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Latest news, patches and season updates for Diablo 3.

Season 38 'Ethereal Memory': The Ethereal Weapons Return
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Season 38 'Ethereal Memory': The Ethereal Weapons Return

Season 38 brings back the ethereal Diablo II weapons – rare, account-bound legendaries with a random power and passive baked in.

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2025 Recap: Seasons 35, 36 and 37 at a Glance
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2025 Recap: Seasons 35, 36 and 37 at a Glance

Killstreak rush, demonic Soul Shards and boundless cube freedom: the 2025 Diablo 3 year in detail.

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Seasons 31 & 32: Forbidden Archives and Ethereal Memory Return
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Seasons 31 & 32: Forbidden Archives and Ethereal Memory Return

Two of the most beloved season themes return in 2024 and show what Diablo's maintenance mode looks like

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Season 30 'The Lords of Hell': The Soul Shards Return
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Season 30 'The Lords of Hell': The Soul Shards Return

How Season 30 brought back the Soul Shards from Season 25 and kicked off the new theme rotation

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Season 29 'Visions of Enmity': Red Portals Into Hell's Chaos
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Season 29 'Visions of Enmity': Red Portals Into Hell's Chaos

How Diablo 3's simplest season theme became one of its most beloved – red portals, unstable hell visions, and two quiet structural revolutions.

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Season 28 'Rites of Sanctuary': The Altar of Rites Changes Everything
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Season 28 'Rites of Sanctuary': The Altar of Rites Changes Everything

How Patch 2.7.4's Altar of Rites permanently reshaped Diablo 3's seasonal progression

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Patch 2.7.3 & Season 27: Angelic Crucibles
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Patch 2.7.3 & Season 27: Angelic Crucibles

Season 27 "Light's Calling" lets the Angelic Crucible turn any Legendary into a flawless, build-defining Sanctified item.

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Patch 2.7.2 & Season 26: Echoing Nightmare
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Patch 2.7.2 & Season 26: Echoing Nightmare

How Season 26's Echoing Nightmare became Diablo 3's first permanent seasonal feature

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Patch 2.7.1 & Season 25: Soul Shards
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Patch 2.7.1 & Season 25: Soul Shards

Soul Shards, Hellforge Embers and the corruption gamble: how Patch 2.7.1 shaped arguably the most beloved late-era Diablo 3 season.

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Patch 2.7.0 & Season 24: Ethereal Memory & Follower Rework
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Patch 2.7.0 & Season 24: Ethereal Memory & Follower Rework

How patches 2.7.0 and 2.7.1, with ethereal weapons and the follower rework, turned Season 24 into a nostalgia and meta highlight.

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Patch 2.6.8 & Season 20: Season of the Forbidden Archives
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Patch 2.6.8 & Season 20: Season of the Forbidden Archives

How Season 20's three unrestricted Cube slots permanently changed Diablo 3 build crafting

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Season 16: The Season of Grandeur - Ring of Royal Grandeur for All
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Season 16: The Season of Grandeur - Ring of Royal Grandeur for All

How Season 16 and a free Ring of Royal Grandeur for everyone reshaped Diablo 3 build crafting forever

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Patch 2.6.4: Set Reworks & Season of the Forbidden Archives
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Patch 2.6.4: Set Reworks & Season of the Forbidden Archives

How Patch 2.6.4 revived Diablo 3's build diversity with massive set buffs and a free Grandeur ring

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Diablo III: Eternal Collection Arrives on Nintendo Switch
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Diablo III: Eternal Collection Arrives on Nintendo Switch

How Diablo 3 went portable on November 2, 2018 - with full Switch power, four-player co-op, and exclusive Zelda content.

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Patch 2.6.1: Challenge Rifts & New Areas
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Patch 2.6.1: Challenge Rifts & New Areas

How Patch 2.6.1 created a lasting weekly mode with Challenge Rifts and rebalanced the entire class meta.

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The Necromancer Returns: Rise of the Necromancer & Patch 2.6.0
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The Necromancer Returns: Rise of the Necromancer & Patch 2.6.0

How the Necromancer arrived as the seventh class and pulled Diablo 3 back to its Diablo 2 roots.

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The Darkening of Tristram: Diablo 1 Nostalgia Returns
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The Darkening of Tristram: Diablo 1 Nostalgia Returns

Blizzard's annual retro event takes you back into the 16 levels of the original 1996 Diablo.

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Season 8 & 9: Diablo 3's 2016/2017 Turn of the Year
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Season 8 & 9: Diablo 3's 2016/2017 Turn of the Year

How two tightly packed seasons and the Tristram anniversary perfected Diablo 3's seasonal loop

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