I gotta say. I don't follow streamers or even watch this kind of content generally. I recently went into a rabbit hole of figuring out some min max strategies re a few of my rogue builds + spiritborn gameplay / theorycrafting to then sit down with the builds on my own. Of all streamers I have seen so far, Rexx is the perfect combo of no bs, great reasoning, specific & actionable feedback, clear comms in general, and - thank you - no clockbait videos. Thank you, Rexx!
Watched your whole stream. My first time. But i like the way you handle your streams and content. You keep your streams and content focused on gaming and the mechanics and you generally help out the community a lot! My D4 experience has been so much better since i started following you. Thank you!
I'm usually just a silent viewer, but Raxx I"m grateful for all your videos, making my gaming experience just better. Since I'm working I don't have enough time anymore to really enjoy the process of discovering and making builds by myself so.. Thank you ♥
At 02:05, I interpreted this as: Tormented I difficulty in PTR is now Penitent difficulty on launch. I thought it meant everything was actually getting a bit harder overall. Which would correspond with what the majority of PTR testers wanted, more challenge. Nice summary overall.
@@Raxxanterax Yep, he's right - they talked about how Torment IV was meant to be aspirational and extremely hard, and that people were reaching it too quickly on the PTR, so they bumped everything the direction of more difficulty
@@Jmadman311 And also how they wanted Pit 80 to be the breakpoint to where everything starts going downhill for players trying to do it. .. which is also why they brought back the other 50 tiers of it, saying people who even get to 100 are going to start seeing some crazy stuff.
Yeah I'm really glad they did this, but that's totally what they were saying. Aka what had been T1 is now how hard Penitent is. So even more of a punch than before.
First reaction of Rax on the raid T4 cosmetics. "I need to build a super powerful char to carry you guys through". What a chad! First reaction is to help others.
We need the option to auto-salvage non-ancestral legendaries. It can be a toggle in the options or something. When you have full ancestral gear, there's no reason to clutter up your inventory with all these non-ancestrals. It would make the game so much better at the high end.
That's too close to a loot filter, which the devs seem adamant about not actually adding. So expect that to never happen or at the very least, happen at the end of 2025.
Hi Raxx! Spirit Born is my starter class ofc and my first alt will be Shred/Lacerate Druid after the huge buffs for the Werewolf skills and items. The reworked Legendary bonus for the unique chest Mad Wolf's Glee is crazy for example (4-7 to all skills). With the introduction of the Ultimate skill ranks a player can have up to 12 to Lacerate only with a perfect roll on the chest! This combined with a Shako and I think Lacerate will start hitting a lot harder than ever before. I will definitely give it a try!
Expansion aside, simply because we’re paying for that content. The seasonal flair being a consumable that increases drops feels very unengaging like season of “double goblins”. Where is the seasonal broken and fun stuff? Even holy bolts was more defining than this.
Thank you Raxx for another awesome video! I am so bummed about the nerfing of the Rogue; I was really looking forward to playing the goblin blaster 9000 build... I loved playing it on D3... I wish Blizz would stop nerfing the fun builds =/
T1+ auto salvage should be a option you enable in the options. Some people may want the gold, or may want to see if the item is better then their current. And where is MORE STORAGE space???????
@@zenshakujo8070 Since S4, yellows have one fewer affix than legendaries, so unless you have an atrociously bad legendary, there is no way a yellow can be better than a legendary.
@@zenshakujo8070 Not the case since season 5 anymore. Yellows come with 1 fewer affixes and 1 fewer tempers. The is no way on earth you can find a better rare in WT3 now vs any random legendary drop.
@tsidilin nah, have you ever actually played it? I have, on hardcore post-100 in S5. It's predicting the radius and grouping enemies, if anything those teleports keep you from ever taking damage.
@@Zeridian881 I played ball lightning with the Oculus in S1. It was kinda cool, but sometimes really hard to control. If the teleports were happening in a slightly smaller radius, this could be very strong.
