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Update: The patch is now live on all platforms.
While the patch itself hasn't arrived yet on PC, due to some issues still being worked out, it is live on consoles and should be up shorty on PC as well. We also got word that we'll find out the S19 start date later this week and that it is NOT coming this Friday, but we'll find out when it is coming in this week's season preview.

We do however, have the patch notes, with some big changes from the ones we saw on the PTR! The big changes from the PTR are the Barbarian Lamentation legendary power (150-200% Rend damage) being reverted, the Crusader and Monk set bonuses have been significantly changed, the the seasonal killstreak numbers were modified and we got more new legendary powers, as well as some reverted. The patch also adds the Lilith wings from the Virtual BlizzCon ticket! 3 comments Yesterday at 20:18 by Starym

Spell Combos, Ultimates, No Word on Monetization and More: The Big Diablo Immortal Interview

We have another great Games Beat interview, this time on Diablo: Immortal. Among the big things that have come out of it are how the game design is different from Diablo 4, why there was so little focus on it at BlizzCon, the way combat works, skills, ultimates, items and a whole lot more new info. It's a very detailed and exhaustive interview, so definitely check it out if you're interested in the game. 2 comments Yesterday at 04:49 by Starym

New Lamentation Barbarian Legendary Nerfed, Blizzard Responds

There was a change to the PTR version of patch 2.6.7 in the client that was at BlizzCon, with the new legendary power for Lamentation being taken off - meaning the 200% buff to Rend is no longer on the item at all. This caused a lot of discussion and complaint from the barbarian community, started by well known barb advocate Free, and today we finally got a response on the matter from Nevalistis, the Diablo community manager. 4 comments Yesterday at 02:51 by Starym

Era Ending with Patch 2.6.7 + Season 19 Probable Start

UPDATE: The patch is now live with many changes from the PTR notes, and Season 19 will NOT be coming this Friday. Check out more details and the full patch notes here.

We'll be seeing an end to the current Diablo 3 Era when patch 2.6.7 aka Season 19 arrives, meaning the main, non-seasonal, leaderboards will reset. As for when exactly the patch will arrive, the safe bet is this Friday, November 15th, as that's how long the between-season downtime has been for the past two seasons.

Season 19, the season of Eternal Conflict, will feature a new system of combos, where you'll get a specific effect trigger after a specific killstreak, as well as a flat damage and move speed buff, stacking up to 1000 kills. We'll also get new Crusader and Monk sets, new legendary items/powers and a lot more! Check out the patch notes from the PTR for all the info, as we still wait for the official ones to release: 1 comment Yesterday at 02:11 by Starym

Leaks Before the Diablo 4 Announcement: Amazon, Paladin and Release Date?

Some 4 months ago there was a leak over on reddit detailing a lot of the announced features for Diablo 4, and we thought we'd take a look at what exactly the leak got right and not, so we can decide if the part about the other two classes being Amazon and Paladin, as well as the planned beta and release dates are correct. 9 comments Nov 11, 2019 at 20:14 by Starym

Game Informer's next issue is all about Blizzard and they had a visit at the Blizz offices and got another look at the demo we all saw at BlizzCon, with three of their writers getting to play. Luckily for us they made videos from their visit, one for each class, and although we've seen plenty of footage from the demo already, these are "clean", with only the gameplay sounds and no commentary. 8 comments Nov 10, 2019 at 16:15 by Starym

Diablo 4 Will Feature Cosmetic Microtransactions

While Blizzard have been somewhat cagey about this topic in various interviews, it did slip out that they are in fact planning on having microtransactions in the game. We have separate information from a few sources, beginning with Quin69's original interview with lead designer Joe Shely: 20 comments Nov 09, 2019 at 02:39 by Starym

It's that time of year again when we find out how it's going on the financial side of things for Activision Blizzard, with the thord quarter of 2019 bringing better than expected results. WoW Classic is the biggest news, as it has produced the largest increase in quarterly subscription plans in WoW history! While that may sound like some PR talk to boost numbers, we should take into consideration this includes every expansion launch ever, meaning the spike from regular BfA to Classic's release has exceeded even the biggest jumps from a bad or no-content at the end expansion (like WoD) to a popular one (like Legion), which is pretty impressive. Nov 07, 2019 at 22:48 by Starym

Cross-Play Is a Goal for Diablo 4, Blizzard Very Excited About It

While we've heard the dev team respond to mentions of cross-play already, it was mostly the usual response of "we're looking into it" or similar, aka they haven't really gotten to the point of deciding anything about it, we've now gotten a more positive response. In an interview with the Telegraph, Allen Adham, Blizzard co-founder and Executive Produces on Diablo 4, had some more definitive things to say about cross-play: 8 comments Nov 06, 2019 at 17:27 by Starym

