Blizzard has revealed what’s coming to Diablo 3 with Season 29, the last season to add new content to the 11 year-old action role-playing game.
The headline is the addition of a Solo Self Found mode, which fans had called on Blizzard to add to the game for years.
In this mode, players play truly solo in a single-player experience. That means no trading with others, no experience bonuses from being in a party, and no friends to back you up. Even better, this officially supported single-player mode comes with its own dedicated leaderboard. A Hardcore version is also available.
“We decided to bring Solo Self Found to Diablo 3 after years of players requesting an officially supported single player mode,” the Diablo 3 development team said in a post on its website. “This mode will temper you.”
There’s more to Season 29. There are Visions of Enmity (pocket dimensions accessed by stepping through Diabolical Fissures), new monster affixes, an increase in Paragon ceiling to 800 Paragon Points, highly requested quality-of-life updates, sweeping class balance changes, and bug fixes.
These changes are set to become available August 15 to 29 as part of the Diablo 3 Patch 2.7.6 Public Test Realm (PTR). Season 29 is Diablo 3’s final season to include brand new content, with Blizzard revisiting old seasons from Season 30 onwards as the Diablo 3 development team moves on to work on the recently released Diablo 4.
While Diablo 3 fans have been unanimous in their excitement for Season 29, and have praised Blizzard for supporting the game for over a decade, Diablo 4 fans are hoping for a PTR system of their own (to help avoid the release of disastrous patches), a Solo Self Found mode, as well as leaderboards.
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