Diablo 4 will let you transform into its most fearsome demon, the Butcher, in an experimental mini season before Lord of Hatred drops

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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter With a little over a month before Diablo 4’s second expansion, Lord of Hatred, comes out, Blizzard seems to be experimenting a little with the game’s usual seasonal format. The next season, which starts on March 11, will focus on slaying hundreds of demons in a row and eventually becoming a demon yourself.You won’t become just any demon though. Kill enough monsters quickly enough and you’ll transform into the Butcher, Mr. Fresh Meat himself, with a whole new set of abilities. The Season of Slaughter will introduce a unique open world event where killing monsters will drop a currency you can cash in to become the Butcher.Diablo 4 may have changed a lot over the years, but it still has the most absurdly grotesque names you can think of, so you won’t be surprised to learn that monsters drop “Meaty Offerings” that need to be turned into a “Shrine of Slaughter” to enter Butcher mode. Blizzard hasn’t said what kind of skills you’ll get to play with when you’re a Butcher, but there’s no way it won’t involve hooking enemies into you and chopping them up with your cleavers. You may like Diablo 4’s age of reworks might finally be over with its next expansion as it plans to deliver major features players have wanted for years Blizzard is giving away access to paladins for free at the start of Diablo 4’s next season Competitive demon slaying is about to take over Diablo 4 as its next update finally adds official leaderboards The Butcher event will only show up in regions taken over by the enhanced Helltide monsters. Unfortunately, this means you won’t be able to fight the Butcher as the Butcher because he can only ambush you inside dungeons. It will be possible to fight against anoth