{"id":175527,"date":"2024-06-09T13:10:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T18:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/?p=175527"},"modified":"2024-06-13T15:38:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T20:38:21","slug":"diablo-4-vessel-of-hatred-expansion-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/06\/09\/diablo-4-vessel-of-hatred-expansion-release-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s ready for more Diablo? Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred release date is October 8, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/category\/diablo-4\/\"><em>Diablo 4<\/em><\/a> expansion is <em><a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/06\/10\/diablo-4-vessel-of-hatred-roundup\/\">Vessel of Hatred<\/a><\/em>, where we&#8217;ll journey to Torajan Jungles (known to the locals as <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/06\/13\/nahantu-diablo-4\/\">Nahantu<\/a>) chasing after Neyrelle in a continuation of the game&#8217;s story. And things are not looking good for our friend, who fled at the end of the original game, carrying Mephisto&#8217;s soulstone with her \u2014 something that was unlikely to end well.<\/p>\n<p>At BlizzCon 2023, the <em>Diablo<\/em> team told us the expansion would be out in 2024, and now we know that the\u00a0<strong><em>Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred<\/em> will arrive October 8, 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"arve\" data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-mtm0wphejwu66dfc48a32142564871158\" style=\"max-width:900px;\">\n<span class=\"arve-inner\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 500 \/ 281\"><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" data-arve=\"arve-youtube-mtm0wphejwu66dfc48a32142564871158\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/mtM0WpHEjWU?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"505.8\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/mtM0WpHEjWU?feature=oembed&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autoplay=0\" width=\"900\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"http:\\\/\\\/schema.org\\\/\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blizzardwatch.com\\\/2024\\\/06\\\/09\\\/diablo-4-vessel-of-hatred-expansion-release-date\\\/#arve-youtube-mtm0wphejwu66dfc48a32142564871158\",\"type\":\"VideoObject\",\"embedURL\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\\\/embed\\\/mtM0WpHEjWU?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0\"}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>A late 2024 release for <em>Vessel of Hatred<\/em> is right in line with the timeline for past <em>Diablo<\/em> expansion releases, and it&#8217;s less than the wait we had for <em>Reaper of Souls<\/em>. The next question, however, is where <em>Vessel of Hatred<\/em> sits into the seasonal schedule. The expansion release date is makes the seasonal schedule a little odd, but the devs have confirmed that Season 5 will be a short one and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/gaming\/is-there-a-paladin-in-diablo-4\">Season 6 will launch with the expansion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Season 4: May 14 to August 6<\/li>\n<li>Season 5: August 6 to October 8<\/li>\n<li>Season 6: October 8 to January \u2014 though the end date isn&#8217;t confirmed, January fits the typical schedule<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It seems like the delayed start of Season 4 may have compressed the Season 5 schedule, leading to this awkwardly compressed Season before the expansion launches. We still don&#8217;t know what Season 5 will bring to the game, but hopefully the season and the Season Journey will be easy enough to finish in just two months.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arve\" data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-ghuacwmx-rg66dfc48a32c95573157577\" style=\"max-width:900px;\">\n<span class=\"arve-inner\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 500 \/ 281\"><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" data-arve=\"arve-youtube-ghuacwmx-rg66dfc48a32c95573157577\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/gHuaCwmx-Rg?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"505.8\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/gHuaCwmx-Rg?feature=oembed&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autoplay=0\" width=\"900\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"http:\\\/\\\/schema.org\\\/\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blizzardwatch.com\\\/2024\\\/06\\\/09\\\/diablo-4-vessel-of-hatred-expansion-release-date\\\/#arve-youtube-ghuacwmx-rg66dfc48a32c95573157577\",\"type\":\"VideoObject\",\"embedURL\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\\\/embed\\\/gHuaCwmx-Rg?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0\"}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still waiting on details about a lot of the game&#8217;s features, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/06\/09\/new-diablo-4-class-spiritborn\/\">Spiritborn class<\/a> and the new <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2024\/06\/11\/diablo-4-vessel-of-hatred-mercenaries\/\">Mercenaries system<\/a>. We&#8217;re expecting to hear more about the Spiritborn on July 18, and it&#8217;s possible we&#8217;re heal more about expansion mechanics at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>you know we&#8217;ll have our <a href=\"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/2023\/09\/05\/diablo-4-annual-expansion-release-date\/\">first expansion<\/a>, <em>Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred<\/em>, coming <strong>October 8, 2024<\/strong>. See you in Sanctuary!<\/p>\n<p><em>Originally published November 3, 2023; updated June 13, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next Diablo 4 expansion is Vessel of Hatred, where we&#8217;ll journey to Torajan Jungles (known to the locals as Nahantu) chasing after Neyrelle in a continuation of the game&#8217;s story. And things are not looking good for our friend, who fled at the end of the original game, carrying Mephisto&#8217;s soulstone with her \u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":175358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,75928],"tags":[76126,77845,760,37704,77734,77846],"yst_prominent_words":[50283,8180,24303,8179,25041,10658,70705,9200,11231,9146,20203,16560],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175527"}],"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=175527"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185829,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175527\/revisions\/185829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175527"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blizzardwatch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=175527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}