In the past, when you were eagerly looking forward to the new season, did you carefully calculate the specific duration of each Diablo 4 season? Although the specific number of days varies, it is basically maintained at a little more than 3 months to ensure that 4 seasons can be released stably every year.
Among them, Season 3 and Season 5 are more special, one is longer, and the other is shorter, which may be because their content differs from the regular season. But now you are experiencing the third “special” Diablo 4 season, that is Season 7! Because according to the latest news, the end time of this season will be one week later than the original time.
Although this news seems insignificant, it actually affects many subsequent arrangements, such as Season of Witchcraft may need to launch more new activities to ensure that you will not feel bored during the extension time, the schedule of Season 8, and the new DLC issues that you may be very concerned about. Based on this, we will introduce them to you one by one.
New Goblin Hunting Event
During Christmas 2024, Season 6 launched an event called Slay Ride To Hell, where you can work with players from the entire game community to earn Diablo 4 Gold by hunting goblins. Now you can think of this new Season 7 goblin event as an improved version of Slay Ride To Hell, which will add six rare goblins to the game for you to hunt and get rewards, and this addition is permanent. That means you can still hunt them after the event ends, but the probability of them appearing is not as high as during the event.
March Of The Goblins event will last from March 4th to 11th, during which all goblins can provide you with rewards. It is worth noting that one of the 6 new goblins can provide extremely rare rewards, including a Mythic-level unique item and Resplendent Spark that can be used to create unique items.
In addition, the biggest difference between this event and last year’s Slay Ride To Hell is that the reward track is no longer a group-based one, but only related to your own event progress. The higher your event reputation, the higher the chance of dropping more loot when you kill goblins. When your reward track reaches the highest level, you will get the precious Resplendent Spark.
The six new goblins and their corresponding rewards are as follows:
- Odious Ector (green): Crafting materials, Obducite for Masterwork upgrades (in Torment difficulty).
- Gilded Baron (gold): A staggering amount of Diablo 4 Gold.
- Glittering Prym (diamond): Gem fragments, runes, Undercity Tributes and Scattered Prisms (in Torment difficulty).
- Curious Murl (purple): Bag of Obols, which can be used to obtain many Murming Obols.
- Gelatinous Syrus (blue): Splits into two goblins when killed, and then into three. Killing them all will give you a legendary item (higher chance of dropping legendary items in higher Torment difficulty). It may also drop gold, boss materials, and elixirs.
- Fancy Old Fedric (mythic purple): One mythic unique item and one Resplendent Spark (very difficult to kill).
Season 8 Officially Confirmed To Be Delayed
Originally, the game developers said that Season of Witchcraft would end around April 15, but recently you may have noticed that the relevant counter has changed, showing that the end date of the current season has become April 29, and this news has also been officially confirmed.
Naturally, the extension of Season 7 means that Season 8 will meet you later, and it may also lead to a shortened duration of Season 8, which will inevitably make those loyal Diablo 4 players who are not interested in the mechanics of Season 7 feel anxious and frustrated. But in fact, time is one thing, and the playability of the season is another. The length of time does not represent the value of the season. Moreover, Season 7 is not even halfway through, and any changes in the time counter are possible.
In addition, Fergusson, one of the persons in charge of Diablo 4, also announced that the game may allow a mysterious old friend to return to the game in Season 8. Regardless of whether this return is attractive enough at that time, at least this news is enough to cheer you up and accumulate resources by completing the tasks and events in Season 7 better to prepare for Season 8.
Interestingly, this season time adjustment has set off another wave of discussion in Diablo 4 player community, that is, whether Diablo series may usher in the fifth part? Fergusson also responded quickly to this. He seriously stated that Diablo 4 will be the focus for a long time in the future, and Diablo 5 is currently just an illusory “possibility”.
The Time Adjustment Of The Season Has Nothing To Do With DLC
The game developers said in 2024 that they want to release a new expansion every year after Vessel of Hatred, you might wonder if the change in the end time of Season 7 is related to that plan. Unfortunately, the answer is no, because a few weeks ago the developers said that there would be no new DLC in 2025.
Although this may disappoint you who are looking forward to DLC, from another perspective, the absence of DLC this year means that each season should become more playable, so you might as well relax and enjoy Season 7, and look forward to Season 8 or even Season 9!
The above is the latest Diablo 4 news we bring to you this time, I hope it can be helpful to you. Thank you for reading.
