Blizzard Entertainment has officially launched the Season of Divine Intervention update for Diablo 4 today, bringing major new features, enemies, and item changes to the world of Sanctuary.

For console players, this update will appear as Diablo 4 update 1.98/1.098. See below for all the new features and what’s coming in this update.

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Diablo 4: Season of Divine Intervention Features and What You Need to Know

Features of Season of Divine Intervention include:

• Azmodan’s Return: Joined by Belial, Andariel, and Duriel, Azmodan and the Lesser Evils wreak havoc on Sanctuary, taking advantage of the chaos surrounding Akarat’s mysterious return. Players utilize Nightmare Affixes to gain Divine favor.
• Monsters Evolved: Smarter and deadlier enemies plague Sanctuary with clearer combat roles. Enemies’ dynamic behavior encourages players to adapt their approach to confrontations.
• Itemization Overhaul: With Tempering and Masterworking streamlining the item journey, players can directly set affixes from a Tempering Recipe. Masterworking improves the Quality of an item, which gives a bonus to the base damage, armor, or resistance of an item.
• Sanctification: The powers of the High Heavens grace player items as one final and powerful upgrade, channeling Angelic power into gear. Sanctifying items has the chance to apply a bonus Legendary power, improve an Affix, add or replace an Affix, and, in rare instances, even make items indestructible.
• Season Rank: The Season Journey evolves into a more challenging version with even greater rewards. Known as Seasonal Rank, this system requires players to complete a Capstone Dungeon before progressing to the next Rank.

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Here are the the full patch notes directly from Blizzard:

Sanctification

• Upgrading an affix to a Greater Affix can now also occur on non-ancestral items.
• Affixes on Ancestral Unique or Mythic Items can no longer be replaced.
• Indestructible affix replaced by adding 5-25 Quality ranks.
• To sanctify an item, it only needs to have an item power of 750 or higher in Torment difficulties, rather than being Ancestral.
• Affix ranges have been adjusted across the board. In general, affix values have been increased, and ranges have been narrowed, and some affixes now have a higher maximum.
• Additional Legendary powers have been added.

Divine Gifts

Andariel

• Reduced item quality rewards in pre-Torment difficulties.

Duriel

• Bonus experience from the maggots in Helltide has been adjusted.

Glyph Upgrades

• Glyph Upgrades now get a scaling chance to grant an extra upgrade attempt based on Divine Gift rank. Rank 1 grants a 25% chance, up to a 100% upgrade chance at Rank 5.
• Purified Gifts now grant 2 levels instead of one.

Lesser Evil Invasion

• Andariel no longer regenerates Health if you die.
• Andariel’s phase transition is now much quicker.
• The size of Belial’s eyeballs has been increased to make them easier to target.
• Belial’s death now takes less time to finish.
• Shrines no longer disappear when fighting Azmodan.
• Azmodan has been granted resilience to bring him more in line with other World Bosses.
• Lesser Evil events in the Overworld now reward unique items from Lair Boss reward pools.

Balance Update

Mythic Unique Items

Ahavarion, Spear of Lycander

• Lucky Hit gain resource reduced from 66% to 22%.

Melted Heart of Selig

• Primary resource generation reduced to 50%.
• Previous (PTR): Each point in your Primary Stat increases your Primary Resource by 3% but you have 75% reduced life. Any damage you would take is dealt to your Primary Resource before your life. If you have not taken damage in 6 seconds, your Resource regenerates to full over 3 seconds.
• Now: Damage is dealt to your Primary Resource before Life and damage taken this way is drastically reduced. Your Primary Resource is doubled but Maximum Life is reduced by 75%.

Developer’s Note: To reduce the number of required caps in the game, we adjusted this effect. This now grants less Primary Resource, but should provide roughly as much durability as before.

Barbarian

• Damage per 10 points of Strength increased from 1% to 1.1%.

Skills

Kick

• Width of the hitbox has been doubled.

Power Kick

• Reverted Fury cap from PTR.

Leap

• Adjusted attack speed scaling.

Enhanced Hammer of the Ancients

• Now increases maximum Fury, up to 100.
• Fury generation per enemy hit increased from 3% to 10%, up to 10 stacks.

Items

Aspect of Anger Management

• Previous: While above 55-40 Fury, you are Berserk, but 2 Fury Drains per second.
• Now: While above 50 Fury, deal 10-30%x increased damage and gain Berserking, but 3 Fury Drains per second.

Chainscourge Mail

• The shorter cooldown for the last Brawling skill used before re-enabling all of them now scales based on attack speed.

Fields of Crimson

• Blood Pool bonus damage no longer only applies to the casting player.

