Deliver Sanctuary from Madness

Albrecht marches with his twisted legions through the towns of Sharval with powerful Shardborne bolstering his ranks. As the drums of war crescendo and darkness corrupts nature itself, it is up to you to deliver Nature's wrath, and determine the fate of Sanctuary!

As with all previous content updates there will be server maintenance starting on December 17th, from 4-6 p.m. PST for Oceania, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe servers, and on December 18th from 12-2 a.m. PST for servers in the Americas. After the maintenance has concluded, all items mentioned below will be live-specific dates for any features going live afterward are provided below.

While you ready yourself for the final battle for the hearts and minds of Sharval's denizens, we're giving you the complete look at new Ancient Legendary gear, new challenges in the open world and dungeons, new legendary gems, and the celebration of Brumaltine.

This article is an early look at the next content update. Information conveyed in this article may be subject to adjustment.

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The Epoch of Madness Main Quest

Protect yourself with new Ancient Legendary Items

Seek New Legendary Gems

Prepare to challenge new Helliquary Bosses: The Fleshwarped

New Difficulties Ignite

The Darkness Corrupts Heroes of Sanctuary

Feel the Warmth of Brumaltine

Survive the Cutthroat Basin

New Legendary Items & Balance Changes

Pillage the Forsaken Kingdom

Ruin and Reprisal Phantom Market

The Winds of Fortune Gale

Battle Pass Season 47: Dance the Grimfrost's Masquerade

Feature Updates

Bug Fixes

The Epoch of Madness Main Quest

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Disaster is everywhere in the Sharval Wilds. After the loss of his twisted paradise, Albrecht leads legions of new Shardborne through the populous areas of Entsteig. His ally, the fallen necromancer Lethes, is once again seeking ancient power in the tomb of a dead king.

In "The First and Last King," main quest, the battle for the hearts and minds of the Sharval Wilds draws to its dramatic conclusion. There are new monsters to fight and two new subzones to explore.

The Entsteig Bailey is the besieged outer courtyard of Sharval's capital; the Barrow Tombs of Aughild are a dark sanctum where the bones of Entsteig's greatest king-and his mightiest warriors - rest.

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With these two new subzones, you'll also get new bounties and new wanted Monsters, bringing a completed Sharval up to par with prior zones as a place to kill monsters and farm some loot!

In this final chapter of the Epoch of Madness, the story of the Worldstone draws to a close, but a new saga is on the horizon. As we look to 2026 and beyond. Deckard Cain's prophesized Age of Doom, or what he called the End of Days, is drawing closer… Will you be ready?

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Protect yourself with new Ancient Legendary Items

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From the shadowed recesses of Sanctuary's forgotten vaults, artifacts of unimaginable strength have stirred. Five Ancient Legendary Chest items, once thought only myth, now await those brave enough to claim their power.

These storied armaments are unlike any you have encountered. Each chest piece bears three pre-determined Magic Affixes, etched into its essence by forces beyond mortal comprehension, and a fourth random class Affix.

Crafting Ancient Legendaries: Once players reach Paragon level 1200 and unlock Inferno X, they can obtain Ancient Artifacts of the corresponding difficulty level from Helliquary Raids, Daily Quests, and Daily Dungeon Rewards. Collecting 100 Ancient Artifacts allows you to craft one Ancient Legendary piece of equipment at the Blacksmith.

Obtaining Ancient Legendaries in the Wild: Once players reach Paragon level 1200 and unlock Inferno X, they have a very low chance of directly obtaining Ancient Legendary equipment of the corresponding difficulty level as a drop in game modes such as Helliquary Raids, Helliquary Gauntlets, Vanguard, Hellslayer Bounties, Oblivion Pillars, and Terror Rifts.

The Future of Ancient Legendary Equipment

In the future, we plan to continue introducing types of Ancient Legendary equipment slots. However, each time a new slot is added, the oldest slot will be removed simultaneously, ensuring that a maximum of two Ancient Legendary equipment slots can exist at the same time.

Ancient Legendary equipment and Ancient Artifacts no longer drop in Inferno 7-9 and crafting Ancient Legendary equipment for Inferno 7-9 at the blacksmith will be disabled.

Low-difficulty Ancient Artifacts can now be exchanged for Ancient Scraps, used for enchanting Ancient Legendary equipment, at the Weapon Smith.