Raxx, great video as always!!! Unfortunately I stopped about 1/2 way through the video, was getting an advertisement about every 45 seconds of video and couldn’t stand it anymore!! 😢
a simple google search addblock will save you from all the pain and suffering you have endured..god bless your soul, you play diablo so you must love pain or you could end the pain and play poe
Great video as always Raxx! I loved the Enya mention lol, people are complaining about the music picks for the expansion trailers, the next one.... "Sail away sail away sail away...."
Honestly as someone who just games here and there Diablo 4 sounds amazing these days. I only played the beta and haven’t got to try it out yet, but a Diablo online game that keeps getting updates is cool to me. Just hope to see Paladin or Crusader some day.
:D ye it's unfortunate it was too OP because it did make your gameplay easy I cleared all uber bosses week 1 of season with non optimized GEAR with almost 0 masterwork and completely bad tempering on some items. That's how bad it was Uber bosses lived like 20-40 seconds and uber lillith took me little longer cause somehow you can't one shot her you need to play her mechanics :D
@@lukeluckynblue1873who cares if it was OP this is a PVE GAME!!! we should be OP everything should be OP if we r the ones farming for the perfect gear and playing their stupid Gambling tempering garbage. Nerfs in video games do more harm then good.
@@gotaplanstan Yeah! TQ2 looks good and I haven't played Grim dawn but i always hear great things about it. Unfortunately, I work 10 hours a day so it's tough to put all that time in.
With bartering and auto-salvaging, I'm really hopeful for the state of masterworking and boss grinding moving forward. Obviously I don't know how healthy the endgame will be with all these sweeping changes and additions, but at the very least PoE 2's early access drops in November. So all D4 needs to do is hold us over for one month and it would have done its job.
Love you Raxx, always enjoy your content. Very informative and on point man. Question: People still play D4? Loved the game but ehh... just not very exciting stuff coming down the pipeline.
I know it will sound strange, but stat squish is a thing that will improve my gameplay feeling the most from all of it, for real. For some reason when you hit for 10k it feel way more impactful than when you hit for 1000000, after some point additional zeros don't matter. I'd hope they would do the same in WoW.
i was reading patch notes for necro as i was listening to this video, and read one thing about necro: now aspect of the damned is applied to minions on top of everything else they did for minions ^^ so i'll be necro this time !!! that's decided ... and later on in the season maybe a little spiritborn
Hey Raxx, is there anything to do before the expansion? I've played a bit at the start of D4 then lost interest. But now I wanna be ready for Spiritborn! TY
Colin is a CHAD! Dude is clearly passionate about making a good game, and I weirdly find his swearing really refreshing and endearing. It shows a level of confidence and care-freeness that you will NEVER see from other developers doing these big live streams! PROTECT HIM AT ALL COSTS ❤️
Idk i personally think they need to nerf less and buff more builds. I should have more than 1 or 2 choices per season. I like a build and then it gets nerfed into the ground. Should just have plenty of viabl e builds
U can thank yourself for they nerfing strongholds... 2 much clow hype over how good they are have done this. You were the one who parroted this all the time so now enjoy.
I did not fill a single tab for 2 seasons in a row, and I've played like 16 hours a day for 2 weeks - room issues are long gone since the aspects rework
they want 40$ for this ? I still feel scammed because I bought the first version. And on release this was a steaming pile... "Players will get to experience new and familiar places, like Kurast Bazaar, Kurast Docks, and Travincal, 72 years after Diablo 2's story took place." Goood ol' bagging on nostalgia from the days they made actual fun games. Because they don't have anything else left.
High lvl shadow imbue with 100% cold imbue freeze works better than victimize. I made a blade shift version in s5. You can do the same with heart seeker.
…. The nerf to strongholds sucks… Atleast maybe we will still go and start strongholds around the same level since we may be getting atleast 2 with the new area.
I hate to use this term cuz it usually comes with a negative connotation but it definitely feels like they are "D3-ifying the game". Which for me, is good. I get to do big bonk a lot faster. Already ready for your "State of Diablo 4" video. Cheers, dude.
