Regale in the Winds of Fortune — Diablo Immortal — Blizzard News

Well met, adventurer! Since our last meeting, you’ve climbed through the ranks of a new Battle Pass straight from Nahantu’s river gates and sought out Legendary Gems with increased fervor. This content update introduces new Legendary Items, the Winds of Fortune limited-time event, and even has a hint at an incredible alliance 20 years in the making set to make its mark in Sanctuary…

Please note: The generals of the Burning Hells have unleashed their most clever magic: the ability to alter time itself. Starting on October 30, the server time will be set back by one hour for all European, and North American servers and brought forward by one hour for all Australian Servers during maintenance.

As with previous content updates, there will be server maintenance starting on October 29, 5 p.m.–7 p.m. PDT for Oceania, China, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe servers, and on October 30, 1 a.m.–3 a.m. PDT for servers in the Americas. After the maintenance has concluded, all items mentioned below will be live—specific dates for any content going live afterward are provided below.

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Sanctuary and Azeroth Collide

New Legendary Items and Balance Changes

Winds of Fortune Limited-time Event

Feature Updates

Returning Events

Region-Specific Game Additions

Bug Fixes

Sanctuary and Azeroth Collide

Sound the horn! Our Diablo Immortal x World of Warcraft 20th Anniversary collaboration is heating up. In November, familiar faces and notable items from the world of Azeroth will make their debut in Sanctuary. Get ready to conquer foes in PvE and PvP events and earn cosmetics that will proclaim your allegiance to the Alliance and Horde. Plus, get your hands on a new Legendary Gem invoking the power of a twisted entity. We’ll reveal the details in our full blog on November 5.

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New Legendary Items and Balance Changes

Barbarian

• Broken Calling (Shoulders): Wrath of the Berserker also makes you immune to knockback effects for 2.5 seconds.
• Direct Diplomacy (Chest): Grab also shatters the enemy’s armor, increasing the damage they take by 10% for 3 seconds.
• Pit of Ursus (Pants): Ground Stomp now smashes the ground to erect a ring of rocks that prevents anyone from entering or leaving. Your damage is increased inside the ring while enemy damage is reduced.
• Skull Mill (Off-Hand): Wrath of the Berserker now enters a brawler’s rage, during which your Primary Attacks become a series of punches, with the third hit grabbing an enemy and throwing them forward to deal damage to nearby enemies.
• Strangle Wings (Main Hand): Grab now targets an enemy and dashes towards them, seizing them and continuing the dash, knocking back other enemies in your path, and inflicting Stun if you hit a wall.
• Sullen Vow (Helm): Wrath of the Berserker also increases your Primary Attack Speed by 30% for 3 seconds.

Blood Knight

• Acute Veneer (Helm): Siphon Blood now splits open the ground in front you, creating a wound that pulls in and damages enemies.
• Dangling Tear (Off-Hand): Each skill used empowers your next Ravage for 6 seconds, slashing in a forward arc to deal increased damage. You can stack up to 3 empowered attacks.
• Desperate Breath (Shoulders): Enemies hit by Siphon Blood take 10% increased damage for 3 seconds.
• Excessive Exuberance (Pants): Spear Flurry is now a forward dash that damages all enemies along your path. Using other skills instantly refreshes one charge.
• Luminous Nail (Main Hand): Whirling Strike now conjures a shadow to perform the attack, dealing damage to all nearby enemies. Can be activated while using other skills.
• Shadow Nocturne (Chest): Whirling Strike damage to the same enemy is increased by 7% for 2 seconds, up to a maximum of 21%.

Crusader

• Clipped Wings (Shoulders): Sacred Chain now strikes a target with lightning that bounces to nearby enemies.
• Close Shave (Main Hand): Sweep Attack now attacks all nearby enemies with lightning damage.
• Gallow’s Grin (Off-Hand): Enemies affected by your Consecration take 12% increased damage from you for 3 seconds.
• Perfect Posture (Chest): While Draw and Quarter is active, your skill damage is increased by 12%.
• Shatterbang (Helm): Consecration now creates an area of lightning that follows you, dealing damage and Shocking nearby enemies.
• The Bind (Pants): Sacred Chain cooldown is reduced by 0.5 seconds for each enemy hit, up to a maximum of 2 seconds.

