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Diablo 2: Resurrected Patch 2.4.3 Notes

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D2R is getting some upgrades this week, as patch 2.4.3 brings many quality of life improvements and a fun weekend event! The main focus is on lobby updates to make it easier for players to actually find each other, then there's plenty of quality of life improvements, bug fixes, and the 50% extra magic find event starting on June 30th! 

Update: Patch 2.4.3 is now live.

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Since this timeless classic was resurrected, daring heroes have diligently decimated ranks of hell-raising demons across all five acts of Diablo II: Resurrected, forever loosening the Lord of Terror’s hold on Sanctuary.

In Patch 2.4.3., which goes live on June 29, we introduce a variety of new features and improvements set to elevate multiplayer lobbies for console and PC. Accompanying these new features are quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes. Partying up with like-minded demon slayers is a cornerstone of the Diablo experience. Because of this, we‘ve been closely monitoring your feedback around multiplayer lobbies, and the changes highlighted below are a direct result of this. Sanctuary wasn’t built in a day—while we have made great strides in refining various aspects of Diablo II: Resurrected, we are dedicated to enhancing your pursuit of the Dark Wanderer even further. As always, we want to make the flames of this beloved classic burn hotter and brighter than ever before and invite your feedback to help aid us in this communal effort.

Now, make ready, hero of Sanctuary! You will need the knowledge below to topple the demons that lie in wait.


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Backend Improvements

One common issue among players is that their Game List did not populate with enough games, even when they felt it should have. When you create a game in D2R, it gets hosted on one of many game sites in your region. Prior to ladder's launch, the Game List would only populate with games from just one single game site in your region—whichever you had the best connection to. This was done to preserve a high-quality gameplay experience in any game you may join through the lobby, but we found our criteria to be overly aggressive. When ladder launched, we expanded this to provide players games from up to three game sites. This helped players see more games in their Game List without a cost to connection quality, but players still weren't seeing enough games. We've decided to broaden it even further in Patch 2.4.3. Now, any number of game sites in your region that you have a strong enough connection to can contribute to the results in your Game List. To provide even more options for those looking to join a game, we've also doubled the maximum number of games that can appear in the Game List at a given time from 20 to 40. Plus, we've fine-tuned game details to refresh in almost real time. You still must manually refresh your Game List, which is something we decided to keep so the Game List would not shift while players select a game. These improvements have been applied to both the console and PC lobby experiences.

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Console Lobby Updates

Following the successful launch of Ladder Season One, the team has turned their focus to features that required the most attention. Console Party Finder was the top item on our list by a large margin. Patch 2.4.3. brings multiple improvements to the console multiplayer experience, providing new and improved ways to create and find games by replacing Party Finder with Game Creator and Game List.

Three Options Lie Before You

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Selecting the “Play” button on the main menu with your selected online hero will now present three options for online play:

Private: Enter a private game that will not populate to the Game List. The only way for others to join your game is through the Friends List or by being invited.

Game Creator: Create a public game that will populate on the games list.

Game List: View the games list, use the search feature, or join a public game.

 

Game Creator

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Game Creator will equip you with the ability to quickly create the type of game you desire. To aid you in doing so, all previous game categories that were available in Party Finder have returned in the Game Creator. Selecting and confirming one of these game categories will generate a pre-made name for your game, accompanied by an assigned number—this is to prevent games with duplicate names from being created. Level Difference, which was previously only available as a Game Creation option for PC players, has been added as a game creation option.

We have also added an additional category called Custom—this category consists of two options:

Public Game: Create a public game to populate in the games list with a name of your choice.

Password-Protected Game: Create a public game with a password that must be entered to join. Just like in the PC lobby, a password-protected game will not appear in the games list but can be joined through a separate “Join Game” button found by pressing the “Search Game Name” button on the Game List menu and going to the Custom category.

A preview of your Custom or generated game name is displayed on the top-right portion of your screen. Once you are comfortable with your selections and confirm them, your journey to Sanctuary can begin.

Game List

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Selecting the “Game List” button will display up to 40 matching games created by other players that your selected character is able to join. To aid in finding specific games, you can use the search feature to locate a specific game or filter games displayed using keywords. Within the filtering options you can set the following parameters:

Difficulty: Filter to display only Normal, Nightmare, Hell, or any combination of the three options.

