List of Diablo Immortal game updates

This is a list of game updates for Diablo Immortal. Note that Battle Pass seasons are also announced in the same posts on Blizzard's Diablo Immortal news page.

2022

July 7, 2022

Introduced Vitaath the Shivering Death to the game's Helliquary system, and the Hungering Moon event.

August 2, 2022

• Wrathborne Invasion (first introduced)

• Hungering Moon (August 12-15)

August 30, 2022

"We celebrate your return, adventurer! Since we last met, you’ve unshackled your mind from the Fractured Plane, challenged the status quo in Echo of the Immortal, and tested different class builds using new Legendary items. This Content Update introduces a new Battle Pass to level up, a ferocious Helliquary boss to best, and multiple limited-time events to score helpful rewards from."

- Season description^(src)

• New Helliquary Boss: Gishtur and Beledwe

• Hungering Moon event

• Scorched Sea event

• Mists of Cyrangar event

September 21, 2022

• Forgotten Nightmares major update

November 22, 2022

• Wave 2 of server merges
• Ancient Guardians cosmetic set and battle pass
• Hungering Moon event
• Voidwound Cage exploration task
• Exalted Night limited-time event
• Shields of the Hearth limited-time event

December 22, 2022

• Terror's Tide update

2023

May 26, 2023

• Mother's Lament legendary gem.
• Merciless Monstrosity time limited event, which featured a world boss from Diablo IV; Ashava the Pestilent.

August 21, 2023

• 42 new Legendary items
• Training Grounds

November 20, 2023

• Update Promotional Event for the Splintered Souls update

2024

January 29, 2024

• Howler Hunt limited time event
• Tong-Shi's Renewal limited time event

March 4, 2024

• Infernal Hunt limited-time event
• Feature Updates
  • Helliquary Death Screen Changes
  • Character Customization Reset Reduced to One Day
  • Battlefield Class Matching Balance Changes
  • Gem Splitting
  • Improved Search Functionality for Clans and Warbands
  • Familiar Inventory Changes

April 8, 2024

• Event Center Rewards
• Feature Updates
  • Battleground Compensation for AFK Players
  • Necromancer Legendary Affix Changes
  • Item Stack Inventory Changes

May 6, 2024

• Tower War season 2
• Swirling Winds limited-time event
• Feature Updates
  • Class and Battleground Balance
  • Gauntlet Boss Rotation
  • Shadow Assembly Mailbox Rewards
  • Retiring Achievements

May 21, 2024

• Tempest class
• New Magic Affixes on Eternal Gear for Tempest
• New player rewards
• Marketplace Improvements
• Class Change Optimizations and Armory Updates
• Stories in Sanctuary Now Available in All Regions

June 26, 2024

• Battle Pass Season 28
• Server Merge wave
• Collection Gallery
• Feature Updates
  • Rune drops increased in Abyssal Verge and Erebban (not verifiable)
  • In Abyssal Verge, the boss spawns earlier
  • In Erebban, the spawn point is closer to the entrance, escaping no longer requires a confirmation, and the damage of the Avatar of Terror was reduced
  • Shadow War Management Tool
  • Battleground rank protection such that it is no longer possible to lose a major rank (Silver/Gold/Legend)
  • Battleground opening hours extended to 8-10 p.m.
• Shadow of the Frozen Throne limited-time event

July 10, 2024

• Fisher's Frenzy and Bout of Realms limited-time events
• Tower War season 3
• Balance changes for Frozen Wellspring, Csur's Fortuitous Ward, Zephyrguard, Flowing Strike Magic Attribute, Angmar's Repulsive Burden/Vaetia's Resourceful Countenance
• Helliquary matchmaking extended to cross-server
• Essence Transfer extract page now has a feature to filter by skill
• Abyssal Verge mob chase distance increased and health decreased
• In Erebban, Legendary Item drops are no longer lost on defeat
• Familiar item pickup speed increased
• For side quests requiring items to be inserted from the inventory, the items are automatically filled in. This also applies to Contracts.
• Increased stack size of Purification Shards to 999 and Spirit Essence to 9999
• Shadow weekly goals changed to refresh to always have 3 goals available (except when close to the limit)
• The Shadow task to participate in the Battleground also accepts Tower War (unannounced update)
• Battleground leader board no longer shows win rates (unannounced update)

July 24, 2024

• Risk and Rally limited-time event
• Battle Pass Season 29
• Revenant Phantom Market
• Feature Updates
  • Cheat Death indicator on health bars in PvP (if the player has a Cheat Death skill, Savior Familiar skill, etc., their health bar will display with a silver frame around it)
  • New blacksmith location next to the Path of Blood entrance in the Court of Whispers
  • Erebban chests can now drop Monstrous Essence
  • In Battleground, resurrection time of the defending team is determined by the Zealous Idols' position
  • Paragon specializations can now be activated from the central node of the tree, restoring the last set of activated skills
  • Armory option to save the selected Reforge loadout
  • Dash skills no longer interrupt automatic navigation
  • Balance change for Dream and Drown
  • In Helliquary, upon defeating the boss, Heavy Austere Chests now automatically open

