Category: Diablo BlogAugust-25-2015 10:00 AM PDT (9 years ago)
Diablo III patch 2.3.0 is now live in the Americas for PC! Check out the full patch notes below to learn all about the latest changes.
Important: Please note that you will not be prompted to download patch 2.3.0 until the patch is live in your home region. If you are logging in from a European or Asian client, you will need to wait for this patch to release in that region before it can be installed. Additionally, if your home region is in the Americas, you will be unable to log into Europe or Asia using Global Play after patch 2.3.0 is live until those regions have also patched.
If you are experiencing technical issues with the patching process, connecting to Battle.net after installing the patch, or errors while playing a newly-patched game, please visit our support site or post in the Technical Support forum for assistance.
New Feature: The Ruins of Sescheron
The frozen wasteland that is the Ruins of Sescheron are now open for exploration! Filled with new enemies, traps, and environmental hazards, you'll be able to explore the region and learn more about what befell the barbarians of Mount Arreat. Explore the Immortal Throne and obtain the ultimate treasure: Kanai's Cube.
To learn more about The Ruins of Sescheron, click here.
New Feature: Kanai's Cube
Kanai's Cube is a new artisan that offers a slew of new recipes to fully customize your items and catalogue your Legendary powers. Several recipes are available to players immediately upon acquiring Kanai's Cube:
Extract Legendary Power: Destroy an item to add its Legendary power to your catalogue of collected powers. Once a power has been extracted, it can be equipped to your character without the need to equip the item. Players may have one Weapon, one Armor, and one Jewelry power equipped at a time. Players may only equip powers from items that their characters can normally equip and use.
Reforge a Legendary Item: Completely re-rolls a Legendary item as though it had dropped for the first time. This includes any powers that may have been previously enchanted on the item. Note that reforged items may re-roll as either Ancient or non-Ancient, so reforge at your own discretion!
Upgrade Rare Item: Upgrades the quality of a level 70 Rare item to Legendary. This item will roll as a randomized Legendary that shares that item's equipment type.
Remove Level Requirement: Removes the level requirement from an item, allowing it to be equipped by a character of any level.
Convert Gems: Converts 9 of any color gem to 9 of any other color.
Convert Crafting Materials: Converts 100 normal, magic, or rare Crafting Materials to 100 of another type of non-legendary Crafting Material
To aquire Kanai's Cube, visit Zoltun Kulle in New Tristram, Hidden Camp, Bastion's Keep Stronghold, or The Survivor's Enclave in Adventure Mode. He'll be quite pleased to guide you on your way.
New Feature: Season Journey
Each player approaches a new Season a little differently and we wanted to celebrate individual player successes. Beginning in Season 4, you'll be able to track your personal progress through the Season Journey interface.
A player's Season Journey is divided into chapters, each with their own descriptive goals and achievements. The further you advance in your Season Journey, the more difficult the milestones become and you'll find there are challenges for every level of player. Completing the highest level Tiers will unlock new portrait frame rewards to celebrate your accomplishments.
This feature will be available once Season 4 begins. To learn more about Season Journey, click here.
Attack speed will no longer cause Tempest Rush to attack faster; instead the resource cost and damage will scale with attack speed
Skill Rune - Flurry
The weapon damage bonus granted now scales with attack speed
Damage bonus per stack reduced to 90% weapon damage
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue that prevented Deadly Reach - Strike From Beyond from reducing the Spirit cost of Dashing Strike with the Raiment of a Thousand Storms (4) Set Bonus
Fixed an issue that casued Wave of Light - Explosive Light when enhanced by Tzo Krin's Gaze to be cast at the incorrect location when casting it further than 60 yards away
Fixed an issue that prevented Exploding Palm - Essence Burn from applying its on-death explosion DoT
Fixed an issue that prevented the bonus damage from Fist of Az'Turrasq from being applied to Exploding Palm - Essence Burn's on-death explosion DoT damage
Now has an animation and summons the Shaman or Toad at your cursor location
The summoned Shaman now stands in the location where it was summoned
Summoned Shamans' cast range increased from 25 to 50 yards
Damage bonus increased from 10% to 15%
Skill Rune - Angry Chicken
Damage type changed from Physical to Poison
You now break destructible objects while transformed
Skill Rune - Hedge Magic
Damage type changed from Physical to Cold
Skill Rune - Jinx
Damage bonus increased from 10% to 30%
Damage type changed from Physical to Poison
Skill Rune - Toad of Hugeness
Has been redesigned
Every second for 5 seconds, the toad pulls in the farthest enemy within 45 yards, swallows him for 0.5 seconds, then spits him back out, leaving the enemy with a debuff that deals 750% weapon damage over 5 seconds and increases damage taken by 25%
Gaining additional Soul Harvest stacks will no longer remove all existing stacks and will instead be added to them. Any new stacks over 5 will replace the stack with the shortest remaining duration.
Raise a wall of Zombies 28 yards wide from the ground that blocks enemies and attacks them for 1000% weapon damage as Physical over 6 seconds
The damage area has been increased to more closely match the visual
You can now cast again sooner after casting Wall of Death
Skill Rune - Communing with Spirits
Summon a 15 yard radius spectral ring that deals 1200% weapon damage as Cold over 6 seconds, Chills all enemies who walk through by 60%, and reduces their damage done by 25%
Skill Rune - Fire Wall
Summon a fire wall 40 yards wide for 8 seconds that burns enemies who walk through, dealing 1100% weapon damage as Fire over 4 seconds
Skill Rune - Wall of Zombies
Increase the width of the wall of Zombies to 50 yards and knock all enemies back behind the wall
Skill Rune - Ring of Poison
Summon a 15 yard radius ring for 5 seconds that poisons nearby enemies, causing them to take 1200% weapon damage as Poison over 8 seconds
Skill Rune - Surrounded by Death
Raises a circle of zombies from the ground that traps and attacks nearby enemies for 1000% weapon damage as physical over 4 seconds
When you receive fatal damage, you instead gain a shield equal to 400% of your maximum Life for 5 seconds and release a shockwave that knocks enemies back and Stuns them for 3 seconds.
