Diablo 4 is dropping all your seasonal busywork, praise Lilith

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Your Diablo 4 characters have just had a weight lifted off their backs. As Diablo 4 season 1 approaches, Blizzard confirms that it’s changed its plans for what it will reset between the seasons, which is great news for both seasonal and alt characters. No longer will you need to wander around Diablo 4 rediscovering every inch of Sanctuary, and you’ll even be handed a nice chunk of renown to kick off each season in the RPG game.

“I think we started off in one place and we’re ending up in another place, which is interesting,” general manager Rod Fergusson says during a campfire chat with four of the game’s lead developers. The initial plans for Diablo 4 renown and progression is that everything would completely reset for a new season, but Fergusson admits, “I think we’re starting to feel with alt character that notion of, oh the fog of war between characters doesn’t feel great, the Lilith Altars don’t necessarily feel great.”

With so many Diablo 4 classes to choose from, who could resist making more than one? Thankfully, that busywork is no more. “The amount of map that you’ve exposed going into the season in the eternal realm (where your current characters are) will be what you see in the season – so you don’t have to go and reveal the map again.” You’ll see the capital city waypoints, too, although you’ll have to revisit them to activate them.

Finding all the Diablo 4 Altars of Lilith is quite a pain too, so the good news is that you won’t have to rediscover them either – the ones you’ve found will stay marked, and you’ll keep the stat bonuses, obol capacity, and the renown claimed from finding each of them. “We’ll preload you that renown,” Fergusson explains, meaning you’ll start on your season one characters with the