Diablo 4 Class Balance Changes: All Buffs & Nerfs in Season 3 (Patch 1.3)

July 28, 2024

All the latest class balance changes in Diablo 4 Season 3, featuring all the buffs and nerfs to Necro, Barb, Rogue, Druid, and Sorcerer in update 1.3

First Published January 22, 2024, 03:31

Want to learn about the latest Diablo 4 class balance changes to find out if your favorite hero has been buffed or nerfed? We've got you covered!

This consistently updated article will always have the latest balance changes for Diablo 4 classes, so you never miss out on any buffs, nerfs, or general changes to the Sorcerer, Barbarian, Rogue, Druid, and Necromancer.

Update on 22 January 2024: The Diablo 4 update 1.3 has been unleashed. Massive class balance changes for Season 2! Get back into Sanctuary and enjoy!

Latest Diablo 4 Class Balance Changes

Here, you can find the latest class balance changes for Diablo 4's heroes, including the Barbarian, Necromancer, Sorcerer, Rogue, and Druid. This section will be consistently updated to provide you with fresh information and, hopefully, make picking your main a bit easier at launch and subsequent seasons.

Click on the class that you want to learn more about in terms of balance changes in Diablo 4 with the 1.3 update below.

Diablo 4 Season 3 Sorcerer Balance Changes (Patch 1.3):

New Items

Starfall Coronet

Meteor now has 2 charges and a 11–6 second Charge Cooldown instead of a Mana cost and drops 3 additional meteors around the target. Meteor's Enchantment effect and Enhanced Meteor drop 1 additional meteor.

Aspect of Shredding Blades – Offensive

Ice Blades' chance to apply Vulnerable is increased by 20%[+] and the Vulnerable duration is increased by 4 seconds. You gain 15–25%[x] Vulnerable Damage.

Skills

Ball Lightning

Enhanced Ball Lightning changed to have its attack rate increase with attack speed, up to 25%.

Blizzard

Mage’s Blizzard condition to be cast while over 50 mana has been removed.

Lightning Spear

Critical Strikes now apply Vulnerable for 3 seconds.

Paragon

Searing Heat

Fixed an issue where the Critical Strike Chance bonus was not properly applying.
Critical Strike Chance bonus increased from +10% to 12%.

Elemental Summoner

Conjuration damage bonus increased from x3% to x5% of the total amount of your Bonus Damage with Fire, Lightning, and Cold.

Burning Instinct

Amount of Intelligence required to gain x1% bonus Burning Damage reduced from 75 to 25.

Diablo 4 Season 3 Barbarian Balance Changes (Patch 1.3):

New Items

Ring of the Ravenous

Rend’s duration is increased by 2.0–4.0 seconds. Damaging enemies with Brawling Skills applies 2 stacks of Rend's Bleed. This effect can only occur once every 4 seconds per enemy.

Aspect of Sundered Ground – Offensive

Every 25 seconds, Upheaval is guaranteed to Overpower and deals 10–20% increased damage. This timer is reduced by 4 seconds when Upheaval Overpowers a Boss or an Elite enemy.

Skills

Charge

Base damage increased by 900%, from 0.25 to 2.50.
Enhanced Charge terrain impact damage increased by 150%, from 0.6 to 1.5.
Power Charge no longer requires a terrain impact to reduce the cooldown of Charge, and now charging a boss will reduce the cooldown by 6 seconds.

Leap

Base damage increased by 30%.

Passives

Brute Force

Overpower damage decreased from 15% to 8% per rank.

Walking Arsenal

Duration of each weapon bonus increased from 8 to 10 seconds.
Additional damage from having all bonuses increased from 15% to 20%.
Having all bonuses now also increases attack speed by 20%.

Unconstrained

Berserking damage bonus increased from 60% to 100%.

Gushing Wounds

Bonus bleed amount increased from 115% to 140%.
Overpower explosion damage increased from 70% to 85%.

Weapon Expertise

Expertise leveling has been cut by 50%.

Paragon

Marshal Glyph

Now reduces the cooldown of every non-Shout skill by 4 seconds, instead of every other Shout skill by 1.2 seconds.

