Season 15 Theme Revealed
The theme for Season 15 will be the Boon of the Horadrim! All Horadric Caches earned from bounties will be doubled! Each time you complete a full set of five bounties in an Act, you will receive two Horadric Caches! This should help with collecting items like the Ring of Royal Grandeur, or gaining more of the bounty crafting materials for Reforging Legendaries with Kanai's Cube!
Season 15 begins Friday, September 21 at 5:00 p.m. PDT in North America, 5:00 p.m. CEST in Europe, and 5:00 p.m. KST in Asia.
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment (Official Post)
Season 15 begins on September 21! For those among you who enjoy the fresh start a Season brings, we wanted to give you a glimpse of what to expect before you race out the gate as we continue to evolve and bring new things to Themed Seasons!
New Season Theme
Season 15 will continue the experiment we began last season with a new seasonal buff. This time, for the duration of Season 15, all Horadric Caches earned from bounties will be doubled. This means that each time you complete a full set of five bounties in an Act, you will receive not one, but two Horadric Caches, for twice the bounty rewards!
There are a few things to keep in mind with this effect:
- The bonus cache does benefit from difficulty level; it is essentially as though you completed twice the bounties.
- The rewards inside the Horadric Caches are otherwise unaffected; drop rates or the amount of individual rewards have not been altered.
- The bonus cache earned from Challenge Rifts is not affected; this is a separate type of cache.
Need a refresher on the rewards contained inside a Horadric Cache? Check out our Game Guide for a list of bounty-exclusive Legendary items and more information on the Bounty system.
In addition to doubling up your Horadric spoils, other celebrations may spring up across the globe that celebrate the nature of this theme! Be sure to keep a close eye on Twitter and Facebook for more information as we move into Season 15!
New Cosmetic Rewards
As per tradition, Season 15 will introduce new cosmetic rewards, obtainable by progressing through the Season Journey.
In addition to the Chest and Glove slots of the exclusive Conqueror Set, a brand-new series of portrait frames themed around the struggle of the Eternal Conflict will be available. For the eager cosmetic pet collectors, we thought you could use a hand. Belphegor is eager to keep a grip on your coin as it accompanies you on your adventures across Sanctuary!
Season Journey Rewards
If you’ve been diligently slaying demons for the past few Seasons and reached Conqueror in the Season Journey each time, you’ve surely accrued a few extra stash tabs by now. But players who have not yet earned a total of four stash tabs via the Season Journey can still unlock an additional one by completing the following tasks at the Conqueror tier:
- Finish a level 70 Nephalem Rift on Torment XIII difficulty within 5 minutes
- Level three Legendary Gems to level 55
- Complete 2 Conquests this Season
- Kill Malthael at level 70 in 1 minute and 30 seconds on Torment XIII difficulty
- Slay Greed on Torment XIII difficulty
- Reach Greater Rift level 60 Solo
- Use Kanai’s Cube to augment an Ancient Legendary item with a level 50+ gem
- Use Kanai’s Cube to reforge a Legendary item
Seasonal Conquests
Speaking of Conquests, we’re rotating those, too! Returning for Season 15 is Sprinter/Speed Racer, where you’re challenged to complete all of Diablo III’s campaign from Act I to Act V at level 70 in under 1 hour! Next, we have Avarice/Avaritia, where all that glitters is gold—that is, if you can complete a 50 million gold streak outside of The Vault or its Inner Sanctum. Boss Mode/Worlds Apart is a different kind of race; destroy all the bosses in Diablo III at max level on Torment X before your 20-minute timer ends! A fan-favorite for those who enjoy unconventional builds, The Thrill/Superhuman requires completion of a Greater Rift level 45 to be completed Solo, but without any Set items equipped. Finally, Masters of the Universe/Masters of Sets stretches your class set knowledge by requiring a Mastery Rank completion of 8 different Set Dungeons; get ready to start collecting!
Haedrig’s Gift
Finally, the Class Sets available for completing certain chapters in the Season Journey courtesy of Haedrig’s Gift have rotated once more. We’ve listed the available Sets below. For those new to Seasons, here’s how it works:
Completing Chapters 2, 3, and 4 of the Season Journey will reward you with three of Haedrig’s Gifts. Each Gift contains a few pieces from one of your Class Sets. Players can only unlock one Class Set in this manner per Season across Hardcore and Non-Hardcore, so choose wisely!
