Season Journey and Renown have officially been retired on the Seasonal Realm. Everything is now combined into a single, streamlined system called Season Rank. If you are wondering how it works, how you progress, and what rewards you can unlock, this guide covers everything you might want to know.
What Are Season Ranks?
Season Rank is the new progression path for every Seasonal character. You can think of it as a mix between the old Season Journey and Renown, just with a much bigger focus on capstone dungeons, challenges, and structured milestones.
There are 7 total Season Ranks, and each one works like a chapter you must clear before moving forward.
Renown still exists in the Eternal Realm, but Seasonal characters no longer start with Skill Points or Paragon Points unlocked from Renown. Instead, you now earn that power directly from completing Season Ranks.
Each Rank has a list of objectives and a Capstone Dungeon. Clearing the Capstone pushes you into the next Rank, even if you do it early (before the recommended level).
Capstone Dungeons are now shorter, harder, and more thematic, and you no longer need to complete optional tasks inside them. Just kill the boss and move on.
Season Renown Changes
Here is what Renown now looks like for players on the seasonal realm:
- Renown is permanent only on the Eternal Realm.
- Altars of Lilith and Tenets of Akarat now reward XP only, not stats.
- Extra potion capacity is removed from Renown and replaced with another Eternal bonus.
- Eternal Renown now grants 12 additional Paragon Points.
- Season Rank grants another 12 Paragon Points spread across the Ranks.
- Seasonal characters earn Skill Points and Paragon Points only by clearing Season Ranks.
This means you truly start fresh, and your power ramps up as you climb through the Ranks.
How Season Ranks Work
Season Ranks follow a very simple, basic loop:
- Start at Rank 1
- Complete the Rank’s objectives
- Clear its Capstone Dungeon
- Move into the next Rank
- Earn Skill Points, Paragon Points, cosmetics, and Seasonal rewards
Each Rank is more difficult than the one before it, and unlocking later Ranks opens new endgame systems.
For example: Clearing Rank 2 unlocks access to both The Pit and The Tower.
Season Rank Rewards
Blizzard confirmed the first wave of major rewards for early ranks:
- Rank 1 and 2 → Skill Point
- Rank 3 → Skill Point + Paragon Point
- Rank 4 and 5 → Paragon Point
- Rank 6 → Paragon Point + bonus
In short, your early-game power comes from Season Rank, not Renown. This is now the only way to unlock these progression boosts for your seasonal character.
Additional rewards include Smoldering Ashes, Heavenly Sigils, Cosmetics, Seasonal Blessing upgrades, Seasonal Pet “Alefta” (unlocked by entering Rank 6), Gilded Laurels (Rank 7 completion), and other bonuses tied to your season progression.
Season Rank Objectives (PTR-Based, Subject to Change)
Below, we will cover every detailed rank objectives and their respective rewards. However, please note that the Rank challenges listed here are sourced from the PTR and might be slightly different at launch. Any changes will be updated in the guide once Season 11 is live.
Season Rank I Objectives
- Divine Intervention
- Reach Rank 5 of Divine Favor with Hadriel
- Collect a Divine Gift
- Surging Tides
- Open 5 Tortured Gifts during Helltides
- Ruins Reclaimed
- Conquer 3 Strongholds
- Artisan’s Touch
- Craft 3 gems at the Jeweler
- Forged in Sanctuary
- Learn 10 Temper Recipes of Magic rarity or higher
- Temper Affixes on Gear two times
- Herald of Pain
- Defeat Lesser Evil Duriel in Helltide on Hard difficulty or Higher
- Divine Situations
- Claim a seasonal skill point to start you on your journey
Season Rank II Objectives
- Hadriel’s Blessings
- Reach Tier 7 with Hadriel
- Collect 3 Divine Gifts
- Fields of Desecration
- Summon and defeat Azmodan, Lord of Sin, at the Fields of Desecration on Hard or higher
- Potent Alterations
- Craft a Nightmare Dungeon Sigil
- Imprint an Apsect onto gear
- Descend into Madness
- Complete 3 World Events in Nightmare Dungeons
- Complete a Nightmare Dungeon with a Rare Affix
- Echoes of Fate
- Complete 10 Whispers
- Complete a World Boss or Legion event Whisper
- Complete 5 Helltide Whispers
- Obtain 3 caches from the Tree of Whispers
- Rune Linguistics
- Find Runes around Sanctuary, then combine them on an item to create a Runeword
- Expertly Executed
- Defeat 50 Monsters within 10 Seconds on Expert difficulty or higher
Complete the Hellish Descent Capstone to earn rewards and unlock access to Rank III, as well as unlock the Pit and the Tower.
