To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Diablo series and the coming 26th anniversary of the release of Diablo II, Blizzard has released a new DLC for Diablo II called Reign of the Warlock. This DLC adds a new class, a new uber boss rush, and even some new items for all classes.
1. How to Get Diablo II DLC: Reign of the Warlock
There are now several ways of picking up this brand new DLC and the base game: through Battlenet, the Xbox Store, PlayStation Store, Switch, and Steam. The base and DLC combo are the same price in all, and the expansion has its own price if you already own the base game. You must have the Resurrected Infernal Addition for the DLC to work.
- The base game plus the DLC is available on all platforms for $39.99 USD.
- If you already own the base game on PlayStation, Battlenet, Switch, or Xbox, the DLC costs $24.99 USD.
- Steam only has the base game and DLC combo available, as it was released on February 11, 2026 to Steam for the first time.
- Xbox Game Pass members will get access to the base game for free.
2. What Is Included in the Reign of the Warlock DLC?
Everything you can get in Diablo II with the new DLC.
In Reign of the Warlock, you will get a bunch of new quality of life changes, upgrades, a new class, and some other things. Let’s dive into everything that is different between the original 2021 release of the remaster and the DLC.
- Warlock has been added as a new class to Diablo II for the first time.
- Enhanced Terror Zones.
- Loot filters.
- A new endgame battle called the Colossal Ancients.
- New items.
- New runewords.
- More character slots.
- An item Chronicle.
- Items for both World of Warcraft and Diablo 4.
3. The New Diablo II Warlock Class
After more than 20 years since its release, Warlock has finally made it into Diablo II. This new class is more than just a reskinned Necromancer; it has its own uniques, skills, and more. Here is everything you need to know about it before starting a new adventure with one.
The new Diablo II Warlock class.
3.1 The Chaos Skill Tree
The first skill tree you can choose to pursue is the Chaos skill. It focuses on fire spells and laying sigils on the ground to boost damage. This is the recommended leveling tree for Warlock; it makes for the easiest time getting to max level.
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| Miasma Bolt | Active | Fires a bolt of darkness that releases a cloud of entropy. Deals 1-3 magic damage and 3-5 magic damage per second | Miasma Chain: 10% magic damage per level and 20% average magic damage per second per level Abyss: 10% magic damage per level and 20% average magic damage per second per level |
| Ring of Fire | Active | Release a volley of expanding hellfire in all directions that pushes enemies away. | Flame Wave: 10% fire damage per second Apocalypse: 10% fire damage per second |
| Lethargy | Sigil | Lay a sigil on the ground that slows and weakens enemies | |
| Rancor | Sigil | Lay a sigil on the ground that enrages those who enter, and has a chance for enemies to attack one another | |
| Miasma Chain | Active | Summon shadowy chains that emit a suffocating miasma between you and the target. | Miasma Bolt: 10% magic damage per level and 20% average magic damage per second per level Abyss: 10% magic damage per level and 20% average magic damage per second per level |
| Flame Wave | Active | Unleashes a rolling wall of fire that burns the ground in its wake. | Ring of Fire: 10% fire damage per second Apocalypse: 10% fire damage per second |
| Death | Sigil | Lay a sigil on the ground that hastens the death of injured enemies in a violent explosion. Slays enemies with less than 13% health and deals 70-120% of the slain enemy’s health | |
| Enhanced Entropy | Passive | Passively improves your mastery over the entropic forces of shadow magic. Increases Miasma and Abyss radius and improves Miasma duration. | |
| Apocalypse | Active | Create a pentagram that engulfs enemies in hellfire. Reduces enemy fire resistance for Apocalypse’s damage. | Ring of Fire: 10% fire damage per second Flame Wave: 10% fire damage per second |
| Abyss | Active | Create a tear in the fabric of reality, which pulls enemies close before violently collapsing. | Miasma Bolt: 10% magic damage per level and 20% average magic damage per second per level Miasma Chain: 10% magic damage per level and 20% average magic damage per second |
A fire AoE for Warlock in Diablo II.
3.2 The Eldritch Skill Tree
The Eldritch skill tree is more about melee, using hexes to strengthen your position and crush everything in front of you. If you want to be in close combat situations with your foes, this is the tree to choose.
