Diablo 4’s tthird season, Season of the Construct, is here. Released on January 23, 2024, it delivers new story beats, a battle pass, a new gameplay loop, a new type of dungeons, and perhaps what hardcore players are excited for: New Uniques.
While we cover Diablo 4’s Uniques in detail here, this guide focuses on the new Uniques released with Season 3.
Diablo 4 Season 3 New Uniques
With the release of Season of the Construct, Blizzard released the full patch notes featuring all the changes planned for the season, including the six new Uniques:
| Art | Item | Class | Slot | Source | Unique Effects | Released | Rarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Beastfall Boots | Rogue | Boots | Beast of Ice | ► When you cast an Ultimate Skill, your next Core Skill consumes all of your Energy and deals [0.5 - 1.5]% increased damage per Energy consumed. Using a Cooldown restores 5 Energy. | Season 3 | Normal |
 | Mutilator Plate | Necromancer | Chest | Beast of Ice | ► You are Blood Lanced, and when Blood Lance would deal damage to you, it instead Fortifies you for [1.0 - 2.0]% of your Maximum Life and has a 5% chance to form a Blood Orb. Blood Lance deals [10 - 20]% increased damage. | Season 3 | Normal |
 | Paingorger’s Gauntlets | Any | Gloves | Beast of Ice | ► Damaging enemies with a Non-Basic Skill cast marks them for 3 seconds. When a Basic Skill first hits a marked enemy, the Basic Skill's damage is echoed to all marked enemies, dealing [100 - 200]% increased damage. | Season 3 | Normal |
 | Ring of the Ravenous | Barbarian | Ring | Beast of Ice | ► Rend's duration is increased by [2.0 - 4.0] seconds. Damaging enemies with your Brawling Skills applies 2 stacks of Rend's Bleed. This can only affect each enemy once every 4 seconds. | Season 3 | Normal |
 | Starfall Coronet | Sorcerer | Helm | Beast of Ice | ► Meteor now has 2 charges with a [11.0 - 6.0] second Charge Cooldown instead of a Mana cost, and drops 3 additional meteors around the target. Meteor's Enchantment Effect and Enhanced Meteor drop 1 additional meteor. | Season 3 | Normal |
 | Unsung Ascetic's Wraps | Druid | Gloves | Beast of Ice | ► Lightning Storm gains 1 additional strike each times it grows. Lightning Storm Critical Strikes cause lightning to strike twice, dealing [10 - 20]% increased damage. | Season 3 | Normal |
While Season 1 featured only 6 new Unique items, Season 2 featured 12 new Uniques, double that of Season of the Malignant. That appeared to be the beginning of a good trend, and players expected more than 12 new Uniques this season. Unfortunately, we are left with only six (again) this season.
Are 6 new Uniques per Season acceptable?
There were many complaints regarding the limited number of new Uniques released on Season 1 (only 6), especially compared to the 54 Uniques released at launch. But it was unreasonable to expect much more from the very first Season of a brand-new live-service game. Even Blizzard recognized that Season 1 was developed alongside the base game, meaning that very few resources were actually dedicated to Season of the Malignant compared to the development of the core Diablo 4 experience.
While we will never see as many new Uniques in a single season compared to Diablo 4’s launch, we should definitely expect future seasons to be bigger in terms of content and quantity of items released. Rob Ferguson, Diablo 4’s General Manager, confirmed as much in an interview with Forbes:
From a management of expectations perspective, when we talk about how the launch of Diablo 4 is the beginning, not the end because we have a live service, that’s one of the things people should think about with seasons as well…The reality is, this is our first season that we built while shipping [Diablo 4] at the exact same time…This is the beginning of our seasonal journey in terms of where we can go from here.
And based on what we saw with Season 2, Blizzard was right. Too bad Season 3 isn’t off to a great start so far…
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