Diablo 4 Update 1.61 Patch Notes (Vessel of Hatred Update)
Diablo 4 update 1.61 is rolling out on PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox consoles. According to the official Diablo 4 1.61 patch notes, the latest update introduces the Vessel of Hatred Expansion alongside new base game updates including increased max level, new difficulty systems, and Paragon system reworks. The expansion adds a new region, class, and campaign. Quality of life changes affect loot, experience rewards, and Masterworking costs, while class updates improve utility and balance. Apart from this, today’s D4 update 1.61 also includes a long list of bug fixes and quality of life changes.
Diablo 4 1.61 PatchNotes – October 6, 2024
New Base Game Content—Available to all players
New Max Level: 60*
New Difficulties System
New Paragon Max Level: 300
Paragon System Changes
Item Quality Rework
2 New Character Slots
New Class Skills and Passives for each Class
New Party Finder Feature
New Seasonal Content
New Season Rewards (Season Journey, Battle Pass, Reputation Board)
Vessel of Hatred Expansion—Available to Vessel of Hatred Owners
Nahantu Region–including Dungeons, Strongholds, Side Quests, new Legion Events, and Nahantu Monster Families**
Spiritborn Class
Vessel of Hatred Campaign
Nahantu Region Renown
Runewords
Dark Citadel
Mercenaries
Kurast Undercity
Trading for Vessel of Hatred-specific Resources
Note that any characters which are Level 51 and above will be set to Level 50 at the start of this update.
Game Updates
Masterworking
Gold cost reduction for ranks 5-12 by one third.
Masterworking materials now drop from additional sources in Nightmare Dungeons:
Resplendent chests, normal chests, ambient corpses, breakable objects, The Butcher, Treasure Goblins, local events.
Non-Ancestral Legendary items: Now Masterworked up to 8 times, with two Tempering Affixes.
The Pit
Added 50 more Pit Tiers, for a total of 150 tiers.
Fast clears bonus unlocks increased from 3 to 5 tiers.
Loot Updates
Increased loot quality from lower-level monsters and Hellborne.
Legendary drop rate enhancements from:
The Butcher, who now always drops at least 1 legendary and the Butcher’s Cleaver.
Treasure Goblins will drop 1 legendary item minimum.
World Boss Loot: Scales with torment tiers.
Mythic Unique item drop rates adjusted for Ladder Bosses and Tormented bosses.
From Torment Difficulty I onwards: Only Legendary and Unique items drop; lower-tier items convert to crafting materials.
Runewords and Sockets
Rune Power Gap Reduced: Utility runes are now stronger than pure damage runes across all rarity tiers.
Rework of various Runeword Offerings:
Vex offering increased from 400 to 1000.
Qua offering reduced from 400 to 50.
Yom now grants 100 Offering instead of Critical Strike Damage.
Removed runes: Ur, Ono, Met, Kaa.
Jeweler is accessible at level 1, with Chipped Gems and Gem Fragments available earlier.
Socketing costs now use only Scattered Prisms for Ancestral items.
Experience Rewards
Strongholds: One-time experience rewards for boss kills.
Adjusted Renown Tier I and II experience to fixed values, encouraging earlier completion.
Paragon Updates
Glyph Scaling reduced by 50%.
Buffs to various nodes:
Armor nodes increased by 50%.
Potion Healing nodes changed to +Max Life.
Resist Nodes now boost Maximum Resistance by 3%.
Class-Specific Changes
Barbarian: Hemorrhage, Carnage, and Berserker skills now offer more targeted bonuses, like Critical Strike Damage.
Druid: Changes to Poison Conditioned, Earthen Devastation, and survival-focused talents.
Necromancer: Minion improvements, with Golem Armor now providing better defense and buffs to Corpse-based mechanics.
Rogue: Increased Imbue Damage and rebalancing of skills like Trapper and Trap Damage.
Sorcerer: Buffs to Critical Strike and Crackling Energy Damage.
Gameplay Adjustments
Monster Health Adjustments
Super Elite Life increased by 50%.
Elite Life increased by 25%.
Standard Monster Life increased by 11%.
Dungeon and Difficulty
Penitent Difficulty: Now unlocked after completing Diablo IV’s base campaign, including using the “skip campaign” feature.
Armor and Damage Reduction
Adjusted the formula for Damage Reduction from Armor:
More Damage Reduction at lower armor values.
Lower-level items now have more armor.
Intensity Scaling
Moved into Torment Difficulties I-IV, with scaling now more noticeable (monsters move and attack faster).
Item and Gem Changes
New Gem Tier: Grand
Grand Gem provides a 50% increase in power from the previous tier.
Ruby, Emerald, Topaz, Sapphire, Amethyst, and Diamond stat bonuses have been updated, with noticeable increases starting from Chipped up to Grand tier.
Mythic Unique Items
Heir of Perdition (Mythic Unique Helm)
+200% Damage to Angels and Demons, +20% Crit Strike Chance, and more.
Shroud of False Death (Mythic Unique Chest Armor)
+1 to All Passives, Stealth gain, and 40% Movement Speed when not dealing damage.
Shattered Vow (Mythic Unique Polearm)
+400% Damage to Healthy Enemies, +444.4% Damage Over Time, and more.
Bug Fixes
Class Specific
Fixed an issue where Pets could despawn when going between zones with the One With Nature Key Passive learned.
Fixed an issue where Prime Grizzly Rage did not grant Unstoppable.
Fixed an issue where the Tempering Recipe for Ravens Attack Speed did not function.
Fixed an issue where The Unmaker could allow Necromancers to equip 2 Ultimate Skills.
Fixed an issue where the following Necromancer skills had incorrect values.
Reap
Hemorrhage
Bone Splinters
Blight Corpse Tendrils
Rathma’s Vigor
Fixed an issue where the additional Severs from Reaping Lotus Aspect were not leaving Desecrated Ground when using Greaves of the Empty Tomb.
Fixed an issue where the Druid Aspect of the Mighty Storm could drop for Necromancers.
Fixed an issue where Titan’s Fall passive was granting its bonus while you had any Fortified health rather than while Fortified.
Fixed an issue where Familiar always counted as a Fire Skill for granting stacks of Enlightenment.
Fixed an issue where Fireball didn’t deal damage when Gloves of the Illuminator were equipped.
Items and Tempering
Fixed an issue where several Legendary aspect values were lower than intended.
Fixed an issue where Heir of Perdition’s damage bonus against Angels and Demons was multiplicative instead of additive.
Fixed an issue where Ancestral Legendary Items weren’t dropping in Torment Difficulty IV Nightmare Dungeons.
Fixed an issue where Whisper Caches dropped items of lower item power than expected at higher levels.
Fixed an issue where the Elemental Surge tempering recipe was restricted to Expert Difficulty, instead of just restricted by level.
Fixed an issue where Tempering was immediately accessible at Level 1 on new accounts, instead of unlocking at Level 15.
Fixed an issue where legacy items migrated from characters created before Season of Hatred were capped at Item Power 520 instead of 540.
Fixed several instances where Fists of Fate was not properly adjusting damage with its power.
Miscellaneous
Fixed an issue where the tooltip for Armor was not green when the Armor cap was met.
Fixed an issue where the Seaside Descent dungeon could not be completed when interacting with the Gate Release before defeating the 2 Avaricious Captains.
Fixed an issue where certain Nightmare Dungeon sigil affixes were missing descriptions.
Fixed an issue where the required amounts for Boss Summoning items were inaccurately displayed in tooltips.
Fixed an issue where the Eliminator glyph was missing its additional threshold bonus.
Fixed multiple instances where Glyph descriptions were inaccurate.
Fixed an issue where the tutorial quest for Torment Difficulties could keep appearing each time a Pit Tier was completed.
Fixed an issue where other pieces of equipment could appear on the character in unexpected ways, such as pants floating in front of the character. (Side Quests—Act I: The Trousers From Hell, completed!)
Barbarian
Active Skill
Mighty Throw – Weapon Mastery Skill – 12 second Cooldown
Base Skill: Hurl your weapon, dealing 60 80% Weapon damage upon impact and sticking in the ground. While in the ground, your weapon pulses and deals 153% Weapon damage every second for 4 seconds.
Impact Lucky Hit Chance: 15%.
Enhanced Mighty Throw: While a thrown weapon is out, gain 25% [+] increased Attack Speed.
Fighter’s Mighty Throw: Swapping weapons near any of your thrown weapons creates an additional pulse. Each extra pulse generates 5 3% of your Maximum Life as a Barrier for 56 seconds.
Warrior’s Mighty Throw: Mighty Throw’s impact deals 200%[x] increased damage and Stuns enemies for 2 seconds.
Passive Skills
Barbed Carapace
Key Passive: For every 25 Fury you spend, you gain 10%[+] Thorns for 8 seconds, up to 120%. Casting a Skill with a Cooldown grants you Unhindered for 5 seconds. During this time, you deal 100% of your Thorns as physical damage to Close enemies every second.
Belligerence
Damaging an enemy with a Basic Skill increases your damage by 3/6/9%[x] for 4 seconds.
Heavy Hitter
Your Ultimate Skills deal 15/30/45%[x] more damage.
Warpath
After Overpowering, you deal 4/8/12%[x] increased damage for 4 seconds.
Irrepressible
Casting a Weapon Mastery Skill Fortifies you for 10/20/30% of your Maximum Life.
Unique Item
Ugly Bastard Helm – Unique Helm
Affixes
+X% Resistance to All Elements
Inherent: +X% Fire Resistance
X% Wrath of the Berserker Cooldown Reduction
Lucky Hit: Up to a 40% Chance to deal +X Fire Damage
+X to Prolific Fury
+X to Aggressive Resistance
Power
Explode when activating Wrath of the Berserker, dealing [100-300% Weapon Damage] Fire damage to enemies. While Berserking, damage you would deal is converted to Fire damage. You deal 60-80%[x] increased Fire damage.
Legendary Aspects
Aspect of Shattering Steel – Offensive Aspect
Steel Grasp and Iron Maelstrom launch up to 10 metal shards that deal (120-420% 80-280% of Weapon Damage) Physical damage.