Ping: Restrict your results to only display games of a particular connection quality or better.

Game Name: Pressing the Triangle button on a PlayStation controller, Y button on an Xbox controller, or X button on a Nintendo Switch controller while on the Game List menu will open the Search Game Name menu. Here, you can search for both Custom and pre-made game names using the same familiar layout you would use during Game Creation. Searching for a game name using the Custom category will only return game results that were created using the Custom category. Searching using one of our pre-made categories will only return game results that were created using that same pre-made category. For example, selecting the pre-made Den of Evil search option will only yield pre-made game results. Inversely, searching “Den of Evil” under the Custom category will yield Custom game names with those phrases within them. Custom games, with or without a password, can be joined directly through the Search Game Name menu.

Modifying any of these filters will refresh your list of games and return a new list of games (up to 40) based on the criteria you selected. Players also have a refresh button available to them to manually refresh the list at any time.

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PC Lobby Updates

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We want Multiplayer lobbies to be the bridge to many hours of slaying demons, collecting loot, and memorable moments with friends. Unfortunately, many players have experienced difficulties in finding specific types of games they would like to join. To solve this, we added a search functionality in the lobby—specific keywords or game names can now be typed in to return a list of games based on that search term.

With Patch 2.4.3., the Game List will now display each game’s connection quality in a tooltip that pops up when you hover your mouse over a specific game. Games will populate into the Game List based on their connection quality, offering you expanded knowledge when deciding which game to join.

We cannot stress enough how appreciated and crucial your feedback is. We’re always looking for opportunities to iterate or reshape aspects of Diablo II: Resurrected so your trip to Sanctuary continues to be memorable.

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Magic Find Bonus

You feel an intense rush of energy coursing through your veins, a faint internal humming overriding your own pulse. From June 30–July 4, a mysterious energy source will grant you a 50% buff to Magic Find, providing an increased chance to receive Legendary, Magic, Rare, Set, or Unique loot as a drop from slain foes. This bonus stacks with any additional increases to Magic Find provided by your items.

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Quality of Life Improvements

Gameplay

  • Players can now start a new Whirlwind, Leap, or Leap Attack immediately after a Whirlwind ends.
  • Changed the logic for determining how often Whirlwind attacks occur. Whirlwind now incorporates Increased Attack Speed (IAS) from all equipment. The frames between each Whirlwind attack are equal to the attack frame of a basic attack for that character (modified by increased attack speed). While dual wielding, the attack frame for each weapon will be averaged (rounding up). Overall, Whirlwind attacks should be at least as fast as they were before. Slower weapons will attack notably faster.
  • Added a new "Loot to Cube" skill for controllers in the general skills menu. Using this skill on an item will pick it up and place it in your Horadric Cube, if there is space.
  • Added a bindable hotkey for mouse and keyboard to directly open the Horadric Cube if it is in your inventory.
  • Added a new button shortcut to open the Horadric Cube from the inventory menu.
  • Players can now bulk assign stat points using a controller.
  • A confirmation prompt will now appear when bulk assigning all remaining stat points on both PC and console. This option is unavailable while using legacy graphics.
  • Added an Automap Auto Open setting to allow players to set their preferred Automap position.

Online

  • You can now double click on a game to join it in the PC lobby.
  • Players on Switch can now join a friend's game via the in-game Friends List.
  • Game List size has been doubled from 20 to 40.
  • Game list details in both the details panel and in the Game List now load faster upon selecting a game.
  • Friends playing D2R are now sorted to the top of the Friends List.
  • Console players now have an option in the options menu to toggle Game Name visibility.

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Bug Fixes

Gameplay

  • Fixed an issue where Deckard Cain was not able to identify items in the Horadric Cube. Now he will do so when the Cube is in your main inventory.
  • Fixed an issue where short-distance whirlwinds could end without executing a single attack.
  • Fixed an issue where Whirlwind would still apply properties and damage from a broken weapon.
  • Fixed an issue where the first attack of Whirlwind was treated different from the rest. When dual wielding, the first attack will choose two targets, just like all the other attacks.
  • Fixed an issue where resurrect costs were inconsistent for high-level mercenaries.
  • Fixed an issue where corpse skills were not auto-targeting corpses when using just right click.