August 7, 2024

• Overflowing Arsenal limited-time event
• Sunfall Reliquary Grotto limited-time event
• Battleground respawn time for defenders increased as the idols get closer to their goal
• Returning Helliquary bosses at Normal difficulty: Vitaath the Shivering Death, Gorgothra the Claimer, Twin Terrors and Izilech the Misshapen
• Abyssal Verge and Erebban: increased drop rates for runes from defeated monsters, guaranteed Abyssal Essence for 1,000 points or escaping at danger level 5 respectively, weekly Normal Gems added as reward
• Terror Essence codex weekly task can hold up to 2 weeks' rewards and no longer resets weekly
• Name tags of dropped items updated to reflect rarity
• Demonic Remains and Charms lock feature
• Balance changes for Spartusk, Draff Cryptic and Eyes Ablaze

August 21, 2024

• Battle Pass Season 30
• Temptation's End Phantom Market
• Winds of Fortune Limited-time Event (first iteration, became a recurring event afterwards)
• Forsaken Justice Limited-time Event (promotional for Crucible of Justice)
• New Legendary Items
  • Barbarian: Flickertonne, Krubask's Sneer, Plummet Proudly, Umble Drape, Weight of War, Widespread Blame
  • Blood Knight: Fiendish Memento, Opportunity's Herald, Sin Carver, Unchained Fury, Vision of Conquest, Abominable Cocoon
  • Crusader: Absolute Authority, Briar Casque, Facade of Horns, Sanctified Scribe, Shocktrooper, The Yawning Rose
  • Demon Hunter: Dial of Ruin, Flayer's Banquet, Hunter's Scent, Lion Jaw, Pitch Drinker, Quarry Chaser
  • Monk: Boundless Breath, Driven Thunder, Inner Flame, Leaping Shadow, Terminal Pace, Windchild
  • Necromancer: Black Wall, Dead Druthers, Depletion and Renewal, Decrepit Visage, Rotted Harvest, Whisperwill
  • Tempest: Consecrated Voyage, Fluid Vestments, Immediate and Immaculate, Pointed Song, Skein-Parter, Spinetooth Greaves
  • Wizard: Radiant Splines, Trifling Piffle, Isolated Storm, Raptor's Tail, Autumnal Crest, Filtered Defense
• Balance changes for Broken Ire, Ardent Fervor, Bergbreaker, Bramble Nest, Umbral Bud, Carmine Advance, Cracked Spirit, Remonstrant Mace, Iron Faith, Upturned Gaze, Ornate Verdict, Conjuration of Light, Holy Banner, Electrum Luna, Convergent Moon, Abeyant Pyre, Obstruction of Omniscience, Balance in Moderation, Shield of Zen, Calefaction, Gravehawk, Departed Appetite, Unfilled Grave, Defiling Swarm, Unmoored Eyes, Flitter Away, A Thousand Dooms, Pure of Will, War Mage Mantle, Mistral Rend, Terminus Facade, Heartless Terror, Macabre Facade, Eyes Ablaze
• Advancing to Paragon Level 100 no longer requires killing Phangwrth, Warmth-Feaster
• Reduced Combat Rating requirement for Inferno I and Helliquary bosses at Hell III and Inferno I
• Battleground matchmaking updated to take more aspects of character power into account in addition to Resonance
• Battleground notification about matchmaking on reaching Legend rank
• Hellslayer Bounties and Oblivion Pillar difficulty reduction
• Tutorial tooltip on Abyssal Essence
• Trial of the Hordes matchmaking change to avoid matching with the same player repeatedly, added feature to view personal statistics
• "Appear Offline" setting may be set to affect Clan and Warband (set at Options -> Chat -> Appear Offline)
• Market pricing changes for Normal Gems and Legendary Gems
• Shady Stock now requires completing Random Dungeon instead of a Bonus Drop Dungeon (unannounced update)

September 11, 2024

• Accursed Towers alliance feature
• Crucible of Justice main quest
• Vanguard
• New Legendary Gems: Wulfheort, Cold Confidant, Entropic Well
• Limited-time events: Festival of the Ancient Moon, Toil of Virtue
• Hero's Journey Chapters 5 and 6
• Adventurer's Chronicle new pages and a hint system that helps find missing pages
• Abyssal Verge drops daily gems in a full party, and the boss location is marked on the map immediately on entering
• Erebban difficulty decreased depending on number of party members
• Familiar system improvements: empowering multiple familiars simultaneously, ending pacts filtered on skill quality, receiving a Conversion Stone Shard for familiars with 6 Magic skills, using Conversion Stones instead of Melding to increase number of Rare skills, Familiar now appears on the character screen
• Challenge Rift: Recommended Combat Rating shown in the entry window, Blacksmith added at the end of the rift, maximum number of level skips increased to 10, buttons to quickly jump to the start and the end of the level list
• Iben Fahd's Sanctum reset and 10-level upgrade feature
• Magic Affix updates (see page for details)
• Fabled Wisp stack sizes updated to 9,999
• Random Dungeon vote to kick feature
• Battle Points cap system changed to increase by 2400 every Monday of the season instead of the points resetting to zero
• Elder Rift Fading Ember rewards increased to 10, and overflow in the party bonus Fading Embers goes towards the regular Fading Ember cap
• Hilts trader changes to certain items to be sold weekly instead of daily
• Elite Quests unlock at level 20 and show requirements to unlock
• Bounties party finding prompt removed and replaced by a button to manually search for a party
• Return to Sanctuary offers a free boost to level 60
• Currency description pop-ups at merchants
• Rite of Exile and Battleground damage reduction changed from 30% to 40%

