Diablo 4’s Season 8, which has coined the name Belial’s Return. It was launched on April 29, 2025. It puts you back into Sanctuary’s dark heart, with the complete return of Belial- the Lord of Lies from Diablo III. This season introduces a completely revamped Lair Boss system, many innovative boss powers, and a brand-new Reliquary rewards system. On top of all that, a new, exciting Apparition Incursion event. All of this is designed for you to deepen your builds and enhance endgame challenges. Along with a roadmap that features the brand-new, exclusive Legendary and Unique items, a crossover, and many other changes, this season aims to completely transform the experience of the game.
Just like everything else, Diablo- the grind is tight-, if you want an edge over all the others, you can find Diablo 4 items for sale. This lets you easily get great, powerful gear and resources, which help you to easily battle Belial’s tricks. This guide explores the new features, mechanics, and strategies for you to dominate the meta, making sure you can face Belial- the Lord of Lies.
Belial’s Return
Belial is the main, cunning antagonist of Diablo III whom the player meets in Act II. It returns after escaping the Black Soulstone’s destruction, as said by Blizzard’s patch notes. His magic tears the veil between realities. The questline- just for the season- starting at level 1, tasks you with his minions through Apparition Incursions. This builds up a climax for the battle with his Supreme Form. It is the toughest Lair Boss yet. The narrative makes its place in the gameplay through new events and mechanics, offering both lore lovers and loot hunters a fun time. The season runs till August.
Boss Powers: A New Build Dimension
Boss Powers is Season 8’s new, main, flagship mechanic. It lets you harness abilities from defeated worlds, events, and Lair Bosses. This adds even more depth to your builds. Each power has a main and a modifier effect, with 1 main and 3 modifiers active at once. Examples are:
Belial’s Crystal Decoy: Main effect: Spawns a crystal which taunts enemies on Agility, Defense, and skills. Modifiers: Fears enemies for 0.75 seconds, dealing Shadow Damage in the process.
Duriel’s Burrow: Main effect: When you evade, you burrow underground. This immobilises enemies for 5 seconds, and deals damage on your entry and exit. You also deal some damage every 0.25 seconds underground. Modifier: Gets you a greater Dodge chance for 5 seconds. Whenever you dodge, you immobilise an enemy.
Lilith’s Wind of Hate: Main effect: The skill casts unleash a 2-second spike wave for Physical damage. Modifier: Creates Blister Clones with 10% of their max health. Enemies can have a max of 3 blisters at once.
Tips:
- Pair Belial’s Crystal Decoy with Duriel’s Modifier for great crowd control.
- Use Lilith’s Wind of Hate with Sorcerer’s reworked Avalanche skill for high-damage AoE.
- Farm Boss Powers in Apparition Incursions, where most of them drop. There’s an exception of the Torment exclusive ones.
Reliquary System: Battle Pass Overhaul
The Reliquary system replaces the traditional Battle Pass of the game. It is offering many flexible cosmetic and exclusive rewards through things called Favor Tokens. These Favour Tokens are earned by killing monsters and completing quests. If you ever need more of these Favour Tokens, though, you can always consider buying them using D4 Gold– a quick way to speed things up.
All the Reliquary quests require you to buy them using the currency Platinum. This is except for Belia’s Return- which is the only free one. The rest cost 200, 500, and 800 Platinum to unlock. To avoid having to make intense decision-making, you can also buy it all in a discounted bundle if you want, which lets you buy all four for 1000 Platinum.
Completing a Reliquary unlocks a bonus item, with the completion of all four granting you the full Guise of the Deceiver armor set. A Deluxe Bundle- which costs 2800 Platinum- instantly unlocks the set for you, along with wings, and the Orinocta owl pet. Event Reliquaries, like the May Berserk crossover, offer you many limited time cosmetics and rewards.
Issues: Players have reported Reliquary bugs at launch, with Platinum deductions not granting them rewards. Thankfully, Blizzard is investigating, so hold off on purchases until it is fixed (probably will be soon, don’t worry).
Farming Tips:
- Nightmare Dungeons (Tier 40+): It yields you 12 – 15 Tokens per run- a great source.
- World Bosses: It gets you a whopping 30 Tokens for every single kill.
- Synergy: Combine synergy with Boss Powers to easily and quickly clear out all runs and kills.
Caution: Make sure you don’t hoard above 99 Tokens. Since excess tokens are just lost with no compensation.
Conclusion
Diablo IV’s Season 8 is named Belial’s Return. Belial is Diablo III’s iconic Lord of Lies. It transforms the Sanctuary with Belial’s tricks and challenges you to master the Lair Bosses, wield Boss Powers, and unlock exclusive, powerful rewards. This streamlines the Lair system, free summons, and tiered bosses make the endgame really accessible, yet highly punishing simultaneously. The season’s depth is dug even deeper with even more player engagement coming in. This promises months of fun and excitement (and competition!). Get ready, stock up resources, prepare potion resistance, and dice into the fight before it all ends.
