Patch note update 1.3.3 of Diablo 4: Vampiric powers, class buffs…

Diablo 4 is preparing to introduce mid-season update 1.3.3. Discover the content of this patch which highlights some of the main features of the game.

Diablo 4 Season 3 kicked off with a series of changes for all classes, including the addition of a brand new companion via story mode.

Although the developers have added some elements via several small patches, a much larger mid-season patch is planned for next week.

As mentioned during the Campfire Chat on February 29, the developers plan to make numerous class changes in the upcoming Diablo 4 update 1.3.3, including the addition of Season of Blood Vampiric Powers.

Here’s everything you need to know about Diablo 4 Update 1.3.3.

When will Diablo 4 update 1.3.3 go live?

Diablo 4 update 1.3.3 is scheduled to go live on March 5, 2024, as revealed during Campfire Chat on February 29.

Although the developers haven’t mentioned a specific time for it to go live, you can expect the update to arrive around 7:00 p.m.

The Seneschal will receive small changes in the next update.

Diablo 4 patch note MAJ 1.3.3

Gameplay Update

Vampiric powers

• Cursed Touch
  • Fluke: You have up to a 20-35% chance of casting a vampire curse on your opponents. Opponents who are victims of the vampire curse are also vulnerable.
  • Souls stored by the Vampiric Curse deal 20-50% more damage.
• Metamorphosis
  • While dodging, you transform into a swarm of bats and become unstoppable for 2.5 sec. Opponents in your path take physical damage as well as a vampire curse.
  • Dodge cooldown increased by 5-10 sec.
• Boiling blood
  • When your primary skills overwhelm an opponent, you spawn 3 drops of unstable blood. Pick one up to make it explode and deal physical damage around you.
  • Every 20 seconds, your next skill necessarily overwhelms.
• Agitation
  • Every 5 basic skills you use, one of your current cooldowns is reduced by 2-4 sec.
• Immortality
  • The affix restores 0.5-2% of your health when you cast skills. It restores 1% of your life points more if you are below 50% of your life points.
• Dusk
  • Dealing damage to a target with a basic skill grants you 4% additional attack speed for 10 sec, up to 5 times. Once this threshold is reached, you descend into a vampiric blood rage and gain a 40-80% bonus to basic skill damage and 15% to movement speed for 10 sec.

Balancing Updates

General

Unique items

• Ring of the Starless Sky
  • A bonus now displays on the bar when activated.
• Penance Strikes
  • Damage to frozen opponents increased from 7-10% to 12-15%.
• Dawn Tassets
  • Maximum resistance increased from 6-10% to 8-12%.
• Maternal embrace
  • Resource recovery increased from 20-40% to 30-50%.

Legendary aspects

• inner calm
  • Maximum damage increased from 30% to 40%.
• of vindictiveness
  • Stun chance increased from 8% to 10%.
  • Damage to stunned opponents increased from 10-20% to 15-25%.
• of starlight
  • Quantity of life points required for resource gain reduced from 25% to 20%.

Barbaric

SKILLS

• Beating
  • Damage increased by 10%.
  • Fury gain increased from 13 to 15.
• Warrior beating
  • Extra Fury increased from 3 to 5.
  • Additional fury with a two-handed weapon increased from 4 to 10.
• Frenzy
  • Damage increased by 10%.
• Flaying
  • Damage increased by 10%.
  • Fury gain increased from 13 to 15.
• Reinforced skinning
  • Vulnerability duration increased from 2 to 3 sec.
• Strategic land shock
  • Ultimate skill cooldown reduction increased from 1 to 2 sec.
• Strategic galvanization
  • Fortification amount increased from 15% to 20%.
• Primal Call of the Elders
  • Damage bonus increased from 10% to 20%.

Passive skills

• Eternal Fury
  • Fury gain increased from 7/14/21% to 10/20/30%.

Paragon

• Glyph of execution
  • Previously: When wielding a polearm, you deal 10%[x] damage to healthy and injured targets.
  • Now: When wielding a polearm, you deal 10%[x] more damage.

Legendary aspects

• Iron Defense Aspect
  • Damage reduction increased from 18-28% to 25-35%.