Demon Hunter

• Chorus of Bolts (Chest): Rain of Vengeance damage to the same enemy gradually increases by 7% over 2 seconds, up to a maximum of 21%.
• Clatter Shods (Pants): Shadowsight also increases your Critical Hit Chance by 15% for 1.5 seconds.
• Discordant Allure (Shoulders): Rain of Vengeance now fires a volley of arrows at a target location that rapidly hit and damage enemies.
• Hidden Serenade (Helm): Shadowsight now targets an area to mark and Immobilize enemies, preventing them from using Dash skills, and if hit several times while marked they will burst, damaging nearby enemies.
• Point of Pain (Off-Hand): Impale deals 20% increased damage to enemies below 50% Life.
• Silenced Strings (Main Hand): Impale now throws multiple knives that seek out random nearby enemies.

Monk

• Creaking Crystal (Main Hand): Imprisoned Fist also shatters Frozen enemies, dealing additional damage to all nearby enemies and applying Chill.
• Flyscraper (Chest): Flying Dragon now quickly strikes forward with two palms, pulling in and damaging enemies.
• Matter of Mind (Helm): Enemies affected by Exploding Palm take 10% increased damage from you.
• Raw Pressure (Off-Hand): Exploding Palm now dashes forward, dragging enemies along its path before striking with fire and ice, dealing damage and applying Burn and Chill.
• Serpent Eyes (Shoulders): Imprisoned Fist now strikes twice, Immobilizing enemies and dealing additional damage to enemies suffering loss of control.
• Stalking Cold (Pants): Flying Dragon also causes Chilled enemies to Freeze for 1.25 seconds. Cannot occur more often than once per 4 seconds to the same enemy.

Necromancer

• Cleansing Pyre (Shoulders): Corpse Explosion now consumes corpses to conjure soulfire pyres around you that follow you, continuously Burning nearby enemies.
• Flesh Pick (Main Hand): After entering combat, Corpse Explosion passively generates a corpse every 3.5 seconds to follow you, up to a maximum of 3 corpses.
• Tempered Urn (Chest): Bone Spirits deals 20% increased damage to Burning enemies.
• The Unattended (Helm): Bone Armor now protects with bony spikes that reduce the damage you take while damaging all nearby enemies.
• Untapped Marrow (Off-Hand): Bone Spirits now unleashes several spirits in all directions, dealing damage to enemies along their paths.
• Veiled Parasite (Pants): Wraith Form now targets an enemy, causing you to transform into a parasitic wraith that hides inside the target’s body. While hiding, you cannot be targeted and are immune to damage. After a duration or when you use any skill, you will emerge from the target and damage nearby enemies.

Tempest

• Carrying Current (Helm): Cascade now unleashes crashing waves that leave behind a Tide Pool. Dealing lightning damage within the pool will electrify it, dealing additional damage to all enemies within the pool.
• Paired Doublet (Chest): Flowing Strike now hurls lightning at a target, marking them. Using the skill again will conjure two Zephyrs to rush toward the marked target with you and perform a powerful lighting slash.
• Roaring Paulds (Shoulders): Stormfury now calls a lightning storm to follow you, continuously striking random nearby enemies with lightning.
• Sparkscull (Off-Hand): Zephyr Surge now causes you to dash forward, damaging enemies in your path with lightning. Each Zephyr consumed by the dash grants additional charges.
• Storm’s Crest (Main Hand): The final attack of a Wave Edge series calls down lightning on the enemy, dealing additional lightning damage.
• Vaporizer (Pants): When a Zephyr dissipates, it no longer creates a Mist-Touched Orb and instead leaves behind a Tide Pool. Dealing lightning damage within the pool will electrify it, dealing additional damage to all enemies within the pool.

