Blizzard has released a new Diablo 4 update 1.085 (2.2.1) on PS5, PC and Xbox Series X/S. According to the official Diablo 4 1.085 patch notes, the latest update brings major class balance changes, notably boosting Spiritborn, Barbarian, and Druid abilities. Season 8 adds Oath Scrolls via a new vendor for faster progression. Today’s D4 update 1.085 (version 1.085.000) also fixes numerous issues across quests, dungeons, UI, and boss mechanics.
Diablo 4 1.085 (update 2.2.1) – May 12, 2025
Patch Notes 2.2.1 Summary (Vessel of Hatred)
- The Protector (Spiritborn): Damage, barrier, and Thorns significantly boosted.
- Class Buffs Across the Board: Key skill and passive improvements for Barbarian, Druid, Necromancer, Rogue, and Sorcerer.
- Season 8 Enhancements: Sayeena now sells Oath Scrolls for Spectral Ash; seasonal progression and icons improved.
- Major Bug Fix Sweep: Fixes span from UI glitches to class mechanics and boss encounters.
- Crown of Lucion Re-enabled: Fixes applied to restore balance and prevent infinite damage exploits.
Vessel of Hatred
Game Updates
Spiritborn
Skills
The Protector
- Damage increased from 80% to 140%.
- Barrier amount increased from 15% to 30% of Maximum Life.
- Rank 5 Upgrade Thorns damage increased from 100% to 150%.
Passives
Adaptive Stances
- Core Stat bonus increased from 50%[+] to 75%[+].
Vital Strikes
- Vulnerable damage bonus increased from 45%[x] to 80%[x].
- Healing amount increased from 2% to 5% Maximum Life.
- Vigor generation increased from 5 to 10.
Prodigy’s Tempo
- Skill Rank bonus increased from 2 to 4.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where Tortured Gifts of Mysteries in pre-Torment difficulties didn’t drop appropriate equipment for Spiritborn.
- Fixed an issue where enemies behind a locked door in the Vile Hive Dungeon could damage the player.
- Fixed an issue where Subo’s Seeker perk could mark untargetable objects, such as totems in the Hall of the Penitent.
- Fixed an issue where the Damage over Time effect from Gorshak in the Dark Citadel could persist after the boss was defeated.
- Fixed an issue where the Hold your Ground event in the Field of Giants could fail to progress between waves.
- Fixed an issue where visual effects of Akarat could persist after defeating the Harbinger of Hatred.
- Fixed an issue where the Necromancer’s Bone Spirits could not damage Wolf Pack’s Gateways during the Harbinger of Hatred encounter.
Base Game
Balance Updates
Barbarian
Items
Ghor’s Devastating Grips
- Damage bonus is now based on the damage per second rather than damage per tick.
- Explosion Cooldown Reduction when Critically Hitting increased from 0.2 to 0.4.
Twin Strikes
- Damage increased from 70-100% to 110-140%.
Aspect Of Dire Whirlwind
- Now also grants the same amount as Critical Strike Damage while Whirlwinding.
Druid
Passives
Earthen Might
- Critical Damage bonus increased from 50%[x] to 70%[x].
Perfect Storm
- Damage bonus increased from 60%[x] to 80%[x].
Humanity
- Now also reduces damage taken by 2% per rank while in Human Form.
Unique Item
Gathlen’s Birthright
- Required Critical Hits reduced from 400-200 to 300-150. Boss Critical hits reduced from 80-40 to 60-30.
- Movement Speed while in Human form increased from 17.5-23% to 24.5-30%.
Necromancer
Book of the Dead
Skeletal Priest
- Damage bonus increased from 30%[x] to 50%[x].
Items
Aspect of Reanimation
- Damage bonus increased from 25-45%[x] to 40-60%[x].
Sanguivor, Blade of Zir
- Inherent Summon Damage increased from 60% to 400%.
Rogue
Skills
Poison Trap
- Poisoning damage increased from 540% to 612%.
Items
Band of Ichorous Rose
- Poison Trap upgrade bonus boost increased from 50-100% to 50-150%.
Aspect Of Contamination
- Previous: Poison Trap bursts for Poison damage when it triggers. If this burst Critically Strikes, you deal 20-40% increased Poison damage for 5 seconds.
