Diablo 4 Season 3: How to upgrade the Seneschal Companion

The Seneschal Companion in Diablo 4 is the main draw of Season 3. Here’s how to upgrade your little robot friend to enjoy the many buffs he offers in combat.

Diablo 4 Season 3 introduces the Seneschal Companion, a robot ally who’s reprogrammed to follow you and battle by your side for the duration of the season. While the Seneschal will fight independently, his main purpose is to be customized so that he can provide you with various buffs. While it’s useful to have him with you in combat, him following you is mostly just a fun garnish for his wider purpose. However, it is helpful to have an ally to draw your enemies agro.

As you progress in Season 3 of Diablo 4, you’ll be able to add various stones to your Seneschal Companion, making him and his buffs, much more potent. Below, we’ll explain how to upgrade the Seneschal Companion and how to turn your little robot spider into a powerful ally – but more importantly, have him buff you until you’re nigh unstoppable this season.

Contents

• Finding the Seneschal Companion
• Upgrading the Seneschal Companion
• Where to find Governing & Turning Stones

The Seneschal Companion starts out rather weak but soon grows in power.

Finding the Seneschal Companion

You’ll find the Seneschal Companion early on during the new Season 3 story quests after you either complete or skip the main campaign. You’ll be sent to investigate some weird demonic possessions in Gea Kul and from there, will need to go and investigate one of the former vaults of long-dead sorcerer (and Diablo 3 fan-favorite) Zoltun Kulle. You’ll meet one of Kulle’s old friends called Ayuzhan who’s been missing for centuries.

After realizing that Kulle is gone and that a demonic force has taken over his workshops, Ayuzhan recruits you to help and will eventually provide you with the Seneschal Companion to aid you in your quest.

Upgrading the Seneschal Companion

The Seneschal Companion will feel a bit underpowered at first and characters that already use minions may find it slightly more useful, as the little spider will back up your existing crew. However, solo characters shouldn’t expect too much from it at this early stage.

The good news is that the Seneschal will scale with you as you level up, so as you become more powerful, so will your little robot friend. However, to really feel the benefit of the Seneschal Companion, you’ll need to upgrade him with various stones.

These are known as the Governing Stones and Turning Stones, each works a similar way but is a little different. Governing Stones dictate what sort of attacks your ally can do while the Turning Stones buff these abilities. You can only use two Governing Stones at one time and three Turning Stones for each.

In total, there are 12 separate Governing Stones to find in Season 3 as well as 27 different Turning Stones. Of course, it will take some time to locate all of these, but the more you find, the more you can customize your Seneschal to your preferred build. These stones also provide you with various buffs, so it may be worth prioritizing stones that provide you the most benefit, rather than the Seneschal Companion itself.

To upgrade your Seneschal Companion, enter your inventory screen and scroll across to the new screen added for Season 3. This will have replaced Vampire Powers and in many respects works the same way.

The Seneschal Companion will battle other constructs with you.

Where to find Governing & Turning Stones

You’ll unlock a Turning Stone for your Seneschal Companion every time you complete one of Zoltun Kulle’s Vaults. You can also collect Shattered Stones from killing Construct enemies and craft them into Turning and Governing Stones at the Jeweler’s shop back in town.

You can also find these by destroying traps in the Vaults and by completing Arcane Tremors events. Wardwoven Chests also sometimes contain both Governing and Turning Stones. These are located all over the map or from caches you’re given after completing quests.

In time, your robot buddy will be a little powerhouse and an important part of your build, that is until Season 3 comes to an end and it’s time to say goodbye to the Seneschal Companion. So use him while you can.

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