Wizard

• Flame Feast (Shoulders): Meteor cooldown is reduced by 0.4 seconds per Burning enemy, up to a maximum of 1.2 seconds.
• Mask of Many (Helm): Slow Time now empowers you for several seconds, during which your skill damage is increased and an Arcane Phantasm will appear to cast your Charge skills instantly at full charge.
• Jolt of Stars (Pants): Meteor now calls down a meteor that rolls forward after impact, damaging enemies along its path. Charging increases the number of meteors and their distance rolled.
• Wake of Jazreth (Main Hand): Arcane Wind now unleashes a tornado that rushes forward. Charging increases the number of tornadoes and their distance traveled.
• Windwrought Amber (Off-Hand): Arcane Wind cooldown is reduced by 15%.
• Tendrils of Time (Chest): Slow Time also increases Movement Speed by 40% for 3 seconds.

Balance Changes

Necromancer

• Wraith Form (Baseline): Cooldown has been increased from 9.4 seconds to 12 seconds.

Tempest

• Flowing Strike (Safe Borders): Duration of immunity to loss of control and knockback effects decreased from 1.5 seconds to 0.5 seconds.

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Winds of Fortune Limited-time Event

Horadric Scholars have been poring over their tomes to find the source of this increased materialized wealth, while the merchants of Sanctuary are seizing the opportunity to increase their abundance.

From November 6, 3:00 a.m.—November 13, 3:00 a.m. local server time, you will earn increased rewards!

While Winds of Fortune is live, activate your 24-hour buff to receive this duplicate effect. Once activated, the buff is in real time and will end 24 hours after it’s been initiated. If you have not activated the buff within 24 hours of the event ending, it will be enabled automatically. Any rewards not claimed before the end of the event will be auto-claimed on next log-in.

During Winds of Fortune, the 4-player party Normal Gems bonus drop will be doubled and unaffected by the daily cap, and only the first twelve Common Gems of the day will be tradable.

Any of these items will drop in duplicate quantities:

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

Items from these activities will also 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.

Additionally, there are limits to each item that can be earned in duplicate quantities. You’ll earn double the amount until you reach the limit. Please see the event in-game for more details.

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Feature Updates

Terror Rift Changes

We are changing Terror Rifts to improve your time collecting Terror Essence with the intention to make the experience a bit smoother.

Terror Rifts will now be available for 24 hours, with one map available at a time. Countdown timers are now individual, and not shared with the team. Teams must enter the same difficulty level and map to participate in the Terror Rift together.

Essence requirements for each Stygian Spires have been adjusted. Previously, it was 200 Essence per Stygian Spire, but now it is 100, 150, 250, and 300. While the total Essence needed stays the same, but now it is easier to complete more Stygian Spires.

Stygian Spire locations will be shown directly when they refresh, making it easier to find them. Monsters no longer spawn when opening Stygian Spires, and instead you’ll go directly to fighting the boss. Screen effects have also been optimized for performance and overall appearance.

Familiar Melding Updates

To help prevent losing your preferred Familiar when Melding, we’ve updated the flow to ensure the process is a bit clearer. Currently, when Melding two Familiars together, the display is more focused on the stat upgrades and not on the species that’s being selected which makes it easy to forget which species is currently being selected.

Now, when you pick your resulting Familiar’s attributes, we’ve added a highlight to the Familiar species selected to help indicate which species of Familiar is being preserved.

Familiar Removal UI Updates

We’ve made it easier to remove a Familiar from a Companion or Bonded slot without needing to replace it with another Familiar. The button to remove is still in the same location and has an updated icon and is more clearly indicated as a dropdown selection.

Familiar Traits UI Changes

The Traits guide button will now have a counter next to it to show how many traits are activated overall to make it easier for you to see them without having to select the Traits Guide.

Event Rewards Milestone UI Changes

An auto-scroll feature has been added to the rewards milestone screen in the Event Hub. When you open the Event Hub, the latest available reward will automatically scroll into view.