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Seek New Legendary Gems

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Three new Legendary Gems arrive in this next update. Each can elevate your character to new heights of power.

Fated Trail (Five Star Gem)

• Dealing damage grants you Rampant Growth for 6 seconds, causing brambles to grow beneath the enemy's feet when you deal damage to them. Brambles deal damage to nearby enemies equal to 10% of your maximum Life and can only be triggered once every second per enemy.
• Additionally, the brambles shatter enemy armor, increasing the damage you deal to them by 4% for 2 seconds, stacking up to 6 times. When an enemy is first struck by brambles they will be Immobilized for 1.5 seconds. Rampant Growth can only be gained periodically.
• Resonance Gems: Maw of the Deep, Blessing of the Worthy, Specter Glass, Mercy's Harvest, Ironbane

Rampart Torch (Two Star Gem)

• When attacked you gain a protective shield for 6 seconds that reduces the damage you take by a percentage of your base damage and reduces the continual damage you take. Cannot occur more often than once every 20 seconds.
• Resonance Gems: Power & Command, Stubborn Oracle, Misery Elixir

Flaystone (One Star Gem)

• You deal and increased damage and gain increased Critical Hit Chance against shielded enemies.
• Resonance Gems: Pain of Subjugation, Trickshot Gem

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Prepare to challenge new Helliquary Bosses: The Fleshwarped

Albrecht has prepared for war, gathering the strongest Shardborne in his army: the Fleshwarped.

These monstrosities were once Albrecht's Shardborne followers, but with the power of creation, they have evolved into living war machines. Most traces of their former humanity have vanished, and all that remains is a burning desire for freedom and blood.

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Bloatmaw

In his search for weapons of war, Albrecht sought to create a Shardborne capable of ending battles within seconds. With the power of creation, Albrecht continuously transformed one of his Shardborne followers into a completely new creature. With its swollen gullet and strong legs, Bloatmaw leaps across battlefields, crushing prey and spewing miasma. In an instant, the toxic gas envelops entire legions, warping and melting flesh in the Shardborne's twisted image.

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Marrowmount

When the Bravehull Stronghold received word that Albrecht's army was approaching, the Entsteig platoon readied themselves with barricades and ramparts. Yet no wall was strong enough to withhold Marrowmount. The twisted stallion broke through the stronghold's walls with one charge, and Shardborne soldiers swarmed the Entsteig army within. Though a group of Entsteig soldiers were able to hinder the Shardborne, it's only a matter of time before it continues its rampage.

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Sundered Goliath

Albrecht formed the Sundered Goliath with the grafted bodies of hundreds of his followers, hoping to create the perfect creature. A failed experiment, the Shardborne was uncoordinated and unwieldy, yet Albrecht sought it for a new and greater purpose. Within the hulking chamber on its back, this behemoth carries whole battalions of Shardborne soldiers into war. As it tramples its enemies, Shardborne swarm from its body and overrun the battlefield.

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New Difficulties Ignite

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We are adding 3 difficulty levels, each of which unlocks a new Helliquary boss.

Inferno X

• World and Dungeon: 52,500 Combat Rating
• Challenge Dungeon: 53,220 Combat Rating
• Helliquary Boss unlocked: Bloatmaw Infector of Creation

Inferno XI

• World and Dungeon: 56,700 Combat Rating
• Challenge Dungeon: 57,420 Combat Rating
• Helliquary Boss Unlock: Marrowmount, Siege Beast

Inferno XII

• World and Dungeon: 58,500 Combat Rating
• Challenge Dungeon: 59,220 Combat Rating
• Helliquary Boss Unlock: Sundered Goliath, Bearer of Legions

Additionally, the requirements for Inferno IX are being lowered.

Inferno IX

• World and Dungeon: 49,000 Combat Rating
• Challenge Dungeon: 49,720 Combat Rating

Server Paragon Levels for all servers will also be raised to 1200. Adventurers below Paragon level 1200 will receive a bonus to their leveling experience.

• Players at Paragon levels 0-599 will receive a 1500% experience bonus, with an additional 2 levels gained for each Paragon level gained.
• Players at Paragon levels 600-899 will receive a 1500% experience bonus, with an additional 1 level gained for each Paragon level gained.
• Players at Paragon levels 900-1099 will receive a 1500% experience bonus.
• Players at Paragon levels 1100-1149 will receive an 800% experience bonus.
• Players at Paragon levels 1150 and above the server's Paragon level requirement will receive a 100% to 800% experience bonus.

