Diablo 4 seasons and post-launch content are meant to be celebrated with friends in the multiplayer game, Blizzard said in a new developer video, and they’re also meant to funnel you through objectives to increase your battle pass level. Blizzard’s latest RPG borrows from Diablo Immortal by adding a free battle pass, a paid battle pass, and a somewhat convoluted system of getting through it all.
Seasons will introduce new challenges, stories, and bosses for everyone, regardless of whether you buy the battle pass. The first one launches in July 2023, and you have to finish the main campaign before you can start it. Each season includes chapters and objectives, things such as collecting a certain number of a specific item, completing a dungeon, or taking part in a local event.
Finishing these will reward you with materials and aspects, along with Favor, which you use to level up your battle pass.
The battle pass gets a little confusing. Favor levels up the free and paid pass. Leveling up the free pass earns you cosmetics and Smouldering Ashes, the latter of which you can spend to get Season Blessings. These blessings grant you extra gold, experience, and obols to make leveling up easier, and you can equip multiple blessings at once.
The paid battle pass is the premium battle pass. It costs $9.99, and you only get cosmetics and platinum currency from it – nothing that actually affects the game. You use platinum currency in another in-game shop to buy yet more exclusive cosmetics. Finally is the accelerated battle pass, which costs $24.99 and gives you 20 tiers on the paid pass and a special emote.
Everything you can buy in the shop, with in-game and real-life money, is cosmetic only. There are no level skips or items that affect your power level.
Diablo 4 launches on June 6, 2023, with another open beta scheduled for the weekend of May 12, 2023.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
