Word of a challenge sweeps across Sanctuary, catching the ear of every glory-seeking warrior and outlaw alike. This newest content update brings you the Bout of Realms 8v8 Tournament, new Legendary Affixes, and more events to carve through in Gambler’s Toil.
As with previous content updates, there will be server maintenance starting on August 12, from 5-7 p.m. PDT for Oceania, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe servers, and on August 13, from 1-3 a.m. PDT for servers in the Americas. After the maintenance has concluded, all items mentioned below will be live—specific dates for any features going live afterward are provided below.
As this article is an early look at next content update, information conveyed in this article may be subject to adjustment.
Join the Bout of Realms
The bravest fighters of Sanctuary gather in one unified purpose, to determine who among them can crown themselves champion. The Bout of Realms is a multistage Tower War PvP competition that pits teams of 8 against other teams across servers within their home region. The winners of each region will earn themselves the eternal glory of being crowned the ultimate victor of the Bout of Realms, as well as earning illustrious cosmetic rewards, Legendary Crests , a slew of Legendary Crests, and more.
From August 13–August 17, 3 a.m., Register for Bout of Realms by forming a party of up to 8 players. Party members can be swapped at any time within the registration period. Once registration has ended on August 17, parties are locked and cannot be changed. Choose your teammates wisely, for they will be your key to success.
From August 18–August 22, each team will participate in a total of 15 matches for Preliminaries. These take place each day local server time at:
This is 5 days of 3 back-to-back battles, so be prepared before you commit yourself to a team. Your party will be counting on you.
Preliminary matches grant:
- 3 points for a win
- 1 point for a loss
- 0 points for a forfeit
Ties are decided by the number of kills made during the matches. Participating in the Preliminaries earns you a Legendary item, Gold, scrap and Dust. Once Preliminaries have concluded the top scoring teams will advance. Up to 64 teams will move forward to the Finals, depending on server size.
The Finals commence from August 25–August 29, where 64 teams across servers compete for the top 4 spots in a best of three elimination match each night at 9 p.m. local server time. The winners advance to the next night, while the losers will be eliminated. After determining the winners of the Final 2 teams, the winners will progress to the Championship Match, while the runner ups will compete in the Third-Place Match.
The Third Place Match takes place on August 30, 9 p.m. local server time. The teams fighting for the Third Place finish will battle it out in a best of 5 format to determine the winner.
The Championship Match, the final showdown, takes place on August 31 at 9 p.m. local server time. The top 2 teams will battle it out in a best of five format against their designated opponents. The winning team in the Championship Match will be crowned the Champion, while the losing team will be runner-up.
Rewards
Besides the fame, glory, and notoriety of winning the Bout of Realms, winning teams will walk away with a number of rewards, some of which are rare and invaluable cosmetics, and some of which aid you further in your quests and adventures in Sanctuary!
Note: Items with a duration noted next to them are ephemeral treasures, and will expire after the set duration.
1st Place:
- Lord of the Wild Avatar Frame
- Immortal King Title (90 Days)
- Permanent Cloak
- Champion’s Fire Kill Streak VFX (30 Days)
- Aura Effects (30 Days)
- Additional Cloak (90 Days)
- 180x Legendary Crests
2nd Place:
- Flame of the Wilds Avatar Frame
- Immortal Lord Title (90 Days)
- Permanent Cloak
- Champion’s Fire Kill Streak VFX (30 Days)
- Aura Effects (30 Days)
- Additional Cloak (90 Days)
- 90x Legendary Crests
3rd Place:
- Flame of the Wilds Avatar Frame
- Immortal Commander Title (90 Days)
- Permanent Cloak
- Champion’s Fire Kill Streak VFX (30 Days)
- 60x Legendary Crests
4th Place:
- Flame of the Wilds Avatar Frame
- Immortal Warlord Title (90 Days)
- Champion’s Fire Kill Streak VFX (30 Days)
- 45x Legendary Crests
Top 5-32 Teams:
- Flame of the Wilds Avatar Frame
- Champion’s Fire Kill Streak VFX (30 Days)
- 30x Legendary Crests
Top 33-64 Teams:
- Flame of the Wilds Avatar Frame
- Champion’s Fire Kill Streak VFX (30 Days)
- 15x Legendary Crests
Rewards per Match:
- 800,000 Experience
- 10,000 Gold
- 100x Reinforced Scrap
- 1x Set Item
- 1x Legendary Item
Winning a Match during the Preliminaries awards additional rewards:
- 1x Legendary Item
- 100x Reinforced Scrap
- 10,000 Gold
New Legendary Affixes
Wield these new Legendary Items to strike down the Burning Hell’s Legions with ferocious intent. These new Items can only be found in Inferno IV and higher.
Barbarian
- Helmet Splitter (Off-Hand): Wrath of the Berserker now increases your Movement Speed, greatly reduces damage taken, and reduces the duration of loss of control.
- Hunter’s Snare (Chest): Chained Spear now empowers you to counterattack with spears when you take damage, pulling in enemies.
- Silvered Dragoon (Helm): Demoralize now empowers you to counterattack with a roar when you take damage, reducing enemy Attack Speed.
