Diablo 4 patch brings nerfs, joke Uniques ahead of Season 1

Yay?

A new Diablo 4 patch has nerfed the Sorcerer and brought a joke Unique item into the mix ahead of Season 1 tomorrow.

First, the Sorcerer’s powerful Devouring Blaze has had massive reductions in damage.

“Devouring Blaze bonus Critical Strike damage reduced from 10/20/30% to 7/14/21%,” Activision Blizzard wrote in patch notes. “Devouring Blaze bonus Critical Strike damage to Immobilized reduced from 25/50/75% to 10/20/30%.”

The patch has also introduced six new incredibly rare Unique drops, as follows:

• Ahavarion Spear of Lycander (Uber Unique Staff – World Tier 4): Gain a random Shrine effect for 10-20 seconds after killing an Elite enemy. Can only occur once every 30 seconds.
• Azurewrath (Unique Sword): Lucky Hit – Your Core Skills have up to a 20% chance to Freeze enemies for 3 seconds and deal 0.75-1.5 Cold damage to them.
• Fleshrender (Unique One-Hand Mace): Debilitating Roar and Blood Howl deal 0.5-1.0 damage to Nearby Poisoned enemies.
• Lidless Wall (Unique Shield): Lucky Hit – While you have an active Bone Storm, hitting an enemy outside of a Bone Storm has up to a 5-25% chance to spawn an additional Bone Storm at their location. Each of your active Sacrifice bonuses increases the chance by 25% and the total number of additional Bone Storms you can have by +1.
• Eaglehorn (Unique Bow): Penetrating Shot has a 30-80% chance to fire an arrow that bounces off walls and scenery. Hitting enemies from behind with Penetrating Shot will make them Vulnerable for 3 seconds.
• The Oculus (Unique Wand): Gain the effect of the Teleport Enchantment for free. When you Evade using Teleport Enchantment, you are taken to a random location.

The Oculus is exclusive to the Sorcerer, and combined with the Devouring Blaze nerf, has made for some decent jokes.

New sorc unique is intriguing..
by u/arkhemlol in diablo4

Baldur’s Gate 3 time, anyone?

What do you make of today’s nerfs, just one day before Season 1 begins?

Diablo 4 is now on Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, PS4 and PS5. We reviewed it here, and looked at it from a beginner’s perspective here.

Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred 6 June 2023 (base), 9 October 2024 (DLC) PC PS4 PS5 Xbox One Xbox Series S & X   Buy on Windows PC: Battle.net, Steam Buy on Xbox: Amazon, Microsoft Store (base), Microsoft Store (DLC) Buy on PlayStation: Amazon (PS4), Amazon (PS5)