Season Rank III Objectives
- A Blessing in Disguise
- Reach Tier 9 with Hadriel
- Increase 3 Divine Gifts to Rank 2
- World in Sin
- Defeat a World Boss on Penitent or higher
- Sanctuary’s hero
- Complete a Legion Event on Penintent or Higher
- Pang of the Hunt
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- Test of Luck
- Acquire 1000 Murmuring Ibols
- Open a Silent Chest with a Whispering Key
- Gamble 100 times for items
- Win a legendary item through Gambling
- Awaiting Torment
- Complete The Pit on Tier 1 or Higher
- Commander in Sin
- Defeat a Helltide Commander in Helltide in Torment 1 or higher
Complete the Enclave of Darkness to earn rewards and unlock access to Rank IV. Completing Rank III will also provide you with access to the Season Rank Laurel Title.
Season Rank IV Objectives
- Lesser Corruption
- Reach Tier 10 at the Hadriel Reputation Board
- Collect 3 Sanctification Stones
- Greater Hoard
- Defeat world boss Azmodan
- Use corrupted tongues of Azmodan to open Azmodan’s Hoard
- Beasts Beneath
- Defeat Tormented Echo of Varshan in the Malignant Burow
- Defeat Beast in Ice in the Glacial Fissure
- Defeat Echo of Grigoire in the Hall of the Pentent
- Defeat Echo of Lord Zir in the Ancient’s Seat
- Judgement Unleashes
- Defeat tormented Echo of Urivar in the Fields of Judgments and use
Judicator’s Masks to open Urivar’s Hoard
- Defeat tormented Echo of Urivar in the Fields of Judgments and use
- Into the Pit
- Complete Pit Tier 20 or higher
- Improve Paragon Glyphs to Rank 10
- Power Unleashes
- Unlock 8 Magic Paragon Nodes
- Unlock a Legendary Paragon Node
- Unlock 4 Rare Paragon Nodes
- Have 50 Paragon Points spent
- Flawless Facet
- Craft 5 Flawless Gems
- Add a Socket to gear
- Paid in Valor
- Collect 150 Pale Marks
- Bloody Warlord
- Defeat Bartuc during Infernal Hordes in Torment II or Higher
- Finely Attuned
- Complete an Undercity District Run with Max Attunement in Torment II or Higher
Complete the Den of the Apostate to earn rewards and unlock access to Rank V.
Season Rank V Objectives
- Divine Powers
- Reach Tier 14 with Hadriel
- Increase 2 Divine Gifts to Rank 4
- Lesser than Evil
- Defeat Duriel in the Gaping Crevasse in Torment II or higher
- Defeat Andariel in the Hanged Man’s Hall in Torment II or higher
- Liar Boss
- Defeat Belial in the Palace of the Deceiver and use Betrayer’s Husk to open Belial’s Hoard in Torment II or higher
- Escalating Nightmare
- Acquire an Escalation Sigil
- Defeat Astaroth and the Amalgam of Rage
- Master at Work
- Masterwork gear to Rank 4 at the Blacksmith 8 times
- Salvage 66 Ancestral Legendary items
- Temper affixes 16 times on Ancestral Gear
- Craft a smithy cache
- The Pit of the Artificer
- Complete Pit Tier 40 or higher to unlock Torment III
- Contracted Courage
- Level up any Mercenary to Level 10
- Hatred Denied
- Defeat Harbinger of Hatred in the Harbinger’s Den and use
Abhorrent Hearts to open the Harbinger of Hatred’s Hoard in Torment II or higher
- Defeat Harbinger of Hatred in the Harbinger’s Den and use
- Myliasis Preventative
- Defeat 10 Afflicted Maggots without getting infected in Torment III or higher 10 times
- Deceiver’s Tower
- Defeat Belial in the Pit in Tier 40 or higher
Complete the Breach of Sin to earn rewards and unlock access to Rank VI. Completing this stage also rewards you with the Seasonal Pet, Alefta.