Item Updates

Resource Aspect of Echoing Fury

You now generate 6–10 Fury per second while any Shout skill is active, instead of 2–4 Fury per second for each Shout skill active.

Offensive Aspect of Limitless Rage

Damage bonus now has a 5-second duration to be used.

Veteran Brawler’s Offensive Aspect

Reduced bonus damage per stack from 15%–20% to 6%–8%, up to a reduced maximum bonus of 225%–300% to 30%–40%.

Offensive Aspect of Ancestral Charge

Reduced bonus damage from 75%–125% to 20%–30%.

Offensive Aspect of Encroaching Wrath

Reduced bonus Weapon Mastery damage from 82–100% to 40–60%.
Damage bonus now has a 5-second duration to be used.

Ring of Red Furor

Damage bonus now has a 5-second duration to be used.

Diablo 4 Season 3 Druid Balance Changes (Patch 1.3):

New Items

Unsung Ascetic's Wraps

Lightning Storm gains 1 additional strike each time it grows. Lightning Storm Critical Strikes cause lightning to strike twice, dealing 10–20% increased damage.

Virulent Aspect – Utility

When Rabies infects an enemy, reduce its cooldown by 0.3–0.6 seconds. This cooldown reduction is tripled when infecting Elites.

Skills

Enhanced Rabies

Maximum damage bonus increased from 30% to 60%.

Lacerate

Cooldown reduced from 45 to 35 seconds.

Prime Lacerate

Changed functionality: Lacerate hits Heal for 3% Maximum Life, increased to 6% on Critical Strikes.

Cataclysm

Twister damage increased from 23% to 46%.
Lightning damage increased from 77% to 95%.

Supreme Cataclysm

Vulnerable duration increased from 3 to 6 seconds.

Passives

Mending

Additional Healing received increased from 5% to 6% per rank.

Thick Hide

Fortify gained increased from 6.4% to 10% per rank.

Unrestrained

Control Impairing Effects duration reduction increased from 3% to 5% per rank.
Increased benefit while over 50% Fortify reduced from tripled to doubled.

Natural Fortitude

Fortify gained on Shapeshifting increased from 1.4% to 2% per rank.

Bestial Rampage

Required Shapeshift duration reduced from 2.5 to 2 seconds.
Attack Speed bonus increased from 25% to 30%.

Spirt Boons

Prickleskin

Thorns increased from .15 to .6. (from 1,194 to 4776)

Gift of the Stag

Maximum Spirit increased from 10 to 20.

Avian Wrath

Critical Strike Damage bonus is now Multiplicative instead of Additive.

Paragon

Tectonic

Bonus Lucky Hit Chance increased from 15% to 20%.

Poise

Barrier increased from 5% of Maximum Health to 15%.
Duration increased from 4 to 6 seconds.

Wilds

Passive Companion damage bonus increased from 80% to 120%.

Item Updates

Aspect of the Blurred Beast

Previous: While dashing, Shred seeks out Nearby Poisoned enemies instantly dealing 70–100% of the Poisoning damage to them.
New: While dashing, Shred seeks out Nearby Poisoned enemies and deals 20–40%[x] increased damage to them.

Aspect of Metamorphic Stone

Boulder Spirit Cost reduced from 50 to 40.

Aspect of the Unsatiated

Spirit Generation and bonus damage increased from 20–30% to 30–40%.

Aspect of Retaliation

Bonus damage reduced from 20–40% to 20–30%.

Diablo 4 Season 3 Necromancer Balance Changes (Patch 1.3):

Diablo 4 Season 2 Rogue Balance Changes (Patch 1.2):

Rogue

New Items

Beastfall Boots

When you cast an Ultimate skill, your next Core skill consumes all of your energy and deals 0.5–1.5% increased damage per Energy consumed. Using a Cooldown restores 5 energy.

Resistant Assailant's Aspect – Defensive

Breaking Concealment grants +10% Resistance and Maximum Resist to all elements for 4 seconds. Killing an Elite enemy reduces Concealment's cooldown by 6–10 seconds.

Skills

Blade Shift

Damage increased from 16% to 20%.
Duration increased from 3 seconds to 4 seconds.

