D2R Season 16 Start Date — November 13, 2026 (Official)

When does Season 16 start? (Official times)

Blizzard’s official Season 16 announcement locks the full schedule:

• Season 15 ends: Monday, November 9, 11:00 a.m. PST
• Season 16 / Patch 3.4 begins rolling out: Monday, November 9
• Ladder Season 16 starts: Friday, November 13, 5:00 p.m. PST

North America gets the ladder on Friday evening; Europe and Asia open early Saturday morning local time. Plan launch-weekend races around that split.

Legacy of Terror — Diablo 30th anniversary event

Blizzard’s separate anniversary post launches Legacy of Terror at the same moment as Ladder Season 16: November 13, 2026, 5:00 p.m. PST through November 19, 2026, 5:00 p.m. PST (Taiwan time: November 14, 9:00 a.m. to November 20, 9:00 a.m.). Both Ladder and Non-Ladder can join for six days.

• Guaranteed Diablo Clone every six hours (Hell only)
• After Baal, all zones on that difficulty become Terrorized Zones at once (optional toggle)
• Special Cow Portal in the Rogue Encampment — no Tristram side trip
• 100% Magic Find and 15% vendor discount (including Gamblers), all difficulties
• Rare chance slain monsters reanimate as Hell Bovine Minions

Full dates, disable steps, and official wording: Legacy of Terror guide. Sources: EN anniversary announcement / zh-TW.

Ladder modes in Season 16

Season 16 keeps the same four ladder modes as previous seasons:

• Pre-Expansion Ladder — standard mode, original four acts only.
• Pre-Expansion Hardcore Ladder — one life, original four acts only.
• Ladder — standard mode, all five acts including Lord of Destruction content.
• Hardcore Ladder — one life, all five acts including Lord of Destruction content.

What happens when Season 15 ends?

The reset rules follow the established pattern, restated in the Season 16 post:

• Ladder characters convert to non-ladder with their gear intact — nothing is deleted in this step.
• Shared stash becomes Withdraw Only. Items in that character group’s Shared Stash move into new Shared Stash tabs marked with a Past / Withdraw Only checkbox. You can take items out but cannot deposit.
• Season 14 Withdraw Only tabs are deleted when Season 15 ends — withdraw anything you still want from those older tabs before November 9.
• You have all of Season 16 to empty the Season 15 Withdraw Only tabs before the next rotation overwrites them.

For a full checklist of stash, characters, and ladder-only gear, see what happens to items at ladder reset.

Character conversion cutoff — November 16

The Season 16 announcement also tightens Expansion → Reign of the Warlock transfers:

• Starting November 16, players can no longer convert Expansion (LoD) Online characters (Ladder or Non-Ladder) to Reign of the Warlock.
• Still allowed: offline character conversions, and Classic → Expansion (LoD) conversions.

If you still have Online Expansion characters you want on ROTW, convert them before November 16. Shared stash does not travel with the character — ferry items first. Full checklist: Character Transfer Deadline.

Patch 3.4 overview (Reign of the Warlock only)

Patch 3.4 ships with Season 16. Blizzard is explicit about scope:

• Item changes and Non-Ladder unlocks apply to Reign of the Warlock only — Classic and LoD item versions are unchanged.
• Buffed / reworked items below apply on Online Ladder and Offline only (not Online Non-Ladder versions of those changed stats).
• There is no new act, no new class systems, and no new runeword list in this announcement — the headline is a large unique/set/runeword item pass plus bug fixes.

Items now available in Online Non-Ladder

Previously updated Ladder-only items become available in Online Non-Ladder with the new season (RotW only):

• Angelic Raiment
• Bane Ash
• Blinkbat's Form
• Bloodletter
• Gravenspine
• Manald Heal
• Pluckeye
• Rogue's Bow
• The Battlebranch
• The Ward

These are the Season 15–era RotW ladder buffs rotating into Non-Ladder — the same rotation pattern as prior seasons.

Item updates in Online Ladder and Offline

Every change below is quoted from Blizzard’s Patch 3.4 notes (Online Ladder + Offline, RotW only):

