We now know when Season 22 in Diablo 3 starts. The date, which Blizzard has now officially set, is still in November. These changes are in Patch 2.6.10.
When does Season 22 start? As Blizzard announced, the new season in Diablo 3 starts on November 20, 2020. As usual, that’s a Friday. If the start goes smoothly, PC players should be able to enjoy the season starting at 5:00 PM.
Based on the start times of the last seasons, it is expected that Season 22 will start on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S, and Nintendo Switch at 2:00 AM on November 21.
The end of Season 21 is November 8, 2020.
So what content, changes, and gifts does the new season in Diablo 3 offer? We will show you the changes in the patch notes here.
The Season Theme – You summon Shadow Clones
The new Season 22 is called “Shadows of the Nephalem” and gives a rough idea of what the theme offers right from its name.
Whenever you activate a shrine or pylon in Season 22, the game creates a shadow clone of your class.
How strong is this? The clones scale with your character. The stronger you are, the stronger the clone. The shadow fights by your side for one minute. It can also die beforehand under certain circumstances.
In the following gallery, we will show you all the builds that will equip the clones of the respective classes. There are three builds per class clone.
The second bonus: Besides these shadow clones, you can expect another bonus in Season 22. This ensures that Kanai’s Cube prepares a fourth slot for you.
In this fourth slot, you can activate any property – whether weapon, armor, or jewelry does not matter. However, keep in mind that you cannot activate the same bonus twice in the cube. So you cannot activate the bonus of In-Geom twice.
Cosmetic Rewards in S22 – Here’s What You Can Win
What’s new? If you complete the Season Journey of Season 22 completely, you can expect two cosmetic rewards again. This time it is the portrait frame “Lost Civilization” and a new companion. “The Cain-Chronic” is the mobile book with a beard that will accompany you on your adventures.
What other rewards are there? With Season 17, Blizzard first introduced that players can earn cosmetic rewards from old seasons. So in S22, you can earn the rewards from S10 if you do not already own them. These are:
- Head and shoulder protection of the exclusive set of the Conqueror
- a series of portraits matching the black soulstone
- The Storyteller’s Flag
Haedrig’s Gift – Here Are Your Starter Sets
What is this? If you work through the Season Journey with its different tasks in Season 22, you will be rewarded with set pieces. During the steps of the journey, you are supposed to kill certain bosses, such as key guardians, train your artisans, and complete a lot of tasks that you would anyway have to fulfill on the side.
The big reward is a complete class set when you finish the Season Journey at stages 2, 3, and 4. For each of these three stages, you receive a few set pieces, so that after stage 4 you have the complete set in your possession. Keep in mind that you must open all the gifts with the same class to receive a complete set.
The contents of the gifts always depend on which class you open the gifts with.
What sets are there? In Season 22, the distribution looks like this:
- Barbarian – Horde of the Ninety Savages
- Crusader – Aegis of Valor
- Demon Hunter – Cogs of Terror
- Monk – Pattern of Justice
- Witch Doctor – Mundunugu’s Regalia
- Wizard – The Typhon’s Veil
- Necromancer – Mask of the Burning Carnival
As you may notice, these are all the sets that were released for the classes in the last seasons. So anyone who took a break from Diablo 3 for a few months has a lot to discover here.
Diablo 3: Patch 2.6.10 Patch Notes – What’s Inside?
When is the update coming? Patch 2.6.10 releases on November 10 for Diablo 3, assuming everything goes according to plan. However, the bonuses from Season 22 will only be activated at the start of the season.
General: The stone gauntlets are now dropped for every class.
In addition, the Paragon gold finding bonus has been changed to an increased gold collection radius. This increases by 0.1 per point.
Changes to Items
New items: Completely new to the arsenal of Diablo 3 are Gelmindor’s Mark of Protection for Necromancers and Ursua’s Trampled Image for Witch Doctors.
- Gelmindor’s Mark of Protection: Bone spears cast by simulacrums now deal 300 – 400% more damage.
- Ursua’s Trampled Image: New legendary mojo for Witch Doctors. Increases the damage of Zombie Dogs by 100 – 150%. The Zombie Bears rune now summons 8 bears that continue to run.
