Diablo IV’s first vacation occasion, Midwinter Blight, will see gamers adorning Kyovashad’s city sq. for the vacations beginning December 12, all whereas combating again towards the minions of the Crimson-Cloaked Horror.
Introduced throughout the Diablo IV section of BlizzCon 2023’s opening ceremony, Blizzard has now shared extra particulars about what precisely the occasion will embody. For starters, the occasion is, unusually, just for seasonal characters. Assuming gamers have one, they’ll go to Gileon the bard in Kyovashad to kick off the winter festivities. He’ll job adventurers with journeying out into the frigid chilly of Fractured Peaks to gather Blighted Fragments from monsters known as Blightfiends and destroy “gory jumbles of human viscera,” in line with Blizzard, in an effort to recuperate misplaced heirlooms.
Blightfiends, because it seems, wish to have a good time the winter holidays somewhat in another way, and gamers might want to battle the beasts and disrupt their festivities. Doing so will summon their overlord, the Crimson-Cloaked Horror, a goatman robed in purple that immediately brings to thoughts Krampus, Saint Nicholas’ antagonistic doppelganger from European folklore. Defeating the Crimson-Cloaked Horror will unlock a particular title.