Season Rank VI Objectives
- Greater of the two Evils
- Reach tier 18 at the Hadriel Reputation Board
- Increase 2 Divine Gifts to Rank 5
- Lucid Fever
- Complete 5 World events with Mastery
- Collect 666
Obducite
- Horadric Secrets
- Reach Attunement V while in a Horadric Strongroom in Torment III or Higher
- Field of Hatred
- Defeat 25 Elite Monsters while Bloodmarked in torment II or higher
- Defeat the Seething Abomination while Bloodmarked in torment III or higher
- Enticing Offerings
- Defeat Bartuc
- Satiate 15 Soulspires
- Defeat Aether Lords 25 times
- Complete 6 Chaos Waves
- Defeat 25 Hellborne
- Defeat Aetheric Masses 25 times
- Hell Pangs
- Defeat 100 Monsters before Pang of Duriel’s arrival after increasing your threat level to max in Torment IV or higher
- Precursor of might
- Defeat 15 harbingers within 20 minutes during Helltide in Torment IV
- Swift whisperers
- Complete 5 whispers within 15 minutes in Torment IV
Complete Pit tier 60 to earn rewards and unlock access to Rank VII.
Season Rank VII Objectives
- Irrefutable Power
- Sanctify 66 Ancestral items
- Monster Mash
- Defeat 6666 Elite or Champion monsters in Torment IV
- Lords of Nothing
- Defeat all the Lesser Evils in Torment IV (Duriel during Helltides, Belial inside the Pit, Andariel in Undercity, Azmodan in the Field of Desecration)
- Grand Shimmer
- Craft 4 grand gems
- Craft any jewelry cache
- Power Beyond Comprehension
- Masterwork 9 gear to Rank 10
- Unyielding ascent
- Reach Paragon Level 250
- Who do you want to be
- Pick up 1 000 000 000 Gold
- Den of Dread
- Defeat 5 Lair Bosses within 5 minutes in Torment IV
- Bane of Astaroth
- Defeat Astaroth in Torment IV
- Plutonian Havoc
- Defeat Bartuc and open the spoils of greater equipment chest in Torment IV
- Purified Hatred
- Purify 6666 Seeds of Hatred at an Altar of extraction while bloodmarked in Torment IV
- Blessed Mother Departed
- Defeat Lilith in Torment IV
Complete Pit tier 75 to conquer the Season of Divine Intervention and earn your Gilded Laurels and 
Resplendent Spark.
Smoldering Ashes (Seasonal Blessings Currency)
Smoldering Ashes also return, but work through Season Rank instead of Renown.
Throughout the season, you can use Ashes to unlock the following Blessings:
Urn of Divine Favor – Increases Divine Favor earned
Urn of Reckoning – Extra item drops from Elites and Champions
Urn of Calamity – Additional gear from World Bosses
Urn of Ancestral Whispers – More chances for Ancestral Caches
Urn of Sanctification – Chance to drop additional Heavenly Sigils
Naturally, these bonuses greatly speed up early-season progression. For more information on Blessings, make sure to check out our full Season Blessings guide.
Unlocking Endgame Content Through Season Rank
Last but not least, here are a few important unlocks to remember:
- The Tower unlocks when you complete Rank 2.
- The Pit unlocks at Rank 2 as well.
- The Season Rank 5 Capstone Dungeon includes Azmodan.
- Entering Rank 6 rewards you with the Seasonal Pet Alefta.
- Rank 7 completion grants Gilded Laurels.
Season Rank progression is shared across all Seasonal characters, so you do not need to repeat early Ranks on alts.
