Characters created for a particular Ladder are only able to play with other characters that are on the same Ladder. At the end of D2R Ladder Items the season Ladder members will transformed into characters that are not Ladder, and will keep any Ladder-exclusive items found or equipped within their inventory. Items in the seasonal Ladder stash will remain until the start on the third season of Ladder Season 3 to be removed, so that they don't get lost for ever. Ladder seasons are set to last approximately four months.
 
 
 Blizzard will celebrate the game's initial Ladder season by streaming a livestream event that's dubbed The Infernal Race. Diverse Diablo Content creators will collaborate and competing against each other in order to climb to the top of the seasonal leaderboards. The race will be streamed by joining this official Diablo Twitch channel.
 
 
 The game's inaugural Ladder season follows with the announcement of the major patch 2.4 update, which brought major changes to class balance along with new items and runes, tweaks to the various mercenaries in the game, and more. It's the first major patch to Diablo since the patch 1.13c.
 
 
 Blizzard recently announced that the free-to-play Diablo mobile game, Diablo Immortal which will be coming to PC with the ability to play across platforms and with cross-progression. Diablo Immortal is set to be released on June 2. with the PC version of the game beginning in an open beta state.
 
 
 Season 26 of Diablo is set to bring an entirely new game in the form of"the Echoing Nightmare. This new mode in addition to improvements to the game's Greater Rifts and item set changes, will be available to be played on the game's testing realm beginning on March 10.
 
 
 As detailed in an official preview blog, Echoing Nightmare is a seasonal-character only game in which players fight against the ever-changing memories of fallen Nephalem warriors. The players will require a Petrified Scream after defeating the Greater Rift Guardian and then transmute it into Kanai's Cube for access to the nightmare. Rewards for this new adventure includes legendary items like blood shards gems, and Buy D2R Items a new legendary gem called Whisper of Atonement, which is specifically used for augmenting Ancient Legendary items.