Honestly, I am hoping for crucibles. I am looking forward to do some magic missile action, 4-way hota slam, and some foh goodness.
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Doubt it will be crucibles since it was 2 seasons ago. There is still like 6-7 more possible themes to rotate through. I am putting my money on massacre bonus.
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Crucibles was in S27 it’s not a 2 seasons ago. Hope it will be crucibles and returning of Christmas-New year gifts
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That’s right it was Shards 2 seasons ago, got the two confused.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it is crucibles and then that is the entire rotation. Shards, 4th cube, ethereals, crucibles repeat.
Although I am still hoping they give a pumped up altar with the weaker themes so we have some variation.
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I am hoping it is the migration of the altar to non-season. At least all the quality of life upgrade like auto salvage, auto picking up of death breaths and orbs. Can include auto pickup of gems too?
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It will be one of the past 31 seasons. Plus you will have to live with what they give you. It isn’t up to US what we want. It is up to them what they want to give you. Instead of them starting for the beginning and going up.
What is going to happen is they are only going to give you what they think were the best ones. To make season still good to play. Plus if it wasn’t for the Altar & Vision. If it wasn’t for that the game would be dead to most people.
Season Themes did not start until Season 14.
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My first guess for S32 was The Eternal Conflict’s Pandemonium buff thinking Vessel of Hatred expansion would be out by now. Later I realized that VoS release is still far away by the time of S32 and my second guess Ethereals just landed. It seems VoS will be out by second week of October and we’ll have dates of S33 in D3 by then. I think I’ll bank on Pandemonium again but my second guess would be Crucibles from Light’s Calling.
Previous Season before that, Forbidden Archives, have shined Necromancers enough so I don’t think it will be Shadows of the Past; they would wait for it. Nobody really liked Trials of the Tempest, so I believe either it will never arrive or very late. I still think free RoRG and free LoN effect Seasons need to be combined with something else to be relevant; perhaps with each other.
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Ok How many of those seasons that will really help somebody with their character? Like the 3 last season 31, 32, & 33. What are they going to play the same 5 or 6 seasons over and over again?
Season of Greed (S14) - all Treasure Goblin spawns will be doubled
Boon of the Horadrim (S15) - Double bounties
Season of Grandeur (S16) - Ring of Royal Grandeur
- Season of Nightmares (S17) - Legacy of Nightmares “Maybe”
Season of the Triune (S18) - Power of the Triune “Maybe” - Eternal Conflict (S19) – Pandemonium
- Forbidden Archives (S20) * - Kanal’s Cube No Restticted
Trials of the Tempests (S21) - (every 90 seconds) channel an elemental power
Shadows of the Past (S22) - spawn in a shadow clone of your class
The Disciples of Sanctuary (S23) - Followers with a total of 14 different item That is Non season and season - Ethereal Memory (S24) * - Ethereal items
- The Lords of Hell - Soul Shards (S25) * - There are 7 unique Soul Shards
Echoing Nightmare (S26) – Echoing Nightmare That is in Non season & Season - Light’s Calling - Sanctified Items (S27) - Consumable allowing sanctify their Legendary Items
Rites of Sanctuary (S28) – Altar that is now in every season
Visions of Enmity (S29) _ Vision that is now in every season
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Double goblins confirmed.
Personally, I’m at that point where I don’t really care what theme we get.
I just want them to rotate through the season 4 cosmetics.
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From your list, and running some corrections I have counted around ten Season themes. Not counting double goblin spawns as it’s reserved for special occasions such as new year’s eye or Christmas time. Let along you can discard themes like Double Horadric Caches and Triune as they are part of the Seasons through addition of Altar.
This leaves around ten or eleven Season themes to repeat across the years if they don’t combine any two of them as a last minute decision with each other.
Which is nerfed down for being included at every Seasonal play and can be buffed back to its once original values if developers wanted.
Aside from that, the unrestricted Paragon point allocation up to 200 points was a part of it too. This is one of the weaker themes beside free RoRG and LoN effect and I think it’d be the best if these could be paired with some other theme.
It also have the fourth slot in the Kanai’s Cube. Worked like unrestricted slots in Archives theme.
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It will be clones with the fourth cube slot.
Trust me
Crucibles are for the next one
Well, if they have the unrestricted paragon without the cap, it would probably be the most OP Theme. 200 points into each spot would be huge.
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I think that will be the smarter move. Or even some other theme that will be recycled, although other than the killstreak one I am not sure if they will use any others.
It is clear to all that the best themes are going to be shards, ethereals and crucibles. Or the full altar if they do that one as a theme. So space them out, otherwise you create the same disappointment we had of season 24 and 25 followed by the damn near no improvement (comparatively) of screams.
Yeah, my bet for the next theme is the 4th cube slot + clones. Then crucibles. Then killstreak.
Then repeat.
So order will be Soul Shards, unrestricted cube, ethereals, shadow clones and 4th slot, crucibles, kill streak. This would be a 1.5yr cycle which I think a lot of players would be happy with.
Not sure the other themes are all that desirable to repeat… a lot of players hated the Tempest environmental effects. Killstreak definitely the better of the two. Free LON is redundant with LoD gem. Free RORG can be achieved with 4th cube slot. Triune and double bounties is part of Altar. Double gobs is a mid season theme these days. And the capped paragon theme wasn’t a popular one.
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The point I’m making is that what the seasons will do from now on. The same ones as you say we will do over and over again. How times will you do something before people will get bored with it.
This season I got bored with the USA server. I did try the Europe server. Between the two the USA server is basically dead vs the Europe server.
The thing is that the seasons is all about the buffs you get to play. What about the other rewards that were in the other season that people will never see or get. There is a lot of things people will never get. Pets,wings, portraits and what ever. So if this what they just want the BUFFS. Then the game is in a slow dead roll.
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The patch notes for this season say:
Season Cosmetic Rewards
Beginning with Season 17, we began re-introducing previous Seasonal rewards to make them available to players who may have missed them the first time around. For Season 32, this means awards originally available from Season 8 are returning to the Season Journey.
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The seasons cycle the pervious rewards back to Season 5. So the only substantial items players won’t get is S4’s. (Everyone got S3’s rewards regardless, and S2 and S1 were just banner cosmetics).
That will happen no matter what, which is not uncommon in a retired game, especially when it’s been superseded. Like most retired games, it will dwindle down to a baseline of the dedicated, core playerbase where it will hover indefinitely.
A bummer, but it’s the reality.
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