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Diablo 3's Big 2.4 Update Lands, Here Are the Patch Notes

New areas to explore, seasonal character changes, a new type of dungeon, and more.

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The much anticipated 2.4.0 update for Diablo III is now available on PC, Xbox One, and PS4, and Blizzard has released the final set of patch notes for it.

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Most of the update's contents were already known, having been announced over the past few months and then seen on the game's public test servers. The video above runs down some of the major new features and improvements, which include a brand-new area called Greyhollow Island and changes to seasonal characters.

In addition to Greyhollow Island, two of the existing zones (The Ruins of Sescheron and Leoric's Manor) have been expanded with new areas. Aside from offering new areas to explore, these are also home to new bounties and events.

Other features of note include the addition of set dungeons (challenges for those who have complete six-piece sets), empowered rifts (allowing you to pay gold to increase the rewards on a greater rift), and a way to transition a seasonal character from one season to the next.

The PC version also gets a new feature in action combat, which was already present in the console versions. You can earn extra experiencement, movement speed, or other buffs through things like massacres and destruction streaks.

Along with all of this, there are a number of new and reworked items, and each class has undergone a number of changes. You can check out the full patch notes for the PC version here, and the Xbox One and PS4 versions here.

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or... just drop this "Mario Bros with swords" parody of the great Diablo saga and go ahead with Path of Exile, the real successor of Diablo 2.

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This update got me and brother playing again

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Update?? Really?

What's next, an update for Fallout New Vegas or maybe Okami?

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@Born_Lucky: What are you talking about? Diablo 3 is nowhere near as old as those games, and it gets REGULAR updates since launch. You clearly don't know how Blizzard works.

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I wonder why they didnt brought new achievements/trophies now and in the last updates

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You doods just gonna ignore this sweet new word we got: "experiencement"?

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@iRtehOWN: I was just staring at that word for 5 minutes making sure it wasn't me reading it wrong.

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@Zorlac: yea dood just accept the sweet GS vocab. swag.

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Diablo 3 is really farking good now.

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Time to make the filth bleed again.

(And yes, I'm going to try that melee DH build.)

D3 is the best ARPG of all time and one of my favorite games of all time. This game seriously kicks ass and I love the season structure.

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@Richardthe3rd: the ps4 version would've been for me if glitchers and dupers didn't ruin it so much. Playing with random people before this started happening was so much fun!

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@syntaxkt: yeah I feel you guys. We went through some similar stuff during Diablo 2 with a really broken economy/duping exploits.

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@syntaxkt: Wait, People can cheat on the console version? So how can I avoid this cheating garbage if I play with my co-op settings to open? I like when People join and play for a bit, but I don't want some a-hole joining my game just to sabotage all my legit, hard work. Any thoughts?

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@rob909e: Backup your save file before playing. Then if somebody screws you over, revert back to the old save.

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@syntaxkt: I know, some idiot joined my game and now I'm paragon level 1100 and messed it up for me :(

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@joey07311984: Happened to me too on the X1.

I am sitting now on Paragon level 1059 and i was level 359 before

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@sladakrobot: it's ridiculous that Blizzard does NOTHING to change this. I just got pissed and uninstalled the game.

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@joey07311984: Online Only on PC isn't so bad when this happens to you on consoles.

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It looks like I'm going to have to start again with my Wizard I stopped playing after a few months from launch because I just couldn't get in to it in fact I went back to D2/LOD and played that even more. I'm waiting for Reaper of Souls to go down a little more £10 (seen it at £12 at the moment) and I'll start again I think

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Still an incredibly fun game to jump back into, slaughter a few hundred enemies, play with some loot, and maybe do some co-op if I'm in the mood.

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PLEASE let me reset my paragon lv

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@XxXDarkness0XxX: huh ? why ?

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@XxXDarkness0XxX: This. Please.

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@pornadius: Why would you ever want to do that? Oh, you can, just start a seasonal character.

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I feel like I took too long a break from this game. I don't even know what "seasons" are, if that gives you any idea of how long I'm talking. Have I waited to long?

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@Trev786: Absolutely not -- it's still as "pick up and play" as ever.

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good to see they are still supporting this game, though Diablo 4 would be a good announcement

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@wretch1d: Pretty sure 3 is getting another xpac.

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@fedor: Blizz showed a panel where there were 2 diablo 3 xpacks planned. It has been a very long while since they showed and things could have changed since then, but yeah, a new xpack would be great.

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I still wish they'd patch within seasons, instead of inbetween. As it is, if one class/item/set is too weak or overpowered, we have to wait 6months for it to be fixed because they only patch when the season ends.

edit: just saw the vid and now we "only" need to wait 3 months for something to balanced. Still too much time if you ask me.

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@maneljoao: They definitely do hotfix patches for things just like that. Major content patches in the middle of a season would massively unbalance things though.

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@maneljoao: That's why they have ptr patch... to test it out to make sure everything works out fine before they release the real patch...

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