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Since the game's launch, Diablo 4 has added seasonal powers to almost every season. While their names and specific functions vary, they essentially all provide new combat benefits in a season-specific manner.

Season 10, the final season of 2025, is expected to launch on September 23rd. A month before that, Diablo 4 2.4.0 PTR will be available from August 19th to 26th, allowing you to preview and test the main gameplay of Season 10.

This PTR will allow you to experience the power of Season 10 new Chaos Perks in advance and, combined with them, craft new builds to farm Diablo 4 gold in new dungeons and in-game events in a seasonally specific way.

With this in mind, we'll introduce all Chaos Perks that will appear in the game and their combat effects.

Chaos Perks Overview

Chaos Perks, also known as Chaos Powers, are divided into general and class-specific types based on their stats. They rank on four rarity levels: magic, rare, legendary, and unique.

There are three general powers of each rarity, and every class has one specific Chaos Perk of each rarity, for a total of 36. Regardless of your playable class, you have access to 16 powers.

Equipping Chaos Powers activates their effects without attaching any other items. However, it's important to note that you can only equip one unique power and three non-unique powers per battle, and some perks may offer advantages as well as disadvantages.

However, by choosing perks wisely, they can be used in conjunction with your class skills and gear to craft new builds tailored for Season 10.

How To Obtain And Upgrade Chaos Powers?

In all Season 10 updates, Chaos Rift is a seasonal event. These rifts will randomly appear throughout Diablo 4, including dungeons. Killing the monsters that spawn from these rifts will reward you with Chaos Perks, as well as special rewards like Chaos Armor.

Once you've earned Chaos Perks, you can consume seasonal currency to upgrade them, up to level 10. However, upgrades only increase the inherent stats of your powers and don't grant any additional effects.

The exact currency name and the required amount per level won't be fully known until 2.4.0 PTR or even the release of Season 10. But honestly, this won't ruin your PTR experience.

General Chaos Powers

Here are all 12 general Chaos Powers and their effects, listed below by rarity:

Magic Chaos Perks:

• Invigorating Attacks: Every 5 seconds, your next basic skill generates additional primary resources but deals 30% less damage.
• Accelerating Chaos: When you deal damage to an enemy, you have up to a 10% chance to trigger a Chaotic Burst.
• Unstable Power: Increases damage output by dealing critical hits and overpowering, but the power is unstable.

Rare Chaos Perks:

• Erupting Chaos: Deals more damage with a random Chaotic Burst.
• Power Siphon: Generates additional resources.
• Alternating Alterations: Refunds 50% of your resources when you cast a different core skill, increasing your damage output.

Legendary Chaos Perks:

• Marred Guard: When your health exceeds 50%, you can no longer receive healing, but gain buffs such as elemental resistance and armor.
• Chaotic Cooldowns: When you cast a skill with a cooldown, the cooldown is set to a random value, but the skill deals more damage.
• Crazy Brew: Drinking a healing potion reduces resource consumption and increases your attack speed and movement speed for 4 seconds.

Unique Chaos Perks:

• Chaos Unleashed: Kills stack Chaos for increased damage.
• Brown Over Brains: Gain health, healing, and damage, but also reduce maximum resistance.
• A Beast Cornered: Increases damage by continuously losing health.

Class-Specific Chaos Powers

Specialized powers add benefits to your character based on the characteristics of their class, making them more targeted than generic ones.

Barbarian

• Dual Threat - Magic: Casting a basic skill causes another basic skill to deal 50-80% more damage.
• Raging Chaos - Rare: Enters a frenzy when you're out of health, dealing fire damage and Chaos Burst with your core skill.
• Deafening Chorus - Legendary: Shouts are always active and have a 20-40% increased effectiveness.
• Single-Minded Fury - Unique: Gain multiple benefits if you only equip one Arsenal weapon type.

Druid

• Overabundance - Magic: After generating Spirit above the maximum, your damage is increased by 10-20% over 5 seconds.
• Purge the Infected - Rare: Your core skill inflicts a poison effect equal to 100-200% of its base damage over 4 seconds.
• Wild Transformations - Legendary: After transforming into a new form, you can use a free skill with a 5-second bonus.
• Savagery - Unique: Your companion's skill becomes a core skill, and the companion increases in size.

