The Lunar New Year event just launched in Diablo IV, completing the progression to win new items. This D4 Lunar Awakening event guide will cover the start and end date, rewards, shrines, new mount, and how to get them. 

Diablo 4 Lunar Awakening Event Start & End Date

In celebration of the Lunar (Chinese) New Year, the Diablo 4 Lunar Awakening event goes live on February 6, 2024, and it will end on February 20, 2024. 

Diablo 4 Lunar Awakening Ancestral Favor & Ancestors’ Favor

How does the Lunar event work in D4? To activate the event, you need to go into the Ked Bardu and speak to Ying-Yue. After that, you will see an Ancestral Favor reputation board that shows your current Ancestral Favor tier, there are 10 tiers to complete, you need to get Ancestral Favor to unlock all of the tiers and rewards. Use Lunar shrines in dungeons and in the overworld, as well as killing enemies will grant you Ancestral Favor, which acts similar to XP. 

Ancestors’ Favor is different from Ancestral Favor, this is a Nightmare Dungeon affix where extra Lunar Shrines appear, and you can get 10% more Glyph experience at the end of the dungeon. This affix will transform the standard shrines into Lunar Shrines. 

How to Get Shrines in Diablo 4 Lunar Awakening? 

Lunar Shrine comes with new effects, if you are affected by a Lunar Shrine, you can get 50% bonus XP and corresponding Ancestral Favors, the XP bonus you are getting is only active when you have the shrine itself, it does not help much while leveling. 

In terms of the locations of Lunar Shrines, you can find them fast in Sanctuary by seeking out purple asterisks on the mini-map, to guarantee the spawns of Lunar Shrines, you’ll have to complete a Cleanse Shrine bounty for the Tree of Whispers and use a Nightmare Sigil with the Ancestors’ Favor affix. There is a lot of Whisper bounties where you have a new Lunar Shrine, what you need to do to level them fast is let the shrine kill the monster to gain XP. 

List of Lunar Shrines

Artillery Shrine

Blast Wave Shrine

Channeling Shrine

Conduit Shrine

Greed Shrine

Lethal Shrine

Protection Shrine

Diablo 4 Lunar Awakening Event Rewards

During the Lunar New Year event in D4, you can get lots of rewards, including a ton of Diablo IV gold and themed cosmetics, you can earn a Moonborn Stallion mount skin once you reach tier 10 in the Lunar event in D4. 

Tier 1: 10,000 Gold, Greater Awakened Spoils (Reward Cache)

Tier 2: 25,000 Gold, Lunar Scepter (Wand Skin)

Tier 3: 50,000 Gold, Greater Awakened Spoils (Reward Cache)

Tier 4: 75,000 Gold, The Dragon's Courage (Two-Handed Axe Skin)

Tier 5: 100,000 Gold, Greater Awakened Spoils (Reward Cache)

Tier 6: 125,000 Gold, Moonshot Bow (Bow Skin)

Tier 7: 150,000 Gold, Greater Awakened Spoils (Reward Cache)

Tier 8: 200,000 Gold, The Dragon's Tapestry (Body Marking)

Tier 9: 250,000 Gold, The Moon's Bounty (Cosmetic Trophy)

Tier 10: 300,000 Gold, Moonborn Stallion (Mount Skin)