Fake World Boss Notifications Fixed in Season 8!

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If you’ve played Diablo 4 recently, you’ll know the extreme annoyance of a World Boss timer warning showing up – and being completely wrong. Something broke a while ago, and the notifications mostly would not line up with actual World Boss uptimes.

Annoyance Defeated, but Why Now?

So you’re playing your Pit, Nightmare Dungeon or seasonal activity when a warning pops up that a World Boss will be up soon. You go to the world map, look around, and there’s nothing. And then this repeats many times during your playtime. Very annoying.


Fixed an issue where notifications for a spawning World Boss could display when no World Boss was spawning.

This has been an issue for quite a while now and Blizzard have not addressed it. So why is it being fixed now?

Well, as Season 8 is the Boss Power season, the World Bosses also bring their own powers to the table. Considering the fake warnings were merely annoying before, they would get very problematic in this season, as players will really want to take down specific individual bosses for their powers!

The World Boss Powers

And here are those powers that you’ll need these new accurate timers for!

NameMain PowerModifier Power
Wandering Death’s Chest BeamWhile Channeling a Skill, spawn a beam that deals 300% Frostbite damage per second. Enemies hit take 50%[x] increased damage from you for 1 second.Your Main Boss Power instantly Executes Non-Boss enemies hit with less than 15% Life. When you Execute enemies you gain 25 Primary Resource.
Ashava’s Poison BreathHitting an enemy affected by Damage over Time spawns a wave of acid that deals 1200% Poisoning damage over 4 seconds. Applies 10% more Poisoning for each 1% of the target’s current Life affected by Damage over Time.Once per activation, damaging an enemy with your Main Boss Power also applies 45% Poisoning damage to it over 3 seconds.
Avarice’s Explosive OreWhen you gain excess Primary Resource, spawn a Piece of Ore. After 2.5 seconds the Piece of Ore explodes dealing 700% Fire damage. You can spawn up to 3 Pieces of Ore at once.Activating your Main Boss Power spends all your Primary Resource to increase its damage by 0.01%[x] per Resource point spent.

You can check out all the World Boss powers here, and the latest changes to the season here.