- Now: Poison Trap bursts for an additional 10-30% of its total normal damage when it triggers. If that Critically Strikes, you deal 20-40% increased Poison damage for 9 seconds.
Sorcerer
Passive
Shocking Impact
- Now triggers on Stun refresh.
Items
Hail of Verglas
- Increased damage per hit from 1.5% to 2%, up to a maximum of 75% to 100%.
Glacial Aspect
- No longer requires Blizzard to be cast, allowing it to be active from effects like Blizzard enchantment.
Game Updates
Season 8: Belial’s Return
- Sayeena has become a vendor that sells Oath Scrolls in exchange for Spectral Ash. Oath Scrolls can be consumed to gain Unveiler’s Oath reputation. Sayeena can be found near the Reputation Board in Tarsarak.
- The following Boss Powers have been adjusted.
- Sinerat’s Flames: Increased Main Boss Power damage from 50% to 75%.
- Hatred’s Embrace’s Haste: Modifier Boss Power no longer falls off when switching weapons.
- The icon for Apparition Incursions has been adjusted to be more easily visible.
- Betraying eyes now spawn more consistently near the Apparition Boss.
- Another objective has been added to better communicate that season’s reputation can be acquired from both the Apparition Incursion event and defeating any boss across Sanctuary.
Miscellaneous
- Having player names read aloud by the Screen Reader is now a toggleable option. This feature can be found under Accessibility Settings.
Bug Fixes
Accessibility
- Fixed an issue where the Screen Reader didn’t mention the type of currency used when reading Reliquary items.
- Fixed an issue where the Screen Reader didn’t continue reading while progressing through Reliquaries menus.
- Fixed an issue where the Screen Reader couldn’t fully read certain error notifications.
- Fixed an issue where Belial could escape the trap set during the Masked Truths quest.
- Fixed an issue where the Screen Reader didn’t read anything when first opening the Armory.
- Fixed an issue where the compass could overlap the player character’s head.
Season Journey and Seasonal Questline
- Fixed an issue where the rubble pile in the Buried Hope quest didn’t display an interact tooltip.
- Fixed an issue where Buried Hope quest descriptions would stop updating properly in the middle of the quest.
- Fixed an issue where the Belial’s Unveiling quest (previously Belial’s Apparition Incursion) could display as finished when it was not yet finished.
- Fixed an issue where progression for the Chasing Lies quest could be blocked if Belial was defeated too quickly.
- Fixed an issue where the Season Journey objectives for defeating various Belial variants didn’t specify which Belial variant was required to complete the objective.
- Fixed an issue where the Season Journey Objective for killing Elite enemies was also gaining progress when defeating any enemy.
- Fixed an issue with the Spanish dialogue audio quality in the Belial’s Return seasonal questline.
Apparition Incursions and Belial Encounters
- Fixed an issue where Wargs summoned by the Apparition of Beastmaster appeared before the boss spawned.
- Fixed an issue where the Apparition of Beastmaster didn’t drop potions as expected.
- Fixed an issue where the Apparition of Blackmailer didn’t drop bombs in the intended way.
- Fixed an issue where the Apparition of Allek’s feathers could delay progression of an Incursion.
- Fixed an issue where Apparition of Kirma could teleport out of the boss arena.
- Fixed an issue where Apparition of Kirma could get stuck on ladders.
- Fixed an issue where a Betraying Eye would remain present but couldn’t be interacted with.
- Fixed an issue where Belial could appear prematurely when being summoned in an Apparition Incursion.
- Fixed an issue where players could escape during the Rage Phase circle of a Belial Ambush encounter.
- Fixed an issue where dying to Belial during an encounter after defeating another boss could cause Belial to not properly reset.
Boss Powers
- Fixed an issue where some of the Barrier granted by Blackmailer’s Sabotage persisted for an indefinite amount of time, instead of the intended 6 seconds.
- Fixed an issue where Varshan’s Life Steal Main Boss Power didn’t spawn its stream correctly.
- Fixed an issue where Belial’s Eye Beams Modifier Boss Power didn’t consistently apply Overpower. The bonus now lasts for 2 seconds after entering stealth.
- Fixed an issue where Beastmaster’s Training Main Boss Power only caused summoned entities to stun if another one was already active.
- Fixed an issue where Andariel’s Flaming Skull Main Boss Power inconsistently damaged enemies.
