With the announcement of Diablo 4 Season of the Construct, we actually got a Seneschal Companion. You can enhance unique abilities with three additional support skills to make them useful. 

With the new season, we get a brand new character customization menu. As you can see here, we will have the option to use our Governing Stones to enhance these abilities.

If you have played Path of Exile before, there are basically two 4 links active at all times. But this time it won’t be on you, it will be on your Seneschal Companion.

Scaling Confirmed

We’ve also confirmed how Seneschal Companion will work. It will scale 1:1 with your own data. This is information from the developers of Diablo 4 class.

As you can see here, our attack rating is its attack rating, our crit is its crit and so on. If it’s affecting your raw stat increase or damage bonus, it will also affect Seneschal Companion on a one-to-one basis.

So something like Accelerating Aspect will not only be useful for you, but it will also increase the attack speed of your followers.

Acquire Follower

Now it’s going to be super easy to get this little guy. Because we can get it through Seasonal Questline.

It’s unclear if it’s melee or ranged, only that as you can see here, it has the same position as the ranged character. It looks like it may be firing or preparing to fire.

So maybe you can choose melee or ranged play style for your Seneschal Companion. Therefore, it can better suit your build.

If you’re not a Necromancer and have Corpse Tendrils, Seneschal Companion can actually do this for you with its skills. So you’ll basically get a miniature Corpse Tendrils on your pet, which will help you collect Diablo 4 Gold easily.

Unkillable Follower

What’s more, your Seneschal Companion actually doesn’t die, so you never have to worry about its location or health. Since it has features like this, you can just forget about it and focus on upgrading your skills, and never have to worry about the Seneschal Companion dying and affecting you.

How Does It Work?

You’ll be able to equip two Governing Stones, which are primarily skill-based, and then enhance them with three Tuning Stones each.

As you can see on the menu, we currently have these Tuning Stones selected. These can be upgraded by sacrificing a pair or three of the same stone, essentially upgrading it by a level.

Plus, Tuning Stones actually come in unique colors. For example, you have these red or orange ones like Genesis and Evernight. You also have things like Tactical Support, which are blue.

We need to see if they are divided according to the type of their abilities, such as whether they are more offensive, whether they are more practical, whether they are more defensive.

De-specializing Supports

What I find more interesting is that Tuning Stones or support skills are basically de-specialized. If it weren’t because they were de-specializing, it would be very easy to mix and match the right things together right away.

So, as you can see, we do have something like an explosion. If it’s specialized, it’s basically going to do damage, and there will be things like that will do more damage to your explosion. But not this time.

This is actually the right thing to do, and it’s what Path of Exile is currently doing. The idea is to have professional support skills. This means they are very versatile, so they create a lot of opportunities and possibilities for mixing them together in a very smart and fun way. Best of all, you can already see how crazy these combinations are going to be.

Hidden Stones

We also have two fabled Tuning Stones that will be discovered during Season Journey. We don’t yet know what they do.

But because we know these are Tuning Stones. So these will be support skills and enhance the abilities of Governing Stones and Seneschal Companion.

Not knowing what it would actually be made it all the more interesting. We can actually expect to find it and then potentially generate another set of builds. Because these can be powerful for the average Diablo 4 theory crafter.

Overall, Seneschal Companion appears to be a core mechanic with a considerable scope for the number of potential combinations. However, time will tell how exciting the gameplay it offers will be, as you’ll have more options to fine-tune your builds!