Online

  • Fixed an issue where you couldn't select and join lobby games on PC with a controller.
  • Fixed an issue where players could impersonate developers by mimicking the chat font color used to display system messages.
  • Fixed an issue where lobby figurines would disappear while whispering.
  • Fixed an issue that would rarely prevent players from joining a private game.
  • Fixed an issue in Hardcore where both players had to mutually flag each other to be able to loot a corpse, even if the dead player had the other player flagged.
  • Fixed an issue where ladder rankings with six or more digits would begin to overlap the character name.

Character Select

  • Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause the most recently played characters to not sort to the top of the list.
  • Fixed an issue where an off-hand flail could fail to animate on the front end.

Language

  • Fixed miscellaneous localization bugs.

Stability and Performance

  • Fixed a performance issue that could occur when spamming refresh at a vendor for an extended period.
  • Miscellaneous crash and stability fixes.

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THANK YOU TO THE COMMUNITY

Our team is immensely grateful for your support. As we launch with all the 2.4.3 content, we hope to continue to hear from all of you! If you want to learn more about Diablo II: Resurrected, check out our website here, or for real-time updates, follow our official Twitter @Diablo.

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Impressed this game is getting additional love to it 9 months later, good on the team. Meanwhile WC3:R is over there... rotting...

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21 minutes ago, TyZone said:

Meanwhile WC3:R is over there... rotting...

They actually announced an update with ranked play recently

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1 hour ago, Kaelos said:

They actually announced an update with ranked play recently

It is a start at least, hopefully they will restore the rest of missing functionality (custom campaigns and backgrounds).

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I went on a break days ago after having slotted IST and MAL in the wrong order when building an Infinity and wasted 2 BER's in the process. I don't regret my time spent with D2R, but man that sucked so damn bad. It killed my Javazon progression dead in its tracks and she's the last character I needed to finish Hell with.

There is a recipe that destroys gems off of a base weapon, I wish there is another that breaks the base weapon to recover gems/runes...

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      Helm
      35
      +20% Faster Hit Recovery +75-100% Enhanced Defense +10 to Vitality Increase Maximum Life 5% Fire Resist +40-60% Fire Absorb +10-15% Hustle
      Shael + Ko + Eld
      Any Weapon or Armor item
      39
      Armor: +65% +50% Faster Run/Walk +40% +20% Increased Attack Speed +20% Faster Hit Recovery +6 to Evade +10 to Dexterity 50% Slower Stamina Drain +All Resistances +10 Weapon: 5% Chance to cast level 1 9 Burst of Speed on striking Level 1 Fanaticism Aura +30% Increased Attack Speed +180-200% +130-150% Enhanced Damage +75% Damage to Undead +50 to Attack Rating against Undead +10 to Dexterity Mosaic
      Mal + Gul + Amn
      Claw
      53
      +50% +25% chance for finishing moves to not consume charges When a finisher is executed this way, it now refreshes the expiration timer of the stack +2 to Martial Arts (Assassin only) +20% Increased Attack Speed +200-250% Enhanced Damage +20% Bonus to Attack Rating 7% Life Steal +8-15% to Cold Skill Damage +8-15% to Lightning Skill Damage +8-15% to Fire Skill Damage Adds 3-14 Cold Damage Prevent Monster Heal Metamorphosis
      lo + Cham + Fal
      Helm
      67
      Werewolf strikes grant Mark for 180 seconds Mark of the Wolf: +30% +20% Bonus to Attack Rating Increase Maximum Life 40% Werebear strikes grant Mark for 180 seconds Mark of the Bear: +25% Attack Speed Physical Damage Received Reduced by 20% +5 to Shape Shifting Skills (Druid only) +25% Chance of Crushing Blow (No longer attached to Mark of the Bear) +50-80% Enhanced Defense +10 to Strength +10 to Vitality All Resistances +10 Cannot be Frozen The Seven Rune Words and handful of Horadric Cube recipes that were added in Ladder Season One can now be used in non-Ladder Online game modes.
      Rune Words: Flickering Flame, Mist, Obsession, Pattern, Plague, Unbending Will, and Wisdom.
      Horadric Cube Recipes:
      1 Ral Rune + 1 Sol Rune + 1 Perfect Emerald + Normal Set Weapon
      Exceptional Version of Set Weapon
      1 Lum Rune + 1 Pul Rune + 1 Perfect Emerald + Exceptional Set Weapon
      Elite Version of Set Weapon
      1 Tal Rune + 1 Shael Rune + 1 Perfect Diamond + Normal Set Armor
      Exceptional Version of Set Armor
      1 Ko Rune + 1 Lem Rune + 1 Perfect Diamond + Exceptional Set Armor
      Elite Version of Set Armor
      Sundering Charms
      Adventurer, keep a keen eye towards the floor as you cut through Hell’s legions—Sundering Charms can now drop from fallen foes in all non-Classic game modes.
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      Patch 2.6
      On February 15 at 10:00 a.m. PST, changes to Terror Zones and a variety of quality-of-life updates and bug fixes will go live.
      Terror Zones

