Diablo 4 Kicks Off Season Of The Malignant With New Content And Battlepass Tracks

Diablo 4’s inaugural season is now live allowing players to bypass the entire storyline and focus on simply grinding out levels and completing their gear sets. Dubbed Season of the Malignant, Season 1 pits players against a new threat called Malignant Monsters whose hearts can be inserted into Rings and Amulets to imbue them with various effects.

Season of the Malignant also introduces both free and paid battelpass reward tracks, with two options available for the paid variant starting at $25. Seasons work just as they did in Diablo 3 with the exception of a battlepass. If you want to learn more about seasons, you can check out Blizzard’s seasons dev blog here.

The dev team will also be hosting a campfire chat later today, where they’ll presumably be talking up the new season. In the meantime, you can check out the Season of the Malignant “Inside the Game” dev blog below for an overview of what the new season has to offer.