Word of a challenge sweeps across Sanctuary, catching the ear of every glory-seeking warrior and outlaw alike. This newest content update brings you the Bout of Realms 8v8 Tournament, new Legendary Affixes, and more events to carve through in Gambler’s Toil.

As with previous content updates, there will be server maintenance starting on August 12, from 5-7 p.m. PDT for Oceania, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe servers, and on August 13, from 1-3 a.m. PDT for servers in the Americas. After the maintenance has concluded, all items mentioned below will be live—specific dates for any features going live afterward are provided below.

As this article is an early look at next content update, information conveyed in this article may be subject to adjustment.

Join the Bout of Realms

The bravest fighters of Sanctuary gather in one unified purpose, to determine who among them can crown themselves champion. The Bout of Realms is a multistage Tower War PvP competition that pits teams of 8 against other teams across servers within their home region. The winners of each region will earn themselves the eternal glory of being crowned the ultimate victor of the Bout of Realms, as well as earning illustrious cosmetic rewards, Legendary Crests , a slew of Legendary Crests, and more.

From August 13–August 17, 3 a.m., Register for Bout of Realms by forming a party of up to 8 players. Party members can be swapped at any time within the registration period. Once registration has ended on August 17, parties are locked and cannot be changed. Choose your teammates wisely, for they will be your key to success.

From August 18–August 22, each team will participate in a total of 15 matches for Preliminaries. These take place each day local server time at :

9 p.m.
9:30 p.m.
10 p.m.

This is 5 days of 3 back-to-back battles, so be prepared before you commit yourself to a team. Your party will be counting on you.

Preliminary matches grant :

3 points for a win
1 point for a loss
0 points for a forfeit

Ties are decided by the number of kills made during the matches. Participating in the Preliminaries earns you a Legendary item, Gold, scrap and Dust. Once Preliminaries have concluded the top scoring teams will advance. Up to 64 teams will move forward to the Finals, depending on server size.

The Finals commence from August 25–August 29, where 64 teams across servers compete for the top 4 spots in a best of three elimination match each night at 9 p.m. local server time. The winners advance to the next night, while the losers will be eliminated. After determining the winners of the Final 2 teams, the winners will progress to the Championship Match, while the runner ups will compete in the Third-Place Match.

The Third Place Match takes place on August 30, 9 p.m. local server time. The teams fighting for the Third Place finish will battle it out in a best of 5 format to determine the winner.

The Championship Match, the final showdown, takes place on August 31 at 9 p.m. local server time. The top 2 teams will battle it out in a best of five format against their designated opponents. The winning team in the Championship Match will be crowned the Champion, while the losing team will be runner-up.

Rewards
Besides the fame, glory, and notoriety of winning the Bout of Realms, winning teams will walk away with a number of rewards, some of which are rare and invaluable cosmetics, and some of which aid you further in your quests and adventures in Sanctuary !

Note : Items with a duration noted next to them are ephemeral treasures, and will expire after the set duration.

1st Place :

Lord of the Wild Avatar Frame
Immortal King Title (90 Days)
Permanent Cloak
Champion’s Fire Kill Streak VFX (30 Days)
Aura Effects (30 Days)
Additional Cloak (90 Days)
180x Legendary Crests

2nd Place :

Flame of the Wilds Avatar Frame
Immortal Lord Title (90 Days)
Permanent Cloak
Champion’s Fire Kill Streak VFX (30 Days)
Aura Effects (30 Days)
Additional Cloak (90 Days)
90x Legendary Crests

3rd Place :

Flame of the Wilds Avatar Frame
Immortal Commander Title (90 Days)
Permanent Cloak
Champion’s Fire Kill Streak VFX (30 Days)
60x Legendary Crests

4th Place :

Flame of the Wilds Avatar Frame
Immortal Warlord Title (90 Days)
Champion’s Fire Kill Streak VFX (30 Days)
45x Legendary Crests

Top 5-32 Teams :

Flame of the Wilds Avatar Frame
Champion’s Fire Kill Streak VFX (30 Days)
30x Legendary Crests

Top 33-64 Teams :

Flame of the Wilds Avatar Frame
Champion’s Fire Kill Streak VFX (30 Days)
15x Legendary Crests

Rewards per Match :

800,000 Experience
10,000 Gold
100x Reinforced Scrap
1x Set Item
1x Legendary Item

Winning a Match during the Preliminaries awards additional rewards :

1x Legendary Item
100x Reinforced Scrap
10,000 Gold

New Legendary Affixes
Wield these new Legendary Items to strike down the Burning Hell’s Legions with ferocious intent. These new Items can only be found in Inferno IV and higher.