Paragon

Hemorrhage Legendary Node

• Increased damage increased from 45%[x] to 60%[x].

Blood Rage Legendary Node

• Increased damage increased from 45%[x] to 60%[x].

Carnage Legendary Node

• Increased damage increased from 30%[x] to 45%[x].

Decimator Legendary Node

• Increased damage increased from 20%[x] to 25%[x].

Flawless Technique Legendary Node

• Increased Critical Strike Damage increased from 30%[x] to 45%[x].

Weapons Master Legendary Node

• Increased damage to Injured and Healthy increased from 30%[x] to 45%[x].

Undaunted Glyph

• Maximum Damaging Reduction from Fortify increased from 10% to 15%.

Tempering

Berserking Finesse

• Affixes Removed: Damage while War Cry is Active.

Arsenal Finesse

• No longer available.

Weapon Attunement

• Affixes Removed:
  • Resource Generations with Two-Handed Bludgeoning Weapons
  • Resource Generations with Dual Wielded Weapons
  • Resource Generations with Two-Handed Slashing Weapons

Druid

Skills

Stoneburst

• Lucky Hit chance for the channeled damage increased from 2% to 6%.

Grizzly Rage

• Cooldown reduced from 50 to 35 seconds.
• Duration increased from 10 to 12 seconds.
• Damage Reduction increased from 20% to 30%.
• Rank 5:
  • Previous: You gain 30%[+] increased Armor while Grizzly Rage is active.
  • Now: Cooldown reduced by 10 seconds.

Passives

Earthen Might

• Damage against immobilized enemies increased from 15%[x] to 25%[x].
• Critical Strike Damage increased from 15%[x] to 20%[x].

Items

Aspect of the Rampaging Werebeast

• Previous: The duration of Grizzly Rage is increased by 3-10 seconds. In addition, Critical Strikes while Grizzly Rage is active increase your Critical Strike Damage by 10%[x] for the duration, up to maximum of 200%[x].
• Now: Critical Strikes while in Grizzly Rage increases your damage by 3%[x] for 60 seconds, up to 120%[x].

Aspect of the Rabid Beast Bear

• Changed to Aspect of the Rabid Beast.
• Previous: While Grizzly Rage is active, your direct damage is converted into Poison damage, you deal x[40 – 80]% more Poison damage, and you passively spread Rabies.
• Now: Deal 40-80%[x] more Poison Damage. While Shapeshifted, your direct damage is converted into Poison damage.

Khamsin Steppewalkers (New Boots)

• Power
  • Previous (PTR): Damaging [200 – 100] Enemies with Storm Skills grants a charge. Casting any Defensive Skill will grant Max Movement Speed and Unhindered for 1 second for each charge used. While Charged, enemies you run into are Immobilized for 1 second.
  • Now: Damaging 150-100 Enemies with Nature Magic Skills grants Max Movement Speed and Unhindered for 4-8 seconds. Enemies you run through are Immobilized for 1 second.
• Affixes
  • Movement Speed Affix replaced with 1-2 ranks of Endless Tempest.

Paragon

Earthen Devastation

• Previous: Your Earth Skills deal 10%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage, increased by 20%[x] of your Damage vs Crowd Controlled bonus, up to 60%[x].
• Now: Your Earth Skills deal 70%[x] increased Critical Strike Damage.

Constricting Tendrils

• Previous: Nature Magic Skills deal 35%[x] increased damage to Poisoned enemies. Lucky Hit: Nature Magic Skills have up to a 40% chance to Poison the enemy for 800% damage over 4 seconds.
• Now: Deal 40%[x] increased damage to Poisoned enemies. Lucky Hit: Nature Magic Skills have up to a 40% chance to Poison the enemy for 1000% damage over 4 seconds.

Tempering

Druid Motion

• Affixes Removed:
  • Digitigrade Gait

Necromancer

Book of the Dead

Iron Golem

• Attack Speed increased by 25%.

Skills

Bone Spirit

• Reverted Essence cap from PTR.

Passives

Hellbent Commander

• Removed the requirement for controlling 7 or more Minions.

Rathma’s Vigor

• Timer for Overpower reduced from 15 to 10 seconds.

Items

Aspect of Shielding Storm

• Barrier reduced from 1-8% to 1-3% of Maximum Health.

Sanguivor, Blade of Zir

• Consuming a Corpse now contributes 3 souls to Vampiric Curse, up from 1.
• Damage bonus increased from 15-25% to 20-30% per soul.

Cruor’s Embrace

• Damage increased from 40-80% to 60-120% of weapon damage.

Mutilator Plate

• Blood Lance Damage increased from 10-40% to 30-60%.