Ha to piggyback off the infernal hordes comment. I didn’t hate them by no means but it really felt like “we have Hades at home” as far as the boons were concerned. Also I straight up skip strongholds unless it’s been proccing legion a lot or gates a codex aspect dungeon……
So with the change in crafting mythic uniques does that mean now I can't target craft one if I don't have the expansion? Before I could use 4 Sparks to craft my mythic, but now without access to runes does that mean I loose this ability?
LS Sorc was great in S4 as well. But I can think of 4-6 different builds that I played this season that rival LS; the difference being you actually have to play the sorc instead of idle roaming spamming LS and occasionally selecting a red or a blue shield like your were dining at a fancy restaurant ordering wine. I'm looking forward to seeing how certain special combos play out, especially Vox + Andy (more dmging than LS, especially on single targets like bosses, but very inconsistent sustain - S6 might offer a solution), or Esadora + Andy + Spear of Lycander (this was by far the most entertaining build I played all S5 out of 22 characters/builds played). @ThePunisher-h5i barb has had one poor season out of 6 (5 seasons + pre-season) and you're cracking out the violins? Considering the bugged Ding Dong sword requiring it to be un-equiped + re-equiped every zone change, this still makes barbs only partially as bad as where necros are. Shadow necro has been bugged+gimped since their changes after the open beta. There's something like 8 uniques still bugged for necro (shadow DoT has the most, with direct dmg builds less bugged) and things like desecrated earth not stacking making shadow blood wave triple aspect to be pointless. Necros are the only class without a mobility skill, and while they do have fortify, necros struggle to maintain being fortified as so many things interrupt &/or it fades out often between encounters (4s lifespan). Agreed, barbs are in a sad place, but they're in a far healthier place than necros.
The 2 sparks + runes is going to suck considering that players can't even get runes if they don't have the expansion. And if the runes are rare it's going to suck for even the people with the expansion. I HATE the stat squish and having to grind the pit to unlock difficulties. Hate the raids. The 50m gold to do a dungeon for shit-tier drops is absolutely delusional.
Lightning spear got nerfed indirectly, since max stacks of conjuration mastery is 30 now, instead of 50+ people were reaching. But it needed it. I completed Pit 100 in a minute and a few seconds on PTR. It was obscene. Better for Sorc build diversity that they nerfed about half of it.
30 stacks is so fair imo, the master blaster was fun but made everything in the game feel foolish. And did not make playing in a group fun at all. I either had to slow down or just blow through and wait at the boss, just to absolutely nuke it.
@@jediraydenit absolutely is. Splintering energy which was the damage dealer also got nerfed and can arc only once every 0.2s. Reaching 12 also won't be that easy as FW is also nerfed and the CDR can't be masterworked. So basically, it will attack 10 times less often and deal 4 times less damage per hit.
Regarding that last point.. the alt friendliness. Paying attention to it for new things is cool and all, but they NEED to go back and fix it so the game is just more alt friendly. I don't make alts now because I don't want to do all that bs again. I'm REALLY sad that D4 didn't learn from D3. At the end of D3 it felt like they (the dev's) knew (finally) how to do things the right way. How to make the consumer happy. Then D4 just ignored ALL of that. I get that it is totally different teams, but that is no excuse for the D4 team not to do their homework. Just so stupid on their part. And honestly I mean while it is good that they are (finally) paying attention and trying to make things more alt friendly it is too little. I won't say it is too late, but it is way too little. Just because the follower crap carries over means nothing. I just don't want to go through all the bs to make an alt again. If I have to go through the leveling grind with my main, fine.. that is what seasons are. That is something I'm ok with and actually like. But an alt is something that I should be able to make quickly, hop right in and try out. It is something that keeps me playing for another week or two. Then maybe I make another alt.. and I play for another week or two. Instead, now I play a main... then after a couple of weeks quit.
