Diablo 4 Season 1 offers players "an enormous amount of power"
Blizzard has revealed brand new details for Diablo 4 Season 1.
The Season of the Malignant is set to start on July 20, and offers new threats, a self-contained story, and brand-new ways to customize your wanderer.
Diablo 4's first seasonal content drop will have players face off against the Malignant threat which, according to lead producer Tim Ismay «shows up throughout the entire game» (via GamesRadar).
When you encounter an elite monster in Season of the Malignant, there's a chance that a malignant version of that monster will also spawn, complete with scary new powers and weird tentacles.
Defeat it, and it'll drop a heart. You'll then use this heart to start a ritual by using a Cage of Binding. As you might expect from a ritual in Diablo 4, this will call in Malignants far and wide, as well as spawning a beefier version of the enemy you just defeated. Triumph and you'll get a Caged Heart, a powerful season-exclusive item.
Like gems, Caged Hearts can be slotted into your gear, granting «an enormous amount of power.» No matter which of the Diablo 4 classes you choose to play, there will be something for you amongst the four different types of Caged Heart that'll be available.
It's worth noting that Season of the Malignant will be taking place on its own, self-contained servers, separate from the «Eternal» servers we've already seen. Once the season is finished, characters will be moved to the Eternal Realm, but, if you want to take advantage of Season of the Malignant, you'll need to create a new, seasonal character on the seasonal realm.
Seasonal characters will be able to take part in the «season journey», a self-contained arc dealing with the Malignant threat. This quest will offer cosmetics, titles, and other rewards
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