Season 1 Diablo 2, major changes coming! I take stock of all the changes coming to Diablo 2, runic words and classes!

New season

The season system is just around the corner, and it's early in the year that you'll be able to create seasonal characters. There will be a PTR (Public Test Realm) system, where you can test future content, and then it will be rolled out to all players. The arrival of the seasonal mode is thus around February or March 2022!

As a reminder, the seasonal system allows you to start from zero, with characters not compatible with non-seasonal. At the end of a season, which is scheduled to last four months, the seasonal characters are transferred to the non-season, and are thus reunited with your usual characters. There is of course no obligation to play it.

You will have a ranking system, allowing those with the most experience to be posted on the season tables. The race for level 99 will soon be able to start!

New Runic Words

If you're looking for a reason to play Seasonal Mode, Blizzard is reaching out to you! For the first time in years (many, many years), new content will appear. You will be able to create new runic words, and only accessible in this seasonal mode! This will redistribute the cards and allow the creation of new builds

Set improvements

Semi-hidden message from the developers, but they want to improve the sets. They talk about new cube formulas in particular, I guess it will be possible to improve the third of the sets, and possibly an improvement in the power of some sets of sets. A good boost for a very developed but not very powerful mechanism!

Class balancing

I was the first to believe that Blizzard wouldn't touch the balance of their vintage game, however they decided to get their hands dirty, and that's to their credit! Here is the summary of the information:

• Amazon: improved melee skills and little used bow skills
• Assassin: improved martial arts and little-used traps
• Barbarian: improved throwing attacks and little-used skills like Scary Guardian and Attack Jump
• Druid: improved fire skills, summoning, bear form, skills little used like Arctic Breath
• Necromancer: improved summons and some bone skills
• Paladin: Improved Fist of the Heavens, AoE damage aura and Thorn
• sorcerer: differentiation of cold armor and unused skills like Hydra, lightning falling from the sky, Inferno, etc.

Mercenary buff

Another news not mentioned in the video is the improvement of the mercenaries can be used! Namely the rogue of act 1, the mage of act 3 and the barbarian of act 5! New ways to use these mercenaries and synergize with your builds will therefore be available soon!

By Alchemists, November 2021