Diablo 4 Update Brings Back Season 1's Best Malignant Powers In A New Form: Full Patch Notes
Malignant Powers may be gone, but Malignant Rings are here to stay.
By Cameron Koch on
Diablo IV's latest patch has reintroduced some of Season 1's most powerful Malignant Powers, this time in ring form.
Five new unique Malignant Rings have been added in Diablo IV patch 1.2.2, which is now live on all platforms. There's a ring for each class, with each one based on a popular Malignant Power from the game's first season, Season of the Malignant. Whereas Season 1 saw players equipping Malignant Hearts into rings of corresponding types similar to a gem, players will simply need to find and equip Malignant Rings in order to use them in Season 2, no extra steps required. The rings are available on both the game's Eternal and Seasonal realms.
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«Creating the Malignant Rings are a way for us to take popular seasonal content that resonated with players and reintroduce it in a way that can persist beyond the season and into the Eternal realm,» Blizzard writes in the patch notes.
The rest of the patch is largely dedicated to bug fixes, with a few small adjustments to the game's seasonal Sanguine Battery event. You can find the full Diablo IV update 1.2.2 patch notes below.
Blizzard recently announced Diablo IV's first expansion, Vessel of Hatred, at BlizzCon 2023. The expansion will be coming late next year and will introduce a never-before-seen class. Blizzard additionally shared details about Season 3, which will introduce a new endgame activity in the form of
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