Everything We Know About Diablo 4 So Far

With so many articles, panels, interviews and streams coming out of BlizzCon this year, a lot of people may have missed a lot of important details announced about Diablo 4, so we thought we'd gather it all up in one spot, before going into detail and analyzing each segment separately. We won't go into the smaller details and less useful info here, so we have a better overall overview, so if you really want to know every single detail, check out the list of articles at the bottom of the page. 26 comments Nov 05, 2019 at 06:54 by Starym

If you didn't have the chance to watch or attend this year's BlizzCon, here's a video from Blizzard which highlights all reveals in 3 minutes. 3 comments Nov 04, 2019 at 21:46 by Stan

Visible Open World Players, Skill Cap at 15 and More from Venture Beat Diablo 4 Interview

The interviews are still going strong from BlizzCon, and Venture Beat caught up with Lead Systems Designer David Kim and Lead Lighting Designer Sean Murphy. They talked about a lot, from the skill and talent system, the new engine, the lighting system and more. 2 comments Nov 04, 2019 at 21:20 by Starym

Diablo: Immortal Is Not Done and Why We Havent Heard from it at BlizzCon

We have an update from game Director Wyatt Cheng, talking about why we didn't hear anything about Immortal on any of the BlizzCon panels, from the game's reddit. The main reason was to give more focus to Diablo 4 and it's unveiling, but also because the rumors of it being "pretty much ready" were false. The game is still in full production and we'll be getting more information on how far along it is in the coming months - still no news on the release date. 2 comments Nov 04, 2019 at 00:07 by Starym

All the Item Affixes from the Diablo 4 BlizzCon Demo

We have another amazing compilation by (of course) another redditor! This time it was TheDarkAmbience who looked through all the footage of not only the gameplay demos, but also the panels where devs were showing off items legendaries etc. We already know we will only have 2 base stats instead of the usual Strength, Dex, Int, Vitality and the variations thereof, namely Attack and Defence, but let's see what else we'll be dealing with. 4 comments Nov 03, 2019 at 22:57 by Starym

Diablo 4 Built for Much Faster Expansions + More Info From Game Informer Interview

In an interview with Game Informer, Blizzard co-founder Allen Adham talked about the game, and an interesting part of the discussion focused around whether they considered/are considering making D4 a live service game, like WoW or similar titles. While we already know that is not the case at the moment, Adham did say that the way the Diablo 4 team is structured now is aimed at creating much faster expansions than ever before: 25 comments Nov 03, 2019 at 17:10 by Starym

New Info on Sets, Trading, Crafting, PvP from Collective Dev Interview

Lead Game Designer Joe Shely and Senior Producer Tiffany Wat recently spoke to youtubers, streamers and a lot of other game press people in a collective interview and went over a lot of their burning questions, including one from our own Deadset! 1 comment Nov 03, 2019 at 06:14 by Starym

Now that all the panels have concluded Blizzard have a post rounding up all the features of Diablo 4. While the various panels and interviews we covered go into significantly more depth, it's good to have an overview like this to get a good broad picture. Today's article goes over the classes and their unique traits, the skill point and talent tree systems, the open world and multiplayer features, including an overview of the 5 zones, the dungeons, the monsters, bosses, monster affixes, itemization as well as a quick Q&A at the end covering some popular questions. Nov 03, 2019 at 00:57 by Starym

It's time to take a closer look at that huge world we'll be exploring (hopefully within the next 10 years), and the lore that's propping it all up. As we're going to be finding out more about Lilith, the world suddenly becomes more of a focal point, as she is indeed the mother of Sanctuary in a very literal way.
We'll be updating this article throughout the panel. 9 comments Nov 02, 2019 at 22:11 by Starym

Day 2 is well on its way and we have more Diablo 4 gameplay streams for you to enjoy! Right now we have Bajheera live from the show floor! Nov 02, 2019 at 21:19 by Starym

Diablo 4: Systems and Features Panel Summary

It's time to go deep with the classes, skills, dungeons and more for D4! We had a slot of snippets from the two developer interviews from the streams yesterday, but a lot of it was left in the air and somewhat fuzzy, so hopefully we get a clearer picture today, as the presentation is about to start! We'll be updating this post with all the news. Nov 02, 2019 at 19:10 by Starym

