Seasonal Perks for Non-seasonal Characters!

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I do not want to play Seasons anymore, but I still enjoy gaining paragon levels with my non-seasonal characters! I want this game to get spiced-up since Diablo 4 is on the way anyway. One of the following options could be implemented for non-seasonal characters:

What do you all think?

  1. Unlock all previous seasonal perks for non-season characters.
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  2. Non-seasonal characters will have the option to unlock ONE prior seasonal perk every 1000 paragon levels. You can respec the perk any time through the paragon-level tab.
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I know Blizzard wants to encourage players to participate in seasonal activities, but I think most players will do that ANYWAY. Why not let the people who don’t want to start a new character from scratch have a little fun in the meantime?

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Well, having 2 stacking themes active plus a 4th cube slot plus rorg bonus would extremely over-powered.

A better idea would be to just have the Seasonal Theme active for both modes. It won’t break anything.

For those of you concerned about the sanctity of the era leader boards, they are already monkeying around with a lot of sets/legendary bonus’s every 3 months without resetting the era leader boards, so those leader boards are already heavily tainted.

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…is it wrong that I like the idea of “unlocking” seasonal themes by playing a given theme’s season to completion, which unlocks it for indefinite use in non-seasonal games? The player gets to pick which seasonal theme they want active from a list of unlocked themes before starting a game (if they have any unlocked themes).

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You want season themes play season. The point is to have everyone start on a level playing field for the leaderboards.

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  1. Unlock all previous seasonal perks for non-season characters.

NO

  1. Non-seasonal characters will have the option to unlock ONE prior seasonal perk every 1000 paragon levels. You can respec the perk any time through the paragon-level tab.

NO

Non Season is a stale state of the game that doesnt change outside of Legendaries being updated. You want any form of seasonal buff. Go play Seasons.
If you want to start from scratch outside season . Do it and manually assign paragon only bits at a time.

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Sweet argument Flyball and Keyblade.

The whole point is that non-seasonal characters aren’t “the real game”, so why not let those people have fun on arcade mode? Remember, Diablo4 is on the way. I absolutely do not care at all about leaderboards (lol…) so… Asking for a little something spiffy like what seasonal toons have is all I’m doing here — and I don’t think that’s unreasonable m8’s…

Look at GR130 gameplay (ZzZzzzzZZz). Why not allow non seasonal toons to get there faster with a “X” factor to sweeten the stale Piccadilly Cafeteria that is D3 endgame.

shrugs

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Maliken, what you suggest is impossible programming-wise. The season themes are part of the versions of the games that are released with every patch. So in order to play a season 21 theme you’d need an instance of patch 2.6.9 on your computer… and servers running patch 2.6.9 too.

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Play seasons. What’s the problem? It’s the same game.

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that was the general idea for creating seasonal themes, you sould try it.

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It shouldn’t and won’t happen. Again, non-seasonal players already have their high paragon advantage (I am personally at 3800+), plus usually high level legendary gems, so they really do not need more OP buffs. If you want more buffs, go play seasons.

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Too bad they keep failing. The seasonal themes have made things far more boring the never.

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haha, well that solves it then. Thanks for teh feedback.
Shame, but the idea is cute you gotta admit

Meh… It restarts your paragon levels, gold, cube unlocks, and reagents. I don’t like that at all. But I know what you mean.
p.s. I did try it for many seasons. Seasons are fun don’t get me wrong, I just want to retire from them. Guess I’ll wait for D4.

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Sure. Still, the new patch offers some changes that could make non season interesting for players who don’t like season.

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Thank you Captain Obvious!
I, like the OP and many others, don’t always want to be forced into playing seasons.
I have my characters, my gear, my paragon points. But I have very little interest in starting from scratch every couple of months because that’s the only way to get any kind of reward.
While I don’t personally care if it’s something different to season, but something would be nice for non seasonal players, anything really.

Something along the lines of a weekly theme, double bounties this week, double goblins the next week, bonus RORG without wearing it for the next week etc etc.

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They are almost all OP themes. Even a mild one like free RORG would require balancing of other build to be even.

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This is like the the non union guys in union shops that get union benefits without paying. I’d say no. If you didn’t participate you shouldn’t hey the rewards.

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I choose option 3, none of the above.

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Good:

I think you forget that, for example, the Legendary Gems “Esoterica” and “Gizzard of the Lava Beast” and the “Gungo Team” were benefits of “Season 2” and for example the gem of “Afflicted” was one of the benefits of “Season 4”

Greetings.

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Seipegasus: it’s easy with new items and changes to items and also changes to set bonuses, skills and such because once they’re coded into the game they can just be kept from each patch (or update) to the next until they maybe are changed again. Looking at a page on d3resource com the actual themes weren’t introduced untill season 16 patch 2.6.4, Grandeur, season 17 patch 2.6.5, LoN and so on and a “theme” is not just about some changes to skills or items.

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The seasonal reward system is already in place and unique to seasonal players in the way of portraits and pets, and stash tabs for those who do not have 13, up to and including guardian.

I do agree that when they do double goblins or horadric cubes etc etc etc, it should traverse to both seasonal and non-seasonal.

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