The 2.3.0 PTR: What You Need to Know

[BlizzardEntertainment]

Wield customizable Horadric Spells and fight through enhanced Nightmare Dungeons in the 2.3.0 PTR.

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[RICACARV-2905]

Bli$$ is starting to spam theyr own forums???

[RumbleFish-2301]

Don’t ‘need’ to know anything, or really want to…season of the kill every viable build…no thanks!

[Gojira1845-1651]

all we needed to know was you screwed up again and again and again

[Japhasca-1443]

What I know is eternal is struggling with nerfs not taking into account we don’t get seasonal powers, yet you added the battle pass so clearly you expect us to pay for stuff

[LordTovek-1482]

Been gone for months taking a break.

Came back and things are even more boring than before.

At this point… your best course of action is to put down your plan…

And then do the exact opposite.

I honestly do not understand how you guys keep getting worse.

[Jemuzu-11303]

Admit you’re wrong for once and fix everything you’re planning to break/ruin for S9. No one is on your side anymore.

[AzureOgre-3419]

I had every intention of playing the ptr. But it turns out I just can’t force myself to play this game. It’s just too boring.

[DJAetius-1766]

" The 2.3.0 PTR: What You Need to Know"

that it sucks.

[Furbolg-11448]

Let me play my way (it’s in the advertising man) with cool options to get there and even improve on it.

Simple but effective, and complex, but easy enough to understand on the way to that god tier custom Hurricane Lightning Druid of destruction.

[Monk-1781]

I took part in multiple PTRs in the past, although admittedly not all of them, to actually test changes and report technical issues. I’m by far not “aspiring” enough to give feedback on balance changes, so I concentrated on non-working gameplay mechanics and had the (possibly naive) feeling that it’s worth doing so, no matter if it actually was in the end

I never stopped playing so quickly as I did this time though, as the PTR feels horribly broken from a pure technical perspective, way beyond what is mentioned in 2.3.0 PTR | Known Issues Thread - 5/27/2025 - PTR Bug Report - Diablo IV Forums and even re-introducing issues that were fixed months ago in the live version. Just as if it’s a completely separate codebase, forked way in the past and maintained in parallel…

[Japhasca-1443]

@Monk-1781

I’m by far not “aspiring” enough to give feedback on balance changes,

Don’t feel bad, even if you had really good suggestions they wouldn’t understand/care.

[Noddy-6248]

That’s not entirely true though, plenty of people saying they are in support of the current changes.

[GrayMan-11594]

As primarily playing a warrior/rogue class, I’d much prefer just simplified power through skills and equipment instead of the gobbledygook laid before me with the Horadric slot in bs.
Also fights that are actual fights instead of a lot of 'splosions.

Can’t a good sword just, you know, be a good sword?

[Salvus-1893]

This game is garbage .

Your Dev team is garbage.

You took a once awesome franchise and made it a laughing stock .

Good work.

[Tharizdun-2656]

But they still won’t read them.

[Merp-1678]

@Japhasca-1443

What I know is eternal is struggling with nerfs not taking into account we don’t get seasonal powers

I logged on to eternal to try a pit 110 on my blood wave necro from last season (I could clear 130 in maybe 10 mins at the most). I could hardly budge trash mobs health bars. If I had to guess I might be able to speed run a 60 and then get to 90 and struggle to meet the timer.

[Toadie-11350]

I’ve spent more time crashing to desktop on the PTR than actually playing… bug after bug (reported them in-game) Was just trying to do a whisper but there are no monsters to kill, everything else works even the chat.

[JonJustice-1981]

Replying to Blizzard’s Post about the D4 2.3.0 PTR - 5/27/2025 *

Dear Blizzard Team and Management:

Here’s a reminder of some helpful suggestions I posted recently for you to consider adding to Diablo 4 to make the game better overall.

