Diablo 4’s Season 2 patch rebalances each class and nearly every Unique item

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Diablo 4’s second season, Season of Blood, is headed to the game on Oct. 17 — alongside the action game’s largest patch to date, update 1.2. Thankfully Blizzard has graced us with the patch notes a week early, as they’re just over 14,000 words long.

We’ve listed all of the patch notes below, for your convenience, but if you haven’t been paying attention to Blizzard’sDiablo 4 Season 2 reveals, we’re going to give you a quick recap.

In a stream on Oct. 10, Blizzard revealed that all five classes are seeing some significant reworks. Rogues and Druids are changing the least, as they were already in a great spot. Sorcerers, Barbarians, and Necromancers, however, are all getting some serious love — which you can check out below.

One class change worth shouting out, however, is the Necromancer’s pet identity. Since the game launched earlier this year, pet builds (part of the core fantasy of a Necromancer) haven’t been viable. Blizzard is doing its biggest push yet to change that, making minions much more survivable than before and, in some cases, doubling their damage.

As for elemental resistances, Blizzard has completely reworked how these will work, further allowing players to prepare for upcoming battles by decking their character out in highly specific resistances. This will be especially useful for fighting the new uber endgame bosses, which are all associated with a specific kind of elemental damage.

Blizzard is also, essentially, redoing most Uniques in the game for Season 2. The studio’s developers said they updated most of these build-defining items, making them more powerful and more likely to proc in nearly all cases.

All of these changes are in addition to the new Season of Blood content and quality of life