• Dimoak's Hew — +100% Enhanced Damage → +100-150% Enhanced Damage; +15 Dexterity → +20 Strength.
• Serpent Lord — added +15% Increased Attack Speed; +30-40% Enhanced Damage → +40-80% Enhanced Damage; added +5 Minimum Damage.
• Griswold's Edge — Knockback → 4% Chance To Cast Level 1 Amplify Damage On Striking; +80-120% Enhanced Damage → +100-160% Enhanced Damage; added Slows Target By 25%.
• The Salamander — added +10% Faster Cast Rate; +2 To Fire Skills → +3 To Fire Skills; +2 To Fire Ball → +4 To Fire Ball.
• The Tannr Gorerod — +80-100% Enhanced Damage → +200-220% Enhanced Damage; added 5-9% Life Stolen Per Hit.
• The Grim Reaper — +20% Enhanced Damage → +80-120% Enhanced Damage; 5% Mana Stolen Per Hit → 5-9% Mana Stolen Per Hit.
• Silks of the Victor — added +20% Faster Run/Walk; added +30% Increased Attack Speed; added +50-100% Enhanced Damage; added +15% Chance To Find Magic Items.
• The Impaler — +140-170% Enhanced Damage → +170-240% Enhanced Damage; added Repairs 1 Durability in 4 Seconds.
• Coldkill — +40 Cold Damage → +80-100 Cold Damage; +150-190% Enhanced Damage → +160-200% Enhanced Damage.
• The Atlantean — +200-250% Enhanced Damage → +250-300% Enhanced Damage; added +2-5 To Zeal (Paladin Only); added +100-125 Attack Rating; added Requirements -20%; Required Level 42 → Required Level 35.
• Lava Gout — 2% Chance To Cast Level 10 Enchant On Striking → 5% Chance To Cast Level 10 Enchant On Striking; Half Freeze Duration → Cannot Be Frozen.
• Earthshaker — added +3-5 To Fire Claw (Druid Only).
• Grim's Burning Dead — added 15% Reanimate As: Burning Dead Archer; added +3-5 To Fire Golem (Necromancer Only); +3 To Necromancer Skill Levels → +4 To Necromancer Skill Levels.
• Swordguard — All Resistances +10-20 → All Resistances +20-30; added Replenish Life +10-15; +170-180% Enhanced Damage → +180-230% Enhanced Damage; added Attacker Takes Damage of 15-25; +5-495 Defense (Based on Character Level) → +7-779 Defense (Based on Character Level).
• Demonhorn's Edge — 10% Increased Attack Speed → 20% Increased Attack Speed; added +1 To Barbarian Skills.
• Veil of Steel — added +2 To All Skills; added Physical Damage Received Reduced by 15-25%; added Magic Resist +20-40%.
• Ethereal Edge — +150-180% Enhanced Damage → +220-260% Enhanced Damage; +25% Increased Attack Speed → +40% Increased Attack Speed; added +2-198 To Maximum Damage (Based on Character Level).
• Executioner's Justice — +240-290% Enhanced Damage → +260-300% Enhanced Damage; 50% Chance To Cast Level 6 Decrepify When You Kill An Enemy → 25% Chance To Cast Level 13 Amplify Damage When You Kill An Enemy; +30% Increased Attack Speed → +40% Increased Attack Speed; added +15 Life After Each Kill; added +5 To Mana After Each Kill.
• Isenhart's Armory (set) — Full set: +20% Faster Run/Walk → +30% Faster Run/Walk; added +25% Faster Hit Recovery. Isenhart's Lightbrand: +20% Increased Attack Speed → +40% Increased Attack Speed; added +5-495 Attack Rating (Based on Character Level); removed 2-Piece Set Bonus +5-495 Attack Rating (Based on Character Level); added 3-Piece Set Bonus: +2-198 To Maximum Damage (Based on Character Level). Isenhart's Parry: added 2-Piece Set Bonus Cold Resist +15% and Fire Resist +15%. Isenhart's Case: added Magic Resistance +25%. Isenhart's Horns: added 5% Life Stolen Per Hit.
• Eternity (runeword) — 5 Socket Melee Weapons → 5 Socket Melee and Missile Weapons; added +30% Increased Attack Speed; +260-310% Enhanced Damage → +300-390% Enhanced Damage; added +3-297 To Maximum Damage (Based on Character Level); Level 8 Revive (88 Charges) → +5 To Revive (oSkill).

Full post-patch rolls are live on the uniques, sets, and runewords databases (Season 16 / 3.4 badges). Notable early-ladder / mid-game lines: The Atlantean drops to required level 35 with Zeal ranks; Lava Gout becomes a Cannot Be Frozen glove; Veil of Steel gains +2 all skills plus physical and magic mitigation; Eternity now fits five-socket bows/crossbows as well as melee.

Bug fixes in Patch 3.4

Blizzard lists the following fixes with the season patch:

• Jewels now drop if the player kills the last Uber Ancients boss after staying out of the Colossal Summit for extended periods.
• Health regen/degen effects no longer stall out after damage events in online games.
• A Warlock’s bound demon no longer loses behavior when Inferno is interrupted by traveling via a portal.
• Some VFX decals that failed to render in HD mode are fixed.
• The Terror Zone toggle for online gameplay now saves the player’s previous choice.
• Interacting with the Remove Only checkbox while holding Advanced Stash–related items now works correctly.
• Searched games on the Lobby that were hidden by the scroll list now appear.
• Various connection errors no longer incorrectly show “You have not been online in the last 30 days.”
• Auto-Party Invite now properly has players joining games.
• Various game freezes and crash issues are fixed.

How to prepare before Season 16 starts

1. Withdraw Season 14 Past / Withdraw Only tabs before November 9 — those older tabs are deleted when Season 15 ends.
2. Convert Online Expansion → ROTW characters you still care about before November 16 (ferry shared stash first).
3. Pick a starter build that levels on no gear — Warlock leveling is one RotW option; classic seven-class starters still work.
4. Map early runewords with runewords by level (Stealth, Spirit, Insight, and so on).
5. Block launch weekend around your region’s start time in the table above.
6. Know where you will trade once the fresh economy settles — see D2R trading sites.

Source for every schedule and item line on this page: Diablo II: Resurrected Ladder Season 16 (Blizzard News). No invented numbers — if a stat is not in that article, it is not listed here.