Harness Your Inner Darkness with the Season 17 Battle Pass

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Sanctuary’s denizens sing your praises, adventurer.

Since our last content update, many players have skirmished in Wild Brawl, enjoyed a reduced cooldown period for Class Change, and celebrated the PC version of Immortal leaving Open Beta. This content update introduces 42 new Legendary items, the Season 17 Ruptured Soul Battle Pass, and a variety of updates to existing features.

As with previous content updates, there will be server maintenance starting on August 22, from 5 p.m.–7 p.m. PDT for Oceania, China, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe Servers, and on August 23, from 1 a.m.–3 a.m. PDT for servers in the Americas. After the maintenance has concluded, all items mentioned below will be live—specific dates for any content going live afterward are provided below.

Feature Updates

Training Grounds

Season 17 Battle Pass: Ruptured Soul

Walking Nightmare Cosmetic Set

Conqueror Limited Time PvP Event

Returning Events

Bug Fixes

Ultimate skills that provide a shield have had their duration increased from 3 to 5 seconds.

Developer’s Note: Ultimate skills are often underutilized, and we'd like to give them more applications. Currently, melee Ultimates provide shields that absorb damage, but they aren’t providing consistent value. To help, we’re increasing the duration of the shield so that players can activate Ultimates before engagements and have a longer lasting shield. This means players will be less likely to get interrupted or killed outright when using their Ultimate in the middle of a battle.

Damage Over Time effects will no longer interrupt bandaging.

Developer’s Note: We want players to be able to disengage from combat and easily bandage to prevent death. Damage over time effects have been