Blizzard revealed in weblog publish that Diablo 3 Season 3, titled The Lords of Hell, will formally launch subsequent week on January 12 at 8 p.m. ET. Sadly, this season shall be considerably of a repeat, taking its roots from Season 25 which additionally had the Lords of Hell seasonal theme. Season 29 marked the final season that may obtain fully new content material.

All about Soul Shards

The large characteristic in Diablo 3 Season 30: The Lords of Hell is Soul Shards. Gamers can use these shards to infuse the demonic essences into themselves to embody new Prime and Lesser Evil powers. In complete, there are seven distinctive Soul Shards—primarily based on the seven Lords of Hell—every with a brand new energy. One of many three Prime Evil Soul Shards are capable of be outfitted into your helmet, and one of many 4 Lesser Evil Shards might be outfitted into your weapon.

You’ll additionally get hold of Hellforge Embers which drop primarily off Bosses however can drop from anyplace throughout Sanctuary. You possibly can then use the Hellforge Embers to improve your Soul Shards as much as thrice.

In fact, Soul Shards and Hellforge Embers—and their powers—are solely out there on seasonal characters and won’t go onto your character on the Everlasting Realm.

A patch as nicely

Earlier than Season 30 drops on January 12, a brand new replace, patch 2.7.7 will go stay on January 9 on all platforms. The patch provides Rites of Sanctuary and Visions of Enmity as everlasting options to Diablo 3. The favored options had been beforehand short-term seasonal themes, however shifting ahead shall be everlasting programs.

These taken with testing Season 30 can earn the beauty Chest and Gloves from the Conqueror set in addition to the All Hallow’s pennant. There’s additionally a set of portrait frames gamers can earn which might be embedded with Blood Shards.

Clearly, this isn’t as huge of a deal as the newest season, which truly added a handful of latest programs and new content material. But it surely’s nice to see D3 nonetheless getting some love. Diablo 4‘s gameplay is a bit completely different than that of Diablo 3, so those that desire to progress by Higher Rifts can nonetheless accomplish that with a brand new season in the event that they’d like.

Diablo 3 Season 30: The Lords of Hell begins on all platforms on January 12.