Patch 2.4 Roundup

By Zero(pS) Jan 11, 2016
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Patch 2.4 Roundup

Here is everything you need to know about the new additions like Set Dungeons, a new area in Greyhollow Island and other expanded zones, Empowered Rifts and lots of other changes. Just click the Banners below to get all the details!

Note: our Builds tool will be updated tomorrow - so make your Patch 2.4 builds after that.
Update: Our Builds section has now been updated with Patch 2.4 info - feel free to make your builds now! Make sure to create a new build, not edit an old one!

Major Features

Patch 2.4 introduces the new Set Dungeons feature, specific stages designed to challenge players in the usage of each of their class sets. It also introduces players to an entirely new area, Greyhollow Island, along with expanded old zones, the Royal Quarters on Leoric's Manor and the Eternal Woods on the Ruins of Sescheron.

Other notable features of this patch include the Action Combat system, many user interface changes and improvements, more Stash space, major rebalancing and redesigning of sets, tons of changes to monsters and rift guardians, along with the usual skill balancing and many new legendaries!

Season 5 - starting on January 15th, Friday, 5PM PDT Americas, 5 PM CEST Europe, and 5 PM KST Asia - brings a completely revamped Season Journey. There are no more seasonal Legendary items, but players will have access to other exclusive items like cosmetic rewards like Pennants, Pets and Wings!

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Classes, Monsters & Items

As always, the patch brings major balance revisions to all classes and their items, this time focusing on revamping unused sets and tweaking old ones so they can be competitive. There are revamped Sets, new Legendaries and skill balancing for all classes - Crusaders, Monks, Witch Doctors, Demon Hunters, Barbarians and Wizards.

There's also a lot of changes to item mechanics, neutral Legendaries and Sets, monsters, Bosses and Rift Guardians - all under General Balancing.

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Folseus
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Posted Jan 11, 2016
Patch 2.4 releases in the next couple weeks!

Wouldn't that be something.

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Posted Jan 11, 2016
Patch 2.4 releases in the next couple weeks!

WTF?

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Posted Jan 11, 2016
We have been working on the recap for a while now my mistake on that. Focused on fixing everything else and forgot about it.

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Posted Jan 11, 2016
Jezz man you took the s***t out of me lol, love you guys!!

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Posted Jan 11, 2016
In golden radio voice: NEW SEASON is Coming this friday on Diablo 3. Stay tuned.

Also damn this season is HAWT!

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Yes we dont need ANOTHER wrap up, PTR goes on far to fucking long, a lot of diablo 3 players are bored of said patch by now. I haven't touched the game in easily two weeks i hate to say it :/

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Not everyone plays on the PTR, and a lot of players don't follow Diablo news on a daily basis. Some of them don't like "spoiling" the patch by knowing everything (from changes to top builds) until the patch is actually live.

The recap is probably more useful for those players. But for veteran players who follow Diablo news on a daily basis, it can be a quick-reference guide in the future.

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Yes we dont need ANOTHER wrap up, PTR goes on far to fucking long, a lot of diablo 3 players are bored of said patch by now. I haven't touched the game in easily two weeks i hate to say it :/

This website is for Diablo FANS and not everyone (in fact, most) know a whole lot about PTR. Be thankful PTR is long. I take it you weren't here for the short ones, which led to clusterFs the moment it hit live.

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I'm failing to think of any other company needing several months to test a patch, and test it through the players instead of doing it themselves. Yeah, the patch is nice, but it's still really shameful.

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Of course i remember the short, non tested then panic come patch release time. Just in general a little loss in interest has happened and with the ptr being around for a while once some numbers really stuck i was ready for it to go live not have people reach 1000+ paragons in the ptr season

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Here's something off topic but i can't believe no ones has mentioned. Everything is nice and balanced now basically all sets lead to top leaderboard play styles just about....LoN Creates custom builds that can compete to do your seasonal achievements on top of a lot of them being also top leaderboard builds. Why...in the fuck did Blackthrones not get touched?! EVERYTHING is now balanced and gold...but blackthornes :/...weird Perfect time for an expansion to come out though, now that everything that was already programmed and worked into the game is useable and liked, an expansion makes sense....but why no care for the Blackthornes.?

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Quote from Euphytose »

I'm failing to think of any other company needing several months to test a patch, and test it through the players instead of doing it themselves. Yeah, the patch is nice, but it's still really shameful.

I'd rather participate in helping flush out issues than have a whopper of a bug infested, unbalanced patch hit hard on the new season. Taking more time means better estimates on true power of all builds, more bug fixes implemented. It's also great since we have time to plan and iron out all the issues with our new builds before the season starts.

Can you imagine the horror that would be created if only in-house testing was performed? With all the different complexities and combinations in this game, there's simply no way they would be able to test everything internally based on their current revenue.

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Posted Jan 11, 2016
Don't assume the patch is tomorrow! It is being played very close to the vest right now, as there has been NO OFFICIAL announcement made as to the release of 2.4.0. Season 5 date, however, has been announced as 1/15/16. That, however, may change!

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You are kinda right. That's why I worded the post by saying "the patch will likely be released tomorrow". There is a chance of the patch not being released tomorrow - but it's incredibly small. If things go according to plan, Patch comes tomorrow and S5 starts on the 15th.

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Quote from Zero(pS)»

Not everyone plays on the PTR, and a lot of players don't follow Diablo news on a daily basis. Some of them don't like "spoiling" the patch by knowing everything (from changes to top builds) until the patch is actually live.

The recap is probably more useful for those players. But for veteran players who follow Diablo news on a daily basis, it can be a quick-reference guide in the future.

I've been keeping up with all the PTR things and I appreciate having everything in one place to refer to - especially a list of each set dungeon and what the requirements are for planning ahead.

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@Ixxcurse glad to hear that.

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Quote from Nightshade1233 »

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Not everyone plays on the PTR, and a lot of players don't follow Diablo news on a daily basis. Some of them don't like "spoiling" the patch by knowing everything (from changes to top builds) until the patch is actually live.

The recap is probably more useful for those players. But for veteran players who follow Diablo news on a daily basis, it can be a quick-reference guide in the future.

I've been keeping up with all the PTR things and I appreciate having everything in one place to refer to - especially a list of each set dungeon and what the requirements are for planning ahead.

Yep, that is much more convenient than sieve through pages of old blog-posts on the main page or with the search function. It would also be really nice to see for every patch a button o nthe top of the main page redirecting to a collection of round-ups.
Somewhat similar to the round-up of patch notes there is in the official forums, but with the convenience of having the collected screenshots, better paging and overall graphic and undocumented changes present in the round-ups on Diablo fans.
I was going to say - didn't mmo-champion used to have a thing (not sure if they still do) where the upcoming wow patch would have a bit banner at the top of the page leading to all the collected information from the ptr so far? It really would be great to have something like that because the previous patch notes etc. can get pretty far back in news posts pretty quickly.

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Posted Jan 12, 2016
By tomorrow they are talking about US , EU always get the patvhes on wednesdays

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Posted Jan 12, 2016
area dmg is good for vault dh?

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Posted Jan 12, 2016
@Skyewalker I meant Tuesday the 12th. Sorry if it sounded confusing We're expecting the patch to go live later today, but we have no official statement on that yet.

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