Diablo 3 Season 28 release date

February 17, 2023

Diablo 3 season 28 release date

A full rundown of the PTR patch notes for Diablo 3 2.7.5, as well as the release date for Season 28 of Diablo 3, can be found below.

Diablo 3 Season 28 release date

Blizzard has not yet announced an official start date for Season 28.

According to some experts, Season 28 will premiere during the last week of February. This indicates that the most likely start date is February 24. This is merely an estimate based on PTR announcements and the length of previous seasons.

Season 28 PTR announcements

Blizzard always tests new seasons on the PTR for four to five weeks before they come out. On its official PTR blog, you can find information like:

  • Season 28 PTR start – January 31
  • Season 28 PTR end – February 7
  • Season 27 end – February 19

If Season 28 began testing on January 31, Blizzard should release the Season between February 24 and 28. The PTR begins exactly four weeks later on February 28.

Season 28 runtime

Also worth noting are the lengths of Season 27, Season 28, and earlier seasons. Season 27 has been going on for almost six months, which is longer than any other season. Since Diablo IV comes out on June 6, it’s likely that Season 28 will be the last season of Diablo III. Given how powerful the new season mechanics are and how the balance changes with the new season, this makes a lot of sense. 

As always, these potential launch dates are only estimates, so take them with a grain of salt until we receive official confirmation from Blizzard Entertainment.

Diablo 3 PTR 2.7.5 patch notes details

Season 28: Rites Of Sanctuary

For Season 28, Rites of Sanctuary, we’re travelling deep into the mysterious ruins of the Festering Woods. Amid a hunting expedition, citizens hailing from New Tristram stumbled across an ominous Altar carved from an archaic material bearing cryptic markings. Shaken to their core by the eldritch aroma of the monolith, they’ve enlisted the assistance of brave Nephalem willing to investigate this sinister discovery that was once left to time—the Altar of Rites.

Home to power thought to be extinct from Sanctuary, the Altar of Rites will bestow these mystic forces upon worthy Nephalem. . .after a sacrifice is offered. You can begin interacting with the Altar of Rites at Level one.

Upon arrival at the Altar of Rites, players will see 26 icons called Seals and three Legendary Potion Powers. Take a moment to familiarize yourself with the elements below:

  • A: Your Kill Streak timer duration and reward bonus are doubled.
  • B: Pools of Reflection last for the entire Season and are not removed by death.
  • C: Items have no level requirement.
  • D: +200 Damage
  • E: +25% Missile Damage Reduction
  • F: +25% Movement Speed (Uncapped)
  • G: Increase damage against elites by 15%.
  • H: Picking up Health Globes grants a shield for 5% of your maximum health for 7 seconds. Max stacks 5.
  • I: +25% Melee Damage Reduction.
  • J: Increases your highest elemental skill damage bonus by 10%.
  • K: Increase damage against elites by 20%.
  • L: +10% Damage
  • M: Double the amount of Death’s Breaths that drop.
  • N: Critical hits grant resource: Mana: 15, Hatred: 5, Wrath: 5, Arcane Power: 3, Fury: 3, Spirit: 5, Essence: 5.
  • O: Double the amount of Bounty Caches that drop from completing bounties.
  • P: Progress orbs from Nephalem and Greater Rifts are picked up automatically.
  • Q: Reduces the damage taken from elites by 25%.
  • R: +15% Damage
  • S: Gain immunity to crowd-controlling effects.
  • T: Gain passability.
  • U: Pets pick up Death’s Breath.
  • V: Elite packs drop one additional progress orb.
  • W: Increase damage done to Bosses by 25%.
  • X: Pets pick up and salvage common, magic, and rare items.
  • Y: Increase your chance to Dodge by 15%.
  • Z: Double the chance to find a legendary item purchased from Kadala.
  • Potion AA: When you drink your health potion, you manifest one of three runic circles on the ground that grant increased damage, increased cooldown reduction, or increased resource cost reduction.
  • Potion AB: When you drink your health potion, all enemies within 25 yards deal 25% less damage.
  • Potion AC: When you drink your health potion, gain a random shrine or pylon effect.
  • AD: When a primal item drops, a second random primal item drops as well.

How Seals And Potions Work

As you can see, after unlocking the first Seal, the order in which you unlock additional Seals and obtain their powers is entirely up to you and which powers align with your character’s build the most. Once a Seal or Legendary Potion Power is unlocked, you’ll immediately receive that Seal or Potion’s power and will have the ability to unlock connected Seals or Potions once you have the required materials. All Seals and Potions can be unlocked by players and the powers apply to all your characters—these powers last for the entirety of Season 28.

