sazabi's Cobalt Redeemer +7-14 life after each kill increased to +10-14 Dangoon's Teaching 23% chance to cast level 31 frost nova on striking increased to 33% SET BONUSES Immortal King Set Added +100% enhanced damage (complete set bonus) Orphan's Call Set + 50 to life increased to +100 (complete set bonus) PVP We will be supporting two high level and two low level pvp tournaments for both hardcore and softcore in season 8. The top 3 placements in these tournaments will earn a new purple aura PvP maps will now be opened in Act 1 instead of Act 5 PvP maps will now be sold by Akara Weapon block and holy sword block chances are now 1/2 in PvP arena (from 1/3 while moving and 1/2 while standing still (this is a buff)) Dodge/Avoid now also have 1/2 chance in PvP arena Fist of the Heavens can no longer namelock in pvp arenas PVP Damage modifier changes: Hell: Mind blast damage penalty 10% -> 60% Blade Sentinel damage penalty 60% -> 50% Chain Lightning Sentry damage penalty 60% -> 55% Lightning Sentry damage penalty 60% -> 55% Fist of the Heavens damage penalty 15% -> 85% Smite damage penalty 65% -> 75% Blessed Hammer damage penalty 60% -> 50% Charge damage penalty 100% -> 80% Armageddon damage penalty 100% -> 90% Torndao Damage penalty 80% -> 70% Bone Spear damage penalty 50% -> 45% Bone Spirit damage penalty 38% -> 30% Dark Pact damage penalty 100% -> 60% Desecrate damage penalty 25% -> 60% Poison Nova damage penalty 100% -> 125% Whirlwind damage penalty 85% -> 90% War cry damage penalty 115% -> 125% Ice Bolt damage penalty 100% -> 115% Ice Blast damage penalty 100% -> 115% Glacial Spike damage penalty 100% -> 115% Ice Barrage damage penalty 125% -> 140% Frozen Orb damage penalty 100% -> 115% Fire Bolt damage penalty 100% -> 115% Fire Ball damage penalty 100% -> 115% Meteor damage penalty 100% -> 90% Nova damage penalty 130% -> 140% Hydra damage penalty 100% -> 90% Blizzard damage penalty 120% -> 130% Jab damage penalty 90% -> 80% Poison Javelin damage penalty 100% -> 85% Plague Javelin damage penalty 50% -> 45% Guided Arrow damage penalty 100% -> 110% Ice Arrow Damage penalty 100% -> 110% Norm/NM: Mind blast damage penalty 15% -> 60% Blade Sentinel damage penalty 100% -> 70% Chain Lightning Sentry damage penalty 45% -> 40% Lightning Sentry damage penalty 45% -> 40% Blessed Hammer damage penalty 85% -> 70% Charge damage penalty 90% -> 80% Tornado damage penalty 100% -> 85% Bone Spear damage penalty 70% -> 60% Bone Spirit damage penalty 60% -> 50% Dark Pact damage penalty 75% -> 70% Meteor damage penalty 75% -> 70% Hydra damage penalty 100% -> 90% Jab damage penalty 85% -> 80% PATCHES Season 8 Patch 1 (2023-09-30) Due to some issues we have reverted orb of destructions to one map at a time Orb of destructions should now properly function again Increased the health of the Fallen Gardens Map Boss by 8% Fixed a bug that was allowing Iskatu's minions to drop jewels Reduced the damage of the Warlord of Blood Map Boss by 20% Several balance changes to the mini bosses in unique maps