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The Darkness Corrupts Heroes of Sanctuary

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Beware the champions who once fought for Sanctuary. Now twisted by darkness, these warriors roam as corrupted shadows of their former glory!

For a limited time, the people of Sanctuary tremble in fear at the wickedness of their former saviors, elite adversaries corrupted by demonic forces. These foes are unlike any you've faced before, designed to deliver a PvP style experience within the open world or dungeons. Their tactics mimic the cunning of mortal champions, wielding player-style skills and builds that mimic real Players, ensuring every encounter feels unpredictable and fiercely competitive.

Find these Corrupted Heroes and eradicate them. If cleansing them from Sanctuary is not enough of a reward, you will earn a guaranteed Legendary Item for your first slain Corrupted Hero of the day. With each subsequent Corrupted Hero conquered you'll also have a chance at earning additional Legendary Items.

Of course… if you're not up to the challenge, you could run away, but what kind of champion of Sanctuary would you be if you did that?

Cursed Heavy Ornate Chest Event

During the Corrupted Heroes event, while exploring any Wild zone, players may encounter a Cursed Heavy Ornate Chest, triggering Corrupted Heroes to appear to defend the Chest. Up to 4 players can participate, against 3 Corrupted Heroes.

The Corrupted Heroes' HP, damage, and defense will scale based on the average combat rating of participating players, and Rewards increase with team participation and difficulty tier.

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Feel the Warmth of Brumaltine

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As frost creeps across Sanctuary and hearths blaze against the chill, the Brumaltine celebration returns-an age-old tradition of camaraderie and generosity. Adventurers gather not for battle, but to share tokens of warmth and blessings for the year ahead.

Complete tasks that refresh each day to earn progress toward milestone rewards. Tasks accumulate for up to 14 days, ensuring ample time to claim your spoils.

Craft and send festive cards to fellow adventurers to spread the Brumaltine cheer. Each card strengthens bonds and grants rewards for both sender and receiver.

Log in during event days to receive exclusive Brumaltine gifts, including instant level-ups and seasonal treasures. Missed a gift? Complete an extra task to reclaim it.

Share warmth, forge bonds, and let the spirit of Brumaltine guide you through the frost. Sanctuary awaits your cheer-don't let the season pass you by!

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Survive the Cutthroat Basin

The Lich King raises his fist to strike down Sanctuary's bravest in another display of his mighty prowess. From December 24, 3 a.m.-January 7, 3 a.m. local server time, the Cutthroat Basin returns in a re-imaging of Conqueror. Prepare to quench your weapon of choice in the blood on your enemies in this intense limited-time PvP style mode.

You can earn the illustrious Horde Flag by dealing 15,000 damage across the event, and raise the mighty banner of the Alliance Flag by earning 5,000 points in the event.

Weekly challenges also offer the chance to earn Materials, Gold, and Dust. Go forth and clash steel upon steel in the Cutthroat Basin!

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New Legendary Items and Balance Updates

New Set: Restitution in Blood

The Set tells a very grim fey tale about a noble from Entsteig who thought himself a trophy hunter and set out with his party to hunt the mythical nature spirits of the Sharval Wilds. What he learns is that trespass and aggression is not taken lightly in the deep woods and the fey do not forget or forgive such transgressions, the cost of which is paid only in blood.

Set Properties

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• Dealing damage to an enemy applies Fated Prey to them for 2.5 seconds, increasing the damage you deal to them by 35%. Fated Prey cannot be applied to more than 4 enemies at once, and cannot be applied to the same enemy more than once every 15 seconds.

4 Pieces

• When Fated Prey ends, it deals additional damage, increased by 4% for every 1% of the enemy's missing Life, up to a maximum of 460% when the enemy is at or below 25% Life.

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• When Fated Prey ends, if the enemy is below 50% Life they are also inflicted with Blood Debt for 4 seconds, reducing their healing and absorb shields by 35%. Killing an enemy afflicted with Fated Prey or Blood Debt will heal you for 50% of your maximum Life. Cannot trigger the healing effect more often than once every 40 seconds.

