Diablo 2: Resurrected patch 2.4 goes live with balance changes, bug fixes

Blizzard Entertainment released an important update. Diablo 2: ResurrectedOn Thursday, the patch 2.4 was released. It made major balance adjustments and corrected numerous bugs in click-and kill action-RPG. For patch 2.4 Diablo2. Resurrectedthis is the first major game update in 11 years.

There are two bugs which have been long-standing. Diablo 2 that would have completely wiped out your character’s mana — making some classes effectively defenseless — or dealt too much damage — namely fire-enchanted monsters. From Blizzard’s extensive patch notes:

• Fix for an issue in which Unique monster packs with mana-drain were draining far more mana that was expected
• Fire enchanted creatures were doing too much damage to Nightmare difficulty.

Diablo 2: Resurrected developers said last year that they wanted to address bugs like the above, the unexpected results of miscalculations in the game’s code, that have long vexed players. Andre Abrahamian was a Blizzard Entertainment former game designer. He is now the head of design. Diablo 2: Resurrected, said during a Q&A video session that the team in charge of the Diablo 2 remaster wanted to fix “things that are misinforming players,” but leave “quirks” that could benefit players or that became part of the game’s meta as-is.

In the update, Blizzard made significant balance changes across all accounts Diablo 2: Resurrected’s seven classes. It appears that the team has covered every aspect of classes: attack animations, combat skills, and class-specific tooltips. (Barbarian players will undoubtedly be thrilled by a fix to that class’ Whirlwind skill.) Those tweaks have been in testing since January, when Blizzard brought patch 2.4 to the game’s public test realm.

Thursday’s update also includes new Horadric Cube recipes, new Ladder-exclusive Rune Words, and wide-ranging quality of life updates. The latter includes new “Legacy” graphics emulation that offers a variety of classic visualization options. Here’s how Blizzard’s patch notes describe them:

• ‘GDI’ emulates the software rasterization of the original legacy game and does not apply any filtering
• ‘Glide’ emulates the hardware accelerated backend of the original legacy game with bilinear filtering
• ‘Resurrected’ uses the Glide emulation with additional fixes in place to address an artifact that would occur with the original Glide rendering

For a closer look at everything that’s changed, check out Diablo 2: Resurrected’s 2.4 patch notes.

Diablo 2: ResurrectedAvailable on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Windows PC.