Necromancer

• Grim Reapers - Magic: Skeleton Warriors can deal damage through Reap in addition to their regular attacks.
• Decimaing Desecration - Rare: Your damage over time effects are enhanced.
• Defile the Dead - Legendary: Consuming each corpse twice triggers a Chaotic Burst, dealing 200-400% Shadow damage.
• Alter the Balance - Unique: Increases the effectiveness of your basic core skill by transforming it into an ultimate skill.

Rogue

• Unpredictable Alchemy - Magic: Each cast of a basic skill infuses you with a random infusion of energy, increasing your skill damage by 20-40%.
• Enervated Strikes - Rare: You no longer passively gain energy, but instead gain a damage buff.
• Chaotic Grenades - Legendary: Allows Stun Grenades to trigger Chaotic Burst, dealing 50-100% physical damage.
• Hit and Run - Unique: For every 15 meters you travel over 5 seconds, your damage increases by 30-50%, stacking.

Sorcerer

• Explosive Combinations - Magic: Casting a basic skill increases the damage of your next core skill by 30-50%, stacking up to 3 times.
• Advanced Techniques - Rare: Your basic core skill levels increase their damage while increasing their mana consumption or cooldown.
• Chaotic Grenades - Legendary: Your spells are empowered, dealing 10-30% more damage, but each spell consumes more mana per second.
• Mana Shield - Unique: Increases your mana regeneration by reducing your maximum health.

Spiritborn

• Alacrity - Magic: Your basic skills gain increased attack speed and dash range.
• Combined Strikes - Rare: Your basic core skills deal bonus damage in a larger area, but have a longer cooldown.
• Back Off! - Legendary: When you cast a skill, nearby enemies take 30% less damage, and all other enemies take 100-200% more damage.
• Convocation of Spirits - Unique: Casting a non-ultimate skill has a chance to summon a spirit of the corresponding type, dealing bonus damage.

That's all for you, but the number of powers and their specific effects are subject to change after 2.4.0 PTR or Season 10 launches, so be sure to stay tuned for any game updates!

Perhaps because of the delay of the second DLC until 2026, Diablo 4's overall performance this year has been rather mediocre, seemingly lacking the appeal of other popular ARPGs. However, the reality is that no game can avoid this phase.

As the final season of 2025, Season 10 is expected to launch on September 23rd. The gameplay should remain largely the same as before: buffs from seasonal powers or items, new dungeons and events, and various minor optimizations.

While the gameplay isn't significantly different, there are still some subtle differences. Without a thorough understanding of these, it's difficult to fully enjoy Season 10. Therefore, it's worth checking out this guide to get your hands on 2.4.0 PTR.

2.4.0 PTR Overview

PTR will launch on August 19, 2025, and will run until August 26th. Next week, in addition to previewing Season 10 content, you can also experience new changes coming to Vessel of Hatred.

2.4.0 PTR is expected to highlight Chaos Amor, Chaos Perks, and a revamped Infernal Hordes from Season 10. The game will continue to refine the content based on your feedback and that of other players participating in PTR, aiming for an even better Season 10 in September.

All Chaos-Centric Seasonal Content

As the name of Season 10, Infernal Chaos, suggests, the first feature of this season is the addition of several Chaos-centric seasonal content, including new Chaos Perks and Chaos Armor items.

Chaos Perks, like Horadric Powers and Boss Powers from the previous two seasons, will provide new ways to gain combat benefits and will be available in four tiers:

• Magic
• Rare
• Legendary
• Unique

You can expect to equip three non-unique perks and one unique perk per battle, and the maximum number of perks that can be obtained per class is 16.

As for Chaos Armor, it's an item that adds to your Chaos Perks and offers more combat possibilities. They're enhanced versions of existing Unique items. If you already own a Unique item, it can be used directly as Chaos Armor in Season 10.

Therefore, Chaos Armor should remain the same as before, dropping from certain bosses along with Diablo 4 gold. It's worth noting that the unique items added to each class in Season 10 are also Chaos Armor:

• Barbarian: Sabre of Tsasgal
• Druid: Kilt of Blackwing
• Necromancer: Gospel of the Devotee
• Rogue: Orphan Maker
• Sorcerer: Galvanic Azurite
• Spiritborn: Hesha e Kesungi

Revamped Infernal Hordes

As one of Diablo 4's most significant endgame events, Infernal Hordes has become not only popular but also a valuable resource farming location since its introduction in Season 5.

