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Ladder is coming to Diablo 2 Resurrected!
Blizzard just released Diablo 2 Resurrected patch 2.4 highlights which was the announcement of the start of the first ladder season. And we can know that Diablo 2 Resurrected new runewords, ladder items and class balance changes coming January! In this article, we discuss all about Diablo 2 Resurrected patch 2.4 highlights.
Diablo 2 Resurrected Patch 2.4 Highlights – Ladder Season, New Runewords, Class Balance Changes & More
Ladder seasons are finally coming to Diablo 2 Resurrected, along with loads of great stuff like new Horadric Cube Recipes, runewords, the ability to upgrade underused sets, new mercenary changes, class balances & more new features. Let’s go through it all and see what we got!
Ladder Rank Play
Like Diablo II Classic, there will be 4 different ladder mode featured in Diablo 2 Resurrected including standard ladder, hardcore ladder, standard expansion ladder, and hardcore expansion ladder. So you could play the like proper old classic D2 from ages ago and just go for it. Or if you want to you can play the expansion ladder as well, but for softcore and hardcore. That is a really cool thing. For me, I’d like play standard expansion ladder with the possibility of dabbling with hardcore.
How does Diablo 2 Resurrected ladder season work? For the first time, players will have the chance to unlock a host of new Rune Words in the Ladder system! At the end of a Ladder season, players who successfully made these Rune Words will have their Ladder characters be moved into a “non-Ladder” version of the game. Then at the beginning of the next Ladder season, players will make a new Ladder character and start all over again to earn new rewards.
Class Balance Changes
- Amazon: The strengths of certain Amazon’s underused melee skills such as Impale and Fend may be buffed to encourage players to use them. Blizzard are also working on removing the need for synergy requirements for melee skills in order to open up more skill point flexibility for other options. Additionally, certain skills in the Bow and Crossbow tree may be strengthening to help improve bow gameplay on more challenging settings as well.
- Assassin: It can be improved for generating and spending Combo Points and there will be more trap builds and damage scalling buffs.
- Barbarian: Blizzard will be adding more possibilities with Combat Skills such as Leap Attack and Grim Ward, as well as re-evaluating the skill synergy criteria in order to provide players with more compelling reasons to invest points in specific Combat Skills. Furthermore, the Double Throw and Throwing Mastery skills can be enhanced.
- Druid: There will be improvements to some of Fire skills’ physical damage components and synergies, the controls for Arctic Blast and the Werebear skills.
- Necromancer: There will be improvements to specific Summons that are underused. The lesser used Golems will be more effective.
- Paladin: We can see improvements to AoE Damage auras to make them more effective at closer range. Blizzard also aim to increase Thorns' scaling and damage reliability so that it can inflict more consistent damage at higher levels.
- Sorceress: The armor skills (such as Frozen Armor, Shiver Armor, and Chilling Armor) can be more diverse.
New D2R Rune Words, Mercenaries Changes & More Features
We’ll see improvements to Mercenaries in a variety of ways such as upgrading their skills and stats in order to strengthen their identity and fantasy. Set Item changes, New Horadric Cube Recipes and new Rune Words are all on the horizon!
- New Horadric Cube Recipes: They will allow for the enhancement of the item quality of Set Items, hence expanding the number of item build possibilities.
- Set Items Changes: Players will have additional incentive to seek out partial and full set goods that can complement the skill adjustments mentioned above, which will update underperforming Set Items to have more bonuses.
- New Rune Word: They will go along with the new Skill and Mercenary adjustments that will be implemented in the update.