Battlegrounds Gold and Legendary Loss Changes

To help you on your journey climbing through Gold and Legendary ranks, we’ve adjusted the Rank loss amount when paying in Gold and Legendary ranks. You’ll now lose less ranking after a loss in the hopes of making this climb smoother.

Training Ground Boss Updates

One of the Target Dummies in Westmarch will now be a boss dummy, allowing you to test your items and combat mechanics related to bosses. It’s amazing what a little extra straw can do!

Reduce Inferno II Difficulty

We are lowering the Combat Rating necessary for unlocking Inferno II and adjusting the Combat Rating tuning across multiple Helliquary bosses to help smooth out the difficulty curve. Inferno II’s open world Combat Rating will now be set to 33,320 with dungeons at 33,520.

Uthmaash-Ksarr Boss Changes

We have tweaked the damage for some of Uthmaash-Ksarr’s skills to prevent instances where players are being killed in one shot.

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Returning Events

Alley of Blood

Quarreling forces threaten to desecrate hallowed grounds, marking a point in the conflict between the forces of Shadows and Immortals. Demolish opposing Sentry Towers and dismantle the enemy team’s base of operations by shattering their Crystal Heart. Imbue your adventurer with Specialist Skills for a tactical advantage, and guard and bolster your Champion’s Marks to claim the day. From November 1, 3 a.m.–November 8, 3.am. server time, fight alongside Sacred Guardians in the Alley of Blood. For more information about Alley of Blood, please visit this article.

Survivor’s Bane

In Survivor’s Bane, you’ll begin each run without your character’s items and a random Skill from their Class. From November 1, 3 a.m.–November 8, 3 a.m. server time you can vanquish demons across three levels in succession—Shassar Sea, Ashwold Cemetary, and Frozen Tundra—to earn rewards and achievements.

As you move throughout the map, any Skills you have equipped will be automatically cast for you. Smiting Hell’s minions will grant you useful experience orbs that level up your character. Each time you level up, you’ll be presented with the option to equip a new Skill, up to six total can be equipped—the Skill you’re presented with can be from any Class regardless of your character’s Class—or to upgrade an equipped Skill. For more information about Survivor’s Bane, please visit this article.

All Clans on Deck

The armies of the Burning Hells are mustering their forces for a ploy, most assuredly of nefarious intent. You must rally your banner, adventurer—call upon your Clan for aid to beat back the tide of darkness! From November 2, 3 a.m.–November 9, 3 a.m. server time, Sanctuary will need All Clans on Deck. For more information about this event and its rewards, visit this article.

Trial of the Hordes

You may be experienced, but emerging victorious from the Trial of the Hordes is the true mark of a champion. From November 8, 3 a.m.–November 15, 3 a.m. server time, go head-to-head against another player while earning rewards and climbing your way through the event’s Ranks. Each player has an enclosed lane in which broods of demons will flood in waves—your goal is to cull the demons from Hell with steadfast dedication. For more information about this event, visit this article.

Shields of the Hearth Limited-time Event

Crashing into a soft bed of snow, you free your axe from a fallen Khazra and rise to your feet. Breathing in, then out, you begin to catch your breath, but it’s short lived. The frigid wind whips you around, revealing a small horde of Khazra racing in to avenge their ally. Your bloodthirsty attackers number many, but when do they not? Raising your shield, you brace yourself for the slaughter ahead.

Bitter winds carry whispers of evil to every corner of the frozen land. Protect the world from its grasping fingers during the Shields of the Hearth limited-time event.

From November 9 at 3:00 a.m.–November 16 at 3:00 a.m. server time, as you complete daily Shields of the Hearth tasks, you’ll receive various rewards for your heroics. Racking up enough completed tasks will also unlock milestone rewards for you—an ode to vanquishing countless horrors.

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Region-Specific Game Additions

Below you will find region-specific updates coming to the version of Diablo Immortal available in China.

Battlegrounds Legendary Rank Changes

When a Battleground match only has players in the Legendary Rank, all stat compression is removed, and extra damage reduction will be added.

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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.

See you in Sanctuary!

-The Diablo Immortal Team

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