Diablo 4 Season 1 Developer Update Summary

Diablo IV Posted 2023/07/06 at 12:30 PM by PopularTopular

hereSeason of the Malignant

Releases July 20th!
The Seasonal Patch will become available to download on July 18th.
The Seasonal Questline will be revolved around helping a Priest of the Cathedral of Light to stop the spread of this Corruption.
There will also be a new Boss, new Legendary Aspects, and new Unique items associated with Season 1.
Hellitide and Nightmare Dungeon rewards will be increased.

Seasonal Mechanic - Malignant Hearts

Malignant Hearts will drop from Elite enemies with the Malignant affix. This Malignant Heart can be socketed into Infested jewelry, similar to gems.
There will be 32 new Malignant powers associated with these Malignant Hearts.
Malignant Tunnels are new areas throughout Sanctuary where players will be able to target-farm specific Malignant Hearts.

Season Journey

Codex of Power Aspects will be unlocked through completing Objectives within the Season Journey.
Players will be able to choose how to progress the Season Journey, through a variety of in-game activities.
Many Objectives can be completed through Campaign progression, however, the Malignant Seasonal Mechanic will only become available to players after they have completed the Campaign on one character.

Battle Pass

All cosmetics earned on the Battle Pass will be able to be used by all classes.
The 27 Free Tiers of the Battle Pass will include cosmetics as well as Smoldering Ash which can be used to activate Season Blessings.
The paid version of the Battle Pass will only include additional cosmetics.

Renown

Players will have all previously discovered Areas and Altars of Lilith unlocked at the start of Season 1.
All previously earned Renown associated with discovered Areas and Altars of Lilith will carry over to new Seasonal characters.
In order to unlock this progress for Seasonal characters, players will need to log in with a character that has already earned these Renown objectives after the Patch on July 18th.

Future Changes

Scroll of Amnesia will be introduced to completely reset all Skills, Passives, and Paragon Points for a character.
Seasonal Mechanics can possibly be made a permanent part of the game on the Eternal Realm.

Patch 1.04

Will be released today, July 6th.
Unique items will now be able to drop from Helltide Chests.
It was confirmed that Helltide Chests and Whispers of the Dead do not currently have the ability to drop Unique items.

Comment by DanesaiStarting off strong with Diablo Immortal announcement when everyone is expecting D4. Is this blizzcon? What year is it?Comment by FluffehjujuStarting off strong with Diablo Immortal announcement when everyone is expecting D4. Is this blizzcon? What year is it?Comment by NianteI definitely came to the Diablo IV developer livestream to hear about a trash money vacuum mobile game.

Gross.Comment by gleepottzI definitely came to the Diablo IV developer livestream to hear about a trash money vacuum mobile game.

Gross.Comment by evgen1990Jumping on the stream, hearing the devs talk about the new blood knight class, im mega excited and happy, then.... Immortal... :'( Copium overdoseComment by InvisuraI definitely came to the Diablo IV developer livestream to hear about a trash money vacuum mobile game.

Gross.Blizzard news articleWe’ll kick off this livestream with a deep dive provided by senior narrative designer Ryan Quinn and lead user experience designer Chris Liao on the monstrous new Class coming to Diablo Immortal in mid-July. Then our host, associate director of community Adam Fletcher, will introduce associate game director Joseph Piepiora and lead game producer Timothy Ismay who will announce the first Season of Diablo IV, along with incoming quality-of-life updates.Comment by derp134I definitely got baited by the new class announcement, only to realize it's for Diablo Smart PhoneComment by shadosanPatch 1.0.4 coming later this afternoon if i heard rightComment by AntelogosHelping a priest of The Cathedral of Light? You're supposed to AoE them, not to help them out.Comment by MercaleGrandfather guy lied about where he got it, since apparently Helltide Chests can't drop Unique items until the patch later today.Comment by KerathrasOnly thing I want to know is how are they plan to integrate the seasonal characters and other seasonal content with the eternal realms after a season ends. How will the stashes merge, that sort of thing? Seems like they don’t even know themselves yet and are making this up as they go along. Doesn’t exactly inspire confidence…Comment by ItsapaulProbably the worst announcement from a AAA company I've seen, and that's with years of E3 cringe to compare it to. They should absolutely be ashamed of it.Comment by Shali6I swear that I have gotten unique items from helltide chests from before. This happened a few days after release, after I got a few druid uniques, helltide chest never dropped a single unique.Comment by Dylanx63idk what I expected but “help a priest stop corruption” has to be the most filler story you could have in diabloComment by thetsoni"Unique items will now be able to drop from Helltide Chests.
It was confirmed that Helltide Chests and Whispers of the Dead do not currently have the ability to drop Unique items."

Uhm, how did I loot the fireball staff and the teleport legs from those chests then?Comment by smashedupwardsDo dungeons and aspects carry forward like map and statues, or will those need to be redone for the aspect unlocks? Finishing up the map and statues before the season starts and wondering if hitting up all the dungeons will be worth. Since it doesn't specifically say it with the map and statue bullet point assuming we'll be required to do them again, but wanted to make sure they didn't mention it. Also did they talk about stash tabs at all, paid or unlockable?Comment by mallustCant kill Ward of Eyes, heals faster then dmg done lol. Crazy needs fixedComment by IggisPandaGrandfather guy lied about where he got it, since apparently Helltide Chests can't drop Unique items until the patch later today.Comment by Ichywhat would I miss if I dont play Season 1, for being just Eternal realm player, what would I actually miss out, Im not keen on transmog and all that achievement stuff.Comment by LoveDaddyStarting off strong with Diablo Immortal announcement when everyone is expecting D4. Is this blizzcon? What year is it?