Aspect of the Flaming Rampage – Offensive Aspect
Charge gains an additional Charge. Each target hit by it explodes for [69-129% of Weapon Damage] Fire damage to surrounding enemies.
Aspect of Herculean Spectacle – Offensive Aspect
Mighty Throw deals 15-35%[x] increased damage and hurls another 2 weapons.
Tempering Recipes
Bleed Innovation – New Utility Recipe
+X% Rend Effect Size (Moved from Bleed Augments)
+X% Rupture Size (Moved from Bleed Augments)
+X Skill Ranks to Hamstring Passive
Barbarian Breach – New Utility Recipe
+X Skill Ranks to Expose Vulnerability Passive (Moved from Bleed Augments)
+X Skill Ranks to Pressure Point Passive (Moved from Bleed Augments)
+X% Kick Vulnerable Duration (Moved from Barbarian Innovation)
Brute Innovation – New Utility Recipe
+X% Hammer of the Ancients Effect Size (Moved from Furious Augments)
+X% Upheaval Size (Moved from Furious Augments)
+X% Mighty Throw Size
Core Augments – Barbarian New Weapon Recipe
+X% Chance for Hammer of the Ancients to Deal Double Damage
+X% Chance for Whirlwind to Deal Double Damage
+X% Chance for Upheaval to Deal Double Damage
+X% Chance for Double Swing to Hit Twice
Brawling Augments – New Weapon Recipe
+X% Chance for Charge to Deal Double Damage
+X% Chance for Kick to Deal Double Damage
+X% Chance for Leap to Deal Double Damage
+X% Chance for Ground Stomp to Hit Twice
Weapon Augments – New Weapon Recipe
+X% Chance for Mighty Throw to Hit Twice
+X% Chance for Steel Grasp to Deal Double Damage
+X% Chance for Death Blow to Deal Double Damage
+X% Chance for Iron Maelstrom to Hit Twice
Paragon Board
Legendary Node
Force of Nature: Your Earthquakes have a 75% chance to spawn a Dust Devil every second that deals 180% Weapon damage. Earthquake damage is increased by 30% of your Damage vs Close bonus, up to a maximum of 150%.
Raw Power Might: +10.0% Physical Damage, +10 Strength
Denial: +3.0% Resistance to All Elements, +20 Armor
Tenacity: 4.0% Maximum Life, +20 Armor
Druid
Active Skill
Stone Burst – Earth Core Skill – 30 Spirit Cost
Base Skill: Gather stones beneath your enemies then detonate them dealing 120 80% Weapon damage. Channeling deals 20% Weapon damage and increases the size of the affected area, up to a 400% increase after 1.0 seconds.
Enhanced Stone Burst: Stone Burst’s final explosion damage is increased by 25%[x] within the initial radius.
Primal Stone Burst: While Channeling Stone Burst and for 2 seconds afterwards, you gain 30%[+] Attack Speed.
Raging Stone Burst: Stone Burst costs 66%[x] more Spirit, and its final explosion deals 50%[x] more damage.
Passive Skills
One With Nature
Key Passive: Your Companion Skills each gain 1 additional companion and deal 60 50%[x] increased damage. Gain the Passive Effect of Ravens, Wolves and Poison Creeper.
Humanity
You deal 5/10/15%[x] more damage while in Human form.
Calamity
You deal 5/10/15%[x] more damage for 8 seconds after casting an Ultimate skill.
Feral Aptitude
You deal 3%[x] increased damage while Healthy and 3%[x] increased damage while above 100% Movement Speed. These bonuses can stack.
Backlash
You deal 4%[x] increased damage for 5 seconds after casting a Defensive Skill.
Unique Item
Stone of Vehemen – Unique Totem
Affixes
Inherent: +X% Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies
+X Willpower
+X% Critical Strike Damage
+X% Chance for Stone Burst Projectiles to Cast Twice
+X to Stone Burst
Power
While Channeling Stone Burst, and for 2 seconds afterwards, gain 15% Damage Reduction.
Stone Burst’s final explosion deals 10-15%[x] increased damage, further increased by 10-15%[x] for each size increase.
Legendary Aspects
Aspect of the Agile Wolf – Utility Aspect
Shred gains a 4th dash attack that hits all surrounding enemies, deals 20-60%[x] increased damage and Knocks Down enemies for 2 seconds.
Aspect of the Rabid Bear – Offensive Aspect
While Grizzly Rage is active, Skills that Critically Strike apply Rabies and your Poison damage is increased by 30-90%[x].
Stormcrow’s Aspect – Offensive Aspect
Ravens now deal Lightning damage which is increased by 60-100%[x]. Ravens Active deals its full damage in half the time, and enemies inside it are Stunned.
Aspect of Shattered Defenses – Offensive Aspect
Stone Burst causes enemies to take 30-50%[x] increased damage from your other Skills for 5 seconds. Stone Burst’s Spirit cost is reduced by 10.
Aspect of Anticline Burst – Offensive Aspect
Stone Burst deals 15-35%[x] increased damage and when Cast at or above 75 Spirit, it is immediately at its maximum size.
Tempering Recipes
Lightning Augments
+X% Chance for Stormstrike to Hit Twice
+X% Chance for Lightning Storm to Deal Double Damage
+X% Chance for Cataclysm to Deal Double Damage
Paragon Board
Legendary Node
Untamed: Casting a Companion Skill grants 20%[x] increased Companion damage for 5 seconds, stacking up to 80%[x].
Superiority: +15.0% Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies, +4.0% Maximum Life
Lucky Winds: +5% Lucky Hit Chance, +10% Vulnerable Damage
Eminence: +6.5% Damage Reduction from Elites, 4% Maximum Life
Necromancer
Active Skill
Soulrift – Darkness Ultimate Skill – 50 second Cooldown
Base Skill: For 8 seconds, you corrupt surrounding enemies, dealing 65% Weapon damage per second.
Supreme Soulrift: Every soul absorbed increases your damage by 1%, up to 30%. This bonus persists for 5 seconds after Soulrift ends.
Prime Soulrift: Enemies with their souls absorbed become Vulnerable for 2 seconds. When damaging enemies affected by Soulrift, you have a 5% chance to absorb their soul.
Passive Skills
Affliction
Key Passive: Enemies affected by Vulnerable, Crowd Control, or Shadow Damage over Time are infected with Affliction and take 15%[x] increased damage from you and your Minions. Your Curse Skills deal 30% (Weapon Damage) Shadow damage to enemies that have Affliction. This amount increases by 30%[x] of your damage to Crowd Control, Vulnerable, and Shadow Damage over Time combined.
Titan’s Fall
While Fortified you deal 6/12/18% increased damage to Elites.
Precision Decay
Your Lucky Hit chance is increased by 5/10/15%.
Finality
You deal 5/10/15%[x] increased damage for 8 seconds after casting an Ultimate Skill.
Necrotic Fortitude
Lucky Hit: Lucky Hit: Up to a 5/10/15% chance to grant yourself a Barrier for 7 5% of your Maximum Life for 6 seconds.
Unique Item
The Unmaker – Unique Helm
Affixes
X% Damage Reduction while you Have a Barrier
X% Resource Generation
X% Chance for Soulrift to Deal Double Damage
+X to Imperfectly Balanced
Power
Soulrift’s duration is increased by 0.5 seconds for every 30 Essence you spend while it is active, up to 8 seconds. Soulrift deals 100-200% of its Shadow damage per second to surrounding enemies for every 30 Essence you gain while it is active.
Legendary Aspects
Reaping Lotus’ Aspect – Offensive Aspect
Sever no longer returns and instead splits into 3 specters that expand out and back from its apex. Sever deals 80-120% of normal damage.
Phasing Poltergeist’s Aspect – Offensive Aspect
When Bone Spirit explodes, it spawns 3 spirits that seek nearby enemies and deal 20-40% of its damage. This effect can only occur once per cast.
Aspect of Fel Gluttony – Offensive Aspect
Your Golem Active also causes your Golem to erupt, dealing (200-400% of Weapon Damage) Physical damage to surrounding enemies. Your Golem consumes Corpses to reduce its remaining Cooldown by 1 second.
Tempering Recipes
Bone Innovation – New Utility Recipe
+X% Bone Storm Duration
+X% Bone Spirit Explosion Size
+X% Bone Prison Duration
Blood Innovation – New Utility Recipe
+X% Blood Surge Nova Size
+X% Hemorrhage explosion size
+X% Blood Lance Duration
Decay Innovation – New Utility Recipe
+X% Blight Size
+X% Decompose Explosion Size
+X% Soulrift Duration
Execution Innovation – New Utility Recipe
+X% Sever Effect Size
+X% Reap Effect Duration
+X% Skeleton Priest Effect Duration
Paragon Board
Legendary Node
Frailty: Cursed enemies take 10%[x] increased damage from you and your Minions, increased by 10%[x] each second they are Cursed, up to 40%[x].
Rare Nodes
Lingering Shadow: +10% Shadow Damage Over Time, +10% Shadow Damage
Shadow Resilience: +10% Shadow Resistance, 4% Maximum Life
Calculated: +15% Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies, +20 Armor Meticulous: 3% Resistance to All Elements, +30 Armor
Dance of Knives – Cutthroat Agility Skill – 6 Charges, 1 second Charge Cooldown
Base Skill: Channel to launch knives at surrounding enemies, consuming one Charge per second and each knife dealing 42 58% damage. You gain 20%[+] Movement Speed and 10% Dodge Chance while Channeling Dance of Knives.
Enhanced Dance: Moving 30 meters while Channeling Dance of Knives grants 4 Charges.
Methodical Dance: When you stop Channeling Dance of Knives, drop up to 12 Stun Grenades, each dealing 20% Weapon damage. The Channeled duration determines how many are dropped.
Disciplined Dance: Each Dance of Knives knife Slows enemies by 25% for 3 seconds and has a 20% chance to pierce.
Passive Skills
Alchemical Admixture
Key Passive: Dealing 3 different types of Non-Physical damage increases the Potency of your Imbuement skills by 40% for 5 seconds. This Potency is further increased by 20% of the total amount of your Bonus Damage to Poison, Shadow, and Cold.
Target Practice
3/6/9% [+] Critical Strike Chance with Marksman and Cutthroat Skills.
