Diablo 4 Season 9 Update: Sins of the Horadrim

Publication date : 2025-07-01

The new 9th season of Diablo 4, Sins of the Horadrim, will be launched on July 2. Explore the new permanent nightmare dungeon update and activities throughout Sanctuary, create unique skills, and be ready to face familiar enemies with renewed anger.

New Season Background Story

The ancient sins of the Horadrim have awakened again. Players will pursue a forgotten ritual hidden deep in Sancutario and uncover the corruption and secrets behind the Horadrim ancestors. This season continues the expansion of the "Corruption" theme in Season 8, integrating the confrontation between the holy and the sinful.

New Core Gameplay Mechanisms

1. Horadric Spells

Players can freely combine the three components of Catalyst, Infusion and Arcana to customize exclusive spell effects:

Catalyst determines the basic damage type and range.

Infusion changes elemental properties and additional effects (such as igniting the ground, slowing down).

Arcana provides additional gains (invincibility, resource recovery, etc.), up to three types can be carried.

Spells can be attached to any skill to trigger a double attack effect

2. Horadric Vault

A limited-time challenge copy added to the Nightmare Dungeon. Enemies in the designated area must be cleared within the countdown to complete the Harmony.
After successful harmony, the final boss will be faced. The quality of the reward treasure chest depends on the harmony level.
Produces key materials Obducite (used to create advanced equipment) and remaining dungeon buffs.

Endgame Content Update

1. Sublime Nightmare

Challenge three nightmare dungeons with increasing difficulty in a row, and the affix effects will be stacked layer by layerYou need to defeat the enhanced version of Boss Astaroth in Torment difficulty:

The battle is divided into two stages: the first stage is riding the nightmare warhorse, and the second stage is dismounting and fighting the mount "Angry Fusion Beast" to form a double boss battleYou must kill Astaroth first, otherwise the mount will be resurrected

2. Nightmare Dungeon Affix Update

All nightmare emblems are added by default with a positive and negative double affix combination (such as "Monster movement speed is reduced but life is increased")
New affix types:

Horadric Reserve (extra gem fragments, seasonal currency, etc. are dropped from the treasure chest).

Equipment Treasure Hunt (collectable items can be upgraded to treasure chest rewards).

Strength Altar (generates a designated type of altar).

Others

Forgotten Wisdom: There is a chance to generate experience points when killing enemies, and experience value wells will also appear somewhere in the dungeon.

Treasure Breach: A group of treasure-stealing goblins will invade the dungeon.

Horadrim Vault: A Horadrim Vault will appear.

Get New Unique Items

Powerful new unique items appear on the battlefield, empowering your skills and allowing you to slash demons with the speed of teaching.

1. Barbarian Exclusive - Hoof of the Mountain (Unique Boots)

Unique Ability: When you reach your Rage cap, your Rage drains rapidly until it is depleted, and all of your basic skills slash, dealing 70-100% increased damage [x]

2. Druid Exclusive - Corrupted Lightbringer (Unique Two-Handed Weapon)

Unique Ability: If there are no Poison Pools nearby, Shatter creates a Poison Pool that guarantees a Suppression effect, and deals 200-600% of its normal damage as Poison Damage over 7 seconds. Shatter causes all nearby Poison Pools to splash, dealing 20-60% of the Poison Pool's total damage in the area and radius. Increasing the crush radius affects the poison pool and its splash range.

3. Necromancer exclusive - Hand of Naz (unique gloves)

Unique Abilities:

When sacrificing a Skeleton Warrior and a Golem at the same time, you will get an additional Skeleton Mage for each minion sacrificed.
When a Skeleton Mage attacks an enemy 25 times without dying, it will upgrade to a Skeleton Archmage.
When attacked, the Skeleton Archmage will teleport to safety, and its attacks will occasionally disperse when they hit, dealing an additional 50-100% damage to the target, and attacking up to 3 additional targets. The time interval between attack dispersions is reduced by 50%. The Skeleton Archmage will now enter an unimpeded state after teleporting for 1 second. The Archmage is slightly larger.

4. Rogue exclusive - Nimituk's Death Mask (unique helmet)

Unique Abilities: When casting a slash, you can now overcast, and when the energy is low, it will consume 8% 10% of the health instead. Consuming HP to cast Frenzy increases its damage by 50-70% 30-50%, and attack speed by 50% for 5 seconds.

5. Exclusive to Magicians - Snake Eyes (Unique Amulet)

Unique Abilities:

Hydra is now a core skill, summoning 3 Hydras that explode when attacks hit.
Each additional head of a Hydra beyond the original 3 will make it larger and deal 50-100% more damage[x].

6. Exclusive to Soul Masters - Barazan's Loincloth (Unique Pants)

Unique Abilities: Each attack deals 100-150% 200-300% of thorn damage to close enemies, and also deals 100% of this damage as Poison Damage over 3 seconds. Each time you counter thorn damage, this poison damage is increased by 100%, up to a maximum of 300%, for 5 seconds.

Season-exclusive Content

Season questline: Uncover the past crimes of the Horadrim mage Dornan and purify the blood relics corrupted by Astalor.
Season rewards: Complete the sixth chapter of the journey to get the pet Dante (automatically pick up gold and materials).
Horadrim Knowledge Reputation: Advance the track to unlock gorgeous treasure chests, profession-exclusive treasure chests and legendary secrets.

System Optimization and New Features

Permanent adjustments:

- You can directly activate the next emblem in the nightmare dungeon without returning to the tow.

- The console version fully supports keyboard and mouse operation.

- New unique dark gold equipment for all professions (such as Barbarian Rage Split, Necromancer Skeleton Archmage Evolution, etc.)

Performance optimization: Added search function to the skill tree, increased dark gold drop rate, support for 4K/120FPS mode.

Note: You must complete the basic story missions before you can start the season journey.

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