      To spice things up further, we have made changes to Terror Zones. Also, Terror Zones are now available in offline games! Offline Terror Zones will operate on a different schedule from their online counterpart but function the same otherwise. Remember, you can now receive Sundering Charms as a drop in offline Terror Zone games too.
      The red font text below denotes which new zones may be terrorized or zones that will now be terrorized in unison. Here’s a complete list of all the zones that can become terrorized:
      Act I
      Blood Moor and Den of Evil Cold Plains and The Cave Burial Grounds, The Crypt, and the Mausoleum Stony Field Dark Wood/Underground Passage Black Marsh/The Hole The Forgotten Tower Jail/Barracks Cathedral and Catacombs The Pit Tristram Moo Moo Farm Act II
      Sewers Rocky Waste and Stony Tomb Dry Hills and Halls of the Dead Far Oasis Lost City, Valley of Snakes, and Claw Viper Temple Ancient Tunnels Arcane Sanctuary Tal Rasha's Tombs Act III
      Spider Forest and Spider Cavern Great Marsh Flayer Jungle and Flayer Dungeon Kurast Bazaar, Ruined Temple, and Disused Fane Kurast Sewers Travincal Durance of Hate Act IV
      Outer Steppes and Plains of Despair River of Flame/City of the Damned Chaos Sanctuary Act V
      Bloody Foothills/Frigid Highlands/Abbadon Glacial Trail/Drifter Cavern Crystalline Passage and Frozen River Arreat Plateau/Pit of Acheron Nihlathak's Temple, Halls of Anguish, Halls of Pain, and Halls of Vaught Ancient's Way and Icy Cellar Worldstone Keep, Throne of Destruction, and Worldstone Chamber Quality-of-Life Updates and Bug Fixes
      Gameplay
      Auras from another player or a mercenary no longer remove passive bonuses granted by the same skill. Such as Flickering Flame's Resist Fire aura from a mercenary overwriting a Paladin's base Resist Fire from their own hard points in Resist Fire. This also fixes an issue where Paladin's Blessed Aim Aura would overwrite the Attack Rating increase granted by Amazon's Penetrate skill. Assassin The Assassin's trap skills now benefit from -% to Enemy Resistance. Fixed an issue where missiles created from Martial Arts charge up skills would not gain the benefit of +% To Elemental Skill Damage modifiers. Amazon Fixed an issue where Strafe was not applying bonus Attack Rating to attacks. Fixed an issue where Strafe was still doing 75% weapon damage after a previous balance change. Fixed issue where the +% Attack Rating on Power Strike was not being applied. Fixed the tooltip for Multi Shot to reflect the synergy bonus. Sorceress Cold Mastery is now applied at 1/5 effectiveness after an immunity is broken. Fixed an issue where Fire Mastery's bonus to fire skill damage didn't apply to the additional fire damage granted by Enchant on ranged weapons. Updated the tooltip for Enchant to better reflect the skill's effects. Druid Fixed an underlying issue that caused the Druid's Shockwave skill to do an unintended amount of damage. Terror Zones
      Fixed Terrorized treasure classes for certain super-unique monsters and bosses. Fixed an issue where an act boss's quest treasure class would sometimes be used instead of the terrorized treasure class. Fixed an issue where the current terrorized zone was not properly marked in the Waypoint menu while using Legacy Graphics. Fixed an issue with translations that appear when The Pit is the current terrorized zone. Controller
      Fixed an issue where skills granted by charges on a character’s alternate slot weapon would have their bound hotkeys unusable when loading into a game. Fixed an issue where the Loot to Cube skill would not function if bound to the shared interaction button. General