| Skill Name | Type | Description | Receives Bonuses From |
| Levitation Mastery | Passive | Passively improves your ability to levitate your equipped weapon with your mind. Increases damage by 25%, attack rating by 40%, and crit chance by 5% | |
| Bane | Hex | Hexes your weapon to impair enemies and add magic damage. Reduces enemy attack rating by 25% and defense by 30%. Lasts for 6 seconds. | |
| Cleave | Active | Attack all enemies in an expanding arc. | Mirrored Blades: 10% damage per level Hex: Purge: 10% damage per level Eldritch Blast: 10% damage per level |
| Echoing Strike | Active | Create echoes of your melee weapons that pierce through enemies, dealing 75% of their damage. | Mirrored Blades: Additional Echoes created every fifth level, and 5% damage per level Blade Warp: 5% damage per level. |
| Purge | Hex | Hexes your weapon to warp enemies, creating a 69% chance for enemies to erupt when hit. The hex is removed after 1 explosion. | |
| Blade Warp | Active | Hurl an astral weapon that teleports you to its impact point. | |
| Psychic Ward | Active | Creates a mental shield that absorbs damage from attacks and can stun melee attackers. | Cleave: 15 damage absorbed per level Levitation Mastery: 15 damage absorbed per level |
| Eldritch Blast | Active | Blast hexed enemies with draining magical damage and refresh the duration of their active hex. Steal 5% of damage as life and mana. | Purge: 50% magic damage per level Blade Warp: 50% magic damage per level Psychic Ward: 2-second bonus duration per level |
| Siphon | Hex | Hexes your weapon to extract the lifeforce of slain enemies. Gain 1 life and mana after each kill. | Engorge: +1 life and mana after kill per level |
| Mirrored Blades | Active | Attack with mirror duplicates of your weapon. Duplicates deal 60% of the original weapon’s damage. |
3.3 The Demon Skill Tree
And the third skill tree is the minion skill tree. If you choose to level with this one, it will feel almost identical to Necromancer in the beginning, but it starts to gain its own feel after the first few hours.
| Skill Name | Type | Description | Receives Bonuses From: |
| Demonic Mastery | Passive | Passively improves your summoned and bound demons. Adds 1 maximum demon, buffs minions with 25 attack rating, 10% damage, and 10% movement speed | |
| Goatman | Summon | Summons a Goatman to fight by your side. | Death Mark: 1% chance of Crushing Blow per level |
| Blood Oath | Passive | Passively bind the lifeforce of your demon to protect from enemy attacks. Your demons gain 50% life, 14% resistance to all, 2% physical damage reduction, and 5% damage redirection from you to your demon. | |
| Death Mark | Active | Forces your demon to teleport to an enemy and attack them | |
| Tainted | Summon | Summons a Tainted to fight by your side. | Blood Boil: 30% fire damage per level |
| Blood Boil | Active | Erupt your demon’s blood to damage nearby enemies. Costs 15% of your demon’s life. | Blood Oath: 20% fire damage per level Engorge: 20% damage per level |
| Defiler | Summon | Summons a Defiler that binds enemy souls together to take 26% shared damage. | |
| Engorge | Active | Heal and empower your demon by feeding it a corpse, gaining 15% attack speed, 30% healing, and 15% life steal. | Blood Oath: 25% defense and 5% life replenishment per level |
| Consume | Active | Sacrifice your demon in exchange for power, giving you 5% bonus to maximum life and 15% movement speed. | |
| Bind Demon | Active | Force an injured demon to do your bidding with a 10% chance. | Death Mark: 1% increased chance to Bind Demon per level |
In-game warlock spells.
4. New Weapons, Items, and Runewords
Along with the new class comes some new runewords, armor, and weapons for them to use. The Warlock has two sets currently in Diablo II: the Normal and Elite sets. These each have their own unique stats and set bonuses.
4.1 Warlock Normal Set
The Bane’s set is a unique set inside Diablo II. It is the only set that gets unique additional bonuses based not on the number of set pieces, but on which of those set pieces are equipped together.
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Bane’s Wraithskin
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Bane’s Authority
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Set bonuses for the Whole Bane’s Set
- +1 to all skills
- +15 to Dexterity
- +25% faster cast rate
- +40% better chance of getting magic Items
A warlock holds a grimoire in a Diablo II cinematic.
4.2 Warlock Elite Set
The Warlock Elite set or Horazon’s Splendor, is a five-piece armor/weapon set with a bunch of excellent bonuses for Warlocks. It has some big bonuses for collecting all the pieces.
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Horazon’s Countenance
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Horazon’s Dominion
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Horazon’s Hold
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Horazon’s Legacy
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Horazon’s Secrets
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4.3 Other Warlock-Only Items
There are also a pile of items that can only be used by Warlocks. These are all different types of grimoires at different levels for Warlock players to build with.
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Ars Al’Diabolos
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Ars Tor’Baalos
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Ars Dul’Mephistos
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Measured Wrath
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One of the Warlock-only grimoires now added to Diablo II.
4.4 Grimoires
For offhand, Warlocks can carry grimoires that offer staff mods. They can also have other, elemental stat boosts, and there are several varieties to find.
| Normal | Exceptional | Elite |
| Old Book | Burnt Text | Forgotten Volume |
| Tome | Dark Tome | Occult Tome |
| Codex | Dark Codex | Occult Codex |
| Compendium | Possessed Compendium | Blasphemous Compendium |
| Grimoire | Possessed Grimoire | Blasphemous Grimoire |
4.5 New Runewords
There are five new Runewords that can be created with your runes. Included are the recipes and the stats for each.
