The fated climactic fight against Mephisto draws near, wanderer. On April 27 at 4:00 p.m. PDT, continue the main campaign of Diablo IV and make your final stand against Mephisto, the Lord of Hatred. This blog holds the key information for the Lord of Hatred expansion. Should you choose to fight the Lord of Hatred, you will need all your strength for this battle.
Codex
Watch the Opening Lord of Hatred Cinematic
Global Launch and Pre-Download Schedule
Lord of Hatred Expansion Overview
Features for All Players: Loot Filter, Skill Updates, and more
Harness the Loot Filter
Battle Hatred on Seasonal or Eternal Realm
Season of Reckoning Overview
Hatred’s Downfall Community Challenge
KoЯn x Diablo IV: Reward The Scars
Jackson X Diablo IV Limited Edition Kelly Guitar
Lord of Hatred Launch Twitch Drops
Overwatch x Hatred’s Reckoning Crossover
Prepare for the Reckoning: Pre-Purchase
Community Guides for Season of Reckoning
Patch 3.0.1 Notes
Watch the Opening Lord of Hatred Cinematic
Earlier today, we released the explosive opening cinematic to Lord of Hatred. This sets the tone for the darkest chapter of Diablo IV yet.
Watch the cinematic below, but be warned – this begins the unyielding plot of the expansion, and there’s no going back. There are spoilers, you have been warned.
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Global Launch and Pre-Download Schedule
Mephisto’s legions lay in wait for your journey to Skovos, wanderer. Lord of Hatred begins rollout on April 27 at 4:00 p.m. PDT. For a helpful guide to when it goes live across the world, see our global release map to see when Lord of Hatred begins rolling out for you:
Pre-Download Lord of Hatred before Launch
In anticipation of Lord of Hatred and patch 3.0.0, on April 23 at 4:00 p.m. PDT pre-download will be available for Battle.net, Xbox®, and PlayStation®.
Note that you’ll be able to pre-download the 3.0.0 patch regardless of whether you purchased the expansion.
| Platform |
Pre-Download Available |
| Battle.net, Xbox®, PlayStation® |
April 23, at 4:00 p.m. PDT |
Pre-download will begin to rollout at 4:00 p.m. PDT.
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Lord of Hatred Expansion Overview
Make your final stand against the Prime Evil Mephisto in a new, sprawling campaign set in the ancient region of Skovos.
Experience the next Dark Chapter of the Diablo IV Campaign
Whispers spread across Skovos of a prophet who has landed in Temis, the gleaming capital.
Demonic forces spill across the shores while Mephisto’s faithful followers overtake Sanctuary, twisting devotion into devastation. You see the threat clearly now, and the stakes have never been higher. With old friends and unlikely allies, you must try to stop him—before Sanctuary drowns in hatred.
New Classes
Two classes burn into Sanctuary, opposite counterparts of light and dark – yet stand with a shared purpose in the fight against this Prime Evil.
At the height of their dark mastery, the Warlock stands poised to wield the minions of hell against their overlords. Wreathed in chains and flames, this dark prince is not in a phase—they are the physical embodiment of devilish vengeance.
Paladins are trained in the ways of sword and shield to protect the downtrodden. Their faction’s doctrine—the Light—is something any person with righteous intent can access and wield. Harness their divine might to strike down the forces of Hatred. Pre-purchase the expansion and unlock the Paladin today.
New Region
Skovos is a land teeming with dangers unseen in Sanctuary. A region that’s been long discussed through lore, you can finally journey to this never-before-seen ancient land. The capital city of Temis is designed as the ideal Endgame hub for Diablo IV. Once you complete the Lord of Hatred campaign, it becomes a streamlined space to house everything you’ll want to discover.
Endgame
War Plans
War Plans is a complete overhaul to the endgame experience, giving you structure, depth, challenge and greater rewards. Delve into the endgame with War Plans, a new way to play which lets you chain activities together, customizing them as your fight takes you further into the fray. After completing the Lord of Hatred Campaign, travel to Temis to find the command table and create a War Plan to purge the remnants of Hatred from Sanctuary.
