With Season 1 of Diablo 4 being a middling kind of experience for many, one wonders what’s in store for the previous game. Turns out, it’s quite a bit.

Diablo 3 Season 29 will be the final season for the game, and it’s going all-out with requests galore. Season 29 is looking to more interesting competitive changes and community-led balance tweaks. These include:

• A solo self-found mode.
• Bumping up the Paragon cap to 200 for each attribute, instead of the default 50.
• Visions of Enmity quests
• New quality-of-life features requested by fans

Let’s break it down.

Solo Self Found Mode

This mode lets you play by yourself; going solo without any help from anyone. This also includes its own set of Leaderboards, as well as Hardcore mode.

New Paragon System

Players will have just 800 points to spend, with 200 points for each of the four categories and more freedom to distribute them.

Vision Of Enmity

This new Season mode will have Diabolical Fissures popping up in the open world, leading you to dangerous boss-filled encounters and tons of rewards. These monsters on the open world map will be getting the following power-ups to challenge players (in addition to existing ones already):

• Enervating: Creates an area of effect around the monster that reduces the player’s Movement Speed by 65% and Cooldown Reduction by 50% if the player is in the vicinity of the monster.
• Necrotic: The player’s healing is reduced by 65%. Monsters have a damage-over-time effect that deals 180% of the player’s max health over 30 seconds. This effect is removed if the player is healed above 95%.
• Resource Leech: Hitting a player removes 65% of their maximum resource.

Greater Rifts Update

The least popular monsters will be pulled out of the GR rotation, while the following map types are removed: Corvus, Ice Caves, Spider Caves. Thank god.

Class Buffs

Crusader is getting a lot of love for this Season, where they get a Legendary bonus that lets you call down Fists of the Heavens as you ride around your War Horse. Witch Doctors get some love with Angry Chicken builds too.

Crusader

• Akkhan’s Leniency:
  • Each enemy hit by your Blessed Shield increases the damage of your Blessed Shield by 35-40% for 3 seconds.
  • Each enemy hit by your Blessed Shield increases the damage of your Blessed Shield by 35-40% for 6 seconds. Stacks up to 100 times (No more individual stacks).
• Vigilante Belt:
  • No previous bonus.
  • While riding your war horse, Fist of the Heavens deals increased damage equal to your movement speed, and is automatically called down on a random nearby enemy at an interval based on your attack speed if it is on your action bar.

Demon Hunter

• Gears of Dreadlands:
  • Gain 4 seconds of Momentum when attacking with a Primary skill, at a maximum duration of 20 seconds. Your Primary skills deal 10% increased damage per second of Momentum.
  • Gain 4 seconds of Momentum when attacking with a Primary skill, at a maximum duration of 20 seconds. This duration begins counting down after a delay of 5 seconds after each application. Your Primary skills deal 10% increased damage per second of Momentum.

Witch Doctor

• Cluckeye:
  • 25-50% chance to cluck when attacking.
  • Casting Hex – Angry Chicken turns all your pets into exploding chickens. Chickens deal 150-200% increased damage, and Angry Chicken deals 50% more damage per exploded chicken.
• Manajuma’s Way:
  • Your Hex – Angry Chicken explosion damage is increased by 2000% and slain enemies trigger an additional explosion.
  • Your Hex – Angry Chicken lasts 15 seconds and movement speed as a chicken is increased by an additional 100%.
  • While you are an angry chicken, you spawn a chicken every second that seeks enemies and deals 25% of your Angry Chicken explosion damage.
  • Your Hex – Angry Chicken explosion damage is increased by 2000% and slain enemies trigger an additional explosion.
  • Your Hex – Angry Chicken lasts 15 seconds and movement speed as a chicken is increased by an additional 100% while gaining 75% damage reduction and for 5 seconds after.
  • While you are an angry chicken, you spawn a chicken every half second that seeks enemies and deals 100% of your Angry Chicken explosion damage.

Check out the full notes here. The Public Test Realm for Season 29 is from 15 to 29 August; the actual Season will start shortly after.