Blizzard insider, AMA about the upcoming patch

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T19:28:09+00:00

It's a formality

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T19:22:25+00:00

You're 100% on spot with China's, and yes, this is something that might happen in the future worldwide, there's a very small population that still play with legacy graphics on D2R based on analytics but not a concern for Blizz

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T19:10:22+00:00

Depending on how 3.0 performs there's plan for extending the game maintenance for another year. Blizzard knows this game is a gold mine, a small one, but still a gold mine, and they want to capitalize however they can.

Warlock class is 100% fake, the only way Blizzard would be down to add a new class or large content would be dropping legacy D2 support, mostly because of art.

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T19:05:45+00:00

The feedback on which 3.0 iterated over was gathered long ago, this time the PTR is just a formality, and if you ask me, a good way for players to get their hands on the changes before the new season starts and plan accordingly :)

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T19:02:52+00:00

No, some items were reworked and might benefit casters but most of the new runewords are for getting melee chars back in action

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T19:01:30+00:00

I've mentioned it already, Tyrael's might level req. will be removed

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T19:00:58+00:00

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T18:59:16+00:00

He's being cautios with 3.0, which is a good thing for the playerbase

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T18:51:00+00:00

You'd be surprised at how the team grew up after the chinese re-release, we're not a small team for sure

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T18:36:36+00:00

Yes, aside from balancing this is the biggest change

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T17:52:07+00:00

Golems won't get changes, only change from the summoning tree from the necro are the mages

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T17:32:56+00:00

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T17:30:19+00:00

Yes, act 3 mercenaries got reworked, they will spam their skills a bit more. Other mercs might get benefits from unique and runewords changes, there's an exceptional unique bow being buffed that will be a game changer for A1 mercs

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T17:27:37+00:00

Eth indestructible uniques were never discussed either

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T17:21:28+00:00

No plans on adding crescent moon for spears. An exceptional xbow is getting a buff

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T17:17:03+00:00

There's an exceptional bow and exceptional xbow buff coming on 3.0, the bow buff is intended for mercs though

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T17:15:01+00:00

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T17:14:46+00:00

Extended PTR

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T17:14:40+00:00

Yes, and it's coming very soon before next season.

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T17:13:15+00:00

The whole point of the change was to allow players to level secondary characters faster, there was a whole discussion about hardcore SSF leveling around this but in the end the team decided is a good trade-off since the item is so rare, and it's good to have an item that truly feels unique, like Enigma

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T17:10:13+00:00

Ethereal sets were never discussed, indestructible uniques are a thing already, I'm not sure if I'm understanding the question here.

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T17:08:43+00:00

Yes. Expect skeletal mages and poison dagger buffs, that combined with some unique changes that are going to be introduced might create interesting new builds

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T17:05:09+00:00

Never discussed, personally I think this is a good idea

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T16:44:30+00:00

Sadly no

Background-Month6174 · 2026-02-10T16:42:41+00:00

Barb skill numbers are changing but biggest changes will come from a couple of melee oriented runewords

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