Select from your favorite endgame activities to create a playlist:
- Nightmare Dungeons
- Helltides
- The Undercity
- Lair Bosses
- Infernal Hordes
- The Pit
Forge a chain of activities that you want to play, with the rewards you want to hunt for. Once you finish the first activity, you can seamlessly teleport to the next activity in the chain. If you don’t have a Sigil for that activity, War Plans will generate one on the fly.
Executing your War Plans levels up the Command Table, unlocking deeper progression and more choices. War Plans introduces Activity trees for each endgame activity; as you complete activities when playing, you’ll unlock Activity Points that let you further customize your endgame experience.
Whispers have some special treatment in War Plans. Instead of appearing as individual node activities to choose, Whispers can double up with any activity selected! They still earn activity progression just like any of other modes, and can earn Activity Points for customization.
Complete all chosen Activities in your War Plan to claim rewards from the War Chest in Temis.
Beyond the Veil: Echoing Hatred and Fishing
The endgame presents a pastime to sate your need for solace, or the ultimate challenge to crank the heat to the limit.
Find your favorite beach or lake to Fish to your heart’s content. Rest and take a moment to land a creature worthy of your skills. Trade fish with other players to complete your collection, and get creative by scouring Skovos for your special fishing spot.
With Echoing Hatred, a rare challenge presents itself to those ready for the full, unyielding force of the Burning Hells. Upon finding a rare Trace of Echoes item, you can offer it to the Sightless Eye in Temis to enter a realm where the minions overflow, battling you until you are eventually overwhelmed. This great test of ability should be considered only by those who deem themselves worthy to fight against the echoes of Hatred...
Itemization Updates
With hatred seeping across Skovos, the need to wield weapons capable of beating back these forces have become even more attainable with the sweeping itemization changes.
Talisman
The Talisman is a new item system that uses Seals and Charms to add new Affixes and powers, introducing the concept of set bonuses to Diablo IV. Within this new system, you have a whole other tool to refine and supercharge your build even further than before.
To use the Talisman, first apply a Seal to unlock up to 6 Charm slots. The more powerful the Seal, the greater the number of affixes and the more Charm slots become available to use. Simply drop Charms into open slots and change them around whenever you wish. Inserting multiple non-Unique Charms with the same affixes will stack their bonuses.
Set Charms take it even further with set bonus affixes for collecting partial or complete sets. Instead of your gear defining your set, your Charms work hand and hand with your gear to unlock the full potential of your build. Sets are either class-specific or useful for all classes.
Horadric Cube
Discover the fabled Horadric Cube during the Lord of Hatred campaign. Once unlocked, this powerful crafting station is available in Temis, and can be used to transmute, customize, and even create gear, consumables, Talisman objects, and socketable items. Most Horadric Cube recipes rely on new crafting materials farmed from several sources, such as Elite Monsters, Cube Spoils from completing War Plans, Undercity Tributes, and Whisper Caches.
The Horadric Cube can perform wonders such as add, remove, and reroll affixes, reroll items of the same quality, upgrade all types of items, craft Unique Charms, and transmute items for upgrades and other interesting outcomes.
Some examples of what the Horadric Cube can do: create upgraded gems beyond the capabilities of the Jeweler, reroll Set Charms, and even add powerful affixes along the lines of Season of Divine Intervention’s Sanctification system with even more options and a chance for less risk. The Horadric Cube also gives much better control over Rune transformations, allowing you to create specific Legendary Runes for Runewords and Mythic Unique crafting.
Explore the entire range of what the Horadric Cube has to offer, but it still has more to reveal. There are also Secret Recipes to discover—who will be the first to find them? You never know; some unknown ingredients may be found in the most humble of places.
Gem Changes
Weapon gem effects are significantly stronger, and we’re including two new tiers of gems; Horadric, and Flawless Horadric. These are created using the Amalgamation Recipe in the Horadric Cube.
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Features for All Players
The 3.0.0 update brings many long-awaited features to make slaying through Sanctuary better than ever before. Navigate with the Map Overlay and Pathfinding, and hone in on your most desired items with the Loot Filter.