@JonJustice-1981

Here are Five (5) Suggestions plus a few more for the Blizzard D4 Team to consider adding to improve and fix Diablo IV for all D4 Players:

1) Blizzard should extend D4 Season Game Play to 4 months instead of 3 months, and all Special Powers (such as Boss Powers etc.) from every season from Season 1 to the most recent and all future seasons should roll over to the Eternal Realm. The simple way to add all Special Extra Powers from each Season of D4 is by adding a menu UI in the game, like when we change our Transmog and Appearance - and in that menu UI - D4 players can choose which Special Power they want to use and from which Season, (Players would only be able to choose one special power at a time and change it later if they want), and now the Eternal Realm will have a collection of all previous special powers available to all players, except for the special power during an active season. - For example: The new UI menu would notify the player for a simple quest to enable using it, and it would then display: Eternal Powers Library or Archives in the new UI menu etc. and from there the Eternal Realm can have all D4 players go back in time and re-experience those cool epic powers to enhance their ongong journey in the Eternal Realm and compete in Leaderboards. It would also be great for players to test out and try out other classes, too. This would be awesome to have in Diablo IV and if Blizzard adds this to the Eternal Realm it won’t be so dead anymore. This can also be added in any new season whereas the Player can choose any power they wish to use for season game play, but the during season game play the most powerful will be of the current active season, which means players are encouraged to use the newest powers, or play however they like since they already earned those powers in previous seasons. Note: I will be sending Blizzard a more detailed description of my suggestions for Blizzard to consider after the PTR some time in June or July 2025 - since there is a lot more to this that would not only make players very happy but also make D4 truly fun, epic and rewarding for all players when they play each Season. By adding this very cool feature in Diablo 4 - an Extra Power Option from all Seasons to Diablo in the Eternal Realm and Season Game Play - this will also help Blizzard with their game analytics, big time! D4 players would welcome something like this considering how dead the game is in the Eternal Realm, and how Season game play can end early for many players. In addition, Blizzard should compliment this new feature by adding more epic, fun events in the game in both the Eternal Realm and Season Game play, and Hardcore Mode as well, of course, aside from the typical helltides, nightmare dungeons, pit and other repetitive things in Diablo 4 that has become rather boring to do over and over.

2) Blizzard should stop being so ridiculous and punishing to their loyal D4 players and increase Mythic drop rates across the board along with other Unique and Legendary gear, and Runes players need as they progress in the game. This includes crafting of gear and weapons. And also, please improve the awful algorithm in Tempering. Improving these in-game things would be greatly appreciated, Blizzard D4 Team!

3) Remove some of the tedious, unnecessary and ridiculous obstacles so players can actually enjoy game play and feel good about progressing in the game and having better access to Bosses and rewards when they put in the time to grind, especially when there are only a few months to every season in D4.

4) Blizzard definitely needs to give all D4 players the ability to Toggle On or Off the very annoying, disrupting and heavy Fog and Dust weather effects in the game, or tone it down by 50% at least, because as of this writing there is NO way to actually disable or limit these heavy weather effects in the game. These heavy and interfering weather effects in Diablo 4 clearly happen too often and it disrupts game play visuals and experience overall. This has been going on since Diablo IV launched and still nothing has been done to improve and resolve this in the game. I hope Blizzard gets around to fixing and improving this, or gives players the ability to disable it in option settings. It’s ridiculous.

5) Blizzard needs to upgrade, improve and boost the clunky, buggy, too slow, random stopping Mount in Diablo 4, big time! The Mount in D4 is too damn slow, and definitely needs to be faster - much faster! If a player wants to go fast on the Mount to get to a destination, don’t hinder and limit the Mount speed and player. Allow for the Mount to simply run faster when the player needs to have the Mount run faster. Players can run faster than the Mount itself. That’s NOT good. And, the Mount should not be so damn clunky and dumb where it suddenly stops by a little tiny rock or plant or anything when there is a clear area ahead while traveling. As for enemies dismounting a player during Mount travel, no problem but don’t make it so easy for this to happen either. And another thing, getting stuck for such small things during Mount travel is the most annoying and frustrating experience in the game, and with the cool Mounts out there in D4 they shouldn’t be so damn clunky, buggy, slow and limited in their speed during travel! You can definitely make Diablo 4 Mounts a lot better, Blizzard and I hope you improve and fix this sooner than later.