Items

• Trophy Taker (Gloves)
• Wilds Stalker (Boots)
• Stanching Song (Belt)
• Misguided Hunt (Amulet)
• Fey Instrument (Ring)
• Manikin March (Ring)
• Bloody Reminder (Bracelet)
• Hanged Puppet (Bracelet)

New Legendary Items

Use these incredible tools of carnage to strike fear into the hearts of your enemies, or even better-to strike into their very hearts. As this article is an early look at the next content update, this information and tuning may be subject to adjustment.

Barbarian

• Armory Clutch (Main Hand): Cleave now empowers you, causing your Primary Attacks to strike with dual axes that have increased attack range, damage, and Life Drain dependent on your Life at the time of activation.
• Mortal Resolve (Off-Hand): Cleave damage increases by 1% for every 3% Life you are missing, up to a maximum damage increase of 30% when your Life is at or below 10%.
• Steel Gospel (Chest): Sunder can be used while affected by loss of control and knockback, removing any harmful effects and granting immunity for 0.5 seconds. Cannot gain immunity this way more often than once every 6 seconds.
• Exulted Demise (Legs): Undying Rage now converts a portion of your current Life into an absorb shield that increases your damage while active. Additionally, you gain a passive effect that grants damage immunity upon receiving a fatal blow.
• Staunch Refusal (Head): Undying Rage also grants immunity to knockback effects while active.
• Brier Creeper (Shoulders): Sunder now slams the ground to pull in nearby enemies, increasing your Primary Attack Speed based on the number of enemies hit.

Blood Knight

• Halted Abscission (Main Hand): Siphon Blood also prevents enemies from using Dash skills for 2 seconds. Cannot affect the same enemy more often than once every 6 seconds.
• Clinging Apostate (Off-Hand): Wave of Blood now collects energy from Life Drain. Using the skill consumes all energy to unleash blood all around you, dealing damage based on consumed energy.
• Abjurer's Oath (Chest): Wave of Blood also weakens enemies hit, reducing the damage they deal by 5% for 3 seconds, up to a maximum of 15%.
• Burnished Perfidy (Legs): Swarm of Bats deals 20% increased damage to enemies suffering from loss of control.
• Shed Velvet (Head): Siphon Blood now links several nearby enemies to you, continuously damaging them as you drain their Movement Speed and Life.
• Detritus Stole (Shoulders): Swarm of Bats now calls several bats to orbit you that automatically attack nearby enemies and drain their Life. Additional bats will orbit you as you drain more Life.

Crusader

• Steel Barrage (Main Hand): Falling Sword now creates an area surrounded by swords of light that attack enemies whenever you attack them while within the area.
• Hero's Requiem (Off-Hand): Consecration increases your Attack Speed by 20% while you remain within its area of effect.
• Heartsurge (Chest): Falling Sword deals 8% increased damage to an enemy it hits for 2 seconds, up to a maximum of 24%.
• The Lightbearer (Legs): While Conjuration of Light is active, each Primary Attack that hits will call down holy light, dealing additional damage.
• Sacred Strife (Head): Consecration now creates an area that continuously damages enemies within and applies a stacking shattered armor effect. While you remain in the area, you gain stacking damage reduction.
• Fieldbairn's Charms (Shoulders): Judgment now propels you to a target location, damaging and pulling nearby enemies to you, and preventing them from using Dash skills.

Demon Hunter

• Gnostic Malefactor (Main Hand): Multishot now empowers you, causing your Primary Attack to fire swarms of homing projectiles at random enemies.
• Prying Benefactor (Off-Hand): Sentry turrets deal 15% increased damage to enemies damaged by your Primary Attacks for 3 seconds.
• Pathmaker (Chest): Knockback Shot now fires a wide, slow projectile that continuously knocks back and damages enemies.
• Threadstrider (Legs): Daring Swing cooldown reduced by 15%.
• Lodestar Veil (Head): Sentry now summons two turrets that activate when you are near and mimic your Primary Attacks to damage enemies.
• Snapbough (Shoulders): Multishot deals additional damage if it hits an enemy 3 times within 3 seconds. The same enemy cannot receive this additional damage more than once every 0.2 seconds.