Major Skill Tree Updates
Alongside the release of the new expansion, all class skill trees have been redesigned for all players to introduce more customization than ever before. With over 40 reworked choices, 80 additional options, and up to 83 available Skill Points, Active skills have been expanded and improved, yet remain familiar enough to recreate favorite builds. Passive nodes are no longer part of the skill tree, so you can concentrate points into Active skills. But fear not: many Passive and Key Passive nodes are moving to reimagined Legendary Aspects and Uniques instead.
Inversely, some key Aspects have been moved to the Skill Tree granting you more control over choices that define your build.
- Each Active skill has three skill branches that open progressively as you level
- Players can choose one modifier from each branch
- The first two skill branches apply general modifiers
- The third branch has Bonus Skill Variants* which offer a choice of three build-defining properties—many new, with several others based on former Legendary Aspects
*Must have the Lord of Hatred expansion to open all three Bonus Skill Variants; otherwise, 2 out of 3 Bonus Skill Variants are accessible.
You have more control over the way you want to play, since modifiers open once you reach the correct level. Many Skill Variants can be improved with Skill Ranks, so the more points you put in the base skill, the more powerful those Skill Variants become.
For most classes, many Bonus Skill Variants also allow you to change the category of the skill, such as Fire to Frost or Bone to Blood. This allows for fresh interactions for everything that focuses on skill tags, including affixes, class mechanics, gear, Paragon, and Talisman seals and charms.
Two classes, Druid and Necromancer, have more fundamental changes that are worth detailing.
Druid Skill Tree Changes
Many Druid skills have shifting choice nodes between the second branch and Bonus Skill Variant branches that allow them to define which Shapeshift form to use for that skill: Werewolf, Werebear, or Human. Shifting choice nodes do not require spending Skill Points.
This change gives Druids more freedom to lean into a specific form or concentrate on rapid shifting, both of which synergize with multiple systems including affixes, gear, Paragon, and charms. It also means Druids who wish to maintain a specific form can do so without requiring special gear.
These are some general shifting choice node rules:
- Companion skills and three other skills (Earthen Bulwark, Cyclone Armor, and Hurricane) are now form-agnostic and do not change your current form
- Storm skills can be either Human or Werewolf, except Cyclone Armor and Hurricane
- Earth skills can be either Human or Werebear, except Earthen Bulwark
- You cannot shift into Human from any native Werewolf/Werebear skill
- Nature skills that adopt a shapeshift form do not add the Shapeshifting skill tag
When a skill gives a choice to change forms, selecting the skill's native form always gives a bonus. For example, Trample is a Werebear skill, so choosing to keep it as Werebear adds damage to Trample. Changing Trample to a Werewolf skill turns the Trample skill from Werebear to Werewolf and changes the animation into a Leap.
Necromancer Skill Tree Changes
Raise Skeletons has been split into two skills: Skeletal Mages, which are summoned with Essence, and Skeletal Warriors, which are summoned passively from Corpses and can be commanded to attack targets. Skeletal Mages, Skeletal Warriors, and Golems are now part of the Necromancer skill tree, offering far more customization options to fit your build and playstyle. But this leads to the obvious question: what happens with the Book of the Dead class mechanic?
The Book of the Dead remains largely unchanged, except for Sacrifice. While you summon Minions with the skill, you still use the Book of the Dead to define your minion type and choose Upgrades if you're keeping the minions active. However, Sacrifice has changed—and it can even be used with active minions.
Sacrifice still gives bonuses, such as extra Critical Strike, Resistance, or Essence Regeneration. The difference is that Sacrifice doesn't eliminate the ability to summon minions, as long as you have skill points invested and have them on your skill bar. When Sacrificed, Skeletal skills create fewer minions, and Golems do less damage. If using your minions primarily for buffing, support skills, or tanking, this may be a great choice depending on the tradeoff. It's up to you to explore the possibilities.
