Season 5 Start Recap
What happened on the first few days of Diablo 4 Season 5? Let's figure it out together with this Season 5 Start Recap!
The Umbracrux Unique Power Hotfix
The Umbracrux special effect was the cause of a buf granting a massive amount of experience. It was disabled on August 7th waiting for a hotfix:
The team was made aware of an issue where players were able to obtain a significant amount of experience while killing certain bosses with ‘The Umbracrux’ unique equipped.
We will be disabling the unique power for this weapon while we work on a fix for this. This means players will no longer be able to spawn a shade totem with this weapon. Players can still find this weapon and can technically still equip it, but they will not be able to utilize the unique power while we have this disabled.
Once we have a finalized fix, we will re-enable this and communicate this out to players.
Thanks for all the reports on this issue. We hope to have a final fix for this soon.
The Umbracrux unique power has been re-enabled after a hotfix on August 8th (see below).
August 8th Hotfix
- Fixed an issue where Tempering certain Greater Affixes could lead to unlimited re-rolls.
- Fixed an issue where an extremely large amount of experience could be earned when a totem from The Umbracrux was present when completing certain boss encounters.
Developer Note: With the above change, we have re-enabled the Unique Power for the Umbracrux.
- Fixed an issue where Season Journey chapter completion caches opened by Sorcerers could contain Rogue-exclusive items.
- Fixed an issue where the Malignant Altar for Varshan didn’t always disappear when Varshan spawned, which would prevent successive summons of Varshan.
- Various stability improvements.
Undocumented Changes & Tips
As is tradition, new Diablo 4 patch means undocumented changes! Here is a list of various undocumented changes as well as tips discovered by players in Season 5 so far:
- Runeshards currently don't drop from Nightmare Dungeons
- To get Infernal Compasses/Scrolls, you must complete the quest The Eyes of the Enemy.
- World Bosses Resilience experience: The fights are around 3 to 5 minutes and you can now join late (the damage is equalized, with bigger penalty for strong builds).
- +30 monster level XP strategy is only good if you destroy everything with ease, else stick closer to +10 monster level.
- Gold farm in Infernal Hordes is pretty good!
- Legendary Salvage Materials are the bottleneck for enchanting now.
- All Varshan materials still drop but you can convert them at the Alchemist (this option was initially added to convert old materials in Eternal Mode).
- Victimize Key Passive is bugged as hell and very weak as a result.
- The Umbracrux is not as good as initially thought.
- Fractured Winterglass fully works for Lightning Spear with all explosions.
- Retribution Aspect no longer double dips.
Season 5 Updates
We hope you enjoy the Season of the Infernal Hordes with the aid of our Season 5 compendium update. The Maxroll Diablo Team is always monitoring Diablo 4 and the Season 5 metagame and changes 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
