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Patch Notes 2.2.1 Build #64730 (all platforms) – May 14, 2025

Vessel of Hatred

Game Updates

Spiritborn

Skills

The Protector

• The damage has been increased from 80% to 140%.
• The barrier strength has been increased from 15% to 30% of maximum health.
• The thorn damage of the rank 5 upgrade has been increased from 100% to 150%.

Passive

Adaptive Stances

• The core value bonus has been increased from 50% to 75%.

Critical Strikes

• The damage bonus against vulnerable targets has been increased from 45% to 80%.
• The healing amount has been increased from 2% to 5% of maximum health.
• The life gain has been increased from 5 to 10.

Child Prodigy’s Tempo

• The skill rank bonus has been increased from 2 to 4.

Fixed Bugs

• A bug has been fixed that caused the Tormented Gifts of Secrets to not contain appropriate gear for Spiritborn at difficulty levels below “Torment”.
• A bug has been fixed that allowed enemies behind a locked door in the dungeon “Repulsive Swarmstock” to deal damage to the player.
• A bug has been fixed that caused Subo’s seeker bonus to mark unselectable targets like totems in the Hall of Atonement.
• A bug has been fixed that allowed the damage-over-time effect of Gorshak in the Dark Citadel to persist after the boss’s death.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the “Hold Out” event in the Field of Giants to sometimes not progress between waves.
• A bug has been fixed that allowed the visual effects of Akarat to persist after the Herald of Hatred was defeated.
• A bug has been fixed that prevented the Skeleton’s Ghosts from damaging the Wolfpack Portals in the encounter with the Herald of Hatred.

Base Game

Balance Updates

Barbarian

Items

Gohrs Devastating Grasp

• The damage bonus now depends on damage per second instead of damage per tick.

Developer’s Comment: This results in an approximate damage increase of 100%.

• The cooldown reduction from critical hits of “Explosion” has been increased from 0.2 to 0.4 seconds.

Twin Strikes

• The damage has been increased from 70-100% to 110-140%.

Aspect of the Horrifying Whirlwind

• Now grants the same critical hit damage value during “Whirlwind”.

Druid

Passive

Earthen Power

• The critical damage bonus has been increased from 50% to 70%.

Perfect Storm

• The damage bonus has been increased from 60% to 80%.

Humanity

• Now also reduces damage taken in human form by 2% per rank.

Unique Item

Gathlen’s Birthright

• The required critical hits have been decreased from 400-200 to 300-150. The critical boss hits have been decreased from 80-40 to 60-30.
• The movement speed in human form has been increased from 17.5-23% to 24.5-30%.

Necromancer

Book of the Dead

Skeleton Priest

• The damage bonus has been increased from 30% to 50%.

Items

Aspect of Reanimation

• The damage bonus has been increased from 25-45% to 40-60%.

Sanguivor, Zirs Blade

• The inherent summoning damage has been increased from 60% to 400%.

Hunter

Skills

Poison Trap

• The poison damage has been increased from 540% to 612%.

Items

Band of the Ichor Rose

• The upgrade bonus of “Poison Trap” has been increased from 50-100% to 50-150%.

Aspect of Contamination

• Previously: The poison trap dealt poison damage when triggered. If it dealt a critical hit, it would deal 20-40% more poison damage for 5 seconds.
• Now: The poison trap explodes upon triggering and deals an additional 10-30% of its normal damage. If it lands a critical hit, it deals 20-40% increased poison damage for 9 seconds.

Sorceress

Passive

Shocking Effect

• Now triggers upon renewed stunning.

Items

Greeting from Verglas

• The damage per hit has been increased from 1.5% up to a maximum of 75% to 2% up to a maximum of 100%.

Glaciated Aspect

• No longer requires the use of “Blizzard” and can be triggered by effects like the Blizzard enchantment.

Game Updates

Season 8: The Return of Belial

• Sayeena is now a merchant and sells Oath Scrolls for Spectral Ash. Oath Scrolls can be consumed to gain reputation with the Oath of the Revealer. Sayeena is located near the reputation board in Tarsarak.
• The following boss powers have been adjusted:
  • Sinerat’s Flames: The main boss power damage has been increased from 50% to 75%.
  • Hat of the Embrace of Hatred: The boss power modifier no longer decreases with weapon swaps.
• The symbol for apparition raids has been adjusted for better visibility.
• Deceptive Eyes now appear more frequently near apparition bosses.
• An additional objective has been added to better convey that seasonal reputation can be gained through both apparition raids and defeating any bosses in Sanctuary.

Miscellaneous

• The option to read player names via screen reader can now be toggled on and off. You can find this feature in the accessibility settings.

Fixed Bugs

Accessibility

• A bug has been fixed that caused the screen reader to not mention the type of currency for relic items.
• A bug has been fixed that interrupted the screen reader when switching between relic menus.
• A bug has been fixed that prevented the screen reader from fully reading some error messages.
• A bug has been fixed that allowed Belial to escape from the trap during the quest “Masked Truths”.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the screen reader to not function when first opening the armory.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the compass to overlap with the player’s model head.

Season Journey and Season Questline

• A bug has been fixed that caused the pile of debris in the quest “Buried Hope” to not show the tooltip to interact.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the quest descriptions of “Buried Hope” to not update correctly during the quest.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the quest “Belial’s Revelation” (formerly “Belial’s Apparition Raid”) to show as completed before it was.
• A bug has been fixed that could block progress in the quest “Hunt of Lies” if Belial was killed too quickly.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the objectives of the seasonal journey for defeating multiple variants of Belial not to indicate which variant of Belial was required for completion.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the objective of the seasonal journey for killing elite enemies to receive progress when killing any enemies.

