When Diablo 4's Season of the Construct begins, everyone will have a robotic spider crawling alongside them. In the video released by Blizzard for tomorrow's start of the season, the little spider always looks like a dwarf spider from Skyrim. Despite players' expectations, Blizzard told PC Gamer that.

For the next three months, Seneschal's companion will look like a robotic spider, and unfortunately there's nothing you can do about it; it won't pick up gold or items like pets in Diablo 3. The only customization available is in skills in combat, which is the focus of this season. Governance stones give you skills, and tuning stones allow you to adjust those skills. One of the tuning stones can give every skill four ranks, like one of the most popular uber-unique helmets in the game.

The Seneschal will be Diablo 4's first real companion outside of the NPCs that join you on certain quests; Blizzard has not said if they plan to permanently add companions or pets to the game, but it is rumored to be a feature coming in the first expansion later this year It is rumored to be a feature that will appear in the first expansion later this year. The Season 3 companion could be a test run for that.

It's not surprising that the Seneschal's appearance can't be changed; a list of companion transmog items that will be gone in three months will probably be hard to squeeze into a live service release schedule. However, it is a little sad that equipping certain stones does not at least change their blue glow. All skills vary in the way they are augmented, so not everyone has, for example, a spider that spits a beam of red flame that chains to all nearby enemies. So even if no one has a pink spider on their side, they can at least get a peek at what ridiculous skill combinations are out there.

It's not all sad news, either: you can pet the Seneschal like a dog in Diablo 4. If you use the hello emote near it, the character will pet it a few times.