Diablo III Season 5 First Look

The official Diablo III website is offering up a first look at Season 5 that players will soon be able to participate in, with a particular focus on the changes coming to the season design as a whole. We begin with the legendary/class set item changes you’ll likely be most interested in:

The Season Journey feature was introduced in Patch 2.3.0 for Season 4, and we’ve made a few updates in time for Season 5 to begin. The first major change is a direct response to popular player feedback, as we have removed Seasonal Legendaries from the game. All new Legendaries included in Patch 2.4.0 will be made immediately available to be found by players regardless of Season participation.

However, we still want there to be item-based rewards as part of the Season experience. We’ve introduced Haedrig’s Gift, a special bundle of Set items you’ll receive on completion of certain stages of the Season Journey. Starting in Chapter 3, three of the objectives in the Season Journey will reward you one of these bags, each containing two pieces of one of your class sets.

By the time you complete all of Chapter 4 of the Season Journey, you should be fully decked out in a full class set! Which set you receive will rotate with each Season and depends on which class of hero you open the gifts on. Each Haedrig’s Gift will be mailed to you and can be retrieved by opening the in-game mail icon in the bottom left corner of the screen.

Be careful, though; each step of the Season Journey will only reward one Haedrig’s Gift (for a total of three bags per Season/one full set of gear), regardless of how many characters you might play in a given Season. Make sure to claim these gifts on the character you want to receive their set!

The class sets offered in Season 5 are:
– Barbarian: Might of the Earth
– Crusader: Thorns of the Invoker
– Demon Hunter: The Shadow’s Mantle
– Monk: Monkey King’s Garb
– Witch Doctor: Raiment of the Jade Harvester
– Wizard: Firebird’s Finery