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Diablo 4 Patch 1.3.0 Notes!

Season 3 - Construct

Last Updated:January 31, 2024

The promised Diablo 4 Patch 1.3.0 Notes are here. New Legendary and Unique items, QoL improvements (such as Respec Mode for Skills), along with class balance tweaks and more are here. See below for all the information.

Class Updates

Developer’s Note: It’s important to us that when a player chooses to fully invest in a Skill, the payoff is immense. In pursuit of this goal, several of our new Unique and Legendary items are targeting Skills that have yet to reach their full potential. We’re excited to see what players accomplish with our new Unique items for Barbarian’s Rend, Druid’s Lightning Storm, and Sorcerer’s Meteor. We’re also targeting some pressing issues for each Class. Necromancers with Cult Leader should see their Minions strike a bit harder, Barbarians shouldn’t feel that 3 Shouts are a requirement for their success, and Sorceresses applying Vulnerable with Lightning Spear should open new build opportunities. There are also Class updates to items and Skills that are underperforming, such as the Rogue’s Ranged Unique Items, and the Necromancer’s Golem.

All Classes

New Items

Paingorger's Gauntlets – Unique Gloves

  • Damaging enemies with a cast Non–Basic Skill marks them for 3 seconds. When a Basic Skill first hits a marked enemy, the Basic Skill's damage is echoed to all marked enemies, dealing 100–200%[x] increased damage.

Aspect of Adaptability – Utility

  • When cast below 50% Maximum Resource, Basic Skills generate 3 of your Primary Resource, once per cast.
  • When cast at or above 50% Maximum Resource, Basic Skills deal 40–80% increased damage.

Juggernaut's Aspect – Defensive

  • Gain 0.75 –1.25 Armor, but your Evade has 100% increased Cooldown.

Item Updates

Ring of Starless Skies

  • The unique power has been changed.
    • Previous: Casting a Core Skill reduces Resource cost of your Core Skills by 12%, up to a maximum of 40%. Resets upon using a non–Core Skill.
    • New: Spending resources reduces your resource costs and increases your damage by x10% for 3 seconds, up to 40%.

Melted Heart of Selig

  • All Stats increased to 2x normal value.
  • Core Skill Damage changed to Movement Speed.
  • Damage While Healthy increased to 3x normal value.
  • Unique Power Changed
    • Previous: Gain 30 Maximum Resource. In addition, when you take damage, drain 3 resources for every 1% of life you would have lost instead.
    • New: Gain 60 maximum Resource. 75% of incoming damage drains 2 Resource for every 1% of Life you would have lost instead.

Overpower

  • Overpower attacks now gain +1% damage, down from +2%, per 1% of your Base Life you have in Fortify.
  • Overpower attacks now gain +1% damage, down from +2%, per 1% of your Base Life that you have in bonus life above your Base Life.

Barbarian

Druid

Necromancer

Rogue

Sorcerer

Gameplay

End-Game Activities

  • Helltide will now be active every hour on the hour, with a 5-minute gap in between. Helltide will be active 55 minutes of every hour.
  • So players can more consistently acquire Distilled Fear, we've reworked how Distilled Fear is collected from Nightmare Dungeons.
    • Players will always gain a Distilled Fear after completing a Nightmare Dungeon of at least Tier 30.
    • Every 10 Tiers after Tier 30 there's an increasing chance for additional Distilled Fears to be rewarded.
    • Completing Tier 90 Nightmare Dungeons and beyond will always grant 3 Distilled Fears.
  • The Purified Sigil reward for completing a Nightmare Dungeon will now always grant a Sigil 1 Tier greater than the Nightmare Dungeon just completed.

Items

  • Scroll of Escape
    • Now will populate in the lost items stash if the player missed one that was dropped.
    • Stack limit increased from 20 to 99.
    • Appear as Legendary so that they are harder to miss when dropped on the ground.
  • The chance for Scattered Prisms to drop when defeating an Elite Monster has been reduced.
  • Scattered Prisms can now be acquired from Legion Event Chests.
  • The Material cap has been increased from 99,999 to 999,999.
  • Treasure Goblins spawned while fighting Avarice now have the same loot potential as normally encountered treasure goblins.
  • World Tier III and IV World Boss weekly caches can now drop Unique Items.
  • The increased cap for Item Power on drops from World Bosses has been adjusted.
    • Previous: +100 to min, +100 to max
    • New: +65 to min, +25 to max

Developer’s Note: World Bosses are intended to reward powerful loot for your level. With this change, at a high level, players will see maximum Item Power gear from World Bosses at higher levels.