Season 10 is expected to feature updates to Infernal Hordes, which will refine the event's gameplay and provide more value by adjusting offerings and base monster counts.

For example, the game will grant you an Infernal Offering upon entering the event, instantly igniting embers to inject a burst of fire into your battles, allowing you to clear enemies more quickly.

Infernal Hordes will also feature Chaos Monsters and Chaos Waves based on Chaos mechanic. Killing Chaos Monsters grants you special buffs, while Chaos Waves increase the difficulty of subsequent waves, giving you the opportunity to farm more loot.

Changes To Fell Council

Previously in Infernal Hordes, Fell Council was the final enemy type you encountered. In PTR and the official Season 10, one council member will be designated as the council speaker and gain enhanced skills.

Adding to this, you can also play the newly added Fleeting Hordes in PTR. After completing its four waves of attacks, defeat two Fell Council members before consuming Aether to redeem rewards.

New Boss

In addition to the existing Fell Council, Season 10 will also add Bartuc, the Vizjerei Warlord, as the final boss of Infernal Hordes. If you enter Infernal Hordes as a group, every member must consume Aether to fight him.

Seasonal Event

Another new feature worth keeping an eye out for is the seasonal Chaos Rifts, which randomly spawn monsters and demons in Helltides and Nightmare Dungeons. Completing these events may reward gold, XP, gems, and Chaos Armor.

If you're lucky, you might encounter Mythic Chaos Rifts, and completing these events might even grant you Mythic Uniques.

Notes On Participating In PTR

2.4.0 PTR is expected to be available in the major regions of North America, Europe, Korea and Japan, South America, and Australia. And as with most previous PTRs, you can earn additional PTR boosts through vendor Mrak.

After creating a new PTR character, you can find Mrak near the main waypoint in Ked Bardu. He will provide segmented boosts for testing specific items. All available 2.4.0 PTR boost content includes:

Crafting & Materials

• Grant Gold
• Grant Obols
• Grant All Materials
• Unlock Masterworking
• Grant All Temper Manuals
• Grant Lair Keys
• Grant Tributes
• Grant Infernal Compasses
• Grant Nightmare Escalation Sigils

Equipment

• Grant All Runes
• Max All Aspects
• Grant Random Legendaries
• Grant All Uniques

Paragon

• Grant All Glyphs
• Max All Glyphs

Progression

• Complete Campaign & All Strongholds (Unlocks Whispers)
• Set Level to 50
• Set Level to 60
• Unlock All Waypoints & Reveal Map
• Grant All Renown Rewards
• Fully Upgrade Potion
• Unlock All Torment Tiers
• Set Paragon to Level 200

Seasonal

• Grant All Chaos Perks
• Grant Seasonal Currency
• Grant Chaos Armor

Expect further changes to the above content after Season 10 officially launches, which will also include new Season Journeys, Blessings, and Reliquary Battle Pass. While everything will be finalized with Season 10, until then, enjoy 2.4.0 PTR!

Thanks to the rapid development of social media, it's now possible to communicate with the creators of your favorite games directly! Some games even host exclusive panel discussions to gain a deeper understanding of player opinions.

For Diablo 4, this event is Sanctuary Sitdown - or, until August of this year, you might have been more accustomed to calling it Campfire Chats.

Regardless of the name, the two events' purpose remains to provide a platform for communication between the development team and players.

So, what is the purpose of this Sanctuary Sitdown, and how will you participate? What will it reveal about the future development path of Diablo 4? We will provide you with an introduction and speculation.

Basic Information About Sanctuary Sitdown

The event will begin at 11:00 AM PDT on August 14, 2025. It will feature a host, members of Diablo 4 development team, and players joining Sanctuary Discord to engage in discussion and answer questions from players in the channel.

This event is expected to focus on discussing and answering questions about Season 10 and its PTR. If you're interested and would like to ask the developers questions by participating, please follow these steps:

• 1. Register/log in to your Discord account.
• 2. Join the official Diablo Discord server.
• 3. Find and click "Interested" on Sanctuary Sitdown Event page.

It's important to note that the specific content of Season 10 that will be discussed during Sanctuary Sitdown is currently unknown, and the players' questions that will be answered will be random, making the duration of the event uncertain.