How would you propose they do this. So after you level a character you can boost all characters to max with one click? I get it, but part of an ARPG is leveling. It's already insanely easy to level. They have effectively took that process out almost. With all the consumables you can stck this season. But maybe you are just that guy who plays for a week and that's it. That's OK too man. Enjoy that week and don't rush it. I just don't think they should take leveling out of the game, even if it is for an alt. Game is so geared toward seasonal stuff anyway I have no alt. They all are mains cause they all reset anyway. I get you though
@@joeywilliams604 They could have/should have had a system like D3. You still have to play through the game on your first character every season. The pacing for that is fine. But glyphs for example. Why can't they should be account wide, not character specific. And come on.. I think that was an obvious one. Glyphs are like D3's gems. You could level/share gems on any character. Having to level these things in boring content is not something I want to waste my time on. I'm not a no lifer. I have work. I have hobbies. I have a social life. I have other responsibilities. I like to play a few hours at night before bed. I want to enjoy the content. I can't imagine as the game is now people think, "oh yes!! I'm so happy I have to level these glyphs in the awesome nightmare dungeons!!" It seems paragon will be account wide, which is a great first step. But are they usable from Level 1? If not.. I think again, just slowling down alt progression for the sake of slowing it down. Let me get a fully paragoned/glyphed out geared up character at level 1 and absolutely destroy any leveling content on an alt. Why not? I've done the season journey. I've done all of that. Now I just want to mess around with new characters for a little. Their way of keeping us playing isn't working. Like I said.. play a couple weeks.. get bored and make an alt.. can jump right into fun stuff and play another couple of weeks.. get bored.. do it again.. that is how they would keep a lot more players playing. Instead, I go through and play on my main.. get bored.. think about playing an alt, realize I have to do all the boring shit again.. quit and wait until next season. Now, if you are a no lifer and just play this and think the slower the better, fine, but I can guarantee you YOU are the minority. There are far ore casuals out there. Hell, to them I look like a no lifer. I'm honestly probably in the middle. But honestly.. if they don't do that.. fine.. I'm happy to just play a couple weeks.. I don't miss it when I am done. But I just think blizzard missed the mark there. They could have more retention if they did it like D3 did it.
@@coldfire22 isn't that the problem? It's too much like D3. They need to try their own thing. I get it. If it works don't mess with it. But maybe that wasn't the mind set. Not defending just saying. But like you say just play and move on. No one will fault you, and your sanity will be intact
After the 4th when you are able to give videos will you be letting people know if there is certain gear that is not worth keeping on eternal if they decide to play there. Considering cleaning out a lot of stash tabs but I'm unsure what I should keep if anything.
They still need to make paragon glyphs account wide. It's fine to unlock the class based ones with each class but having to level them up each time is a pain with alts, and will be just as bad with the new chance based system.
If you can Raxx, let us really know how things are on the 4th. I want to get a really good feel before I decide to jump back in or not. I probably will anyway but more info the better I guess.
Rax doing video about leveling to max level in 20 minutes through stronghold ..... blizzard nerf stronghold XP. Also Rax: Im actually really surprised that they did this ... ^^
Haven't had time to watch the full chat. Do we know if Merc Rapport carries over to the next season? Not sure if I like the idea of lvling up ever merc each season, unless it is quick.
I dunno, the more I hear and read about the Expansion and changes the less hyped I am... it just seems they have absolutely zero plan on where to really take D4.
Some good/ ok things, but 2 major sucking news. It's really bad that people outside USA can't get some skins again, and it really sucks to be forced to play in groups to get everthing (raids)... And just when they got it right with itens, they go and change everthing again... Probablly another year before D4 get good again
@@BarryTGashre tempering as a scroll or any other type of item is just stupid... Just let me re temper as much as I want I'm the one thats gotta farm the materials and farm the gear so y am I limited to making my gear the way I want it?? Smh masterworking/temerping is a garbage system and those scrolls ain't gonna help nothing.
Raxx. I think you got something wrong in the Notes you took. The cost to get skill Ranks in the new Time Dungeon wasnt 50 Mil. It was 5 Mil. The cost to get the ranks on the amulett which is kinda the hardest part to get in game was 50 mil
Remove the paragon board limitations and I'm all good. There is zero reason for it being limited to only five boards. I checked and you'll be able to pick almost every Legendary, Rare and Magic from all of those five boards once max paragon. That just kills the diversity and for someone like me who gets the most damage from the glyphs, that halves the damage of my already underpowered, min maxed, pure Conjurer build. Thanks to most Legendary and Rare nodes being useless.