      Fixed an issue where pressing the hotkey to open the inventory while loading into the game could cause the inventory UI to appear empty. Fixed an issue where the Shared Stash could exceed the memory limit, which caused items in the player's inventory or Stash to be deleted. Fixed an issue where the tooltip on the Lobby's season dropdown would show an inaccurate date. Fixed an issue where new entries on the leaderboard could display as Unknown. Fixed an issue where applying changes to controls would automatically close the settings menu. Fixed an issue where changes to controls would not be immediately applied. Fixed an issue where swapping between keyboard and mouse input and controller input would reset the difficulty filter in the PC Lobby game list. Added an appropriate error message when trying to create an online character with a name that is already taken on the player's online character list. The Ladder flag in character creation will now be disabled when there is no active Ladder Season. Fixed an issue with a voice over line from Tyrael in Chinese. Fixed an issue with the Chinese version of Deckard Cain's Stay a while and listen voice over dialogue. Modding
      Moved the "% Damage Synergy" field for Multiple Shot (srvdofunc ? from calc4 to calc5. New columns have been added. Developers of existing offline single-player mods can remake their changes with the new data, or they can add the new columns manually before merging. skills.txt "ItemUseRestrict" skilldesc.txt "item proc text" "item proc descline count" states.txt "sunder-res-reduce" Thank you for your continued support. We cannot wait to see you in the great race to Level 99 once Ladder Season Three begins!
      -The Diablo II: Resurrected Team
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    • By Staff
      Blizzard just revealed all the 8 new Runewords coming in Diablo 2 Resurrected Patch 2.6. The patch will hit Public Test Servers on January 24.
      (Source)
      We welcome you to a PTR fresh from the Burning Hells’ depths, adventurer.
      Our first testing period of 2023, PTR 2.6, will go live on January 24 at 10:00 a.m. PST and concludes on January 31 at 10:00 a.m. PST. Pour yourself a comforting elixir to enjoy as we delve straight into the focus of our test—eight new Rune Words.
      Quest Log
      Eight New Rune Words
      PTR Focus and Details
      How to Participate
      Eight New Rune Words
      Individually they are meek, but when uttered in unison, a greater force is awoken—this is the mystique of Rune Words. Call upon these archaic forces to transform your ordinary items into a wieldable force of destruction capable of smiting demonic hordes.
      We are introducing eight new Rune Words for Ladder and Offline Single-Player play. Our intent with introducing these additional Rune Words to Diablo II: Resurrected is to sprinkle variety into the competitive meta, creating an opportunity for players to forge new strategies as they race to Level 99. The bulk of these Rune Words focus on bolstering resistance bonuses, while the other Rune Words are centered on movement speed, and Assassin and Druid builds.
      New Rune Word
      Rune Order
      Allowed Items
      Character Level Required
      Final Stats
      Bulwark
      Shael + lo + Sol
      Helm
      35
      +20% Faster Hit Recovery +4-6% Life stolen per hit +75-100% Enhanced Defense +10 to Vitality Increase Maximum Life 5% Replenish Life +30 Damage Reduced by 7 Physical Damage Received Reduced by 10-15% Cure
      Shael + lo + Tal
      Helm
      35
      +20% Faster Hit Recovery +75-100% Enhanced Defense +10 to Vitality Increase Maximum Life 5% Poison Resist +40-60% Poison Length Reduced by 75% Ground
      Shael + lo + Ort
      Helm
      35
      +20% Faster Hit Recovery +75-100% Enhanced Defense +10 to Vitality Increase Maximum Life 5% Lightning Resist +40-60% Lightning Absorb +10-15% Hearth
      Shael + lo + Thul
      Helm
      35
      +20% Faster Hit Recovery +75-100% Enhanced Defense +10 to Vitality Increase Maximum Life 5% Cold Resist +40-60% Cold Absorb +10-15% Temper
      Shael + lo + Ral
      Helm
      35
      +20% Faster Hit Recovery +75-100% Enhanced Defense +10 to Vitality Increase Maximum Life 5% Fire Resist +40-60% Fire Absorb +10-15% Hustle
      Shael + Ko + Eld
      Any Weapon or Armor item
      39
      Armor: +50% Faster Run/Walk +20% Increased Attack Speed +20% Faster Hit Recovery +10 to Dexterity 50% Slower Stamina Drain Weapon: 5% Chance to cast level nine Burst of Speed on striking +30% Increased Attack Speed +130-150% Enhanced Damage +75% Damage to Undead +50 to Attack Rating against Undead +10 to Dexterity Mosaic
