You’re going to need a fast way around Sanctuary when you’re leveling up in season 1, and the horse is easily the best way to travel in Diablo 4. Much like the campaign, unlocking your horse on one character will allow you to use the horse at level 1 on all subsequent characters. But while you do get the horse quest from the campaign, unlocking your steed is technically a side quest, and you can miss it if you aren’t paying close enough attention. If you’ve finished the Diablo 4 campaign, chances are you already have the horse and can bypass this section. That includes seasonal characters, so you can jump right into the new stuff at level 1 when Season of the Malignant starts. And while Blizzard has confirmed that seasons will just be side stories, there will likely be spoilers for Lilith and Inarius’ lovers quarrel.įinally, finishing the campaign once on any character will give you the ability to instantly skip the campaign on all subsequent characters. Second, and almost as important, is that the story for this season takes place after the main campaign. First, you literally need to complete the campaign in order to access any of the new seasonal content in Season of the Malignant or any future seasons. If not, get back in there and finish up the story before July 20. If you’ve unlocked the Tree of Whispers and seen the credits, you’re in good shape. The most important thing for you to do in Diablo 4 before season 1: Complete the campaign. Complete the campaign Image: Blizzard Entertainment In this Diablo 4 guide, we’ll list out everything you need to finish before the launch of Season of the Malignant later this month. But before the season launches on July 20, there are some non-seasonal things you should complete first in Diablo 4. Pick up my sci-fi novels, The Last Exodus, The Exiled Earthborn and The Sons of Sora, which are now in print, online and on audiobook.Diablo 4’s first season, Season of the Malignant, is nearly here, and it will bring with it a host of new mechanics for you to check out. But it may be a while until we see anything other than patches for the series.įollow me on Twitter and on Facebook. I’m still holding out hope for an expansion someday, even a small one, and of course, Diablo 4 down the line. It’s uncertain what the future holds for Diablo 3, though this news would explain the relative silence we’ve seen about new expansion content for the past two years now. Obviously, when developing something of this scale, there are a lot of moving pieces and much going on behind the scenes, so it's hard to know what the full story is here. It seems like the resources and desire should be there for something like this, but perhaps I'm being naïve. Specifically, if the game is more profitable in Asia, wouldn’t developing an expansion for release there encourage players to spend more on the game through those microtransactions as they're re-engaged? And in the west, are we really at a point where a game needs an innate “revenue stream” other than millions of people potentially purchasing $20-40 DLC? That still doesn’t quite add up to me. While I understand that Diablo 3 lacks a consistent revenue stream in the west, it remains unclear to me why that’s an insurmountable barrier to new content. It always did seems strange that Blizzard was rolling out new maps and tilesets for free, when that easily could have been saved for an expansion, but if they were part of a cut expansion (The King in the North/Ruins of Sescheron connection seems pretty obvious) that makes a lot more sense. The information I received does seem to be a little bit old, so it’s possible Blizzard’s plans could have changed since, and maybe something is being worked on now, but it’s hard to say. Between these official and unofficial bullet points, it does seem like Diablo 3 is shifting into maintenance mode with continued patch support, some of which may even contain other would-be expansion content, but it’s likely no actual expansion is on the way.
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