Diablo IV details the post-launch experience: seasons, season journal, battle pass and store

Blizzard Entertainment continues to break down the details of Diablo IV and today it’s time to talk about the post-launch experience that includes the seasons, the season journal, the battle pass and the store. This information comes out when there is less than a month left for the launch of the game and shortly before the celebration of a new open beta, which will take place from May 12 at 21:00 CEST to May 14 at 21:00 CEST.

The mainstay of the Diablo IV post-launch experience will be Seasons. Blizzard describes them as “quarterly releases that will bring additional gameplay features, storylines (featuring new and familiar faces), Battle Passes, Legendary items, class balance changes, practical improvements, and much more.” The idea is to introduce new concepts and ideas. The first season will start in the middle or end of July and you will need to have completed the campaign to participate in it.

Each Season will have a Season Journal that guides players and tells them what content is available to them. It is a “fundamental” tool that will help to level up the battle pass, through which progress will be made as chapters are completed, which in turn are made up of objectives. Completing all the objectives in a chapter will earn seasonal rewards. Additionally, each objective will grant Dread, the resource needed to level up in the Battle Pass.

Each season’s battle pass will be made up of 27 free tiers and 63 premium tiers. To get the free rewards in the form of cosmetics and smoldering ashes, all you have to do is kill demons. Smoldering Ashes are a resource that can be spent to earn Seasonal Boons, which allow for additional XP, Gold, or Obols. You can have more than one seasonal boon active at the same time and use the additional ashes to enhance your bonuses.

The premium battle pass will cost 1,000 platinum (equivalent to 9.99 euros) and “will not offer any power advantage, but will serve to unlock categories that offer exclusive cosmetics for the season and another currency, platinum,” explains Blizzard. Platinum can be spent in the store to purchase new cosmetics or saved to purchase future battle passes. It will also be possible to purchase plantino with euros. There is a third season pass called accelerated that includes all the premium benefits plus 20 level jumps and the Creator’s Wings emote for 2,800 platinum (equivalent to 24.99 euros).

Finally we have the store, whose cosmetic content “only offers a greater aesthetic variety.” “Unlike the universal cosmetics in the battle pass, the cosmetics in the store will serve to elevate the fantasies of specific classes, so there will be exclusive cosmetic content for each class,” explains Blizzard. The cosmetics in the shop will rotate and it will be necessary to use platinum to buy them. In Diablo IV there is cross-buying, so both platinum and items purchased with this currency are linked to the Battle.net account and can be accessed from any platform.