Blood Harvest is a new event in Diablo 4, made available with the all-new Season of Blood. The Blood Harvest is an in-game event similar to a Helltide, which spans a large area in Sanctuary. In the Blood Harvest, players are able to participate in a variety of different activities that will go towards building their characters, and collecting the event's main currencies and helpful items, in accordance with the theme of the Season of Blood. The difficulty of the challenges within the Blood Harvest scales with the player's character level, as well as the World Tier they are on as they participate in the event's activities.
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Diablo 4 Blood Harvest Guide
Diablo 4 How to unlock and participate in the Blood Harvest?
Players will have access to the Blood Harvest and all its activities as early as the very first level, right after they create their new Seasonal characters and choose to skip the Campaign. Similar to a Helltide event, players will see a highlighted area on their map of Sanctuary. Unlike the Helltide's red hue, the Blood Harvest area will be highlighted with a green hue. Players can immediately go to the Blood Harvest area and participate in all the events within.
Similar to the Helltide, the Blood Harvest will occur randomly within one of the five Regions. It will also be timed, but unlike the Helltide, when the timer runs out for the Blood Harvest, another area will be besieged by Lord Zir's vampire hoards, and a new area will immediately be highlighted with the pestilent green on the map of Sanctuary. This means that the Blood Harvest will essentially be active at all times.
What happens during Blood Harvest in Diablo 4?
Players can expect several significant changes that may be present as they enter the current designated area for the Blood Harvest. Mobs of vampiric monsters will spawn at an alarming rate inside the Blood Harvest area, making it ripe for farming gold, XP, and the Season of Blood's main currencies and items. After clearing extreme numbers of Enemies, players might catch the attention of Blood Seekers, which are new Elite vampiric Enemies, who are essentially Ancient humans who've contracted vampirism themselves. In-game, they manifest as difficult opponents sporting the same Classes available to players, augmented by their own Vampiric Powers.
Blood Seekers can also spawn during specific Activities that players will encounter as they explore and travel within the bounds of the Blood Harvest area. These Activities will present themselves to the players as various tasks that are simpler than whole Quests or Questlines, but can still prove as challenges if players are unprepared to deal with the vampiric legions and their Blood Seeker generals. Successfully completing these tasks will yield rewards for the players in the form of the Season of Blood's main currencies, rare Equipment, specific Season of Blood consumables, and key items that allow them to participate in other, more difficult Activities within the Blood Harvest.
How to Identify the Blood Harvest in Diablo 4?
A Helltide event that is happening can be identified simply with the in-game notifications that alert players when a Blood Harvest is currently active near their current Location or route as they go through their own playthroughs in the game. As mentioned previously, players can also look at their map and watch out for the areas covered in a sickly green hue. They can also look for a relatively large icon of a green skull, which signifies a specific Activity that occurs within a Blood Harvest. When inside a designated area for the Blood Harvest, players will be able to see the timer for the current Blood Harvest area, as well as how many of the event's currencies they currently have in their possession.
Blood Harvest Duration in Diablo 4
The Blood Harvest events have a limited duration of sixty minutes in its current designated area. As mentioned previously, however, they do not go away for a period of time, which is how a Helltide works. Instead, once the sixty minutes are up, they will indeed end in the current zone, but a different area in Sanctuary will then be highlighted with the green hue and another sixty minutes of Blood Harvest will begin in that newly-designated area. Any currencies and Blood Harvest-related items not used up within the sixty minutes are carried over or kept, so players don't need to worry about rushing to consume them before the timer ends.
Blood Harvest Drops in Diablo 4
There are substantial rewards for participating in Blood Harvest Activities, making them highly sought-after encounters, whether players participate in them as they go through early-game content or Endgame content. Players can obtain rare and powerful loot that can enhance their combat prowess and offer unique bonuses to their current Builds.
