Blizzard has finally revealed the features of Season 3 in Diablo 4. MyMMO summarizes the most important content for you.
What’s new:
- On January 16, Blizzard released a new trailer for Season 3, revealing the theme and name: the Season of Constructs. The start date has been confirmed again: Season 3 starts on January 23, exactly at 7:00 PM German time.
- There is also a blog post on the official website that explains the content of the season.
- The core mechanic of the season will apparently be an NPC companion called “Seneschall.” The questline of the season starts in Kehjistan and you have the “Gate Hall” beneath the city as your new base.
To play the season content, you must complete the campaign first. Here’s how to prepare for Season 3.
Here are the highlights of Season 3: The Seneschall is the main feature of Season 3. This mechanical companion can be customized to tank or deal damage for you. You also determine with runes what the artifact can do.
Additionally, you insert stones into the Seneschall:
- 2 guiding stones determine how your companion behaves – for example, whether it reacts with defense or ambushes enemies.
- 6 tuning stones act as “runes” or affixes that change or enhance abilities.
- In total, there are 12 guiding stones and 27 tuning stones.
Dungeons come as a new dungeon type that is equipped with many traps. Here you need to exchange a new currency, pearls of protection, for “Zoltun’s protection.” You receive pearls from the new construct enemies. A stack of Zoltun’s protection disappears whenever you spring a trap.
If you manage to defeat the final boss and have some stacks left, you will receive wire-woven chests as a reward. These have an increased chance for legendary items. From World Tier 3 onwards, there are also nightmare dungeons to explore.
Here you can see the new trailer for Season 3:
Campfire Chat on January 18 explains all features in detail
The promised leaderboards are set to appear later in Season 3. Additionally, there will be weekly rotating dungeons with fixed layouts where you can compete with others. There will also be some quality improvements, such as:
- Movement with WASD instead of only using the mouse or controller
- an additional loot chest that you can purchase (most likely and hopefully for gold)
- Improvements to respec skills, the UI for trading gold, and increased drop rates for summoning items
Additionally, a long-standing criticism will finally be addressed: Hell floods will be permanently active. There will only be a 5-minute break between two floods, so you won’t have to time your free time around a spawn.
Further details about Season 3 will be explained by the developers during the Campfire Chat on January 18 at 6:00 PM on YouTube and Twitch. There will also be answers to questions from the community.
The season is expected to last for 3 months, so it will run until the end of April. During the season, a new feature is likely to be introduced: ray tracing, which is supposed to improve graphics, is set to be released in March. Players are not entirely sure if Diablo 4 actually needs better graphics right now.
