Diablo 4 Season 5 is here, giving players bottomless Infernal Hordes to savage and plunder – and also unintentionally giving them some tempering recipes they learned last season, it turns out.
Tempering, if you need a refresher, is a subsystem of Diablo 4 gear itemization that lets you learn and apply specific affixes. Ordinarily, you'd need to expand your pool of affixes each season by collecting new tempering manuals. That's still technically the case with Season 5, but Diablo community development director Adam Fletcher confirmed in a tweet that "we are aware of the reports that new seasonal characters are having their tempering recipes carried over from their last season's seasonal character.
