Developer Blizzard Entertainment shared the official preview for the upcoming season descending onto Diablo 3. Mark your calendar, Season 29: Visions of Enmity goes live on September 15th! In addition to the seasonal theme, players can look forward to the Solo Self Found single-player mode, Paragon Ceiling changes and QoL updates.
“Season 30 will bring fresh gameplay balances and bug fixes to reinvigorate your adventures but introduce no new theme. Instead, this Season will usher in the permanent return of a community-favorite theme, Rites of Sanctuary, which will be playable across all modes. Following Season 30, iconic themes and features from Seasons past will be reintroduced roughly every 3 months, ensuring there will never be a shortage of twisted obstacles to overcome and demonic blood to spill.”
In Season 29, players will encounter the new Diabolic Fissures – curious portals that have sprung around Sanctuary. Entering them triggers both dangerous memories from your past, and even more dangerous emissaries of Hell to slaughter. Players participating in Season 29 and finishing the Season’s Journey can receive the Mad King’s Favor portrait and Quoth pet.
Solo Self Found mode coming in the new Season is the new single-player experience. For those who like to rely only on themselves and up the ante even more, a Hardcore version of the mode exists. The accomplishments of the most prolific solo demon slayers will be noted on the specific Leaderboards.
New Monster Affixes are only available in Visions of Enmity. These include Enervating and Necrotic:
- Enervating: Creates an area of effect around the monster that reduces the player’s Movement Speed by 65% and Cooldown Reduction by 50% if the player is in the vicinity of the monster.
- Necrotic: The player’s healing is reduced by 65%. Monsters have a damage-over-time effect that deals 180% of the player’s max health over 30 seconds. This effect is removed if the player is healed above 95%.
The Paragon system also will see some changes. In particular, players will now be able to assign a total of 800 Paragon Points to your character. Previously, you were only able to assign a total of 50 Paragon Points to each attribute within the Core, Defense, Offense, and Utility categories, but now you can assign up to 200 in each attribute. Each category can only have 200 Paragon Points placed into them.
Season 29: Haedrig’s Gift Sets
- Barbarian: Might of the Earth
- Crusader: Thorns of the Invoker
- Demon Hunter: The Shadow’s Mantle
- Monk: Monkey King’s Garb
- Necromancer: Grace of Inarius
- Witch Doctor: Raiment of the Jade Harvester
- Wizard: Firebird’s Finery
Check out the official site to find out more and to see the upcoming class balance changes and bug fixes that will be introduced with the launch of Diablo 3 Season 29: Visions of Enmity.
