Because there is a character wipe with the new season, if I’m close to finishing the campaign, should I just focus on that and get all the altars, and avoid everything else? I don’t see much point leveling up and planning out my character build and obsessing over equipment if it’s all going away in a week.
I’d say yes, focus on renown and altars, as you keep that part of the progression. As for the rest, it will likely be easier in season, especially if they do something about monster density :)
Eternal realm characters aren’t being wiped.
You just have to make a new character to do seasons content. You can still use your current main forever to fully 100% the game of you feel like it. That character just won’t get the new content.
No need to rush anything.
Short answer: your character wont be wiped and you can continue to play with them. Focus on finishing campaign, map explored 100%, and all altars visited before participating in Season 1.
Long answer: to participate in seasonal content, you will need to create a new character. Assuming you have already completed the campaign once before, that new character has the option to skip the campaign and get right into the seasonal content. Additionally, progress you’ve made towards specifically the altars of Lilith and the map fog of war will carry over. Nothing else will, including additional renown.
Your main character will be forever playable in the “Eternal” realm, which is to say everything the game has right now. But generally people enjoy starting over every season and checking out new and fun experiences.
Renown does carry over I thought. They said if you found everything before the season started, you would have a lvl 1 character with 9 potions and 10 skill points to spend so you could start smashing the lvling really quickly. You don’t get that without renown to at least lvl three carrying over. I doubt you will get to spend paragon points in immediately though.
Characters don’t get wiped. Seasonal characters become unplayable unless you migrate them to regular characters. None of us have seasonal characters yet, so zero impact to anything you have done.