Ring of Mendeln

• Damage increased from 520-900% to 650-1100% of weapon damage.
• Bone Golem’s combo attack of two swings now counts as a single attack for the purposes of Ring of Mendeln, rather than two separate attacks.

Tempering

Weapon Attunement

• Affixes Removed:
  • Resource Generation with Two-Handed Weapons.
  • Resource Generation while Wielding a Shield.

Rogue

• Damage scaling per 10 points of Dexterity increased from 1.1% to 1.25%.

Skills

Improved Flurry

• Healing reduced from 10% to 6%.

Passives

Siphoning Strikes

• Healing per Rank reduced from 1% to .5% of Maximum Health.

Legendary Aspects

Trickshot Aspect

• Damage increased from 10-30% to 20-40%.

Bladedancer’s Aspect

• Damage increased from 100-120% to 100-140%.

Unique Items

Beastfall Boots

• Reverted Energy cap from PTR.

Windforce

• Chance to deal triple damage to Knocked Down enemies increased from 50-75% to 50-100%.

Scoudrel’s Kiss

• Bonus damage increased from 35-55% to 50-70%.

Deathmask of Nirmitruq

• Bonus damage increased from 70-100% to 70-130%.

Tempering

Rogue Motion

• Affixes Removed:
  • Ranks to Stutter Step

Rogue Persistence

• No longer available.

Sorcerer

Developer’s Note: We heard the feedback from PTR loud and clear, and decided to revisit the suite of Teleport changes for the start of the season. We decided to keep the overall changes to Teleport Enchantment, but we wanted to give more of the cooldown reduction power lost there and put it back into itemization. You should have a clearer choice to invest using item slots or tempering to get a fully reset cooldown Teleport, while also maintaining a middle-ground level of investment that gives you a low cooldown option.

Enchantments

Teleport Enchantment

• Adjusted the description to specify that it invokes Teleport and doesn’t Cast it.

Skills

Shimmering Teleport

• Previous (PTR): Teleport Dazes enemies at its end point for 1.5 seconds.
• Now: You gain 25%[+] All Resistance for 3 seconds after Teleporting.

Passives

Potent Warding

• Previous: Casting a Skill grants 3%[+] All Resistance and 2%[+] Maximum Resistance to that Skill’s Element for 9 seconds.
• Now: Casting a Skill grants 3%[+] All Resistance and 5%[+] Resistance to that Skill’s Element for 9 seconds.

Energy Focus

• Maximum Barrier reduced from 30% to 20% of Maximum Health.

Protection

• Barrier per Rank reduced from 10% to 5% of Maximum Health.

Warmth

• Healing reduced from 1% per Rank to .2% of Maximum Health.
• Healing from Bosses reduced from 4% to 2% of Maximum Health.

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Mind’s Awakening

• Barrier reduced from 3-6% to 1.5-3% of Maximum Health.

Serpentine Aspect

• Reverted Mana cap from Season of Infernal Chaos.

Aspect of the Bounding Conduit

• Teleport’s Cooldown reduction increased from 1-2.5 to 3-4.5 seconds.

Aspect of Biting Cold

• Previous: When you Freeze an enemy there is a [25-45%] chance they become Vulnerable for 3 seconds.
• New: Frost Skills deal 20-30%x increased damage and have a 40% chance to apply Vulnerable for 4 seconds.

Unique Items

The Oculus

• Previous (PTR): Casting Teleport grants a stack of Galvanization, increasing its damage by 30-50% for 8 seconds. Becoming Injured Teleports you to a random location.
• Now: Each enemy hit by Teleport increases the damage by 5-15%|x| and reduces the Cooldown by 0.5 seconds of the next cast. Becoming Injured will Teleport you to a random location.

Raiment of the Infinite

• Power
  • Previous (PTR): After Casting Teleport, Close enemies are Pulled Inwards and it has a 10-30% chance to reset from each enemy it kills.
  • Now: Teleport pulls Close enemies to you and grants 10-30% Damage Reduction.
• Affixes
  • Ranks to Elemental Attunement replaced with All Resistance.
  • Ranks to Shocking Impact replaced with 30-40% Teleport CDR.

Tempering

Sorcerer Motion

• Affixes Removed:
  • Ranks to Conduction

Frost Finesse

• Affixes Added:
  • Frost Critical Strike Chance

Spiritborn

Skills

Poised Payback

• Reverted Vigor cap from PTR.

Poised Rushing Claw

• Now reduces the time to recharge charges by 5 seconds.

Passives

Fueled

• Previous: Gain Life On Kill equal to 5% of your Maximum Life while you have at least 4 stacks of Ferocity.
• Now: Gain 1-181 (depending on level) Life On Hit while you have at least 4 stacks of Ferocity.

