Diablo 4’s Season of Blood lets players become vampires just ahead of Halloween

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Diablo 4’s second season, Season of Blood, is all about vampires. Players will be able to jump in on Oct. 17, gather up their own vampiric powers, and use them to decimate hordes of blood-sucking undead.

Blizzard spoke about the new season in its livestream on Oct. 4, showcasing the season’s story and mechanics, as well as some extremely desirable quality of life changes coming with the new patch. Most hardcoreDiablo 4 fans will likely be even more excited by the updates to the game’s Renown system, Nightmare Dungeons, stashes, and other quality of life changes than Season of Blood itself. However, this season’s themes and mechanics are already more interesting than the game’s first season, Season of the Malignant.

In Season of Blood, players will work through a new storyline with a vampire hunter voiced by Gemma Chan (Eternals). But the real meat is in the new Potent Blood currency. As players gather Potent Blood by killing enemies, they’ll be able to unlock vampiric powers for themselves. Each purchase will either unlock a new power or upgrade an existing one, with each power having three total levels. Once unlocked, players can slot up to five powers onto their character at once.

These powers, however, aren’t automatically active once players equip them. Players will need to power their abilities by equipping special armor pieces in their chest, pants, glove, boot, and helm slots, all of which come with their own vampiric Pacts. There are three kinds of Pacts, and players will need to match these with the specific powers they want in order to enable them.

Players can only support as many powers as they have total Pact points in their currently equipped armor pieces. If they want to use powers that require a