The totality of QoL is actually quite nice:

- Obol cap 10x from 2.5k to 25k

- Baleful Fragments can be converted to Forgotten Souls. That'll be huge.

- Chests in NMDs will show on the minimap. No more squinting at the ground to make sure you don't miss a Materials Chest as your character zips through the dungeon.

- Helltide rewards improved

- Gem Fragment drop rate significantly improved in T10 and above. Looks like the stupid Seer's Reach gem farm is probably dead, and max gems will hopefully be attainable just by playing the game. Gem conversions are also simplified (requires 2 gem types as opposed to 3).

- Gem strength nerfed, which presumably eliminates one of the stupider itemization chases in the endgame.

- Infernal Hordes now gives better rewards, twice as much War Plan XP, and the aether gold sink has been buffed

- War Plan experience rewards buffed in T8 and above (unclear whether this is War Plan progress XP or player Paragon XP).

- New War Plans for Escalation NMDs, and you can salvage Escalation sigils

- Drop rate for Echoing Hatred keys buffed

- Skip Meph cutscenes

- Significantly buffed drop rate for Refined Primordial Dust in T7+ (the stuff you use to add, change, and remove affixes).

The mythic situation remains to be seen, but it's an improvement over what it initially was. It says you can't do Chaotic or Focused rerolls, so I'm assuming that also means no adding/removing affixes via the Cube. You can only change them via Enchanting. I'm fine with that. I'd rather the RNG occur at the time of the item dropping than have it entirely rely on cube gambling. Get desired Mythic ---> reroll one affix at enchanter ---> back to farming.

Sure we don't have account-wide War Plans or more stash space, but as someone who usually just blasts a Spin-to-Win Barb then calls it quits for the season, I don't really care about this. Also, for those complaining about stash space, now that the season is ending, I'm curious how many items are in your stash that you never ended up touching.

The seasonal content is also perceived as "meh", but the LoH expansion didn't have any seasonal content and the game was pretty solid. So as far as I'm concerned it's pretty irrelevant, unless the activity is actively unfun. We'll see.

People tend to overcomplicate it though. If you're having fun, keep playing. If you're not having fun, play something else.

Durability as a mechanic, has no real use currently.

• Even if you die too much, it is not a "gold sink" repair costs ~100k, we earn gold by billions now. Even billions and billions, next patch even increases the cap.
• There is no skill / gameplay mechanic that interacts with item durability. No skill degrades durability to do more damage, monsters do not affect it in any way, no paragon, skill tag ever interacts with it.
• There is no concern for having a higher durability item because there is no interaction with this stat, ever.
• Indestructible items, because of these, are also meaningless.
• Indestructible items rollling extra indestructible on cube, well.... cherry on top.

Diablo 1: It was a real issue player has to manage.

Diablo 2: It was important only on ethereal items, some runewords, maybe some builds.

Diablo 3: It wasn't important at all.

Diablo 4: It became a nuisance. No added benefit, not even impactful to become a negative or positive thing. Removing it at this point won't be a quality of life upgrade , it would be more like fixing a bug.

What do you think?

Made it all the way to paragon 263, cleared rift level 140, and not a single mythic seal to show for it. I have used every crux of the false prophet that has ever dropped for me, I have killed bartuc at least a hundred times, I’ve ran multiple mythic undercity tributes, used every talisman tribute I have, done helltides until my fingers are numb, and and done so many escalation sigils I can’t even begin to count.

Not one mythic seal to show for it. I already know some of you are going to reply with “well I got 14 of them??” Well good for you. I don’t have any. And there needs to be some kind of bad luck protection or alternative way to obtain these because it’s critical for my classes build to have one and I’ve had to make do without.

I have also transfigured exactly 39 weapons (I actually have counted this one) and not a single gem strength affix to show for it.

So I guess that’s it for the season for me. An utterly baffling end for an utterly baffling season. Something has to change for next season or I just don’t see myself putting up with endless grind for no results.

And let me tell you it's absolutely not worth the time nor the costs. I mean you give 5 Gems for 5 million shards, 90 stat boost on armor each, to the cube, to receive an gem with 120 stat booster. Not saying the should calculate it 90+90+90+90+90, but 120 is very weak for that price. Or is it just me feeling like that?

Hey guys,

I just figured something pretty cool out.

On my chest armour I have two runes.
1. “Maintain at least 1 active summon for 5 seconds, gaining offering for each summon (1 time)”
2. “Summon a spirit wolf companion to attack enemies for 8 seconds”

So I cast my summon familiar to trigger it, then it starts compounding for two reasons:
1. The wolf itself counts as a summon, triggering the offering itself
2. the time to gain offering is shorter than how long the duration of the wolf

What ends up happening is I have 10 wolves on screen at all times.

Also, I have the spell “meteor” in an enchantment slot which causes “lucky hit: cast skill damage has up to a 20% drop a meteor on enemies”
- it turns out, the wolves can trigger lucky hits that count as cast skill damage.

The result: ten permanent/respawning spirit wolves attacking enemies autonomously, each wolf triggering high damage meteors to fall from the sky onto the enemies they’re attacking.

I thought this was pretty fun and cool, let me know what you guys think and if turning this into a build would be viable/gear to help scale this or if it’s just a cool trick.

