Diablo 4 patch notes for 2.1.3 (March 4): Conduit Shrine buff, better Witch Powers, and more

Diablo 4 is dropping patch 2.1.3, another mid-season update for Season 7, on March 4, 2025. The patch notes for this have gone live already, and there's some good buffs to Witch powers, and for a few class abilities across-the-board. One particularly interesting but often-overlooked nook of gameplay, Conduit Shrines, got a much-needed buff — but it kind of sidesteps the problem where they hijack your build.

Here are the full patch notes for Diablo 4's patch 2.1.3, coming March 4.

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All changes coming to Diablo 4 with patch 2.1.3

Diablo 4 is giving its seasonal powers one final glow-up (Image via Blizzard Entertainment)

The following are the changes to the new Witch Powers introduced in Season 7:

Grow

• Damage per rank increased from 1% to 2.5%, maximum increased from 45% to 75%.

Doom Orb

• Damage bonus on kills and boss damage increased from 5% to 8%, maximum damage increased from 100% to 160%.

Firebat Servants

• Damage increased from 20% to 40% per hit.

Wave of Woe

• Bounce damage increased from 15% to 25%.

Hex of Flames

• Damage increased from 40% to 60%.

Poison Frog

• Poison damage total increased from 40% to 90% per rank.
• Explosion damage total increased from 50% to 120% per rank.

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Skill Changes - Druid

Waxing Gibbous

• Inherent additive Critical Strike damage replaced with +50% chance for Shred to deal double damage.

Wolf's Rain

• Hurricane damage per Wolf increased from 5-15% to 15-25%.

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Rogue

Assassin's Stride

• Shadow Imbued potency increased from 40-80% to 60-120%.

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Sorcerer

Skills and Passives

Ball Lightning

• Damage increased from 24% to 30%.

Glass cannon

• Damage increased from 6/12/18%[x] to 8/16/24%[x].

Vyr’s Mastery

• Chance for your Shock skill to arc to another enemy increased from 10% to 15%.

Esu’s Ferocity

• Fire Critical Strike Damage increased from 50% to 75%.
• Fire Critical Strike Chance increased from 10% to 40%.

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Spiritborn (Vessel of Hatred)

Sunstained War-Crozier

• Potency Skill damage increased from 10-20% per stack to 15-25%, and maximum increased from 100-200% to 150-250%.

Wushe Nak Pa

Primary Spirit Hall Potency increased from 100-200% to 200-300%.

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Unique Items

Axial Conduit

• Explosion now scales with Chain Lightning ranks.

Okun’s Catalyst

• This unique power has been reworded for clarity.
• Previous: Ball Lightning orbits you creating a static field that damages all enemies within for 140 - 180%[x] of Ball Lightning's damage per active ball. You are Unhindered as long as the field is active.
• Now: Casting Ball Lightning instead creates a separate static field around you that damages all enemies within for 140-180% Ball Lightning's damage per active ball. You are Unhindered as long as the field is active.

Strike of Stormhorn

• Increased damage from 160-200% to 175-225%.
• Now scales with Ranks of Ball Lightning.
• The unique power has been reworded for clarity.
• Previous: Ball Lightning splashes on impact for 160 - 200%[x] increased damage.
• Ball Lightning splashes on impact dealing 175-225% of its total damage instantly.

Season of Witchcraft

• The message that displays when an Uprooted Cocoon is emerged has been updated to not suggest a Head could be present in non-Torment difficulties.

Miscellaneous

• The default search parameters for Party Finder now include and are ordered by the player's current difficulty level and one difficulty level lower.
• The damage of Conduit Shrines has been adjusted to aggressively scale with player level and Paragon level.

Developer’s Note: For example, the average increase in damage from Conduit Shrines has increased by approximately 37x in Torment III.

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Diablo 4 Season 8 release got delayed for a couple of weeks, so it's possible that this is not the final mid-season patch for Season of Witchcraft. Stay tuned for more changes, and check out our other guides on the game:

• Diablo 4 Season 7 gives me S2 deja vu, and that's a double-edged sword
• Diablo 4 has turned its back on one of its best features from Season 4
• Diablo 4 Dark Citadel backlash: Are ARPGs the right genre for group content?
• Diablo 4 Season 7 build tier list for PvE