The new update on Diablo 4 by Blizzard is so detailed that you might think you are playing a new game entirely. This is because of the changes made to the upcoming season.
After several months of teasers, Blizzard promised to change Diablo IV core design. Blizzard utilized the opportunity to announce the changes made to the current game on Campfire Chat Steam.
Before you can access the changes made in the latest release you must have a Diablo 4 account. The changes made that covers almost every area of Diablo IV. During the live stream, game director Joe Shely dropped a hint when he mentioned that the most important aspects of Diablo IV are the decisions you and your team make before combat and the ones you make while the battle is on.
Before we delve deeper into the article, let’s quickly take a summary of the changes made to Diablo 4. For the loot rework the changes made enable a player to build their character by obtaining loot and also allow you to flex your creativity in your character progression.
Through this characterization, Diablo 4 items and your character would be something that has remained flexible like never before. A pair of gloves for instance might be craftable with the stats and affixes you want to have, and, with the introduction of several new crafting systems, these can now be created along the lines of the build you want to excel at. Blizzard has certainly got Last Epoch and Path of Exile as its main collection points and amazingly increased the amount of customization in its loot. Lastly, the Blizzard developers are positive that the era of searching for the proper items among a whole pile of stuff is long gone, and it can be completed without a loot filter.
Upgrading Your Loot in Season 4
With the upgrade, there are now changes on how to upgrade your loot. Let’s list them out for you for better understanding.
Whenever you successfully defeat a boss, it drops a glove with the legendary, or it says it’s a rare item with lesser stats now.
Those gloves dropped by the boss are okay but you can still upgrade them in the blacksmith.
Before you can Temper with your gloves in the blacksmith, you need a new manual item that has one of the four mobility stats on it.
You’re lucky and get the movement speed stat added to your item before using up its maximum Temper rerolls.
You add one more stat that makes your Bone Splinters skill shoot more projectiles.
You then use the new Masterworking system to increase all the stats, including the Tempered ones, on the gloves even further, up to 12 times.
You luck out and roll the four major upgrades to your movement speed, increasing the stat dramatically (one stat jumps way up every four upgrades).
The Biggest Changes to How You Acquire Loot
Blizzard has redesigned how items, affixes, and aspects function in Diablo 4 to best complement this new system.
The item stats have been simplified into flat bonuses like more damage and more health.
Another change that has been added is that items dropped will only be for the benefits of the character you are using. For example, The intelligence stat will only drop if you are using sorcerer.
All legendary drops in world tier 4 will always drop a maxed out power item.
You should also note that any unique item will only drop in world tier 1 and 2.
Then Uber Uniques drop when you are above level 55 which gives you items specifically for building your character as you level up.
Trading legendary and unique items that you haven’t crafted is now enabled among players. This new change is jeered towards allowing Diablo IV’s economy to veer into MMO territory.
The cost of Diablo 4 gold to reroll stats by enchantment will eventually hit a cap instead of the usual exponential increase.
Codex of Power will now have every Legendary aspect in Diablo IV.
If you are lucky enough to salvage a legendary item, the best rolls are immediately added to your codex of power to enable use of it on other items unlimitedly.
Item drops that have the Ancestral Legendary or Unique items can sometimes already be upgraded before you start tempering with it.
Blizzard has cleverly made sure the most exciting loot gets pulled to the earlier parts of the game so everyone can get a chance at different builds sooner. It has also changed the value of loot for endgame players who know exactly what they want from drops away from the moment it drops into the hands of a player. That negative side is they might not have a final point in Diablo IV like they do now. You will, in the end.
New Endgame Activities
All of these improvements will give you the extra power you’ll need for Diablo IV newest endgame activities:
Helltide will show up in all world tiers with more monsters and a new summonable boss.
A new boss has been added to the game known as Andariel and this boss also drops the same items as Duriel.
The Pit of the Artificer houses timed, randomized dungeons of increasing difficulty.
The bosses with the “Tormented” tag have a bigger chance to always drop Uber uniques and also drop a resplendent spark.
Changes in terms of class—some of which are for the purpose of stabilizing the under-powered builds is also coming, with some quality of life changes as minor as the ability to zoom your camera out a little bit more. The company stated that they will be out with the full list of patch notes in a week, and it will sure seem like War and Peace as you go through them.
To guarantee that the game runs smoothly, every PC user who plays through the Battle.net launcher will be invited to a week-long playtest, also called PTR, which will launch on April 2. The season Diablo 4 can be defined as its most pressing phase will be unveiled on May 14 making a whole new era for the action RPG.