On the Awful and Shameful Battle Pass Changes - this needs to be corrected:
Although this suggestion is not part of the list, I’m just going to throw this in here: Revert the Battle Pass to the original where D4 Players received clear and steady rewards, and more rewards and Platinum, versus the awful and shameful Battle Pass rip off you added this season 8 - which has less rewards, 500 less Platinum and less game play time for the same price and that is NOT right to do to any player / consumer who has paid for Diablo IV and continues supporting the game! This needs to be corrected, big time, Blizzard Team and Management. I hope Blizzard does the right thing with this soon!

On Proposed Mass Nerfs in Diablo 4 for Season 9:
As for mass nerfs in the game, I strongly disagree with Blizzard about doing ANY mass nerfs, AGAIN, as proposed and mentioned in the Campfire chat. Note: Weakening the D4 player’s character in the game and making the experience worse, less fun, and more tedious overall is definitely NOT good for D4 or any game, especially considering Diablo 4 is still in Beta since it launched. Diablo 4 is, after all, a fantasy power game and by taking away the power and fantasy from all D4 players after they invested time and money into the game, and put in the grind like hell to progress in a limited time Season game play it is not a good feeling at all, Blizzard Team! I am sure Blizzard understands this.* I hope whatever Blizzard has planned with balancing will not make Diablo 4 worse and more tedious for players, because if it does this would be plain out bad and not the way to go about balancing the game. Blizzard would also risk losing a lot of players if Diablo 4 becomes worse instead of better, and that would be an epic fail. You can do better, Blizzard D4 Team!* This is NOT rocket science, Blizzard! You can make D4 so much better!

On Music for Diablo IV:
Blizzard should consider adding new, epic and inspiring music to the Diablo 4 soundtrack similar to Two Steps from Hell - Thomas Bergersen and or Pierre Gerwig Langer / Lynne Publishing - Call For Heroes epic music for example. The current in-game music is not so good, inspiring or motivating. You need to have some more uplifting music for D4 Hero Players during the awful, repetitive grind in the hell world of Sanctuary, Blizzard Team.

On NPCs - Main Characters and Bosses Voices and Dialogue during game play:
Blizzard should enhance, add more variety of voices / dialogue instead of having the same words from NPCs, Main Characters and Bosses repeated over and over. Make it surprising, unexpected and entertaining when D4 Players interact with NPCs, Main Characters and Bosses in Diablo 4, as you know you could do this well, Blizzard Team! Interacting in the game with more variety of voices and reactions would make D4 a lot more entertaining and fun to play, too!

Lastly, I have many more suggestions to share with the D4 Community for Blizzard to consider, but I will post about that after Diablo 4 PTR is over, as I prefer not to assume anything and just see for myself and then share my thoughts, feedback and suggestions.

Either way, I will reserve further comments, feedback and suggestions until after the PTR ends and I actually see how things play out in late June or July 2025.

With all that said, let’s hope Blizzard actually considers my suggestions in this post to help improve Diablo IV, and does the right thing and actually fixes and improves Diablo IV (D4) for all D4 Players, and makes the game and experience fun, rewarding and epic as we all expect and paid for. I truly wish to see Diablo IV succeed and become an awesome, epic, fun, rewarding and entertaining game, and I believe Blizzard can make it happen! You can do better, Blizzard Team and Management, and we all hope you do soon!

That’s all for now! Cheers and Happy Gaming all! - JJ -

[Theurgist-2543]

LOL , i guess you can predict number of active players from forums. Well done you bud