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Diablo 4 Update Patch Notes: Gameplay Changes, UI, Dungeons, Bug Fixes

Learn about the latest Diablo 4 update, including the new patch notes filled with changes and improvements for gameplay, the UI, bug fixes and more.
Diablo 4 Update Patch Notes: Gameplay Changes, UI, Dungeons, Bug Fixes

If you want to know what the latest Diablo 4 update patch notes hold, including all the gameplay changes, improvements, bug fixes, etc., we've got you covered.

In this consistently updated article, you will always find the patch notes for the latest Diablo 4 update. This includes the likes of bug fixes, changes to gameplay, improvements, dungeons, and everything else in between.

Update on 5 June 2023: We checked for any new Diablo 4 patch notes. Learn about the latest Diablo 4 Class Balance Changes in our dedicated article.

We've updated this article with a section where you will always find the latest Diablo 4 patch notes with the date they've been released.

Latest Diablo 4 Update Patch Notes

This section features the latest Diablo 4 patch notes for every update released so far. Click on the date to expand!

3 June 2023: Diablo 4 Patch Notes 1.0.2d Build #42131 update

Barbarian 

 

 

Skill Changes 

Challenging Shout 

  • Damage Reduction gained from Skill Ranks reduced from 4% to 2%

Legendary Aspect Changes

Bold Chieftain's Aspect 

  • Cooldown reduction per Nearby enemy reduced from 2.7-5.4 seconds to 1.0-1.9 seconds. 
  • Maximum Cooldown reduction from 12 to 6 seconds. 

Aspect of the Dire Whirlwind 

  • Increased Critical Strike Chance per second reduced from 5-10% to 3-8%. 
  • Maximum Critical Strike Chance bonus reduced from 20-40% to 9-24%.

Item Changes

Gohr's Devastating Grips

  • Explosion damage gained from Whirlwind reduced from 50-70% to 16-26%.
  • Damage against wreckable objects no longer increases explosion damage.
  • Explosion damage is only increased by the first 100 hits of Whirlwind.
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Druid 

 

 

Skill Changes 

Pulverize 

  • Lucky Hit Chance reduced from 33% to 25%. 

Lightning Storm 

  • Damage increased from 32% to 40%. 

Grizzly Rage 

  • Maximum extended duration from kills reduced from 10 to 5 seconds.

Class Specialization

Obsidian Slam

  • Kills required for bonus increased from 10 to 20.

Calm Before the Storm

  • Lucky Hit Chance reduced from 15% to 10%.

Passive Changes

Electric Shock

  • Damage bonus increased from 5/10/15% to 6/12/18%.

Legendary Aspect Changes 

Shockwave Aspect 

  • Damage reduced from 90-130% to 60-100%.

Crashstone Aspect

  • Critical Strike Damage reduced from 40-50% to 30-40%.

Lightning Dancer's Aspect

  • Flat damage increased from .5-.6 to .7-.8. 

 

 

Necromancer

 

Skill Changes

Blood Lance

  • Damage increased from 67.5% to 80%.

Army of the Dead

  • Damage increased from 30% to 45%.
  • Cooldown reduced from 90 to 70 seconds.

Blood Wave

  • Damage increased from 90% to 120%.

Passive Changes

Shadowblight

  • Damage increased from 20% to 22%.

Grim Harvest

  • Essence gained reduced from 3/6/9 to 2/4/6.

Serration

  • Critical Strike Chance reduced from .5/1/1.5% to .3/.6/.9%.

Death's Defense

  • Maximum Minion Life lost in a single damage instance reduced from 75/60/45% to 60/45/30%.

Class Specialization

Raise Skeleton

  • Skeleton Warrior attack damage increased by 10%.

Golem

  • Golem attack damage increased by 10%.

Blood Golem

  • Blood Golem Life drain damage increased from 40% to 90%.
  • Blood Golem Life drain healing from enemies hit increased from 4% to 5%.