Buffs and nerfs: Existing items in Diablo 3 have been adjusted as follows for Patch 2.6.10.
- Ivory Tower: Several quickly blocked attacks now increase the damage of Heavenly Fire up to 2.5 times.
- Mantle of Channeling: The 1 second channeling time before the effect activates has been removed.
- The Twisted Sword: Energy whirl now deals 125-150% more damage for each active energy whirl (up to a maximum of 5). Energy whirl now automatically gains the effect of the Furious Storm rune and the tornado can merge with three additional energy whirls.
- Etched Sigil: While channeling Arcane Torrent, Disintegration, or Frost Beam, the damage of your energy whirl is increased by 200–250% and another energy whirl is triggered every second.
- Fragment of Destiny: You attack 50% faster with core spells and they deal triple damage. Whenever you hit with a core spell, you gain a spectral empowerment effect. Hydras deal 25–30% more damage for each stack. Stackable up to 10 times.
- Valthek’s Rebuke: Energy whirl now moves in a straight line and deals 300–400% more damage.
- Winter Flurry: There is a 25% chance that enemies who die from cold damage will trigger a Frost Nova. Your Hydra deals 125–150% more damage to enemies in a Blizzard.
- Wizardspike: Attacks have a 25% chance to send out a Frozen Orb. Arcane Orb deals 300–350% more damage.
- Delseres Opus Magnum: The set bonus (6 parts) has been increased from 8,500% to 12,500%.
- The Typhon’s Veil: The set bonus (6 parts) has been increased from 1,300% to 2,000%.
- Norvald’s Furious Zeal: The set bonus (2 parts) has been increased from 100% to 400% damage bonus.
- Akkhan’s Armor: The set bonus (6 parts) has been increased from 1,500% to 2,000% damage bonus.
- Roland’s Legacy: The set bonus (4 parts) has been increased from 13,000% to 17,500% damage bonus.
- Seeker of Light: The set bonus (6 parts) now increases the damage of Blessed Hammer by 15,000% (previously 12,000%).
- Belt of the Trove: Every 4 seconds, you rain bombardment down on a random nearby enemy. Bombardment deals 400–500% more damage.
- The Mortal Drama: Doubles the number of hits from Bombardment. Bombardment deals 400–500% more damage.
- Thorns of the Accursed: The set bonus (2 parts) has been reduced from 350% to 90% and is now stackable up to 10 times. The set bonus (6 parts) has been increased from 15,000% to 67,500% and the attack speed bonus has been increased from 50% to 100%.
- Manajuma’s Gory Fetch: The bonus to the explosion damage of Angry Chicken has been increased from 400% to 2,000%. Manajuma’s Path now contains a third legendary affix that allows Angry Chicken to create a chicken that seeks out enemies every second and deals 25% of the explosion damage of the angry chicken.
- Spirit of Arachyr: The set bonus (6 parts) has been increased from 9,000% to 17,500% damage bonus.
- Hell Tooth Armor: The set bonus (6 parts) has been increased from 9,000% to 17,500% damage bonus.
- Walrus Tooth: Reduces the mana cost of Zombie Dogs by 75% and increases damage by six to seven times.
- Inna’s Mantra: The set bonus (6 parts) has been increased from 750% to 950% damage bonus.
- Shenlong’s Spirit: The damage bonus has been increased from 200% to 350%.
- Uliana’s Stratagem (set): Now provides a 77% damage reduction for 7 seconds after using Exploding Hand.
- Gungdo Gear: The explosion triggered by the death of Exploding Hand also applies Exploding Hand to all detected enemies. The damage of Exploding Hand is increased by 75–100%.
- Blade of the Tribes: War Cry and Threatening Shout trigger Landslide and Earthquake. Landslide and Earthquake deal 600–800% more damage. The affix of Blade of the Tribes for Earthquake has been integrated into a new legendary affix, so Earthquake is no longer strengthened by two affixes.
How do you like the changes to Season 22 and what are you most looking forward to? Let us know here at MeinMMO in the comments.
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