Season 11: Divine Intervention

A new chapter begins with the arrival of Season 11: Divine Intervention.

During moments of intense conflict, the strength to oppose formidable darkness often lies in the purity of righteousness.

Mark your calendars for December 11 at 8:30 p.m. PST, when this season officially launches.

As chaos begins to spread once again, the return of the lesser evils signals a dire threat to the realm. Azmodan leads the assault, unleashing havoc upon the land. Amidst this darkness, a celestial being, unbound from divine constraints, appears to bestow sacred blessings upon those who stand against the demonic tide.

Significant enhancements have been made to itemization, including improved masterworking and tempering capabilities, empowering heroes to better confront increasingly formidable enemies. The evolution of monster combat introduces new challenges, demanding strategic adaptation and skill.

Players can now progress through an entirely new seasonal ranking system, unlocking exclusive rewards along the way. Confrontations between celestial and infernal forces unfold, as the sanctuary’s fate hangs in the balance and judgment looms.

We extend our gratitude to everyone who participated in the 2.5.0 public test realm (PTR). Your feedback influenced many of the updates detailed here, with additional adjustments since the PTR’s end marked in blue for clarity.

Sanctuary's skilled artisans have expanded their craftsmanship, unveiling innovative enhancements to armor and weaponry, heralding a transformative era in armament design. With the advent of the Season of Divine Intervention, the approach to item progression has undergone a substantial overhaul.

The process of tempering has been restructured to offer clearer, more predictable outcomes. Instead of the previous random application, tempering now follows a precise and straightforward progression, allowing players to steer their gear toward specific power levels more efficiently.

Moreover, the focus of tempering and masterworking has shifted to emphasize personalization and status. Players are now guaranteed to attain their preferred tempering attributes, and the mastery pathway has been streamlined to facilitate ultimate refinement, making it easier to achieve the pinnacle of gear excellence.

Players now have the ability to choose specific affixes for their items through a dedicated tempering recipe, eliminating the randomness previously involved.

This change means items can only carry a single tempered affix, and in some cases, applied affixes on ancestral items may upgrade to more powerful versions.

Tempering charges are now infinitely renewable, allowing for endless crafting and experimentation without concern for depletion.

Masterworking has been revamped to utilize item quality as a progression metric, directly influencing the base attributes such as damage, armor, or resistances, including affixes.

Items can be upgraded up to a maximum quality level of 25, with each masterwork increasing quality by a random amount between 2 and 5 points.

Every quality level enhances all affixes slightly—by 1% per level—making your gear more potent.

The cost for masterworking now scales with the item's current quality, making higher-quality items more expensive to improve.

At maximum quality, you gain a final upgrade called a capstone bonus, which boosts a random affix—be it regular or greater—by 50%.

You can re-roll this affix without resetting your quality progress, but doing so requires obducite and neathiron resources.

This system allows for strategic enhancements, tailoring your gear to better suit your playstyle.

The number of base affixes on non-unique items has increased from three to four, providing more customization options and potential power boosts.

Beneath Sanctuary’s surface, bloodthirsty creatures have evolved over time, becoming more cunning and dangerous.

Their mutations allow them to adapt in combat, making encounters increasingly unpredictable and challenging.

Monsters now exhibit more sophisticated behaviors, reacting dynamically to your tactics rather than following predictable patterns.

Expect to face enemies that respond intelligently, with their own roles and strategies in battle.

Their attacks will test your defenses more frequently, especially as they become more powerful when imbued with affixes.

Enemy affixes have been strengthened, and older resistance-based affixes are now more common in torment difficulties, increasing the challenge early on.

Monster packs will no longer group as tightly, making fights more tactical and less straightforward.

Their improved tactics demand smarter combat strategies from you.

Champion enemies now spawn with minions that inherit some of their affixes, adding layers of complexity.

Nightmare dungeons feature affixes that grant extra damage to elites, which now also apply to champions, further intensifying encounters.

Over 20 new monster affixes have been introduced, and elite enemies will sometimes summon minions sharing their affixes.

Enemy affixes have been refined for clarity, with reduced visual overlap and improved visual cues for better recognition.

Season of Divine Intervention redefines how you defend yourself, use potions, and earn renown across both seasonal and eternal realms.

Adjustments have been made to balance effective health across different classes and builds, emphasizing survivability as you progress through difficulty tiers.