How to Unlock Seals And Potions

Unlocking Seals and Potions will be no easy feat, especially after multiple sacrifices—you’ll find yourself rummaging across Sanctuary slaying scores of demons hellbent on preventing you from acquiring the Altar of Rites’ full power.

Players must gather materials listed in the Altar of Rites menu and sacrifice them in order to gain a Seal or Potion’s power. In addition to receiving the power after unlocking, you’ll notice the generic text previously displayed has been swapped with a small story scrap about Sanctuary’s tumultuous past.

To unlock a Seal, the Seal preceding it must first be unlocked—this does not apply to Seals R, S, and T because of how they’re positioned within the Altar. For example, if you want to unlock Seal B or C, Seal A must first be unlocked. There is also no limit to how many Seals or Potions can be unlocked within a given time period, if you have the required materials to sacrifice to the Altar. Regardless of the order in which you unlock Seals and Potions, the cost will increase as shown below:

Study the cost of each sacrifice and theorize where within Sanctuary you can find some of these rare materials.

  • 1: 10 Reusable Parts
  • 2: 1 Flawless Diamond (or greater), 15 Arcane Dust, 20 Resuable Parts
  • 3: 1 Greater Rift Key, 10 Death’s Breaths
  • 4: Any Class Specific Set Helm
  • 5: 20 Forgotten Souls, 10 Khanduran Runes, 10 Caldeum Nightshade, 10 Arreat War Tapestry, 10 Corrupted Angel Flesh, 10 Westmarch Holy Water
  • 6: 1 Leoric’s Regret, 1 Vial of Putridness, 1 Idol of Terror, 1 Heart of Fright
  • 7: Reaper’s Wraps
  • 8: 30 Forgotten Souls
  • 9: 1,100 Bloodshards
  • 10: 1 Flawless Royal Ruby, 20 Death’s Breaths, Ring of Royal Grandeur
  • 11: 1 Flawless Royal Emerald, 30 Khanduran Runes, 30 Caldeum Nightshade, 30 Arreat War Tapestry, 30 Corrupted Angel Flesh, 30 Westmarch Holy Water
  • 12: 20 Greater Rift Keys, 1 Ramaladni’s Gift
  • 13: 1,300 Bloodshards
  • 14: Petrified Scream
  • 15: Challenge Rift Cache
  • 16: 250 Forgotten Souls
  • 17: 1,400 Bloodshards
  • 18: Ancient Hellfire Amulet
  • 19: Never Ending Questions
  • 20: Ancient Puzzle Ring, 50 Khanduran Runes, 50 Caldeum Nightshade, 50 Arreat War Tapestry, 50 Corrupted Angel Flesh, 50 Westmarch Holy Water
  • 21: 500 Death’s Breaths, 300 Forgotten Souls
  • 22: 1,500 Bloodshards
  • 23: Whisper of Atonement Rank 125
  • 24: Any Augmented Weapon
  • 25: Staff of Herding
  • 26: 1,600 Bloodshards
  • Potion 1: 55 Primordial Ashes
  • Potion 2: 110 Primordial Ashes
  • Potion 3: 165 Primordial Ashes

HOW TO UNCOVER AN ANCIENT LEGEND-UNLOCK ALL SEALS

After you’ve conquered the armies of Hell and acquired the needed materials to unlock all 26 Seals and three Potions, you’ll receive a reward truly fitting of an unstoppable force—the Wings of Terror Cosmetic, Seal AD. We recommend you unlock all Seals and Potions within the Altar of Rites, not only to inspire terror within your foes, but also to piece together the fragments of Sanctuary’s past.

PRIMORDIAL ASHES FEATURE

Acquiring Primal Items is no small task. That’s why we are adding a new Primordial Ashes feature with this patch to aid in your quest. At the Blacksmith, you can now salvage a Primal Item for 55 Primordial Ashes.

We have also added a Primal Item recipe to Kanai’s Cube, allowing you to upgrade any non-crafted legendary item to a Primal Item for 100 Primordial Ashes. Only one upgraded Primal Item may be worn at a time and upgraded Primal Items do not retain the properties of the Legendary Item that was used. New affixes are rolled for all upgraded Primal Items.

