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When does Diablo 3 Season 40 start? All times for PC & console and how to prepare
Season 40 'Light's Calling' starts on Friday, October 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM local server time. Start times for PC and console, what happens to your Season 39 heroes and stash, and how to get ready.
Season 40 'Light's Calling': Starts October 2, 2026 — Everything from the Preview
Season 40 begins on October 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM CEST and re-runs the 'Light's Calling' theme from Season 27 — with Angelic Crucibles, new class powers and every reward.
Season 39 'Shades of the Nephalem': Your Shadow Fights With You
Season 39 (June 26 to September 28, 2026): every shrine summons a shadow clone of your class — and Kanai's Cube gains a fourth slot.
Season 38 'Ethereal Memory': A Look Back at the Ethereal Weapons
Season 38 ran from March 27 to June 21, 2026 and brought back the Ethereal Diablo II weapons — rare, account-bound legendaries with a random power and passive.
2025 Recap: Seasons 35, 36 and 37 at a Glance
Killstreak rush, demonic Soul Shards and boundless cube freedom: the 2025 Diablo 3 year in detail.
The Darkening of Tristram Returned in January 2026
The annual Diablo anniversary event ran from January 1 to February 1, 2026 — with the RetroVision cathedral, the Dark Lord and exclusive loot.
Season 37 'The Forbidden Archives': Kanai's Cube Without Category Limits
Season 37 started on December 5, 2025 and lifted the category restriction on all three cube slots for its duration.
Diablo III Is Included in Game Pass
Since April 2025, Diablo III including the 'Reaper of Souls' expansion has been part of the Game Pass line-up.
Seasons 31 & 32: Forbidden Archives and Ethereal Memory Return
Two of the most beloved season themes return in 2024 and show what Diablo's maintenance mode looks like
Season 30 'The Lords of Hell': The Soul Shards Return
How Season 30 brought back the Soul Shards from Season 25 and kicked off the new theme rotation
Season 29 'Visions of Enmity': Red Portals Into Hell's Chaos
How Diablo 3's simplest season theme became one of its most beloved – red portals, unstable hell visions, and two quiet structural revolutions.
Season 28 'Rites of Sanctuary': The Altar of Rites Changes Everything
How Patch 2.7.5's Altar of Rites permanently reshaped Diablo 3's seasonal progression
Patch 2.7.4 & Season 27: Angelic Crucibles
Season 27 "Light's Calling" lets the Angelic Crucible turn any equippable Legendary into a Sanctified item with perfect stats and a class-specific power.
Patch 2.7.3 & Season 26: Echoing Nightmare
How Season 26's Echoing Nightmare became Diablo 3's first permanent seasonal feature
Patch 2.7.2 & Season 25: Soul Shards
Soul Shards, Hellforge Embers and the upgrade gamble: how Patch 2.7.2 shaped arguably the most beloved late-era Diablo 3 season.
Patch 2.7.0/2.7.1 & Season 24: Ethereal Memory & Follower Rework
How patches 2.7.0 and 2.7.1, with ethereal weapons and the follower rework, turned Season 24 into a nostalgia and meta highlight.
Patch 2.6.8 & Season 20: Season of the Forbidden Archives
How Season 20's three unrestricted Cube slots permanently changed Diablo 3 build crafting
Season 16: The Season of Grandeur - Ring of Royal Grandeur for All
How Season 16 and a free Ring of Royal Grandeur for everyone reshaped Diablo 3 build crafting forever
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