Armor and resistances are now rated systems with diminishing returns at higher values, making careful stat management essential.

A new damage resistance type—physical damage—is introduced, expanding your defensive options.

The penalties for armor and resistances in higher torment difficulties have been removed, with recommended toughness levels provided instead.

Skills and paragon nodes have been reworked to offer multiplicative bonuses to armor and resistances, enhancing defensive scaling.

A new stat called toughness has been added, representing the total raw damage your character can absorb after mitigation.

Toughness is displayed under your character stats, offering a clear overview of your defensive capacity.

Hovering over toughness details will show how effectively your defenses resist each damage type, aiding your gear and build decisions.

Potions have been overhauled to increase their tactical value.

The maximum potion capacity has been reduced to four, regardless of your renown level.

Using a potion now instantly heals 35% of your total health, providing a quick burst of recovery.

Additionally, you will gradually regenerate one potion every 30 seconds, encouraging more strategic potion management.

To complement potion changes, life on hit has been reintroduced and improved, along with increased values for healing percentages, life regeneration, and life on kill.

Healing potion upgrades have been removed, as potions now constitute a significant portion of your health pool.

However, visiting the alchemist remains worthwhile for other benefits.

The concept of fortify shifts from damage reduction to a life reservoir that heals you over time, based on your maximum health.

Gaining fortify now stacks up to your maximum life, and while fortified, you will recover a percentage of your max health per second at the cost of losing an equal amount of fortify.

As long as any fortify remains, you are considered fortified, enabling continuous healing.

Details about skills, passives, and items related to fortify can be found in the 2.5.0 patch notes.

Players who haven't used their welcome back booster will now find it relocated to the training ground to prevent accidental use.

Following Season 10, changes include no longer granting new accounts a welcome back booster or automatically adding them to the new character journal.

However, accounts created and logged in before the end of Season 10 can still earn and use the booster at any time, even after season’s end.

In response to these mounting threats, a celestial being from the High Heavens has secretly descended into Sanctuary to aid in the fight.

In the seasonal realm, visit any major city to witness a divine light, guiding you on your journey through the season’s challenges.

The minor malevolences have patiently awaited their moment, quietly plotting while biding their time for the perfect opportunity to seize safe haven. Their schemes have remained hidden, lurking in the shadows, until the season of divine intervention reveals their true intentions.

These sinister forces have begun infiltrating the hellish game modes within the seasonal domain, corrupting them with their dark influence. Each of these lesser evils claims mastery over a unique game mode, spreading chaos in their wake.

The fiery demon Azmodan emerges as the inaugural new world boss, challenging heroes in Sanctuary for the first time. He is now a recurring threat in the rotation, joining the ranks of other colossal adversaries in battle.

In both the seasonal and eternal realms, Azmodan stands as a permanent adversary. To overcome him, players must learn to counter his destructive magma flows and thunderous tremors. Victory requires mastering his attack patterns and defeating him within the season rank v capstone dungeon, testing the mettle of even the bravest warriors.

Seasonal Boss Summoning

Summoning Azmodan requires visiting a special location in Hawezar, near Zarbinzet, where specific materials must be collected first. Once prepared, you can use a designated summoning altar to call forth Azmodan, who will be empowered by the influence of one of the other three lesser evils.

Choosing the right altar is crucial, as each invocation channels a different lesser evil’s powers, affecting Azmodan’s abilities and the enemies that appear. The optimal moment to summon Azmodan is after unlocking all divine gifts, ensuring you’re fully prepared for the challenge.

The minions supporting Azmodan will display affixes linked to their respective lesser evil, making encounters more dynamic. For example, enemies summoned during Belial’s influence produce large, blinding eyeballs, while those under Duriel’s influence lay giant eggs that spawn maggots if not destroyed promptly.

To make battles more manageable, Azmodan’s resistances have been improved, preventing him from being quickly defeated by high-damage wanderers. Additionally, his fight has been integrated into the party finder, allowing coordinated efforts. Defeating Azmodan rewards you with chests located in the summoning area, which can be opened using corrupted essence.

Duriel has invaded the depths of Helltide, establishing his parasitic grip across the dark realm. Instead of the Blood Maiden, players can now summon Duriel directly during Helltide events. To improve player comfort, the visual sequence for Duriel's summoning has been removed, as the overwhelming swarm of maggots was deemed sufficiently disturbing.

