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The familiar Diablo 4 experience has undergone a radical transformation. Blizzard’s extensive list of upcoming changes, set to debut with its next season and persisting into the future, touches nearly every aspect of the game. It’s as if a new game has emerged, cloaked in the guise of the one released less than a year ago.
Whether you lost interest early on or remained dedicated until now, Diablo 4 Season 4—set to launch on May 14—will redefine the process of character creation and evolution into formidable demon slayers. While a comprehensive list of updates will be revealed in Blizzard’s forthcoming patch notes, some of these changes may appear deceptively modest at first glance.
Outlined below are the five most significant alterations that will fundamentally alter your Diablo 4 experience. These changes will be available for playtesting on a PTR starting April 2.
Reaching Level 50 signifies the commencement of Diablo 4’s endgame, as it’s when your gear and build should begin to coalesce.
At this stage, your aim is to conquer the Capstone Dungeon and vanquish its boss to ascend to the next World Tier, where greater XP and superior loot await. While it already takes only a few hours to reach this milestone, the upcoming season promises even swifter progression.
During the recent stream, Associate Game Director Joe Piepiora briefly outlined Blizzard’s plans to enhance XP gains across World Tier difficulties. In the upcoming season, the XP bonuses for each World Tier will be as follows:
While one could calculate XP rates per hour, the specifics are less relevant: Blizzard is evidently intent on propelling players into higher World Tiers swiftly, facilitating earlier access to its new endgame crafting systems. This benefits players seeking more potent loot drops without the need for weeks of level grinding.
Also Read: Everything We Currently Know About Diablo 4 Season 4! - Anticipated Changes & Additions
The impactful effects found on Legendary items, known as aspects, such as the one that causes sorcerers’ Ball Lightning to orbit around them, can significantly shape a build.
In Diablo 4’s initial aspect system, players were compelled to store Legendary items or their extracted aspects in their stash in order to transfer them onto new gear. Thankfully, this cumbersome process is now a thing of the past.
In Season 4, not only will gear replacements occur less frequently, but Legendary aspects will now permanently reside within your Codex of Power menu, valid for the duration of the season. Most aspects can randomly generate numerical values that determine the potency of the bonus, such as “Basic Skills gain 15 to 30% Attack Speed.” As you discover Legendary items with higher rolls of the aspect, salvaging them at the blacksmith will permanently increase the corresponding number in your Codex of Power. This allows you to imprint that aspect onto other gear pieces as desired, without the need to retain anything in your stash.
The risk associated with using a perfectly rolled aspect on a mediocre item will be eliminated, making it much easier to experiment with different combinations. It appears that Blizzard has streamlined this system to allow players to concentrate on Tempering and Masterworking Diablo 4 Items in the later stages of the game, where the core of item crafting lies.
The quantity of redundant item drops in Diablo 4 is set to decrease significantly.
Blizzard has removed the restrictions on Uniques, allowing them to drop in World Tiers 1 and 2, while Uber Uniques can now even drop from level 55 or higher monsters. For instance, a Necromancer might chance upon the Black River scythe, triggering devastating corpse explosions, before reaching level 50. This means that thrilling builds relying on potent Uniques no longer have to wait until deep into the endgame.
Moreover, changes to item power, one of Diablo 4’s somewhat perplexing statistics, will render loot more meaningful. It’s disheartening to come across gear with feeble stats due to its low item power, especially as it becomes irrelevant for certain gear types over time. In Season 4, item power is being standardized to the extent that it becomes a non-issue.
Gear with maximum item power (925) will consistently drop from level 95 or higher monsters. Consequently, by approximately level 80, when you’re comfortably tackling Nightmare Dungeons in World Tier 4, item power becomes inconsequential. Instead, your focus will shift solely to evaluating the actual stats on the gear and determining whether they warrant upgrades.
Diablo 4 introduces two innovative crafting systems—Tempering and Masterworking—that empower players to customize their items with specific stats.
Whether it's enhancing movement speed or incorporating class-specific attributes, such as granting a chance for a Necromancer's Bone Splinters to cast twice, your items will now reflect the stats that are most significant to your playstyle. While this may not initially seem groundbreaking, it dramatically expands the range of potential builds available.
