Season 21 - Trials of Tempests: Double Bounties

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#1 - Aug. 10, 2020, 5:01 p.m.
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Hello everyone –

The trials this season brings upon a new event for the community. Starting from 11am PT today and through the end of Season 21, all bounties will be doubled. What does this exactly entail? All Horadric Caches earned from bounties will be doubled. This means that each time you complete bounties in an Act, you will now receive two Horadric Caches as opposed to just one. Double the bounty rewards!

There are a few things to keep in mind with this effect:

  • The bonus cache does benefit from difficulty level; it is essentially as though you completed twice the bounties.
  • The rewards inside the Horadric Caches are otherwise unaffected; drop rates or the amount of individual rewards have not been altered.

The bonus cache earned from Challenge Rifts is not affected; this is a separate type of cache.

Check out our Game Guide for a list of bounty-exclusive Legendary items and more information on the Bounty system.

On top of this, we would like to note that we plan on extending PTR testing timelines prior to each new season going forward. This will result in a slightly extended season, and will allow for 2 weeks of PTR testing for the community along with an additional week for the team to implement and work feedback/changes in before the season begins. The intention here is to make sure we can apply as much feedback as possible from the community during these PTR timelines while also giving us a good amount of time to test these changes before they go live.

Thanks again. Happy slaying!

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#164 - Aug. 11, 2020, 5:37 p.m.
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Hi all! We are looking into this!

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#168 - Aug. 11, 2020, 6 p.m.
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This issue has been addressed. The buff wasn’t fully populating to all game servers for the EU region. It should now appear on all instances. Thanks for the reports!

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#176 - Aug. 11, 2020, 7:43 p.m.
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The Xbox issue was related to the above. It was affecting all platforms.

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#233 - Aug. 26, 2020, 12:48 a.m.
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Just wanted to chime in regarding any of the posts from those not capturing the double bounty and confirm that the buff is for seasonal characters.

Hope this clears things up!