Druid

• Unkindness Stave (Main Hand): Raven Swarm now conjures a storm of ravens that follows you, continuously consuming Primal Power to gradually increase its damage.
• Tadg's Perch (Off-Hand): Raven Swarm deals 20% increased damage to Burning enemies.
• Ember Eater (Chest): Fire Tornado also increases your damage by 10% for 3 seconds.
• Wanton Buck (Legs): Stag Charge now causes you to sprint forward as a stag, during which you are immune to loss of control and knockback, damaging and knocking back any enemies you hit.
• Kindling Crown (Head): Fire Tornado now conjures a hurricane of flame that follows you, Burning nearby enemies.
• Bullish Provider (Shoulders): Stag Charge generates 3 Primal Power each time it hits an enemy. Cannot trigger more often than once every second.

Monk

• Fate and Fortune (Main Hand): Mystic Allies now summons three elemental spirit allies. You can use the skill again to target one of the spirits and grant yourself beneficial effects according to their element.
• Unbreakable Force (Off-Hand): Wave Strike now empowers you and your summons, causing your Primary Attacks to apply marks to enemies that explode after several stacks.
• Verveheart (Chest): Wave Strike also increases Primary Attack Speed by 28.5% for 3 seconds.
• Charged Faith (Legs): Mystic Strike now causes you and your Mystic Allies to rush towards a target location, damaging and knocking back enemies along your paths, Stunning them if they are hit multiple times.
• Enforced Cooperation (Head): Mystic Allies also increases your Attack Speed by 19% for 3 seconds.
• Frondwyld (Shoulders): Mystic Strike also increases your Critical Hit Chance by 19% for 3 seconds.

Necromancer

• Cycle's Wear (Main Hand): Borrowed Time now targets an area, damaging enemies while healing your summons and granting them damage immunity for a short time. The more summons you have in the area, the greater the damage and healing.
• Grim Inheritance (Off-Hand): Bone Wall increases the damage of your nearby summons by 20% but also increases the damage they take by 20%.
• Gyreplate (Chest): Bone Wall now summons a tombstone that consumes nearby corpses to raise zombies that attack and Slow enemies, and when the zombies die, they leave behind a vengeful spirit that attacks the nearest enemy. Corpses consumed by the tombstone extend its duration and heal it.
• Molderol Beacon (Legs): Bone Wall also generates 4 nearby corpses when cast.
• Consummate Corona (Head): Borrowed Time also increases your damage by 10% for 3 seconds.
• Sated Devourer (Shoulders): Corpse Explosion now empowers you, causing you to continuously generate corpses and gain increased damage when a corpse is consumed.

Tempest

• Storm's Eye (Main Hand): Tidal Rush increases Skill damage by 6% per each nearby Zephyr for 3 seconds, up to a maximum of 18%.
• Endless Susurration (Off-Hand): Zephyr Surge now consumes all Zephyrs and teleports you to a target location where you perform several slashes based on Zephyrs consumed. You are untargetable during this attack and all consumed Zephyrs return when it ends.
• Spoils of Profanation (Chest): Flowing Strike now causes you to dash forward, conjuring several Zephyrs when you reach the end of your path.
• Fog Cutters (Legs): Tidal Rush now causes you to perform a sequence of dashes between your Zephyrs, dealing damage to enemies along your path and launching several water blades. You are immune to loss of control and knockback while dashing.
• Sylvan Path (Head): Zephyr Surge damage increases by 6% per Zephyr consumed for 3 seconds, up to a maximum of 18%.
• Mantle of Splendor (Shoulders): Flowing Strike also increases Skill damage by 12% for 3 seconds.

Wizard

• Hexflood (Main Hand): Disintegrate Critical Hit Chance is increased by 2.5% for each yard you are from an enemy, up to a maximum of 20%.
• Rustic Wisdom (Off-Hand): Black Hole now targets a location to conjure a lightning black hole that collapses to pull in nearby enemies and then explodes to Stun and apply Shock.
• Floesting (Chest): Ice Crystal now targets an enemy and launches a shard at them, exploding on impact to damage and Chill nearby enemies and apply an Unstable Mark. Beam skills (Disintegrate/Ray of Frost) will detonate the mark, dealing additional damage.
• Daring Mastery (Legs): When Ice Crystal applies Chilled to an enemy, it also increases your Critical Hit Damage dealt to that enemy by 18% for 3 seconds.
• Witherlorn (Head): Black Hole also reduces enemy Movement Speed by 35% and prevents them from using Dash Skills for 2 seconds. Cannot prevent the same enemy's use of Dash Skills more often than once every 6 seconds.
• Excess Energy (Shoulders): Disintegrate now fires a beam of lightning after a short casting delay, dealing lightning damage to enemies along the beam's path.

