The 3.1 PTR: What You Need to Know — Diablo IV — Blizzard News
The 3.1.0 Public Test Realm (PTR) for Diablo IV will be available from June 2, 10:00 a.m. PDT to June 9, 10 a.m. PDT, offering you the chance to test upcoming changes and features coming in the next season for the base game, shaking up how you play cross both Eternal and Seasonal Realms.
The purpose of the PTR is to test updates and features before the launch of the next season, where we’ll be focusing on Solo Self Found, new seasonal features, Mythic Uniques 3.0, and rewards coming to the Tower & Leaderboards as we come out of Beta.
Using your feedback, we’ll make adjustments before the next season goes live. This helps us to fine-tune balance changes, eliminate bugs, and create the best experience possible while testing new systems. Thank you for playing through the PTR and sharing your thoughts with the team.
During Season 14, the division between Sanctuary and Pandemonium is ripped asunder by arcane rifts called Pandemonium Ruptures. These rifts call a new family of monsters to slay, the chance to summon a familiar boss, and new opportunities for loot by conquering the Deathtoll Chamber.
You will encounter three types of Pandemonium Ruptures. Kill the guardians around Death's Head Idols, creating an open Rupture and casting a ritual ring. The longer you keep the Rupture open, the more rewards you’ll earn. Killing monsters and closing Tears will help keep it open. Rupture Goblins can also appear anywhere, opening additional Ruptures.
Realmwalkers have reappeared across Sanctuary, summoned to challenge those brave (or foolhardy) enough to tackle the most difficult Pandemonium Ruptures. Completing different types of Pandemonium Ruptures can give the following chances to summon a Realmwalker:
Conquering the Realmwalker opens a Portal to the Deathtoll Chamber.
The Deathtoll Chamber is a one-room mini-dungeon accessible either by defeating the Realmwalker or inside a Nightmare Dungeon with the Rupture affix after closing enough Tears within Ruptures. Once inside, complete a special Rupture activity for even more rewards.
The Deathtoll Chamber will be the best source for Betrayer's Husks, which are required to open the Seasonal Lair Boss’s Hoard in Torment I+.
Gravehounds, members of the new Risen monster family, now appear out of Ruptures and inside the Deathtoll Chamber. When killed, Gravehounds drop orbs that empower the Exarch, a special Risen that absorbs any Orbs that float toward it. Intercept them before they arrive to claim the power yourself.
A new boss enters the fray to terrorize the denizens of Sanctuary. Strike them down with fury.
Find a Corrupted Reaper Lair Boss in Pandemonium Threshold's entrance in Zarbinzet. During the PTR, you will be able to face this boss once you have reached Torment I+. After Season 14 launches, the seasonal Lair Boss will become available through the Season Campaign.
This boss requires Betrayer's Husks to open the rewards cache. It will also give the best direct drop chances for both Mythic Uniques and Mythic Unique Upgrade currency than any other activity.
Mythic, instead of being an item Rarity, is now a modifiable Item Quality. You’ll have the ability to make any Unique item into a game-altering Mythic through Item Quality modifiers.
Mythic Uniques will also have their Unique Powers increased by 30%.
This season, any Unique can now drop as a Mythic Unique or be upgraded into a Mythic Unique using the Horadric Cube. You’ll be able to craft or earn Mythic Uniques in a few different ways:
Note: You can only equip one crafted Mythic. If you find multiple Mythics the typical way through rare drops in-game, you’ll be able to still equip multiple with your one crafted Mythic unique.
With Tower & Leaderboards coming out of Beta in Season 14, we’re adding new cosmetics for Leaderboard completion.
You'll keep Seasonal Leaderboard Titles and Halos throughout the Season, until they reset on the next Season.
We are making changes to War Plans so that you can seamlessly play with your most steadfast allies when playing in a Party.
As of 3.1 PTR, you’ll be able to sync your War Plans board with your party. This feature generates a board that generates a new War Plan for your whole party.
Note: Plans are synced regardless of War Plan Level or other States (Torment Level, Campaign Completion etc.)
The Horadric Cube will have the following updates in the Season 14 PTR:
Solo Self Found (SSF) is a character state that allows you to take the role of the solo wanderer carving their fortune alone across Sanctuary, giving more options to challenge yourself the way you want. When you choose SSF as a character state, you accept on the following challenges:
The fearless souls adopting this mode will enjoy exclusive SSF-only Tower Leaderboards to show off their true solo prowess.
Additionally, with the addition of Solo Self Found, the following Filters have been added to Leaderboards:
We will have servers for PTR in the following regions: North America, Europe, Korea and Japan, South America, and Australia. Use the PTR Boost NPC in major cities to aid you in the Public Test Realm.
Similar to our previous Public Test Realms, the trusty PTR Vendor Mrak will be available through the duration of the PTR. You can find our hot-footed friend next to the main Waypoint in major cities. Mrak has received some substantial upgrades, including new boosts to Lord of Hatred systems.
The following items are available through the PTR Boosts. Anything highlighted in blue has been updated since the last PTR:
Note: To receive Helms and Amulets from the PTR Boost, you must be at least Level 7 and Level 15 respectively. Please level past this point to receive these specific items.*
If you’re a PC Game Pass or Game Pass Ultimate user, you’ll be able to access the PTR through the same flow as other Battle.net users. Access the Battle.net client through the Xbox App, then continue to access the PTR through Battle.net.
Developer’s Note: Judicator builds without stacking Judgement procs were less successful than intended. This change can help open up more possibilities for Judicator skills to shine without rapid firing Judgement.
Developer’s Note: This is not a functional change, but rather an update to the tooltip to reflect the updated baseline functionality of Petrify, as Petrify no longer restores Resource and instead increases your Critical Strike Damage.
Developer’s Note: Manually Casting Iron Maiden or Decrepify will still reapply the Curse and is unaffected by this change. The Blood Moon Breeches Unique will also still reapply the Curse when it procs and is unaffected by this change. This is consistent with the behavior of the Omen of Pain Unique: the Curse must fall off before this set bonus will reapply the Curse. Note that this is typically only relevant for things like the Will of Rathma Unique that deals damage when a Curse is applied to an enemy.
Developer’s Note: This item is intended to do a portion of Blight's total defiled area damage. The Piercing Darkness Variant allows Blight to create two defiled areas, so Ebonpiercer's damage should be increased accordingly.
Beware the loss of a great power in the world. What comes to fill the void may be worse. —The Diablo IV Team
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