The mid-season update 1.4.3 for Diablo 4 makes all classes stronger. But the powerful new elixir from Season 4 is now history
Blizzard released the new patch 1.4.3 forDiablo 4on June 17, introducing a whole series of changes and adjustments. One of the most significant changes concerns the Elixir of Holy Lightning, which was previously considered one of the most powerful tools in Season 4.
The most powerful tool from Season 4 is now more than just useless
The Elixir of Holy Bolts was extremely powerful, dealing damage based on a percentage of the enemy’s health. This mechanic made it possible to defeat even the toughest opponents with relative ease.
After the update, however, the Elixir’s damage now scales with the player’s weapon damage instead of the enemy’s health. This drastically reduces its effectiveness, especially against bosses and elite mobs.
Blizzard justified this change by stating that the elixir was too powerful at higher difficulty levels of the game and negatively affected the balance. In return, the health points of enemies in certain endgame content, such as the pit, were reduced to compensate for this massive nerf.
You should refrain from using the elixir at the moment – and not just because the damage bonus has been greatly reduced.Currently, it is causing a lot of crashes, so Blizzard had to deactivate the potion’s effect. You can theoretically continue to consume it, but since it has no effect at the moment, it would just be a waste of your resources
Full patch notes for Diablo 4 1.4.3
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Developer’s note:We’ve been thrilled with the community’s enthusiasm since the launch of Season 4 and are very pleased with the state of the game. The changes in this patch are aimed at strengthening classes and builds that are slightly underperforming compared to others. We are also significantly reducing the difficulty of the pit to ensure that all builds can reach level 60 and obtain the highest level completion materials.
UPDATES TO THE BALANCE
General
Healing potions
- Minor healing potion
- Initial healing increased by 50%.
- Light and medium healing potion
- Initial healing increased by 100%.
- Strong, large, substantial and superior healing potion
- Initial healing increased by 200%.
Legendary Aspects
- Aspect of the Protector
- Decay time of “Barrier” reduced from 30 to 20 sec.
Unique Ancestral Items
- Andariel’s countenance
- “Poison Nova” now appears on the enemy instead of the player.
- “Poison Nova” damage increased by 50%.
- Doombringer
- Shadow Blast damage increased by 100%.
- Ring of Starless Skies
- Maximum stacks for resource cost reduction and bonus damage increased from 4 to 5.
- This increases the maximum amount of resource cost reduction and bonus damage from 40%[x] to 50%[x].
- Tyrael’s Power
- Divine Barrage damage increased by 100%.
Paragon
- Value requirement for secondary values has been reduced from 90 to 60 per Paragon board.
Developer’s comment:Primary stats for a class are stats that increase the damage of all skills. For example, the primary stat for Wizards is Intelligence, so this change affects their rare Paragon nodes, which have threshold bonuses for Dexterity and Willpower. The value requirements to activate a rare node increase with each additional paragon board you progress through. Some of these nodes that require secondary stats were harder to activate than intended. This change makes it easier to activate these nodes, especially on later Paragon boards.
Barbar
Skills
- Whirlwind
- Damage increased by 15%.
- Brutal Whirlwind
- Bonus damage increased from 30%[x] to 35%[x].
- Invocation of the ancestors
- Damage of Korlic’s “Jump” increased by 12.5%.
- Damage of Talic’s Whirlwind increased by 20%.
- Madawc’s Churn damage increased by 13%.
- Supreme Invocation of the Ancestors
- Damage bonus increased from 20%[x] to 25%[x].
- Frenzy
- Damage increased by 8%.
- Scraping
- Blood damage over time increased by 8%.
- Improved flaying
- Vulnerability duration increased from 3 to 5 seconds.
- Slaughter bind
- Blood damage bonus increased from 10%[x] to 15%[x].
- Battle damage
- Maximum stack increased from 4 to 5.
- Damage reduction increased from 3% to 4%.
- Buff duration increased from 3 to 6 seconds.
Passive Skills
- Pressure point
- Former – Lucky Hit: Your core skills have a 10% chance to make enemies vulnerable for 2 seconds.
- Now – Lucky Hit: Your core and weapon mastery skills have a 10% chance to make enemies vulnerable for 2 seconds.
- Stonehard
- Additional thorns as bleed damage increased from 10% to 15%.
Central passive skills
- Walking arsenal
- Damage per unique source of weapon damage increased from 10%[x] to 12%[x].