Iron Golem

  • Iron Golem slam damage increased from 25% to 175%.
  • Iron Golem shockwave damage increased from 30% to 40%.

Necromancer Paragon Board Changes

Hulking Monstrosity                                                        

  • Golem Life and damage bonus increased from 30% to 40% Life.

Cult Leader

  • Damage bonus increased from 10% to 15%.

 

 

Rogue 

 

 

Skill Changes 

Twisting Blades 

  • Advanced Twisting Blades Cooldown reduction per enemy hit reduced from .25 to .1 seconds. 
  • Advanced Twisting Blades maximum Cooldown reduction reduced from 3 to 2 seconds. 

Rapid Fire 

  • Damage increased from 24% to 30%. 

Dark Shroud 

  • Damage Reduction per shadow gained from Skill Ranks reduced from .8% to .4%. 

Dash 

  • Enhanced Dash Critical Strike Damage bonus from 20% to 15%. 

Caltrops 

  • Damage increased from 30% to 40%. 

Passive Changes 

Concussive 

  • Critical Strike Chance reduced from 5/10/15% to 4/8/12%. 

Legendary Affix Changes 

Repeating 

 

  • Maximum Minion Life lost in a single damage instance reduced from 75/60/45% to 60/45/30%.

 

Sorcerer

 

Skill Changes

Arc Lash

  • Lucky Hit Chance reduced from 30% to 14%.
  • Glinting Arc Lash Cooldown reduction reduced from .25 to .15 seconds.

Teleport

  • Shimmering Teleport’s Damage Reduction duration reduced from 5 to 3 seconds.

Legendary Affix Changes

Aspect of Control

  • Bonus damage reduced from 30-40% to 25-35%.

 

General

Miscellaneous Class Changes

Druid Companions and Necromancer Minions

  • Maximum damage over time taken per damage instance reduced from 2% to 1% of maximum Life.

Paragon Board Changes

Rare Nodes

  • Player Attack Speed nodes reduced by 50%.

Glyphs

  • All Glyph Bonus scaling has been reduced by ~34%, except for the following:
  • Critical Strike Damage Glyphs’ Bonus reduced by ~66%.
  • Vulnerable Glyphs’ Bonus reduced by ~66%.
  • Glyphs' Bonus to Rare nodes reduced by ~50%.
  • Glyphs' Bonus to Magic nodes reduced by ~40%.
  • Glyphs' Bonus to Cold/Fire/Lightning/Non-Physical/Physical nodes reduced by ~62.5%.

 

Monster Changes 

  • Significantly reduced the spawn rate of Treasure Goblins within PvP zones. 

Bug Fixes 

  • Fixed the name for the Light Bearer Mount.  
  • The Go to Shop button from the Wardrobe will now properly open the shop. 
  • Fixed an issue where if a Sorcerer uses Deep Freeze and is affected by another effect that would freeze them, it caused them to be permanently stunned.  
  • Miscellaneous stability and crash fixes. 

Pre-launch D4 Patch Notes (April 2023)

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The Diablo 4 devs have made a tonne of changes and improvements in the latest update. (Picture: Blizzard)

Following a tonne of Open Beta feedback, Blizzard has made the first round of Diablo 4 fixes, changes to various gameplay systems, dungeons, and more for an update to release with the game on 6 June 2023 (2 June for Early Access players).

Below, you can check out all the changes in the latest Diablo 4 update patch notes, starting with the pre-launch one revealed by Blizzard. Note that this section will be updated as soon as a new D4 patch notes appear.

Diablo 4 mid-April Pre-Launch Update Patch Notes:

Dungeon Layouts

One of the most common pieces of feedback we received is that players felt they were doing a lot of backtracking within certain dungeons. We have optimized multiple dungeons across all zones to minimize the need for backtracking. Here is a list of dungeons specifically in the Fractured Peaks zone which received layout updates:

  • Caldera Gate
  • Defiled Catacombs
  • Derelict Lodge
  • Forbidden City
  • Hoarfrost Demise
  • Immortal Emanation
  • Kor Dragan Barracks
  • Maulwood
  • Rimescar Caverns

Dungeon Events

  • The chance for an Event to spawn inside of a dungeon has increased from 10% to 60%.

