Diablo 2 Resurrected Season 16 Starts November 13: Patch 3.4 Changes

Season 16 start date and time

Blizzard has announced that Ladder Season 16 begins on Friday, November 13, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. PST. In Europe that is 01:00 GMT and 02:00 CET on Saturday, November 14, or 03:00 Kyiv time. Asian realms open at 9:00 a.m. CST and 10:00 a.m. KST on November 14.

The current ladder closes first: Season 15 ends on Monday, November 9, at 11:00 a.m. PST, and the Season 16 patch, version 3.4, begins rolling out the same day. Season 15 launched on August 21, 2026, together with Patch 3.3.

All four ladder modes return: Pre-Expansion Ladder and Pre-Expansion Hardcore Ladder, which cover the original four acts, and the standard Ladder and Hardcore Ladder with Lord of Destruction content. For other servers and their season dates, see our Diablo 2 server seasons tracker.

What happens to your Season 15 characters and stash

When Season 15 ends, every Ladder character moves to its matching Non-Ladder group. Items in that group’s Shared Stash go into a separate set of Withdraw Only tabs, marked with a checked Past box.

Those Withdraw Only tabs are overwritten at the reset. Anything still stored there from Season 14 will be lost when Season 15 ends. Season 15 items then stay withdrawable for the whole of Season 16, so players have until the next reset to move what they want to keep.

Reign of the Warlock conversion deadline: November 16

Patch 3.4 changes how characters move between game versions. Starting November 16, online Expansion (LoD) characters, both Ladder and Non-Ladder, can no longer be converted to Reign of the Warlock.

Offline characters can still be converted, and Classic characters can still be upgraded to Expansion (LoD). Players who want an online LoD character in Reign of the Warlock need to convert it before November 16.

Eternity reworked for bows and crossbows

The largest single change in Patch 3.4 is the Eternity runeword (Amn, Ber, Ist, Sol, Sur). It is no longer limited to five-socket melee weapons:

• Allowed items: 5-socket melee weapons → 5-socket melee and missile weapons
• Added +30% Increased Attack Speed
• Enhanced Damage: +260–310% → +300–390%
• Added +3–297 to Maximum Damage (based on character level)
• Level 8 Revive (88 charges) → +5 to Revive (oskill)

Like the other item changes in this patch, the new Eternity applies only in Reign of the Warlock, on Online Ladder and Offline.

Unique and set item buffs in Patch 3.4

Blizzard’s notes list buffs to eighteen unique items and one set. These changes apply only to Reign of the Warlock, in Online Ladder and Offline; Classic and LoD are unchanged.

Weapons

• Dimoak’s Hew: +100% → +100–150% Enhanced Damage; +15 Dexterity → +20 Strength
• Griswold’s Edge: Knockback → 4% chance to cast level 1 Amplify Damage on striking; +80–120% → +100–160% Enhanced Damage; added Slows Target by 25%
• The Salamander: added +10% Faster Cast Rate; +2 → +3 to Fire Skills; +2 → +4 to Fire Ball
• The Tannr Gorerod: +80–100% → +200–220% Enhanced Damage; added 5–9% Life Stolen per Hit
• The Grim Reaper: +20% → +80–120% Enhanced Damage; 5% → 5–9% Mana Stolen per Hit
• The Impaler: +140–170% → +170–240% Enhanced Damage; added Repairs 1 Durability in 4 Seconds
• Coldkill: +40 → +80–100 Cold Damage; +150–190% → +160–200% Enhanced Damage
• The Atlantean: +200–250% → +250–300% Enhanced Damage; added +2–5 to Zeal (Paladin only), +100–125 Attack Rating and Requirements −20%; required level 42 → 35
• Demonhorn’s Edge: 10% → 20% Increased Attack Speed; added +1 to Barbarian Skills
• Ethereal Edge: +150–180% → +220–260% Enhanced Damage; +25% → +40% Increased Attack Speed; added +2–198 to Maximum Damage (based on character level)
• Executioner’s Justice: +240–290% → +260–300% Enhanced Damage; 50% chance to cast level 6 Decrepify on kill → 25% chance to cast level 13 Amplify Damage on kill; +30% → +40% Increased Attack Speed; added +15 Life and +5 Mana after each kill

Armor and shields

• Serpent Lord: added +15% Increased Attack Speed and +5 Minimum Damage; +30–40% → +40–80% Enhanced Damage
• Silks of the Victor: added +20% Faster Run/Walk, +30% Increased Attack Speed, +50–100% Enhanced Damage and +15% Chance to Find Magic Items
• Lava Gout: 2% → 5% chance to cast level 10 Enchant on striking; Half Freeze Duration → Cannot Be Frozen
• Earthshaker: added +3–5 to Fire Claw (Druid only)
• Grim’s Burning Dead: added 15% Reanimate as Burning Dead Archer and +3–5 to Fire Golem (Necromancer only); +3 → +4 to Necromancer Skill Levels
• Swordguard: All Resistances +10–20 → +20–30; added Replenish Life +10–15 and Attacker Takes Damage of 15–25; +170–180% → +180–230% Enhanced Damage; Defense +5–495 → +7–779 (based on character level)
• Veil of Steel: added +2 to All Skills, Physical Damage Received Reduced by 15–25% and Magic Resist +20–40%

Isenhart’s Armory

• Full set: +20% → +30% Faster Run/Walk; added +25% Faster Hit Recovery
• Isenhart’s Lightbrand: +20% → +40% Increased Attack Speed; added +5–495 Attack Rating (based on character level) to the item itself; its 2-piece Attack Rating bonus is replaced by a 3-piece bonus of +2–198 to Maximum Damage
• Isenhart’s Parry: added 2-piece bonuses of Cold Resist +15% and Fire Resist +15%
• Isenhart’s Case: added Magic Resistance +25%
• Isenhart’s Horns: added 5% Life Stolen per Hit

Items now available in Non-Ladder

Ten items that were previously updated as Ladder-only become available in Online Non-Ladder with the new season. As with the buffs, this applies to Reign of the Warlock only:

• Angelic Raiment
• Bane Ash
• Blinkbat’s Form
• Bloodletter
• Gravenspine
• Manald Heal
• Pluckeye
• Rogue’s Bow
• The Battlebranch
• The Ward

Bug fixes

Patch 3.4 also fixes Jewels failing to drop from the last Uber Ancients boss after a long absence from the Colossal Summit, health regeneration and degeneration effects stalling during damage in online games, a Warlock’s bound demon losing its behavior when Inferno was interrupted by portal travel, the Terror Zone toggle not saving the player’s choice, and Auto-Party Invite not adding players to games. Blizzard lists further fixes for HD decals, lobby search, misleading connection errors, freezes and crashes.

New to the official realms? Our Diablo 2 Resurrected overview covers the game modes and ladder rules, and the server finder compares the official realms with community servers.