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Harness the Loot Filter
The long-awaited Loot Filter is finally here! Use this handy tool to hide, show, or color-code gear items that drop or exist in your inventory, stash, or on vendors. This gives you a heads-up to the items you're most looking for and lets you ignore those items you don't care to pick up. Loot filters do not affect non-gear items such as Temper manuals, reagents, gems, or currency.
Accessing Loot Filters
To access the Loot Filter, go under Options > Gameplay:
- Open the Loot Filter by clicking the button.
- Check Enable Loot Filter Shortcut on Game Menu to add a Loot Filter button to your Game Menu (ESC). This applies to all characters on your account for easy access.
Creating a New Filter
Open the Loot Filter to create filters and set rules and conditions.
- Click New Filter and name the filter something to identify it easily.
- Click Add Rule to tell the filter what to do. You can add anywhere from 1 to 25 rules to a single filter. Use the quill icon to rename the rule for clarity.
- Click Add Condition to tell the rule what to look for and what to do.
You can have multiple filters, but you can only run one filter at a time. If you have a filter with many rules but want to turn some of them off temporarily, you can disable individual rules by removing the checkmark. This allows you to tailor filters to specific farming goals.
Setting Up Rules
Rules let you change the appearance of a dropped gear item based on the conditions you set up:
- Hide Text Label/Hide All: When dropped, Hidden items will show no text and cannot be picked up unless the condition is turned off or Loot Filter is toggled off. Hidden item types still appear in your inventory/stash or on vendors.
- Recolor: Change a defined item’s text to make it stand out when it is dropped, in your inventory/stash or equipped, or available on a vendor.
- Show: Used to override other Hide conditions within the same filter. Show is the default state, so it doesn't need to be defined except to overrule a Hide condition.
There are 10 different conditions you can choose. When you add a condition, you'll also need to select the item's visibility. You can hide, show, or recolor items based on the following:
- Item Power Range: Minimum/Maximum power range; good for eliminating items below a certain item level
- Item Rarity Match: Rarity (Common, Magic, Rare, etc.)
- Item Properties: None or Ancestral. This will mostly be used to filter out non-Ancestral items
- Codex Upgrade Check: Whether the Legendary Aspect is a Codex upgrade
- Greater Affix Check: Items with 1-4 Greater Affixes
- Item Type Match: Specific gear items such as Sword, Staff, Chest, Gloves, etc.
- Has Required Affixes: Affixes you want to be sure are on the item
- Has Optional Affixes: "Nice to have" affixes
- Is Specific Unique: Specific Uniques or Mythic Uniques. This is great when target-farming bosses who can drop more than one Unique of the same type, such as Rings or Gloves
- Talisman Set Bonus: Specific set charms
When defining rules that search for class-specific items such as Uniques and Talisman Set Bonuses, you will only see those options that apply to the class you're on. Alts from different classes can modify an existing rule for these items and simply add what they're searching for with little to no impact on other characters.
Rules apply from the top down, so higher will override any rules appearing below it. Below is a simple example of a filter that will hide all Magic-quality gear items except for those with a Willpower Affix:
- Has Required Affixes > Show > +[X-X] Willpower (show all gear that has a Willpower affix)
- Item Rarity Match > Hide All > Magic (hide all Magic-quality items, except items that fulfill a Show rule before it)
Toggling Loot Filters
If you want to look at a pile of hidden booty but don't want to disable your filters, you can define a hotkey to toggle the Loot Filters on or off by going to Options > Controls > Toggle Loot Filter. Toggling off your Loot Filters will allow you to see and pick up any items that would be hidden by existing filters. It's also great for testing filters to make sure they are working as intended.
Exporting and Importing Loot Filters
And here's more good news: you can export filters to share with your friends, and import filters created by others.
Export:
- Select the filter you wish to export in the drop-down menu.
- Click the three-dot button to the right of the filter name and click Export. This copies the filter string to the Clipboard. Paste it into a text editor to save it.
Import:
- Click New Filter.
- Select Import Loot Filter and paste the filter's Import Code into the box.
Level Cap Increases and New Difficulty Levels
Power in Sanctuary reaches new heights. The Level Cap increases to 70 for all Diablo IV players beginning with Season of Reckoning, which gives you more room to grow and push builds further than ever before. Torment levels expand from 4 to 12, intensifying not only the danger and challenge, but also awarding bigger gold and experience bonuses and improved drop rates on coveted gear and materials.