This effect may occur once every 60 seconds
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue that prevented Ray of Frost from dealing damage to Burrowing Leapers after they have burrowed
FIxed an issue that prevented the Arcane Orb - Spark bonus Lighting damage from being applied to Slow Time and Archon Slow Time that were enhanced by the Delsere's Magnum Opus (4) Set Bonus
Fixed an issue that prevented Aether Walker and Cosmic Strand from working with Archon Teleport
Fixed an issue that prevented Crown of the Primus from working with Archon Slow Time
Fixed an issue that prevented the Delsere's Magnum Opus (4) Set Bonus from working with Archon Slow Time
Fixed an issue that caused non-offensive spells to consume the Wave of Force - Arcane Attunement buff
Fixed an issue that prevented Hydra - Arcane Hydra from benefitting from the Wave of Force - Arcane Attunement buff
Fixed an issue that prevented Archon Disintegration Wave from updating its refresh rate while channeling when your attack speed changed
The damage of your Spirit Generators is increased by 1.5% for each point of Spirit you have
When reaching maximum Spirit, all damage is increased by 100%, but you no longer passively regenerate Spirit and 65 Spirit is drained every second until you run out of Spirit
Uliana's Strategem
New Set
(2) Set Bonus
Every third hit of your Spirit Generators applies Exploding Palm
(4) Set Bonus
Your Seven-Sided Strike deals its total damage with each hit
(6) Set Bonus
Your Seven-Sided Strike detonates your Exploding Palm
Enemies hit by any skill listed in the (6) Set Bonus are afflicted by Necrosis becoming Slowed and taking 1500% weapon damage every second for 10 seconds
Necrosis causes afflicted enemies to take 20% increased damage from all sources
(4) Set Bonus
After applying Necrosis to an enemy, you take 50% reduced damage for 10 seconds
(6) Set Bonus
After casting wall of Death you gain 900% increased damage to your primary skills, Acid Cloud, Firebats, Gargantuan, Grasp of the Dead, Piranhas, Wall of Death, Zombie Charger, and Zombie Dogs for 15 seconds
Jeram's Bracers
New Legendary Bracers
Wall of Death can be cast up to twice again within 2 seconds before the cooldown begins
Rolls with +75-100% Wall of Death damage
Increases the attack speed of Wall of Death by 30%
Note: This will not be reflected in the item's tooltip
Your Hex - Angry Chicken explosion damage is increased by 200% and slain enemies trigger an additional explosion
Your Hex - Angry Chicken now lasts 15 seconds and movement speed as a chicken is increased by an additional 100%
Spirit of Arachyr
New Set
(2) Set Bonus
Summon a permanent Spider Queen who leaves behind webs that deal 800% weapon damage per second over 5 seconds and slows enemies. The Spider Queen is commanded to move to where you cast your Corpse Spiders.
(4) Set Bonus
Hex gains the effect of the Toad of Hugeness rune. While Toad of Hugeness is active, you take 40% reduced damage. After Toad of Hugeness finishes his meal, you will heal for 10% of your maximum Life per second for 10 seconds.
(6) Set Bonus
The damage of your creature skills is increased by 800%. Creature skills are Corpse Spiders, Firebats, Hex, Locust Swarm, Piranhas, and Plague of Toads.
Note: The following Seasonal items will be not be available to PC players until Season 4 begins and will be available exclusively to Seasonal characters until the conclusion of Season 4
Bane of the Stricken
New Legendary Gem
Each attack you make against an enemy increases the damage it takes from your attacks by 0.8%
Damage bonus is increased by 0.01% per rank
Gain 25% increased damage against Rift Guardians and bosses at rank 25
Barbarian
Dishonored Legacy
New Mighty Weapon
Cleave deals up to 300-400% increased damage based on percentage of missing Fury
Crusader
Sacred Harness
New Legendary Belt
Judgment - Debilitate is cast at your landing location when casting Falling Sword
Demon Hunter
The Demon's Demise
New Legendary Hand Crossbow
Spike Trap - Sticky Trap spreads to nearby enemies when it explodes
Monk
Lion's Claw
New Legendary Fist Weapon
Seven-Sided Strike performs an additional 7 strikes
Witch Doctor
Henri's Perquisition
New Mojo
The first time an enemy deals damage to you, reduce that damage by 60-80% and Charm the enemy for 3 seconds
Wizard
Fazula's Improbable Chain
New Legendary Belt
You automatically start with 15-20 Archon stacks when entering Archon form
Fixed an issue that prevented the Firebird's Finery (4) Set Bonus from being triggered by Slow Time and Archon Slow Time that were enhanced by the Delsere's Magnum Opus (4) Set Bonus
Fixed an issue that prevented additional rays of Heaven's Fury - Thou Shalt Not Pass with a Fate of the Fell equipped from stopping enemies who try to pass over the ground touched by the rays
Fixed an issue that prevented Dashing Strike, when enhanced by the Raiment of a Thousand Storms (4) Set Bonus from activating the resource spender portion of the Bastions of Will set bonus
Fixed an issue that prevented Dead Man's Legacy from affecting Multishot when cast by Marauder's Sentries
Fixed an issue that could sometimes prevent Fist of Az'Turrasq from rolling with a primary stat
Fixed an issue that prevented players who were in a game where a Greater Rift was in progress, but were not participating in the rift from changing their skills
Fixed an issue that could sometimes prevent The Hell Portals bounty from being completed