Diablo 4 Potent Blood and Vampiric Powers
Potent Blood is the new main Event currency introduced in Season of Blood. This is because players will have to collect large amounts of Potent Blood in order to unlock and improve their Vampiric Powers, the new signature feature of the Season of Blood. Vampiric Powers are the Wanderer's newfound abilities that they've gained from contracting Vampirism during the events of the Quest The Hunter's Chase, which happens shortly into the new Seasonal Questline. Players have access to twenty-two new Vampiric Powers which they can customize and consider as they create their Builds for their new seasonal characters. Vampiric Powers have no class restrictions whatsoever, so players will be able to mix and match for their Builds as they please. Players are allowed to equip a total of five Vampiric Powers at a time.
Players can click on the option to spend 25 Potent Blood which will allow them to either improve or unlock new powers. The system makes it so that players will have to choose from three randomly selected Vampiric Powers, locked or unlocked, to spend their Potent Blood on. If a locked Vampiric Power is chosen, it will be unlocked and ready for the player to equip. If it is unlocked, it will be improved instead. Vampiric Powers can be improved up to two times, for a maximum level of three. Players will need a ton of Potent Blood to max out their desired Vampiric Powers because of this randomized mechanic, and also because spending 25 Potent Blood only builds up the gauge to improve the power, until it gets fully filled up which will finally increase its level.
Potent Blood can be acquired by simply clearing mobs, Elites, and Blood Seekers inside the designated area of the Blood Harvest, rewards for completing the different Activities within the Blood Harvest, and as loot within Seeker Caches scattered throughout the designated area of the Blood Harvest. Quite simply, players simply need to run around killing and clicking on everything in the Blood Harvest to amass this currency.
For an in-depth guide and a list of all the new Vampiric Powers, visit our page here.
Diablo 4 Seeker Keys and Seeker Caches
Blood Lures and Seeker Keys are two more types of loot that are rewarded to players who participate in the various Activities of the Blood Harvest. The number of Seeker Keys that players currently have in their possession is displayed below the Blood Harvest timer whenever the players are in the designated area for the Blood Harvest. Both Blood Lures and Seeker Keys can drop from killing Elites and Blood Seekers in the designated area of the Blood Harvest. Blood Lures can also be acquired by opening Seeker Caches.
Seeker Caches are special chests that are scattered all over the designated area of the Blood Harvest. These chests yield very valuable Equipment, large amounts of Potent Blood, Blood Lures, and even consumables specific to the Season of Blood. Players will need to consume Seeker Keys in order to open Seeker Caches. Additionally, the rewards that Seeker Caches yield scale with the World Tier in which they are opened. This means that players are encouraged to not use up their Seeker Caches while they go through the Season in the lower World Tiers, and then use them all up when they get to World Tier 4 so that the Seeker Caches yield the most valuable and the largest amount of rewards.
Diablo 4 Blood Lures and Pedestals
Blood Lures and Seeker Keys are two more types of loot that are rewarded to players who participate in the various Activities of the Blood Harvest. As with Seeker Keys, the number of Blood Lures that players currently have in their possession is displayed below the Blood Harvest timer whenever the players are in the designated area for the Blood Harvest. Blood Lures can also drop from killing Elites and Blood Seekers in the designated area of the Blood Harvest. Additionally, Blood Lures can also be acquired by opening Seeker Caches.
Blood Lures are used on specific Activities in the Blood Harvest which have to do with altar or chalice-looking objects that players can interact with, found throughout the designated area for the Blood Harvest. The smaller ones, called Sanguine Altars or Blood Wells, will require fifteen to twenty-five Blood Lures to activate. Doing so will lure out more vampire mobs and Blood Seekers, which will yield large amounts of Potent Blood, powerful rare Equipment, Seeker Keys, and the Season's specific Pact consumables. The extreme version of these are called Blood Lure Pedestals which require fifty Blood Lures to be put into three pedestals, for a whopping total of 150 Blood Lures. This is probably meant to encourage co-op play as players can reap even more valuable rewards in one go. These Blood Lure Pedestals are noted as a green winged-skull icon within the Blood Harvest area.
Diablo 4 Pact Consumables
With the all-new Vampiric Powers system introduced in the Season of Blood, the game also introduces the Pact Armor System that serves as a requirement to use these powerful new abilities. Eeach Vampiric Power has Activation Costs that players have to reach as a prerequisite to equip and use that power. These Activation Costs are also called Pacts and are separated into three types - Pact of Ferocity, Pact of Divinity, and Pact of Eternity, denoted by a skullcap.