Previously, Diablo 4's items constrained players to universally beneficial stats like cooldown reduction and critical strike chance, leading to certain builds dominating the meta. However, with the introduction of the new crafting systems, players have the freedom to choose which stats to prioritize and to what extent. For instance, a Rogue focusing on mobility, cooldown reduction, and grenade damage could heavily invest in stun grenades, leveraging an aspect that triggers them whenever evading—an approach that would have previously been dismissed. Similarly, Druids may now have the opportunity to excel with a viable minion build.
The flexibility afforded by these customizable stat choices brings Diablo 4 closer to Last Epoch, a game renowned for its extensive variety of viable builds. Even if players opt to follow a build guide, it will take considerable time to craft the theoretically "best" items, prompting them to weigh their personal preferences for stats along the journey. If executed successfully, Diablo 4 has the potential to become one of the most accessible action RPGs available.
Blizzard's announcement of the new endgame dungeons in Season 4 was anything but subtle.
These dungeons, named The Pit of the Artificer, closely resemble Diablo 3's greater rifts: timed challenges that escalate in difficulty as you progress through tiers. The objective is akin to Nightmare Dungeons, emphasizing speed to reach the end for the chance of rare loot and materials. With over 100 tiers featuring increasingly formidable adversaries, the quality of loot improves as you ascend to higher levels.
Within The Pit, dungeons will yield items to summon "Tormented" bosses, who, upon defeat, drop materials for crafting an Uber Unique item of your choosing on your first kill. Additionally, the introduction of Andariel to the roster of normal bosses ensures players won't be locked into repetitively battling Duriel to obtain the rarest items in the game.
While Season 4's new endgame activities may not entirely address the issue of diminishing challenge in the open world over time, they inject much-needed variety into an area of the game that was stagnating. Moreover, with details still forthcoming about the season-specific features, it lays a promising foundation for revitalizing a segment of the game that had begun to feel monotonous.
Although Diablo 4 Season 9 has only been officially launched for two or three days, you should have already learned most of the content through the PTR and other information, such as the new dungeon and the new best class or builds.
If you are a Spiritborn fan, then Season 9 is still worth experiencing for you, because the new unique items make this class stronger in S9 through many available builds. Among them, Speed Spiritborn Evade Build is the best for farming dungeons.
In terms of strength, this build is not the best Spiritborn build in Season 9, but it works wonders in clearing dungeons - not only new dungeons, but also classic The Pit. In this way, you can earn enough Diablo 4 gold, XP, and Paragon points with this build.
Based on this, we will introduce you to the key points of crafting this build and how it works in the new dungeon Escalating Nightmares in S9.
As you can see from the name of this build, the core of its function lies in continuous evasion, but other offensive skills are also important. After all, you can’t kill the enemy by dodging alone.
For this reason, the core skill of this build is still Quill Volley, which is suitable for most Spiritborn builds. It can cause lightning damage by throwing feathers at the enemy.
But before utilizing this skill, you need to choose Rock Splitter as your basic skill, because it can naturally generate resources for you, and provide blocking resources and blocking chance.
Next, you also need to add Soar, Thunderspike, Brilliance and Acceleration to the build. Some of them are passive skills that can provide additional benefits, and some are active skills that can continue to provide you with lightning damage. None of them can be ignored.
After completing these skill combinations, what you have to do is to find a way to minimize the cooldown of Evade while attacking the enemy to form a “Perma Evade”.
This trick actually has nothing to do with the skill itself, but requires you to find and hold the static option in the settings, then bind “Hold Position” to the Shift key, and combine it with Thunder Spy hotkey.
In this way, in the future battles, you can just hold the Shift key, then right-click to hold position and press the spacebar to “Perma Evade”. On this basis, you can cast all other skills to deal more damage to the enemy while protecting yourself.
Due to the nature of the build, it does not require the help of Balazan’s Maxtlatl as you think, after all, this is a gear that mainly increases damage. The really important gear for Speed Spiritborn Evade Build is Harmony of Ebewaka and Sunbird’s Gorget.
As one of the exclusive gear for Spiritborn, Harmony of Ebewaka armor has the following base affixes:
On top of that, it also provides Jaguar, Eagle, Gorilla, or Centipede skills to other skills in your build, depending on your secondary Spirit Hall choice. For this build, it is recommended to choose Jaguar because it can synergize with Sunbird’s Gorget.
