Just started a new character on Blight, saw news about 3.9, what happens to existing Blight league?

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Archwizard wrote:

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Yosharian wrote:

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Archwizard wrote:

1a. League ends, as in can't create a new char or play in it after that. What happens to the content (mechanics, items, etc) is announced by GGG at some point.

1b. Chars from that league go to Standard (Standard SSF in your case) and can continue to be played.

1c. Changes to the tree, skills, and items can definitely affect your char. If the tree changes you'll be granted a passive respec to re-do your tree for free.

2a. You can't interact with Metamorph in any way right now. If you wish to play now it's Standard or Blight.

2b. If you wish to play Metamorph you will have to start a new character.

And if you're having fun, it's not wasted time. That's what games are for.

Does Standard league mean I lose access to Blight content, or is that one of the things that's yet to be decided?

That's on the to be decided list. Each league is different for what gets incorporated. Most of Synthesis and Tempest are gone, Rampage is restricted to items that grant the ability, but Breach and Abyss are there quite a bit, etc.

At some point there will be a dev post about Blight and what will and will not go core.

Ah, ok. Shame I didn't start the league earlier then

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Yosharian wrote:

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AcrylicHercules wrote:

Your character in Blight league will be transferred to the permanent Standard league and remain playable there. Your Blight stash tabs will be added to your Standard stash as remove-only tabs. Your atlas progression, etc. will be merged into Standard league.

Thanks! I don't know what any of that means!

Well, all of the characters in the Blight challenge league started from scratch, no more than a few months ago when the league started.

Challenge leagues are a way for GGG to introduce and test out new content, while providing a fresh start for players. Veteran and new players all can start on the same footing, and see how far they can get in the content during a short (usually 3 month) period of time.

When those leagues end, some players want to keep playing their characters, and to keep the items they've accumulated during the challenge league. So, GGG will take those characters and move them into a permanent league called Standard.

There are characters (and items) in Standard that have been in the game for several years. Long-time players will have much more wealth accumulated than new players, so prices in the trade market are a bit different than in temp leagues.

After a Challenge league ends, GGG will decide whether to include the league-specific mechanic in the core game, and if so, how. Most of the time the content will end up in the core game somehow, but there have been cases where it hasn't.

While playing through Blight's content, you have encountered many previous challenge league mechanics that made it into the core game.