What changed in D2 Survivors Resurrected, day by day.https://d2rsurvivors.com/https://d2rsurvivors.com/patch-notes/2026-10-30/https://d2rsurvivors.com/patch-notes/2026-10-30/The first public playtest. Eight heroes, five acts, four difficulties and a town to come home to, all drawn from your own copy of Diablo II: Resurrected.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p>The gates are open. This is the first build we’re putting in players’ hands: pick a hero, walk into the horde, and see how far you get before Baal.</p> <h2 id="new">New</h2> <h3 id="heroes">Heroes</h3> <ul> <li><strong>Eight classes</strong>: Amazon, Assassin, Necromancer, Barbarian, Paladin, Sorceress, Druid and the Warlock, each with all three of their skill trees.</li> <li>Every level-up deals you <strong>skill cards</strong>. Reroll, skip or banish the ones you don’t want.</li> <li>Max a skill to empower it, quicken it, widen it or split it, or <strong>evolve</strong> it into the bigger skill its tree builds towards.</li> <li><strong>Skill options</strong>: Books of Skill buy side-grades for your skills, each with its own trade-off.</li> </ul> <h3 id="the-climb">The climb</h3> <ul> <li><strong>Five acts</strong>, from the Blood Moor to the Worldstone Keep, each ending in its boss: Andariel, Duriel, Mephisto, Diablo and Baal.</li> <li>Beat Baal for <strong>Nightmare</strong>, then <strong>Hell</strong>, then the <strong>Inferno</strong> tiers, each harder than the last, with no ceiling. Choose your difficulty at the waypoint.</li> <li><strong>Quests</strong> in every act pay out the way they should: skill picks, stat points, life, resistances, gold and more.</li> <li>Champions, uniques and super uniques with their names, their powers and their loot.</li> </ul> <h3 id="leaderboards">Leaderboards</h3> <ul> <li><strong>Global leaderboards</strong>: log in with Discord from the main menu and your best runs post themselves.</li> <li>Race for the <strong>fastest Normal, Nightmare and Hell clears</strong>, or climb for the <strong>highest Inferno tier</strong>, all time or this week, overall or for your class.</li> <li>The same boards are live on <a href="https://d2rsurvivors.com/leaderboards/">the website</a>.</li> </ul> <h3 id="loot">Loot</h3> <ul> <li>Diablo II’s own item drops: magic, rare, set and unique items, rolled with real affixes.</li> <li>Sockets, gems, runes and <strong>runewords</strong>. The highest runes drop only from act bosses in Hell and Inferno.</li> <li>Charms, a belt full of potions, weapon swap, and a stash with shared tabs.</li> </ul> <h3 id="town">Town</h3> <ul> <li>A <strong>walkable town</strong> in every act, with its NPCs at their posts: buy, sell and gamble, hire a mercenary, and rank up your hero at the smith.</li> <li><strong>Akara</strong> resets your stats and skills for gold when a build needs a fresh start.</li> </ul> <h3 id="look-and-sound">Look and sound</h3> <ul> <li><strong>Diablo II: Resurrected’s own effects</strong>: its fire, frost and lightning, cast by your skills and lighting up the night around you.</li> <li>Its art, sounds and music throughout, from the campfire to the last boss.</li> <li><strong>Graphics presets</strong>: Low, Medium, High and Ultra, or Auto to pick one for your PC.</li> </ul> <h3 id="the-desktop-app">The desktop app</h3> <ul> <li><strong>One Windows installer.</strong> On first launch it finds your Diablo II: Resurrected and builds the game’s art from it, on your PC. Nothing of Blizzard’s is downloaded.</li> <li>You can play after a few minutes; the later acts get ready in the background while you do.</li> </ul> <h2 id="known-issues">Known issues</h2> <ul> <li>The installer isn’t signed yet. If Windows says “Windows protected your PC”, choose <strong>More info</strong>, then <strong>Run anyway</strong>.</li> <li>A few skills are still missing a part of their effect, such as Iron Golem’s thorns.</li> </ul> patch notes