Balestra
4/8/12%[x] Damage for 4 seconds after using Evade.
Evasive
After Dodging an attack, gain 2/4/6% Damage Reduction for 4 seconds.
Unto Dawn
Your Ultimate skills deal 15/30/45%[x] increased damage.
Unique Item
Pitfighter’s Gull – Unique Ring
Affixes
Inherent: +X% Shadow Resistance
Inherent: +X% Resistance to All Elements
+X% Critical Strike Chance
+X% Damage on Next Attack After Entering Stealth
X% Smoke Grenade Cooldown Reduction
+X to Mending Obscurity
Power
Casting Smoke Grenade increases your Critical Strike Damage by 33[x] for 3-6 seconds and leaves behind a cloud of shadows. While within the cloud, you gain Stealth once per second.
Legendary Aspects
Aspect of Poisonous Clouds: Offensive Aspect
When entering Stealth, create a cloud that deals (600-780% of Weapon Damage) Poison damage over 6 seconds.
Aspect of Splintering Shards: Offensive Aspect
Lucky Hit: Up to a 100% chance when hitting or killing a Frozen enemy to create an ice splinter that fires away from them dealing (25%-50% of Weapon Damage) Cold damage and Chilling for 20-30%.
Aspect of Star Shards: Offensive Aspect
Knives from Dance of Knives have a 50% chance to shatter into 6 shards of metal on hit, dealing 100-120% Physical damage. Dance of Knives now spends Combo Points, granting up to 3 additional Charges that can exceed the Maximum.
Tempering Recipes
Agile Augments – New Weapon Recipe
+X% Chance for Flurry to Hit Twice
+X% Chance for Dance of Knives Projectiles to Cast Twice
+X% Chance for Dash to Deal Double Damage
Assassin Augments – New Weapon Recipe
Shadow Step Cleaves for +X% Damage
+X% Chance for Blade Shift to Deal Double Damage
+X% Chance for Smoke Grenade to Deal Double Damage
Warped Augments – New Weapon Recipe
+X% Chance for Twisting Blades to Hit Twice
+X% Chance for Rain of Arrows to Waves to Cast Twice
Invigorating Strike Cleaves for +X% Damage
Basic Augments — Rogue
Renamed to Marksman Augments — Basic to better reflect its existing contents
Core Augments — Rogue
Renamed to Marksman Augments — Core to better reflect its existing contents
Paragon Board
Legendary Node
Danse Macabre: Casting a Mobility or Subterfuge Skill increases the damage of your next Skill by 50%[x].
Rare Nodes
Assassin: 2.5% Mobility Cooldown Reduction +25% Damage to Healthy Enemies, +4% Maximum Life
Summon a familiar matching the element of your last cast Skill for 8 seconds. It seeks enemies and periodically explodes, dealing 40% of its element’s damage.
You may have up to 6 Familiars active at a time.
Enhancement: Familiars apply effects around them every 0.5 seconds according to their element.
Fire: Applies 94% Burning damage over 4 seconds to enemies.
Cold: Applies 15% Chill to enemies.
Lightning: Stuns enemies for 1 second.
Summoned Familiar:
Your Familiars’ elements no longer depends on your previous cast Skill, and instead follows a set sequence of Fire to Cold, Cold to Lightning, and Lightning to Fire.
While you have at least two different element Familiars active, you gain 3% Damage Reduction.
Invoked Familiar: While you have an active Familiar, you deal 10% increased damage of its type.
Passive Skills
Enlightenment
Key Passive: Casting any Skill grants 1 stack of Enlightenment, or grants 15 if your previous cast Skill was a different Element. After gaining 100 stacks you become Enlightened, can no longer gain stacks, and lose 10 stacks per second. While Enlightened your Bonus Damage with Fire, Lightning, and Cold are equal to them combined and you gain:
25% increased damage
45% Mana Regeneration
20% Attack Speed
Evocation
Reduce all cooldowns by 4/8/12%.
Energy Focus
You generate a 6 second Barrier for 0.5/1.0/1.5% of your Maximum Life every second up to 30%. This effect is lost for 5 seconds after losing health.
Dampen Layer
You gain 2/4/6% Damage Reduction while you have an active Barrier.
Elemental Synergies
Your Frost, Shock, and Pyromancy Skills deal 1/2/3% increased damage for each Skill you have equipped of their type.
Unique Item
Sidhe’s Bindings – Unique Gloves
Affixes:
+X% Non-Physical Damage
+X% Familiar Explosion Size
+X% Chance for Familiar to Hit Twice
+X to Familiar
Casting Familiar now summons all three elemental variants at once. Familiar’s duration is increased by 25-50%[x] and its Cooldown is reduced by 2 seconds, but its maximum Charges are reduced by 1.
Legendary Aspects
Aspect of Charged Flash – Offensive Aspect
After Charged Bolts hits enemies 50 times, your next 3 casts of Charged Bolts become waves that pierce and deal (200-240% Weapon Damage) Critical Shock Damage.
Aspect of Elemental Constellation – Offensive Aspect
Casting Pyromancy, Shock, and Frost Skills conjures a matching Elemental Dagger around you that pierces through enemies dealing (50-70% Weapon Damage) damage after 3 seconds. The damage increases by 100% per matching elemental skill you cast.
Aspect of Overheating – Offensive Aspect
After channeling Incinerate for 2 seconds it deals (30-70% Weapon Damage) Critical Fire damage per second for 5 seconds. Casting Incinerate refreshes and maintains this bonus.
Tempering Recipes
Pyromancy Augments – Fiery – Weapon Recipe
+% Chance for Incinerate to do Double Damage.
+% Chance for Firewall to do Double Damage.
+% Chance for Meteorites to do Double Damage.
Frozen Augments – Frozen – Weapon Recipe
+% Chance for Blizzard to do Double Damage.
+% Chance for Ice Spike to do Double Damage.
+% Chance for Deep Freeze to do Double Damage.
Sorcerer Innovation – Utility Recipe
+% Frost Nova Size
+% Blizzard Size
+% Teleport Nova Size
Paragon Board
Legendary Node
Fundamental Release: Each Fire, Lightning, and Cold attack you make against an enemy increases the damage it takes from your attacks by 10%[x] per element, up to 30%[x].
Overdrive: 5% Damage Reduction from Burning Enemies / +20 Armor
Electromagnetism: 5% Damage Reduction from Vulnerable Enemies / +4% Maximum Life
Kindling: +10% Damage to Burning Enemies / 16% Damage to Eiltes
Suffused Resilience: 6.5% Damage Taken Over Time Reduction / 3% Resistance to All Elements
Balance Updates
Game Difficulties
Monster HP was increased by 25%.
Low level Elite, Unique Elite, Super Elite, Minion and Boss enemies have had their Health and Damage reduced.
Max level Super Elite Health was increased by 50%.
Max level Elite Health was increased by 20%.
Elite, Unique Elite and Super Elite damage has been equalized. Unique Elite and Super Elite damage now matches Elite damage.
This change was made to afford more predictability in damage received from Elite affixes.
All Classes
General
Ultimate skills can now have additional ranks. Players can invest up to 5 skill points into their Ultimate Skill, and bonus ranks of Ultimate Skills now exist. The limitation of having one Ultimate Skill remains. Additionally, bonus to all skill ranks (i.e. from Harlequin’s Crest) will only grant ranks to the Ultimate the player has learned.
Life Generation affixes now trigger when at Full Life, to contribute to Overhealing effects.
All Weapon Tempering affixes now grant multiplicative damage. See each class’s section for more info.
All Classes now have innate 15% Blocked Damage Reduction.
Shield’s inherent Blocked Damage Reduction reduced by 15%.
Paragon nodes that give increased damage to Healthy Enemies increased from 6.3% to 12.5%.
Legendary Aspects
Deflecting Barrier
Previous: While you have a Barrier active, there is a 5-15% chance to ignore incoming direct damage from Distant enemies.
Now: You have a 5-12% chance after taking direct damage to gain a Barrier equal to 20% of your Maximum Life. This chance is doubled against Distant enemies.
Aspect of Slaughter
Previous: You Gain 20% Movement speed. This bonus is lost for 2.5-5.0 seconds after taking damage.
Now: You gain 20% Movement speed. Lose this bonus for 2.0-5.0 seconds after taking damage from a Close Enemy.
Starlight Aspect
Previous: Gain 25-40 Primary Resource for every 20% Life that you Heal.
Now: Gain 25-40 Primary Resource for every 20% Life that you Heal or every 120 200% that you Overheal when at Maximum Life.
Andariel’s Visage
Explosions now happen less frequently in extreme situations.
Barbarian
Skills
Frenzy
Fury generation increased from 4 to 7.
Damage increased from 13% to 15%.
Enhanced Frenzy
Before – While Frenzy is granting 60% bonus Attack Speed, it also generates 3 additional Fury.
Now – While Frenzy is granting 60% bonus Attack Speed, the Fury costs of your Core Skills are reduced by 25%.
Combat Frenzy
Before – You gain 8% Damage Reduction for each stack of Frenzy you currently have.
Now – You gain 5% Damage Reduction and 5% Movement Speed per stack of Frenzy you currently have.
Battle Frenzy
With Diablo 4 update 1.61, attack Speed per stack of Frenzy increased from 5% to 6%.
Ground Stomp
Damage increased from 9.5% to 35 20% Weapon Damage.
Enhanced Ground Stomp
Before – Increase Ground Stomp’s duration by 2 1 second.
Now – Ground Stomp generates 60 Fury and has a 2 1 second increased Stun duration.
Tactical Ground Stomp
Before – Ground Stomp generates 60 Fury.
Now – Ground Stomp is now a Brawling Skill and deals 900 800% increased damage to Bosses. It also applies Vulnerable for 4 seconds.
Strategic Ground Stomp
Before – Diablo 4 version 1.61 reduce the Cooldown of your Ultimate Skill by 2 seconds for each enemy damaged by Ground Stomp.
Now – Diablo 4 1.61 reduce the Cooldown of your Ultimate Skill by 4 seconds per enemy damaged by Ground Stomp, up to 12 seconds.
Upheaval
Damage increased from 88% to 100%.