  • The Item Power ranges for items dropped by end-game bosses, such as Varshan and Zir, have been decreased for Rare and Legendary Items. Unique Item Power has not been changed. Examples (note that the current range for Unique Items was previously the range for all items):
    • Varshan in WT3 (Level 55)
      • Unique Item Power Range: 675-750
      • Rare/Legendary Range: 650-725
    • Grigoire in WT4 (Level 75)
      • Unique Item Power Range: 850-925
      • Rare/Legendary Range: 800-875
    • Beast in the Ice (Level 85)
      • Unique Item Power Range: 900-925
      • Rare/Legendary Range: 850-925
    • Duriel remains unchanged (always drops 925)
  • Nightmare Dungeon Item Power scaling has been adjusted to more consistently drop high Item Power loot in high Tier Nightmare Dungeons. Examples:
    • Monsters at level 100
      • Legendary Item Power Range
        • Previous: 820-925
        • New: 845-925
      • Rare Item Power Range
        • Previous: 785-925
        • New: 810-925
    • Monsters at level 125
      • Legendary Item Power Range
        • Previous: 845-925
        • New: 910-925
      • Rare Item Power Range
        • Previous: 810-925
        • New: 885-925
  • All monsters above Level 144 (Nightmare Dungeon Tier 90+) now are guaranteed to drop 925 Item Power gear.

Miscellaneous

  • Potion count will no longer be reset after dying and being revived by another player.
  • The Hatred's Chosen syphon effect is no longer based on Lucky Hit.
  • The Greed Shrine effect also now will drop additional Gold after the effect expires. The amount of Gold dropped is determined by how many enemies were killed while the Shrine buff was active.
  • Uber-Unique Items can now be unlocked as transmogs.

User Interface and User Experience

  • New settings have been added to allow navigation in the world with full Keyboard controls—including movement using the W-A-S-D keys—instead of your mouse.
  • Bonuses from keywords, such as Berserking, now also denote whether any associated damage bonus is additive or multiplicative.
  • Event Timers are now displayed on the world map.
  • The visual effect for being Chilled will now visually increase in intensity to denote how close the Chilled character is to being Frozen.
  • The default button bindings for Mount actions have been adjusted to be more intuitive on controller.
  • An additional stash tab is now available to be purchased in-game with Gold. Maximum stash tabs available are now 6.
  • The icons for the Helltide Chest of Mysteries and Living Steel Chest have been updated to make them more visually distinctive from the other chest icons.
  • The button for confirming Gold amount in the trade interface on controller has been changed to Yor Triangle on console. This will allow pressing A or X on console to bring up the virtual keyboard to manually enter Gold amounts when trading.
  • We have introduced a new way for players to approach reworking their Skill Tree.
    • Players can now refund whole paths orSkill clumps whilst seeing a preview of it all.
    • Players can also see how many Skill points will be refunded to them and how much Gold it will cost in advance.

Developer’s Note: he new Respec options allows players to easily refund or re-add their Skills in a flexible way. Our goal with these additionsis to make purchasing and refunding Nodes less time consuming while encouraging players to experiment more.

Bug Fixes

Accessibility

  • Fixed an issue where the Screen Reader did not read the quantity of a consumable in the action wheel.
  • Fixed an issue where subtitles for dialogue and lorebooks could not be turned off.
  • Fixed an issue where the Screen Reader could malfunction when repeatedly opening a vendor’s services menu.

Gameplay

  • Fixed an issue where player attacks could still be suppressed when some of their character's body was outside a Suppressor Field.
  • Fixed an issue where effects that increased Max Life by a percentage (such as an Elixir of Fortitude) did not account for certain other Max Life bonuses, such as granted by an Affix on equipment.
  • Fixed an issue where the Drowned Sea Hag could spawn an excessive number of minions.
  • Fixed an issue where the Echo of Lilith could still attack the player after being defeated during the second phase of the encounter.
  • Fixed an issue where the Umbral Aspect could grant large amounts of resources when using crowd control Skills on Structure enemies.
  • Fixed an issue where various Skills and effects, such as Devouring Blaze, did not consider Staggered bosses as Crowd Controlled.
  • Fixed an issue where the Butcher could stand in place if the player stood near a Resplendent chest.

Barbarian

  • Fixed an issue where the Bone Breaker legendary paragon node didn't have a buff indicator.
  • Fixed an issue where the guaranteed overpower from the Earthstriker's could trigger on Basic attacks.
  • Fixed an issue where Charge cast by Ancients spawned by the Ancestral Charge did not trigger explosions from the Brawler's.
  • Fixed an issue where Hammer of the Ancients was dealing more damage than intended due to the bonus from the Violent Hammer of the Ancients upgrade also being applied even if the Furious Hammer of the Ancients upgrade was chosen.