This item is a unique item exclusive to Spiritborn launched in Season 8. As an amulet, its affixes include:
It is worth noting that the amulet’s unique power is mainly to allow you to damage enemies by picking up Storm Feather, which is actually a Jaguar skill.
Although these two pieces of gear are not new, the synergy between them can keep you alive in Season 9 in the classic Spiritborn class survival style. If used properly, it is not inferior to the new item Balazan’s Maxtlatl, which focuses on thorns and poison damage.
As an upgraded version of the nightmare dungeons brought by Season 9, Escalating Nightmares is composed of three regular nightmare dungeons connected in series. Each dungeon has its own positive and negative affix effects, which will be stacked as the progress deepens.
To unlock and enter Escalating Nightmares, you need to obtain Escalation Sigils as “keys” by completing Season 9 quest line or farming Grand Horadric Cache in another new dungeon, Horadric Strongroom.
The most efficient way to farm Escalation Sigils is to clear Horadric Strongroom. And both Horadric Strongroom and Escalating Nightmares can bring you a lot of loot.
To complete them through Speed Spiritborn Evade Build, you undoubtedly need to master all the skills first and get the gear required for the build. Then you must understand the specific operation of each dungeon.
On this basis, you can quickly solve the large number of enemies in the dungeon through skilled and uninterrupted evade in combat, the lightning damage provided by active skills, and the benefits provided by various gear, to earn the loot brought by Season 9.
The above is the information related to Speed Spiritborn Evade Build and the introduction of how to clear the new dungeon through it. I hope it can help you!
Most new Diablo 4 seasons add new unique items with different effects to each class when they are launched, so that the class can get more benefits based on the existing skills, and it is also more playable in the new season.
Although the new unique items seems are not necessary to be compared due to different applicability, they can also be compared to determine the “best item” in the current season based on the degree of benefit they provide to their class.
For Diablo 4 Season 9, the best unique item is likely to be Balazan’s Maxtlatl, which belongs to Spiritborn class, and this judgment is based on many aspects. We will introduce you to it below.
This item is a new Ancestral Unique Pants added for Spiritborn in Season 9. After adjustments in the PTR and subsequent patches, its affixes and unique power effects now include:
Although its unique power effect has been weakened to ensure the balance of the class experience, this still cannot stop Balazan’s Maxtlatl from making Spiritborn the dominant class in Season 9.
Additionally, if you want to get this item, you need to farm the bosses Varshan and Urivar in Torment difficulty. Although getting this item may be a long process, you can also earn more Diablo 4 gold during this period.
For any piece of gear, no matter how powerful or rare it is, its single effect alone cannot change anything. Only when it is combined with relevant builds can it play a real role.
Take Balazan’s Maxtlatl as an example. In Season 9, its power lies in the perfect combination of Toxic Skin and Noxious Resistance, which amplifies the poison damage to the extreme.
In this way, enemies affected by the poison effect in combat will burst when they hit critically, taking 180% poison damage, and also dealing 20% poison damage to nearby enemies.
In general, Balazan’s Maxtlatl pants are designed to maximize your poison damage output by converting thorn damage in addition to increasing basic attributes.
From there, you can further combine Season 9’s seasonal power Horadric Spells to craft your own Spiritborn builds, or continue to utilize these reliable classic builds:
By contrast, while Quill Volley has been around since the beginning of Spiritborn, the benefits of Balazan’s Maxtlatl make this build still the most worthwhile class to play in the new season.
From a seasonal perspective, Balazan’s Maxtlatl is the new best unique item, but for Spiritborn, Kepeleke Rod of Core was the key to helping the class dominate the game before Balazan’s Maxtlatl appeared.
Kepeleke Rod of Core is a unique item added by Vessel of Hatred for Spiritborn, and its main buff is to increase your damage output based on Vigor’s release and conume.
This allows powerful Spiritborn builds like Quill Volley to maximize their damage output by converting core skills into basic skills, making them free to cast and converting any unconsumed Vigor into guaranteed critical damage.