Balance Updates

These balance changes will be effective everywhere across Diablo Immortal.

Barbarian

• Cold Temper (Hammer of the Ancients): Reworked to now gain an absorb shield equal to 10% of maximum Life when hitting a Frozen enemy, stacking up to 30%.
• Snowdrifter (Sprint): The Chilling effect can now stack up to 3 times, at which point the enemy will Freeze.

Demon Hunter

• Fume Threads (Smoke Screen): Grenades deal 20% increased damage with each subsequent hit on the same target in a short period of time, up to a maximum of 40% increased damage.
• Supply Everlasting (Spinning Chakram): Enemies hit by a chakram on both its outbound and return flight take an additional 40% damage.
• Chaps of the Acrobat (Escape): If Escape breaks you out of total loss of control, silence or knockback effect its cooldown is increased by 3 seconds.

Blood Knight

• Skin Upon Steel (Transfusion): The Life recovery converted to shield value rate has been modified so that you gain more shield value at lower Life and less at higher Life. For example, at 20% Life you convert 100% Life recovery to shield value but at 100% Life you only convert 50% Life recovery to shield value.

Tempest

• Paired Doublet (Flowing Strike): Both the mark and the lightning slash will apply Shock status.
• Sparkscull (Zephyr Surge): You are now untargetable during the dash, and exploiting Shock status with the dash will deal an additional 100% damage.

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Pillage the Forsaken Kingdom

Though derelict ruins look empty, they are rarely anything but. Though conqueror's legions fall, the wake of the downtrodden is unending. Fear their overwhelming grasp.

From December 12, 3 a.m.-January 7, 3 a.m. local server time, complete tasks to earn Champions' Commendations (up to a max of 1,200 per week). Use these gilded marks of excellence to purchase Gold, Enchanted Dust, Legendary Items, and more.

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Ruin and Reprisal Phantom Market

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Step into the shadows with threads reminiscent of the ambitious Lich King, Arthas, and the garb of the cunning Sylvanas Windrunner. Any cosmetics worn by male characters will appear as Arthas, while female characters will appear in as Sylvanas.

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The Winds of Fortune Gale

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Horadric Scholars have been poring over their tomes to find the source of this extravagant wealth, while the Merchants of Sanctuary have immediately sought to increase their already expansive wealth.

From December 17, 3:00 a.m.- December 24, 3:00 a.m. local server time, and January 1, 3:00 a.m.-January 8, 3:00 a.m. local server time you will see double as you receive twice the amount of rewards!

Any of these items will drop in duplicate quantities:

• Gold
• Experience
• Battle Pass Points
• Normal Gems
• Legendary Items
• Items

Items from these modes will drop in duplicate quantities:

• Horadric Bestiary
• Challenge Rifts
• Bounties
• Fishing
• Dungeons
• Purge the Depths
• Accursed Towers
• Hidden Lairs
• Farming in Wild Zones
• Codex Activities

Note that during this limited-time event, Battle Pass rewards will not be doubled, and the weekly limit on Battle Pass Points and Normal Gems will not change. Any bonus Experience gained will be affected by your current modifier.

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Battle Pass Season 47: Dance the Grimfrost's Masquerade

When the Grimfrost King's guard begin their dance, all will twist and scream in delight.

The Season 47 Battle Pass saunters into Sanctuary on December 18, 3 a.m. local server time, containing a Battle Pass with 40 ranks worth of rewards, such as Crests, Hilts, Legendary Gems, and more.

Begin slaying through the ranks and earning these resplendent rewards before the bell tolls and ends on January 15, at 3 a.m. server time.

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Feature Updates

Prodigy's Path Changes

All aspects of Prodigy's Path are being reduced, but the relative values of the offerings will slightly increase.

Updates to Several Legendary Gems

We are slightly changing the functionality for a few Legendary Gems, and how they function when fighting other players: Viper's Bite, Seeping Bile, and Everlasting Torment.

To limit the total duration of loss of control these gems shared cooldowns between players wearing the same one. If another player applies the corresponding debuff to an enemy for these gems, it will no longer prevent your gems from being applied to that enemy. Your gems will now correctly respect your own gems' internal cooldowns, and not impacted by another player's cooldowns.