Unique items

• Gohr’s Devastating Grips
  • Whirlwind ranks increased from 2-3 to 3-4.
  • Damage increased from 16-26% to 25-35%.

Druid/Druidess

SKILLS

• Point of land
  • Spirit generation increased from 13 to 16.
  • Damage increased by 10%.
• Reinforced ground point
  • Stun chance increased from 10% to 15%.
• Fierce Land Point
  • Fortification amount increased from 8% to 12% of maximum health.
• Shearing wind
  • Spirit generation increased from 14 to 16.
  • Damage increased by 10%.
• Indomitable shearing wind
  • Additional Spirit per opponent hit increased from 3 to 4.
• Claw
  • Spirit generation increased from 12 to 15.
  • Damage increased by 15%.
• Fierce Claw
  • Damage increased by 30%.
• Mutilation
  • Spirit generation increased from 17 to 20.
  • Damage increased by 10%.
• Reinforced mutilation
  • Fortification amount increased from 3% to 5% of maximum health.
• Indomitable Mutilation
  • Knockdown duration increased from 1.5 to 2 sec.
• Wolves
  • Passive damage increased by 30%.
  • Active damage increased by 45%.
• Poison ivy
  • Passive damage increased by 30%.
  • Active damage increased by 40%.
• Crows
  • Passive damage increased by 30%.
  • Active damage increased by 20%.

Passive skills

• Rapid metamorphosis
  • Damage bonus increased from 5/10/15% to 7/14/21%.
• Bestial Rampage
  • Damage bonus in Ursoid form increased from 30% to 50%.
• Force ursine
  • Bonus damage and overwhelm damage increased from 25% to 30%.
• Perfect storm
  • Damage bonus increased from 15% to 20%.

Legendary aspects

• seismic activity
  • Previously: Earth Spike throws sharp spikes in a line and now has a cooldown of 2-1 sec.
  • Now: Earth Spike gets a 35-50s damage bonus, throws sharp spikes in a line, and now has a 2-1 sec cooldown.

Unique items

• Storm Companion
  • Wolf ranks increased from 2–3 to 3–4.
  • Storm Howl damage increased by 180%.

Necromancer/Necromancer

Book of the Dead

• Skeleton Warrior
  • Damage increased by 30%.
  • Health points increased by 10%.
• Skeleton Reaper
  • Damage increased by 20%.
  • Health points increased by 10%.
• Skeleton Frost Mage
  • Damage increased by 20%.
  • Health points increased by 10%.
• Skeleton Shadow Mage
  • Damage increased by 20%.
  • Health points increased by 10%.
• Skeleton Sacrifice Mage
  • Damage increased by 20%.
  • Health points increased by 10%.
• Golem
  • Basic attack damage increased by 30%.
  • Health points increased by 20%.

SKILLS

• Blood flow
  • Damage bonus per drained target reduced from x10% to x5%.
  • Nova damage increased by 40%.
• Supernatural blood flow
  • Damage bonus increased from [x]20% to [x]30%.
• Section
  • Damage dealt increased by 6.5%.
  • Damage received increased by 20%.
• Reinforced section
  • Damage increased from 40% to 75% of initial Section damage.
• Section paranormale
  • Vulnerability duration increased from 2 to 3 sec.
• Chancre
  • On-hit damage increased by 33.3%.
  • Damage over time increased by 10.5%.
• Paranormal canker
  • Immobilize duration increased from 1.5 sec to 2.5 sec.
• Supernatural canker
  • Damage bonus increased from [x]15% to [x]20%.
• Explosion macabre
  • Damage increased by 21.5%.
• Macabre plague explosion
  • Damage bonus increased from 8% to 10%.
• Reinforced Bone Prison
  • Previously: Targets trapped in Bone Prison are vulnerable.
  • Now: Targets trapped in Bone Prison when cast are vulnerable for 8 sec.
• Blood Wave
  • Damage increased by 25%.