Legendary Aspects
- Aspect of hardening blows
- Weapon change to activate the effect, reduced from 6 to 5.
- Aspect of deletion
- Former – Lucky Strike: You have up to a 45-60% chance to gain 20 Rage when Sunder deals damage to at least one bleeding enemy.
- Now – Lucky Strike: You have up to a 45-60% chance to gain 20 Rage when a Core Skill damages at least one bleeding enemy. Your maximum rage is increased by 5-20.
- Aspect of the Dust Devil
- Damage of “Whirlwind Dust Devil” increased by 100%.
- Aspect of the Relentless Weapon Master
- Former – Your rage generation is increased by 35-65% as long as all bonuses of the key passive skill Changing Arsenal are active.
- Now – Your rage generation is increased by 35-65% and the rage cost of your skills is reduced by 15% while all bonuses of the core passive skill Shifting Arsenal are active.
Unique Items
- Gohr’s Devastating Grapples
- Explosion damage of “Whirlwind” increased from 25-35% to 40-50% base damage.
- Wrath of the Ancestors
- Damage increased from 30-50%[x] to 40-60%[x].
Druid
Spirit Blessing
- Gift of the stag
- The maximum spirit power has been increased from 20 to 40.
- Spiked skin
- Quantity of thorns increased by 100%.
- Favored animal
- Former – Reduces the duration of control loss effects by 15%.
- Now – Increases movement speed and impairment reduction by 15%[+].
- Scythe Claws
- Critical hit chance increased from 5%[+] to 10%[+].
- Iron spring
- Maximum life increased from 14%[x] to 20%[x].
- Fall attacks
- Attack speed increased from 10%[+] to 15%[+].
- Recharge
- Restored spirit power increased from 20 to 30.
- Arm up
- Strength increased from 15% to 25% of your maximum life.
- Obsidian Slash
- Required number of killed enemies for guaranteed “Overpower” reduced from 20 to 10.
Skills
- Tollwut
- Poisoning damage increased by 25%.
- Powderize
- Damage increased by 76%.
- Raging Pulverize
- Former – Enemies overwhelmed by Pulverize are stunned for 3 seconds.
- Now – Pulverize deals 30%[x] increased overwhelm damage. Enemies overwhelmed by Pulverize are stunned for 3 sec.
Passive Skills
- Wrath of Nature
- Chance to trigger a free skill of the opposite category increased from 30% to 35%.
- Perfect Storm
- Damage bonus increased from 20%[x] to 30%[x].
- Range of nature
- Damage to distant enemies increased from 3/6/9%[x] to 5/10/15%.
- Toxic claws
- Poisoning level increased from 8/15/23% to 12/24/36% of the base damage of the skill.
- Quick transformation
- Maximum damage bonus increased from 6/12/18%[x] to 8/16/24%[x].
- Defense Stance
- Former – Increases the amount of Steel you gain from all sources by 5/10/15%[+].
- Now – Increases the amount of Steal you gain from all sources by 5/10/15%[+] and you gain 3/6/9% damage reduction while Steeled.
- Compose
- Former – In Werebear form, you gain 6/12/18%[+] additional healing from all sources.
- Now – In Werebear Form, you gain 6/12/18%[+] additional healing from all sources and gain 4/8/12% increased Max Health.
- Provocation
- The time required for Overpower in Werebear form has been reduced from 24/20/16 to 20/16/12 seconds.
Legendary Aspects
- Aspect of the trampled earth
- Damage increase due to “Landslide” increased from 50-80%[x] to 70-100%[x] of normal damage.
- Underground aspect
- Damage bonus increased from 10-25%[x] to 15-30%[x].
- Aspect of the alpha
- Damage increase of the werewolf companion increased from 85-115 %[x] to 100-130 %[x].
- Insatiable Aspect
- Rend’s damage increased from 10-25% to 20-35% when cast with more than 50 Spirit.
Paragon
- Legendary node “Constricting tendrils”
- Damage increased from 120% to 150%.
- Glyph: Dominate
- Bonus damage increased from 12%[x] to 15%[x] after an “Overpower”.
Dead Summoner
Book of the Dead
- Improved Sacrifice: Skirmishers
- Critical hit chance bonus increased from 5%[+] to 10%[+].
- Improved sacrifice: Defender
- Your resistance to all damage types is increased from 20%[+] to 25%[+].