Barbarian
Helmet Splitter (Off-Hand) : Wrath of the Berserker now increases your Movement Speed, greatly reduces damage taken, and reduces the duration of loss of control.
Hunter’s Snare (Chest) : Chained Spear now empowers you to counterattack with spears when you take damage, pulling in enemies.
Silvered Dragoon (Helm) : Demoralize now empowers you to counterattack with a roar when you take damage, reducing enemy Attack Speed.
Stone and Kettle (Shoulders) : Wrath of the Berserker also reduces damage taken.
Trapping’s Spoils (Pants) : Chained Spear also heals you for a percentage of its damage done.
Tundra Burr (Main Hand) : When Demoralize deals damage, it also reduces an enemy’s damage for a limited-time, up to a maximum.

Blood Knight
Chimeric Favor (Pants) : Abomination gains an additional Skill, Blood Mirage. Blood Mirage consumes your Life to conjure an illusion of yourself that mimics your Primary Attack.
Gnarly Gullet (Shoulders) : Abomination no longer consumes Anger to transform and its Primary Attack now consumes Life to throw globs of gore at enemies.
Mangler’s Grove (Main Hand) : Abomination also increases your Attack Speed by a percentage of maximum Life lost, up to a maximum buff for increased Attack Speed.
Quenched Votary (Helm) : Transfusion shields also increase your Life Drain by a percentage.
Rose Toll (Off-Hand) : Abomination Primary Attacks have a chance to trigger a bloody claw that deals additional damage. The bloody claw’s chance to trigger increases as your remaining Life decreases, up to a maximum.
Skin Upon Steel (Chest) : Transfusion now grants only you a shield and while it remains active all Life Drain restores the absorb value of the shield instead of healing you. Transfusion will be automatically activated when your Life is low.

Crusader
The Chainkeeper (Shoulders) : Sacred Chain now empowers you for a limited time, during which holy links will form between you and nearby enemies, continually damaging them.
Harmonic Collide (Chest) : Condemn now empowers you, causing lightning to strike enemies after they are attacked a few times.
Fugitive Daunt (Pants) : Sacred Chain also disables enemy Dash skills for a limited time.
Laden Axiom (Main Hand) : Sweep Attack now swings two mystical chains towards each other in an arc, gathering enemies in the middle and Stunning them.
Lash Recital (Helm) : When Sacred Chain damages an enemy multiple times within a limited time, they are dealt additional damage.
Vilification Protocol (Off Hand) : Condemn also reduces enemy Movement Speed.

Demon Hunter

Bewildering Arc (Main Hand) : Smoke Screen also increases your Attack Speed for a limited time.
Fume Threads (Chest) : Smoke Screen now empowers you to launch grenades at nearby enemies as you move. Dash skills have a reduced distance requirement to trigger grenades.
Let Them Sulk (Helm) : Daring Swing cooldown is reduced by seconds for each enemy it hits, up to a maximum duration.
Manymark (Pants) : Spinning Chakram also applies a Chakram Mark for a limited time when it hits an enemy. When marked enemies are hit multiple times they are dealt additional damage (Cannot trigger more often that once every few seconds to the same enemy).
Nimble Rival (Shoulders) : Daring Swing now fires a hook in a direction that locks onto the ground and then pulls you along its path, damaging enemies and making you immune to knockback and loss of control as you travel.
Supply Everlasting (Off Hand) : Spinning Chakram now empowers you to launch chakrams at nearby enemies as you move. Dash skills have a reduced distance requirement to trigger chakrams.

Druid
Cackling Frenzy (Pants) : Rend and Tear (Werewolf) also increases your Life Drain against enemies hit for a limited-face, stacking up to a maxmium.
Nyteflurry (Main Hand) : Raven Swarm now empowers you, causing your Primary Attacks and Skills to conjure ravens that automatically attack enemies, who are Blinded when ravens hit them multiple times.
Kiegfran (Shoulders) : Raven Swarm also generates Primal Power when it hits an enemy, but this cannot occur more often than once every so often.
Sharval’s Blessing (Chest) : While a Werewolf, you gain additional Life Drain against enemies below 50% Life.
Wildbrute (Helm) : Lunge (Werewolf) now causes you to flicker out of sight, becoming untargetable as you Dash forward damaging enemies along your path. Lunge can be used multiple times in quick succession.
Wulftear (Off Hand) : Rend and Tear (Werewolf) is now a series of slashing claw attacks that damage and Stun enemies. Using other skills beforehand increases the number of attacks.