As the threat level escalates to its peak, Duriel’s minions, known as Pangs of Duriel, will appear in place of the usual Hellborne enemies. These persistent creatures symbolize Duriel’s dominion over the chaos within Helltide. Defeating them will yield Baneful Hearts, essential for summoning Duriel himself.

Enemy groups within Helltide will now predominantly feature maggot-themed monsters, including an enhanced variant called Portent of Pain Mega-Maggots. The formidable Hellwyrm is known to spew swarms of maggots, and the meteor showers that ravage Helltide are now accompanied by falling clusters of maggots—adding a grotesque twist to the chaos.

Within the depths of the pit, Belial makes a stealthy entrance, sowing chaos and disorientation wherever he appears. His eyes materialize unpredictably across the area, serving as both threats and triggers for your progress. Eliminating these eyes not only halts his influence temporarily but also unleashes a wave of Belial’s spectral minions, which must be defeated to advance.

Accumulating the destruction of multiple eyes during your expedition alters the final confrontation, replacing the usual boss with Belial himself. His ocular manifestations will automatically shatter when you approach, making the fight more dynamic. Recent updates based on player feedback have significantly reduced the time it takes to vanquish Belial, streamlining the final encounter.

Throughout the pit, Belial’s dark presence manifests through illusions—clones of your enemies that aim to break your focus and spread confusion, challenging your perception and strategic thinking.

Meanwhile, in the Kurast Undercity, Andariel’s influence grows more sinister. She has corrupted the spirit beacons, which now pose greater threats but also provide increased attunement rewards. Activating these tormented beacons grants you extra attunement, aiding your progression.

To intensify the challenge, three new tributes specific to Andariel are introduced. These tributes amplify your undercity rewards and ensure her appearance as the ultimate boss. However, selecting these tributes also introduces new dungeon affixes into your run, adding layers of difficulty and complexity to your journey.

Dark shadows reminiscent of Andariel continue to haunt the hidden corners of the undercity, lurking in shadows that threaten to drain your vitality. These formidable shades possess attacks designed to wear down your stamina, making encounters increasingly perilous.

In addition, Andariel herself may serve as the ultimate challenge within the undercity. Defeating her not only grants you enhanced rewards but also grants an opportunity for greater glory. Her battle phases have been streamlined, allowing you to skip her transformation stage for a swifter confrontation. Combat dynamics have also been adjusted; if you fall during the fight, her health no longer resets, ensuring a more challenging and consistent battle. Furthermore, foes lurking in the undercity can be infused with wailing spirits—ethereal entities that target your position with relentless assaults.

This season introduces Hadriel, the angelic guardian who has returned to Sanctuary bearing powerful blessings to aid in vanquishing the returning lesser evils. While his divine influence is a fragment of the high heavens’ might, it manifests as potent divine gifts that present both significant rewards and strategic opportunities.

Each divine gift comprises three elements: a reward, a corrupted gift, and a purified gift. Within your inventory’s divine gifts interface, you can slot these gifts either on the inner panel to activate their purified forms or on the outer panel to unleash their corrupted counterparts, enabling tailored enhancements for your battles.

Activating divine gifts by slotting them enhances your rewards, as each gift's associated bonus is triggered upon activation.

However, corrupted gifts introduce increased difficulty to related activities, although they still provide the divine gift's reward bonus.

Purified gifts, on the other hand, eliminate negative effects, add beneficial enhancements, and double the rewards earned.

Unlocking slots for corrupted gifts is automatic as you progress.

Advancing through the seasonal reputation board grants access to purified gift slots for divine gifts.

These purified slots become available at specific divine favor milestones:

• At rank IV, for Duriel
• At rank VI, for Andariel
• At rank VIII, for Azmodan
• At rank X, for Belial

Defeating a lesser evil for the first time grants you their corrupted essence.

Returning this essence to Hadriel will unlock the two divine gifts linked to that lesser evil.

Once unlocked, each kill of the lesser evil or their minions, with the corresponding divine gift equipped, grants experience toward leveling up that divine gift.

Your efforts in defending the oppressed have caught divine attention, wanderer. Now, a fragment of celestial power is within your reach during the Season of Divine Intervention.

This is your chance to harness the sacred energies from the heavens and channel them into your equipment through sanctification.

