Diablo 4 Season 11 PTR Receives Immediate Backlash From Community

Posted 2025/10/21 at 6:18 PM by Whispyr

Sanctification BacklashOfficial PTR Forums
I see how the Systems of Santification works in PTR, and without a doubt it feels super terrible, and I summarize it in 3 main points:

Most results are useless or do nothing, It is not worth the risk of having a grotesquely high percentage of garbage.
Replacing one base affix with another is perhaps the worst of all, yea the system can take away the GA cooldown on shako and replace with life on hit.
The penalty is way too high for the ridiculously small chance of something useful coming out

Known Issues for the PTRforum post

PTR 2.5.0 Known Bugs

Classes

Shattered Vow polearm description is incorrect
Druid Khamsin Steppewalkers gains infinite duration when activated with zero charges
Druid Mjolnic Ryng description is incorrect
Necromancer’s Hand of Naz fails to upgrade Skeletal Arch-Mages
The nodes in Necromancer’s Hulking Monstrocity Paragon board have missing descriptions
Rogue Star Shards aspect incorrectly updates the charge counter on the skill bar
Rogue Poison Traps no longer spawn when Shadow Clone and Bursting Venoms Aspect are combined and triggered
Sorcerer Snowveiled Aspect improperly gives Damage Reduction instead of Armor
Sorcerer Esadora’s Overflowing Cameo doesn’t affect multiple enemies when the tempering recipe that allows Crackling Energy to zap additional targets
Spiritborn Protector skill doesn’t deal damage on its initial hit
Spiritborn Rod of Kepeleke can cause Vigor costs to double when using Payback
Spiritborn Sapping Legendary Paragon node doesn’t function properly
Spiritborn Path of Emissary doesn’t scale properly with the number of Greater affixes it has

Masterworking

Items below 750 Item Power can be Masterworked
Non-Ancestral items can be Masterwork Capstoned for a Masterworked Greater Affix
Items with all Greater Affixes can be Masterwork Capstoned
Reset all ranks icon appears incorrectly
Items are missing a string for Upgrade Quality progress

Sanctification

Items at 750 Item Power cannot be Sanctified in Torment difficulties
Heavenly Sigils do not state where they are obtained in the item tooltip
Items that innately have the Indestructible affix appear to be Sanctified even though they are not
The Heavenly Forge location has issues with lighting
The map of Sanctuary cannot be accessed while in the Heavenly Forge
In pre-torment, the VFX to signify you can use sanctification after using the reward portal will remain once you sanctify your item, despite not being able to sanctify again.

Items

The base stat line on jewelry seems to calculate the resist all from Diamonds
Several items have placeholder text
Artificer Stones may still drop in-game

Combat

Some damage tuning may lead to excessively high incoming damage

Lesser Evils

After defeating Azmodan and opening Belial’s Hoard, you can’t reopen the hoard
Lesser Evil Memories can be auto-looted

Season Ranking

Various UI, text string, and placeholder issues
Using various boosts from Mrak may cause certain objectives to be unable to be completed
Several objectives can be completed before reaching the specified rank
Master at Work objective will not be completed if the item skips the fourth level of masterworking
Lucid Fever objective can be completed by doing non-World events
Earning Obducite from Nightmare Dungeon completion doesn’t advance the Lucid Dreams objective
The World in Sin, Paid in Valor, Hell Pangs, Grim Collector, and Power Beyond Comprehension objectives can’t be completed

Tower

The portal cannot be interacted with in Normal difficulty

Dungeons

The Sweltering Heat effect in the Torrid Menagerie Capstone Dungeon can trigger various item affixes equipped by the player’s character.
The map of Sanctuary can’t be accessed while within a Capstone Dungeon
You cannot advance in Escalating Nightmare Dungeons