I wish this game would become decent. It'd be nice for it to be at least worth what it cost me. (Hint: I got it for a birthday gift.) I don't have any hopes for the devs. More than a year later, they are begging people for more money, and they still have yet to fix the actual problems with the game. They have no clue.
I will make a point to never buy Trolli. I HATE product placements and using games as advertising platforms, this shit needs to stop now before Blizzard goes full EA
It’s not product placement. Trollis are not in the game. 😂 also it’s funny cause the 90s and 2000s had 10x the brand deals. Fast food, cereal, soda, candy, etc. you could hardly buy anything without a media tie in.
Are they leaving Masterworking as is? I have to say as a casual player, the 3 stages of random ungrades to an affix means that most items are garbage until you reroll them and reroll them and reroll them some more and that stinks.
If u are casual why u need to worry for triple hit the masterwork at all when you will be able just to play T1 and blast? The game needs to keep the most hardcore players engaged..
@@M4RTN11 It's exaggerated. Even most content in the live game you never have to reroll masterworked affixes. The idea that you "need" a 0.5% roll of a +skill on an amulet for instance for builds, is just not true unless you are trying to compete to do 150 pits or something to be one of the top players for your class. I did all content in the current season, including the "hidden" achievement, on a non meta build, without rerolling the masterworks. Could I do Tier 8 IHs? Nah, but who cares. I could MW all the way to 12/12 and speedrun the pits to get the mats to do that, that's finishing the game more or less, IH tier 7-8 was just pointless number grind content for one or two meta builds that could climb the multiplier number wall. I think D4's endgame may be in a bad place because they don't communicate well what "finishing the game" actually is, but if it's getting all possible rewards, then it was fine as is.
@@zeriel9148 absolutely I don’t know why those “casuals” trying to make the game even easier if you are casual on the first place you will not even watch Rax’s videos at first place and will join enjoy the game as it is… as said before casuals ruins the game for the rest of the player base, I wish there are different modes for everyone so everyone can enjoy the game they want..
I don't plan on buying the expansion yet. Aside from the new class, I assume those who don't buy the expansion also don't get access to runewords. If there's anything else we can't have access to, would be nice if you let us know (if you know). The biggest thing for me that requires change is activities. Grinding the same 2 things (Helltides + Infernal Hordes) was SO brain numbing. More activities definitely and make the activities give same or similar rewards. Another issue is stygian stones and getting them. There needs to be a guaranteed way to get them. Can't believe how long these simple changes take to do. Hopefully PoE 2.0 soon enough.
blizz need to sell spirit born s6 and make it op so the ppl that didnt buy it yet started to swipe they credit cards ...unfortunately builds like Victimize stand in the way...what a shame
found this gem hidden in the patch notes… “As part of this fix, Classes will no longer be able to equip items with Tempering or Legendary affixes that are Class-specific for another Class.”
Well they did say that and also say that they do find this interesting but not healthy in the current state of the game. They might do something with these synergies reenabling them in the future but right now it would be bad. I agree with their assessment.
Bring back Goblin sounds! My lord. Used to be so fun hearing their sound and then finding them.
They’re so flaccid now
My lord?
@@VietPho he's addressing the PoE devs, in the hopes they grant the d4 devs more than their 80 iq hard cap
@@dagowow 😂😂😂
@@dagowow That was funny, gonna give you that.
@@dagowow thx
I gotta say. I don't follow streamers or even watch this kind of content generally. I recently went into a rabbit hole of figuring out some min max strategies re a few of my rogue builds + spiritborn gameplay / theorycrafting to then sit down with the builds on my own. Of all streamers I have seen so far, Rexx is the perfect combo of no bs, great reasoning, specific & actionable feedback, clear comms in general, and - thank you - no clockbait videos. Thank you, Rexx!
Watched your whole stream. My first time. But i like the way you handle your streams and content.
You keep your streams and content focused on gaming and the mechanics and you generally help out the community a lot!
My D4 experience has been so much better since i started following you.