Apparition Raids and Belial Encounters

• A bug has been fixed that caused Wargs summoned by the apparition of the Beastmaster to appear before the boss itself.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the apparition of the Beastmaster to not drop the intended potions.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the apparition of the Extortionist to not drop the intended bombs.
• A bug has been fixed that allowed the Phantoms of Torment in the fight against Andariel to be frightened and move due to the “Paranormal Scythe” of the Necromancer.
• A bug has been fixed that allowed the Phantoms of Torment to move while the player was in stealth.
• A bug has been fixed that caused Belial’s Den to be unopenable while playing with a controller.
• A bug has been fixed that caused Duriel to become invulnerable if too much damage was dealt to him before he burrowed for the first time.
• A bug has been fixed that allowed the gate in the Flooded Depths to be opened manually without using the gate opener.
• A bug has been fixed that could cause the skeleton construct in the Sunken Ruins and the Torment Forest to be prematurely destroyed, blocking dungeon progress.

Boss Powers

• A bug has been fixed that caused some barriers from the “Extortionist Sabotage” to remain indefinitely instead of just 6 seconds.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the beam of the main boss power “Varshan’s Life Theft” to not appear correctly.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the modifier boss power “Belial’s Eye Rays” to not reliably cause “Overwhelm”. The bonus now lasts 2 seconds after entering stealth.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the main boss power “Lesson of the Beastmaster” to only stun summoned units if another was already active.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the main boss power “Andariel’s Flame Skull” to deal irregular damage to enemies.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the modifier boss power “Salve of the Herald of Hatred” to trigger from automatic basic skills.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the Barbarian’s “Iron Maelstrom” to not reliably trigger the main boss power “Hail of the Beast in Ice”.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the “Aspect of Unyielding Strikes” to not correctly increase the damage of the modifier boss powers “Varshan’s Life Theft”, “Belial’s Crystal Bait”, and “Ashava’s Poison”.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the temporal modifier boss power to expire during weapon change from “Embrace of Hatred”.
• A bug has been fixed that allowed the following boss powers to be triggered while riding.
  • Skergs Toxins
  • Knorzer’s Explosive Ore
  • Lord Zirs Blood Puddle
  • Varshan’s Life Theft

Boss Hideouts and Dungeons

• A bug has been fixed that allowed bosses to occasionally regain health.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the arena-wide attack of the Tormented Echo of Varshan to sometimes not deal damage as intended.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the minions of the Tormented Echo of Varshan to lose their function if Varshan was staggered during summoning, causing him not to use this skill anymore.
• A bug has been fixed that caused poison arrows from the walls in the fight against Belial, Lord of Lies, to miss in certain positions.
• A bug has been fixed that allowed the Avatars of Torment in the battle against Andariel to be frightened and move due to the “Paranormal Scythe” of the Necromancer.
• A bug has been fixed that allowed the Avatars of Torment to move while the player was in stealth.
• A bug has been fixed that caused Belial’s Hoard to be unopenable while playing with a controller.
• A bug has been fixed that caused Duriel to become invulnerable if too much damage was dealt to him before he burrowed for the first time.
• A bug has been fixed that allowed the gate in the Flooded Depths to be opened manually without using the gate opener.
• A bug has been fixed that could cause the Skeleton construct in the Sunken Ruins and the Torment Forest to be prematurely destroyed, blocking dungeon progress.

General

• A bug has been fixed that allowed some affixes of elite enemies to deal damage to players in the city.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the visual effect of “Hellhammer” to not match the damage range.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the Barbarian’s jump to not prevent damage when jumping over puddles created by Belial.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the attacks of Werewolf and Raven Druids to not generate stacks of “Anima of the Forest” when used in conjunction with a Stormmate or Aspect of the Storm Crow in combination with Gathlen’s Birthright.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the effects of the cold upgrade of the Skeleton Magician to not function randomly.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the Skeleton Scythe to sometimes fail to create corpses through their upgrade.
• A bug has been fixed that caused “Poison Trap” to consume combo points even when used without Band of the Ichor Rose.
• A bug has been fixed that caused damage reduction against enemies affected by the affix “Traps Skills” through “Thief’s Leather” to trigger even when the enemy was not affected by a trap skill.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the effect “Cursed Mark” not to reset after using a cursed altar followed by a teleport.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the experience bonus from incense to disappear after a teleport or zone change.
• A rare bug has been fixed that allowed an exclusive item from Vessel of Hatred to be obtained by imprinting a rare item.
• A rare bug has been fixed that caused players to be unable to respawn.

User Interface and User Experience

• A bug has been fixed that caused materials in the materials tab to not update properly.
• A bug has been fixed that caused some Hell Horde bosses to not display symbols on the minimap.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the description for Forgotten Souls not to indicate that they can be found in Whispered Chests.

Miscellaneous

• Several bugs have been fixed that caused the visual intensification of certain skills to not function correctly.
• A bug has been fixed that prevented a quick entry in the group finder from being created via the Hell Flood symbol on the map.
• A bug has been fixed that caused the companion Chimimoryo to become uncontrollable and run away from the player. (This nose has a mind of its own!)
• Diverse improvements have been made to graphics, audio, user interface, stability, and the reliquary.