Legendary Armor picked up during the Season of Blood can have Pacts, thus making them into Pact Armor. Pact Armor will have the additional feature of carrying at least one of the three types of Pacts, along with an indication of how many of that Pact they carry. Players will have to cumulatively match the number of Pacts of the specific type across the Armor they have equipped, to the Activation Costs of the Pact Power they want to equip. Otherwise, they will be shown as inactive in the Vampiric Powers tab, and their effects will not be felt at all even if they are equipped.
Pact Armor can have a maximum of five total Pacts, regardless of which they are. Luckily, there are new consumables named after the Pacts, like Pact of Ferocity, that when applied to an Armor piece will add one of that Pact type into the Armor. Players also have the option to remove Pacts from an Armor piece by using Cleansing Acid on it, to make way for Pacts they may want to add instead. These Pact consumables and Cleansing Acid Items can be acquired form defeating Blood Seekers, participating in the various Activities during the Blood Harvest, and by opening Seeker Caches.
Diablo 4 Blood Harvest Activities
Blood Harvest Activities are similar to the events that players will encounter in Helltides. Players can simply go through the designated area of the Blood Harvest, interact with the various objects they come across, and complete the various tasks. Along with clearing out Enemies, players will be able to reap the bountiful rewards of the Blood Harvest this way. As mentioned previously, unlike Helltides, the Blood Harvest lasts virtually as long as the Season of Blood runs, meaning players can spend most if not all of their time running around the Blood Harvest's designated areas. The following list shows the various other activities that players might be able to find as they spend time in the Blood Harvest:
Rescue Villagers
In essence, the Blood Harvest represents Lord Zir's constant attempt to expand his vampiric hordes to the whole of Sanctuary. In doing so, he tries to conquer one of the five regions each time. When he does, he'll put innocent villagers in cages. Players can find these cages randomly throughout the designated area of the Blood Harvest, naturally guarded by Enemies. Simply interact with them to free the villagers and be rewarded with some gold and Hunter's Acclaim.
Tree of Whispers Events
Players will notice on their map that there are always three Whispers of the Dead Events within the designated area of the Blood Harvest. This means that players can do these activities immediately and get bonus XP and gold from doing Tree of Whispers tasks. This also means that while they run around clearing things in a Blood Harvest, they'll be able to collect Grim Favors just from clearing these Whispers of the Dead Events, which they can cash in for rewards at the Tree of Whispers. These events may intrinsically entail defeating Elites or even Blood Seekers, which means even more rare rewards. When the Blood Harvest ends and starts anew in a different area, three new Whispers of the Dead events will again be available in the new designated area.
Activate Blood Lure Receptacles
A Blood Lure Receptacle is another interactable object that players can encounter within the designated area of the Blood Harvest. Players will be able to activate them with fifteen Blood Lures, which unlocks a Blood Well behind them. Interacting with Blood Wells rewards players with Hunter's Acclaim and a relatively large amount of Potent Blood without much of a fight compared to Blood Lure Pedestals and Sanguine Altars.
Hunter's Acclaim
Another new mechanic that the Season of Blood's Blood Harvest brings is the Hunter's Acclaim. The Hunter's Acclaim is sort of a free mini-Battlepass system that players can go through. Inside the safe zone or city within the designated area of the Blood Harvest, players will be able to view and claim rewards from the Hunter's Acclaim Board. The Hunter's Acclaim Board has a total of eighteen Tiers, with each Tier having a reward that players can claim. These rewards can range from Rare or Legendary Caches with Rare or Legendary Items, to large amounts of Gold and consumables. The Vampiric Powers Sanguine Brace and Accursed Touch can only be unlocked as rewards through the Hunter's Acclaim Board.
Hunter's Acclaim points can be garnered from doing almost everything in the Blood Harvest's designated area. Simply cutting down mobs and minor Enemies can give 1 Hunter's Acclaim. Activating interactable objects with Blood Lures will also grant players some Hunter's Acclaim, along with other activities like freeing imprisoned villagers. Each Tier will require a certain amount of Hunter's Acclaim in order for the corresponding reward to be made available.