Passive skills

• Death Approaches (formerly Death’s Reach)
  • Previously: You deal 4%[x] additional damage to ranged targets.
  • Now: Grants 4/8/12% movement speed.
• Spiky armor
  • Previously: Grants 0.1/0.2/0.3 Thorn.
  • Now: Grants 0.1/0.2/0.3 Thorn and 5/10/15% additional armor.
• Caress of Death
  • Damage reduction from nearby targets increased from 3/6/9% to 4/8/12%.
• Captain of the troops
  • Damage bonus increased from x10/20/30% to 15/30/45%.
• Paralyzing darkness
  • Previously: Fluke – your Dark skills have up to a 15% chance to stun opponents for 1 sec.
  • Now: Fluke – your Dark skills have up to a 15% chance to stun opponents for 1/2/3 sec and deal 0.2 Shadow damage.

Paragon

• Legendary Node Sect Guide
  • Minion damage bonus per 20% attack speed increased from 10% to 15%.
• Physiological glyph
  • Previously: Additional bonus – you and your minions deal 10%[x] additional physical damage.
  • Now: You and your minions deal 10%[x] increased physical damage and gain 1% movement speed for each active minion.

Legendary aspects

• Appearance of hardened bones
  • Damage reduction also applies to the player character in addition to their minions.
• Bloody appearance
  • Blood Rush echo damage reduced from 60-50% less damage to 10-30% less damage.

Wizard/Witch

SKILLS

• Incineration
  • Damage increased by 40%.
• Reinforced incineration
  • Burn radius damage increased from 25% to 50%.
• Destructive incineration
  • Amount of reduced enemy damage increased from 25% to 30%.
• Superior incineration
  • Immobilize duration increased from 1 sec to 1.5 sec.
• Hydra
  • Damage increased by 15%.
• Lightning Sphere
  • Damage increased by 10%.

Passive skills

• Ice Veil
  • Barrier duration increased from 5% to 8%.
• Gel intense
  • Chance of getting a lucky strike increased from 3% to 5%.
• Soul Fire
  • Previously: After 1.5 sec of standing still, your Pyromancy skills cost 5/10/15% less mana.
  • Now: Your Pyromancy skills cost 4% less mana and deal 2% more damage. These bonuses are doubled after 2 seconds of immobility.
• Avalanche
  • Damage increased from 40% to 45%.
• Electrical impact
  • Damage increased by 33%.

Paragon

• Glyph of Frostbite
  • Damage reduction increased from 13% to 15%.
• Glyph of Summoning
  • Damage reduction stacks increased from 12% to 15%.
• Stalagmite Glyph
  • Critical strike chance increased from 10% to 20%.
• Glyph of Enchantment
  • Damage per 5 Intelligence points purchased within range increased from +1.3% to +2%, up to a maximum of +10%.
• Glyph of Adjuration
  • Damage per 5 Intelligence points purchased within range increased from +2.6% to +3%, up to a maximum of +15%.
• Glyph of Unleash
  • Mana regeneration and damage increased from 6.7% to 7%.

Legendary aspects

• fiery protections
  • Mana cost reduced from 100-200 to 75-125.
• overwhelming currents
  • Chance increased from 10-20% to 15-30%.

Thief

SKILLS

• Heartbreak
  • Attack speed increased by 20%.
  • Dev Team Note: Reduced the number of interrupt frames from 20 to 16.
• Powerful Arrow
  • Attack speed increased by 20%.
  • Dev Team Note: Reduced the number of interrupt frames from 20 to 16.
• Rafale
  • Damage increased by 10%.
• Improved Burst
  • Previously: If Burst hits a vulnerable target, all targets it hits during this use become vulnerable for 3 sec.
  • Now: Burst deals x20% more damage to vulnerable targets. If Burst hits a vulnerable target, all targets it hits during this use become vulnerable for 3 sec.
• Advanced Burst
  • Previously: After dodging while passing through a target, your next Burst stuns targets for 2.5 sec.
  • Now: After you dodge while passing through a target, your next Burst deals x30% increased damage and stuns targets for 2.5 sec.
• Rapid fire
  • Damage increased by 10%.
• Rain of arrows
  • Damage increased by 10%.

Passive skills

• Precision
  • Accumulations necessary to obtain bonuses reduced from 6 to 4.

Paragon

• Glyph of Infusion
  • Cooldown reduction increased from 0.5s to 1s.