Potent

• Previous (PTR): Gain 2/4/6% Jaguar Attack Speed and Cooldown Reduction.
• Now: Jaguar Skills deal 6/12/18%[x] increased direct damage to up to 3 of the Closest enemies to you.

Items

Aspect of Forest Power

• Barrier reduced from 25% to 15% of Maximum Health.

Rod of Kepeleke

• Reverted Vigor cap from PTR.

Peacemonger’s Signet

• Dodge chance changed to Dexterity.

Masterworking

• Maximum quality is now 25, up from 20.
• Quality increase per Masterwork is now 2-5, up from 1-3.
• Quality upgrades now increase all affix values by 1% per quality value.
• Fully Masterworking an item now gives a 50% upgrade to a random affix, which can be a Tempering Affix.
  • The boosted affix will be colored differently to highlight it.
• Masterworking cost has been adjusted, and scales exponentially with Item Quality.
  • Examples
    • Item Quality 0: 10 Obducite
    • Item Quality 5: 25 Obducite
    • Item Quality 15: 66 Obducite
    • Item Quality 25: 100 Obducite

Tempering

• There is now a chance a tempered affix gets applied as a Greater Affix.
• Resource gain Tempering affixes have been added for Helms and Rings.
• Resource per second Tempering affix added for Pants.
• Adjusted Tempering Recipes to remove affixes from Class-specific Manuals that were extraneous due to existing in Generic Manuals, or unused.
• Some class wide affixes have been adjusted
  • Natural Motion
    • Movement Speed changed from 16-25% to 15-25%.
    • Movement Speed After Killing an Elite increased from 20-22.5% to 25-45%.
  • Worldly Endurance
    • Maximum Life increased from 84-141 to 349-450.
  • Natural Schemes
    • Thorns increased from 45-70 to 211-281.
  • Worldly Stability
    • Affixes Added:
      • Casting Ultimate Skills Restores Primary Resource.

Toughness

• When comparing items, the Armor or resistance difference between items will now display as percentage of Toughness difference instead of just displaying the flat Armor difference.
• Toughness is now displayed in the Character Stats window.
• The Toughness tooltip now breaks down Damage Resistance per damage type.
• Torment difficulties now display a recommended Toughness amount when selecting difficulty.

Miscellaneous

• Fortify and Barrier Generation are now a part of the general defensive pool of affixes that can appear on items.
• Monsters in the open world no longer scale 1:1 with your level, it is now offset so the player scales better than monsters.
• Monsters damage has been reduced at low levels.
• Monster power has been tuned down slightly in early Torment tiers.
• Base Health for boss monsters has been increased.
• The chance for items with multiple Greater Affixes to drop has been increased in Torment tiers.
• More items now drop from levels 1-15.
• When in a Capstone dungeon, the closest affiliated difficulty is now displayed.
• Cooldown Reduction can now naturally appear on rings, gloves, and shields.
• Various tuning to Capstone Dungeon encounters.
• Various monster and monster pack spawning adjustments.
• Various other minor updates and tweaks to Sanctification and Seasonal Activities.

Bug Fixes

Activities

• Fixed an issue where Duriel maggots spawned in Helltide spawned experience motes at inappropriate times.
• Fixed an issue where the Luminary in Unseen Awakening didn’t respawn after the player died.
• Fixed an issue where Sweltering Heat in the Torrid Menagerie could cause the player to damage themself.
• Fixed an issue where the Leave Dungeon action didn’t take the player out of the Dungeon when in the Torrid Menagerie.
• Fixed an issue where the Sins of the Many Capstone dungeon could not be exited without logging out.
• Fixed an issue where if you defeated Belial when he appeared after defeating Varshan, he wouldn’t drop items as expected.
• Fixed an issue where the unavoidable blood orb explosions in the second phase of the Echo of Lilith fight dealt more damage than intended.
• Fixed an issue where monsters could stop spawning unexpectedly in Kor Dragan Stronghold.
• Fixed an issue where the last enemy could fail to spawn to complete the Enroaching Thickets objective in the Raethwind Wilds.
• Fixed an issue where having the objective to defeat the Blood Maiden was impossible to complete due to Duriel replacing the Blood Maiden in Helltide.
• Fixed an issue where some bosses could fail to spawn if the player was in stealth when the boss was supposed to spawn.
• Fixed an issue where monsters with the Illusory affix could spawn monsters with the Life-Link affix that could then be killed instantly.
• Fixed an issue in multiple dungeons where only one instance of animus needed to be collected before the dungeon could be progressed.
• Fixed an issue where progression through Escalating Nightmare Dungeons could be blocked by teleport effects.
• Fixed an issue where some monsters could deal more damage than expected.
• Fixed an issue where some Nightmare Dungeon Affixes could remain active outside of the dungeon.