Additional Druid Affixes
Lethal Embrace (Shoulders) : Transforming into a Werewolf increases your Evasion Rating for a few seconds for every Primal Power you currently have, up to a maximum.
Lunar Cradle (Main Hand) : Summon Wolves also weaken nearby enemies, increasing the damage they take from you.
Ravenous Wilds (Off Hand) : Thorn Armor damage also shatters enemy armor, increasing the Critical Hit Damage they take for a limited time, up to a maximum.
Tokens of Vigilance (Chest) : Rabid Might also causes Primary Attacks to deal additional damage equal to a percentage of your maximum Life.
Tough Love (Pants) : Activating Summon Oak Sage increases the damage of your summons for a limited time for each active summon, up to a maximum.
Veiled Vice (Helm) : Howl (Werewolf) also applies Fear to enemies. Enemies below a percentage of Life are Feared for a limited time. Cannot Fear the same enemy more often than once every few seconds.

Monk
Domineering Will (Main Hand) : When Wave Strike damages the same enemy several times within a few seconds, it will also Stun them for a limited duration. Cannot Stun the same enemy more often than once every few seconds.
Factional Advantage (Pants) : Breath of Heaven now conjures a runic circle that follows you, granting shields to you and your allies within that increase in absorb value for each ally present.
Flurry Coat (Chest) : Inner Sanctuary also increases your Attack Speed for a limited-time, increasing for every nearby ally up to a maximum amount.
Guise of Amity (Helm) : Inner Sanctuary now conjures a runic circle that follows you, increasing the damage dealt by you and your allies within, increasing further for each ally present.
Manera’s Pretense (Shoulders) : Beneficial effects from Breath of Heaven also reduce Critical Hit Damage taken for a limited time.
Pit Finder (Off Hand) : Wave Strike now slams the ground to unleash a damaging wave that reverberates off nearby allies to deal additional damage to enemies.

Necromancer
Arch Charnel (Helm) : Skeletal Mages empower you when destroyed, increasing your damage for a limited time, stacking up to a maximum.
Black Web (Pants) : Dark Curse now conjures a field of despair at a target location that continuously damages enemies and applies a stacking Slow. After several stacks an enemy will be Feared.
Haunter’s Shell (Off Hand) : Bone Spirits now conjures a font of soulfire at a target location that will attack an enemy that approaches, exploding on impact to damage and Fear nearby enemies.
Hook and Times (Main Hand) : Corpse Explosion Critical Hit Chance is increased.
Grasp of Gloom (Chest) : Dark Curse also disables enemy Dash skills for a limited-time.
Trembling Glamor (Shoulders) : Corpse Explosion no longer consumes corpses and instead consumes the Fear on enemies to conjure spirits that seek out targets, damaging any they touch. The spirits prioritize seeking out Feared enemies, consuming it to conjure more spirits.

Tempest
Buckle-Cracker (Off Hand) : Crosswinds now empowers you, causing your next Primary Attack to unleash a flurry of piercing wind blades that shatter enemy armor, increasing the damage you deal to them.
Flitting Frown (Helm) : Rolling Surf also increases the damage of the next couple Primary Attacks within a few seconds.
Last Backbite (Main Hand) : Rolling Surf now empowers your next few Primary Attacks to fire Backbreaker Bolts that progressively deal increased damage if they keep hitting the same enemy from behind.
Legguards of Halit (Helm) : Crosswinds also increases your Primary Attack Speed for a limited duration.
Stolen Promise (Chest) : Flowing Strike now causes you to Dash forward, damaging enemies in your path. If an enemy player is hit, they will be forced to turn their back to you, Immobilizing them.
Submerge in Shock (Shoulders) : Flowing Strike also increases your Critical Hit Chance for a limited duration.

Wizard
Binding Forces (Pants) : Meteor now empowers you, during which you can call huge meteors to fall at target locations.
Gravity Well (Shoulders) : Meteor also pulls in all nearby enemies at the location it deals damage.
The Greebluk (Off Hand) : Ice Armor now grants you invisibility, only revealing you if an enemy gets close.
Ossified Chromotera (Main Hand) : Slow Time also increases your Skill damage for a limited duration.
Owl’s Patience (Helm) : Slow Time now unleashes a burst of temporal energy at a target location, damaging enemies, reducing their Movement Speed, and disabling their Dash skills. You deal increased damage to these affected enemies.
Walert’s Corset (Chest) : Ice Armor also increases Skill damage.

