Big Changes Hit Diablo 4 In Massive Update Ahead Of Season 1’s Start

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Diablo IV’s first season, Season of the Malignant, kicks off tomorrow, July 20, and ahead of its start, developer Blizzard has pushed live a new update that features some significant changes for the game. 

This new update, 1.1.0a, brings new items and aspects to Diablo IV alongside bug fixes, buffs and nerfs, and more. Let’s start with perhaps the most exciting addition in this update for players preparing their builds for Season of the Malignant: six new Unique items and seven new Legendary aspects. 

Unique Items are the highest tier of loot you can obtain in Diablo IV – I beat the campaign last night after 28 hours and only just received my first piece of Unique gear. They feature excellent stat boosts and unique bonus effects and are tailor-made for specific builds. There are now six new Unique items to track down while playing in Diablo IV’s most challenging tier, World Tier IV. 

Alongside new Unique Items and Legendary Aspects, Blizzard has brought a swath of bug fixes to Diablo IV. While we won’t be breaking those down here – there are a ton – we’ll note these bug fixes cover accessibility, challenges, cooperative play, dungeons, class-specific gameplay, items and aspects, monsters, quests and events, UI and user experience, and more. Head to Blizzard’s blog here for the full rundown of fixes. 

This update brings various gameplay updates to Diablo IV as well. Altar of Lilith unlocks and map discovery is now account-wide, meaning it will progress across Eternal Realm characters and Seasonal characters, and Renown values have been increased in both side quests and dungeons. There’s even more in the patch notes, too. 

On the World Tier side of things, many of the values associated with each have been adjusted. 

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