Item Rarity Updates
With the Horadric Cube, Items that are Common, Magic, and Rare can be used as crafting bases. You can add affixes to them and upgrade their rarity as you progress through the endgame.
Common, Magic, and Rare items continue to drop in Torment difficulties. They’ll have a chance to be Ancestral, and can even contain Greater Affixes considering they can be used as Crafting bases for more powerful items.
The new Loot Filter gives you precise control over what items you see as you climb into higher Torment Tiers.
Damage Multipliers on Gear
Damage Multipliers have been reworked to stack additively with themselves, but still count as multiplicative damage, improving the item journey and depth when it comes to finding the perfect item.
This aids a variety of builds, including damage over time builds which now have a clear and clean way to scale damage.
Uniques, Tempered Affixes, and More
Uniques will have fewer affixes which are inherently fixed, meaning you’ll have a greater variance and more room to chase truly optimized combinations for your build crafting. Many Uniques have been added, redesigned and updated. Any existing Uniques that have been removed from the game will be replaced with a different, functional Unique.
For many of these existing Uniques, we’ve tightened the scale of their Unique power so their Aspects are more consistently powerful. Additionally, Lord of Hatred brings a bounty of brand-new items!
Unique and Mythic items can now be tempered. Tempered affixes have also gone through an overhaul, visit your closest trusted blacksmith to test these changes out for yourself.
Additionally, over 200 Legendary Aspects have been overhauled to be more impactful with 3.0.0 mind.
Inventory Changes
Based off community feedback, items in the inventory can now also be stacked to a max of 1,000 to help with management.
Map Overlay and Pathfinder
Your journey through Sanctuary will be even smoother with the new Map Overlay and Pathfinder features. You can choose between using the Minimap or replacing it with Map Overlay to help you navigate without having to take your eyes off the world. Set up the level of zoom and opacity in Options > Gameplay, as well as customize your map overlay color. For quick access, go to Options > Controls to set up keyboard shortcuts to toggle between Map Overlay and Minimap and adjust your zoom and opacity on the fly.
With Map Overlay and Pathfinder to help you find your way, you'll spend less time managing systems and more time doing what you do best: slaying those who would destroy Sanctuary.
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Battle Hatred on Seasonal or Eternal Realm
When creating a character for Diablo IV, choose where your battle begins: the Seasonal Realm or the Eternal Realm. Both offer the same core experience, including campaigns, class offerings, and endgame challenges, but diverge in meaningful ways that may shape how you play.
With Lord of Hatred, you can begin fresh with a new Seasonal character or return to your existing Eternal Realm character to continue your journey. Completing the campaign on one character will unlock the "Skip Campaign" option for the rest, regardless of realm.
Seasonal Realms are best when you want:
- a fresh start, offering the "zero to hero" experience
- structured progression with earnable seasonal rewards, including the Season Rank, Season Blessings, and the competitive Tower and Leaderboards Beta.
Eternal Realms are best when you want:
- long-term progression with existing characters
- a persistent environment without having to reroll characters at every season change
For more information about the differences among realm types, please visit this page.
Play the Lord of Hatred Campaign
The Lord of Hatred campaign requires you to have purchased the Lord of Hatred Expansion.
To dive in, create a new character on either the Eternal or Seasonal Realm or play as an existing character from the Eternal Realm.
You’ll have several options as the starting point for where you can continue the main campaign on a new character:
Expansion 1 Start: Vessel of Hatred
Begin with the Vessel of Hatred campaign.
Expansion 2 Start: Lord of Hatred (Recommended)
Sail to the Skovos Isles and prepare for your inevitable confrontation with the Lord of Hatred
Story Complete: Endgame
Available after completing Lord of Hatred campaign
Once you’ve completed the Lord of Hatred campaign, you can start a new character with the story completed. You’ll be able to access endgame content and choose how to level your character, while some challenges will be locked behind Torment difficulties.
