Diablo II: Resurrected PTR 3.2 Coming Soon

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article ... oming-soon

There are a lot of balance changes for the warlock as well as changes for Heralds and Sunder Charms and some adjustments to Colossal Ancients.

Some Highlights:

Blizzard wrote:

Warlock

• Warlocks can now only equip a two-hand weapon in one hand if the other hand is using a
  Grimoire class item, not a shield.

Bind Demon

• Requires base skill point investment to bind demons
  10 – champion
  15 – unique
  20 – super unique
• Removed
  Conviction Aura,
  Holy Fire Aura,
  Holy Shock Aura,
  Blessed Aim Aura, and Might Aura from possible pool. When these roll they are now replaced with
  Fanaticism,
  Vigor,
  Thorns,
  Concentration.
  Holy Freeze can still roll on a bound demon.

Terror Zones/Heralds/Sunder Charms

• Colossal Ancient Statues can now drop from non-Terrorized act bosses.
• Heralds now spawn and hunt players immediately upon killing any monster in a Terror Zone. The chance for a
  Herald to hunt you is increased with each monster killed within the same Terrorized Zone.
• Latent Sunder Charms can drop from any monster, Terrorized and non-Terrorized, using Magic Find.
• The increased chance to drop a Latent Sunder Charm now starts at Heralds of Dread (Tier 2) instead of Tier 4.
• The increased chance to drop a Latent Sunder Charm from Heralds is no longer heavily modified by player count.
• If the increased chance to drop a Latent Sunder Charm from Heralds fails to drop a Latent Sunder Charm, there is an increased chance of dropping something desirable instead, like a charm or amulet.

User Interface and User Experience

• Reintroduced bindable move directions (WASD).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed
  Echoing Strike damage bonuses to be additive and not multiplicative.
• Fixed
  Echoing Strike not rolling to hit.
• Fixed
  Echoing Strike not incurring durability loss on the weapon.

LOL. Let's see if the "Retreat of the Warlock" version will come.

Good bye

Echoing Strike super man

atari wrote: 3 hours ago

Bug Fixes

• Fixed
  Echoing Strike damage bonuses to be additive and not multiplicative.
• Fixed
  Echoing Strike not rolling to hit.

and

Fixed

Echoing Strike not incurring durability loss on the weapon.

Warlocks can now only equip a two-hand weapon in one hand if the other hand is using a

Grimoire class item, not a shield.
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Bind Demon
Cursed Affix chance to cast

Amplify Damage skill reduced to 5% from 75%.
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Sigil Lethargy
Removed the Damage Taken stat.
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Demonic Mastery
Max demon count now requires base skill point investment to increase its value.

Oh brilliant no mention of Mosaic. Just leave it as it is, don't touch it ;0.

Excelent changes!

Holy SHIT

Haahaahaa

RIP ethereal warlock weapons

Blizzard wrote:

Fixed

Echoing Strike not incurring durability loss on the weapon.

The

Bind Demon needing 20 base points for superunique is gonna be rough, but I assume you can still get

Conviction if Hephasto actually spawns with it, yes?

Knappogue wrote: 2 hours ago

Haahaahaa

RIP ethereal warlock weapons

Blizzard wrote:

Fixed

Echoing Strike not incurring durability loss on the weapon.

Except for those with

Zod rune(s), such as Obsession

Adding conc?! Good lord. I guess the free aura stick wasn't good enough yet. o.O
And miasma chains just getting nerfs and nerf-fixes (justified mind you, no complaint there) but no mention of a fix to have it actually do dmg to the chained target. Doesn't necessarily instill hope.

But oh well, we shall see.

The

Herald off of killing "any" monster sounds pretty solid imo. Assuming that really is "any" and not "any elite". Finally a reason to actually clear zones! All hail the mighty non-Enigma builds!
Seems this'd be a good time to sell all your sunders though..sounds like those prices are about to come crashing down hard with them dropping even off of non-TZ mobs, in addition to the

Herald buffage.

Schnorki wrote: 1 hour ago

Adding conc?! Good lord. I guess the free aura stick wasn't good enough yet. o.O
And miasma chains just getting nerfs and nerf-fixes (justified mind you, no complaint there) but no mention of a fix to have it actually do dmg to the chained target. Doesn't necessarily instill hope.

But oh well, we shall see.

The

Herald off of killing "any" monster sounds pretty solid imo. Assuming that really is "any" and not "any elite". Finally a reason to actually clear zones! All hail the mighty non-Enigma builds!
Seems this'd be a good time to sell all your sunders though..sounds like those prices are about to come crashing down hard with them dropping even off of non-TZ mobs, in addition to the

Herald buffage.

Agreed these are going to tank along with statue sets.

fortunately i could not afford an ethereal

Spear...

Bisu wrote: 1 hour ago

Knappogue wrote: 2 hours ago

Haahaahaa

RIP ethereal warlock weapons

Blizzard wrote:

Fixed

Echoing Strike not incurring durability loss on the weapon.

Except for those with

Zod rune(s), such as Obsession

I thought that exception was obvious enough to not need pointing out.

What's a bit disheartening is the ongoing distinct lack of any fixes to all of the old stuff they broke even more/still never fixed since D2:R launched... :/

I'm not familiar with the timeline of these things. If PTR concludes April 21, when do these changes hit the general realm?

Anyone wanna translate this one for me?
So...soft points will work in the same way that hard points currently work, meaning the actual effects would still basically

Cap at 20 total, making it a 1pt wonder skill?
Or soft points will work on top of hard points, effectively removing the 20

Cap and giving it an ever increasing effect for mad radius + duration?
And why "instead of", rather than "in addition to"?! Just bad phrasing or making hard pts useless? ^^

Given, could both be interesting. But the 1pt wonder approach would nicely offset the extra pts needed in the demon tree now.

white_dynamite wrote: 1 hour ago

I'm not familiar with the timeline of these things. If PTR concludes April 21, when do these changes hit the general realm?

Depends on the outcome of the PTR and how much they feel they need to adjust/fix/rework after that.

Pity I traded away a nice

Ars Dul'Mephistos a couple weeks ago. It seems like the demand for "books" would increase.

I can't wait for September! go new act go! the hype train is in full speed.