- Fixed an issue where Harbinger of Hatred’s Volley Modifier Boss Power would trigger off automatically cast Basic skills.
- Fixed an issue where Barbarian’s Iron Maelstrom didn’t consistently trigger Beast in the Ice’s Sleet Main Boss Power.
- Fixed an issue where Aspect of Unyielding Hits would not properly increase the damage of Varshan’s Life Steal, Belial’s Crystal Decoy, and Ashava’s Poison Modifier Boss Powers.
- Fixed an issue where the Haste Modifier Boss Power from Hatred’s Embrace expired when switching weapons.
- Fixed an issue where the following Boss Powers could be activated while mounted.
- Skerg’s Toxins
- Avarice’s Explosive Ore
- Lord Zir’s Blood Pool
- Varshan’s Life Steal
Boss Lairs and Dungeons
- Fixed an issue where bosses could rarely regain health.
- Fixed an issue where Tormented Echo of Varshan’s arena-wide attack sometimes didn’t deal damage when expected.
- Fixed an issue where staggering Tormented Echo of Varshan when he summons minions could cause the minions to lose their functionality and cause Varshan to not use that power again.
- Fixed an issue where poison projectiles coming from the walls while fighting Belial, Lord of Lies could be avoided in certain positions.
- Fixed an issue where Effigies of Anguish, while fighting Andariel, could be feared by Necromancer’s Paranormal Sever and move around.
- Fixed an issue where Effigies of Anguish could start to move while the player was stealthed.
- Fixed an issue where Belial’s Hoard could not be opened when playing on controller.
- Fixed an issue where Duriel could become invincible if too much damage was dealt to him before he first begins burrowing.
- Fixed an issue where the gate in the Flood Depths could be opened manually without using the Gate Release.
- Fixed an issue where the Skeletal Construct in the Sunken Ruins and Maulwood dungeons could be destroyed prematurely, which would block dungeon progression.
General
- Fixed an issue where certain elite enemy affixes could damage players in town.
- Fixed an issue where the visual effect from the Hellhammer did not match the area of effect for its damage.
- Fixed an issue where Barbarian’s Leap did not avoid damage when jumping over puddles spawned by Belial.
- Fixed an issue where Druid Werewolves and Ravens attacks would not grant stacks of Anima of the Forest when using Storm’s Companion or Stormcrow’s Aspect in conjunction with Gathlen’s Birthright.
- Fixed an issue where Cold Skeleton Mage’s Upgrade effects randomly stopped working.
- Fixed an issue where Skeleton Reapers would sometimes fail to generate Corpses from their upgrade.
- Fixed an issue where Poison Trap would consume Combo Points even without using Bands of Ichorous Rose.
- Fixed an issue where the Damage Reduction against enemies affected by Trap Skills affix, granted by Scoundrel’s Leathers, applied even when the enemy was not affected by a trap skill.
- Fixed an issue where the Accursed Mark effect did not reset after using an Accursed Altar and then teleporting away.
- Fixed an issue where the experience bonus from incense would disappear after teleporting or moving between zones.
- Fixed a rare issue where a Vessel of Hatred exclusive item could be acquired when imprinting on a rare item.
- Fixed a rare issue where the player was not able to revive.
- Fixed an issue where Crown of Lucion was gaining infinite bonus damage from Channeled Skills.
- Fixed an issue where Crown of Lucion was only granting its bonuses to active player Skills rather than all damage.
User Interface and User Experience
- Fixed an issue where materials didn’t consistently update in the materials tab.
- Fixed an issue where some Infernal Hordes bosses didn’t have icons on the minimap.
- Fixed an issue where the description for Forgotten souls did not indicate that they could be acquired from Whisper Caches.
Miscellaneous
- Fixed multiple instances of visual intensity increases for multiple skills didn’t behave properly.
- Fixed an issue where a quicklist Party Finder entry couldn’t be made off of the Helltide icon on the map.
- Fixed an issue where the Chimimoryo pet could become unstoppable and run away from the player. (That Schnoz has a mind of its own!)
- Various visual, audio, UI, stability, and Reliquary improvements.
Previously, Diablo 4 patch 1.064 introduced new unique items and legendary aspects. Unfortunately, since the last patch 1.21, players have been experiencing error codes and bugs. Today’s Diablo 4 patch 1.085 will address a few of these issues.
Download free Diablo IV update 1.085 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.