All Barbarian, Sorceress and Druid Skills and Talents

Redditor KingPungy took it upon himself to gather up all the skill and talent descriptions for all the classes and put them into one place (well, two places), so we can get a better overview of the classes themselves and where they're at at the moment. It's an amazing job and well done, so thanks a lot to KingPungy for putting the effort in! 5 comments Nov 02, 2019 at 16:53 by Starym

Quick Official Video Highlight Summaries for the Announcements at BlizzCon

Blizzard have been tweeting out a whole bunch of summaries for the announcements in the first day of BlizzCon, in 3-minute video format! If you're not up to reading a whole lot and just want the very, very basic info and highlights, or just want to remind yourself of the best parts of the con so far, here they are! 2 comments Nov 02, 2019 at 07:09 by Starym

We had 4 major streams today with two of them having developer interviews with the two leads on the game. You can check out all 4 VoDs below and if you're just looking for a recap of all the new info we found out from the streams and interviews, check out these 2 articles:
More New Info - Second Dev Interview from Streams
New Information from Dev Interview and Streams: Key Dungeons, Expansions, No AH and More 3 comments Nov 02, 2019 at 05:26 by Starym

We have the official preview for Diablo: Immortal at this year's Blizzcon, despite it not getting mentioned at all on the panels so far. It goes into both the basics of what the game is and the new features they're showing off this year - the ultimate skill system, a first look at the items and more. There's still no release date or even a release window and no mention of the monetization system either. 2 comments Nov 02, 2019 at 03:51 by Starym

After our exhaustive coverage of the announcement, panel and interviews on the streams, here comes Blizzard's official overview of the info today, albeit with a little less than we managed to gather up. In any case this is the official preview for the game so enjoy: 1 comment Nov 02, 2019 at 03:45 by Starym

More New Info - Second Dev Interview from Streams

We have a whole lot more new info with another dev interview, this time from Rhykker's stream, with David Kim, the second lead designer! He had a lot more time with the dev than Quin in the previous interview, so we did find out a lot of new stuff. We've also highlighted the big news from the interview in bold, with the blue highlighted ones being answers we added in later as we missed a few initially. 3 comments Nov 02, 2019 at 03:00 by Starym

Diablo: Immortal Development Update Video

Here comes even more Diablo, as D4 has taken center stage (probably in revenge for last year's BlizzCon), but we did get some news from the Diablo: Immortal side of things! The new gameplay video covers new zones: Wortham, Dark Wood, Tamoe Mountain, Ashwold Cemetery; a new class featured at BlizzCon, the Demon Hunter; the Haunted Carriage world event; some legendary items for several classes and an introduction of ultimate skills. Nov 02, 2019 at 02:03 by Starym

New Information from Dev Interview and Streams: Key Dungeons, Expansions, No AH and More

Update: There was another dev interview on Rhykker's stream and it featured a whole lot of new info as well - from Mythic items to the level cap and only 2 base stats available, among a lot more.
Check it out right here.

We took a look at the two main streams from the BlizzCon floor by Bluddshed and Quin69, and gathered up some additional info we saw during their streams. Quin69 also actually had a developer come on to his stream and he got to ask some questions, and we'll be going over those as well. You can check them out here if you missed them as well. 11 comments Nov 02, 2019 at 01:01 by Starym

We're getting a bit of a revamp to our favorite launcher, with a lot more overview over all its aspects, from the games themselves (with the Activision ones thankfully being given a bit less prominence), the friends list and more! And we can all try it out right now! 5 comments Nov 01, 2019 at 22:33 by Starym

Diablo 4 Stream Live Now - New Gameplay + VoDs

We had 4 major streams today with two of them having developer interview with the two leads on the game. You can check out all 4 VoDs below and if you're just looking for a recap of all the new info we found out from the streams and interviews, check out these 2 articles:
More New Info - Second Dev Interview from Streams
New Information from Dev Interview and Streams: Key Dungeons, Expansions, No AH and More 2 comments Nov 01, 2019 at 21:20 by Starym

CHANGELOG

29 Oct. 2019: Barbarian Class Overview
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29 Oct. 2019: Crusader Class Overview
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29 Oct. 2019: Demon Hunter Class Overview
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29 Oct. 2019: Monk Class Overview
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29 Oct. 2019: Necromancer Class Overview
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29 Oct. 2019: Witch Doctor Class Overview
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29 Oct. 2019: Wizard Class Overview
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25 Sep. 2019: LoD WoL Monk Gear, Gems, and Paragon Points
- Minor corrections to the item table.

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