Developer's Note: The main function of these gems is to provide damage, so this setting meant less uptime for these effects if other players had the same ones equipped, which wasn't a great feeling.

Event Extensions

The Blessed Hunter event has been extended to February 23, 2025, and the Blessing of Legends event has been extended to February 26, 2025. Go forth and enjoy these increased blessings.

Better Set Items

We're increasing the Drop rates for higher quality set items, and increasing the chances of crafting higher quality set items.

Horadric Bestiary Additions

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Nine new pages for the Horadric Bestiary have been added. Go brave the twisted zones of Sanctuary to fell these malice-laden creatures.

Helliquary Gauntlet Updates

Prove yourself to be Sanctuary's true champion by beating horrific monstrosities in the next Helliquary Gauntlet from December 17, 3 a.m.-February 23, 3:00 a.m. local server time.

Inferno X: 56,700 CR

• Bosses: Abysslurker the All-Devouring and Bloatmaw, Infector of Creation
• Reward: Mists of Creation Weapon

Inferno XI: 58,500 CR

• Bosses: Crooked Bough the Burrower, Abysslurker the All-Devouring, Bloatmaw, Infector of Creation and Marrowmount, Siege Beast
• Reward: Mists of Creation Armor

Inferno XII: 60,000 CR

• Bosses: Crooked Bough the Burrower, Abysslurker the All-Devouring, Bloatmaw, Infector of Creation, Marrowmount, Siege Beast and Sundered Goliath, Bearer of Legions
• Reward: Mists of Creation Portal

New First-Clearance Team Display

Following this Helliquary Gauntlet update, the first 10 teams to clear all difficulties will be featured in the First Clear Leaderboard. The first team to clear all difficulties will also unlock the first clear rewards for all players on the server.

Added Party Finder Functionality

You can now quickly open Party Finder using the Find Raid button to create a Helliquary Gauntlet post or find a post to join an existing Helliquary Gauntlet raid.

Introducing Demonic Reforging

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Once the Helliquary has reached Level 70, you'll gain access to Demonic Reforging which allows you to re-roll all the stats at one time on a Demonic Remain. The Demonic Remains' individual attribute values will still be locked to the item's Paragon Level, but the quality and the values on the item have a chance to increase with each Reforge.

Once an item has increased its quality, any new attributes rolled on to the remainder can never roll at a lower quality.

Cross-Server Dungeon Matchmaking (Beta)

We're introducing Cross-Server Dungeon Matchmaking as a limited beta test between servers in Oceania, Japan, and Korea. This should help matching together when entering dungeons, and improve matchmaking during areas when the population is low.

Due to initial technical limitations, you won't receive items or experience in real time when playing in a dungeon, but it will be granted after. This feature will be disabled by default, you can manually opt-in through the dungeon menu after receiving the Beta notice.

Tutorial & UI Visual Improvements

We've added a variety of new settings giving you better control over the display of combat values in game.

• You can now adjust the transparency of combat values.
• You have the option to combine continuous damage stacks into one value that increases.
• Added an option to turn on directional damage. When enabled, damage numbers will float toward the direction of impact for more targeted feedback.

New Paragon Skills

We're adding three new Paragon Skills which unlock at Paragon 1200. Use them to enhance your already renowned demon-slaying prowess.

Searing Flame

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Damaging a Burning enemy applies Searing Flame, damaging them every second for 3 seconds. Searing Flame's damage is increased for each additional Burn on the enemy, up to a maximum of 3 Burns. Enemies slain while afflicted by Searing Flame, unleash a fireball at other nearby enemies that explodes on impact dealing damage to all nearby enemies. Searing Flame cannot afflict the same target more often than once every 15 seconds.

Glacial Shards

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Chilling an enemy grants you 1 Glacial Shard, stacking up to a maximum of 6. Damaging an enemy with your Primary Attack unleashes all Glacials Shards at the enemy, damaging and Chilling them, reducing their Attack and Movement Speed by 60% for 3 seconds. Glacial Shards can only be unleashed once every 15 seconds.

Brewing Storms

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Shocking an enemy conjures a Brewing Storm above their head, that unleashes a lightning strike after 3 seconds, damage the enemy. Shocking enemies afflicted with Brewing Storm charges up the storm increasing the damage it deals and if the enemy is shocked X times the Brewing Storm will become fully charged, unleashing the lightning strike immediately, Stunning the enemy. Brewing Storms cannot afflict the same target more often than once every 15 seconds.