Roll the Die in Gambler’s Toil
Only those with valor succeed in the heat of battle—bolster your renowned legend within Sanctuary by slaying through the Gambler’s Toil. From July 30, 3 a.m.—August 27, 3:00 a.m. local server time, battle your way in tests of your demon slaying prowess to make progress and earn illustrious rewards. Events during the week are ripe for crushing the Burning Hell’s legions but prepare to face off against other adventurers across the weekend.

The last two weeks of Gambler’s Toil await, keep dismembering monsters to carve through the final events and claim your rewards.

Conqueror

August 6, 3 a.m.—August 13, 3 a.m. local server time

Alley of Blood

August 13, 3 a.m.—August 20, 3 a.m. local server time

Wild Brawl

August 20, 3 a.m.—August 27, 3 a.m. local server time

Carve through these to earn the following rewards :

2 Telluric Pearls
12 Legendary Items
4 Set Items
10 1-Star Legendary Gems
800,000 Gold
2,800 Scrap
240 Enchanted Dust
28 Aspirant’s Keys
16 Normal Gems

Balance Changes

The Balance changes below will be effective everywhere in Diablo Immortal.
Barbarian

Terror Unburdened (Demoralize) : The beneficial effects provided by Demoralize will now be disabled when the uncontrollable state is interrupted by another skill.

Developer’s Note : Instead of breaking the interaction entirely, we are disabling the benefits provided by Terror Unburdened when you have control of your character. The benefits of damage reduction, immunity to knockback, and were all meant to counteract that you couldn’t control your character. Considering you can control your character, these effects will be removed in this instance.

Druid

Werebear and Werewolf (Baseline) : The transformations can now trigger while under the effects of total loss of control or knockback. Now drains 4 Primal Power per second down from 5.

Developer’s Note : We heard the feedback that maintaining transformation time was one of the more frustrating aspects of the Druid class, so we are lowering the Primal Power costs to allow you to remain in forms longer. Additionally, we recognize the frustration of not being able to transform when suffering crowd control effects or your transformations being interrupted by them, so you should now be able to transform more freely.

Wizard

Coat of the Astrum (Lightning Nova) :
Lightning Nova projectiles will now disappear when the Wizard dies.
Lightning Nova projectiles will now prefer staying closer to the Wizard.
Lightning Nova deals reduced damage to enemies further away from the Wizard.

Developer’s Note : The wild arcing Lightning Nova provided by this affix was too dominant, especially given the introduction of the new Skybreaker set. The range of the effects made it difficult for enemies to fight Wizard characters, and even if you killed them, their Lightning Nova would persist and still kill you.
These changes are aimed to force Wizards into more dangerous situations to maintain pressure and keep up the high damage. We will continue to monitor other synergies of this build after these changes have gone live to see if further adjustments need to be made.

Sets

Skybreaker’s Bolt 2 Set Bonus : If an enemy suffers from this effect again within the 6-second cooldown the duration will be reduced.

Developer’s Note : Multiple characters running this set effect lead to 100% uptime providing excessive value to other players, so to counter this, the effect will now have its own diminishing returns within the 6-second window.

Feature Updates
Set Bonus UI Updates

The Equipment Powers interface has been tweaked to provide a snapshot of all equipped Set Item abilities at a glance. If you prefer the expanded view, you can still access it by selecting the ‘See All’ button.

AFK Farming Damage Re-enable
To help discourage AFK farming, we are reintroducing the acid pits that will spawn and kill players if too much time is spent away from their keyboard.

Blood Knight Transform Skill Re-mapping
We have introduced the ability to re-map your secondary skills when using the Blood Knight’s Abomination. Previously, your secondary skills which only became available when using the Blood Knight’s transformation were unable to be re-mapped to your inputs of choice. You can now re-map these sub-skills through the Skill Book UI.

This functionality was recently released with the Druid, so it’s now being retroactively applied to the Blood Knight.

Familiar Swap Button Change
We’ve added a button within the Familiars UI so that you can quickly swap a Bonded Familiar into the Companion Slot. Select a Bonded familiar and click the crossed swords next to Remove to swap with the Companion familiar.

Loyalty Bonus Reset Time Optimization
Loyalty Points will now reset and be converted into Legacy Loyalty Points when we introduce new Legendary Equipment instead of when the server reaches the Paragon Level for a new difficulty.

Season 14 Challenge Rifts
Challenge Rift levels are increasing from 550 to 600 and the Combat Rating requirements for 530 to 550 have been lowered. Additionally, the server first clear for the highest Challenge Rift level will record the top 3 players instead of only the first player to complete the Challenge Rift.

Damage Changes in Inferno I-VI
We are lowering the damage for the open world, hidden lairs, Helliquary bosses, and normal dungeons for Inferno I-VI by about 20%.