This raven pet is why you’ll want to finish the Season Journey in Diablo 4 Season 7

The Diablo 4 team has been listening, and they know what the players truly want: more cute animals as companions. Apparently they’ve been listening to me as well, as my love for corvids is well known, and in Season 7 — Season of Witchcraft — they have brought to us a raven as the final reward for the our long season journey.

This raven’s name is Dorian. He is amazing. I will never use another pet, ever.

But it is going to take some work to get your very own raven pet, because you have to complete the entire season journey to unlock Dorian, which is no simple task. You’ll be pushing your character into Torment 4, beating the game’s toughest bosses, befriending witches, collecting the game’s best gear (and improving it), and running endless Helltides, Headhunts Nightmare Dungeons, Infernal Hordes, and just about everything else the game has to offer. Regardless, it’s completely worth it to have a raven buddy fly around while you deal with the demonic hordes (and you’ll also get a raven emblem too, as a treat).

If you’ve never paid attention to the Season Journey, it’s a collection of tasks to do through the season to earn rewards (which have never included anything as great as Dorian), but it’s a bit invisible if you don’t go looking for it: if you open your season tab, you’ll notice there’s a section called “Season Journey,” which requires you finish a certain number of objectives in each of the seven chapters to earn rewards from each. It looks like a ton, but it doesn’t take a lot of work to clear these (at least the early chapters). To put it into perspective, I created a new seasonal character last night, and just did the seasonal Headhunt events over and over, which put me at 8/11 in Chapter 1, 4/11 in Chapter 2, 4/11 in Chapter 3, and 2/11 in Chapter 4. You’ll earn quite a few of these just playing through the game, but progress will slow down when you hit the final 3 “chapters” — Slayer, Champion, and Destroyer, which Blizzard has made more difficult this season. Your biggest challenges will likely be salvaging Ancestral Legendaries and hitting Rank 15 with The Coven in Slayer, upgrading 10 Witchcraft powers to level 20 and reaching Paragon Level 100 in Champion, and defeating elite monsters in Torment 4 Nightmare Dungeons without dying for Destroyer.

Diablo 4’s Season Journey isn’t designed to be done in a weekend, so pace yourself! And remember that you’re doing this all for Dorian.

If you aren’t familiar with pets in the Diablo franchise — they’re a pretty recent addition — or you came from a game like World of Warcraft where pets are just there for show, you’re missing out! Pets in Diablo 4 don’t just hang around and be cute while you completely obliterate every skeleton between here and Sanctuary: they also run around and pick up the gold and materials that you unearth while you travel. So cute, and useful!

If you haven’t unlocked pets in Diablo 4  yet, no worries. We’ve written up a guide for that, which you can find right here!