Furious Upheaval
Damage bonus increased from 12% to 15%.
Maximum stacks increased from 6 to 8.
Passives
Hamstring
Before – Your Bleeding effects Slow Healthy enemies by 20%.
Now – Your Bleeding effects have a 15% chance to Slow Healthy and Injured enemies by 70% each time they deal damage.
Slaying Strike
Damage to Injured reduced from 8% to 5%.
Unconstrained
Before – Increase Berserking’s maximum duration by 5 seconds and increase its damage bonus to 60%.
Now – Berserking’s damage bonus is increased to 60%. While below 65% Life, you are always Berserk and gain a 30 25% Physical Damage Reduction bonus.
Martial Vigor
Elite Damage Reduction increased from 4% to 6%.
Tempering
The following lists all the affixes now available for each Tempering recipe.
Bleed Augments – Weapon Recipe
+X Skill Ranks to Cut to the Bone
+X% Chance for Rend to Hit Twice
+X% Chance for Rupture to Deal Double Damage
Furious Augments – Weapon Recipe
Bash Cleaves for +Y% Damage
+X% Chance for Frenzy to Hit Twice
+X% Chance for Lunging Strike to Deal Double Damage
+X% Flay Duration (Moved from Bleed Augments)
Berserking Augments
Changed to a Utility recipe.
Renamed to Berserking Innovation.
Berserking Finesse – Offensive Recipe
+X% Dust Devil Damage added to this recipe. (Moved from Sandstorm Augments)
Barbarian Innovation – Utility Recipe
+X% Earthquake Size (Moved from Wasteland Augments)
+X% Frenzy Duration
+X% Stun Duration (Moved from Barbarian Control)
Wasteland Augments – Changed to a Utility recipe
+X% Ground Stomp Size
+X% Leap Size
+X% Dust Devil Size (Moved from Sandstorm Augments)
Sandstorm Augments – Weapon Recipe
Renamed to Natural Augments
+X% Dust Devil Damage (additive) removed
+X% Chance for Dust Devils to Cast Twice
+X% Chance for Earthquakes to Cast Twice
+X% Earthquake Duration (Moved from Barbarian Innovation)
Demolition Finesse – Offensive Recipe
+X% Brawling Skill Damage
+X% Weapon Mastery Damage
+X% Damage While Iron Maelstrom is Active
The additive damage recipes for Death Blow, Charge, and Kick have been removed. Replacements have been added in new Weapon Tempering recipes.
Legendary Aspect
Of Giant Strides
Cooldown per enemy hit reduced from 2.5-5.0 to 1.3-2.5 seconds.
Maximum reduction reduced from 9 to 7 seconds.
Of Bul-Kathos
Earthquake damage increased by 30%. (From 105-165% to 137-217% Weapon Damage)
Of Earthquakes
Earthquake damage increased by 30%. (From 85-145% to 111-191% Weapon Damage)
Of Sundered Ground
Damage bonus increased from 15-30% to 30-45%.
Bold Chieftain’s Aspect
Previous: Whenever you cast a Shout Skill, its Cooldown is reduced by 1.0-3.0 seconds per Nearby enemy, up to a maximum of 6 seconds.
Now: Whenever you cast a Shout Skill, its active Cooldown is reduced by 10-30% per Nearby enemy, up to a maximum of 50%.
Unique Items
Twin Strikes
Damage increased from 10-40% to 30-60%.
Overkill
Damage increased from 25-45% to 40-60%.
Ring of Red Furor
Critical Strike Damage bonus increased from 10-40% to 30-60%.
Hellhammer
Fire damage increased by 33%. (1.5-2.5 to 2- 3.3)
Damage bonus per 100 Strength increased from 20% to 25%.
Paragon
Hemorrhage Board
Grit (replacing Flayer)
Previous: 4% Damage Reduction from Bleeding Enemies / +10 Strength
Previous: +3% Resistance to All Elements / +10 Strength
Now: (Brute Force) +10% Damage while Fortified / +10 Strength
Guarded Advance (replacing Conditioned)
Previous: +10% Damage while Fortified / +6.5% Fortify Generation
Now: (Conditioned) +3% Resistance to All Elements / +4% Healing Received
Weapons Master Board
Iron Strength
Previous: +20 Armor / +10 Strength
Now: +16% Damage to Elites / +10 Strength
Squall Rare Node
Dust Devil damage bonus increased from 10% to 25%.
Brawl Rare Glyph
Brawling Skill damage bonus increased from 18% to 25%.
Dominate Rare Glyph
Guaranteed Overpower timer reduced from 20 to 15 seconds.
Druid
Skills
Innate Debilitating Roar reworked
Previous – Debilitating Roar also slows enemies for 65% for its duration.
Now – Debilitating Roar increases your damage by 15%[x] for its duration.
Preserving Debilitating Roar
Healing increased from 4% to 6% of your Maximum Life per second while active.
Earthen Bulwark
Innate Earthen Bulwark’s damage increased from 30% to 60% Weapon Damage.
Trample
Updated to more consistently Trample to your target destination, rather than stopping immediately upon hitting terrain.
Cataclysm
Lightning Strike damage increased from 95% to 115% Weapon Damage.
Lightning Strikes now cannot hit the same target more than once every 0.5 seconds.
Developer’s Note: Cataclysm was previously updated to be guaranteed to hit an enemy with its lightning strikes, if one is in range. While this felt better to use, it turned out to be a bit overpowered. Now we’re limiting how frequently Cataclysm’s lightning strikes can repeatedly hit the same target to ensure that other Ultimate Skills can still be a competitive option in single target situations. The damage of the lightning strikes is being increased to compensate.
Ursine Strength
Damage bonus while Healthy reduced from 30%[x] to 15%[x].
Maximum Health bonus increased from 20%[x] to 30%[x].
Overpower damage bonus increased from 30%[x] to 45%[x].
Developer’s Note: Ursine Strength is one of the most popular Key Passives for Druids, and was designed with Werebear and or Overpower focused builds in mind. However, it is often being used in builds that have little interest in Werebear Skills or Overpower effects, because the 30%[x] Damage bonus while Healthy was generically powerful. We are reducing the power of this effect, while increasing the Maximum Health and Overpower damage bonuses to better support its Werebear and Overpower niche, versus other builds that it was not intended for.
Grizzly Rage
Overpowering Bosses now extends duration by 5 seconds.
Wolves
Wolf Companion’s Attack Speed increased by 15%.
Petrify
Previous: Encase all Nearby enemies in stone, Stunning them for 3 seconds. You deal 30%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage to enemies affected by Petrify. Against Bosses the Critical Strike Damage bonus is increased to 50%[x] and its duration is increased to 6 seconds.
Now: Generates 100 Spirit. Encase all Nearby enemies in stone, Stunning them for 4 seconds.
Developer’s Note: Triggering Petrify through the Yom rune will grant 100 of the Primary Resource for your class.
Prime Petrify
Previous: Petrify grants 50 Spirit when cast and its effect durations are increased by 1 second.
Now: You deal 30%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage to enemies affected by Petrify. Against Bosses the Critical Strike Damage bonus is increased to 50%[x] and its duration is increased to 7 seconds.
Bonus Critical Strike Damage now applies to damage done by your Companions.
Passives
Quickshift
Previous: When Shapeshifting into a new animal form, you deal 1/2/3%[x] increased damage for 8 seconds, up to 8/16/24%[x].
Now: Shapeshifting into a new animal form grants 1/2/3%[x] increased damage, up to 6/12/18%[x]. This bonus is lost after 3 seconds in Human form.
Heightened Senses
Previous: When Shapeshifting into an animal form, Werebear grants 3/6/9% Damage Reduction and Werewolf grants 2/4/6%[+] Movement Speed for 6 seconds. Bonuses are doubled while both are active.
Now: When Shapeshifting, Werebear grants 3/6/9% Damage Reduction and Werewolf grants 2/4/6%[+] Movement Speed. Both bonuses persist as long as you are in either animal form and are doubled while both are active. They are lost after 3 seconds in Human form.
Bestial Rampage
Previous: After being a Werewolf for 2 seconds, gain 30%[+] Attack Speed for 15 seconds. After being a Werebear for 2 seconds, deal 50%[x] increased damage for 15 seconds.
Now: When Shapeshifting, Werebear grants 30%[x] increases damage and Werewolf grants 20%[+] Attack Speed. Both bonuses persist as long as you are in either animal form, but are lost after 3 seconds in Human form.
Perfect Storm
Storm Skill damage bonus increased from 40%[x] to 45%[x].
Nature’s Fury
Diablo 4 update 1.61 fixed an issue where the Passive incorrectly triggered from skills other than Casts.
Spirit Boons
Overload Spirit Boon
Damage increased from 25% to 100%.
Bolster Spirit Boon
Fortify amount increased from 25% to 50% of Maximum Life.
Legendary Aspects
Aspect of the Blurred Beast
Shred’s bonus damage while seeking out Poisoned enemies increased from 40-60%[x] to 55-75%[x].
Shockwave Aspect
Shockwave damage increased from 70-110% to 80-120% of Pulverize’s Damage.
Stormclaw’s Aspect
Damage increased from 25-45% to 40-60% of the damage done by Shred’s Critical Strikes.
Aspect of the Ursine Horror
Tectonic spikes damage increased from 60-100% to 120-200% of Weapon Damage.
Seismic-shift Aspect
Ranks increased from 17 to 21.
Earth Spike bonus damage increased from 35-59%[x] to 50-70%[x].
Stormshifter’s Aspect
Ranks of Shapeshifting Skills while Hurricane is active increased from 2 to 5.
Aspect of Retaliation
Core Skill damage based on Fortify increased from 25-45%[x] to 35-75%[x].
Crashstone Aspect
Previous: Earth Skills deal 25-45%[x] more Critical Strike Damage to Crowd Controlled enemies.
Previous: Whenever you cast a Shout Skill, its Cooldown is reduced by 1.0-3.0 seconds per Nearby enemy, up to a maximum of 6 seconds.
Now: Whenever you cast a Shout Skill, its active Cooldown is reduced by 10-30% per Nearby enemy, up to a maximum of 50%.
Unique Items
Fleshrender
Damage increased from 100-300% to 200-400% of Weapon Damage.
