Diablo 4's Lunar New Year Event Returns, This Time With An Even Bigger XP Buff

Diablo 4 is celebrating the year of the snake with the return of its Lunar Awakening event, and it's making the event even more rewarding than last time around.

As detailed by Blizzard, the Lunar Awakening event will be live February 4-18 for both the game's Eternal and Seasonal realms. Like last year's event, Lunar Awakening replaces all of the game's shrines with special Lunar Shrines. These shrines function much the same as their normal counterparts, only with even more powerful effects in addition to their usual ones. Lunar Artillery Shrines, for example, have a chance to blast enemies with a holy bomb in addition to piercing enemies with holy arrows as usual. Whereas Greed shrines typically just grant players more gold for killing monsters, the Lunar Greed Shrine actually makes it so every kill also has a chance to summon a Treasure Goblin.

Players can earn free cosmetics by slaying monsters while under the effects of a Lunar Shrine during the event.

The Lunar Shrine bonus effects are the same as they were during 2024's event, but what is different this time is the amount of bonus XP players gain while under the effects of a shrine. For this year's version, players will enjoy a 100%, multiplicative experience bonus for the duration of the shrine's effects, up from 50% last year. That will make leveling a new character or earning endgame Paragon points even faster (and it's already pretty darn fast to begin with).

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