Diablo III

Season

What a season brings: Haedrig's Gift for every class, the season theme powers, ethereal items and soul shards – plus every season journey objective to tick off.

Class

Season themes

Powers a season theme grants each class – three per class. Which of them a season brings is decided by Blizzard for every season.

Barbarian

Whirlwind pulls in and holds all enemies within 25 yards.

Barbarian

Hammer of the Ancients hits in all directions around the Barbarian. Every tenth cast of Hammer of the Ancients unleashes a powerful shockwave.

Barbarian

Hitting enemies generates stacks of Tempest Rhythm. Activating Wrath of the Berserker consumes 50 stacks of Tempest Rhythm and startles enemies within 16 yards, causing them to take 2% increased damage per stack for 20 seconds. Max 50 stacks.

Buff: Tempest Rhythm – Increases damage enemies receive from all sources on the next cast of Wrath of the Berserker.

Crusader

Blessed Hammer now crackles with energy, damaging enemies within 15 yards of its path. All runes but Dominion now throw the hammer in a direct path in front of the Crusader.

Crusader

Every 2 seconds, call down Fist of the Heavens on a random nearby enemy. After casting Steed Charge, this effect occurs more rapidly for 5 seconds.

Crusader

After casting Falling Sword, you descend from the sky with two Archangels that can cast Consecration and Condemn.

Buff: Angelic Aide – Cooldown

Demon Hunter

Strafe now casts the last non-channeled Hatred spending ability cast.

Demon Hunter

Casting Vengeance unleashes a barrage of rockets that deal damage equal to a percentage of the maximum life enemies possess. The number of rockets fired increases over 30 seconds. Elites and Bosses receive less damage per rocket.

Demon Hunter

Firing Cluster Arrow no longer drops explosive ordinance. Instead, it concentrates its explosive force into piercing rays of light.

Monk

Casting Wave of Light now summons a bell at the target location that deals damage when any player attacks the bell. Up to five bells can be active at one time.

Monk

All Way of the Hundred Fists combo punches use the second stage combo punch. Consecutive hits from Way of the Hundred Fists increases its damage by 2%. Max 350 stacks.

Buff: Fists of Light – Increases damage of Sanctified power.

Monk

The target of your Seven-Sided Strike is barraged with spiritual punches for 15 seconds. This can only affect one enemy at a time.

Necromancer

Your Golem now picks up corpses within 20 yards. Each corpse it stores allows you to cast Corpse Explosion, Corpse Lance, or Revive with the max number of corpses consumed per cast. Up to 30 corpses can be stored.

Necromancer

Enemies within 50 yards are constantly assaulted by the Army of the Dead - Unconventional Warfare while this item is equipped.

Necromancer

Hitting enemies with Death Nova five consecutive times adds a spirit that afflicts an enemy every fifth cast of Death Nova. Up to three spirits can be sent at a time.

Witch Doctor

Enemies affected by Locust Swarm are also Haunted. When you cast Piranhas, all Haunted enemies within 60 yards are pulled into the pool. A lesser enemy stunned by Bogadile is instantly killed. Elites and Bosses stunned by Bogadile take massive damage.

Buff: Satiated – Cooldown

Witch Doctor

Horrify becomes an aura that causes enemies to receive 100% more damage and deal 15% less damage in addition to its other effects.

Witch Doctor

You summon two Gargantuans and three Zombie Dogs periodically. Gargantuans gain the effect of the Restless Giant rune. Zombie Dogs gain the effect of all runes. Enemies hit by Sacrifice are Immolated, causing them to take 100% more damage from your Pets.

Wizard

Your Storm Armor charges over 30 seconds. Casting Storm Armor at full charge releases a powerful thunderbolt, instantly killing a random enemy within 30 yards. Bosses and Elites are not killed but take significant damage.

Buff: Storm Armor Recharging – Increases damage of Sanctified power.

Wizard

Arcane Orb now periodically spawns up to four orbiting charges that will generate an additional orb when cast. All charges from the Arcane Orbit rune now detonate at the same time.

Wizard

Magic Missile fires 10 missiles and gains the effect of the Seeker rune.

Haedrig's Gift

Haedrig's Gift comes three times per season. Its contents depend on the class of the hero who opens it – together the three gifts make up a class set. There are five rotations; which one a season uses is announced by Blizzard at season start.

Ethereal items

Ethereal weapons are bound to one class. Besides their fixed power they roll one legendary weapon power and one passive skill of that class.

Khalim's Will Khalim's Will
Legendary Flail

Crusader

Killing an enemy reduces the cooldown of Steed Charge by 1 second

+ one of 20 weapon powers and one of 17 passive skills

Jade Talon Jade Talon
Legendary Wrist Sword

Monk

Consecutive hits to enemies increases attack speed by 3%, up to 30% for 3 seconds

+ one of 13 weapon powers and one of 18 passive skills

Soul Harvest Soul Harvest
Legendary Scythe

Necromancer

Consecutive hits to enemies increases attack speed by 3%, up to 30% for 3 seconds

+ one of 12 weapon powers and one of 20 passive skills

Ghostflame Ghostflame
Legendary Legend Spike

Witch Doctor

Consecutive hits to enemies increases attack speed by 3%, up to 30% for 3 seconds

+ one of 14 weapon powers and one of 19 passive skills

Soul Shards

Soul Shards have a fixed power and roll one of three additional powers.