Damage increase per 100 Willpower increased from 30%[x] to 50%[x].
Cooldown Reduction affix replaced with Defensive Cooldown Reduction affix.
Maximum Health affix replaced with Ranks of Backlash Passive.
Dolmen Stone
Boulders that are rotating in your Hurricane now Knockback enemies less to allow you to more consistently hit enemies with multiple Boulders. Boulders now more consistently hit enemies that are within your melee range.
Wildheart Hunger
Previous: When you Shapeshift into a Werewolf or Werebear, gain Wildheart for 5 seconds. Wildheart grants you 1-3%[x] stacking damage every 2 seconds, up to 20-60%[x].
Now: Shapeshifting into a new animal form increases the value of your Bestial Rampage bonuses by 2.0-5.0%, up to 20-50%[+]. This bonus decays by 2% per second.
Hunter’s Zenith
Previous: Gain a bonus when you kill with a Shapeshifting Skill: Werewolf: Your next Non-Ultimate Werebear Skill costs no Spirit and has no Cooldown. Werebear: Your next Werewolf Skill will Heal you for 104-522 when damage is first dealt.
Now: Every 30 seconds you spend in an animal form, your next Core Skill is guaranteed to Overpower and Critically Strike and deals 30-60%[x] increased damage. Casting Shapeshifting Skills reduces this timer by 1 second, or 2 seconds if you change to a new animal form.
Earthbreaker
Tectonic Spikes damage increased from 60-120% of Weapon Damage to 150-300% Weapon Damage.
Mad Wolf’s Glee
Ranks of Werewolf Skills increased from 2-5 to 4-7.
Greatstaff of the Crone
Critical Strike Damage Affix replaced with Chance for Stormstrike to Hit Twice.
Bonus Stormstrike damage increased from 120-200%[x] to 170-250%[x].
Tempering
All Weapon Tempering recipes have been updated with the following stats.
Storm Augments
+X% Chance for Wind Shear Projectiles to Cast Twice
+X% Chance for Tornado Projectiles to Cast Twice
+X% Chance for Hurricane to Deal Double Damage
Lightning Augments
+X% Chance for Stormstrike to Hit Twice
+X% Chance for Lightning Storm to Deal Double Damage
+X% Chance for Cataclysm to Deal Double Damage
Earth Augments
+X% Chance for Landslide Projectiles to Cast Twice
+X% Chance for Earth Spike Projectiles to Cast Twice
+X% Chance for Boulder Projectiles to Cast Twice
+X% Chance for Stone Burst Projectiles to Cast Twice
Werewolf Augments
+X% Chance for Shred to Hit Twice
+X% Rabies Duration
+X% Lacerate Duration
+X% Chance for Claw to Deal Double Damage
Werebear Augments
+X% Chance for Maul to Hit Twice
+X% Chance for Pulverize to Hit Twice
+X% Chance for Trample to Deal Double Damage
Companion Augments
+X% Chance for Wolves to Deal Double Damage
+X% Chance for Poison Creeper to Deal Double Damage
+X% Chance for Raven to Deal Double Damage
Moved or Removed Recipes
Companion Finesse Offensive Recipe converted to Companion Augments Weapon Recipe.
Hurricane Damage and Cataclysm Damage removed from Storm Finesse.
Boulder Damage and Earth Overpower Damage removed from Earth Finesse.
Trample Damage, Rabies Damage, and Lacerate Damage removed from Shapeshifting Finesse.
Grizzly Rage Duration moved from Werebear Augments to Shapeshifting Finesse.
Hurricane Duration moved from Storm Augments to Nature Magic Innovation.
Lightning Storm Duration Removed from Nature Magic Innovation.
Paragon
Starter Board
Reclaim (replacing Resolve)
Previous: +3% Resistance to All Elements / +10 Willpower
Now: (Reclaim) +16% Damage to Elites / +10 Willpower
Thunderstruck Board
Concentrated (replacing Hubris)
Previous: 4% Damage Reduction from Vulnerable Enemies / +10 Willpower
Now: (Concentrated) +16% Damage to Elites / +10 Willpower
Hubris (replacing Restorative)
Previous: +4% Potion Healing / 4% Maximum Life
Now: (Hubris) 4% Damage Reduction from Vulnerable Enemies / +4% Healing Received
Earthen Devastation Board
Crushing Earth (replacing Resolve)
Previous: +3% Resistance to All Elements / +10 Willpower
Previous: +10% Nature Magic Damage / +16% Damage to Elites
Now: (Courage) 4% Maximum Life / +20 Armor
Ancestral Guidance Board
Resolve (replacing Recuperate)
Previous: +4% Potion Healing / +10 Life per Second
Now: (Resolve) +3% Resistance to All Elements / 4% Maximum Life
Ancestral Guidance
Damage bonus after spending 75 Spirit increased from 30%[x] to 40%[x].
Guidance (replacing Resolve)
Previous: +3% Resistance to All Elements / +10 Willpower
Now: (Guidance) +10% Damage / +10 Willpower
Necromancer
Skills
Blight
Enhanced Blight
Previous – Blight Slows enemies by 25%.
Now – Blight’s radius is increased by 15%.
Paranormal Blight Reworked
Previous – Blight has a 30% chance to Immobilize enemies for 2.5 seconds on impact.
Now – Blight Chills enemies for 15% every second.
Reap
Damage Reduction duration increased from 2 to 4 seconds.
Enhanced Reap’s Attack Speed duration increased from 3 to 4 seconds.
Blood Lance
Blood Lance now always pierces through enemies who are currently lanced, dealing 10% reduced damage to subsequent enemies beyond the first.
Enhanced Blood Lance Reworked
Previous – Blood Lance pierces through enemies who are currently lanced, dealing 10% reduced damage to subsequent enemies beyond the first.
Now – After casting Blood Lance 8 times, your next cast of Blood Lance is guaranteed to Overpower and spawns a Blood Orb under the first enemy hit.
Supernatural Blood Lance Reworked
Previous – After casting Blood Lance 8 times, your next cast of Blood Lance is guaranteed to Overpower and spawns a Blood Orb under the first enemy hit.
Now – Blood Lance deals 15%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage and 15%[x] increased Overpower Damage.
Blood Wave
Prime Blood Wave Reworked
Previous – Blood Wave Slows enemies by 50% for 4 seconds.
Now – Casting Blood Wave grants 20% Damage Reduction for 10 seconds.
Supreme Blood Wave
Blood Orbs spawned increased from 3 to 6.
Army of the Dead
Damage increased from 45% to 90%.
Cooldown reduced from 70 to 60 seconds.
Passives
Transfusion – Cooldown for spawning a Blood Orb reduced from 4 to 2 seconds.
Death’s Approach – Movement Speed increased from 4/8/12% [+] to 5/10/15% [+].
Kalan’s Edict
Previous: Your Minions gain 3%[+] Attack Speed for each active Minion.
Now: Your Minions gain 3%[+] Attack Speed and deal 3%[x] increased damage for each active Minion.
Bonded in Essence
Skeleton Priest Healing timer reduced from 8 to 5 seconds.
Death’s Defense
Minion Armor bonus increased from 4/8/12%[+] to 8/16/24%[+].
Necrotic Carapace
Fortify amount increased from 2/4/6% to 5/10/15% of Maximum Life.
Book of the Dead
Bone Golem Active Skill
Armor conversion to Thorns increased from 70% to 200%.
Blood Golem Sacrifice
Maximum Life increased from 15%[x] to 20%[x].
Legendary Aspects
Aspect of Cursed Aura
Tooltip updated to clarify that Curses are not cast, and so the curses would not benefit from Tempering.
Tidal Aspect
Additional Blood Waves now deal 100-120% of normal damage instead of dealing 50-30% reduced damage.
Shademist Aspect
The damage is now attributed to your Minions, and thus will scale with Minion Damage bonuses.
Aspect of Fel Gluttony
The damage is now attributed to your Golem, and thus will scale with Minion and Golem Damage bonuses.
Aspect of the Damned
Damage bonus now also applies to damage from your Minions.
Unique Items
The Mortacrux
Previous Affixes
Inherent: +50% Damage
+126-180 Intelligence
+98-125% Critical Strike Damage
+70-85% Vulnerable Damage
+3-5 Ranks of Hewed Flesh Passive
New Affixes
Inherent: +100% Macabre and Corpse Damage
+126-180 Intelligence
+36.5-50% Chance For Corpse Explosion to Deal Double Damage
Hewed Flesh also grants a Barrier for 8-10% Maximum Life for 4 seconds
+3-5 Ranks of Hewed Flesh Passive
Black River
+126-180 Intelligence Affix replaced with +36.5-50% Chance for Corpse Explosion to Deal Double Damage.
Greaves of the Empty Tomb
Ranks of Reaper’s Pursuit Affix replaced with Movement Speed.
Ring of Mendeln
The damage is now attributed to your Minions, and thus will scale with Minion Damage bonuses.
Lidless Wall
Armor Affix replaced with Chance for Bone Storm to Deal Double Damage.
Mutilator Plate
Blood Lance Duration affix replaced with Chance for Blood Lance to Deal Double Damage.
Tempering
All Weapon Tempering recipes have been updated with the following stats.
Bone Augments
+X% Chance for Bone Spirit to Deal Double Damage
+X% Chance for Bone Splinter Projectiles to Cast Twice
+X% Chance for Bone Spear Projectiles to Cast Twice
+X% Chance for Bone Storm to Deal Double Damage
Blood Augments
+X% Chance for Blood Surge to Deal Double Damage
+X% Chance for Blood Lance to Hit Twice
+X% Chance for Blood Lance to Deal Double Damage
+X% Chance for Hemorrhage to Hit Twice
+X% Chance for Blood Wave to Deal Double Damage
Shadow Augments – Decay
+X% Chance for Blight Projectiles to Cast Twice
+X% Chance for Decompose to Deal Double Damage
+X% Chance for Soulrift to Deal Double Damage
+X% Chance for Affliction to Deal Double Damage
Shadow Augments – Execution
+X% Chance for Sever Projectiles to Cast Twice
+X% Chance for Reap to Hit Twice
+X% Chance for Corpse Explosion to Deal Double Damage
Summoning Augments
+X% Chance for Army of the Dead to Deal Double Damage
+X% Chance for Skeleton Mages Attacks to Cast Twice
+X% Chance for Skeleton Warriors to Hit Twice
+X% Chance for Golem to Hit Twice
Thorn Army
Skeleton Mages Inherit X% of your Thorns affix removed from this recipe.