Legendary aspects

• circle of blades
  • Damage bonus increased from 8-15% to 15-22%.
• dispersion
  • Previously: Flood arrows have a 15-25% chance of splitting into two arrows each time they ricochet.
  • Now: Ricocheting Flood arrow damage increased from 40% to 60-80%. Additionally, Flood Arrows have a 40-60% chance of splitting into two arrows each time they ricochet.
• of the shadow slicer
  • Damage increased from 80-100% of base damage to 200-300%.

Unique items

• Eagle’s horn
  • Damage bonus increased from 20-40% to 40-60%.
• Eyes in the night
  • Deathtrap damage bonus increased from 30-50% to 50-70%.
• Shifting Ring of Deception
  • Shadow Lure summon cooldown reduced from 12 to 10 sec.
  • Shadow Lure damage increased by 20%.

The seneschal

• Poisoned Assistance
  • Poisoned Assist no longer reapplies the construct’s damage bonuses when it spreads to match other damage-over-time Harmony Stones.
• Bleeding assistance
  • Bleed damage bonus reduced from 20% to 10%.
• Burning assistance
  • Critical damage bonus reduced from 20% to 10%.
  • Critical damage bonus for each skill rank increased from 2% to 1%.
• Storm
  • Storm no longer grants additional duration and damage when reapplied or spread.

User interface and user experience

Character Profile Updates

• Skills equipped by player characters are now displayed on their profile.
• Equipped emblems are now displayed in the character profile header.
• The name of the applied ornament and the location where it was obtained are displayed in the tooltips of transmogrified items.
• In the Edit Profile section, players can select seals from those obtained during the current week to display them on their profile header and on their social card.
• The current player character’s playing time is displayed at the bottom of the profile.

Divers

• The crafting cost of Ultra-Unique items has been reduced to 4 Sublimated Sparks (was 5).

Bug fixes

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue where the Seneschal would benefit twice from skills that had beneficial effects for allied characters (e.g. Battlecry for Barbarian characters and Bloody Howl for Druid characters).
• Fixed an issue where the character would gain double the bonuses granted by the thief passive skills Accuracy and Weapon Mastery if an attack switched them from a melee weapon to a crossbow.
• Fixed an issue where some interactable items during quests, such as Lyndon’s stash during the Optional Expenditures quest, would not accept interactions while the player was on a mount.
• Fixed an issue where the camera would not reset if the player died fighting Lilith’s Echo while the camera was zoomed out.
• Fixed an issue where the Juggernaut Skin would not apply armor while the player was mounted.
• Fixed an issue where the guaranteed overwhelm granted by the Druid characters’ Empowered Spray skill did not apply immediately once all 12 stacks were acquired.
• Fixed an issue where Necromancer characters’ Skeleton Reaper corpse chances were based on Luck instead of a set percentage.
• Fixed an issue where Bone Shards cast by the Fragmented Spirit Aspect were not receiving the vulnerability effect granted by Adept Bone Shard.
• Fixed an issue where Thorns was not applying Fluke consistently (e.g. Thorns could trigger Abject Decay, but not Carving Flesh).
• Fixed an issue where the Sect Guide Legendary Paragon node was not correctly granting bonus damage based on the attack speed of bonus minions.
• Fixed an issue where the “Rotten” aspect would not spawn additional corpses.
• Fixed an issue where the Frigid Fate and Elemental Summon legendary paragon effects on Wizard characters were not working correctly with the elemental aspect.
• Fixed an issue where the fiery surge passive skill was granting lower mana regeneration than intended.
• Fixed an issue where Empowered Caltrap’s bonus damage could be applied more often than intended when stacking multiple uses of Caltrap on the same opponent.
• Fixed an issue where Reinforced Caltrap would deal less damage to bosses than intended.
• Fixed an issue with many legendary aspects where the effect of the first equipped aspect would be applied if a duplicate aspect was equipped, instead of the effect of the more powerful equipped aspect.
• Fixed an issue where Vyr’s Virtuosity effect would remain active if the skill was forgotten while the Lord Mage aspect was equipped.
• Fixed an issue where a power that granted a stat bonus based on another stat would not readjust after the temporary bonus wore off.

User interface and user experience

• Fixed an issue where the add contact message could appear when editing the profile.
• Fixed an issue where the description of Reinforced Caltrap did not include the damage limit.

Divers

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