With the release of Balazan’s Maxtlatl, it further enriches the richness of Spiritborn builds with thorns and converted poison damage, and allows you to swap core skills and basic skills according to your preferences.
While these marks the end of Kepeleke Rod of Core era, the emergence of new powerful items also means that as the youngest class in the game, Spiritborn will not disappear due to the loss of novelty, but will be favored by players in Diablo 4 for a long time.
Perhaps the prominence of Balazan’s Maxtlatl makes you wonder if this has disrupted the balance of the game, but the effects of the existing 6 new unique items have been adjusted, and if there are still problems, it is not a defect of the items themselves.
In fact, the class balance experience of Diablo 4 has been questioned by players since Season 6. I believe you have also found that the old classes represented by Druid are always weakened unnecessarily. Although various optimizations have been made to restore it, it has to be said that the effect is not obvious.
There is no doubt that in the long run, the atmosphere of Diablo 4 game community and the game experience of players of weak classes will be negatively affected. Even for players of dominant classes, this imbalance is terrible.
Therefore, while you are happy about the reliability of Balazan’s Maxtlatl, you can also make suggestions to the game development team through various channels with other players to jointly maintain Diablo 4 better.
Although according to various signs, Necromancer should not be the dominant class in Diablo 4 Season 9, it is not impossible if you want to continue to play it, provided that you can choose the right Season 9 Necromancer Build.
As you know, each class has different best builds in different Diablo 4 seasons, some of which are rookies, and some are optimized versions of classic builds according to seasonal changes.
For Necromancer, although there are no new builds available, at least Blood Wave Build in S9 is still expected to help you output enough damage in battle to get more Diablo 4 gold drops.
Based on this, we will introduce you how to make this classic Necromancer Build continue to play a role in Season 9 according to the changes in the seasonal content.
In general, Blood Wave is a stable, damage-focused build that performs well in both AOE and single-target attacks, making it suitable for most combat situations. In addition, its gameplay is relatively simple and easy to understand, and even Necromancer novices can quickly master it.
The build works by first casting Blood Wave, and then running to manually collect Blood Orbs when Blood Wave disappears. Although it is a bit cumbersome, the high overall damage and damage reduction of this build make it still one of the top choices for Necromancer builds.
Generally speaking, the content that determines the strength of a build includes gear, seasonal power, skills, and the skill rotation method. Among them, the choice of skills usually does not change much, but the rotation method needs to be adjusted according to the season.
For Season 9, it is still recommended that you pair the following skills with Blood Wave Necromancer Build:
Once you have determined your usable skills, it is recommended that you first utilize Decompose to create corpses, then pull enemies in with Corpse Tendrils and utilize Blood Wave to attack them.
On this basis, Affliction can greatly increase the damage potential of the build by dealing a certain percentage of damage to enemies in vulnerable, crowd controlled or corrupted states. But it should be noted that the core of this build to maximize damage is still Blood Wave.
The reason that usually prevents you from utilizing a good build is that the best gear it needs is very difficult to get, and it must be repeatedly farmed by bosses. This is also true for Blood Wave Necromancer Build.
But honestly, if you blindly fear the challenge and don’t improve the strength of the build, you will only waste the chance to win that the build brings you. Therefore, in Season 9, you still need to obtain the following three pieces of gear for Blood Wave Build:
Comparatively speaking, the most important one should be Kessime’s Legacy, because it has affixes that can increase the damage potential of Blood Wave and reduce the cooldown of Blood Wave.
This way, not only can you cast it more often, but you’ll also have a greater chance of dealing double damage to enemies. The item also has a unique ability to cast Blood Wave on either side of you for a wider range of coverage.
As for Shroud of False Death and Heir of Perdition, their role is to provide excellent damage bonuses to push the build’s damage output per second to the limit.
However, all three pieces of gear require you to repeatedly fight the corresponding bosses in Torment difficulty to obtain them, and Kessime’s Legacy can only be dropped by farming Lord Zir. So if you want to maximize the potential of your build, at least wait until you reach the endgame stage.