Note that any other previously created characters can now also skip the campaign in the Character Select screen; it does not need to be a newly created character.
With all the itemization changes, Eternal characters will see changes in their pre-expansion stashed or equipped gear. All items should remain functional but may be replaced with new versions that may not work with your intended build. Since Bonus Skill Variants now replace many of the old Legendary affixes and Unique powers, those powers may have changed to something different on your pre-expansion gear. Any base or tempered affixes that supported functions that no longer work, such as Passive skill ranks or double-cast Weapon tempers, have been changed to +100 to All Stats and marked Legacy. Legacy items cannot be crafted or used in the Horadric Cube.
For an easy reference of what’s included in 3.0.0 across the full game, expansion, and seasonal realm, here’s a quick guide.
Lord of Hatred Expansion
Requires Lord of Hatred Purchase |
Permanent Updates
Available across full game regardless of realm or expansion ownership |
Season of Reckoning Content
Seasonal Realm only, limited-time availability |
| Lord of Hatred Campaign |
Major Skill Tree Updates* |
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| New Warlock Class |
Max Level 70 |
New Season Rank Objectives & Rewards |
| New Paladin Class |
Itemization Updates |
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| Skovos Region |
Loot Filter |
Season of Reckoning Battle Pass |
| War Plans |
Map Overlay |
Season of Reckoning Reliquary |
| Echoing Hatred |
Pathfinding |
Tower & Leaderboards Beta Updates |
| Horadric Cube |
Pit Overhaul |
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| Talisman |
Added Torment Tiers |
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| Fishing |
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| Additional Stash Tab |
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| Additional Character Slots |
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The Season of Reckoning Sweeps Across Sanctuary
Launching with the Lord of Hatred expansion on April 27, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. PDT, the Season of Reckoning is nearly upon you. This season includes rewards and features such as Season Rank, Season Blessings, and the return of the Tower and Leaderboards Beta, but does not introduce a season-specific story, theme, or gameplay elements.
Instead, major system upgrades such as sweeping Skill Tree updates and class changes, increased level cap, difficulty and progression updates, quality of life improvements and so much more releasing with this season create a seamless and epic experience between the Season of Reckoning and the Lord of Hatred expansion.
While we know that the Season of Reckoning represents a departure from past seasons, future seasons will return to our regular cadence and form. We’ll have more to share soon about what’s coming next!
Season Rank and Season Blessings
The Season of Reckoning Season Rank is bigger than ever, packed with more goals and rewards. With nine ranks and over 100 objectives, there is a lot to accomplish and even more to earn*:
- Up to 12 Skill Points
- Up to 42 Paragon points
- Up to 14 Resplendent Sparks
- Loathroot pet
- Hateful Heraldry Mount Trophy
- New emblems
- New titles
- Special title laurels (icons that appear next to your chosen title to celebrate your prowess)
- Crafting and Masterworking materials, currency, boss keys, and more
- Caches containing gear and all kinds of useful materials, including runes, sigils, seals, and charms
*Just under 25% of the objectives require Lord of Hatred, so not all rewards will be available to those without the expansion.
Within Season Rank, you’ll have the ability to unlock Season Blessings and Smoldering Ashes. Smoldering Ashes can be earned from both Seasonal Objectives and Chapter Rewards. Once you’ve earned Ashes, they can be spent on these Seasonal Blessings:
- Urn of Curiosities: Boost the chance of receiving a second item when purchasing from the Purveyor of Curiosities
- Urn of Reclamation: Boost the chance of rare materials from salvage
- Urn of Masterworking: Boosts the chance to drop additional Obducite
- Urn of Glyphs: Grants a chance to earn an extra upgrade when improving Glyphs
- Urn of Ancestral Whispers: Boots the chance for an Ancestral Cache to appear when turning in Whispers
Seasonal Reliquary
Unlock items that resonate with your journey or collect them all using Favor earned by completing activities in Sanctuary. Unlock free rewards with the first Reliquary, and open three premium Reliquaries with the Premium or Deluxe Battle Pass Bundles or by purchasing individually.
