The ladies over at GamesRadar interviewed Blizzard about season 3 the other day. Some interesting outtakes include: the seneschal pets will have 1:1 stat power to the player making them pretty godlike. They also go into some details on season 3, inspirations behind the themes and oh-so much more.
https://www.gamesradar.com/diablo-4s-season-of-the-construct-companions-will-be-just-as-powerful-as-you-are-regardless-of-how-broken-your-build-is/
Interview links at the bottom of the news post.
Thanks for link.
Heh they called them âRobotsââŚriot time.
Interesting indeed.
Sean White:
To clarify, yes! Your Seneschal Construct companion will scale 1:1 with your own stats. Your attack rating is itâs attack rating. Your crit is itâs crit, etc. Have at it!
Found it funny he said âAttack Ratingâ. Know what he meant ofc, but it just caught me off guard and hearkens back to D2 âARâ.
they also interviewed Sean White, the guy who came up with the idea. looks great but you know after the season ends they will nerf the sidekick into D2/3 power lvls to âkeep it in the core gameâ, etc.
"Youâll notice that The Seneschal has a ton of different builds â things that are obvious choices like âThis Seneschal will heal you, thatâs super cool,â" the Diablo 4 designer added. âBut then thereâs a lot of other interactions where youâre like, âOh, wait a minute, this can synergize with my build.â So things like that I geek out on.â
However, White downplayed comparisons to Diablo 3âs Followers. âI guess you could say maybe itâs Follower-lite or like, but Seneschal is a whole other ballpark. Itâs almost as if youâre customizing its own mini-class thatâs following you around,â White said of the comparisons.
The Diablo 4 designer also said the Seneschal has âway more customization optionsâ than you wouldâve seen with Followers, from either Diablo 2 or 3. âI think thatâs one of the things that really sets it apart,â White concluded.
To clarify, there are QoL improvements coming in Season 3, and Season 4 is targeted for the overhaul to itemization. The article doesnât state that there are no QoL features coming before Season 5.
Personally, I was expecting the armory / layout system to be ready. Maybe the codex overhaul too. I think the PC Gamer guys were too. There was lots of minor QoL boosts thou for sure. We will know them all tomorrow with the patch notes.
When that Armory system coming to D4 like we have in D3? A bit annoying having to reset skills/paragons/items just to try out another build. Donât really want to make a whole to new level 100 character of the same class either.
I want to be able to play a variety of builds with my character more easily.
Appreciate the clarification. Were the QoL improvements mentioned in the stream? Was at work, so missed out. 
If not, hopefully in patch notes!
This is exactly what I had to do in season 2. Being able to get to 100 in 18 hours seemed easier than doing a respec and finding gear.
We briefly touched on several, but the full patch notes will be out tomorrow with the list
It looks like itâll be a bit of fun so I guess Iâll load up and try the new season out yet again. Might not do a battlepass for the third time this season. Look forward to the patch notes!
Thanks! Looking forward to the patch notes for the new season.
I will wait until I see the patch notes but sadly what you guys call quality of life additions at blizzard, Are straight up standard features in all games now.
So wonât hold my breath for anything substantial being added.
A.token stash tab is hardly a qol addition as an example.
Wouldnât be mad if it comes with later season if itâs redesigned properly in return.
Interesting items are one of the big pillars that defines a good ARPG, please take your time with this one. 
No matter what the patch notes say get ready for the rage from the Karens. The forum will be entertaining. 
This is the biggest problem. Weâre still just playing catchup, trying to get near baseline for other games in the genre. I knew that the itemization rework wasnât going to be coming until S4, but having no recode for the stash (huuuuge problem for multiclass players), no rework to the codex, etc., means that itâs just another 3 months of all the same problems. Itâs hard to get motivated to participate when much NEEDED improvements are always a season away, especially since I rotate classes every season and I have nowhere to put my stuff. If they donât actually fix the stash and improve the codex in S4 Iâm going to start wondering what the heck theyâre even doing over there. 
Probably going to be the big clincher for a lot of people in S4. If the rework fails to impress thatâs gonna be so many hurt feelings itâll be unreal. 
Same.
For me, Iâve always wanted an armory thing that also STORED the relevant items for that build since D3. Ideally we wouldnât have to worry about it doing ridiculous things to your inventory/stash every time you switch. I figure for each build, we should get a storage slot for each item with the option to map an item to different builds (ie: we have a BIS that applies to both builds). Basically it would be a âbuild containerâ.
On a side note, I am also hoping all classes get the option to equip all their class weapons and either swap them like D2 or have them be situational like Barbs. Basically, I want to have my sorc have a slot for 1H+OH and another for 2H with an optional shortcut to swap them like D2 or something. Switching back and forth in field is pretty annoying and it would make it a bit more fun for farming vs pushing.
Man, I donât envy you right now.
triple check the patch notes page for typos 
Really sad what blizz puts out with the money they have. Imagine if GGG had blizz money, then maybe POE wouldnât be dog water.