Hero's Journey Updates

Hero's Journey Chapters 1-6 will reset, and you'll begin at Chapter 1 again. You'll all have new chapters to complete, so get cracking.

Complete them all to earn the scorching Hellbent Hero Frame. Note that only Chapters 1-4 will be available on release.

Challenge Rift Season 16

From December 17, 3 a.m.-February 23, 3 a.m. local server time, Challenge Rift Season 16 commences. Challenge Rift 631-650 is being lowered.

Immortal Age: Introducing Gold Rank V

We're extending the possible Immortal Age by introducing Gold Rank V, which becomes available after reaching Gold Rank IV and earning an additional 5 million Dominance points. This change raises the maximum Immortal Dominance, giving you a higher ceiling to continue proving your power and prestige.

Spectral Allies AI Changes

Spectral Allies will now stop teleporting to you when they have died, and can now divide into groups to attack multiple targets simultaneously depending on the fight. They will also go to interactable components when found.

Party Recruitment and Matchmaking Optimizations

We're updating the Recruitment page to make it faster, clearer, and more effective to find the right players.

A few activities that don't really benefit from recruitment have been removed, and full parties will no longer appear.

Essence Mastery Changes

Essence Mastery is being removed, and instead the max rank benefits of Essence Mastery will be provided to you once each individual Skill once it has reached Max Rank while levelling up.

This is now referred to as a Mastery Bonus, showing you've mastered the technique of that skill. It features a new icon, and some functionality to explain this bonus. Functionally, it should be the same as Essence Mastery without the grind to finish Essence Mastery.

The Curse is Lifted on Cursed Items

Beginning with this major update, newly dropped items will no longer include Cursed attributes. Additionally, the system will no longer distribute Purification Shards.

To try and preserve the gameplay depth previously tied to Cursed equipment, we're introducing a brand-new Cursed Paragon Specialization.

Cursed Paragon Specialization

These will only feature the three most popular Cursed Effects: Lashed, Nettled, and Vexed. These Contain nodes that grant the full effects of the former two-piece, four-piece and six-piece Cursed sets. This also includes new passive nodes to improve various combat attributes, inspiring some hefty buildcraft.

Once the Cursed Paragon Specialization is activated, any Cursed attributes previously found on equipped items will immediately become inactive.

Transitioning Existing Items and Material

All Cursed items obtained before the update can be salvaged into Upgrade Material. Purification Shards can now also be exchanged at a 1:1 rate for Beguiling Dust.

War Games and Battleground Updates

We are adding both of the current existing Battlegrounds to War Games. Given that we'll need to tell the two apart, they are both getting names!

The original Battleground map will now be referred to as Assault, and the new map is called Convoy.

With this release, the War Games options for these maps will be limited, similar to when the first War Games maps were introduced.

Social Improvements

You can now use the @ symbol to tag friends directly within Channel chats. Note that this is not supported in World, Area, Nearby, or Recruitment channels.

New Privacy Settings

A new option has been added that allows players to turn off private messages and @mention notifications.

Cross-Server Chat Optimization

After a game concludes, cross-server chat will automatically merge into the Team chat channel.

Quick Access to Unread Messages

A new quick-access entry has been added for unread messages.

Set Item Crafting Changes

We'll be making a change to reduce some of the clutter caused by Fabled Wisps, and how many different Materials the Set Item crafting system has.

These changes include introducing a new material called Fabled Wisp, which has no difficulty attached to it. Fabled Wisp is a universal material that will be used to craft lower difficulty Set Items.

On December 17, when we release Inferno X-XII, Fabled Wisps for Inferno VII-XII will now exist. You'll receive and in-game message that automatically converts all Fabled Wisps from Hell I-Inferno VI in your inventory to the new Fabled Wisps.

These new universal Fabled Wisps can be converted up into Fabled Wisps in Inferno VII at a rate of 7:1.

Any older Fabled Wisps can be deleted if you so choose, we do not have any plans for them and will never have a purpose.

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Bug Fixes

Looking for the latest round of hotfixes and bug fixes implemented for Diablo Immortal? Check here for all-platform fixes-updated on Tuesdays.

-The Diablo Immortal Team

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