| Name | Type | Recipe | Stats |
| Authority | 3-Socket Body Armor | Hel Shael Ral |
5% Chance to cast level 15 Miasma Chain on striking 2% Chance to cast level 10 Pyrotic Ward when struck +2 to All Skills +20% Faster Hit Recovery +45% Enhanced Defense Fire Resist +15% Requirements -15% |
| Coven | 3-Socket Helm | Ist Ral Io |
5% Chance to cast level 10 Sigil: Lethargy when struck +1 to All Skills +10% Faster Cast Rate Enhanced Defense +10 to Vitality Fire Resist +10% +5 to Life per level 40% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items |
| Ritual | 3-Socket Dagger | Amn Shael Ohm |
13% Chance to cast level 1 Sigil: Death when struck +40% Increased Attack Speed +264% Enhanced Damage 20% Bonus to Attack Rating +3158 Damage to Demons 7% Life stolen per hit Slain Monsters Rest in Peace +4 to Life after each Kill |
| Vigilance | 2-Socket Shield | Dol Gul |
5% Chance to cast level 10 Ring of Fire when struck +10% Faster Run/Walk +30% Faster Block Rate +97% Enhanced Defense +21 to Life Replenish Life +7 +20 to Mana +5% to Maximum Poison Resist All Resistances +34 |
| Void | 3-Socket Dagger | Thul Zod Ist |
Indestructible +2 to All Skills +40% Faster Cast Rate Adds 3-14 Cold Damage +10-15% to Magic Skill Damage +1-3 to Abyss +8-12 to All Attributes 30% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items Level 4 Decrepify (35/35 Charges) |
4.6 Other Item Changes for Patch 3.0
As stated above, there are now grimoires exclusive for the Warlock class in Diablo II. There are also a few other additions and changes to items, and not just for Warlocks.
4.5.1 Dagger Changes
Since there is a new class, there have also been some changes to the skill pool that daggers can roll with. Each dagger now has the ability to roll up to three, random +1-3 to Warlock Skills. Daggers have been removed from gambling, but are now available at vendors.
4.5.2 Other New Items
Warlocks aren’t the only class with new items. Several other new weapons and armor pieces are available for other classes as well in Reign of the Warlock.
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Dreadfang
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Wraithstep
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Bloodpact Shard
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Opalvein
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Gheed’s Wager
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Hellwarden’s Will
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5. The Item Chronicle, Stash Tabs, and Loot Filters
The Chronicle gives you information on where you found an item and when.
There isn’t much to say about this upgrade except: phew! Having loot filters and stash tabs helps to bring Diablo II into this decade, and it makes it so much easier to keep your items organized for easy selling and handling. And they are all seamlessly integrated into the UI for ease of use.
The Item Chronicle is a tab that shows you how much items out of all the possible items you have found so far, when you found them, and what sort of enemy dropped the item as well. This is a great tool for farming, helping out others, and keeping tabs on which items you are still missing.
6. Changes to Terror Zones
Before the update, Terror Zones would rotate once an hour. Now, with the shortened schedule, you only have to wait for 30 minutes. They rotate to different groups for each of the Acts of the game.
| Act 1 Terror Zones | Act 2 Terror Zones | Act 3 Terror Zones | Act 4 Terror Zones | Act 5 Terror Zones |
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A D2 Warlock in a Terror Zone.
7. Colossal Ancients Uber Bosses
The Colossal Ancients fight.
The endgame of Diablo II has been reworked in order to make it even more challenging for those who wish to face it. To trigger one of these epic battles, you need to kill a Terrorized Act Boss, which has a chance to drop a statue. Once you have five, you can use them to open the fight against the Colossal Ancients.
As you kill the Ancients, each of the remaining surviving Ancients gain new powers, making them more and more dangerous as the fight continues. But you will also be rewarded for your efforts. Each Ancient can drop one of two jewels, depending on the last Colossal Ancient you killed. You can carry as many of these jewels as you like, but you can only equip one across all your gear at a time.
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Colossal Ancient Talic |
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Defender’s Fire
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Defender’s Bile
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Colossal Ancient Korlic |
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Protector’s Frost
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Protector’s Stone
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Colossal Ancient Madawc |
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Guardian’s Thunder
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Guardian’s Light
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Another cinematic screenshot from Diablo II.
8. How to Get Your Items in Diablo IV and World of Warcraft
There are a couple of items that Reign of the Warlock drops for other games. One is for World of Warcraft retail, and the other two are for Diablo IV.
8.1 Horadric Cube Housing Decor
In order to get your Horadric Cube Housing Decor in World of Warcraft, you will need to do nothing but login. However, if you want to use it, you will need to have access to Midnight‘s housing system, which requires the purchase of the expansion.
8.2 Diablo IV DLC Unlocks
When you purchase the DLC for Diablo II, you will get two items for Diablo IV. To unlock the Forbidden Tethers Back Trophy and Kervek the Putrid Pet, just log into your account. However, some players have stated that their pet is missing from their account due to a bug.
- First, login to Diablo IV.
- Check your Wardrobe Tab for Kervek the Putrid Pet.
- If you cannot find the pet in your Wardrobe Tab, try restarting the game.
- If Kervek is still not in your inventory, submit a support ticket to Blizzard.
