D2R expansion announced: Reign of the Warlock

New playable class - the Warlock

• The eighth playable class available in D2R.
• Can summon 3 different types of Demon: Goatmen,
  Tainted, or Defilers.
• Can bind (or consume) one demon at a time.
• Binding a demon strengthens both the Warlock and the Demon, and grants unique abilities and auras.
• Consuming a bound demon giving the Warlock temporary buffs and traits that vary depending on demon consumed - things like increased life, +all skills, + movement speed etc.
• Skill trees: Demonic Binding (Command Hell's minions), Arts of Chaos (Unleash hellish power), Eldritch Weapons (Imbue weapons and afflict enemies ).
• Passive ability: The Warlock can levitate their weapon in their right hand, which allows them to equip a two-handed weapon in one hand, and wield an off-hand simultaneously.
• New warlock item class: Grimoires. Expand spoiler below to see base items,

Grimoire base items

New

Terror zone mechanics

• Earn consumables that terrorise all zones inside the Act of your choice. The consumables can be traded.
• Terror zones now have a shortened rotation, changing every 30 minutes rather than every hour, and now rotate in new groups
• If you kill a terrorised act boss, there's a chance to drop a 'statue'. Combine all 5 statues in the
  Horadric Cube to unlock a new boss encounter called Colossal Ancients.
• By completing Colossal Ancients, you’ll be rewarded with a Unique Jewel depending on which Ancient you last killed. Each Ancient can drop one of two jewels. Note: All Jewels Require Level 75. Additionally, each unique jewel will behave similarly to
  Gheed’s Fortune Grand Charm, in that you can only have one of these equipped across all your items at a time. This does not affect the amount of you can hold in your inventory.
• In Colossal Ancients,
  Talic drops
  Defender’s Fire or
  Defender’s Bile.
  Korlic drops Protector’s Frost or Protector’s Stone.
  Madawc drops Guardian’s Thunder or Guardian’s Light.
• In Hell difficulty, Heralds of
  Terror will stalk the player and find you in the game. They get more powerful each time they are encountered.

New quality of life updates

• Native in-game loot filters - create your own, share them with friends, use community presets.
• Advanced stash tabs - dedicated tabs for Gems, Materials, and Runes. Gems, Materials, and Runes can all be stacked.
• In-game item collection tracker called the 'Chronicle'. Tracks every item you ever collected - Uniques, Sets, Runewords. Tells you when and where these items were found.
• 'Rewards' that you can earn and show off to friends. Not sure quite what these are but look like achievements with progress bars.

New Runewords in D2R Reign of the Warlock

New Uniques in D2R Reign of the Warlock

New Set items in D2R Reign of the Warlock

New Base items in D2R Reign of the Warlock

Other pedigree information

• You can leave characters in the current D2R version, or you can move them to D2R: Reign of the Warlock, but you can't transfer characters back!
• 30+ new items - including new Uniques like
  Opalvein (Ring),
  Hellwarden's Will (Head), new Runewords like Void.
• Daggers now can roll up to three +1-3 to any random Warlock Skill. To support this, we have moved daggers to be sold at Vendors like
  Akara,
  Drognan,
  Ormus,
  Jamella, and
  Malah. We also have removed daggers from gambling.
• Goes live today
• 2 additional Character Slots and 2 additional Stash Tabs come with the expansion
• D2R and D2R Reign of the Warlock are available on Steam
• D2R is now on the Xbox Game pass. Note: Reign of the Warlock is not included with Xbox Game Pass. Players who want to access this major update can purchase the Infernal Edition, which unlocks the Warlock and all associated rewards.