Dungeon Gameplay

  • To reduce the need to backtrack, small numbers of straggling monsters will seek out the player to help complete the Kill All Monsters objective.
  • When Animus is gathered, the player and nearby allies will:
    • Gain 10 Resource.
    • Reduce all active Cooldowns by 1 second.
  • Depositing Animus channel time was reduced from 3 to 0 seconds.
  • The time to Rescue was reduced from 3 to 1.5 seconds.
  • All Rescue objectives now drop a Health Potion upon completion.
  • While carrying the Ancient's Statue, Bloodstone, Mechanical Box, or Stone Carving, you will receive a Momentum bonus granting a 25% move speed increase to you and nearby allies.
  • Pedestals have had their channel time reduced from 2 to 0 seconds.
  • Returning a Portable Object to its Pedestal now fully restores Health, Resource, Potions, and resets cooldowns for all nearby players.
  • All doors will now generate a minimap ping when they are opened.
  • All Structure Objectives in dungeons now have additional combat mechanics players must overcome.

Developer’s Note: While our dungeons offer a variety of Objectives to complete, player feedback stated that the action of completing each Objective felt tedious. We hope that providing bonuses, such as the increase to mobility while carrying certain Objective items, will streamline and vary the experience of completing Objectives. This adjustment is merely a starting point, and we intend to extend this philosophy to keys in a future update.

General Class Gameplay:

  • Effects like Stun and Freeze can be applied to Elite Monsters twice as long before they become Unstoppable.
  • Reviewed class skills to confirm that all classes have access to sufficient skills that remove control impairing effects.
  • Many Legendary Powers have had updates to their effectiveness.

UI

  • Fixed an issue where the built-in Screen Reader was not reading key prompts, game options details, and other UI text.
  • Fixed an issue where actions could not be bound to the mouse wheel.
  • Fixed an issue where Evade couldn’t be bound to the right Analog Stick on controller.
  • Chat will now display on the left side of the screen when using the centered action bar configuration.
  • A character's stats will be displayed by default when players click the Materials & Stats button within their Inventory.
  • The Move and Interact inputs can now be mapped to one button while the Primary Attack input is mapped to a secondary button.
  • The sans serif font used in-game has been replaced with a new serif font.

ENCOUNTERS

  • Fixed multiple issues that allowed bosses, like the Butcher, to become unresponsive.
  • The Butcher has been re-evaluated for difficulty and will present a greater challenge in World Tiers III and IV.
  • Bosses such as T’chort, Malnok, Vhenard, and others were reevaluated for melee character difficulty, resulting in changes to attacks and fight mechanics.
  • Fixed an issue where Vampire Brutes using the Shadow Enchant affix would chain-cast Impale.

CELLARS

  • Increased the chance for a dungeon Event to occur in Cellars.
  • Cellars will now consistently reward a chest upon completion.
  • Fixed an issue where Cellars would prematurely be marked as complete.
  • Fixed an issue where the guaranteed elite monster would be absent from a Cellar.

GENERAL QUALITY OF LIFE

  • Fixed an issue where players could increase attack speed by move-cancelling attacks early.
  • Fixed an issue where characters weren’t immune and untargetable after loading into an area.
  • The Reset Dungeon button has been disabled.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Gale Valley and Serac Rapture to have less monsters than intended until the campaign quests in those territories were completed.

Learn more about the endgame systems in Diablo 4 with an official, detailed vid from the developers below.

That's everything you need to know about the latest Diablo 4 update, including the full patch notes featuring gameplay improvements, bug fixes, system changes, and much, much more. We will endeavor to update this article as soon as another Diablo 4 update gets released following the launch and throughout all the upcoming seasons, so stay tuned.

 


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