How Is Sanctuary Sitdown Different From Campfire Chats?

While this isn't the first time Diablo 4 has held a Sanctuary Sitdown, developers are more accustomed to using Campfire Chats to communicate with you before the launch of a new season in the past.

Campfire Chats are typically broadcast live on Twitch or YouTube, allowing you to watch the live stream or replay it even if you don't have an account. However, due to platform changes, Sanctuary Sitdown on Discord not only requires a platform account but also doesn't offer replays.

This means that if no participants record the livestream content, you won't be able to view the interview content without participating in Sanctuary Sitdown.

As for the changes in live content, Campfire Chats will be more focused on "interviews," allowing the development team to directly inform you about changes related to the new season and PTR, such as possible new content and changes to Diablo 4 gold drop rates.

However, Sanctuary Sitdown will clearly place greater emphasis on communicating with you and other players, answering valuable player questions to share Diablo 4's plans and development schedule for the new season, allowing you to feel more engaged.

Is Sanctuary Sitdown A Good Or Bad Form?

To be honest, this change in communication format has both advantages and disadvantages. On the positive side, Sanctuary Sitdown can raise the barrier to entry and ensure that players who participate are genuinely interested in game development.

This will ensure that questions received during the event are more targeted and valuable, avoiding interruptions from "guest" users and improving the effectiveness of the event.

However, the increased barrier to entry may also discourage some players from participating, and the inability to replay the event livestreams will deprive players of sufficient access to the new season's changes.

Given the mediocre performance of recent seasons, you might even consider this a "cop-out" strategy for Diablo 4: while avoiding more public feedback, the selected questions may already be predetermined.

What Might Season 10 Look Like?

While the livestream hasn't yet begun, it's clear that Season 10 will be the focus of discussion. However, the change in format also means that the season may lack sufficient content for developers to discuss, necessitating the use of Q&A to fill the time.

Currently known information about Season 10 primarily includes Chaos Powers, Infernal Hordes update, new pets, and more IP collaborations announced in the 2025 roadmap.

Therefore, we anticipate that Season 10 will not differ significantly from the previous two or three seasons in terms of overall season mechanics, continuing the same formula of new season power, dungeon updates, and other new events.

As the final Diablo 4 season in 2025, you might have hoped that S10 would deliver truly compelling new content, like S6, which launched at the same time last year, such as a new class or dungeon.

However, Season 6 was able to do so primarily because it launched alongside the first DLC.

Considering that the second DLC will launch sometime in 2026, likely not far from the end of Season 10, a lackluster performance for Season 10 as a transitional season is entirely acceptable.

In fact, rather than innovation, addressing long-standing shortcomings is more important for the current Diablo 4 regular season, such as increasing loot drop rates, further improving class balance, and adding player leaderboards.

Overall, we expect Sanctuary Sitdown to offer only a few details about Season 10 and PTR, with no surprise announcements expected unless they discuss the development progress of the next DLC.

However, if you have the time, you can definitely participate. While there are some requirements, it's not difficult to do. If your question is selected, it's a great experience! Good luck!

As Diablo 4 Season 9 progresses into the mid-to-late stages, some classes and builds' special advantages from the beginning of the season are becoming less pronounced, giving you a wider range of options if you're looking to play a new character.

For example, at the start of Season 9, Sorcerer's strongest build is undoubtedly Hydra Build. This is because the enhanced Hydra skill, combined with the new unique item, Ophidian Iris, boosts both resistance and damage output.

However, if you're looking for more versatile Sorcerer builds, that's entirely possible. In fact, with the right combination, the classic Ice Shards Sorcerer Build remains powerful in Season 9.

Below, we'll provide some tips for crafting and utilizing this build in Diablo 4 Season 9.

Choosing The Right Skills

Although the names might seem contradictory, Flame Shield is indeed the first skill that makes sense for this build. This skill, by engulfing you, deals 40% burning damage per second to nearby enemies, granting you immunity.

The second skill to introduce is undoubtedly the core skill, Ice Shards. It fires five shards, each dealing 36% damage to enemies and an additional 25% damage to frozen enemies. If you enchant it, the ice shards will automatically fly towards frozen enemies.