Sanctifying an item grants you the opportunity to:

• Bestow a potent legendary enhancement
• Elevate an affix to a more powerful version
• Add a new bonus affix selected from a special sanctification pool
• Replace an existing affix with a random sanctification affix
• Infuse your item with a random bonus quality ranging from 5 to 25

Once an item is sanctified, it becomes sealed and cannot be modified further. It is recommended to consider sanctification as your final upgrade. The available sanctification options now tend toward higher values and include generic offensive legendary aspects. In a divine twist, mythical powers may even embed themselves into your gear.

There are two main avenues to achieve this celestial enhancement. During pre-torment difficulties, defeating a lesser evil within certain game modes like Helltide grants a rare chance to sanctify an item at the heavenly anvil. If you decline this opportunity, you must wait for another divine invitation to sanctify again.

Additionally, you can collect heavenly sigils—consumable items that teleport you to the heavenly forge for sanctification. These sigils are only required for sanctifying items of ancestral quality and are earned exclusively in torment difficulties. They can be stored and used at your convenience.

A new challenge emerges in Sanctuary, though not at the start of Season 11. The tower and leaderboards will return with patch 2.5.2, expected in early 2026.

This challenge, the Tower, tests even the most seasoned warriors. It is a multi-stage, timed dungeon designed to push your limits. As you descend into its depths, you'll need to summon your strength, while the tower itself rises to pit you against others who seek to prove their worth.

The Tower will debut in beta, remaining available through upcoming seasons as we refine and expand its features with your feedback. Our focus is on adjusting difficulty, enhancing mechanics, diversifying monsters, and adding new rewards—transforming the tower into a core endgame experience.

Further details about entering the beta phase of the tower will be shared as we approach the release of patch 2.5.2.

Post-release, you’ll unlock the tower by reaching rank 2 in the season progress. Afterward, you can access it via the obelisk in Cerrigar and challenge it on any difficulty level you’ve unlocked through the pit.

Since the PTR, we’ve enabled the tower to unlock difficulty tiers automatically and have removed problematic bosses such as the vampire wraith and the fallen shaman, Sower of Decay.

For more information on tower gameplay, please refer to the detailed guide here.

Diablo IV Seasonal and Endgame Updates

The return of the tower has revitalized Diablo IV’s competitive scene, bringing back the leaderboards that showcase the bravest and most skilled players. These rankings determine who truly stands at the top among all adventurers, highlighting their prowess in conquering the tower’s challenges. We appreciate everyone who participated in the tower during the 2.5.0 PTR and contributed to these rankings.

The next leaderboard reset is scheduled for the upcoming patch 2.5.2, expected early next year, providing a fresh chance for players to climb the ranks. After completing a tower run, you'll be able to see your achieved tier and your final completion time. To check your standing, visit the artificer’s obelisk in Cerrigar or browse through the collections menu.

Please note that opting out of cross-platform play will restrict your leaderboard access, and separate leaderboards are maintained for hardcore and normal difficulty modes to ensure fair competition.

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• Solo challenges for each class: Barbarian, Necromancer, Sorcerer, Rogue, Druid, Spiritborn
• Group competitions with parties of 2, 3, and 4 players

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• Player rank
• Player name
• Completed tower tier
• Final time
• Completion date

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• All platforms or PC only
• Hardcore or normal difficulty
• Friends or clan-based groups

Access and view the leaderboards conveniently through the artificer’s obelisk in Cerrigar, where your achievements and standings are readily available.

The season journey now introduces a more demanding path, featuring tougher challenges and enhanced rewards through the new season rank system. Progression to each season rank mandates the completion of a specially designed capstone dungeon, which players can attempt regardless of their current level or difficulty preferences.

In a significant overhaul, the traditional renown system has been phased out in favor of the season rank framework. By accomplishing optional objectives tied to your season rank, you can earn valuable skill points, smoldering ashes, and cosmetic items to customize your experience.

Newly incorporated into several reward caches are heavenly sigils, adding extra value to your seasonal rewards. Additionally, paragon points have been redistributed and increased, now offering a total of 12 additional points within the eternal renown and another 12 dispersed across various season rank rewards.

Your renown benefits are now confined to the eternal realm, but progress within the seasonal realm still grants you advantages aligned with the previous renown system, based on your season rank achievements.

Key rewards include extra skill points awarded at ranks 1 through 3, and additional paragon points granted at ranks 3 through 6. The previous bonus of increased potion capacity from renown rewards has been removed and replaced with alternative benefits. Meanwhile, structures like the Altars of Lilith and Tenets of Akarat remain valuable for earning experience and minor rewards, rather than permanent stat boosts.

