I know I’ve seen a post about this here and there. And I’ve done some google-foo and blog reading. But I can’t seem to find a good solid answer. What exactly will be the diff between seasonal and eternal? All i can find is that now season content will be available on eternal realms. Am I missing something or is season now only a ‘ladder/economy reset’ with no other differentiation from eternal?
It’s mainly player preference. Some people enjoy making a new character every three months. While others want to keep improving existing characters. The issue is each camp wants developers to cater to them specifically at the same time wants developers to ignore the other. Kinda like sibling rivalry.
So, your saying that now there is NO difference between the realms other than 1 resets and 1 doesn’t?
When did this happen?
“Available on both Seasonal and Eternal realms starting in World Tier III after completing a Questline, the Infernal Hordes is a wave-based feature that you can slay through solo or with friends”
Infernal hordes isn’t seasonal content. It’s a new permanent feature.
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OK then what is the seasonal content that eternal will not be getting? This is the question I posed in the OP.
From what I can tell it’s just another helltide rep copy paste and the world dungeons that are just easier infernal hordes.
Ah okay, you were talking about for season 5. I took at as seasons vs eternal in general.
But yeah, for season 5 (like 4) I don’t think there is any difference.
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None, as it should be.
You still get the battlepass with cosmetics but that is it.
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The main reason I ask is … I’m not an economy minded person. I pretty much only trade items for gold so I don’t have to worry about farming it for crafting/buying/respeccing. I don’t need a seasonal realm to accomplish that considering the crazy inflated prices at the end of the season. I have many full stacks of shards i could drop and never have to worry about gold again. I do enjoy a fresh start here and there. But if there’s no other benefit to seasonal realm other than starting from scratch then I can force that on eternal with self imposed iron-man or whatever you wanna call it.
I’m don’t have an opinion on that. idc one way or the other. I’m just trying to get a good, solid, definitive answer so I can decide if I’m playing season 5 as “seasonal” or just letting my chars migrate to eternal and stay there.
At the moment there is no seasonal gimmick for S5. Which makes sense based on what they are introducing and the fact it’s such a short season. So aside from the battle pass, the ashes perks, and the reputation system, there will be no difference from the Eternal Realm.
I have a feeling S6 will be more of the same. S7 we may start to get seasonal gimmicks back, but that’s a stretch as well considering they will still be putting out fires from the expansion.
S8 they may introduce another piece of endgame content, so by S9 we should in theory have an actual seasonal gimmick.
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I think this is a misunderstanding. New content has been added to the base game. The base game is on eternal and seasonal but seasonal has some extra stuff.
In season 1 they had the malignant heart thing. 2 had the vampiric powers, the blood harvest zones, and AoZ. Season 3 had the little robot buddy plus vaults, the boss guy and the various open world activities. None of these things were on eternal.
But with season 4 they brought in so many things that there wasn’t a big seasonal theme so all it had was the holy bolts pots, the movement speed pot, mindcages and the wolves rep. Those were not on eternal and purely seasonal.
Season 5 is similar. They added the infernal hordes thing to the base game and people mistook that as the season theme, but it’s not. Season 5 will have some mini dungeons and a rep grind too that won’t be on eternal. Plus the mindcages again.
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- Season Journy rewards.
- Season Blessings (5 of them that can be leveled up)
- Free tiers on the season Battle Pass.
- Reputation rewards (20 I believe).
I am not sure if S5 will have new potions like season 4 had.
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That’s kinda my take on it. It may be a while … if ever … that seasonal will have any true content difference from eternal.
It’s not a misunderstanding as much as noticing a trend that the base game and the seasonal realms wont have any actual content difference.
Your explanation of the seasons is exactly why I ask. The first few seasons actually had reasons to play them vs. eternal. actual content that you didn’t get to see on eternal. But the last one (and the upcoming one) literally have nothing but BP, extra drops (see rep rewards and journey rewards) and some seasonal consumables.
It seems to be a trend that makes seasonal only any good for people who want a fresh economy or happy to drop some dough on some cosmetics.
Thank you for a nice list. This is the kind of thing I was looking for.
Season journey rewards are just extra drops.
Blessings are just extra drops and faster/easier leveling
BP is just cosmetics
Rep is just extra drops
All things put in to accelerate progression. But If you don’t need your progression accelerated, due to having already put in a lot of time and effort, then all these things are irrelevant. It looks as though I’ll just be migrating to eternal in a couple of days.
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seasonal questline, maybe a gimmick (like it was the case for vampire power, hearts, the spider, the elixirs…)
the server reset
and the seasonal cosmetics which you’ll get only if you play season.
in this case, the infernal hordes is akin to the pit in this season , it’s a main mechanic, not a seasonal one
eitherway, depending on how it interest you or not : play seasonal or play eternal, both are choices
in D1 i only played offline
in D2 i only played ladder
in D3 i only played eternal
in D4 i only play seasonal
I can understand how people feel this way. I can tell you my reasons to play on seasonal even without a theme.
I like to have a fresh start especially when there are changes to the game. I like starting with nothing at all, no gold, gems, crafting mats. No stash full of uniques and Ubers waiting for me.
I haven’t played the game in close to a month now. I did everything I wanted with my character. But when season 5 comes out I’ll have a chance to do it again and I’ll probably play it for a month and take a break before the expansion.
But if I had just played eternal I probably wouldn’t log into S5 at all or if I did I’d be done in a couple days.
That’s just me. I’m not trying to convince you to play seasons either. If you’re questioning if playing season is worth it then the answer is probably not or you wouldn’t be questioning it at all.
Yeah I’m not stating an opinion on if either one is better than the other. I’m just trying to decide what I’m going to do based on my preferences
I’ve always spent all of my time on ladder/seasonal since the D2 days. Back then I was a trader so I was always pretty much done with my char(s) by the time reset came around and I needed a fresh start. But now-a-days I don’t rly buy gear at all. And with tempering and MWing “finishing” a char becomes a loooong term project if you don’t buy gear. That is more than enough for me to keep playing the same one 'till it’s done. And with nothing new/different to do on a new ladder then it seems silly to start over when I still have plenty to do on my current char.
I’ve only had my tires for a couple years. Can I get a voucher for when it’s time to replace them?
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I agree with this completely … BUT, I only feel this way if I fully, or at least really close to, finish a char. close to perfect rolls on close to perfect stats on all gear. And since I don’t rly buy gear, and temper/mw makes for a huge investment, this isn’t something you can do in a few months. So, im not sure I ever really feel satisfied at the end of a season again. And with nothing new to see that’s kind of the last straw saying season just might not be for me anymore.
Tiers 
Tires 
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