There ends up being roughly a month-long lull. Players get a taste of what is coming, and the end of PTR is generally the “couple weeks left” marker.

Also, while the talk around the virtual water cooler (and interest in the season) starts strong at the start, the arrival of next season’s PTR is usually the marker where interest shifts. It means by the end of the season, I’m either working towards a secondary goal I won’t likely hit, or I’ve paused my season advancement in favor of something else, like getting a cloak from a member of the Black Dragonflight.

Sometimes I even get to do so while hanging with you lovely people on our Twitch! I can spend the rest of my season playing alts, leveling my Paragon points, and advancing the Greater Rift difficulty I can complete. I usually knock out my journey grind about a month into the season (of casual, solo-play), the upside of prepping my goals prior. I am in the latter group who is ready to be done with the current season. Now begins the usual flurry of panic - or sighs of relief as another theme that not maybe everyone has enjoyed. Blizzard let us know, ever so stealthily over Twitter, that Diablo 3‘s Season 19 is ending March 1, 2020.

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