Everything We Know About Diablo 4 Season 2

Diablo 4’s Season 2 has been revealed as “The Season of Blood”.

It’s a vampire-themed season that is set to go live on October 17th.

With Season 2 comes new content and a ton of highly requested quality-of-life changes.

Here’s what we know so far, check back as we’ll keep adding more news as it comes out.

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The Story

Newly turned ravenous vampires have set off towards Sanctuary under the command of their master.

This event is causing terror to the people, with many innocents falling victim to the teeth of their predators.

It’s up to us to arm ourselves, hunt the hunters, and ultimately uncover the true intentions of the evil in charge!

Quality of Life Changes

It’s no secret that Diablo 4 has been in a rough spot lately. There are a lot of widely regarded issues that the community’s expressed, and it’s kept a lot of players from enjoying the game.

With Season 2, we’re moving in a positive direction! Here are some that we know of, so far.

Renown

Renown has been a popular topic ever since Diablo 4 launched. While Renown offers a fun progression system initially, it can quickly become very repetitive. When Season 1 launched, small adjustments were made in order to allow map progress and Altars of Lilith Renown to carry over from the Eternal Realm. This was a step in the right direction, but ultimately left players redoing the same old quests and dungeons again and again. No more.

The Season of Blood removes all Renown restrictions and allows progress to remain account-wide! This applies to both the Eternal Realm and the Seasonal Realm, so no matter how you prefer to play, you’ll be able to save progress everywhere. This is a massive win for everyone. Now we can spend more time on the actual endgame and seasonal content without sacrificing the power of 100% Renown. Better yet, any time invested into Renown will no longer feel completely wasted when creating new characters or moving into the next season. Fantastic change!

Gems & Stash

Stash space, or more specifically the lack thereof, has been a constant issue since the beginning. It’s a necessity to the genre, yet it’s lacking in many ways compared to the standard of ARPG’s today. Thankfully, it’s about to get a bit better.

Once Season 2 begins, gems will no longer take up inventory space, and instead be stored under crafting materials. Another huge QoL change that will help free up stash space and make gems far easier to manage. Additionally, there will be a search bar and filters we can use at our stash, further speeding up the constant process of inventory management. Overall, we’re still going to need additional tabs before the stash issue is fully resolved.. But things will certainly feel a lot more manageable with Season 2.

Mechanical Changes

One of the fundamental issues with Diablo 4 is its poor balancing and use of resistances. Armor is the definitive best defensive stat, to the point where resistances are often completely disregarded. It’s great to see this being acknowledged, and even better knowing we’re in for some change real soon! Assuming they get the numbers right, this change alone could open up a lot of builds and strategies that just can’t exist with today’s mechanics.

Alongside this, there’ll be changes to the way that Vulnerable, Overpower, and Critical Strike Damage works. Vulnerable and Critical Strike Damage are key components for just about everything, so I imagine they’re looking at ways of rebalancing to provide an opportunity to explore different options.

Season Content & Mechanics

The Season of Blood will introduce five new and returning endgame bosses. Best of all, these bosses will offer players a better way to target farm specific Uniques, AND Uber Uniques! This is also an excellent quality of life improvement, as it helps improve the core gameplay loop players will experience in the endgame.

As for the brand new mechanics, we’ve learned players will be able to obtain “Vampiric Powers” to help take on their foes. We don’t know anything more than that thus far, but we’ll update you when we do!

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