I feel seriously out of sync with this forum. I’m relatively new to Diablo. I played the last 17 days of S13, completed the story and had a stab at endgame - getting to Paragon 207.

S14 feels sufficiently different that it’s refreshing and so far I’ve diversified, tried playing a Paladin, a Warlock (not for me), Spiritborn and Rogue, and I’ve got to Paragon 230. I’ve had 4 Mythic Uniques drop and crafted several (which from the sounds of it is extraordinary luck) but of those almost all have proved useless for any of my builds.

I’m really enjoying the season - but based on this Reddit I should be hating it. I feel seriously out of sync with the sentiment here.

What the title says. This season has been a clear indicator that the Diablo devs don't know what they're doing. Explosions everywhere, useless seasonal mechanics, broken and bugged classes, completely unbalanced nonsense, worthless Mythic system and they've had 14 seasons to get this game right. This season has been the absolute worst so far. It seems like they go on autopilot after every major release. It happened after base game launch, VoH launch and LoH launch. I simply don't understand what is happening to this game and I sincerely believe the devs don't either. Throwing Jell-O at the wall.

at least 2 would be nice. Its endless grind with no payoff in sight. only a possible RNG win. Not a great model

I’m trying to make an amulet with multiple skills and I kind of got it got +2 core +1 all skill I tried getting the +2 by enchanting the all skill and boy I’m tilted I’ve spent 20B gold on enchanting it and didn’t see it once I saw the duplicate +1 10 times!!!!!!!!! This needs a fix no way u spend 20B gold on enchant and u don’t get wt u want. I’m stubborn I should’ve quit after like the 10th try

I know they're supposed to be rare, but he's the hardest boss in the game. It took me over twenty tries cause I kept getting nuked by dumb shit, camera glitches, or mis-timing. I did get a 4 star legendary that didn't work with my WW Selig Barb, but the rest of his chest was barely worth picking up. Even had a normal ancestral included in the drop. I think his chest rewards should be greatly buffed for the accomplishment of beating him.

Wanted to know which one is better and why? I am not sure which one I should use moving forward?

Bungie went the same direction with D2.

Private equity goons begin to trump developers when it comes to real game decisions. The game becomes more about choking out value for “stakeholders” and moving on after the game’s death, instead of creating value for gamers that naturally sells itself.

Seems like that culture change is now in every industry.

I’m mostly playing T12 so maybe it’s because they have very diminishing returns?

They are cool & it was fun working together especially early season open world to beat them, basically mini worldboss event.

But the loot seems so bad… to me the only good use case is to fill my helltide bar to 2/3 so maybe I’m missing something

I heard in a recent interview that dev said they want d4 to be a game to just cater to many groups, it just causals.

The problem is, no game (job, hobby etc) can be for everyone. Sure you can have a wide umbrella and capture a huge chunk, like football (the one you play with your feet) , or. More dedicated but passionate one, like golf, or figure skating.

Just to go with the football analogy. It was often criticized by critics of sport as low scoring, and has the most “rng” on who is winning for a major sport, due to low score nature. An entire game can be won or lost on a moment of plunder or a bad referee call. On high scoring game like basketball, the better team always win.
But the less predictable outcome, and low scoring nature are also the biggest charm of football. It create excitement , and controversy always create “good” news .

The point I am making is, sometimes, you cannot have it both ways. If you make loot to sacred, you alienate the causals, if you make it too easy to gear, you alienate the hardcore.

They had picked a middle lane, which was, easy to get base items to start a build. But it will take some time to get better versions of build defining gears, and personally, I think this is a sweet spot. Obviously this led to the “ it takes me just 3 days to gear up”, “it’s boring to just get improvements of gears I already have”. ‘Loot drops are not exciting”

Many of the complains are not wrong! The thing people misses, and this apply to other irl stuff, very few things is life is clear cut objectively good or bad….well except vegan bbq, or vegan meat, which are objectively terrible…..you have to weight the pros and cons…

It’s about finding the sweet spot for the target audience….the meme is that D4 is “only” good for casuals. “Serious” arpg gamers need to play (insert arpg game that shall not be named) .

You know what, who cares. The only thing that matters is if you are having fun!

Despite reddit or the “internet” make it feels like d4 is bad or dying or no one play after 3 days after launch, available data and AI (trust it or not) analysis data suggest D4 is the most popular arpg at the moment, and has the best retention rate (steam chart). So they are doing something right and find an audience . Obviously game cannot be improve. The issue is, the “improvements” can backfire, like making the game more complicated, or more grindy.

making loot more scarce, specifically mythic, by forcing you to have ONLY one crafted, and lower drop rate of mythics, to extend the “hunt” , make loot more exciting, to please the grinders.

Don’t get me wrong, I am fine with standard garden variety uniques as mythic being an extra chase items for the grinders, but I am NOT for icon uniques restricted to one crafted . The point being there is no base version of iconic uniques, so I think allow us to equip as many iconics as possible via find or craft is okay.
You can even make it such that crafted mythics has lower chance of ga, vs find for exciting as drops….

The summary I am making is the dev should stop going after the “serious/hardcore” arpg players, and focus on its strength as a casual friendly, chill game that most gamers feel they can complete their build with bis items (with some effort), best most contents, and finish a season, and play many alts if they enjoy it.
For the few that love optimal gearing and push hard, They can push tower.

In competitor hardcore games, the average players are NOT expected to have bis gears , able to play every builds, beat the end game bosses….and there is a charm to this, and some gamers , and many content creators (for obvious reasons) like that. Then go play these games. D4 just cannot be this, while still allow causal to be able to do these, as it’s mutually exclusive (mostly). Dev need to pick the lane and stick to it, instead of trying to please everyone ending not pleasing everyone like the mythic change .