Each Diablo 4 season’s seasonal power provides additional benefits to build, allowing you to output damage in a more seasonal way. In Season 9, that power is Horadric Spells. But if you want to enhance Blood Wave Build with it, it is recommended that you prioritize the following two powers:
Catalyst - Cosmic Anomaly
Infusion - Nebulous Extract
The above is how to make Blood Wave Necromancer Build still usable in Diablo 4 Season 9 or even output more damage. If you think it is feasible, try it in the game!
Diablo 4 adds new exclusive unique items to all base classes in each season update, and Season 9 is no exception. Usually, these class-specific items determine the popular build of the current season and lead the latest build trend!
Even if you don’t plan to advance the endgame and challenge Uber bosses in the new season, these items can let you know some new skills worth trying and some classic skills that have made a comeback, so that you won’t be at a loss in the new season content.
Therefore, it is so important to get these new exclusive unique items at the beginning of the season, which not only determines the direction of your build development, but also affects how far you can go in the endgame in the end. Here, we will talk about the 6 new class-specific items introduced in Season 9.
First, let’s start with Hooves of the Mountain God on the list. This pair of Barbarian’s new exclusive boots finally gives them basic skills and generator gameplay. This means that when you reach max Fury, your Fury will deplete rapidly until it is depleted, after which all of your basic skills will now slash and deal up to 100% bonus damage.
Based on the results in the PTR, this will be the S-tier build for Season 9. Of course, this remains to be seen, as many players say that Barbarian has been nerfed a lot in the new season.
And to get this new unique boot, all you need to do is keep farming Beast in the Ice or Urivar Lair Boss. But be aware that Hooves of the Mountain God only has a certain chance to drop as a boss, and more often you will just get a bunch of common items, but you can also sell the excess loot you don’t need for additional Diablo 4 gold income.
Next, we have Rotting Lightbringer, a unique Two-Handed weapon for Druid.
This weapon is interesting because it allows Werebear Druid builds to deal a lot of poison damage. In patch 2.3.0, the poison damage of this item was significantly increased from 150% to 550%, so this one is worth a try.
To get the new unique mace, you need to farm Varshan or Urivar Boss. But if you want to make the most of this unique, it is recommended that you still try to make a Pulverize Druid build to maximize synergy with it.
Next, we move on to the new unique item of Necromancer class, which is The Hand of Naz. To be honest, I am very interested in the mechanics of this unique glove, because it allows you to successfully build a powerful Skeletal Mage Minion Necromancer endgame build.
In simple terms, you have to sacrifice all other types of minions to summon additional maces, which means no more Skeletal Warriors and Golems, but in return, your damage will increase for each minion you sacrifice.
This unique item also grants you a unique power: when your Skeletal Mage survives 25 attacks on an enemy, it will upgrade to a Skeletal Arch-Mage.
And when this happens, the final unique power is activated: Skeletal Arch-Mages teleport to safety when attacked, and their attacks occasionally shatter on impact, dealing up to 100% bonus damage to the target.
In addition, the time between their attacks shattering has been reduced by 50% compared to the PTR period, and more importantly, Skeletal Arch-Mages are now unstoppable within 1 second of teleporting.
To get this unique gauntlet, you need to defeat Andariel, Duriel, or Harbinger of Hatred, which has a chance to drop this item.
Let’s move on to Rogue. Unfortunately, things look bad for Rogue compared to last season, as the new item Deathmask of Nirmitruq only serves to increase Flurry skill ranks and damage.
Flurry Rogue Endgame build for Season 9 will be a B tier build, which makes it the weakest one on this list.
Remember that Flurry is basically a skill that quickly stabs enemies in a circular area, but from what we have read so far, to get the most out of it, you’d better try Twisting Blades, Rain of Arrows, or Rapid Fire. You can get this helmet from Beast in the Ice or Urivar.
Next, we come to Spiritborn class. Its new exclusive item is called Balazan’s Maxtlatl Unique Pants, which looks very interesting because it allows for a build related to poison and thorns.
But in the latest patch, this item was nerfed by 50%. In the previous PTR, each attack dealt 300% of Thorns’ damage to melee enemies, but in the official version, its damage was reduced to 150% of Thorns’ damage. However, 100% of the damage will be converted into poison within 3 seconds.
Another unique power is that every time you use Thorns skill to counterattack, the poison damage will increase by 100% within 5 seconds, stacking up to 300%. This new change makes many players think that Poison Thorns Spiritborn build is the most powerful build in Season 9.