Thank you!
I'm usually just a silent viewer, but Raxx I"m grateful for all your videos, making my gaming experience just better. Since I'm working I don't have enough time anymore to really enjoy the process of discovering and making builds by myself so.. Thank you ♥
At 02:05, I interpreted this as:
Tormented I difficulty in PTR is now Penitent difficulty on launch. I thought it meant everything was actually getting a bit harder overall. Which would correspond with what the majority of PTR testers wanted, more challenge.
Nice summary overall.
that very well could be right, I wasn't exactly clear on which way it meant
@@Raxxanterax Yep, he's right - they talked about how Torment IV was meant to be aspirational and extremely hard, and that people were reaching it too quickly on the PTR, so they bumped everything the direction of more difficulty
@@Raxxanterax Tombullish is correct. Its actually going to be much harder, which is great!
@@Jmadman311 And also how they wanted Pit 80 to be the breakpoint to where everything starts going downhill for players trying to do it. .. which is also why they brought back the other 50 tiers of it, saying people who even get to 100 are going to start seeing some crazy stuff.
Yeah I'm really glad they did this, but that's totally what they were saying. Aka what had been T1 is now how hard Penitent is. So even more of a punch than before.
Raxx! Great work and looking forward to VoH and Season 6. Cheers!
First reaction of Rax on the raid T4 cosmetics. "I need to build a super powerful char to carry you guys through".
What a chad! First reaction is to help others.
We need the option to auto-salvage non-ancestral legendaries. It can be a toggle in the options or something. When you have full ancestral gear, there's no reason to clutter up your inventory with all these non-ancestrals. It would make the game so much better at the high end.
Also that shit will get send to your stash if ignored and not picked up, which sucks big time.
That's too close to a loot filter, which the devs seem adamant about not actually adding. So expect that to never happen or at the very least, happen at the end of 2025.
Hi Raxx! Spirit Born is my starter class ofc and my first alt will be Shred/Lacerate Druid after the huge buffs for the Werewolf skills and items. The reworked Legendary bonus for the unique chest Mad Wolf's Glee is crazy for example (4-7 to all skills). With the introduction of the Ultimate skill ranks a player can have up to 12 to Lacerate only with a perfect roll on the chest! This combined with a Shako and I think Lacerate will start hitting a lot harder than ever before. I will definitely give it a try!
You've really come a long way in creating videos. I dare say you explain things better compared to the other youtubers.
I hope it still gives good mats, The Infernal Horde was alot of fun imo.
Id prefer it was was shorter and less rewarding than being stuck for 15 min in one place
They nerfed it significantly. Will probably not be in this as much as I was for S5. But to be fair, it was TOO good.
@@DualGaming-YTC Well, guess we'll see. I just didn't like doing High Pits for some scraps. :(
Expansion aside, simply because we’re paying for that content. The seasonal flair being a consumable that increases drops feels very unengaging like season of “double goblins”. Where is the seasonal broken and fun stuff? Even holy bolts was more defining than this.
Raxx next charity event for S6. . . everyone gets that super cool mount! thanks Raxx.
Thank you Raxx for another awesome video! I am so bummed about the nerfing of the Rogue; I was really looking forward to playing the goblin blaster 9000 build... I loved playing it on D3... I wish Blizz would stop nerfing the fun builds =/
T1+ auto salvage should be a option you enable in the options. Some people may want the gold, or may want to see if the item is better then their current.
And where is MORE STORAGE space???????
Gold from selling items is abysmal when you can get like 50 mils from Infernal Hordes in 15 minutes. It should not be a thing anymore.
It’s only auto salvage for yellows and blues so it most likely shouldn’t be better than your current. It won’t salvage legendaries
@@DocGetsRekteermm... you can get a yellow much better than a legendary. It was like this since s0
@@zenshakujo8070 Since S4, yellows have one fewer affix than legendaries, so unless you have an atrociously bad legendary, there is no way a yellow can be better than a legendary.
@@zenshakujo8070 Not the case since season 5 anymore. Yellows come with 1 fewer affixes and 1 fewer tempers. The is no way on earth you can find a better rare in WT3 now vs any random legendary drop.
