Summary
TheDiablo 4class changes planned to debut in Season 9 have been leaked, courtesy of some avid dataminers. The newly uncovered balancing tweaks will be available as part of the latestDiablo 4Public Test Realm (PTR) experience, which will start during the final week of May 2025.
According toDiablo 4’s 2025 roadmap, Season 9 will be called Sins of the Horadrim. The upcoming season is planned to run from July to September 2025. As per usual, Blizzard will be testing its major content drop via a PTR experience. The latest PTR build of the game—identified by version number 2.3.0—will be available between May 27 and June 3, exclusively on PC.
The upcoming patch has been datamined byWowheadahead of its release. The newly leaked findings suggest that Season 9 will introduce dozens of changes, including tweaks foreveryDiablo 4class. Quantity-wise, the Sorcerer class is leading the patch with 14 skill changes. These include a buff to Spark, whose four bolts will now deal 25% damage each, up from 12%. The arcing lightning of Arc Lash is receiving a comparable increase, with its damage rising from 42% to 80%. Similarly, the damage-over-time effects of Fire Bolt and Firewall have been boosted to 90% and 300%, respectively.
Diablo 4 Season 9 PTR Includes 6 Barbarian Skill Buffs
On the other end of the quantity spectrum isDiablo 4’s Barbarian class, which will only receive half a dozen skill changes as part of the upcoming PTR experience. Among them is a major enhancement to Bash, whose damage has been raised from 33% to 90%, with an identical tweak also planned for Lunging Strike. The datamined details also include a Flay buff, increasing its Bleeding effect damage from 48% to 115%. Likewise, each pair of Frenzy-induced hits will now inflict 70% damage, up from 30%. Hammer of the Ancients will see a modest damage increase, going from 98% to 110%. Lastly, Leap will now deal 77% damage instead of 55%, while its knockback effect will be replaced by a slowing one that reduces enemy movement speed by 70% for five seconds.
The Season 9 PTR update is also set to introduce some changes to theDiablo 4Aspects. For example, the Necromancer’s Blighted Aspect will now reward consecutive hits with the Shadowblight Key Passive with a 15–25% damage increase for each attack, resetting after six seconds from the first hit. Previously, this Aspect gave a larger (35–55%) damage increase, but only activated after hitting enemies ten times.