Fundamental Invigorating Strike

Vulnerable now applies while you are below 85% Energy, up from 75% Energy.

Enhanced Caltrops

Previous: Enemies takes 5%[x] increased damage from you each second they are in Caltrops.
New: Enemies in Caltrops take 10%[x] increased damage from you, increased by 5%[x] each second.

Rain of Arrows

Cast time reduced by 15%.
The first wave of arrows now hits closer to the player.

Cold Imbuement

Chill amount now increases by 5% per skill rank, up from 2.5%.

Blended Cold Imbuement

Removed the Critical Strike requirement, and increased the Lucky Hit chance from 20% to 35%.

Mixed Poison Imbuement

Previous: Lucky Hit: Poison Imbued skills have up to a 30% chance to apply double the amount of Poisoning damage over time.
New: Lucky Hit: Poison Imbued skills have up to a 30% chance to reduce Poison Imbuement's cooldown by 2 seconds.

Forceful Arrow

Vulnerable duration increased from 3 to 5 seconds.

Enhanced Penetrating Shot

Previous: Penetrating Shot deals 10%[x] increased damage per enemy it pierces.
Now: Penetrating Shot has a 10%[+] increased Critical Strike Chance. If Penetrating Shot damages at least 3 enemies, gain 10%[+] Critical Strike Chance for 5 seconds.

Improved Penetrating Shot

Previous: If Penetrating Shot damage at least 3 enemies, your next Penetrating Shot has 20%[+] increased Critical Strike Chance.
New: Penetrating Shot deals an additional 10%[x] increased damage per enemy it hits.

Passives

Close Quarters Combat

Amount of Damage vs Crowd Controlled bonus conversion percent reduced from 40% to 10%.
Attack Speed per stack increased from 10% to 15%.

Precision

Previous: Critical Strike with Marksman Skills grant you Precision. You gain 4%[x] Critical Strike Damage per stack of Precision, up to a maximum of 20%[x]. When you reach maximum Precision, your next Marksman Skill is guaranteed to Critically Strike, and deals 40%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage, then consumes all stacks of Precision.
New: Each Marksman skill cast grants 1 stack of Precision, or 2 if it has Critically Struck. When you reach 6 stacks, your next Marksman Core or Ultimate Skill is a guaranteed Critical Strike that deals x50% increased Critical Strike Damage, consuming all stacks of Precision. This damage is further increased by an amount equal to x15% of your Critical Strike Damage bonus.

Chilling Weight

Previous: Chilled enemies have their Movement speed further reduced by 10/20/30%.
New: Chilled enemies have their movement speed further reduced by up to 10/20/30%, and you gain 5/10/15%[x] increased Chill effect.

Concussive

Previous: After Knocking Back or Knocking Down an enemy, you gain 4% increased Critical Strike Chance against them for 4 seconds.
New: After Knocking Back or Knocking Down an enemy, you gain 4% increased Critical Strike Chance for 4 seconds.

Paragon

Leyrana's Instinct

Previous: When Inner Sight's gauge becomes full, you gain 100%[+] Dodge Chance for 1.5 seconds.
New: When Inner Sight's gauge becomes full, you gain 100%[+] Dodge Chance for 2 seconds. Your next 3 Core skills deal additional damage equal to 20%[x] of your Core Skill Damage bonus.

That's all the latest, new Diablo 4 Season 3 class balance changes for all heroes, including the Rogue, Druid, Sorcerer, Necromancer, and Barbarian. We will endeavor to update this article swiftly every time new balance changes to the game's diverse classes become available, so stay tuned.

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Written by Wessel Minnie

Wessel is a former member of Bravado Gaming, a top South African esports organization, and a former editor at GLITCHED.online. He can also be found on HLTV discussing everything CS esports. When he's not writing or editing, Wessel is clicking heads in Counter-Strike 2, pondering over the best Diablo 4 builds for each class, or venturing into the Lands Between of Elden Ring for the umpteenth time. He loves ARPGs and any SoulsBorne title he can get his mitts on, but feel free to email or drop him a message on social media with any interesting gaming-related topics you think he might enjoy.

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