- Improved Sacrifice: Reaper
- Shadow damage bonus increased from 15%[x] to 20%[x].
- Improved Sacrifice: Shadow Mage
- Maximum essence increased from 15 to 20.
- Now also increases Essence generation by 20%.
- Improved Sacrifice: Cold Mage
- Damage against vulnerable enemies increased from 15%[x] to 20%[x].
- Improved Sacrifice: Bone Mage
- Overpower damage increased from 25%[x] to 30%[x].
- Improved Sacrifice: Bone Golem
- Attack speed bonus increased from 10%[+] to 15%[+].
- Improved Sacrifice: Blood Golem
- Maximum life increased from 10%[x] to 15%[x].
- Improved Sacrifice: Iron Golem
- Critical hit damage bonus increased from 30%[x] to 35%[x].
Paragon
- Legendary node: Blood demands blood
- Maximum damage increased from 15%[x] to 30%[x].
- Glyph: Blood Drinker
- Strength bonus increased from 7% to 10% of your maximum life.
- Glyph: Desecration
- Shadow damage bonus increased from 15%[x] to 20%[x].
- Glyph: Gravekeeper
- Damage bonus for each cold corpse increased from 2%[x] to 3%[x], up to a maximum of 12%[x] to 18%[x].
Legendary Aspects
- Aspect of the victim
- Sacrifice bonus increased from 10-25%[x] to 35-50%[x].
- Aspect of the protective storm
- Hitherto – Each time Bone Storm deals damage to an enemy, you gain a barrier equal to 1-6% of your base health for 10 sec.
- Now – Each time Bone Storm damages an enemy, you gain a barrier equal to 1-6% of your maximum health for 10 seconds.
Hunter
Skills
- Screw blades
- Initial damage increased by 20%.
- Return damage increased by 20%.
- Bladestorm
- Damage increased by approx. 25%.
Passive skills
- Stress
- “Lucky Strike” no longer requires direct damage to trigger, and now also works on effects that deal damage over time.
- Tough
- Damage reduction increased from 4/8/12% to 6/12/18%.
- Reducing darkness
- Hitherto – While stealthed, you are healed for 4/8/12% of your maximum life per second.
- Now – When you activate Stealth, and every second while you are stealthed, you are healed for 5/10/15% of your maximum Life.
Paragon
- Glyph: Versatility
- Damage of non-base and non-core skills increased from 15%[x] to 25%[x].
- Glyph: Fluidity
- Former – When you cast an agility skill, you gain 9%[x] more energy regeneration for 6 sec.
- Now – When you cast an agility skill, you deal 10%[x] increased damage and gain 15%[x] increased energy regeneration for 6 sec.
- Glyph: Explosive
- Damage reduction increased from 10%[x] to 15%[x].
- Glyph: Reduce
- Damage reduction increased from 10% to 15%.
Legendary Aspects
- Aspect of the Blade Dancer
- Damage increased from 30-60%[x] to 50-80%[x].
- Aspect of artful initiative
- Required energy for dropping grenades reduced from 100 to 75.
- Grenade damage increased by 50%.
- Aspect of surprise
- Grenade damage increased by 200%.
- When casting Shadow Step, grenades are now dropped at the location the player teleports to instead of where they came from.
Developer’s comment:This change only affects where the grenades are dropped on “Shadow Step”, not on “Dodge”.
- Aspect of the crook
- Grenade damage increased by 50%.
- Aspect of the cloak
- Required time for a “Dark Veil” reduced from 3 to 2 seconds.
- Shadowy aspect
- Former – Lucky Hit: Critical hits with precision skills have up to a 45-60% chance to grant a free Shadow of Dark Veil.
- Now – Lucky Hit: Critical Hits have up to a 45-60% chance to grant a free Shadow of Dark Veil.
- Aspect of the Hail of Arrows
- Damage of “Arrow Storm” increased by 30%.
- Bonus damage of all Arrow Storms increased from 25-35%[x] to 30-40%[x].
- Aspect of vengeance
- Arrow Storm damage increased by 30%.
Unique Items
- Eyes in the darkness
- Former – “Death Trap” deals 50-70%[x] more damage. As long as the “Death Trap” does not hit a boss or player or kill an enemy, it will keep arming.
- Now – “Death Trap” deals 50-90%[x] more damage and is re-armed a second time.