Skeleton Warriors Inherit X% of your Thorns affix removed from this recipe.
Golem Inherit X% of your Thorns affix removed from this recipe.
Ranks of Spiked Armor added to this recipe’s Weapon Attunement.
Resource Generation while Wielding a Scythe affix replaced with Resource Generation with Two-Handed Weapons affix.
Other Tempering Updates:
+X% Corpse Explosion Damage removed from Shadow Finesse
+X% Bone Spirit Damage removed from Bone Finesse
+X% Blight Slow Potency Tempering affix changed to +X% Blight Chill Potency on the Profane Cage
Paragon
Starter Board
Grasp (replacing Preservation)
Previous: +200 Armor / +10 Intelligence
Now: (Grasp) +16% Damage to Elites / +10 Intelligence
Cult Leader
Minion Damage per 20% Attack Speed Bonus increased from 30%[x] to 40%[x].
Hulking Monstrosity
Miscreation
Previous: +14% Golems Armor / +10 Intelligence
Now: +10% Summon Damage / +10 Intelligence
Flesh-Eater Board
Rend (replacing Erudite)
Previous: +3% Resistance to All Elements / +10 Intelligence
Now: (Gnawing Darkness) +10% Damage to Shadow Damage Over Time-Affected Enemies / +10 Intelligence
Gloom (replacing Gnawing Darkness)
Previous: +10% Damage to Shadow Damage Over Time-Affected Enemies / +16% Damage to Elites
Now: (Gloom) +10% Shadow Resistance / +20 Armor
Rogue
Skills
Diablo 4 update 1.61 Enhanced Blade Shift
Previous: While Blade Shift is active you gain 20% Movement speed.
Now: While Blade Shift is active you gain 20% Movement speed. Moving through enemies refreshes its duration.
Fundamental Blade Shift
Previous: Moving through enemies while blade shift is active refreshes its duration. After moving through 3 enemies your next blade shift will daze enemies for 2 seconds.
Now: Casting a skill that isn’t Blade Shift empowers your next Blade Shift to deal 100%[x] more damage.
Invigorating Strike
Damage increased from 30% to 35%.
Fundamental Invigorating Strike
Threshold to cause Vulnerable changed from 85% life to 95% life.
Enhanced Invigorating Strike
Energy regeneration bonus increased from 30% to 50%.
Disciplined Shadow Step
Previous: Damaging an enemy with Shadow Step stuns them for 2 seconds and reduces its cooldown by 3 seconds.
Now: Shadow Step deals 200%[x] more damage. Casting Shadow Step reduces its cooldown by 3 seconds.
Concealment
Now also grants Unhindered.
Subverting Concealment
Previous: The Skill that breaks Concealment always makes enemies Vulnerable for 6 seconds.
Now: The Skill that breaks Concealment is always a Critical Strike and makes enemies Vulnerable for 6 seconds.
Countering Concealment
Previous: The Skill that breaks Concealment will always be a guaranteed Critical Strike.
Now: Casting Concealment grants 10% Dodge Chance and increases the Movement Speed bonus to 60%[+] for 5 seconds.
Prime Shadow Clone
Previous: You are Unstoppable for 5 seconds after Casting Shadow Clone.
Now: You gain Stealth and Unstoppable for 5 seconds after casting Shadow Clone.
Death Trap
Baseline: If Death Trap kills an enemy, its cooldown is reduced by 10 seconds.
Supreme Death Trap
Previous: If Death Trap kills an enemy, its cooldown is reduced by 12 seconds.
Now: Enemies that resist Death Trap’s pull in are hit again for 120% of Death Trap’s damage.
Rain of Arrows
Baseline first wave knocks down enemies for 3 seconds.
Supreme Rain of Arrows
Previous: Rain of Arrows’ first wave knocks down enemies for 3 seconds.
Now: Rain of Arrows deals 60 40%[x] increased damage to Crowd Controlled enemies.
Prime Rain of Arrows
Imbuement Bonus increased from 30% to 50%.
Passives
Weapon Mastery
Tooltip now states: Gain a bonus based on the weapons used in your attack.
Close Quarters Combat
Now scales from 15% of Damage to Close rather than 10% of Damage vs Crowd Controlled.
Adrenaline Rush
Energy regen while moving increased from 5/10/15% to 7/14/21%.
Impetus
Now gains damage to Basic skills along with Agility/Subterfuge while the buff is active.
Victimize
Previous: Lucky Hit: Dealing direct damage to a Vulnerable enemy has up to a 50% chance to cause an explosion, dealing 62% of the damage to them and surrounding enemies.
Now: Lucky Hit: Dealing direct damage to a Vulnerable enemy has up to a 50% chance to cause an explosion, dealing [60%] damage to them and surrounding enemies. Victimize’s damage is increased by 120%[x] of your Vulnerable Damage Bonus.
Additionally, the effect now happens less frequently but stores up the damage of instances it would trigger for the next instance.
Base Damage Reduced to 60% from 80%.
Momentum
Now counts for Channeled Cutthroat Skills.
Now only removes stacks when casting Marksman skills.
Mending Obscurity
Healing while in stealth increased from 5% to 7%.
Legendary Aspects
Aspect of True Sight
Previous: You deal 70-100% Critical Strike Damage to enemies marked by Inner Sight.
Now: You deal 70-100% Critical Strike Damage to enemies marked by Inner Sight. While Inner Sight is full, you gain 21-30%[x] increased damage.
Resistant Assailant’s
Now gives resistance on casting Concealment cast rather than when breaking stealth.
Uncanny Treachery
Previous: Dealing damage to a Dazed enemy with an Agility skill grants Stealth for 4 seconds. When Stealth breaks you gain 5-15% dodge chance for 2 seconds.
Now: Dealing direct damage with a non-Agility Skill after casting an Agility skill grants Stealth for 2 seconds. When Stealth breaks you gain 10-18% dodge chance for 2 seconds.
Opportunists
Grenades now drop on your target if exiting Stealth with Shadow Step.
Icy Alchemists Aspect
Damage increased from 60-100% to 90-130%.
Now happens less frequently in extreme situations.
Toxic Alchemists Aspect
Now happens less frequently in extreme situations.
Ravager’s
Maximum stacks increased from 4 to 6, increasing maximum damage bonus from 58% to 87%.
Bladedancer’s Aspect
Damage increased from 25-45% to 40-60%.
Encircling Blades
Damage increased from 25-45% to 35-55%.
Of Iron Rain
Chance to spawn an arrow storm increased from 35-55% to 80-100%.
Escape Artist’s
Window to dodge attacks reduced from 10 to 5 seconds.
Cooldown reduced from 20 to 10 seconds.
Unique Items
Word of Hakan
Skill ranks of Imbuement Skills increased from 2-3 to 4-6.
Rain of Arrows Fires Twice affix is now Double Damage for Rain of Arrows.
Tempering
All Weapon Tempering recipes have been updated with the following stats.
Trap Augments
+X% Chance for Caltrops to Consume No Charges
+X% Chance for Death Trap to Deal Double Damage
+X% Poison Trap Duration
Basic Augments – Rogue
+X% Chance for Puncture Projectiles to Cast Twice
+X% Chance for Heartseeker Projectiles to Cast Twice
+X% Chance for Forceful Arrow Projectiles to Cast Twice
Core Augments – Rogue
+X% Chance for Barrage Projectiles to Cast Twice
+X% Chance for Rapid Fire Projectiles to Cast Twice
+X% Chance for Penetrating Shot Projectiles to Cast Twice
Agile Augments
+X% Chance for Flurry to Hit Twice
+X% Chance for Dance of Knives Projectiles to Cast Twice
Invigorating Strike Cleaves for +X% Damage
+X% Chance for Dash to Deal Double Damage
Assassin Augments
Shadow Step Cleaves for +X% Damage
+X% Chance for Blade Shift to Deal Double Damage
+X% Chance for Twisting Blades to Hit Twice
+X% Chance for Rain of Arrows Waves to Cast Twice
Other Tempering Changes:
Smoke Grenade Damage removed from Subterfuge Expertise Recipe.
Flurry chance to Hit Twice has been changed to chance for Flurry to deal double damage.
Rain of Arrows chance to Hit Twice has been changed to chance for Rain of Arrows to deal double damage.
Rogue Cloaking Temper Recipe: Ranks to Agile replaced with Ranks to Aftermath.
Persistence Temper Recipe: Ranks to Aftermath removed.
Paragon
Devious Glyph
Now applies its damage bonus against Bosses.
Starter Board
Outlaw (replacing Lawless)
Previous: +200 Armor / +10 Dexterity
Now: (Outlaw) +16% Damage to Elites / +10 Dexterity
Now: (Training) 4% Maximum Life / +10% Poison Resistance
Exploit Weakness Board
Misery (replacing Dosage)
Previous: +4% Potion Healing / +10 Dexterity
Now: (Misery) +16% Damage to Elites / +10 Dexterity
Revitalize (replacing Hunter Killer)
Previous: +16% Damage to Elites / +14% Movement Speed for 4 Seconds After Killing an Elite
Now: (Revitalize) +4% Healing Received / +20 Armor
Cunning Stratagem Board
Fundamentals (replacing Lawless)
Previous: +100 Armor / +10 Dexterity
Now: (Fundamentals) +10% Damage / +10 Dexterity
Lawless (replacing Fundamentals)
Previous: +35% Basic Damage / +10% Damage
Now: (Lawless) +20 Armor / 4% Maximum Life
Sorcerer
Skills
Enhanced Charged Bolts
Lightning surge now also hits the original target as well as surrounding enemies.
Enhanced Fireball
Previous: Casting Fireball increases its radius by 50%.
Now: Casting Fireball increases its radius by 50% and Burns enemies for 10% damage over 6 seconds.
Prime Deep Freeze
Barrier amount now scales with Maximum life instead of Base Life.