The free Season of Reckoning Reliquary includes weapon appearances, Platinum, the Skovosi Horse mount with the Barding of Skovosi armor, and the Path of Antiquity Town Portal. By purchasing the premium Weapon, Armor, and Beast Reliquaries individually or through the Premium or Deluxe Battle Passes, you can also earn amazing items as the Firstborn Glory armor sets for all classes, the cat mount Kynigos and horse mount Axiom with Armors for both, the Progenitor’s Crystal mount trophy, Arch of Antiquity Town Portal, more weapon appearances, and the spider pet Tickles.
Premium Pass owners unlock all Reliquaries and save 500 Platinum over buying the individual Reliquaries. With the Deluxe Battle Pass, you also get the Progenitor’s Grace Reactive Back Trophy that matches the bonus armor set and the Luster spider pet. Earn the season-exclusive Hallowed Ancient armor set by unlocking all four Reliquaries, or instantly with the Deluxe Battle Pass Bundle.
Tower and Leaderboard Beta Updates
The Tower and Leaderboards Beta returns to glory starting April 30, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. PDT.
Tower Refresh Timing
Based off player feedback, Tower competitions now start on Thursdays following a release or patch to give the development team time to catch for any final balancing or bug fixes prior to Leaderboard start. The next Tower leaderboard opens on April 30.
Tower Updates
We’ve added new environments, monsters, and Bosses, keeping the Tower fresh and keeping you on your toes. Additionally, since there was a large balancing effort on enemies for 3.0.0, the monsters in the Tower are more meaningful threats.
There’s been a large tuning pass for the score monsters grant in the Tower, and should better match the overall challenge of each enemy.
Your run now officially starts after either existing the starting circle, or 10 seconds after entering the Tower.
For the wanderer that relishes in praise or admonishment, the Artificer now comments on your Tower Runs.
Tower Rewards
The Tower Beta introduces rewards for conquering personal milestones and progressing Season Rank, unlocking these as you ascend. We also have specific Milestone Rewards that can progress your Season Rank.
Climb the Tower to untold heights and unlock valuable Treasures of the Artificer. These new caches include Lore Books and items with guaranteed Greater Affixes. These can only be earned by ascending the Tower, first-time completion of higher Tower Tiers earns the Artificer’s Favor!
Build Viewer
For entries on the Leaderboard, the game will now capture a snapshot of each build which ranks on the leaderboard. Select one of the top Leaderboard entries to view their build at the time of completing their Tower run.
Artificer’s Obelisk and Stash in Temis
With the Lord of Hatred expansion, a Solo Warlock Ladder has been added to the Leaderboards. The capital city in Skovos—Temis—features the Artificer’s Obelisk and Stash, enabling you to play both the Tower and Pit from this new endgame focused hub.
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Hatred’s Downfall Community Challenge
The ultimate challenge awaits for wanderers across the world, band together to earn the crown of the Prime Evil himself. Starting with the release of the expansion, if the Diablo IV community can rally together to collectively earn 266,600,000 global Paragon Points the Crown of Hatred will be rewarded to all Diablo IV players.
This helm, imbued with the hate directly from Mephisto, unlocks if everyone can unite to fend off hatred with the power of all wanderers combined. All players are eligible to participate, on all realms regardless of whether you are slaying in Estuar or raiding the shores of Skovos.
Follow our Social accounts on X, YouTube Community, Instagram, and Facebook to track the community progress—updated on Tuesdays.
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KoЯn x Diablo IV: Reward The Scars
Hell has opened its jaws and released a sonorous triumphant call. Inspired by Lord of Hatred, Koᴙn have released an original new track called “Reward the Scars”!
Drawing from Diablo’s lore, the track reflects the pull of darkness, the tension of resisting it, and the looming presence of Mephisto, the Lord of Hatred. It’s not just about descent—it’s about what you become in the process and the price of choosing to stand against it.
Check out this new track released this morning here on all major streaming platforms. Listen to the track here.
Watch the official music video when it releases on April 27, 2026 at 10 a.m. PDT on the YouTube Premiere page. Prepare to have your face melted!
