Diablo (series)

Season of the Malignant.
Can happen on warty enemies that are stronger ad they drop a malignant item. You capture this in a cage and face a stronger version of the enemy that draws in newer ones and buffs them. You socket these in infested sockets in jewellry.

This is the kind of stuff i wanted. Hopefully they PoE this and it becomes random stuff that happens all the time after season ends

SEASON 01

• Season of the Malignant
• Starts July 20th.
• Takes place after the events of the D4 campaign. New threat emerged - malignance, corruption spreading in beast, demon, human hearts. Changing them into blood thirsty fiends.
• New character Kormand (ph). Ex-preist of the cathedral of light, diving deeper into the new threat. Finding himself out of his depth.
• Will start season in Kyovashad, can start new story right away. Start at level 1 and start following new storyline.
• Trying to add more stuff to seasons to appeal to everything a player does - new story, new challenges, new things to fight, new powers and builds, wants to hit all those notes.
• New mechanic, the threat - the malignant. Any elite monster can spawn as a malignant monster with additional powers, will expose a heart that can be interacted with to start a ritual. New more powerful version spawned. If you can beat the more powerful version, now it drops a caged heart item that can be used like a gem. Can be socketed into gear, “enormous amount of power” on par with a legendary item.
• New builds “stupid powerful, hopefully balanced”
• 32 new malignant powers. Come in categories (Brutal are blue) and can only go in sockets of matching colours. 3 colours of sockets, 4 colors of hearts.
• Wrathful hearts fit in any socket, rare and powerful. (Showed off two hearts but my youtube stream decided to auto downgrade down to 280p, so I couldn’t read the effects.)
• Super elites buff nearby enemies, want to fight them in higher world tiers to get stronger hearts. Can break down hearts into crafting materials to craft new items like “invokers.” Can use them at specific places (Malignant tunnels) to spawn malignant elites. Specific dungeons with malignants, and can guarantee a specific type of malignant. Targeted farming. Invoker items look like “turkey basters from hell.”
• New boss monster, not talking about it too much.
• New legendary items and powers.
• New unique items.
• New items not season exclusive, will show up in eternal realm too.
• Season patch will be out July 18th so season can launch on 20th. On 18th, all new stuff will be available on eternal realm (Sneak preview.) As well as new balance changes, features, etc.
• Seasonal journey feature. Season journey has 7 chapters, each chapter has a number of objectives to advance to next chapter. (Don’t have to do them all).
• Collect favor for things like collecting 15 gallowvine, complete any dungeon, complete a cellar, etc. Season journey can let you collect new legendary aspects.
• Don’t need the battlepass to have access to season journey.
• Battlepass has stuff for free players too, can unlock stuff without buying it.
• Special cosmetics, titles, in the season journey.
• Can play through original campaign in season and still unlock stuff during seasonal journey, won’t encounter malignant until you progress seasonal story.
• Some features only available after you beat the campaign.
• Can skip campaign to with new seasonal characters if you’ve already beaten campaign. They recommend beating the campaign before the season starts.
• Not all seasons will start in Kyovashad.
• New mounts and mounts armor - tier 1 battle pass rewared. New transmogs. Free stuff is “low fantasy” stuff like artisans tunic, epic stuff is premium.
• Some stuff will be class specific.
• Only difference between free and premium battle passes are cosmetics.
• Blessings are in the battle passes (free and premium). Smoldering ashes - if you have a character of a specific level, you can take them and use them to seasonal blessings. Invest ashes to give exp boosts, gold boosts, elixir durations, rare salvage material drop chance, malignant heart drop chance. Invest more ashes to improve boosts. Available to everyone, limited based on level of the player so if you were to use tier skips, can’t unlock stuff until you hit level requirement.
• Yep, pass skips are a thing.
• Emphasizing power that is part of the pass for all players, you don’t have to spend a cent. Premium stuff is transmog only, no items or pay to win.
• Renown and fog of war: When season 1 goes live, players can carry over fog of war they’ve explored, as well as all renown earned. Altars of Lillith carrying over. Will have skill points, extra potions, etc at the very start of the season with your character as long as they are unlocked in the eternal realm.
• Recommend clearing renown before season starts.
• Will need to log in with an existing character to migrate data - for example if you have one character with all map cleared, and one alt with partial map cleared, log in with your character with most progress to set your progress baseline, and will unlock all that progress across all your characters. Only have to do it once, can do it once the patch drops on the 18th. If you have one character who has done all of Fractured Peaks, and one character who has done all of Scosglen, log in to both characters to transfer their data over (you will unlock both regions’ progress) and you will unlock Scosglen map data and renown on the Fractured Peaks character and vice versa.
• Season one patch “Super chonkers” (very, very large patch)
  

I'm annoyed that the more vocal people have won and he knee-jerk reaction is to just carry everything over. I think a better solution would be to require players to do renown but in a specific area per season because that area is 'under siege' in someway. Seems like all that 'content' has just been brushed aside never to be used again. Maybe this will jus be reassessed over time.


