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Diablo II: Resurrected Ladder Season 16 Starts November 13 With Patch 3.4 Item Overhaul

OFFICIAL Written by GPN · Nov 8, 2026, 2:08 PM ET · Diablo II: Resurrected · Gaming

Blizzard has set the dates for Diablo II: Resurrected's next ladder reset. Season 15 ends Monday, November 9 at 11 a.m. PST, Patch 3.4 begins rolling out the same day, and Ladder Season 16 starts Friday, November 13 at 5 p.m. PST. The new season is another race to level 99 across the usual four modes.

The schedule

Season 15 ends November 9 at 11 a.m. PST, with the Season 16 patch rolling out the same day. Season 16 itself starts November 13 at 5 p.m. PST in North America, November 14 at 1 a.m. GMT and 2 a.m. CET in Europe, and November 14 at 9 a.m. CST and 10 a.m. KST in Asia. The four modes return: Pre-Expansion Ladder, Pre-Expansion Hardcore Ladder, Ladder and Hardcore Ladder. When Season 15 ends, ladder characters move to non-ladder and their shared stash items go into Withdraw Only tabs, while items left in Season 14's Withdraw Only tabs will be lost. Players have all of Season 16 to pull their Season 15 items out.

Character conversion

From November 16, Expansion (Lord of Destruction) online characters, ladder and non-ladder alike, can no longer be converted to Reign of the Warlock. Offline characters and Classic-to-Expansion conversions are unaffected.

Items opening up to non-ladder

Ten previously ladder-only items become available in online non-ladder with the new season, for Reign of the Warlock only: Angelic Raiment, Bane Ash, Blinkbat's Form, Bloodletter, Gravenspine, Manald Heal, Pluckeye, Rogue's Bow, The Battlebranch and The Ward. Classic and Lord of Destruction versions are unchanged.

Item updates

Patch 3.4 buffs a long list of Unique items and one set, for Reign of the Warlock in online ladder and offline play only. The Eternity runeword now works on missile weapons as well as melee, gains 30% increased attack speed and 300-390% enhanced damage, and its Revive becomes an O skill. Lava Gout picks up Cannot Be Frozen, Veil of Steel adds 2 to all skills, and Ethereal Edge, Executioner's Justice and The Tannr Gorerod get large damage increases. Isenhart's Armory gets faster run and walk speed and faster hit recovery on the full set, plus reworked piece bonuses.

Bug fixes

The patch also fixes Jewels not dropping from the last Uber Ancients boss, health regeneration stalling after damage events online, a Warlock demon losing its behaviour after portal travel, visual decals not rendering in HD mode, the Terror Zone toggle not saving, and a run of lobby, stash, party-invite, connection-error and crash issues.

Facts gathered from

• Blizzard News

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