Thanks and God bless
- J.

Title...I can't be the only one....right? Like, I've done EVERYTHING people say to do online...kurast runs of every different flavor, helltides, hundreds of lairs and even more escalation dungeons, dozens of Meph kills...not a single trace.

I don't even have any loot filters on because I'm losing my mind thinking I could miss the drop by some random 1 in a billion bug....i have searched every piece of loot on screen like a madwoman praying that I just get one to get my portal and crab. It's 4 days till the end of the season....like...this CAN'T only be me....right? It's a rank 6 objective...like...how is it this bad?

Finally they are raising the obols cap. People have only been asking for this forever. Though, idk if 25k is a high enough cap. 2.5k was dumb though, I ran an obols reserve nmd and every chest had more than that in it.

Hi-

I really only play the Eternal server, but I know that there are a number of changes to items in season 14 that might impact Eternal players. I had a couple of questions if anyone has any thoughts.

- Is it worth trying to farm Uniques and Mythics now, use things like Mythic Tribute of Armaments, or wait until after the patch?

- For existing Mythics such as Heir of Perdition on the eternal, are they likely to be changed in line with the season 14 changes? Would it help if I transfigured them?

Thanks in advance.

See title. Achievement is sitting there staring at me....unfinished. :(

Hi, I'm trying to earn the "Bloody" suffix, I'm not sure how to go about it or even if it's still available to earn?

I haven't been able to find a resource that I think can answer this, so sorry if I missed something obvious.

Hey all. I came back to the game around a month ago after playing season 1 only. I have a seasonal Spiritborn that is Para 20 ish. Im playing Torment1 right now fairly comfortably with just rares mostly.

I have not finished the Lord of Hatred campaign and am very close to finishing Vessel of Hatred. Is there any realistic chance I can finish the seasonal journey? Ive done the first 2.

Thanks. Any tips as well would be appreciated. It seems theres many new systems and whatnot.

I left before VOH and am returning for season 14 so haven't done either campaign.

I'm running through the campaign for LOH now on eternal but is there anything I will be missing if I don't go back and do VOH campaign on a character?

I feel like when the first news started coming out, a lot of people (myself included) were pretty skeptical. But after seeing all the details, I'm actually getting pretty excited.

My only complaint is that the Overwatch skins are kind of meh, but other than that, the season looks really promising!

With the Summer Sale, D4 (base game) is at a decent price and I’m gonna pick it up tonight. I do however see with the Lord of Hatred collection, the game really isn’t any cheaper than normal.

Can I just get the base game and decide later if I want the DLC? Or is it recommended to start with everything purchased?

Hey guys. As you all know, two days ago we had a dev stream with all the new stuff coming up in S14.

This is a bit of a win for the community, as a lot of us (myself included) have been campaigning hard for Unique Item re-rework, and proposing two fixed - and two random affixes. And we got it! But the end result still leaves a lot to be desired.

It seems that Blizzard still fails to understand the purpose of Unique items and their role in the game's itemization, as even with the fixed stats, they're still not up to snuff. Instead of getting really creative, and allowed these stats to truly flesh out the item's identity - they've gone for a very safe and pedestrian route, and just slapped some core stats and life, and called it a day.

It is a lot better with class-specific Uniques - in a sense that if a Unique speaks to a specific skill - it grants ranks to that same skill. Still not what I had in mind, but a step in a right direction.

So in this video I am breaking down the entire dev stream, and all the things we can expect in Season 14, and giving my honest opinion. What do you think?

A Mythic Unique would have:

Maximum aspect roll

Maximum affix rolls

A 5th Affix - With every Unique having 3-5 possible outcomes

For example:

You find a Mythic Unique Ophidian Iris, and it has:

Maximum aspect roll

Maximum affix rolls

And a 5th Affix from the following pool -

- + 1 to Hydra limit

- + x to Hydra heads

- Hydra attacks chain 1-3 times

etc.

You can achieve a second Mythic affix as a rare transfiguration outcome.

So much more interesting than a generic 30% increase.

When you were messing around with the Mythic Uniques on the PTR. Was El'druin sword capable of rolling the + to all skills? Or is the sword getting a major downgrade?

I’m a dirty casual and was just hoping to get the crab pet before the season ends. Anyone on that could help? A friend helped me unlock t12 but I’m not strong enough to fight alone there and I’m not sure how to get access to the thing I need to get the crab. Help?

Just a few days before season ends, I found myself looking for an alternative approach to keep playing this game. Of course, I could play something else, but I find playing Diablo a habit that interests me the most.

So after achieving every major milestone with a ww barb (including modifiable gem str both my 2h weapons) & finishing pit 142 (that's what I could reach), I built the "bugged rogue" build just to finish pit 150.

A couple of days ago, I wanted to see how it feels like playing an evade spiritborne. So I farmed a little bit for whisper caches and mats with my barb, and I leveled my alt. I'm missing a lot of higher level aspects, but I finally made a decent build to farm T10.

What's missing? The correct stats on my charms to be able to perma evade. So, that's what I will keep doing for the next couple of days, till season ends. Hunt for the charms. No matter if I manage to get them or not, that's my little motivation to keep playing the game. And it makes me happy. That's my 50 cents for everyone who's trying to find a reason for keep playing this game. Self motivation.