Diablo 4 Campfire Chat Summary - Patch 1.2.3, Abattoir of Zir, & Midwinter Blight

Diablo IV Posted 2023/11/30 at 12:36 PM by PopularTopular

Pay-for-Power

Despite the recent leaks, the Diablo 4 team has restated that they will not be adding any pay-for-power to the game.

Season 3

In Season 3, Helltide will last for 55 minutes every 1 hour, with only 5 minutes of downtime between Helltides.
Players will be able to earn Item Level 925 gear by participating in other types of endgame content.
The team is working on improvements to gold trading for console players.
The next Diablo 4 livestream will cover Season 3.

Itemization

The team wants to make finding gear more meaningful.
It sounds like there will be some kind of Crafting or Item Modification coming to the game.
Big changes are likely to be coming in Season 4.

Abattoir of Zir

A new seasonal endgame event that will become available on December 5th!
Abattoir of Zir will be more difficult than Tier 100 Nightmare Dungeons.
The event will include 25 levels of difficulty.
Abattoir of Zir will be available to play until early January.

Players will have 10 minutes to complete each run.
Players will earn the new Tears of Blood Glyph after their first successful Abattoir of Zir run.
Tier 1 Abattoir of Zir will reward 1,000 Glyph experience!
If a player dies in Abattoir of Zir the run is over.

Midwinter Blight

Will become available to play on December 12th, and will be available through January 2nd.
A new boss encounter, called the Red-Cloaked Horror will be added.
Completing season objectives will reward cosmetics as well as a new Aspect.
The new Elixirs and Aspect will be useable even after the event has ended.

Comment by DrakknfyreAnything about the player survey going around asking people about pricing and the idea of a $100 version of the upcoming expansion that comes with expanded stash storage?

No one actually thought annual expansions were anything but a way to milk players, right?Comment by mychoThe helltide change is $%^&ing awesome, the time gating made absolutely no sense i'm glad they changed their minds.Comment by RadioAnything about the player survey going around asking people about pricing and the idea of a $100 version of the upcoming expansion that comes with expanded stash storage?

No one actually thought annual expansions were anything but a way to milk players, right?Comment by NocularSo basically, come back for season 4?Comment by shmohawkeAnything about the player survey going around asking people about pricing and the idea of a $100 version of the upcoming expansion that comes with expanded stash storage?

No one actually thought annual expansions were anything but a way to milk players, right?Comment by oliviadgraceGreat news on the helltides! And the abattoir thing sounds cool. Also, this article is so well formatted for mobile, nice job wowhead team.Comment by AntelogosOh, ok. I was so angy about Abbatoir being locked behind the season journey and it turns out it's supposed to be harder than T100 NM dungs - while my char is barely able to complete aT23.