The set you will receive depends on the Class of the character you’re playing when you open each Haedrig’s Gift. To collect a full Class Set, you’ll need to open all three on the same character.
Here are the sets granted by Haedrig’s Gift in Season 15:
- Barbarian – Wrath of the Wastes
- Crusader – Roland’s Legacy
- Demon Hunter – Unhallowed Essence
- Monk – Raiment of a Thousand Storms
- Necromancer – Bones of Rathma
- Witch Doctor – Helltooth Harness
- Wizard – Tal Rasha’s Elements
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: When does Season 15 start?
A: Season 15 begins Friday, September 21 at 5:00 p.m. PDT in North America, 5:00 p.m. CEST in Europe, and 5:00 p.m. KST in Asia. For time zone conversion, see this site.
Q: When do Seasons go live for players on Xbox One and PlayStation 4?
A: Seasons go live for all console players globally at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time, regardless of which regional version of the game you may have. Please note that Seasonal Leaderboards for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 are still separate by hardware platform.
Q: When will Season 15 end?
A: We currently anticipate that Season 15 will be ending on Sunday, December 16 at 5:00 p.m. PDT in North America, 5:00 p.m. CEST in Europe, and 5:00 p.m. KST in Asia.
Q: Why is the Season end date an estimate?
A: Traditionally, we have given players two weeks’ notice prior to the ending of a Season. However, we’ve heard the community’s feedback, so going forward, we’ll be providing more comprehensive Season details in the Season First Look blogs. Please bear in mind that this date is an estimate and there is always a chance it may shift. While we will do our best to hit these target dates as closely as possible, we will continue to verify the Season end date at the two-week warning mark.
Q: When are the non-Seasonal Leaderboards being wiped?
A: Non-Seasonal Leaderboards are tied to what we call “Eras,” each of which lasts about 6–12 months. The most recent era began November 9. For more information on Eras, please see this post.
Q: What will happen to older Seasonal and Era records?
A: Starting with Season 10, we removed old personal bests from Season 1. When Season 15 arrives, we will remove old personal bests from Season 6, and so on. We will be doing the same for personal bests from the previous Era when the next one goes live.
Seasonal Leaderboard records are not being cleared and will remain archived both in game and on our website.
Season 15 is almost here! What are your goals for this Season? What do you think of our next Seasonal theme? How will you change your approach to your Season Journey now that you have access to more Kanai’s Cube crafting mats, recipes, and bounty-exclusive Legendaries?
Let us know in the comments below and we’ll see you at the start of Season 15!
Pathetic.
How a Multi-Billion-Dollar Game Studio can't dish out Tons of quality material is beyond me.
First, every person that purchased D3, basically paid to be an Alpha-Tester of a heavily flawed product. Then the same folks were asked to pay another 50 bucks to get the game into Beta-Level-State, but the game was still shit. Then, the "Necromancer", that should have been in the game from the beginning, was sold for another 20-40 bucks. How do these criminals get away with this?
POE creates new content for every season, and is fucking free to play. You don't have to spend a dime to get the new content.
As a Diablo fan, the worst part is that Blizzard has no interest in catering to real Diablo Enthusiasts. It's cheaper and generates more money by catering to noobs/casuals and create cheap-ass Basement-Quality stuff sold for "Premium Price" simply because they can. This is outrageous. How do these greedy pigs go to sleep with a clear conscience at night?
I'm not one of those entitled wankers hating on blizzard for not giving us our magical heart's desire, but I just don't like the idea of having double the amount of bounty caches in my inventory with the very real possibility of losing one or two.
That is STILL the worst comparison that has ever been made between PoE and D3.
Sure, you dont HAVE TO pay to play PoE's content, but you can bet your ass that there are tons of people that buy their packs every time a new league starts (myself included). They are earning money like crazy. Dont even doubt that for a second.
Sure, every can play it for free without buying the packs - but if everyone did that; the game would have closed down loooong ago.
Nice season I will play it adventure is least played mode more materials more chance to re-roll primal actually only primal items motivates me play D3!
