Diablo 4 maintenance schedule – here’s what time the game goes offline today
Activision Blizzard’s hellish dungeon crawler is scheduled for some downtime later today as it undergoes maintenance.
While Diablo 4 offers a pretty great time to anyone who enjoys slaying demons endlessly, it being an online-only, server-based title means that Activision Blizzard’s game routinely undergoes some downtime. Luckily, it doesn’t happen tOo often and is rarely for too long, but it does force every Sorcerer, Barbarian, Necromancer and others to temporarily hang up their hellish weapons of destruction. Today is one of those times, where the new Diablo title will temporarily be offline as it undergoes maintenance.
Activision Blizzard revealed on its official Battle.net support site that a whole host of its online titles will be down this week for maintenance – Diablo 4 included. For what purpose the game is going down has not been explicitly stated, but is most likely going down to implement the hotfix announced this week that's intended to blast a number of bugs and glitches.
It may also lay the groundwork for update 1.1.1 which should be rolling out next week, as alluded to in last week's campfire chat livestream. The stream also addressed the fallout of the controversial 1.1.0a update which has implemented many frowned upon changes, especially for the Barbarian and Sorcerer classes.
Diablo 4 maintenance schedule: July 27, 2023
Diablo 4 maintenance starts on Thursday, July 27 from 7pm BST / 2pm EDT / 11amPDT and is set to last for two hours, ending at 9pm BST/ 4pm EDT / 1pm PDT . During this window, the game will be inaccessible, regardless of whether you play on PlayStation, Xbox or PC. It’s frustrating, we agree, but then that’s the drawback of an always online game – with no offline mode in sight.
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This may change closer to the time, as the last Diablo 4 maintenance schedule flip-flopped between telling players that the game would be "unavailable during this time" to advising them that they "may experience interruptions of service including disconnects." But at the time of writing, expect Diablo 4 maintenance to take the game offline completely.
Fortunately, this is the only time this week that Diablo 4 maintenance is scheduled. Following those two hours players will be able to dip back into the game – either to continue farming Malignant Hearts in the Season 1 content, or to slog through the vanilla campaign back in the Eternal Realm. No progress will be wiped during the Diablo 4 maintenance period, so patient players can rest easy knowing their characters will be ready to go as soon as it’s over.
Diablo 4 has had two sizeable updates do far, with the first back in June weighing in at 13 pages of patch notes, and update 1.1.0a being the second at 6,600 words. Although at this point, players are less concerned with wordcount and more on the content.
Though not quite as drastic as update 1.1.0a before it, update 1.1.1 is set to revert some of the character class tweaks made previously, with the Barbarian and Sorcerer in particular expected to receive slight buffs.
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