MONK SKILL CHANGES

Monk

  • Combination Strike Passive Skill:
    • Each different Spirit Generator you use increases your damage by 10% for three seconds.
    • Each Spirit Generator you use increases the damage of your other Spirit Generators by 100% for 10 seconds.
  • Crippling Wave Skill:
    • Every third hit also dazes enemies within 11 yards, slowing their movement speed by 30% and attack speed by 20% for three seconds.
    • Every third hit also dazes enemies within 11 yards, slowing their movement speed by 30% and attack speed by 20% for 10 seconds.
      • Concussion Rune: Enemies hit by Crippling Wave deal 20% less damage for three 10 seconds.
      • Breaking Wave Rune: Enemies hit by Crippling Wave take 10% additional damage from all attacks for three 10 seconds.
  • Deadly Reach Skill:
    • Foresight Rune: Every third hit also increases the damage of all your stacks by 15% for five seconds.
    • Foresight Rune: Every third hit also increases the damage of all of your attacks by 15% for 10 seconds.
  • Way of the Hundred Fists:
    • Assimilation Rune: Each enemy hit with the third hit increases your damage by 5% for five seconds.
    • Assimilation Rune: Each enemy hit with the third hit increases your damage by 5% for 10 seconds.

Item Changes

Barbarian

  • Horde of the Ninety Savages (6-piece bonus):
    • Frenzy deals 1,000% increased damage per stack.
    • Frenzy deals 2,000% increased damage per stack.

Demon Hunter

  • Chanon Bolter:
    • Spike Traps lure enemies to them. Enemies may be taunted once every 12-16 seconds.
    • Your Spike Traps lure enemies to them and deal 150-200% increased damage. Enemies may be taunted once every 10 seconds.
  • The Demon’s Demise:
    • The blast from Spike Trap will damage all enemies again after one second.
    • Each blast from Spike Trap will damage all enemies again after 1 second and deals 150-200% increased damage.
  • Natalya’s Slayer:
    • Increases Rain of Vengeance Damage by 20-25%.
    • Increases Spike Trap Damage by 10 -15%.
  • Natalya’s Vengeance (2-piece bonus):
    • Reduce the cooldown of Rain of Vengeance by 4 seconds when you hit with a Hatred-generating attack or Hatred-spending attack.
    • Hitting an enemy summons a Spike Trap if it is on your action bar. Each Spike Trap detonation restores 1 Discipline.
  • Natalya’s Vengeance (4-piece bonus):
    • Rain of Vengeance deals 100% increased damage.
    • Laying a Spike Trap grants 60% damage reduction. The duration of this bonus is always equal to the number of already laid traps in seconds.
  • Natalya’s Vengeance (6-piece bonus):
    • After casting Rain of Vengeance, deal 14,000% increased damage and take 60% reduced damage for 10 seconds.
    • Spike Traps deal 10,000% increased damage, and each consecutive blast from the detonation chain reaction will deal 10% more damage than the previous blast.
  • The Shadow’s Mantle (2-piece bonus):
    • While equipped with a melee weapon, all damage is increased by 6,000%.
    • While equipped with a melee weapon, the damage of your Bolas, Chakram, Fan of Knives, and Impale is increased by 6,000%.
  • Trag’oul Coils:
    • Spike Traps gain the Impaling Spines Rune and are deployed twice as fast.
    • Spike Traps gain the Scatter Rune, are deployed twice as fast, and deal 150-200% increased damage.
  • Unhallowed Essence (6-piece bonus):
    • Hatred generators, Vengeance attacks, and Multishot deal 350% increased damage per point of Discipline the Demon Hunter currently has.
    • Hatred generators, Vengeance attacks, and Multishot deal 1700% increased damage per point of discipline the Demon Hunter currently has.

Monk

  • Patterns of Justice (6-piece bonus):
    • Hitting with Tempest Rush while Sweeping Wind is active increases the size of Sweeping Wind as well and increases all damage delt by 15,000%.
    • Hitting with Tempest Rush while Sweeping Wind is active increases the size of Sweeping Wind as well and increases all damage dealt by 20,000.
  • Raiment of Thousand Storms (4-piece bonus):
    • Dashing Strike spends 75 Spirit but refunds a Charge when it does.
    • Dashing Strike spends 25 Spirit but refunds a Charge when it does.

Necromancer

  • Masquerade of the Burning Carnival (6-piece bonus):
    • Bone Spear deals 6,000% increased damage
    • Bone Spear deals 9,000% increased damage. Simulacrums gain triple this bonus.

Wizard

  • The Typhon’s Veil (6-piece-bonus):
    • Hydras deal 2,000% increased damage for each Hydra head alive.
    • Hydras deal 4,000% increased damage for each Hydra head alive.

This concludes the Diablo 3 2.7.5 patch notes. On January 31, 2023, these will be available on the Diablo 3 PTR. If Blizzard is testing the Season 28 update on the PTR, an official release date can’t be far away.