Diablo 4 season 3 will give everyone the only loot that matters: a little robot friend

Everyone has dreamed of taking care of a little robot spider who is scarily good at killing demons, and now Diablo 4 season 3 will finally make it a reality.

The Season of the Construct, starting January 23, will give every Diablo 4 player a spider companion named the «Seneschal», that can be equipped with powerful skills. Like season 2's vampiric powers, you'll be able to tailor the Seneschal to your build as you progress through the seasonal questline. A combination of unique magical stone items lets you tweak how its spells work, like multiplying the amount of lightning bolts it shoots or giving it the ability to keep a protective barrier around you.

These new seasonal items, divided into 12 «governing» stones and 27 «tuning» stones of varying rarity, will drop off enemies in «Arcane Tremors» around the open world and seasonal dungeons called vaults. You can equip your Seneschal with two governing stones which will act as basic abilities and then attach tuning stones to augment each one.

Don't fret: The Seneschal can't die, senior manager of game design Daniel Tanguay said in a group interview with PC Gamer last week, and it will scale with your character's power. «We wanted to avoid the situation where you basically upgrade to the point where your Seneschal is useless,» Tanguay said.

Season 3 will kick off with the discovery of vaults underneath the dunes of Kehjistan. You'll discover an artifact created by returning character Zoltun Kulle called «The Loom», which has been corrupted by the demon Malphas. It's a Diablo game, so you'll need plenty of gear to eventually fight Malphas as the season's new boss encounter. Vaults will be the season's main source of loot, but you'll need to carefully slip past spike traps and spinning pillars of fire to get the rewards at the end of them. Controller players probably won't break a sweat dodging these hazards, but luckily season 3 will also add WASD controls to the game if you want to stick to keyboard and mouse.

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