Blizzard has formally detailed every part we have been dying to learn about Diablo 4‘s second season. During a two-hour developer replace, Blizzard revealed the brand new mechanics coming with Season of Blood, new bosses, seasonal occasion, quests, characters, and a number of high quality of life modifications launching with the brand new season.
We’re going to stay to the brand new content material coming with Season of Blood on this story, and we’ll be overlaying all the opposite thrilling additions in a separate one.
Season of Blood arrives October 17 in Diablo 4, which can also be when the primary season wraps up. It goes stay at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST with the 1.2.0 patch. The new season introduces a contemporary Season Journey, battle go, occasion, and a brand new questline with new character, Erys, because the lead.
As the identify suggests, the primary theme of this one is vampires and vampire searching. But you will not simply be going after them, you will change into one your self by harnessing their blood.
Vampiric Powers
Defeated enemies will drop Potent Blood, which will be spent within the new Vampiric Powers tab within the character menu. The Vampiric Powers tab is the place you go to unlock any of the 22 new powers, or improve present ones (as much as most stage of three). More powers will also be unlocked after ending the seasonal questline, and by collaborating within the Blood Harvest seasonal occasion.
Powers are class-agnostic, so that they’re designed to work with all lessons. You can have as much as 5 of them outfitted to your character, and also you get to decide on whether or not to specialise into sure ones, or diversify and put money into multiples of them.
Each energy has a Vampiric Curse – successfully detailing what it’ll do in fight.
Pacts and Pact Armor
There’s one other layer to this within the type of Pacts, and Pact Armor. Ferocity, Divinity, and Eternity are the three varieties of Pacts you will see on Pact Armor. Pact Armor can drop all through the world throughout Season of Blood. Pact Armor is what lets you activate the Vampiric Powers, every of which has an activation price. By matching Pact Armor with the ability you need, you get to make use of its results in fight. Basically, you will want guarantee your armor covers the fee listed on every energy.
The extra highly effective Vampiric Powers would require extra Pacts, which may require multiple piece of armor with the identical Pact sort – or a unique one with extra Pacts – to activate the ability.
Standalone Pacts and Cleansing Acids
The excellent news is that should you do not discover the Pact Armor you are on the lookout for, you’ll change it utilizing Standalone Pacts, and Cleansing Acids.
Standalone Pacts are available all three sorts, and can be utilized so as to add (or enhance) a selected sort of Pact in your chosen piece of Pact Armor – assuming it isn’t already maxed out. Cleansing Acids do the other, which is take away all Pacts from present armor items. Both drop from Blood Seekers (high-level lieutenants), and within the Blood Harvest season occasion. They’re additionally discovered within the Season Journey, the brand new S2 quest, and Opulent Coffins.
Blood Harvest seasonal occasion
Blood Harvest is one other main supply of all vampire-related content material within the new season. It’s out there from stage one, and can all the time be energetic. Blood Harvest strikes round, focusing on an space of the map with an invasion of vampires, and vampire-related rewards.
Taking half in any exercise in a Blood Harvest space will even earn your Reputation, which is used to climb by means of tiers and earn rewards within the new Hunters’ Acclaim system. Rewards embrace Potent Blood, some Vampiric Powers, gear and extra.
Blood Seekers and Blood Lures
Blood Harvest can also be the place you possibly can earn the uncommon Blood Lures, which allow you to summon Blood Seekers. Those are vampire blood-infused variations of all of Diablo 4’s lessons, so they’ll use the identical expertise and strikes the heroes do in opposition to them.
Blood Seekers can sometimes be discovered all through the world, and should even seem with out warning, very similar to our pal The Butcher.
New endgame bosses
Season of Blood introduces three new difficult, endgame bosses to the sport. Each boss can drop distinctive cosmetics, and new distinctive armor/weapons. The new bosses can be found in World Tier 3 & 4. The endgame bosses have been reshuffled to successfully cap off pinnacle endgame actions.
You’ll additionally now must farm sure supplies to summon them. Grigoire, The Galvanic Saint (WT3/4) requires Living Steel to summon. Grigoire is the final word boss of Helltide. Echo of Varshan (WT3/4) is now the boss of Whispers, and also you summon him by accumulating sufficient of his physique components.
The Beast within the Ice is one other new boss (WT4), and it may be summoned by gathering Distilled Fear, which drops in Tier 30 or increased Nightmare Dungeons – making it the final word boss of Nightmare Dungeons. Echo of Duriel (WT4) can also be new, and it may be fought after defeating each Grigoire, and Varshan in World Tier 4. You’ll be capable to summon Duriel by accumulating Mucus-Slick Eggs and Shards of Agony – and he has an opportunity to drop Uber Uniques.
Finally, there is a harder model of the season’s new villain, Lord Zir, Dark Master (WT4). Dark Master is the final word boss of Legion Events and World Bosses. Both actions drop Exquisite Blood, which is used to summon Dark Master.
All bosses can solely be summoned as soon as, earlier than you will must spend extra supplies and meet the summoning circumstances to summon them once more.
It’s value noting that the non-Season of Blood content material will probably be out there throughout the Eternal Realm as nicely, as long as it does not tie into any of the brand new vampire-related mechanics.