Comment by SoulcleaveI dont play the beta, but yeah, if you only have one shot at sanctification, EVERY SINGLE OPTION needs to be atleast "okay", if i sanctify something, sure something will be the best, but i should be happy with any resultComment by overneatheDamn. I thought they're gonna nail it from the literal first iteration of this major item journey overhaul. What a shame. They should've at least tested it first on some sort of test realm and collected feedback.Comment by yseratheawakenedWhy is everything with this game such a struggle? I don't get it.Comment by CorpselanceDamn. I thought they're gonna nail it from the literal first iteration of this major item journey overhaul. What a shame. They should've at least tested it first on some sort of test realm and collected feedback.Comment by MangzaneThe most popular D2 Mod communities have something similar, nicknamed "slamming". For example, in PD2, you can "slam" any item. There is a 75% to get an additional affix. A 25% chance the item get's rerolled into an entirely new item, lmao (which is called "bricking" the item").

There are tiers of affixes an item can roll ( +Enhanced damage is more sought after then 1 open socket, for example).

This adds a healthy dynamic to the game's end game BiS chase, and shared stories of a bricked SoJ or max ED WF, etc, are apart of the risk and fun of the game.

Sounds like D4 Devs need to revisit the affixes, which should be easy enough, but not every affix needs to be great.Comment by dem0ndeathVaal Orb has made it to Diablo!Comment by HranthaerDamn. I thought they're gonna nail it from the literal first iteration of this major item journey overhaul. What a shame. They should've at least tested it first on some sort of test realm and collected feedback.Comment by MehvHopefully they listen to the feedback and it doesn't make it to live.Comment by meowgaryenDamn. I thought they're gonna nail it from the literal first iteration of this major item journey overhaul. What a shame. They should've at least tested it first on some sort of test realm and collected feedback.Comment by JustBurpBlizzard is smart, they make the game worse pior to expansion just so they can fix the issues for the expansion and people say "wow its a really good expansion"Comment by JettafaeHow....in the world did Blizzard manage to mess this up so bad? I was so excited they were fixing Tempering/Masterworking, but then they just....put in a system that did the exact same thing that we hated and wanted gone before that is, somehow, 10x worse.Comment by RellyneFor the love of god, they're finally fixing tempering and masterworking. Just need to refine the new sanctification. Hope they don't rollback the tempering/masterwork changes.

People calling it "one-dimensional" for removing some of the bad RNG in the game, jesus...Comment by Peesneeze“Backlash” you mean feedback? It’s PTR.Comment by TasunkeI dont play the beta, but yeah, if you only have one shot at sanctification, EVERY SINGLE OPTION needs to be atleast "okay", if i sanctify something, sure something will be the best, but i should be happy with any resultComment by EvVVvHow....in the world did Blizzard manage to mess this up so bad? I was so excited they were fixing Tempering/Masterworking, but then they just....put in a system that did the exact same thing that we hated and wanted gone before that is, somehow, 10x worse.Comment by discocystWhy do they have to rework everything all the time? all this wasted time reworking it all every season instead of sticking to a system that works and making new content instead? who cares about the systems if there's nothing new to do?Comment by CptBadgerHow....in the world did Blizzard manage to mess this up so bad? I was so excited they were fixing Tempering/Masterworking, but then they just....put in a system that did the exact same thing that we hated and wanted gone before that is, somehow, 10x worse.Comment by Kalocyjim24How....in the world did Blizzard manage to mess this up so bad? I was so excited they were fixing Tempering/Masterworking, but then they just....put in a system that did the exact same thing that we hated and wanted gone before that is, somehow, 10x worse.Comment by CptBadgerHow....in the world did Blizzard manage to mess this up so bad? I was so excited they were fixing Tempering/Masterworking, but then they just....put in a system that did the exact same thing that we hated and wanted gone before that is, somehow, 10x worse.Comment by datalocusI dont play the beta, but yeah, if you only have one shot at sanctification, EVERY SINGLE OPTION needs to be atleast "okay", if i sanctify something, sure something will be the best, but i should be happy with any result