They've just clarified that some season event content won't always transfer to eternal but if one is exceptionally well received then they will persist.

Uniques from Helltide and Whispers is mighty welcome. I've had 2 uniques since getting to WT4.

All the retards screaming 'stash space' are like that bellends that just infested any conversation about 'plague tale' ..' 60fps wen!!11'.

I have a bunch of questions on the back of this and feel the above idiots are going to be screaming for something else in a month or 2.

I only intend to run a single char each season and max it out as much as poss and then roll something new then next season etc. Lets say my super powerful rogue has all this fancy new gear with coloured slots and powerful heart gems and the char now rolls over to eternal at season end. This mechanic isn't going core so there is no way to get that gear again so this char is pretty damn unique. I only have char 8 slots remaining.

Next season, roll my Necro and I have 7 slots left and the same happens again with a load of gear on a unique build.

I'm not going to be rebirthing these am I.

These 'streamers' that are no-life'ing the game like its a job whinging that they have nothing left to do after 400 hours and one of each class at 100 are SOL with their slots.  

Genuinely no clue. Everybody plays differently, I get that but I haven't even bought another tab yet. I'm burning everything that doesn't have an aspect I want so I have mats for crafting and the a replacement aspect ready to go when I get an gear upgrade. 8ve started collecting gears with aspects for a blizzard build but I think I'll burn those since theres no way I'll get around to that in the next 2 weeks

I have to agree that ‘content creators’ (barf) skew the perception of this game. I’ve put in about 115 hours into this and am happily just entering WT4 with loads to do.
These no lifers live in an entitled world of their own. Their experience is not normal.

Anyway, season seems fun. Glad I did all the renown and statues and map now. Can’t choose what to pick next Necro or Druid or Rogue. Necros look cool but Druids always impress me when they turn up and wade into mobs as a bear. I won’t be a spinning Barbarian that’s for sure!

Sad news is that I’m on a two week holiday in Mexico from the 15th so I’ll miss the initial hype of the season.

Good news is that I’m on a two week holiday in Mexico from the 15th so I’ll miss all the whining about the season.

Good game Danno, apologies if my main damage skill makes it impossible to see the screen

I got maybe 15 legendaries out of one session, so pretty good return.

Yeah I figured we weren't quite gelling but so much of my damage comes from that skill that I don't have much choice. As far as possible I try to smash enemies into a wall which mitigates the craziness somewhat.

Fucking hell. Just entered a cave and I'm worse for wear, alcohol wise, shall we say. Got half way through, got a shrine that decimates everything so go with th3 flow.

And run into the butcher.

Argh!!! It was a great fight and managed to kill the bellend, but it was bum sqeaky in places!

Phew

Thinking about it, I think it's the music. The composers for this series have knocked it out the park every time

I used to be a Diablo hoarder, so any stash limitations enraged me. I'm running a svelte two tabs in this one. Gems/Aspects. Everything else. I'm also burning down anything that doesn't set my heart aflame, and I'm saving fuck all for my next character. I'm happier for it.

I'm hoping we'll look back on the post-release content in five years time and say "wow, this was really good - new areas to explore, new game mechanics, expanded variation in the randomly generated content, new characters, new loot slot, FLYING MOUNTS, player housing..."

OK, it shit itself at the end there but the structure of what they've built, and the presumed ongoing income from the Battle Pass or whatever it's called will allow them to* really go to town on the content.






* cash in and laugh all the way to the bank as they shit out reskinned variations of the same old tat

epilogue stuff, literally minutes of content. Enjoy.

After that, capstone dungeon time.

Yeah, I'm also chill about the BP - mainly interested in what it might mean for the scope and scale of ongoing content.

Given that I give Marvel a tenner every five weeks or so for my Marvel Snap addiction, I might even buy some Diablo stuff.

Mmmmmmm... Picanha...