Diablo 3 season 21 start time and patch notes

On June 23, Blizzard released the latest patch for Devil 3, before his new season. On July 3 at 8 p.m. EDT / 5 p.m. PDT, players can jump into Season 21, called Trials of Tempests. This new season offers new armor sets for some classes and a new elemental power bonus.

Here’s a quick look at all the new content in patch 2.6.9, and the upcoming Trials of Tempests season. For a complete list of patch notes, scroll down.

A storm of elements

As in the past few seasons, Season 21 offers a new seasonal effect, constantly changing the player’s gaming experience. For Trials of Tempests, players constantly channel elemental power. Every 90 seconds, players will rain meteorites from the sky, breathe lightning, summon walls of flame, unleash tornadoes of energy, or crush enemies with snowballs.

These effects could change how and when players tackle large groups of enemies during Season 21.

New gear sets

The last seasons of Devil 3 They have introduced new gear sets. This season features the Gears of Dreadlands for Demon Hunters and the Masquerade of the Burning Carnival for Necromancers.

Gears of Dreadlands has a new Momentum mechanic. When you deal damage with a primary ability, you gain Momentum, which increases the damage of your primary ability, up to a maximum of 20 seconds. Using Strafe also automatically triggers your primary ability, reducing damage and increasing movement speed. Using the full set, all primary abilities deal 10,000% increased damage.

The Masquerade of the Burning Carnival set makes your Simulacrums unharmed, gains all runes and refreshes their cooldown upon death. Having a Simulacrum outside also dramatically decreases incoming damage and splits the damage done to you between you and the Simulacrum. With a full Set, Bone Spear deals 10,000% increased damage and triples it for Simulacrums.

Both classes also saw major changes to some of their legendary items, and the Necromancer also saw major changes to some skill mechanics.

New and recurring cosmetics

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Each season, players can complete difficult tasks to earn some cosmetic items. In Season 21, Blizzard is bringing in some Season 9 cosmetics, while adding brand new items.

Returning items include some Transfiguration Kits, a portrait frame, and a pet. New items for Trials of Tempests include the new Stupendous Contraption mascot and the Industrial Portrait Frame.

The Great Gadget is arguably the most interesting item on offer here, and it appears to be a walking robot with some kind of lizard caught in a tube. It conforms to a traditionally “steampunk” environment, which is not exactly common in the Diablo world. Players will need to complete the season trip to collect these new items.

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Here’s a full list of Blizzard patch notes for Season 21.

PATCH 2.6.9

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Demon Hunter

• New Demon Hunter Set: Gears of Dreadlands
• 2-piece voucher
• Gain 4 seconds of Momentum when attacking with a Primary ability, in a maximum of 20 seconds. Your primary skills deal 10% more damage per second of boost.
• 4 Piece Bonus
• Casting Strafe against enemies will automatically trigger your last used primary ability, and will also give 60% damage reduction during attack and for 5 seconds after. While smashing, you gain 8% increased movement speed for each second of Momentum.
• 6 Piece Bonus
• Your primary skills deal 10,000% more damage.
• Leonine Bow of Hashir
• Balls has a 30% 100% possibility of explosion to attract all enemies within a radius of 24m, And also deals 100-150% increased damage.
• Emimei’s Duffel
• Balls now explode instantly and deals 150-175% increased damage.
• The Ninth Portfolio Cirri
• Hungry Arrow you have 20-25% is guaranteed to drill and also deals 450-600% increased damage.
• The end of the odyssey
• Enemies caught by your Tangle shots 20-25% 100-150% Highest damage from all sources.
• Hunter’s Wrath
• Your core skills attack 30% faster and try 45-60% 150-200% Damage increased.
• Sacred Point Shot
• Impale throws 2 additional knives deals 75-100% increased damage.

Necromancer

Developer Note: With the tweaks coming for some previous Necromancer sets and abilities, we will continue to evaluate the performance of the new set this season and can make additional tweaks in future seasons if we think they are needed.

• New set of necromancer: the burning carnival masquerade
• 2-piece voucher
• Your Simulacrums no longer take damage, they gain all runes, and their cooldown updates when you die.
• 4 Piece Bonus
• As long as you have a Simulacrum, the damage is reduced by 50%. The damage you take is also divided by your Simulacrums.
• 6 Piece Bonus
• Your Bone Spear deals 10,000% increased damage. Simulacrums earns triple this bonus.
• Claws of Essence
• When an exploded corpse damages at least one enemy, your Corpse Explosion deals 75-100% 150-200% damage increased for 6 seconds, stacking up to 5 times.
• Haunted visions
• Simulacrum now drains 5% one% of your maximum life every second and lasts twice as long Always. They can now duplicate Grim Scythe instead of Skeletal Mage.
• Razeth’s volition
• Skeletal magician gains the gift of death effect and uniqueness runes You gain 35-50% damage reduction if your Essence is not full.
• Jesseth Arms
• 2-Piece Set Bonus: While your skeletons are ordered to attack a target, you deal 400% increased damage.
• Grace of inarius
• 4-Piece Set Bonus: Bone Armor grants an additional two% 3% damage reduction for enemy hit.
• Pestilence Master Shroud
• 6 Piece Set Bonus: Each corpse you consume grants you an empowered Bone Spear charge that increases the damage of your next Bone Spear by 3300%. Additionally, Corpse Lance and Corpse Explosion damage is increased by 1650% 3300%.

Crossed

• Shield of Fury
• This effect can accumulate up to twenty 10 times.

general

• Jordan stone
• Added power: Each damage bonus of his elemental equals his highest static elemental bonus to the ability.
• Reaper Wraps
• Added a 2-second internal cooldown to the health balloon effect.
• Channeling mantle
• Now works on the necromancer’s siphon blood.
• Element Convention
• Added “non-static” to the wording of the description of the legendary power. The functionality has not changed.

Skill changes

• Necromancer
• Simulacrum
• These will now deform to the Necromancer if they start to stray too far from the player. This only works if the Necromancer is wearing the Burning Carnival Masquerade or Haunted Visions set.
• Simulacrums cannot use the shadow scythe (with haunted visions) or the skeleton wizard unless the necromancer had any of those abilities while simulacrums were being created.
• Final service
• It no longer consumes pets.
• The final service is now activated before Simulacrum’s Self Sacrifice.
• Bone prison
• Drills now benefit from this passive ability.
• Serrated edge
• Drills now benefit from this passive ability.
• Corpse explosion
• Damage increased from 350% to 1050%.
• Witch Doctor
• Barrage of spirits
• Ghost Rune Wraiths no longer benefit from pet bonuses.

Error correction

• Necromancer
• Fixed an issue where Skeleton Mages would not attack certain creatures.
• Specific PTR:
• Note: The following issues were only available in the PTR, but here are fixes for visibility to indicate intended functionality live.
• Seasonal effects no longer deal area damage.
• Seasonal benefit is restored if the player exits and re-enters a crevice.
• Seasonal theme should no longer work in Set Dungeons.
• Fixed Maltorius’ Petrified Spike dealing additional bonus damage instead of multiplicative.
• Fixed seasonal benefit that can sometimes drop each time the player enters an invulnerable state.
• Seasonal benefit changed to base its damage on the number of deaths. (Not really a mistake, plus a change)