Diablo IV (PC/PS5/XSX/PS4) - June 6, 2023

[Kachiko]

I'll come back for that. For a game with Diablo in it though, they can't seem who him.

[6souls]

[Lucavi]

How there are any people left alive on Sanctuary is the greatest mystery of them all.

Nothing but constant death, murder and bloodshed. Humans breed fast, but not THAT fast.

[Kachiko]

Well, I wouldn't quite conflate gameplay mechanics with the story world. True, it's a sort of Hell on Earth, since the Angels are never around in the same level, but you have to figure that unless your really out in the wild, or a big threat, most demons can be handled by the normal societal hubs and trade routes.

Though I think, at this point, the game should just be called Mephisto.

[Kachiko]

Speaking of, the expansion is another improvement on the game. There's also a World of Warcraft bundle going on as well, featuring the sets from Molten Core, if your into dropping dolla bills, ya'll.

[Krandor]

They killed it with Lord of Hatred. All the new skill variations, war plans is a simple but effective way to mixup the endgame loop, and the cube making the grind a bit easier is very welcome.

Apocalypse warlock is also fun as hell

[Weltall]

They really did. Can you imagine if this was the game on release?

I was bored to death by POE2 and thought I left ARPG’s behind, but LOH is excellent so far. Even the storyline far exceeds most AAA single player games.

[Qalbert]

gdi every time I think I'm out...

[Mertron]

can’t play d4 until they nerf warlock in d2. having too much fun killing everything in 2 seconds, gotta get the farming in while the farming is good

[Koul]

Yeah, I'm actually really enjoying the game, tried pally but wasn't really feeling it. Then hit a bit of a wall with my blizz/conjurer sorc with uber lillith. I can kill her except for her fucking bullshit everything does 10 million damage one shot fuckery. Just wanna kill the bitch for the seasons journey fuuuck

[arus2001]

That's always how Lilith was, honestly. You either do the fucking dance or die, and it's dumb. It just got worse when they added the shielded transitions so you couldn't instantly faceroll her if strong enough.

That said, there's that part of me that feels vindicated that launch D4 was so ass after seeing the devs listen to hard to the D2 crowd. And while I wouldn't call D3 perfect, I think at this point, D4 has finally started picking up where it left off and isn't intrinsically doomed to lack of updates or even another expansion. There's always room for improvement, of course, but I'd say right now they finally have a solid foundation. Stash space is probably the big immediate concern I'd bring up with the crafting/cube additions.

[Krandor]

Having an entire stash of whites feels awkward, but you gotta do what you gotta do

[Koul]

Also, PSA, one of the new dungeons in expansion zone called Seers Reach(middleish area in Phillios, Skovos), final boss drops Royal Gems with a chance to drop Grand Gems.

5 grand gems transmute into Horadric Gems which 5 of those transmutes into 5 flawless Horadric Gems. Apparently a dev talked to Kripp and this is legit and won't be patched but they're looking into making gem costs less because right now it's like 100 million gem fragments to make a flawless horadric gem.

Kripp was farming for nearly an entire stream soo, take that for what you will on the bullshittery with gems lol

[Krandor]

I'm up to torment 8 so far and still just using flawless gems

[Koul]

I'm up to torment 8 so far and still just using flawless gems

Do a few runs of that dungeon, any torment. I was doing T1 and it drops royals so you can at least get a few of those to help boost ya up a smidge

[Kachiko]

Gem costs are definitely out of whack, but I'm not gonna spend hours even with that farm as I already have second best in all slots. Probably is worth a bit starting out though.

Also, anyone know what the specific buff that Heir of Perdition gives you? I can't find an updated one.

[Krandor]

I'd only really worry about it for the sake of getting the season journey complete. No chance in hell would I do that grind 7 times over for every gem slot in use.

Aside, already getting some fun transfiguration results. Managed to get a shako and transfiguration added crit rate to it after I finished with all the tempering/masterworking. Saw this screenshot on reddit which is just bruh

https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/com...tion_roll_btw/

[Kachiko]

Uh...didn't realize I had an 832 unique and recycled it with 2 others to get another 832 unique.... At least this has crit and crit damage but now I have to re-farm up another one to enchant....

[Dimmauk]

Btw, once you beat the game, you can start a new character and use the cube right away. Using boss key items in the cube I have a level 5 with a bunch of unique items

[Kachiko]

So I seem to have hit a wall at T10, and I'm not sure how to get passed it as a pure Hellfire Metamorphasis Warlock. T9 is mostly fine, but I've not idea how to squeeze more damage out of the build atm. I suppose it's about time to go hunt Mystics but I've yet to see any in T9. Only 3 greater lair boss keys, so it's not like I could go farm them just yet, though I'm about there on my warplan for nightmare dungeons. Guess I'll see how things go.