Diablo 4 Season 2 Campfire Chat In-Depth Blue Post Released
Blizzard has released an in-depth blue post about the changes announced during their Campfire Chat livestream, including further clarifications regarding Resistances and more!
Diablo 4 Season 2 Campfire Chat In-Depth Blue Post
Greetings wanderers!
It’s been an exciting few months since Diablo IV was released to players around the world. We launched our first Season, a number of updates and of course, slayed copious amounts of Demons. With Season of Blood arriving on October 17, we wanted to spend some time covering some of the changes—big and small—coming to Diablo IV. The changes we explore in this article can all be found in our Diablo IV patch notes, found here.
Codex
Resistances
Unique Items
Damage Buckets
Class Improvements
Resistances
Elemental Resistances are being overhauled in Season of Blood. Here’s how they currently work, and how they’ll work in both Seasonal and Eternal realms once Season of Blood begins.
In Season of the Malignant:
- Elemental Resistances were inverse multiplicative. This means that you received the same effective Life each time you gained a bonus, but the nominal value of the bonus was less. For example, if you had 20% Poison Resistance and then received 20% more, you would have 36% Poison Resistance in total.
- Elemental Resistances had no hard cap— You could gain them indefinitely.
- Armor provided Physical Damage Reduction as well as Damage Reduction from all elements, which imposed on the role of Elemental Resistances. This made Armor so powerful to the point that it outperformed individual elemental resistance. Rings and Amulets had 2 inherent stats that gave Resistance to two random elements.
In Season of Blood:
- Elemental Resistances are now additive and have a base cap of 70%. This