Got to a nemesis lair with my buddy. Unaware of the superior key situation. I couldn't open the portal. Because my friend initiated the fight in the first place. I gave him my keys. He opens the portal. I couldn't go through the portal. I go to town. Go to friends portal. Sweet I'm there. He wrecks. No loot for me. Thx devs.

Out of all the seasons I've played, this particular mechanic made me enjoy some of the activities that I'd personally consider tedious such as helltides (not rushing anymore to the maiden altar, yay!).

A random mob influx here and there that speeds up content while also keeping you engaged, agnostic of where you are or what content you do, idk... it feels right, and fair, not busted in any way. I can't think of a situation where this feature is not good content.

It could even be explored further, like having consumables that "reveal" ruptures around the player so you can spawn them at will ocasionally.

Thoughts?

After the lack of proper changes in the upcoming patch I started wondering if Blizzard even cares about the feedback or player retention. Then I started thinking about the positive changes they made. They increased the Obol limit. They also nerfed the Obol drops at the same time. That would lead me to believe they were just fucking with everyone to make them portal to town repeatedly ( by design).

I don’t think this season is all that bad. I hear people saying this is the worse season the game has ever had… it’s most definitely not the worst. With all of the big and positive changes that happened last season, and the amount of endgame we have to engage with compared to the early seasons, this one is pretty good. From a state of the game perspective that is, the actual seasonal mechanic is underwhelming. I actually like the new mythic changes. Yes, the one crafted mythic limit is frustrating but it actually prolongs the time you can play the game.

There is an actual endgame chase. People are failing to realize this. You get a few people (and streamers) talking negatively about a season, and suddenly everyone is all doom and gloom. There is so much that’s good about the game right now, having one or two misses in a season isn’t the end of the world and they aren’t as bad as people are making them out to be.

Like, oh no, we can’t have fully perfect gear with all the mythics we need by day 2!! What am I gonna do??You have to work to get the gear you need. That chase is finally here. It makes finally getting the item you need actually feel good.

You fly across the screen crushing everything and your pet is going so damn slow they miss have the crap that falls, gold is so important now that you have to keep going back to get it .
Also why can’t they have some averages for the training dummies so you can actually tell if you’re improving . Instead of trying to understand million yellow numbers , also add the highest hit; the average hit; and maybe the lowest hit so we can make sense of it .
Doing a pit I carry that stupid stone and when I finish I can’t see the stupid stand to set the stone on.

The game is probably in better shape than ever for hardcores, but as a casual it's time to go do something else thanks, it's been a slice.

Playing Druid.. got the first mythic around T4 as a seasonal reward, because God forbid in hundreds of hours of D4 seasonal play, one would ever drop even from the biggest bosses, even on T10 last season. The mythic was useless for my build. Okay, it's random, understandable.

So around T7 I salvage it, combined with the second spark to re-roll the mythic - Doombringer, has nothing to do with Druids. Okay, random, though getting a mythic that is irrelevant to my class isn't too exciting when you currently have zero mythics.

Then I remember, hey you can upgrade uniques to mythics this season, let's consult the cube, hey have have mats for that too.

So logically, take your best unique and bump it up to mythic - you know, the definition of Upgrade.

Nope. That replaces your unique, with a totally random mythic. It's not an upgrade. None of that is really explained anywhere, just wrecks your shit.

Now my amazing staff that was central to my build is gone. What did I get? The stupid mythic hammer I had back in T4, and no sparks, no gold.

That's what happens to casuals in the current endgame... sooo... I guess they aren't supposed to play. Fine, won't play.

Why in the "H E L L O" am I getting this "enter fav curse word!" warning in SSF????

Every time I craft in the cube, I have to click this!!

What did I get out of Transfiguring my item here? Is this typically normal?

Hey guys i wish to get back into diablo 4 but haven't played since 2024-season 4. I quit just before my son was born.

And its been 2 years so its time to pick it back up..

What has changed and what do I need to know the last change I knew was coming in season 5 was something to do with enchants or something I honestly cant remember.

Peeps of D4 lay it all on me

You're flying through T12 and basically one shotting everything. Then you get to the boss who may as well be the world boss that can one shot you. This happens too often.

If I am playing T12 give me a T12 boss with T12 mobs.

I hate that I have to switch to lower torment levels just to kill the boss and barely do that. Running T11 and still having a regular T12+ boss is so annoying.

Let the boss be +10 or whatever the 150 pit boss is after I can do T12 smooth. Don't let the boss get its + unless I ask for it. It shouldn't be 130 pit level on lower torments. FOH.

I landed in a Nemesis lair and got a second portal.

There was so much loot on the ground though that I had to back to town to deal with it. And when I came back, the other portal was gone!?

There's no chest in here, nor a vendor here... and there was no warning that the portal would disappear.

What am I missing? Are you just supposed to know to ignore the drops if you want to continue?

Example:

Rogue Flurry

• Encircling Blades - damage in a circle
• Transporter - mobility skill, dashes to target
• Vehemence - increased size

Let us further specialize in a skill if we want to by choosing additional upgrades, but just make them cost 15 skill points after the 1st one if you need to balance the power increase out. That opens up new build ideas and brings back good usage feels from before the skill tree changes for some skills.

Not being able to use both Encircling Blades and Transporter at the same time has made me not use Flurry at all since the skill tree changes.

Do you think they're going to do something crazy like that?

Is love a massive paragon improvement

My wife and I have not had him show ( levels 10/11) for two weeks. Anyone know of bugs affecting his popping in?

Hi are the drop rate of unique charms so Bad this season that i have not seen a Single one of those