- Stone and Kettle (Shoulders): Wrath of the Berserker also reduces damage taken.
- Trapping’s Spoils (Pants): Chained Spear also heals you for a percentage of its damage done.
- Tundra Burr (Main Hand): When Demoralize deals damage, it also reduces an enemy’s damage for a limited-time, up to a maximum.
Blood Knight
- Chimeric Favor (Pants): Abomination gains an additional Skill, Blood Mirage. Blood Mirage consumes your Life to conjure an illusion of yourself that mimics your Primary Attack.
- Gnarly Gullet (Shoulders): Abomination no longer consumes Anger to transform and its Primary Attack now consumes Life to throw globs of gore at enemies.
- Mangler’s Grove (Main Hand): Abomination also increases your Attack Speed by a percentage of maximum Life lost, up to a maximum buff for increased Attack Speed.
- Quenched Votary (Helm): Transfusion shields also increase your Life Drain by a percentage.
- Rose Toll (Off-Hand): Abomination Primary Attacks have a chance to trigger a bloody claw that deals additional damage. The bloody claw’s chance to trigger increases as your remaining Life decreases, up to a maximum.
- Skin Upon Steel (Chest): Transfusion now grants only you a shield and while it remains active all Life Drain restores the absorb value of the shield instead of healing you. Transfusion will be automatically activated when your Life is low.
Crusader
- The Chainkeeper (Shoulders): Sacred Chain now empowers you for a limited time, during which holy links will form between you and nearby enemies, continually damaging them.
- Harmonic Collide (Chest): Condemn now empowers you, causing lightning to strike enemies after they are attacked a few times.
- Fugitive Daunt (Pants): Sacred Chain also disables enemy Dash skills for a limited time.
- Laden Axiom (Main Hand): Sweep Attack now swings two mystical chains towards each other in an arc, gathering enemies in the middle and Stunning them.
- Lash Recital (Helm): When Sacred Chain damages an enemy multiple times within a limited time, they are dealt additional damage.
- Vilification Protocol (Off Hand): Condemn also reduces enemy Movement Speed.
Demon Hunter
- Bewildering Arc (Main Hand): Smoke Screen also increases your Attack Speed for a limited time.
- Fume Threads (Chest): Smoke Screen now empowers you to launch grenades at nearby enemies as you move. Dash skills have a reduced distance requirement to trigger grenades.
- Let Them Sulk (Helm): Daring Swing cooldown is reduced by seconds for each enemy it hits, up to a maximum duration.
- Manymark (Pants): Spinning Chakram also applies a Chakram Mark for a limited time when it hits an enemy. When marked enemies are hit multiple times they are dealt additional damage (Cannot trigger more often that once every few seconds to the same enemy).
- Nimble Rival (Shoulders): Daring Swing now fires a hook in a direction that locks onto the ground and then pulls you along its path, damaging enemies and making you immune to knockback and loss of control as you travel.
- Supply Everlasting (Off Hand): Spinning Chakram now empowers you to launch chakrams at nearby enemies as you move. Dash skills have a reduced distance requirement to trigger chakrams.
Druid
- Cackling Frenzy (Pants): Rend and Tear (Werewolf) also increases your Life Drain against enemies hit for a limited-face, stacking up to a maxmium.
- Nyteflurry (Main Hand): Raven Swarm now empowers you, causing your Primary Attacks and Skills to conjure ravens that automatically attack enemies, who are Blinded when ravens hit them multiple times.
- Kiegfran (Shoulders): Raven Swarm also generates Primal Power when it hits an enemy, but this cannot occur more often than once every so often.
- Sharval’s Blessing (Chest): While a Werewolf, you gain additional Life Drain against enemies below 50% Life.
- Wildbrute (Helm): Lunge (Werewolf) now causes you to flicker out of sight, becoming untargetable as you Dash forward damaging enemies along your path. Lunge can be used multiple times in quick succession.
- Wulftear (Off Hand): Rend and Tear (Werewolf) is now a series of slashing claw attacks that damage and Stun enemies. Using other skills beforehand increases the number of attacks.
Additional Druid Affixes
- Lethal Embrace (Shoulders): Transforming into a Werewolf increases your Evasion Rating for a few seconds for every Primal Power you currently have, up to a maximum.
- Lunar Cradle (Main Hand): Summon Wolves also weaken nearby enemies, increasing the damage they take from you.
- Ravenous Wilds (Off Hand): Thorn Armor damage also shatters enemy armor, increasing the Critical Hit Damage they take for a limited time, up to a maximum.
- Tokens of Vigilance (Chest): Rabid Might also causes Primary Attacks to deal additional damage equal to a percentage of your maximum Life.
- Tough Love (Pants): Activating Summon Oak Sage increases the damage of your summons for a limited time for each active summon, up to a maximum.
- Veiled Vice (Helm): Howl (Werewolf) also applies Fear to enemies. Enemies below a percentage of Life are Feared for a limited time. Cannot Fear the same enemy more often than once every few seconds.