But to get this unique pants, you need to participate in Varshan or Urivar boss battle and win.
Finally, for all Hydra lovers, Sorcerer will make a comeback with this build. Because the new Unique Amulet Ophidian Iris can give Hydra an extra 2 heads, increased attack speed, +30% resistance to all elements and up to 100% fire damage.
The unique power of this item is that Hydra is now a core skill and always summons a three-headed Hydra whose attacks explode on impact.
On the other hand, for each Hydra you have more than 3 heads, it will grow larger and deal 50% to 100% more damage. You need to combine this build with Shatter to deal huge damage.
In fact, Hydra is one of the iconic builds of Diablo series, and I think it’s great that it can still be used after leveling. This makes it one of the best-looking builds in the entire game.
To get Ophidian Iris, you’d better actively complete Andariel, Duriel or Harbinger of Hatred boss encounters, which have a certain chance of random drops!
These are all 6 class-exclusive items added in Diablo 4 Season 9. What do you think of them? Do you have a better understanding of the build play in the new season? Looking forward to seeing you in the game!
Usually, the launch of a new class can always cause a new round of sensation in the game community in ARPG represented by Diablo 4, because it means that you can experience new skills, gear and decorations.
Therefore, Spiritborn launched by Diablo 4 through DLC last year also caused heated discussions. Although some players soon believed that Spiritborn was too powerful and destroyed the balance of the game, causing the class to be weakened from Season 7, it is still very popular.
As time progresses to the eve of the launch of Season 9, the previously speculated new class possibilities have not been realized, so Spiritborn is still the freshest Diablo 4 class.
Not only that, according to the performance of 2.3.0 PTR, after three seasons of continuous adjustments, this class has the hope to dominate Diablo 4 again in Season 9 on the premise of class experience balance. Next, we will analyze why we say this to you.
Although Diablo 4 will adjust each class according to the changes in the playable content of the season, it is usually based on the newly added unique items or skills that cause the game environment to be unbalanced. Conventional basic skills are rarely changed significantly.
On this basis, for the new dungeons and bosses added in Season 9, many of the main skills of Spiritborn can still play a reliable lethality under the right casting occasions and builds, including:
As can be seen from the effects of some skills, the types of damage output by Spiritborn include poison and thorns, which can help you earn more Diablo 4 gold faster through combat through powerful group damage.
Based on this, the mechanism of adjustment of Season 9 allows you to utilize the new top-level build, Poison Thorns Build, which focuses on these two types of damage by playing as Spiritborn.
Although this build is not new, in Season 9, it will be more reliable while following the standard settings, combining seasonal power and new unique items.
Once in battle, this build will pull enemies in with skills such as Vortex, and utilize skills such as Scourge and Toxic Skin to poison them when they attack you. It can also cause further damage to enemies attacking you with thorns.
The combat style of this build is to defeat enemies by approaching them and utilizing passive effects. But on the other hand, the closer distance will also increase your risk of being attacked by enemies, so if you choose this build, it is best to equip reliable armor and master defensive skills such as Armored Hide.
In addition, Quill Volley Build, one of the classic Spiritborn builds, can continue to play a role in Season 9. Its damage value, mobility and tank ability are very strong, provided that you can match it with reliable gear, such as Balazan’s Maxtlatl, which will be introduced to you soon.
Season 9 adds a new unique item for each class, and further optimizes them based on actual combat performance in 2.3.0 PTR to ensure that the benefits obtained by each class are basically balanced.
Among them, the new unique item for Spiritborn is Balazan’s Maxtlatl. The pants can be said to be customized for Poison Thorns Build, because it allows you to deal 200-300% thorn damage and 100% poison damage to close enemies with each attack.
In addition, if you can deal retaliatory thorn damage to the enemy on this basis, the poison damage output will be increased to 300% within 5 seconds.
If you can, you can also pair Balazan’s Maxtlatl with Razorplate and Wound Drinker to utilize the synergy to continue to increase the damage output of thorns and poison.