Chain Lightning Enchantment
Cooldown reduced from 4 seconds to 1 second.
Hydra Enchantment
Duration increased from 5 to 10 seconds.
Arc Lash Enchantment
Stun duration increased from 0.5 to 1 second.
Incinerate Enchantment
Cooldown reduced from 14 to 8 seconds.
Passives
Endless Pyre
Previous: You deal increased Burning damage to enemies for each second they remain Burning, up to 5%[x] after 5 seconds.
Now: You deal 6/12/18%[x] increased Burning damage. This bonus is increased to 25/50/75%[x] to enemies while they are affected by more Damage Over Time than their total Life.
Conjuration Mastery
Now caps its bonuses at 30 active Conjurations. Tooltip updated for clarity.
Legendary Aspects
Storm Swell Aspect
Previous: You deal 15-30% more damage to Vulnerable enemies while you have a barrier.
Now: You deal 15-35% increased damage while Ice Armor is active. This amount is increased by another 15% against Frozen enemies.
Aspect of Engulfing Flames
Previous: You deal 30-45%[x] increased Burning damage to enemies below 50% Life. Additionally, you deal 70-100%[x] increased Burning damage to enemies while they are affected by more Damage Over Time than their total Life.
Now: You deal 6%[x] increased Burning damage to enemies for each second they remain Burning, up to 30%[x] after 5 seconds. Additionally, you deal 10-30%[x] increased Burning damage to enemies below 50% Life.
Aspect of Armageddon
Now drops more Meteorites.
Meteorites from Aspect of Armageddon and Aspect of Shattered Stars now more consistently land around or on the enemies near the cast target.
Unique Items
Tal Rasha’s Iridescent Loop
Previous: For each type of Elemental damage you deal, gain 10-15% increased damage for 4 seconds, up to 40-60%. Dealing Elemental damage refreshes all bonuses.
Now: Casting a Pyromancy, Shock, or Frost Skill increases your damage by 10-25% for 85 seconds, stacking once per element. Casting again refreshes all bonuses if the previous skill was a different Element.
Axial Conduit
+X% Chance for Chain Lightning Projectiles to Cast Twice affix changed to +X% Chance for Chain Lightning to Hit Twice.
Gloves of the Illuminator
Effect reworded, but functionality unchanged.
Previous: Fireball now bounces as it travels, exploding each time it hits the ground, but its explosion deals 30-0% less damage.
Now: Fireball now bounces as it travels, exploding each time it hits the ground, but its explosion deals 70-100% of normal damage.
Tempering
All Weapon Tempering recipes have been updated with the following stats.
Pyromancy Augments
+X% Chance for Fire Bolt Projectiles to Cast Twice
+X% Chance for Fireball Projectiles to Cast Twice
+X% Chance for Meteor to do Double Damage
Pyromancy Augments – Fiery
+X% Chance for Incinerate to do Double Damage
+X% Chance for Firewall to do Double Damage
+X% Chance for Meteorites to do Double Damage
Frozen Augments – Frozen
+X% Chance for Blizzard to do Double Damage
+X% Chance for Ice Spike to do Double Damage
+X% Chance for Deep Freeze to do Double Damage
Frost Augments
+X% Chance for Frost Bolt Projectiles to Cast Twice
+X% Chance for Frozen Orb Projectiles to Cast Twice
+X% Chance for Ice Shards Projectiles to Cast Twice
Conjuration Augments
Casted Hydras have +X Heads
+X% Chance for a Second Ice Blades when Cast
+X% Chance for Familiar to Hit Twice
Shock Augments – Discharge
+X% Chance for Teleport to Hit Twice
+X% Chance for Arc Lash to Swipe Twice
+X% Chance for Charged Bolts Projectiles to Cast Twice
Shock Augments – Surge
+X% Chance for Spark Projectiles to Cast Twice
+X% Chance for Chain Lightning to Hit Twice
+X% Chance for Ball Lightning Projectiles to Cast Twice
Other Tempering Updates:
Incinerate Size, Meteor Size, and Firewall Size removed from the Pyromancer Augments Recipe.
Blizzard Damage and Ice Spike Damage removed from the Frost Finesse Recipe.
Teleport Damage removed from the Shock Finesse Recipe.
Chance for Chain Lightning Projectiles to Cast Twice affix changed to Chance for Chain Lightning to Hit Twice.
Teleport Nova Size moved from Shock Augments – Discharge recipe to the new Sorcerer. Innovation Utility recipe.
Frost Nova Size moved from Sorcerer Control recipe to the new Sorcerer Innovation Utility recipe.
Blizzard Size moved from Frost Augments recipe to the new Sorcerer Innovation Utility recipe.
Conjuration Damage replaced with Familiar Damage on the Conjuration Finesse Offensive recipe.
Fire Damage Over Time removed from the Pyromancy Finesse recipe.
Familiar Lucky Hit Chance added to the Conjuration Fortune Utility recipe.
Paragon
Starting Board
Studied (replacing Erudite)
Previous: +3% Resistance to All Elements / +10 Intelligence
Now: (Studied) +16% Damage to Elites / +10 Intelligence
Previous: +3% Resistance to All Elements / +10 Intelligence
Now: (Keeper of Elements) +10% Non-physical Damage / +10 Intelligence
Resistant (replacing Keeper of Elements)
Previous: +10% Non-physical Damage / +3% Resistance to All Elements
Now: (Resistant) +3% Resistance to All Elements / +20 Armor
Enchantment Master Board
Tactical (replacing Erudite)
Previous: +3% Resistance to All Elements / +10 Intelligence
Now: (Tactical) +16% Damage to Elites / +10 Intelligence
Toughened (replacing Elementalist)
Previous: +10% Non-physical Damage / 4% Maximum Life
Now: (Toughened) +20 Armor / 4% Maximum Life
Blessing (replacing Recuperate)
Previous: +4% Potion Healing / +10 Life per Second
Now: (Blessing) +3% Resistance to All Elements / +4% Healing Received
Paragon Updates
Glyphs can now be upgraded up to level 100.
At level 46, they become Legendary and gain several additional benefits.
One additional major affix.
A radius size increase.
Upgrading to Legendary requires Gem Fragments.
Magic Glyphs have been removed.
Glyph Experience has moved from Nightmare Dungeons to the Pit.
The Paragon board cap has been reduced to 4, plus the starting board.
Max Paragon Level is now 300.
Shrine Updates
The following Shrines now scale off Weapon Damage, like Skills.
Artillery Shrine
Blast Wave Shrine
Conduit Shrine
Boss Ladder
All Unique items now have a single boss for target farming.
Removed from Grigoire
Barbarian
Ramaladni’s Magnum Opus
Ancients’ Oath
Druid
Mjölnic Ring
Necromancer
Blood Artisan’s Cuirass
Rogue
Windforce
Sorcerer
Gloves of the Illuminator
Removed from Lord Zir
Barbarian
Rage of Harrogath
Gohr’s Devastating Grips
Druid
Mad Wolf’s Glee
Vasily’s Prayer
Greatstaff of the Crone
Necromancer
Deathless Visage
Greaves of the Empty Tomb
Rogue
Eyes in the Dark
Grasp of Shadow
Skyhunter
Sorcerer
Iceheart Brais
Staff of Endless Rage
Raiment of the Infinite
All Classes
Penitent Greaves
The Butcher’s Cleaver
Removed from Beast in the Ice
Barbarian
100,000 Steps
Battle Trance
Fields of Crimson
Druid
Insatiable Fury
Hunter’s Zenith
Waxing Gibbous
Necromancer
Howl from Below
Deathspeaker’s Pendant
Bloodless Scream
Rogue
Condemnation
Word of Hakan
Sorcerer
Esu’s Heirloom
Staff of Lam Esen
All Classes
Frostburn
Mother’s Embrace
Added
The Butcher’s Cleaver now drops for Necromancers from Grigoire.
Moved
Mjölnic Ring moved from Grigoire to Lord Zir.
The summoning material requirements have been adjusted and standardized for the following bosses.
Echo of Varshan
Previous: 2(WT3)/5(WT4) Malignant Hearts
New: 4 Malignant Hearts
Grigoire
Previous: 2(WT3)/5(WT4) Living Steel
New: 12 Living Steel
Beast in the Ice
Previous: 9 Distilled Fear
New: 12 Distilled Fear
Lord Zir
Previous: 9 Exquisite Blood
New: 12 Exquisite Blood
User Interface and User Experience
The icon denoting that there are additional Skill/Paragon points to spend now also displays how many points are available to spend.
The tooltips for Dungeons viewed in the Map have been improved to have more information at a glance.
New settings have been added in the gameplay options menu to hide certain warning messages and announcements, such as “You need more mana”.
The sound that plays when arriving at a pinned destination has been made more prominent.
Druid’s Sprit Offerings have been moved to the Consumables tab, and the stack count has been increased to 999.
Up to 3 currencies can be pinned in the player’s inventory, with Obols and Gold being pinned by default.
The descriptions of multiple items that implied if a skill tag was removed or added have been clarified.
Miscellaneous
The number of available character slots has been increased from 12 to 1413.
Dodge chance can no longer reach 100% through any means. The Dodge Chance bonuses from the handful of related aspects have been swapped from additive to inverse multiplicative, matching typical Dodge Chance modifiers.
The Gauntlet will be disabled for Season 6 while the meta settles with the introduction of the Spiritborn and all other system updates.
Common items now stop dropping after Level 10.
The allowance cache that contained items helpful for leveling has been updated.
No longer has a level restriction.
Contains one legendary item of a random equipment slot, with a small chance to be Unique or Mythic Unique.
Has multiple tiers that scale with level, with greater rewards and greater costs at higher levels.
The cost has been adjusted so it is no longer a cheap source of Legendary Aspects.
Is now crafted at the Blacksmith instead of the Alchemist.
Ancestral Items are now guaranteed to have at least one greater affix.
Nightmare Dungeons are now the source of Masterworking materials now that Glyph Experience has been moved to the Pit.
All beneficial Nightmare Dungeon Affixes have been removed, with the exception of Experience and Gold increases.
How Smoldering Ashes are acquired has been updated
We’ve removed the character level requirement on those tiers and implemented a new system where Smoldering Ashes can only be unlocked with Earned Favor.