Monk
- Domineering Will (Main Hand): When Wave Strike damages the same enemy several times within a few seconds, it will also Stun them for a limited duration. Cannot Stun the same enemy more often than once every few seconds.
- Factional Advantage (Pants): Breath of Heaven now conjures a runic circle that follows you, granting shields to you and your allies within that increase in absorb value for each ally present.
- Flurry Coat (Chest): Inner Sanctuary also increases your Attack Speed for a limited-time, increasing for every nearby ally up to a maximum amount.
- Guise of Amity (Helm): Inner Sanctuary now conjures a runic circle that follows you, increasing the damage dealt by you and your allies within, increasing further for each ally present.
- Manera’s Pretense (Shoulders): Beneficial effects from Breath of Heaven also reduce Critical Hit Damage taken for a limited time.
- Pit Finder (Off Hand): Wave Strike now slams the ground to unleash a damaging wave that reverberates off nearby allies to deal additional damage to enemies.
Necromancer
- Arch Charnel (Helm): Skeletal Mages empower you when destroyed, increasing your damage for a limited time, stacking up to a maximum.
- Black Web (Pants): Dark Curse now conjures a field of despair at a target location that continuously damages enemies and applies a stacking Slow. After several stacks an enemy will be Feared.
- Haunter’s Shell (Off Hand): Bone Spirits now conjures a font of soulfire at a target location that will attack an enemy that approaches, exploding on impact to damage and Fear nearby enemies.
- Hook and Times (Main Hand): Corpse Explosion Critical Hit Chance is increased.
- Grasp of Gloom (Chest): Dark Curse also disables enemy Dash skills for a limited-time.
- Trembling Glamor (Shoulders): Corpse Explosion no longer consumes corpses and instead consumes the Fear on enemies to conjure spirits that seek out targets, damaging any they touch. The spirits prioritize seeking out Feared enemies, consuming it to conjure more spirits.
Tempest
- Buckle-Cracker (Off Hand): Crosswinds now empowers you, causing your next Primary Attack to unleash a flurry of piercing wind blades that shatter enemy armor, increasing the damage you deal to them.
- Flitting Frown (Helm): Rolling Surf also increases the damage of the next couple Primary Attacks within a few seconds.
- Last Backbite (Main Hand): Rolling Surf now empowers your next few Primary Attacks to fire Backbreaker Bolts that progressively deal increased damage if they keep hitting the same enemy from behind.
- Legguards of Halit (Helm): Crosswinds also increases your Primary Attack Speed for a limited duration.
- Stolen Promise (Chest): Flowing Strike now causes you to Dash forward, damaging enemies in your path. If an enemy player is hit, they will be forced to turn their back to you, Immobilizing them.
- Submerge in Shock (Shoulders): Flowing Strike also increases your Critical Hit Chance for a limited duration.
Wizard
- Binding Forces (Pants): Meteor now empowers you, during which you can call huge meteors to fall at target locations.
- Gravity Well (Shoulders): Meteor also pulls in all nearby enemies at the location it deals damage.
- The Greebluk (Off Hand): Ice Armor now grants you invisibility, only revealing you if an enemy gets close.
- Ossified Chromotera (Main Hand): Slow Time also increases your Skill damage for a limited duration.
- Owl’s Patience (Helm): Slow Time now unleashes a burst of temporal energy at a target location, damaging enemies, reducing their Movement Speed, and disabling their Dash skills. You deal increased damage to these affected enemies.
- Walert’s Corset (Chest): Ice Armor also increases Skill damage.
Roll the Die in Gambler’s Toil
Only those with valor succeed in the heat of battle—bolster your renowned legend within Sanctuary by slaying through the Gambler’s Toil. From July 30, 3 a.m.—August 27, 3:00 a.m. local server time, battle your way in tests of your demon slaying prowess to make progress and earn illustrious rewards. Events during the week are ripe for crushing the Burning Hell’s legions but prepare to face off against other adventurers across the weekend.
The last two weeks of Gambler’s Toil await, keep dismembering monsters to carve through the final events and claim your rewards.
Conqueror
August 6, 3 a.m.—August 13, 3 a.m. local server time
Alley of Blood
August 13, 3 a.m.—August 20, 3 a.m. local server time
Wild Brawl
August 20, 3 a.m.—August 27, 3 a.m. local server time
Carve through these to earn the following rewards:
- 2 Telluric Pearls
- 12 Legendary Items
- 4 Set Items
- 10 1-Star Legendary Gems
- 800,000 Gold
- 2,800 Scrap
- 240 Enchanted Dust
- 28 Aspirant’s Keys
- 16 Normal Gems
Balance Changes
The Balance changes below will be effective everywhere in Diablo Immortal.
Barbarian
- Terror Unburdened (Demoralize): The beneficial effects provided by Demoralize will now be disabled when the uncontrollable state is interrupted by another skill.
Developer’s Note: Instead of breaking the interaction entirely, we are disabling the benefits provided by Terror Unburdened when you have control of your character. The benefits of damage reduction, immunity to knockback, and were all meant to counteract that you couldn’t control your character. Considering you can control your character, these effects will be removed in this instance.