Raxx live reaction to Victimize nerf was brutal haha, you could here the Mallow song from SMRPG in the background
RIP lightning sorc but get ready for godlike Occulus sorc, which was already pretty good
Random teleport on oculus ruins all ideas of viable build
If they reduced the radius of those random teleports it could be really fun.
@tsidilin nah, have you ever actually played it? I have, on hardcore post-100 in S5. It's predicting the radius and grouping enemies, if anything those teleports keep you from ever taking damage.
@@Zeridian881 I played ball lightning with the Oculus in S1. It was kinda cool, but sometimes really hard to control. If the teleports were happening in a slightly smaller radius, this could be very strong.
Raxx, great video as always!!! Unfortunately I stopped about 1/2 way through the video, was getting an advertisement about every 45 seconds of video and couldn’t stand it anymore!! 😢
Seems to be happening a ton with UA-cam in general for a week or so. Literally an advertisement every 10 seconds at times.
a simple google search addblock will save you from all the pain and suffering you have endured..god bless your soul, you play diablo so you must love pain or you could end the pain and play poe
Same. So fucking annoying
get Brave browser.. I never see any ads...
an ad every 45 seconds? what in the world
Grinding D4 to Enya. So we’ve learnt your secret finally. 😂
Great video as always Raxx! I loved the Enya mention lol, people are complaining about the music picks for the expansion trailers, the next one....
"Sail away sail away sail away...."
I was hoping for boon/additions too for IHs. Will probably still be my fave end-game content.
i dont like these gifted subs for rewards just let me watch a stream for 4 hours
Yeah they might as well put it in the cash shop at this point.
And you can do that for rewards as well, its just the honse locked behind subs
@@StarCoordinate594 wtf is a honse
@@Ravaholix a funny horse
Lmao @@StarCoordinate594
ohh man , i was so stoked about the goblin blaster build , was gonna just play that xD Guess im playing spiritborn then :C
Wonderful work raxx as usual!!! thank you so much for the great content
Honestly as someone who just games here and there Diablo 4 sounds amazing these days. I only played the beta and haven’t got to try it out yet, but a Diablo online game that keeps getting updates is cool to me. Just hope to see Paladin or Crusader some day.
I don't believe for a second we won't get into the millions but I'm still excited for those thousands of dmg at end game. I can dream!
I love tacos! Sourcream and guacamole is a must ❤
The Q&A part was just like when the tacos leave my body again.
much love for summary
Sad to hear the landslide lightning storm build is going away. It's the only druid build I've enjoyed playing
Druid is Pooid.
:D ye it's unfortunate it was too OP because it did make your gameplay easy
I cleared all uber bosses week 1 of season with non optimized GEAR with almost 0 masterwork and completely bad tempering on some items.
That's how bad it was
Uber bosses lived like 20-40 seconds and uber lillith took me little longer cause somehow you can't one shot her you need to play her mechanics :D
@@lukeluckynblue1873who cares if it was OP this is a PVE GAME!!! we should be OP everything should be OP if we r the ones farming for the perfect gear and playing their stupid Gambling tempering garbage. Nerfs in video games do more harm then good.
@@lukeluckynblue1873 It was not OP
Raxx, thanks for making this detailed yet concise summary video of the campfire chat info.
Fuck yes! Got here in the first 4 minutes upload. I love fresh Raxx content!
You can't watch live stream?
Respect! Rax!! Such a blaster thank you
Thanks for the summary.
Will you be releasing a leveling guide before the expansion launches?
Great video as always cant wait to play this and POE 2...the next few months is going to destroy my social life.
Don't forget TQ2 is coming, and Grim Dawn is getting yet another expansion too!
@@gotaplanstan Yeah! TQ2 looks good and I haven't played Grim dawn but i always hear great things about it. Unfortunately, I work 10 hours a day so it's tough to put all that time in.
@@MikeBaia totally understandable. Hopefully some day you can give GD a go!
