{"id":13778,"date":"2026-03-16T00:14:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=13778"},"modified":"2026-03-23T09:43:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:43:42","slug":"diablo-iv-season-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/diablo-iv-season-12\/","title":{"rendered":"DIABLO IV &#8211; Season 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/diablo-iv-season-11-end\/\" title=\"DIABLO IV \u2013 Season 11 End\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I had planned<\/a> to run two classes <a href=\"https:\/\/news.blizzard.com\/en-us\/article\/24244648\/become-the-butcher-in-season-of-slaughter\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this season<\/a>, but then it turned out to be a short 1-month placeholder. So rather than experiment, particularly since it looks like character abilities are getting an overhaul soon, I just went with <a href=\"https:\/\/maxroll.gg\/d4\/build-guides\/touch-of-death-spiritborn-guide\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maxroll&#8217;s Touch of Death Spiritborn build<\/a> since it was pretty close to what I&#8217;d been aiming for.<\/p>\n<p>Only change I <em>had<\/em> to make was swapping the Vicious Shield and Convergence boards so that the former&#8217;s Dexterity breakpoints were actually achievable. Although if I were to modify it further I&#8217;d also swap out Scourge and 1 Ravenous point for Reinforced Counterattack and 2 points of Resolution for 2 points of Resilient. Alternatively, in order to use Shattered Vow (my original desire): Follow-Through&#8217;s 3 points would go to Reinforced Counterattack, Scourge&#8217;s 2 points would go to Resilient, 2 Spiritual Attunement points would go to Vigorous, and the runewords would be replaced with TamLum and NeoKel.<\/p>\n<p>As for the season as a whole, I&#8217;m essentially done with it as of this morning. Tier 6 rewards have been claimed, all the <a href=\"https:\/\/slayersclub.bethesda.net\/en-US\/article\/diablo-iv-doom-the-dark-ages-collab\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doom cosmetics<\/a> have been claimed, I&#8217;ve got every piece of equipment I needed (albeit with a 2-passive necklace rather than a 3-passive and a subpar Ancestral Rod of Kepeleke), and I&#8217;m at Paragon 233 with glyphs all at level 50. T4 in general is a cakewalk at this point, and while I could push further with the glyphs to handle T4 bloodied Hoards\/Lairs (bloodied NMs are no challenge) to claim the Tier 7 reward&#8230; I don&#8217;t really see any point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally I had planned to run two classes this season, but then it turned out to be a short 1-month placeholder. So rather than experiment, particularly since it looks like character abilities are getting an overhaul soon, I just went with Maxroll&#8217;s Touch of Death Spiritborn build since it was pretty close to what I&#8217;d been aiming for. Only change I had to make was swapping the Vicious Shield and Convergence boards so that the former&#8217;s Dexterity breakpoints were actually achievable. Although if I were to modify it further I&#8217;d also swap out Scourge and 1 Ravenous point for Reinforced Counterattack and 2 points of Resolution for 2 points of Resilient. Alternatively, in order to use Shattered Vow (my original desire): Follow-Through&#8217;s 3 points would go to Reinforced Counterattack, Scourge&#8217;s 2 points would go to Resilient, 2 Spiritual Attunement points would go to Vigorous, and the runewords would be replaced with TamLum and NeoKel. As for the season as a whole, I&#8217;m essentially done with it as of this morning. Tier 6 rewards have been claimed, all the Doom cosmetics have been claimed, I&#8217;ve got every piece of equipment I needed (albeit with a 2-passive necklace rather than a 3-passive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,33,7],"tags":[148,524,28,473],"class_list":["post-13778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dlc","category-pc","category-video-game-related","tag-action-rpg","tag-diablo","tag-fantasy","tag-third-person-perspective"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13785,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13778\/revisions\/13785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}