Diablo 4 Lunar Awakening event: Start & end date, rewards, Lunar Shrines, more

❘ Updated: 2024-02-07T12:34:50

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The Diablo 4 Lunar Awakening event is one of the biggest highlights of Season 3 as you can get amazing freebies by collecting Ancestor’s Favor. Here’s everything to know about the Lunar Awakening event in Diablo 4, including its end date, rewards, and Lunar Shrines locations.

Diablo 4 Season 3 arrived with a brand-new Construct theme which received mixed responses from players. While some complained about the reduced dependency of builds on Companions, others had issues with the process for grinding Vaults.

However, Blizzard was quick to roll out patches with balance changes and fixes, and now, the Lunar Awakening event has arrived with exciting new content. It revolves around earning a ton of Ancestor’s Favor and redeeming them for exciting rewards.

To boost your progress in Diablo 4 Season 3, here’s everything to know about the Lunar Awakening event, including details on its end date, how to start the event, rewards, and Lunar Shrines.

Diablo 4 Lunar Awakening event start and end date
How to start Lunar Awakening event in Diablo 4
Diablo 4 Lunar Awakening rewards
What are the new Lunar Shrines in Diablo 4?
Where to find Lunar Shrines in Diablo 4 Season 3

Diablo 4 Lunar Awakening event start and end date

The Lunar Awakening event in Diablo 4 started on February 6, 2024, at 10 AM PST/ 6 PM GMT/ 1 PM EST, and will end on February 20, 2024, at the same time. Just like the previous Midwinter Blight event back in Season 2, it will run for two weeks.

How to start Lunar Awakening event in Diablo 4

To start the Lunar Awakening event in Diablo 4, you will have to travel to Ked Bardu and interact with an NPC named Ying-Yue, located in the northern part of the city. She will be taking care of the Lunar Night Market, and interacting with her will kickstart the event for you.

As your farm Ancestor’s Favor, the main resource used to earn rewards during the event, you can perform all the exchanges through this NPC and market in Diablo 4 Lunar Awakening.

Lunar Awakening event Shrines in Diablo 4

Lunar Awakening will be the first major event of 2024.

Diablo 4 Lunar Awakening rewards

The Lunar Awakening event in Diablo 4 offers 20 rewards including cosmetics, Gold, and Greater Awakened Soils.

However, keep in mind that you will have to collect Ancestor’s Favor, a new form of currency, to get rewards in the Lunar Awakening. You will get these resources by killing mobs, using Shrine buffs, and completing objectives, and once you have enough, trade them at the Lunar Night Market for rewards.

Here’s a breakdown of all the Lunar Awakening event tiers and rewards:

Tier	Reward
1	10,000 Gold Greater Awakened Soils – (cache that drops Nightmare Sigils with Ancestor’s Favor Affix)
2	25,000 Gold Lunar – Scepter wand skin
3	50,000 Gold Greater Awakened Soils
4	75,000 Gold The Dragon’s Courage two-handed axe skin
5	100,000 Gold Greater Awakened Soils
6	125,000 Gold Moonshot Bow skin
7	150,000 Gold Greater Awakened Soils
8	200,000 Gold The Dragon’s Tapestry body marking
9	250,000 Gold The Moon’s bounty trophy
10	300,000 Gold Moonborn Stallion mount skin

You will also be able to get your hands on Lunar Awakening-themed garments that will be available in Tejal’s shop to make the perfect outfit to celebrate the occasion in Diablo 4.

What are the new Lunar Shrines in Diablo 4?

Due to the Lunar Awakening event in Diablo 4, several Shrines across Sanctuary have turned into Lunar Shrines, giving out new buffs and bonuses to everyone. Additionally, whenever you kill with these new buffs active, you get Ancestor’s Favor, the main currency of the event.

Lunar Shrines provide much better buffs compared to the normal vanilla Shrines as each of them gives out 50% more XP and makes your movement 30% faster in Diablo 4. Here are all the changes each Shrine type will receive during the event:

Artillery Shrine – Casts have a chance to summon a holy bomb.
Blast Wave Shrine – Each explosion summons a cluster bombardment.
Channeling Shrine – Increased attack speed and a chance to reset cooldowns.
Conduit Shrine – Summon frequent, powerful, shocking strikes.
Greed Shrine – Chance to summon a Treasure Goblin. While the Shrine is active, 25 kills summons a Treasure Goblin, and 50 kills summons a second.
Lethal Shrine – Chance to instantly execute a struck monster, causing Fear in surrounding monsters. Note: this includes Elites, but excludes Bosses and other Players.
Protection Shrine – You reflect all incoming damage. Damage reflected scales with Level and World Tier.

How to cleanse Shrines

To cleanse a Shrine and get rewards in Diablo 4, you simply need to eliminate all the monsters that spawn around it. The duration of a Lunar Shrine ranges between 10-20 seconds like the standard one and it’s best to accumulate the opponents first and then activate the Shrine buff.

World events near Lunar Shrines will task you with eliminating Miserly Spirits for 60 seconds and although this won’t affect your Lunar Awakening progress, killing three Elite enemies during these events grants bonus chest rewards.

Lunar Awakening event gameplay in Diablo 4 Season 3

Lunar Shrines have a Dragon statue on top making them stand out in the open world.

Where to find Lunar Shrines in Diablo 4 Season 3

You can find the Lunar Shrines in Diablo 4 Season 3 marked as Grim Favors with a purple star on the map. The exact locations include:

Dungeons and Vaults (not guaranteed)
Nightmare Dungeons (100% spawn rate and 10% additional Glyph EXP if you have the Ancestor’s Favor Affix)
Local World events (not guaranteed)
The open world
A Cleanse Shrine bounty for the Tree of Whispers

Getting the Ancestor’s Favor can greatly boost your progress during the Lunar Awakening event in Diablo 4 Season 3 and get all the desired rewards before it ends on February 20, 2024. Another thing to note is that Lunar Shrines won’t appear after Lunar Awakening ends and only the Affix’s Glyph XP bonus will remain functional.

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