As you valiantly defend sanctuary from the encroaching lesser evils, your efforts will be recognized through season rank rewards, empowering your ongoing battle.

Embark on a new adventure by conquering the Tier 5 challenge dungeon, paving the way to unlock Tier 6. Successfully completing this will reward you with Alefta, the coveted pet. Keep in mind, you don’t have to finish every objective in Tier 5 to earn Alefta.

Throughout the current season, players gain access to powerful seasonal blessings and collect Smoldering Ashes by completing objectives within the season rank. These ashes can be exchanged for a variety of blessings, including:

• Urn of Divine Favor: Boosts divine favor gains across all sources.
• Urn of Reckoning: Enhances the likelihood of elite and champion enemies dropping extra loot.
• Urn of Calamity: Increases gear rewards from world boss encounters.
• Urn of Ancestral Whispers: Raises the chances of an ancestral cache appearing when whispering.
• Urn of Sanctification: Grants a chance to obtain extra Heavenly Sigils from all sources.

The new capstone dungeons introduce a challenging system designed to test your progress across various difficulty tiers. While these dungeons specify a recommended character level, their difficulty does not scale dynamically with your current level, so preparation remains key. The five capstone dungeons are:

• Vault of the Crucible: Level 30, Difficulty: Hard
• Hellish Descent: Level 50, Difficulty: Penitent
• Enclave of Darkness: Level 60, Difficulty: Torment I
• Den of the Apostate: Level 60, Difficulty: Torment II
• Breach of Sin: Level 60, Difficulty: Torment III

A new wave of items arrives in Sanctuary, eager to combat the demonic threats with heightened intensity. These items come with unique affixes and powers, such as:

• Stat Bonuses: +51-65 all stats, +424-457 maximum health, 8.1-8.8% cooldown reduction, and +2-3 to brawling skills.
• Unique Power for Brawling Skills: Using a damaging brawling skill temporarily disables it; once all such skills are disabled, they reset with refreshed cooldowns, and each skill cast during this period deals 50-100% increased damage.

Additional affixes include:

• Attacks reducing evade cooldown by 0.5 seconds inherently.
• Crowd control duration increased by 41.5-55.0%.
• Nature magic cooldowns reduced by 16-25%.
• +2-3 to Bad Omen, with some items granting +1-2 to Endless Tempest and movement speed boosts of 16.5-25%.

The nature magic affixes unlock a powerful ability: damaging 150-100 enemies with nature spells grants maximum movement speed and makes the player unhindered for 4-8 seconds, while enemies passed through become immobilized briefly.

Other items focus on agility and dodging, with effects like:

• +15% dodge chance while channeling Dance of Knives.
• Critical strike chance of 9-11%.
• Movement speed boosts up to 25%.
• +62.5-85% damage to agility-based skills.

The Dance of Knives ability now uniquely drops knives from enemies struck. Collecting these knives grants charges, increasing the damage of Dance of Knives by 10-20% per charge, stacking up to three times for a potent attack boost.

Necromancer players rejoice: offensive aspects can now be equipped on shields, enhancing your versatility. These items feature:

• Attack speed bonus of 10%.
• +80-94 intelligence and +424-457 maximum health.
• Golem attacks have a 36.5-50.0% chance to hit twice.
• Golem mastery increases by 1-2.

Their unique power summons three smaller golems, each dealing 40-60% of normal damage and attacking 30% faster, with respawn times halved.

Further affixes include:

• +99-113 intelligence, +57-75% non-physical damage.
• Bonus to core skills (3-4 ranks).
• Defensive skills not on your bar deal 20-40% increased damage and gain their enchantment effects.

Mobility and damage are amplified with:

• +30% movement speed inherent, plus an additional 16-25%.
• Core skill damage increased by 155-200%.
• +1-2 to core skill ranks.
• Damage impairment reduction of 26.5-40%.

A dynamic mechanic allows you to invoke a core skill from your primary spirit hall every 4-12 meters traveled, adding strategic movement and combat options.

As we close the chapter on the season of infernal chaos with our comprehensive Season 10 updates, our team shifts focus to Season 11. Expect refined build guides, new item mechanics, and fresh features to elevate your gameplay. Stay connected with our community on Discord and subscribe to our YouTube channel for continuous updates and tips to maximize your Season 11 experience!

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