September 25, 2024

• Battle Pass Season 31
• Balance changes for Spartusk, Conjuration of Light, Painsower, Flying Kick, Defiling Swarm, Skein-Parter, Teleport, Riftdancer's Stride, Fractured Footsteps, Time-Warped Cloth
• Tower War rules changed, and quality-of-life features introduced similarly to Battleground
• Challenge of the Immortal balancing, reducing the number of kills required for the Immortal to win
• Shadows daily goals unlocked all at the same time instead of being limited to 3
• Warband member limit increased from 8 to 12
• Clan rename feature
• Dungeon damage statistics feature
• Ability to empower multiple familiars to a chosen level
• Familiars can be saved to the Armory

October 16, 2024

• Battle Pass Season 32
• October 16, 3 a.m.−November 6, 3 a.m.: Drop rate modifier to Elder Rifts to ban 8 5-star Legendary Gems, plus one opportunity for Mirrored Jewels
• Balance changes to Skein-Parter, Spartusk, Crystalline Shadow, and the Prayer for Endwinter Set
• Set item rewards from Vanguard
• Market prices for items can be updated without unlisting the item
• Rite of Exile and Battleground damage reduction changed from 40% to 50%
• Helliquary glory chests open automatically
• Mystery Legendary Items and Set Items are now stackable

October 30, 2024

• New Legendary Item Essences
  • Barbarian: Broken Calling, Direct Diplomacy, Pit of Ursus, Skull Mill, Strangle Wings, Sullen Vow
  • Blood Knight: Acute Veneer, Dangling Tear, Desperate Breath, Excessive Exuberance, Luminous Nail, Shadow Nocturne
  • Crusader: Clipped Wings, Close Shave, Gallow's Grin, Perfect Posture, Shatterbang, The Bind
  • Demon Hunter: Chorus of Bolts, Clatter Shods, Discordant Allure, Hidden Serenade, Point of Pain, Silenced Strings
  • Monk: Creaking Crystal, Flyscraper, Matter of Mind, Raw Pressure, Serpent Eyes, Stalking Cold
  • Necromancer: Cleansing Pyre, Flesh Pick, Tempered Urn, The Unattended, Untapped Marrow, Veiled Parasite
  • Tempest: Carrying Current, Paired Doublet, Roaring Paulds, Sparkscull, Storm’s Crest, Vaporizer
  • Wizard: Flame Feast, Mask of Many, Jolt of Stars, Wake of Jazreth, Windwrought Amber, Tendrils of Time
• Balance changes to Wraith Form and Flowing Strike
• Terror Rift updates: open for 24 hours, number of fragments to open Stygian Spires adjusted to 100-150-250-300, Spire locations always shown on map, opening the Spire instantly spawns the boss
• Familiar updates: melding screen got a highlight for the familiar species to be kept, new button to remove a familiar without replacing it, Traits button now shows how many traits are active
• Event Center claimable rewards automatically scroll into view
• Battleground score loss reduced at Gold and Legend ranks
• Training Grounds now has a boss dummy
• Inferno II Combat Rating requirements reduced

November 13, 2024

• Eternal War major update, including the Fallen Citadel and Cutthroat Basin limited-time events
• Battle Pass Season 33
• New Legendary Gem: Mourneskull
• Murloc Familiar
• Betrayer's Bonds Phantom Market
• Blessed Reign requirements changed to winning the Rite of Exile on week 7
• Rite of Exile required win counts for the Shadows changed to 4 wins on weeks 5-7
• In Battleground and Tower War, a cooldown was added to the Request Raid Leadership button
• Familiar Conversion UI enhanced to show the possible traits and skills of the resulting familiar in more places
• Leaderboards screen updated to show the "Master" (Hell II or higher) leaderboards first before the lower-level ones
• Wing cosmetics received an appearance toggle

November 26, 2024

(released 1 day early compared to the announced date of November 27, 2024)

• Eve of Unmaking limited-time event
• Tower War season 5 (unannounced)
• Balance changes for Flickertonne, Transfusion, Vein Seeker, Anointed Brimstone, Vainglory's Star, Escalating Violence, Puncta Obscura, Studied Menace, Revenant Wind, Scurrying Ruin
• Taite now prioritizes Side Quests that haven't been completed before
• New settings to reduce/block skill effects in various game modes
• Clan Roster feature for clan leaders/officers for viewing personnel changes
• Elder Rift replay feature (unannounced, limited time during the Phantom Gallery event)