Sliver of Terror Sliver of Terror
Legendary Soul Shard

Your cooldowns are increased by 25%. For every skill on cooldown, you take 12.5% reduced damage and deal 12.5% increased damage.

Plus one of

  • Your attack speed and critical hit chance are increased by 5% for each skill on cooldown.
  • You cast a devastating Ring of Fire after killing 100 enemies.
  • If three or more skills are on cooldown, your lightning and fire skill damage are increased by 50%.
Shard of Hatred Shard of Hatred
Legendary Soul Shard

You deal 15% reduced damage while you have 3 or fewer enemies within 25 yards. If more than 3 enemies are within the same distance, you deal 5% increased damage per enemy (to a maximum of 50%).

Plus one of

  • Your movement speed is increased by 50%. Each enemy within 25 yards reduces your movement speed by 10% up to 70%.
  • You now deal 10% increased damage for every enemy instead of 5% (to a maximum of 100%).
  • Killing an elite enemy pulls all enemies within 40 yards to where the elite died.
Fragment of Destruction Fragment of Destruction
Legendary Soul Shard

You move unhindered through enemies. Each enemy you pass through receives the Mark of Destruction for 7 seconds. Each marked enemy that dies removes 1 second from one of your skills on cooldown. If the Mark of Destruction expires before the enemy dies, you lose 2% of your maximum health as damage. Marks are not applied if you are below 35% health.

Plus one of

  • You have a 25% chance to restore 5% health when an enemy dies with Mark of Destruction active.
  • You now leave a trail of fire in your wake that slays enemies with the Mark of Destruction that are below 10% health.
  • When you apply Mark of Destruction to an enemy, you increase your movement speed by 5% for 7 seconds. Max 10 Stacks.
Stain of Sin Stain of Sin
Legendary Soul Shard

You deal 25% less damage. When you kill 50 enemies, you spawn a pool of blood that increases the damage done to elite enemies by 150% and lasts 15 seconds.

Plus one of

  • The pool of blood now negates Elite affixes within its area.
  • The pool of blood now collects Rift Progress Orbs.
  • You gain an additional Rift Progress Orb when you kill an elite pack.
Essence of Anguish Essence of Anguish
Legendary Soul Shard

Every time you deal poison damage to an enemy you increase your cooldown reduction and movement speed by 2.5% while your damage received is increased by 5% for 10 seconds. Max 10 stacks.

Plus one of

  • Your movement speed and cooldown reduction can be increased up to 15 times by dealing poison damage to an enemy.
  • When you deal poison damage to an enemy, they receive 50% increased poison damage from all sources for 10 seconds.
  • When you kill an enemy, you deal the damage done by the death blow to all enemies within 25 yards. Pets and Followers cannot trigger this effect.
Dregs of Lies Dregs of Lies
Legendary Soul Shard

You deal 25% less damage. Your pets deal 25% increased damage.

Plus one of

  • Each time your pet hits an enemy, your damage is increased by 0.5% for 5 seconds. This stacks up to 100 times. When you reach 100 stacks, the stacks quickly reset to 0.
  • Killing an elite enemy reduces all your active cooldowns by 5 seconds.
  • On receiving fatal damage, spawn a shadow that prevents your death, restores your health to 35%, and grants +225 All Resist to all party members while it is active. The shadow only lasts 15 seconds.
Remnant of Pain Remnant of Pain
Legendary Soul Shard

Your Critical Hit Chance is reduced by 15%. Attacks against Incapacitated enemies are automatically critical hits.

Plus one of

  • Hitting enemies with cold damage has a 50% chance to freeze them. Cold skill damage is increased to frozen targets by 20%.
  • When you critically hit an enemy, you increase the attack speed of all players by 5% for 5 seconds. Max 10 stacks.
  • Gain passability while your movement speed bonus is over 50%. When you move through enemies you knock them back and stun them for 2 seconds.

Season Journey

Every season journey objective to tick off, ordered by topic. Which objectives a season places in which chapter changes from season to season – just tick what you have done.

Chapters 7

A chapter is complete once all of its objectives are met.

Bosses 153

Boss objectives per enemy, from the easiest difficulty up to the timed objectives.

Skeleton King

Queen Araneae

The Butcher

Maghda

Zoltun Kulle

Belial

Ghom

Siegebreaker Assault Beast

Cydaea

Azmodan

Rakanoth

Izual

Diablo

Urzael

Adria

Malthael

Realms, keywardens & Greed 14

Greater Rifts 32

Legendary gems 22

Gear, crafting & cube 23

Conquests 17

Conquests are difficult challenges with their own leaderboards.

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