Skills and Equipment

General

• Fixed an issue where the cost for enchanting an item at the Occultist was not consistent for all two-handed weapons.
• Fixed an issue where the material cost for Masterworking was displayed inaccurately.
• Fixed an issue where the Damage Per Second value was inconsistently displayed between the Masterworking tab and the weapon itself.
• Fixed an issue where Items salvaged for far more materials than intended.
• Fixed an issue where Soulbrand Unique did not give the correct amount of Barrier.
• Fixed an issue where the Feo rune would reset its cooldown when swapping weapons.
• Fixed an issue where Attack Speed could appear as an affix on a Two-Handed weapon through enchantment.
• Fixed multiple instances of Paragon node bonus effects not being properly being granted.
• Fixed multiple instances where items had the incorrect values of elemental resistances.
• Fixed an issue where Heavenly Sigils could fail to be consumed when Sanctifying an item.

Barbarian

• Fixed an issue where Strategic Rallying Cry did not show the accurate amount of Life gained.
• Fixed an issue where Ugly Bastard Helm did not have the appropriate amount of Fire Resistance.
• Fixed an issue where the Brash Node no longer granted resistances as a bonus.
• Fixed an issue where the Yul rune was not triggered by Ground Stomp if Chainscourged Mail was equipped.
• Fixed an issue where Ramaladni’s Magnum Opus was active even when the active skill wasn’t using the weapon.
• Fixed an amount where the Fury cost for Kick was incorrect.

Druid

• Fixed an issue where Preserving Earthen Bulwark was granting the incorrect amount of Fortify.
• Fixed an issue where Ancestral Fortitude didn’t increase non-physical resistance.
• Fixed an issue where the Movement Speed buff from Khamsin Steppewalkers could be permanently granted when casting two defensive skills in a row.
• Fixed an issue where the description for the buff from Khamsin Steppewalkers displayed the wrong values.
• Fixed an issue where the description for Grizzly Rage didn’t properly display the damage increase for adding additional skill points.

Necromancer

• Fixed an issue where Golems were not properly smaller while in town while using Gravebloom.
• Fixed an issue where Rapid Ossification passive was not granting cooldown reduction for more than 100 Essence at a time.
• Fixed an issue where Sacrificing Defenders did not provide the bonus Elemental resistances as intended.
• Fixed an issue where Paranormal Sever would occasionally fail to apply Vulnerable and Fear.

Rogue

• Fixed an issue where the tempering affix for Dance of Knives to deal Double damage could stack to deal incredibly high values.

Sorcerer

• Fixed an issue where the Teleport Enchantment tooltip was showing the wrong cooldown.
• Fixed an issue where the Oculus could randomly teleport the player while they are healing.

Spiritborn

• Fixed an issue where the Antivenom Passive was not functioning.
• Fixed an issue where the Jaguar Main Hall would not benefit from Aspect of Unyielding Hits.
• Fixed an issue where Ravager would dash to targets uncontrollably when non-Casted core skills were invoked.
• Fixed an issue where the Eagle Primary Spirit Hall’s damage was being increased far more than intended by bonuses to Spirit Hall Potency, such as from Wushe Nak Pa.
• Fixed an issue where Mystic Circle would be empowered by skills that were not cast, such as from Path of the Emissary.
• Fixed an issue where The Protector did not smash immediately upon landing.

Miscellaneous

• Fixed an issue where Tempering an item would prevent selecting other items that could also apply that affix from being slotted into the tempering window.
• Fixed an issue where the World Map could not be viewed while inside a Capstone dungeon.
• Fixed an issue where the visual indicatorfor Fortify could be higher than the actual Fortify amount.
• Fixed an issue where the quest to Masterwork an item was not completed when Masterworking an item.
• Fixed an issue where abilities could be used and combat was allowed in the Heavenly Forge. (Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here this is the War Room!)
• Fixed an issue where Champions didn’t behave like Elites in various contexts, such as not dropping the expected kind of loot.
• Fixed an issue where Undercity tributes weren’t dropping as expected.
• Fixed an issue where sometimes the Undercity could not be accessed when it should be.
• Fixed an issue where some bosses granted more experience than intended.
• Fixed an issue where Torment could not be unlocked until reaching level 60.
• Various miscellaneous fixes to new features and systems introduced in this Season.
• Various stability, UI, and visual improvements.

If another patch is released by Blizzard, we’ll let our readers know.

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