When does Season 3 of Diablo 2: Resurrected start? We have everything you need to know
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Hot on the heels of newDiablo 3 Season 28news, we’ve also had official confirmation of the new season start and ladder reset forDiablo 2: Resurrected. It’s a great start to the year for Diablo fans!In ablog post on the Blizzard forumslast week, Diablo 2: Resurrected Community Manager PezRadar confirmed that the current season and subsequent start of Season 3 will commence on February 16, 2023. Today, following the testing of the patch in PTR, we have the details of all changes coming to Season 3 of Diablo 2: Resurrected, and the times you can expect it to start in your region.
What is the Diablo 2 ladder?
The Diablo 2: Resurrected ‘ladder’ is simply a reset of the leaderboards for ranked play. You start the ladder with a fresh character and empty inventory and try to climb the leaderboards, not unlike Diablo 3 Season resets. Each new ladder comes with new runewords and tweaks to class skills which attract players new and old to the game. Runes and rune words are specific to Diablo 2 only and the mechanic was not carried over to Diablo 3 much to the disappointment of a lot of fans of the game series.When Ladder 2 ends, all ladder characters will be transferred to non-ladder play. All items in that character’s stash go into a withdraw-only shared tab and you have until the end of the current Ladder 3 to withdraw them, or lose those items forever.
Eight new Rune Words
Rune Words are powerful combinations of runes that drop in Diablo 2: Resurrected, that can be socketed into your items to grant abilities. In Player Test Realm (PTR) 2.6 players have been hard at work testing out eight new rune words which are now rolling out to the community in Patch 2.6 and are listed below as per thepatch notes.
The rune words above will be available in Ladder and offline single-player mode. The majority of them concentrate on resistances following the addition ofSundering Charms in Patch 2.5. Hustle is a cheaper, earlier mobility rune word to build than the popular late-game Enigma, with the caveat that it does not include Teleport. Mosaic provides a buff specifically for martial arts Assassins, and Metamorphosis is a new runeword for shapeshifting Druid builds.In addition to the above rune words, seven words that were introduced in Ladder Season 1 have now been added to non-ladder online play for the first time. These words are: Flickering Flame, Mist, Obsession, Patter, Plague, Unbending Will and Wisdom. We have a comprehensive list ofexisting rune words here.
Horadric Cube Recipes
Horadric Cube recipes that were previously only available in Ladder play, have now been added to non-ladder online game modes.
Sundering Charms and Terror Zones
Sundering Charms, a powerful tool to break down resistances in your foes, will now be available in all non-classic game modes. In addition to this, theTerror Zoneswhere Sundering Charms drop will now be available to all offline players for the first time.
Terror Zones are areas in game that spawn a higher number of foes, at a higher level than the player and as a result, a higher level of loot and XP and are great for farming. Patch 2.6 has added even more Terror Zones to the game. The new areas are as follows
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When will Season 3 of Diablo 2: Resurrected start?
Season 3 will officially go live onFebruary 16 at 5 p.m. PST. On February 17 it will launch at 2 a.m. CET in Europe, and 10 a.m. KST in Asia.
If you are new to Diablo 2: Resurrected we have a number of guides to get you started in your journey across the world of Sanctuary. Check out ourcomplete guide to current runes and runewordsand everything you need to know about theHoradric cubeand its potential. You can play Diablo 2: Resurrected and enjoy cross-save and cross-progression on Xbox and Windows PC.
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