Season 9’s seasonal power Horadric Spells include Catalysts, Infusions, and Arcana. You can combine them according to your needs to craft the spell that suits you best. For Spiritborn, the best Horadric Spells combination is:
I believe the above content is enough to drive you to play as a Spiritborn in Season 9, but the prerequisite for obtaining this class is that you have Vessel of Hatred. Considering that the next DLC will be launched next year, it is completely worth it to start now!
The official release date of Diablo 4 Season 9 is getting closer and closer. Whether you are fully prepared to welcome it or not, at least the game itself is still committed to making the new season better on the eve of release.
I believe you should have learned about the new playable content through 2.3.0 PTR, but you should also notice through the performance of the PTR that some changes in the inherent mechanism have not made the game better.
In order to ensure that the official experience of the new season will not be affected, Diablo 4 released a new and more comprehensive Season 9 preview on June 25, which not only modified the unsatisfactory parts in the PTR, but also added a small part of new content to improve the new gameplay.
Based on this, this time we will mainly introduce you to the new changes brought by the new unique items added to each class, as well as the relics related to the boss Astaroth.
As you know, every season, Diablo 4 will adjust the strength of existing classes to ensure that they can maintain balance in the new season mode. But not every adjustment is perfect, at least for 2.3.0 PTR.
Therefore, before the launch of Season 9, the game adds different degrees of buffs to the new unique items of each class, giving you the opportunity to earn enough Diablo 4 gold and XP in the early stage of Season 9 to smoothly enter the latter stages.
Generally speaking, Diablo 4’s class mechanism adjustments will not target those regular skills (unless there are more fatal problems), but will optimize the newly added parts, so the new unique items that appear in almost every season have become “regular visitors” of adjustments.
The item added to Barbarian in S9 is Hooves of the Mountain God. As a pair of boots, it originally has the following affix effects:
The new change is to change the radius range value of the last item to 150, allowing you to cause damage to enemies in a wider range.
As a class that has been ignored for many seasons, Druid is still repeatedly weakened in 2.3.0 PTR, causing many Druid players to feel dissatisfied. Therefore, the game has made the following changes based on its new item, Rotting Lightbringer:
Affix changes:
Unique power comprehensive changes:
The optimized Rotting Lightbringer will cause Pulverize to form a puddle when there are no puddles around, causing poison damage equivalent to 200-600% of normal damage over 7 seconds.
In addition, Pulverize will cause all nearby puddles to splash damage equivalent to 20-60% of their total damage in and around their area. And the size of the affected puddle and its splash area will increase as the radius of Pulverize increases.
The new unique item for this class is The Hand of Naz, which has three unique powers, the last of which is that Skeletal Arch-Mages will teleport you to a safe area when attacked, and their attacks will occasionally shatter on impact, dealing 50-100% bonus damage to the target and up to 3 additional targets.
On top of that, the new changes not only shorten the time between attacks that shatter this effect by 50%, but also make Skeletal Arch-Mages unlockable for 1 second after teleporting, and slightly increase the size of Arch-Mages.
The changes to this class are relatively few, mainly removing the mechanism that consumes health when utilizing Flurry when equipped with the helm Deathmask of Nirmitruq.
Based on this, the mechanism of increasing Flurry damage by consuming health no longer works, but Flurry can directly increase your attack speed by 50% for 5 seconds.
As one of the most anticipated classes in Season 9, the changes to Sorcerer include two affixes to its unique item Ophidian Iris:
Like Sorcerer, due to its outstanding performance in the PTR, Spiritborn has also received fewer changes, only reducing the thorn damage that Balazan’s Maxtlatl can cause from 200-300% to 100-150%, to ensure that it is not much stronger than the weaker classes.
This relic is not strictly a new item that can be obtained, but is related to the main quest line of Season 9, The Embers Yet Smolder. As you know, the final boss of the season is Astaroth, so your main quest goal is to defeat him.
The story of Season 9 takes place in Cerrigar, where you will meet a Druid named Bryona. In the past, a Horadric mage named Donan sealed Astaroth, but also left behind many troubles, including corrupted blood relics.
So what you have to do is to help Bryona deal with these troubles, find and destroy the corrupted blood relics before the evil forces get them, to avoid extra difficulties when solving the final boss.
In addition to the above content, the game has also added many details to Season 9. You can experience them one by one after the official launch of the season! Let’s look forward to it together!
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