- Seal of the Saboteur
- Grenade damage increased by 50%.
Wizard
Skills
- Ice armor
- Barrier strength increased from 30% of base life to 25% of max life.
- Shimmering Teleportation
- Duration increased from 3 to 4 sec.
- Flame death
- Damage reduction increased from 15% to 20%.
Passive Skills
- Powerful defense
- Maximum resistance increased from 1/2/3 % to 2/4/6 %.
- Adjusted functionality: No longer excludes basic skills.
- Glass cannon
- Additional damage taken reduced from 3/6/9%[x] to 2/4/6%[x].
- Alignment of the elements
- Duration of “Persistence” increased from 2 to 3 sec.
- Conductivity
- Movement speed increased from 3/6/9%[+] to 4/8/12%[+].
- Duration increased from 3 to 4 sec.
- Strike
- Reduction in damage dealt by enemies increased from 5/10/15%[x] to 6/12/18%[x].
- Heat
- Healing per nearby burning enemy increased from 0.3/0.6/0.9% to 0.5/1/1.5%.
- Healing per nearby burning boss increased from 0.6/1.2/1.8% to 2/4/6%.
- Inner Flames
- Bonus damage increased from 3/6/9%[x] to 4/8/12%[x] while healthy.
- Excess energy
- Increased cooldown reduction for hits against elite enemies from 0.25 to 0.35 sec.
- Avalanche
- Bonus damage increased from 45%[x] to 60%[x].
- Combustion
- Bonus damage per unique burning source increased from 2%[x] to 4%[x].
- Esu’s ferocity
- Critical hit chance increased from 5%[+] to 10%[+].
- Splintering
- Bonus damage increased from 25%[x] to 30%[x].
- Vyr’s Mastery
- Bonus damage increased from 15%[x] to 20%[x].
- Bonus damage after a critical hit increased from 20%[x] to 25%[x].
Legendary Aspects
- Aspect of concentration
- Damage reduction increased from 10-20% to 15-25%.
- Aspect of the unbroken chain
- Additional chain lightning skip increased from 4 to 5.
- Aspect of the overwhelming current
- Chance to cast an additional shock skill increased from 15-30% to 25-40%.
- Aspect of the Mage Lord
- Former – Vyr’s Mastery grants 6-9% damage reduction to each nearby enemy, up to 18-27%.
- Now – Vyr’s Mastery grants 6-9% damage reduction, tripled when fighting a nearby enemy.
- Aspect of the Shattered Stars
- Meteorite damage increased from 20-35%[x] to 30-45%[x].
- Aspect of frozen memories
- Additional applications increased from 1 to 2.
- Aspect of the Battlemage
- Maximum stack increased from 3 to 5.
Unique items
- Fire scar
- Glut damage increased by ~35%.
- Esadora’s overflowing cameo
- Damage increase per 100 Intelligence increased from 50%[x] to 60%[x].
- Staff of Endless Fury
- Bonus damage increased from 40-60%[x] to 50-70%[x].
- Gloves of the Enlightener
- Damage deduction reduced from 35-25%[x] to 30-20%[x].
ENDGAME
- Health and damage levels in the pit have been reduced. This change will be especially relevant as players approach level 60 so that more players can use completions.
Developer’s comment:We are adjusting the pit to allow more players to experience smoother endgame progression.
- Reduced the health of all martyred bosses by 30%. This includes bruises from the tortured echo of Lilith.
FIXED BUGS
- Fixed a bug that caused the damage of the Elixir of Holy Lightning to scale up unintentionally when triggered by pets such as the Necromancer’s minions.
Developer’s note:The Elixir of Holy Lightning now deals a percentage of your weapon damage as damage instead of a percentage of the enemy’s health. This change is intended to mitigate its effectiveness against the stronger enemies in higher levels of the pit, but keep it useful for players throughout the game. We’re pairing this change with the health reduction of enemies in the pit so that players who progress deeper into the pit aren’t overly impacted.
- Fixed a bug that prevented “Boulders” from working with “Dolmen Stone”. “Boulders now have a cap of 10, but their damage is increased by 10% per boulder.
- Fixed a bug where Rapid Fire would not properly hit nearby enemies when Kiss of the Rascal was equipped, sometimes firing projectiles behind the player. This also increases the blast radius by 25%.
- Fixed a bug that caused pets to be counted as minions in some cases.
