In Diablo 4 Season 3: Season of the Construct, you will be tasked in entering a new type of dungeons called Vaults, but you also get interesting new rewards, in the form of Seneschal Companions.
Let’s get to the Seneschals now. These are magical automatons that will serve the same function as your animal or human companions. Of course, they have all new abilities, that you can set yourself. You can add as much as two Governing Stones, which determines what kinds of attacks they make, and six Tuning Stones, which provide the different augmentations.
Here’s a sample of what Governing and Tuning Stones are available:
Governing Stones:
- Autodefense: The Seneschal Construct activates an antimaterial field around itself shooting down enemy projectiles. Can not shoot down Boss or Player projectiles.
- Bushwhack: Quickly ambush dealing damage to each target. May strike the same target multiple times.
- Firefly: Deploy a small construct that lands on the target and explodes 3 times, dealing damage.
- Focus Fire: The Seneschal Construct channels a ray of fire onto targets dealing damage to each over time.
- Gyrate: The Seneschal Construct whirls its legs around quickly dealing damage to all surrounding enemies.
Tuning Stones:
- Voluminous Support: The supported skill’s effect size is increased.
- Swift Support: The supported Skill gains an Attack Speed bonus.
- Breaking Support: Damage from the supported Skill instantly destroys enemy Barrier effects. In addition, there is a chance to make enemies Vulnerable for 2 seconds.
- Tactical Support: Decrease the cooldown of the supported Skill.
- Efficiency Support: When the supporting skill deals damage, you gain Critical Strike Chance to the same targets hit.
In Season of the Construct, players are entering the depths of Kehjistan to harness an ancient technology originally designed by Zoltan Kulle and Ayuzhan of Caldeum. Ayuzhan has reemerged to direct adventurers to face Kulle’s traps and retake the technology from the demons who have taken control of it.
This scenario means you get to fight demon controlled tech in a new kind of dungeon, called Vaults, but with the upside that you get to play with Seneschals. Obviously, it’s a considerably bigger update than they have made in previous seasons, but what will make or break this one is just how great it will be to play with those Seneschals.
Outside of this new scenario for the latest season, Diablo 4 is introducing a weekly rotating dungeon called The Gauntlet, for those players who like to compete on the leaderboards. This latest update comes some QOL updates, such as using WASD to navigate.
Diablo 4 Season 3: Season of the Construct launches on January 23, 2024. You can watch the announcement trailer below.