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Jackson X Diablo IV Limited Edition Kelly Guitar
Jackson and Diablo come together to forge an unholy alliance, one that created the ultimate weapon for you to worship at the altar of heavy riffs—the Jackson Kelly™ Diablo® IV - Lord of Hatred Limited Edition.
Featuring the visage of Mephisto upon the front and blood-red binding wrapping the body, neck, and headstock, this guitar has custom red Diablo-inspired inlays for face-melting solos that would stir Hell’s Legions.
Perfect for metal masters seeking the ultimate collector’s piece and players who demand to have their guitars burn with the hatred of a Prime Evil. This limited run of guitars won’t last forever-prepare to unleash hell.
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Lord of Hatred Launch Twitch Drops
Capture three new Twitch drops in honor of the Lord of Hatred launch! Each Monday from the Season of Reckoning's launch on April 27, 2026 starting at 4:00 PM PDT through May 11th, 2026 starting at 1:00 PM PDT, you'll be able to earn a different exclusive Diablo cosmetic. Strike quickly, wanderer—these won't last long!
Essence of a Lord Emblem
Watch 2 hours of Diablo IV content from any eligible channel in the Diablo IV category on Twitch.
- Start: April 27, 2026, 4:00 p.m. PT
- End: May 5, 2026, 11:59 a.m. PT
Ensign of the Vanquisher Mount Trophy
Support a Streamer; 1 sub required.
- Start: May 5, 2026, 12:00 p.m. PT
- End: May 11, 2026, 11:59 a.m. PT
Skullbladi Axe
Watch 2 hours of Diablo IV content from any eligible channel in the Diablo IV category on Twitch.
- Start: May 11, 2026, 12:00 p.m. PT
- End: May 18, 2026, 11:59 a.m. PT
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Overwatch x Hatred’s Reckoning Crossover
To celebrate Diablo's 30th Anniversary and release of the Lord of Hatred, Overwatch features new Diablo-themed skins and weapon charms as well as bringing back Diablo IV cosmetics of the past! This thematic transformation starts on April 28, 2026 11:00 a.m. PDT and brings back a gritty gothic edge to the Overwatch roster. This offering introduces five new Overwatch skins with four iconic skins from a previous season in the in-game shop, and features two new weapon charms available through Twitch Drops available through May 10, 2026 11:59 p.m. PT.
Twitch Drops:
Earn Twitch drops by watching any streams tagged in the official Overwatch category with drops enabled to accumulate watch time toward doom forged rewards. One hour of viewing time will earn the Wolf Pup Weapon Charm and two hours will earn the Lilith's Blade Weapon Charm!
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Prepare for the Reckoning: Pre-Purchase
Stand against the reckoning, purchase the expansion to play when Lord of Hatred arrives on April 28.
For more information on the Lord of Hatred expansion, and the different pre-purchase editions, see here.
Lord of Hatred available April 28, 2026.
Lord of Hatred and Vessel of Hatred Expansion require Diablo IV base game.
Internet connection and Battle.net account required to play.
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3.0.1 Patch Notes
To read the full list of Patch Notes for the 3.0.1 update, you can read our comprehensive notes here.
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Community Guides for Season of Reckoning
If you need expert guidance in your character’s journey throughout the season, look to our community guides for tips and insights on builds for every class specifically crafted for Season of Reckoning and Lord of Hatred. From early-game leveling to endgame builds, they’ve got you covered.
Visit our trusted Community resources here:
After you’ve checked out these helpful game guides, head to Sanctuary, the Diablo IV Community Discord server, to engage in the conversation around this season.
The Calm Before the Hatred
Skovos is a dangerous land ... and we can't wait to see you there! Lead the charge into the epic campaign with the Warlock, Paladin, or your favorite class to face down the Lord of Hatred, with all the many additions and improvements your feedback has helped us craft. We can't do our work without the most important people to all of us: the wanderers who conquer challenges in Sanctuary. From the entire Diablo IV team, we thank you and hope you enjoy the journey ahead as much as we enjoyed bringing it to you. See you in Temis!
—The Diablo IV Team
