{"id":142379,"date":"2024-07-04T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/?p=142379"},"modified":"2024-07-04T11:31:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T16:31:59","slug":"ethereal-items-diablo-3-season-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/07\/04\/ethereal-items-diablo-3-season-32\/","title":{"rendered":"The Season of Ethereal Memory returns! Here&#8217;s how Diablo 3&#8217;s Ethereal weapons will work in Season 32"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/category\/diablo-3\"><em>Diablo 3<\/em><\/a> Season 32: Season of Ethereal Memory, <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/07\/01\/diablo-3-season-32-start\/\">starts on July 12<\/a> with another classic theme for our enjoyment: the latest season is based on a special one, as the original <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2021\/06\/10\/diablo-season-24-ethereal-weapons\/\">theme of Ethereal Memory<\/a> was in honor of the release of <em>Diablo 2: Resurrected<\/em>. But are the Ethereal items coming to <em>Diablo 3<\/em> this season the same as their original <em>Diablo 2<\/em> counterparts?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how Ethereal items work in<em> Diablo 3<\/em> Season 32:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ethereal items are only here for the duration of the season.\u00a0<\/strong>The season preview blog describes them as &#8220;rare, powerful, and fleeting.&#8221; They will not suffer from durability loss but only drop during the season. When the season ends, they&#8217;re gone. However, once you collect an ethereal, it will live forever in your transmog options. (Provided you <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2021\/07\/23\/obtain-ethereal-recollection-feat-strength-diablo-3-season-24\/\">unlock them with a feat of strength<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ethereals are drop-only, and they will drop at any level. <\/strong>This is one of the few times we can&#8217;t blame Kadala, folks. You cannot get them from Kadala or upgrades through Kanai&#8217;s Cube; they are only available from monsters, chests, and destructables. Luckily, they&#8217;re level-agnostic &#8212; you could see one drop for your level 1 Barbarian from a random chest! But maybe don&#8217;t hold your breath on that with the drop rate &#8220;set between Ancient and Primal items.&#8221; You&#8217;ll still need to wait for level 70 to see an Ancient version drop.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Each class has three options, but you can only equip one at a time.<\/strong> Sorry, Barbarians, no dual-wielding your two one-hander options. We will see some familiar names in the Ethereal pool during Season 32: Demon Hunter&#8217;s Windforce, Witch Doctor&#8217;s The Gidbinn, and Wizard&#8217;s The Oculus are just a few examples of existing <em>D3<\/em> legendaries that will get an Ethereal glow-up for this season.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The power combination is entirely random<\/strong>. The legendary power that rolls on your Ethereal could come from any of your class&#8217; pool of weapon legendary powers &#8212; including class-specific off-hand options &#8212; and any of your class passive skills. Your Ethereal&#8217;s powers will not stack; no picking your Scythe of the Cycle in Kanai&#8217;s cube and doubling its strength with an Ethereal.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ethereals can only be augmented.<\/strong> You cannot cube the legendary power, reforge\/enchant to re-roll the item stats, trade, dye, or transmog. What drops is what you get. You <strong>can\u00a0<\/strong>use Ramaladni&#8217;s Gift to add a gem slot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It seems like there are a lot of restrictions, right? And these items are definitely more &#8220;influenced by&#8221; the <em>D2<\/em> version of Ethereals than their reality. But I promise it&#8217;s worth it. Ethereal items are so strong\u2014it&#8217;s a real rush to see the sheer damage you can output with one equipped. Get out there, melt some faces, and don&#8217;t forget the <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2021\/07\/20\/obtain-ethereal-recollection-feat-strength-diablo-3-season-24\/\">&#8220;Ethereal Recollection&#8221; Feat of Strength<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diablo 3 Season 32: Season of Ethereal Memory, starts on July 12 with another classic theme for our enjoyment: the latest season is based on a special one, as the original theme of Ethereal Memory was in honor of the release of Diablo 2: Resurrected. But are the Ethereal items coming to Diablo 3 this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":143286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,75925],"tags":[74121,74572,78464,74122,47,74367,74368,19206,74123,74571],"yst_prominent_words":[21969,8180,8295,8293,21968,16527,19200,10079,48969,42296,8265,9218,8349,9000],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186550,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142379\/revisions\/186550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142379"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=142379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}