Earned Favor is all the Favor you earn in-game by killing monsters, completing quests, and engaging with the Season Journey.
It does not include Favor awarded for anything outside of playing the game (tier skips).
Bug Fixes
Barbarian
Diablo 4 update 1.61 fixed an issue where excessive skill ranks of Martial Vigor and Guttural Yell could result in 100% Damage reduction.
Fixed an issue where Leap had to fully complete its animation before being able to cast Leap again.
Fixed an issue where the Dust Devil’s Aspect could activate more frequently if Whirlwind was cancelled.
Fixed an issue where the tooltip for Call of the Ancients showed a higher damage value than it was dealing.
Fixed an issue where assigning a skill point to Tactical Rallying Cry did not upgrade the tooltip for Rallying Cry.
Druid
Fixed an issue where the buffs from Clarity and Vigilance could be unexpectedly lost.
Diablo 4 1.61 fixed an issue where the cooldown reduction from the Virulent aspect was inconsistent between Bosses and Elites.
Fixed an issue where the Iron Fur buff would persist after swapping between Insatiable Fury and Mad Wolf’s Glee.
Fixed an issue where bonuses to Poison Creeper Duration did not properly update all related tooltips for duration.
Fixed an issue where bonuses to Lightning Bolt Damage didn’t properly update all related tooltips for damage.
Diablo 4 patch 1.61 fixed an issue where the Aspect of Vocalized Empowerment didn’t grant resource generation when using Blood Howl.
Fixed an issue where the Aspect of the Blurred Beast did not gain damage against targets poisoned by Poison Creeper.
Fixed an issue where Earthen Bulwark’s barrier scaled off Base Life instead of Maximum Life.
Fixed an issue where Nature’s Fury was not triggering Hurricane when casting bolder while using Metamorphic Stone Aspect.
Fixed an issue where the guaranteed overpower from Obsidian slam could be consumed by non-damaging abilities.
Fixed an issue where Mad Wolf’s Glee and Insatiable Fury could grant fewer Skill Ranks than displayed on its tooltip.
Diablo 4 1.61 fixed an issue where Petrify from The Basilisk was not properly interacting with the Supreme Petrify upgrade.
Fixed an issue where the Hemorrhage Legendary Paragon Node granted a lower Bleeding damage bonus than expected.
Fixed an issue where Landslides from Earthbreaker could trigger Nature’s Fury.
Necromancer
Fixed an issue where Blood Orbs would remain after dying during an Encounter.
Diablo 4 1.61 fixed an issue where killing a vulnerable enemy with a Bone Skill could not generate essence when using the Aspect of Exposed Flesh.
Fixed an issue where higher Item Power on Bloodless Scream could have lower affix ranges than intended.
Fixed an issue where Bonus projectiles fired from the effect of Path of Trag’oul overlapped, which made it appear that bonus projectiles were never fired through this method.
Fixed an issue where the Bone Golem upgrade for shedding additional corpses was inconsistent.
Fixed an issue where curses cast by minions while using Blood Moon Breeches could curse the player. (Curse upon your house, wanderer!)
Fixed an issue where the tooltip for Unyielding Commander displayed the bonus as additive instead of multiplicative.
Diablo 4 version 1.61 fixed an issue where the Whither Legendary Paragon Node did not respect the 1200 Intelligence cap.
Fixed an issue where the Whither Legendary Paragon Node applied to damage over time inflicted on the player by the player, such as through Endurant Faith.
Rogue
Fixed an issue where the bonus from the Deadly Ambush legendary node could affect non-critical strike damage.
Fixed an issue where Rapid Fire used with Scoundrel’s Kiss couldn’t fire through Chilling Winds.
Fixed an issue where Victimize’s Vulnerable Damage bonus did not properly scale with the listed value.
Fixed an issue where Weakened Ice barricades could not be attacked with Rapid Fire using Scoundrel’s Kiss.
Fixed an issue where the dash from Improved Flurry was less responsive than intended.
Diablo 4 patch 1.61 fixed an issue where Rain of Arrows was gaining more benefit from Imbuement Skills than intended. As compensation for this change, we have also increased the benefit of Prime Rain of Arrows and Word of Hakan. These changes can be seen in the Rogue section for balance changes.
Fixed an issue where Bursting Venoms was triggering Lucky Hit effects more often than intended.
Sorcerer
Fixed an issue where the damage modifier for Destructive Fireball was additive instead of multiplicative.
Fixed an issue where the Ball Lightning Enchantment did not properly benefit from the Gravitational Aspect.
Fixed an issue where Crackling Energy motes would remain after dying during an Encounter.
Fixed an issue where Blizzards from the Blizzard Enchantment did not benefit from the duration increase granted by Mage’s Blizzard.
Fixed an issue where Flickerstep triggered inconsistently with Teleport Enchant evades.
Fixed an issue where Crackling Energy triggers chained to additional enemies in the opposite way as intended. (Ex: 70% chance was a better chance for it to happen than 90%. 100% chance was actually 0% chance. (Joke? 100% of the time, it works none of the time)
Fixed an issue where active Chain Lightnings would not dissipate after the player died when Axial Conduit was equipped.
Fixed an issue where the Attacks Reduce Evade Cooldown affix did not reduce the first Teleport Enchantment cooldown applied when equipping the Oculus.
Fixed an issue where Conjuration Mastery stacks were not being removed if a player unequipped the Hydra skill while Hydras were active.
Fixed an issue where the Elementalist aspect didn’t trigger for skills that didn’t cost mana, such as Meteor augmented by Starfall Coronet.
Fixed an issue where Inferno’s tooltip did not show a damage percentage when Advanced Tooltips Information was enabled.
Fixed an issue where Incinerate beams from Flamethrowers Aspect were not scaling with Incinerate Size Tempering Affixes.
General
Fixed an issue where Mythic Unique Items could not drop for lower-level players.
Fixed an issue where the damage over time from Andariel’s Visage didn’t trigger if an affected monster was far away from the player.
Diablo 4 update 1.61 fixed an issue where the Aspect of Voracious Rage did not refund resource in all expected contexts.
Fixed an issue where Yen’s Blessing could be triggered by collecting volatile blood dropped by the Blood Boiling aspect.
Fixed an issue where players would not gain the elemental resistance of Tassets of the Dawning Sky when taking damage from damage over time effects.
Fixed an issue where the objective to slay the infernal tormentor in Túr Dúlra wouldn’t complete properly if Baelgemoth was killed too quickly.
Fixed an issue where quest progression for the Depths of Despair could be blocked if Demotath was killed too quickly.
Fixed an issue where Incense could be dispelled by talking to a side quest NPC.
Diablo 4 1.61 fixed an issue where enemies with post-death effects, such as Bloated Corpsefiends exploding, could delay wave completion for the Sole Survivor Event.
The speed of the post-death effects from Bloated Corpsefiends and Spider Hosts have been increased.
Fixed an issue where the Vampire Boss affix in the Pit did not appear in Pit Tiers 31 and above.
Fixed an issue where the following Defensive and Utility Aspects could not be imprinted on Shields.
Sly Steps
Prudent Heart
Assimilation
Concussive Strikes
Fixed an issue where an error could occur that would prevent progression in the Onyx Watchtower Stronghold.
Fixed an issue where Tempering Recipes and Pit tier Progression carried over for new Seasonal characters.
Fixed an issue where Whisper Invaders could drop Blackened Femurs, Gurgling Heads, and Trembling Hands.
Fixed an issue where the following damage effect sources did more damage to Tormented bosses than intended:
Vyr’s Mastery
Gohr’s Devastating Grips
Skullbreaker’s Aspect
Stormclaw’s Aspect
Fixed multiple instances where NPCs sometimes did not spawn for various quests, which block quest progression.
Fixed an issue where Tyrael’s Might could be spammed more quickly than intended when being used with channeled skills.
Fixed an issue where Fists of Fate was not triggering its effect in multiple cases.
User Interface and User Experience
Fixed an issue where Item names in the Transmutation tab were inconsistent.
Fixed an issue where the tooltip for Ground Stomp didn’t display the modifiers for the Enhanced and Tactical upgrades.
Fixed an issue where the Blast-Trapper’s and Infiltrator’s Aspects weren’t associated with the Trap keyword when searching the Codex of Power.
Fixed an issue where the Aspect of Bursting Venoms and the Toxic Alchemist Aspect weren’t associated with the Poison keyword when searching the Codex of Power.
Fixed an issue where the tooltips for Boss summoning items were inconsistent between the inventory and the summoning menu.
Fixed an issue where the highlighting of Necromancer Minions was inconsistent throughout various tooltips.
Fixed an issue where the Aspect of Vocalized Empowerment was still labeled as Aspect of Echoing Fury in the Delver Challenge aspect list.
Fixed an issue where Frostburn’s Lucky Hit to Freeze was not displayed in Character Stats.
Fixed an issue where several aspects would not properly show up when using the keyword search filter in the Codex of Power.
Fixed an issue where there wasn’t a quest marker over the Medical notes dropped by the witch in Alcarnus.
Fixed an issue where Life total could display as slightly above or slight below max health when affixes with bonus maximum life were present.
Fixed an issue where the quest pin would disappear after running away from the Frightened Pilgrims during the To Walk a Dark Path quest.
Fixed an issue where Temerity was not gaining the proper number of shields based on healing.
Fixed an issue where hero details was not displaying healing received from Willpower.
Fixed an issue where the button prompts for Modify and Unequip on Paragon Glyphs displayed as unavailable despite being functional.
Fixed an issue where damage bonus from the Dark Dance Aspect was displayed as multiplicative instead of additive in the tooltip.
Fixed an issue where the icon for Rogue’s Inner Sight could remain on slain enemies.
Miscellaneous
Fixed an issue where items could become un-droppable after interacting with the stash while sitting on a chair.
Various performance, stability, and visual improvements.
Previously, Diablo 4 patch 1.12 introduced new unique items and legendary aspects. Unfortunately, since the last patch 1.21, players are experiencing error codes and bugs. Today’s D4 patch 1.61 will address a few of these issues.
Download free Diablo 4 version 1.61 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.