August 15th Diablo 4 News Wrap-Up!
What happened in the past 24 hours ? Hotfixes, Gamescom, Mother's Blessing event... Discover all the Diablo 4 news in this August 15th Diablo 4 News Wrap-Up on Maxroll!
Mother's Blessing Reignites
The Mother's Blessing event is coming back! Learn more here!
Rise, wanderer, and stand triumphant before your hoard of spoils—Mother’s Blessing has returned!
From August 20, 12 p.m.–August 27, 10 a.m. PT, all players will earn 35% experience and 50% Gold at a (multiplicative) increased rate. Lilith blesses all her children, as this bonus applies to both Seasonal and Eternal Realms, and all World Tiers. This bonus stacks, so pair it with Elixirs and the Urn of Aggression to maximize your experience gains while killing Monsters.
Hotfix 4 August 15th
Game Updates
- Aspect of Splintering Energy
- Damage increased from 25-50% to 50-80%.
- Splintering Energy will arc to additional enemies less frequently.
*NOTE: Tooltip descriptors for this will be changed in a upcoming update.
Developer Note: In rare instances, this aspect alongside Fractured Winterglass could cause detrimental server performance issues. To solve for this, we’re reducing the frequency of it arcing to additional enemies, and increasing its damage to compensate. Additionally, the amount of Frozen Orbs that can be launched from Conjurations while using Fractured Winterglass has been adjusted in these rare instances.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where Damage over Time effects could persist after the player died and revived.
- Various stability improvements.
Developer Note: The team is continuing our investigations around issues and player reports tied to trading. For now, trade will continue to be disabled and we will follow-up with updates. Thank you all for your patience.
What does this change do?
Overall effect of these changes and fixes is a small nerf to Lightning Spear Sorcerer:
- Damage against multiple clumped together enemies: heavily nerfed (about 3x), unless they die in one hit
- Damage against single targets: unchanged
- Damage against three targets (aka Fell Council): slightly nerfed (about 20%), or noticeabely nerfed (~50%) if they gather in one spot
Luckily, that "unless they die in one hit" clause is doing a lot of heavy lifting, because this build is so strong that small enemies die in one hit in pretty much every situation except high tier Pit and 4-player Tier 8 Infernal Hordes. This nerf results in 3-4 tiers lower clears in The Pit and isn't really noticeable elsewhere (aside from slightly longer Councill fight). Overall, Lightnig Spear stays firmly in the S-tier as unquestioned strongest Sorcerer build and probably the strongest build across all classes.
The part below is a speculation based on results of our testing. It's very hard to see what's going on with 40 Lightning Spears on the screen so we can't be sure.
The Fractured Winterglass nerf seem to be implemented by adding a limit to how often the effect can be triggered. This limit is farily hard to reach but it's still there. In rare cases it can affect you even if your average Frozen Orb production is way below it, because it can prevent lucky back-to-back procs. In practical terms, this means that you should put more emphasis on increasing the impact of each Frozen Orb proc, rather than increasing the amount of procs you can get per second.
Cooldown Reduction, Cooldown Reduction per Frozen Orb explosion, and Chance to cast Frozen Orb twice become slightly more important. Lucky Hit Chance and Chance to Launch a Frozen Orb on Lucky Hit become less important (RIP Fists of Fate).
Patch 1.5.1 Notes
Adam Fletcher mentioned in a tweet Patch 1.5.1 notes should be released today! As usual, the Maxroll Diablo Team will be there to cover all the updates and changes!
Hello from the other side of the world!
Hotfix 4 went out earlier.
We have 1.5.1 patch notes tomorrow with release next week.
Trading is Back!
The trading system has been disabled on August 14th to investigation some possible duplication issues. The trading is now back!
8/15 update: Trading has been enabled. Thank you all for your patience!
Gauntlet is Back!
The Gauntlet has been disabled on August 13th to address an issue that was identified. Now that it has been resolved, the Gauntlet is back:
8/15 Update: Issues involving The Gauntlet have been resolved, and the Gauntlet is available to play.
Vessel of Hatred at Gamescom
It has been revealed Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred expansion will be discussed at Gamescom on August 21th! We will probably learn more about the expansion at this occasion. Worth noting, World of Wracraft: The War Within new expansion will also be a topic.
Season 5 Updates
We hope you enjoy the Season of the Infernal Hordes with the aid of our guides. The Maxroll Diablo Team is always monitoring Diablo 4 and Season 5 metagame to bring you the most updated content and build guides. Our focus for the start of Season 5 is to make sure our Build Guides are solid with all the new Item updates and crafting changes. We're continuing to work on more updates for D4Planner!
With that said, head over to our Discord to stay up to date with our content development and to make the most of your Season 5 experience! Also don't forget to check out our Youtube channel!
Written by: Chewingnom
