On October 22, Blizzard wrote: “Next week, we'll have more information about which favorite features will continue into the new season.” As of November 13, that list has still not been published, and Diablo 4 Season 16 has no official date.
So you are playing out the end of Season 15 without knowing what will survive. Here is what the sources establish, what they barely suggest, and what none of them says.
A promise of “next week,” then silence
Blizzard's message accompanies the announcement of PTR 3.3.0 (the Public Test Realm). It says: “We heard your feedback: some features from the Season of Hell's Legacy will be carrying forward into Season 16.” It adds that “these will not be part of this PTR.” Maxroll repeats the same sentence in its October 23 article.
A thread on the official Diablo 4 forum, opened on November 10, asks the question the promise leaves open. Its first post asks which features and items carry over from Season 15 to the next one, and cites runewords (combinations of runes socketed into an item), secret bosses and side dungeons. The thread has 19 posts as of November 11, all from players: several copy the October 22 sentence to point out that no list followed.
The schedule is just as silent. d4guides writes that Blizzard has announced no start date for the new season, and gives December 1 as a mere estimate. Game8 reaches the same date from the expiry of the Reliquary (the season's battle pass), expected at the end of November. The latest patch on record is 3.2.4 on October 28, which raised the stack limit of the Prime Evil splinters from 1 to 99, as we detailed.
What the Season 16 PTR shows, without confirming anything
The PTR ran from October 27 to November 3, on PC. Blizzard had excluded the carried-over features from it: our article on its hypothetical opening, the one on what it was going to test and the one on its first feedback therefore cannot contain the list.
A few clues come from the data of this test version. According to an article by eRnstl published on October 30 on d4guides, the Echo of Tristram secret would become a regular boss, opened by an altar (Altar of the Prime Evils) in place of the hidden Horadric Cube recipe. Wirt's Lucky Coins and the three Prime Evil splinters would no longer be season items. The same article warns: “Blizzard has not announced any of this yet, so every detail is unconfirmed.”
| Item | What the sources say | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Nine Legacy Uniques | d4guides writes that they “stay in the game permanently” | A third-party site's claim, not corroborated |
| Echo of Tristram | Regular boss with an altar on the PTR, instead of the Season 15 secret | PTR data, not confirmed by Blizzard |
| Wirt's Lucky Coins and Prime Evil splinters | No longer tied to the season on the PTR; the Cube recipe is still there | PTR data, not confirmed by Blizzard |
| Hellfire Torch | Blizzard said on September 30 that it was considering it for the future (see our guide); account bound on the PTR according to d4guides | Official intent, PTR detail unconfirmed |
| Runewords and runes | d4guides counts 19, with twelve new runes, from Amn to Tir; nothing on their fate | Unknown |
| Waking Nightmares (re-creations of the first three Diablo games), Soul Splinters, Prime Evil powers | No information | Unknown |
Finish, farm or wait: sorting things out without the list
What follows is our reading of the sources, not an announcement from Blizzard. It goes stale the moment the official list is published.
| Action before the end of Season 15 | What the sources allow us to say | Depends on the list? |
|---|---|---|
| Finish the Reliquary and the season objectives | Only deadline inferred: the Reliquary expires at the end of November according to Game8, an unconfirmed estimate | No |
| Farm the splinters and Wirt's Lucky Coins for the Echo of Tristram | Useful for the Torch while the season lasts; their survival rests only on PTR data | Yes, for after the season |
| Build the character around the two-seal Torch trick | Blizzard declined to fix it mid-season and wants to resolve the interaction properly (our guide); the gain may not last | Yes |
| Farm runes for runewords | No source says whether they carry over to the next season | Yes |
| Pick up the Legacy Uniques | According to d4guides, they stay in the game for good | No, if d4guides is right |
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