Also this season theme could mean something right? It forces you play more adventure mode they could be adding secrets (books just like about crusader that you can find) before BlizzCon 2018 to hype you more about new hero Druid? lore or Amazon? lore
Activision Blizzard is a company. Blizzard has the freedom to do whatever they please as long as it is outlined in their terms of service and they are not doing anything illegal. Get off your fucking high horse. Diablo 3 is an incredible game, full of interesting content. You just do not like the content they have chosen to prioritize.
Diablo3 is an incredible game, it's player fluidity and graphics are pretty much unmatched. The story line is epic......But here's where we part ways...The same content...the same everything and after 15 seasons the best you can do is Horadrics Cache? wow. I surely hope that Blizzcon has something better to offer such as a lead in to D4 or some serious overhaul in Acts. But we will probably be given a Druid expac similar to the Necromancer and call it a day.. Oh and let's not forget the Nintendo Switch..how thoughtful.
What's the point in seasons at this point when all they do is give us Bonus weekends that last a season? Double cache, double goblins....this should be weekly events not an entire season.
game is in maintenance mode now. abandon ship!
But they don't. I've played PoE since closed beta. That's about 7 or so years of playing it on and off. In that much time I've spent under $150 USD on packs and the like for the game or $21.42 per year on average. Blizzard should've adopted or switched over to a F2P monetization system ages ago for D3 in order to help fund the costs for development - it's not their first game doing F2P (hearthstone, heroes of the storm, even SC2 multiplayer went completely F2P not that long ago). Not paywall it like Necro DLC. You should know better, none of PoE's content is paywalled, 4 stash tabs standard for a free account and all the actual 'content' in experiencing to play the game in it's entirety is completely free. People spend money on it because the system and the game itself is strong enough to warrant doing so. It's funny how things went in opposite directions for PoE and D3.
D3 from Blizzard who had the funds and means to redefine the 2D ARPG genre for many years and could've had the potential to surpass D2 as a legacy defining title instead turned into this minimalistic effort maintenance mode game.
PoE from 3 guys working out of their garage from New Zealand plodded on thru for years and got to where they are now.
Both games have their differences, at this point everybody knows that. But D3's fell off, their idea of trying to introduce a 'theme' in their seasons are literally ripped off mechanics of holiday events of the past. They're practically copying and pasting lines of code in the past but to last around 3-4 months.
I have every inclination that a Diablo universe item is being revealed at Blizcon. There has to be no way you don't think so either, with an old school Diablo in the key art, a Sombra Demon hunter skin. Heck even Carbot making a new animation for D1-D3 is kinda like them asking him to do promo.
It might be D4 or something else, let's just hope it is good and not a cash in like Necro was, even if Necro is a good class
They dont? Doesn't really add up with what you mention you've bought.
You just stated, that in the time that you've played the game, you've spent more than D3+Expansion+DLC costs.
..and you're hardly even buying any packs, compared to the rest of the community. Just compared to me, you've hardly used anything on the game, but for each player that doesn't buy anything; there will easily be ones that buy tons of stuff. I've bought $90 worth of packs, the last 4-5 leagues (usually $30-60 before that) and I've reached the "Redeemer"-pack for the current "expansion" (thinking about throwing $80 on top of that, to get the "Subjugator"-upgrade), while also buying the initial founder/supporter pack for the game, way back when it got opened up for that.
If you spread out yearly earning for "the average player", it wont be that big a sum - but it'll be way more than the earnings Blizzard made with D3 (AH aside, when that was a thing).
I agree, that Blizzard should have monetized D3 way better, after the closure of the AH - but I kinda think they "crawled into hiding" with that massive failure and continued outrage from the community over other things at the time. They were stumped - big time..
Just like when people were outraged about the "Season only"-legendaries. Massive outrage about that, which kinda ruined the "uniqueness" of seasons and the longevity of it. Now it's "just the same" (but I still play every season and complete every journey), with no real difference added to them.
If D3 had cosmetic wings (and other cosmetics) in the shop, like they do in the Asian version - I'd be buying the shit out of that as well. It was a missed opportunity on their part. Should have brought that over, when they were doing it on that client.