hello, i just started playing and i dont recall choosing a eternal or a season, where is it and what happens if im on season? my char will be deleted after the season is over??
upon character creation you can chose between the eternal, and seasonal realm. by default it suggests the seasonal realm.
No, your character wont be deleted. After every season, your character gets moved to the eternal realm, except for seaonal thematic things, like in this season, the seneschal pet.
If you want to take part in the next season, youd have to create a new seasonal character, which will also move to the eternal realm after that season ends. A season lasts 3 months, so every 3 months you get new content, while the eternal realm stays pretty much the same.
Eternal is so the WoW players have somewhere to play.
Right kids?
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and where can i check which i am on?
when you start the game and chose your char, it tells you below the chars name.
https://imgur.com/a/0KwyOSo
The more i see these threads, the more i think they are are a combo of a sales pitch and a survey from Blizzard Marketing department. Because blizzard stands to gain from people playing seasonal content.
Simply put, the value proposition is weak: spend a heck of a lot of hours farming the same equipment / aspects at the expense of your social life, in exchange for temporary special effects and a mini-game (gauntlet).
Allow me to reuse my eternal character in the season, and then i will do seasonal content.
Im a big proponent of gaming companies thinking about implications of being major time-wasters for their customers. Not good for society.
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oh yeah i see it now, im seasonalā¦
so im like lvl 40 now and if i dont finish the main quests before the end of season i will have to start those quests again in a new season with a lvl 1 char?
so you are doing the campaign is what you say?
no, your campaign progression will just stay, and you are free to finish it on the eternal realm. so will your renown and lilith statues. You just wont have access to the season 3 specific quests anymore.
the season lasts for quite a bit longer tho, so you shouldnt have any issues finishing that. =)
Youll end the campaign at something like lvl 65 or so (maybe even 70, last time i did the campaign was pre EP buffs). so yea, not really too time consuming.
so the char im building now wont have access to the new stuff in the new season and i have to make a new char lvl 1 every season?? and if i want to keep playing my current char i wont have acces to new stuff in that eternal realm?? thats ridiculous
well, thats how seasons work. A season always is a fresh start for everyone, except for renown, and lilith statues.
If you dont like to start over, you should stick to eternal once this season is over. some things get moved to eternal eventually, like certain s1 powers, and certain s2 powers. Same for new items. Just the seasonal quests, and special season mechanics wont be available in eternal.
normally arpg people would always play seasonal content. However, some arround here do infact prefer the eternal realm, especially those who are coming from MMOs.
to me for example, the eternal realm is some kind of āhall of fameā. Characters i had a good time with and want to keep for whatever reason.
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Itās not difficult to create modes in D4, a 2023 game. It can have solo mode, harcore mode, normal mode, climb mode (I particularly like the progression in seasons) Level 100 character mode.
So the past few days Iāve logged on to an eternal realm character, it pops up a warning that Iām not on the seasonal realm and wonāt be able to play seasonal content.
Why is this message popping up? Of course I know Iām on eternal realm. Itās a level 90 character, not a brand new one.
And before anyone comments, Iām on eternal because I did all the seasonal content and donāt want to start a new character there. Leveling the pet robut was kind of tedious, and donāt feel like doing that again.
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Not playing Eternal too much now but I plan to. Once my account is filled with level 80-100 level characters, Iām not deleting them to play seasons. Iāll keep playing Eternal characters to perfect their gear, and if thereās nothing more to do after that, guess Iāll have to quit until expansion.
Never played this wow thing. I did play Diablo and Diablo 2 pre-LOD. I find Eternal to be very enjoyable and very similar to those after having played S1 and S2 in D4.
You will have access to all the stuff that has been tried out in previous season, revised and put into the core game. Eternal is the core game. Seasonal is a testing area for new stuff that may or may not be added to the core game at a later date.
If you want to try out the experimental stuff then you have to play seasons and start a new character every three months. If you chose not to do that then you can still play your characters that have moved to Eternal any time you want.
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D4 is mainly a seasonal game, Eternal is not the focus.
Wow has continual progression, in that when a new xpac hits you keep your level.
Itās quite common to see the back and forth between Seasonal and Eternal players.
Youāll see many threads where Eternal players want what the Seasonal players have, and the fighting follows.
I think fans of the Eternal realm are missing the point of the game, to be frank.
I do get it, as a WoW player myself I too resisted seasons in D3, but it didnāt take long for me to get why people prefer Seasons to non- seasonal content.
Each to their own, but Iād wager most that dislike seasons havenāt actually tried them yet.
Iāve played 29 seasons of D3ā¦ Coming to D4 with seasons Iād rather wish they found a way to make seasons not be a negative for Eternal players. Once S3 is over my main will still be in Eternal to play the base game with and whatever they throw into the base game over time like in D3.
Point is, I hate seasons. But I play them because I lose more if I donāt coming from D3 experience. Same will happen for D4 until they choose to change it.
People are no less Diablo players if they choose to only play Eternal in D4 than they can be for just playing seasons. Weāre all playing the same game, just one part always has more content if even a tad bit more than Eternal.
So quit treating this like console wars.
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If playing Eternal was not on the main purpose of the game:
- Why was it the only game type available at launch?
- Why can we still play Eternal anytime we want and still officially advertised by Blizz as āthe most standard and consistent experience for D4ā?
- Why do all seasonal characters end up in Eternal at the end of the season?
That much is true, and thatās part of why weāre complaining. But as you say yourself, Eternal IS part of the D4 game experience.
As I said earlier in the thread, why canāt it be both? I play Seasons so I can have a better time in Eternal. But I just wish they would be more to do in Eternal to do, and also more character slots because Iām currently full and could not try more builds even if I wanted to, Seasonal or not. As it stands, by the end of this Season, I would have no possibility to play seasonal anymore without deleting a lvl 100 character in Eternal. Iād rather stop playing D4 entirely at that point.
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Of course you do. I get that 100% but you also agree that Seasons are the focus.
So being the focus of development, you must acknowledge that seasonal content is where the money is being spent, right?
So by playing on Eternal and knowing this, you choose to take the cheap seats in the game, while being upset you canāt see the band and thatās just bonkers.
The main purpose of the game is to get you to buy stuff from the shop and Battle Passes of course, thatās pretty much it to be honest.
I donāt think Blizz cares where you play, they just want your cash, obviously, but keep fighting the fight, if you get everything from seasons on Eternal then thatās great too, I donāt have a problem with it to be honest, just as long as it doesnāt get in the way of seasons.
I wish you luck in your endeavorsā¦ Ycare, well cus I do, that why.
Did you hear that ever so quiet āboom tishā in the distanceā¦yeah I didnāt either.
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I think they missed a huge cash grab and following of players by not catering to both in their own way.
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