These two skills, when used in conjunction with Teleport, further increase the overall build's mobility and activate the effects of the ring Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop:

• + [12.5]% Resistance to All Elements
• + [5.0]% Resistance to All Elements
• + [57.0 - 75.0]% Non-Physical Damage
• + [7.0 - 8.0]% Lucky Hit Chance
• + [2 - 3] to Potent Warding
• [8.1 - 8.8]% Cooldown Reduction

If you're interested, you can also replace these two skills with other ice skills, such as Frost Nova or Ice Blades. In fact, every ice skill in your skill list will help you gain damage bonuses from your passive skills.

However, if you want to build this build with the lightning skill Unstable Currents, you must ensure you have sufficient rare gear and consume materials such as Diablo 4 gold, Veiled Crystal, and Obducites to upgrade their affixes through Masterworking.

Overall, if you're looking for a more scalable build, a Flame Shield + Ice Shards + other ice skills combination is enough to complete an Ice Shards Sorcerer build. With a well-defined skill rotation, you can achieve adequate resistance and a decent damage multiplier.

In addition, with this build, aside from Ice Shards skill, you don't need to worry about enchantments; you can mix and match any ice skills. However, if you use a defensive ice skill, you'll need to activate it more frequently.

As for passive skills, you can unlock them according to the following recommendations if you have enough skill points:

• Devastation (1/3) - Core
• Elemental Dominance (3/3) - Core
• Glass Cannon (3/3) - Defensive
• Precision Magic (3/3) - Conjuration
• Align the Elements (3/3) - Conjuration
• Mana Shield (3/3) - Conjuration
• Protection (1/3) - Conjuration
• Inner Flames (1/3) - Mastery
• Devouring Blaze (3/3) - Mastery
• Permafrost (1/3) - Ultimate
• Hoarfrost (3/3) - Ultimate
• Icy Touch (3/3) - Ultimate
• Frigid Breeze (3/3) - Ultimate
• Avalanche (3/3) - Key Passive

How To Choose Gear?

In addition to the already mentioned Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop, other essential gear for this build includes Helm Hail of Verglas, Shroud of False Death, and Fist of Fate, providing the following benefits:

Helm Hail of Verglas:

• +7.5% Maximum Cold Resistance
• +50.0% Cold Resistance
• + [4 - 6] to Ice Shards
• + [10.5 - 15.0]% Intelligence
• + [10.5 - 15.0]% Attack Speed
• [8.1 - 8.8]% Cooldown Reduction

Chest Armor Shroud of False Death:

• 224 Armor
• Inherent: +1 to All Passives
• +160 All Stats
• +333.0% Damage on Next Attack After Entering Stealth
• +800 Maximum Life
• 11.1% Resource Generation

Gloves Fists of Fate:

• + [0.1 - 8.7]% Attack Speed
• + [0.1 - 8.7]% Critical Strike Chance
• + [1.0 - 51.8]% Lucky Hit Chance

Among the benefits of these three items, in addition to the various stat-boosting, resistances and the unique buff to Ice Shards, the lucky hit chance bonus is worth mentioning. It allows you to freeze enemies more frequently in combat, boosting the damage of your core abilities.

For two-handed weapons, Aspect of Piercing Cold is probably the best choice. While it reduces the damage of Ice Shards, it allows you to simultaneously attack and pierce multiple enemies, increasing the damage of your entire build through more flexible control.

Other gear worth acquiring includes:

• Conceited Focus
• Azurewrath
• Iceheart Brais
• Boots of the Bounding Conduit
• Ring of Starless Skies
• Amulet of Shredding Blades

Horadric Spells Worth Adding

As a Season 9 power, no Season 9 build should miss out on the new buffs Horadric Spells offer. For Ice Shards Sorcerer builds, the following Horadric Spells are particularly useful:

• Arcana - Bottled Wind: Summon a Catalyst to grant you a barrier equal to 50% of your maximum health for 4 seconds.
• Arcana - Tranquil Stone: Summon a Catalyst to grant you Unstoppable effect for 5 seconds.
• Horadric Jewel - Seal of Power: Increases armor by 120 points and resistance to all elements by 6%.

Of course, to obtain Horadric spells, you'll need to diligently farm Horadric dungeons and earn Horadric Phials by playing other regular Diablo 4 events, upgrading these spells to become more powerful.

In short, if you're looking to explore build possibilities beyond Hydra as a Sorcerer in Season 9, Ice Shards are a great option! Have fun!