      Mal + Gul + Thul
      Claw
      53
      +25% chance for finishing moves to not consume charges +2 to Martial Arts (Assassin only) +20% Increased Attack Speed +200-250% Enhanced Damage +20% Bonus to Attack Rating Adds 3-14 Cold Damage Prevent Monster Heal Metamorphosis
      lo + Cham + Fal
      Helm
      67
      Werewolf strikes grant Mark for 180 seconds Mark of the Wolf: +20% Bonus to Attack Rating Increase Maximum Life 40% Werebear strikes grant Mark for 180 seconds Mark of the Bear: +25% Attack Speed +25% Chance of Crushing Blow Physical Damage Received Reduced by 20% +5 to Shape Shifting Skills (Druid only) +50-80% Enhanced Defense +10 to Strength +10 to Vitality All Resistances +10 Cannot be Frozen Back to Top
      PTR Focus and Details
      As the PTR progresses, please be aware there may be periodic maintenance, outages, or updates based on player feedback. Any changes implemented during this PTR period to the new Rune Words are not set in stone and we may make additional changes to how these Rune Word function post-PTR.
      We are testing eight new Rune Words with the desire of spicing up the Ladder meta and giving players additional tools to bring new builds to life. The new Rune Words are only a portion of the content arriving with Patch 2.6, stay tuned for what else is to come when the Patch officially releases.
      To ensure these new Rune Words provide an experience that best serves our players, we will need your assistance and urge you to provide any feedback you may have. You can leave your feedback in the PTR Feedback forum. If you discover any bugs, please report them in the PTR Bug Report forum.
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      How To Participate
      To participate in the public test, you must have a Diablo II: Resurrected game license attached to a Battle.net account in good standing (Ex: one that hasn't been suspended or banned). In addition, you will also need to download and install the Blizzard Battle.net desktop app if you have not already done so.
      Step 1: Restart the Battle.net desktop app. Step 2: Navigate to the Diablo II: Resurrected tab on the left-hand menu. Step 3: On the Diablo II: Resurrected screen, there is a drop-down menu right above the "Play" button (note that this may say "Install" if you do not have Diablo II: Resurrected currently installed). Select "PTR: Diablo II: Resurrected" from this drop-down menu before proceeding. Step 4: Click Install to begin the installation process. Your PTR account will be created automatically if you do not already have one. The PTR is available in all supported languages, and accounts from all regions are eligible to participate. For additional assistance with installing and launching the PTR, click here.
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      Thank You for Playing
      As we embark on a 2023 full of demons to slay, loot to acquire, and memories to make playing Diablo II: Resurrected—we want to thank you for your continued support. Your time spent testing the new features we cook up, as always, is heavily appreciated.
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    • By Stan
      We're looking at two new Runewords coming in Diablo 2 Resurrected Patch 2.6 that were revealed today.
      The first one is called Hustle and was revealed by content creator Kano.

      You can watch the reveal video below.
      The second Runeword is called Metamorphosis and was unveiled by dbrunski15.

      Check out the reveal video for more information about the powerful melee Runeword.
      Yesterday, content creator MacroBioBoi revealed 5 additional Runewords coming in Season 3.
    • By Stan
      Content creator MacroBioBoi revealed 5 new Runewords coming to Diablo 2 Resurrected in Patch 2.6.
      These include Cure (Poison), Hearth (Cold), Ground (Lighting), Temper (Fire), and Bulwark (Physical).

      Check out the reveal video below for more details.
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