Druid

  • Fixed an issue where the tooltip for Envenom displayed its damage bonus as additive, when it was multiplicative.
  • Fixed an issue whereEnhanced Ravens wasn't increasing Critical Strike Chance to enemies hit.
  • Fixed an issue where the Dire Wolf's did not specify that it also made Grizzly Rage function as a Werewolf skill.

Necromancer

  • Fixed an issue where the bonus from the Ring of Starless Skies could get removed when the Gore Quills was activated.
  • Fixed an issue where Shadow and Bone mages did not cast Blizzard when the Coldbringer's was equipped.
  • Fixed an issue where Blood Mist could fail to activate while under the effect of a Bandit’s Smoke Bomb.
  • Fixed an issue where the Splintering would scale more than 2x when used on a two-handed weapon.

Rogue

  • Fixed an issue where Tibault's Will increased the cap for combo points.
  • Fixed an issue where returning Twisting Blades while using the Bladedancer's were applying full Poison Imbue Damage, instead of the expected percentage of damage detailed in the Aspect’s description.
  • Fixed an issue where the Paragon Glyph Snare did not benefit Smoke Grenade when it is considered a Trap Skill by the Explosive Verve Aspect.
  • Fixed an issue where Gorger enemies could still target Rogue players under the effect of Concealment with their stun attack.

Sorcerer

  • Fixed an issue where various powers and effects that are granted by evading, such as the unique powers of Esu's Heirloom and Flickerstep, did not work properly when using the Teleport Enchantment.
  • Fixed an issue where the bonus evade charges granted by The Oculus didn't increase when upgrading the Weapon at the Blacksmith.
  • Fixed an issue where Ball Lightning was dealing far more damage than intended.

Developer’s Note: Ball Lightning was dealing an unintended amount of damage because of its Enhanced upgrade. This bug fix returns the amount of damage done by this Skill to intended quantities.

  • Fixed an issue where the Static Surge legendary node would trigger from automatic casts of skills, such as the Chain Lightning Enchanment.
  • Fixed an issue where Ice Spikes would instantly explode when casting Deep Freeze with the Frozen Tundra equipped.
  • Fixed an issue where the buff from the Battle Caster's aspect could unexpectedly fall off.
  • Fixed an issue where the Protectionpassive did not take into account any bonuses to Barrier generation.

User Interface and User Experience

  • Fixed an issue in the Season Journey menu where hovering over aspects rewarded for completing a chapter of the Season Journey could sometimes not display the name of the Aspect.
  • Fixed an issue where the minimap icon for indicating the Stash has new items (i.e. recovered lost items) only displayed when close to the Stash.
  • Fixed an issue where the Creatures of Night incense had an incorrect tooltip.
  • Fixed an issue where certain stats would not display for all Classes in the character details window, such as Damage with 2-handed slashing weapons would not display for Necromancers.
  • Fixed an issue where pressing X or Square on console would confirm the salvage of a Legendary or Unique Item.
  • Fixed an issue where controller navigation in the Vendor buyback menu could malfunction.
  • Fixed various instances where the minimap was inaccurate.
  • Fixed various instances where Quest Pins and Objectives were inaccurate.

Quests and Dungeons

  • Fixed an issue where progression through the Flooded Depths could get broken if a ladder traversal was skipped with Teleport.
  • Fixed an issue where the Animus Urn in the Bastion of Faith could be skipped by using Leap or Teleport.
  • Fixed an issue where progression could be blocked in Uldur's Cave if all enemies were killed before destroying the second barricade.
  • Fixed an issue where some enemies were not marked on the minimap during the Slay All Enemies objective in Nostrava Deepwood.
  • Fixed an issue where elites encountered that transformed from initially harmless people could respawn after being defeated.
  • Fixed an issue where the Tomb Lord boss in the Shifting City could teleport outside of the boss arena, which would cause the fight to restart.
  • Fixed an issue where there was no Healing Well in the Conclave.
  • Fixed an issue where the Battle Hardened nightmare dungeon affix could grant Damage Reduction even if the player was above 90% life.
  • Fixed an issue where the Sealed Penitent's Cache quest didn't properly grant rewards for completion.
  • Fixed multiple instances where the Final Straw quest could not be completed properly.
  • Fixed an issue where the Quest Objective wouldn't update when entering the Cellar during the Acts of Atonement quest.

Miscellaneous

  • Fixed an issue where upgrading a damaged item at the Blacksmithwould further lower the item's durability.
  • Various stability, visual, and performance improvements.

Maxroll Season 3 Content is Heating Up!

The Maxroll Diablo 4 Team is burning the midnight oil updating Leveling Builds, Endgame Build Guides, Resource Guides, Seasonal Guides along with our powerful tools, like D4Planner.

With that said, head over to our Discord and select the D4 role in #roles to stay up to date with our content development to make the most of your Season 3 experience!

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