@@gotaplanstanwhat’s tq2
@@J36gE titan quest 2
I called it, you released victimize 1 button build, got nerfed to dust before release :)
With bartering and auto-salvaging, I'm really hopeful for the state of masterworking and boss grinding moving forward. Obviously I don't know how healthy the endgame will be with all these sweeping changes and additions, but at the very least PoE 2's early access drops in November. So all D4 needs to do is hold us over for one month and it would have done its job.
Love you Raxx, always enjoy your content. Very informative and on point man. Question: People still play D4? Loved the game but ehh... just not very exciting stuff coming down the pipeline.
I know it will sound strange, but stat squish is a thing that will improve my gameplay feeling the most from all of it, for real. For some reason when you hit for 10k it feel way more impactful than when you hit for 1000000, after some point additional zeros don't matter. I'd hope they would do the same in WoW.
i was reading patch notes for necro as i was listening to this video, and read one thing about necro: now aspect of the damned is applied to minions on top of everything else they did for minions ^^ so i'll be necro this time !!! that's decided ... and later on in the season maybe a little spiritborn
It also sounded like the scrolls were also going to drop from one of the chest in infernal hordes but I forget which one.
Hey Raxx, is there anything to do before the expansion? I've played a bit at the start of D4 then lost interest. But now I wanna be ready for Spiritborn! TY
Colin is a CHAD! Dude is clearly passionate about making a good game, and I weirdly find his swearing really refreshing and endearing. It shows a level of confidence and care-freeness that you will NEVER see from other developers doing these big live streams! PROTECT HIM AT ALL COSTS ❤️
Hmm I guess I should start swearing in the office..
Passionate, sure. But not good at his job. They haven't made a good game yet. I am still waiting.
@@LordJaroh you still haven't played D4 yet?
@@rcane6842 Not since a couple of weeks after launch. It hasn't been worth it. The game is just not fun.
Aspect system still exists therefore still sucks
Thank you Raxx
Idk i personally think they need to nerf less and buff more builds. I should have more than 1 or 2 choices per season. I like a build and then it gets nerfed into the ground. Should just have plenty of viabl e builds
U can thank yourself for they nerfing strongholds... 2 much clow hype over how good they are have done this. You were the one who parroted this all the time so now enjoy.
The Hoodie has a life of its own at this point.
Sorry did they mention more item space? Cuz where hell I'm i going place all that crap... if they did or didn't.
one more tab if Im not wrong they mentioned it on last campfire
@pedaleou for runes I think o well lol
I did not fill a single tab for 2 seasons in a row, and I've played like 16 hours a day for 2 weeks - room issues are long gone since the aspects rework
@@Straggler8 Storage is definitely still a problem.
Hey Raxx, you got an idea on when the new season builds will drop on maxroll?
they want 40$ for this ? I still feel scammed because I bought the first version. And on release this was a steaming pile...
"Players will get to experience new and familiar places, like Kurast Bazaar, Kurast Docks, and Travincal, 72 years after Diablo 2's story took place."
Goood ol' bagging on nostalgia from the days they made actual fun games. Because they don't have anything else left.
Its gonna be an imbalanced suckfest
Are you dumb? The fan base literally begged for D2 places to come back. Troll elsewhere. You guys are turds lol.
High lvl shadow imbue with 100% cold imbue freeze works better than victimize. I made a blade shift version in s5. You can do the same with heart seeker.
I was there, awesome stream Raxx with 5k viewers !!!!
…. The nerf to strongholds sucks…
Atleast maybe we will still go and start strongholds around the same level since we may be getting atleast 2 with the new area.
I hate to use this term cuz it usually comes with a negative connotation but it definitely feels like they are "D3-ifying the game". Which for me, is good. I get to do big bonk a lot faster. Already ready for your "State of Diablo 4" video. Cheers, dude.
Minion buffs is what lazy me craves 😁
The buffs don't seem that amazing to me.
I haven't played since season 2, might be time to try again.
I really do hope everyone enjoys this. Cant fucking afford 40-50$ for an expansion anymore. And by anymore, i mean....this is stupid.
Wonder what class will be number 1 and where the new class fits.
Ha to piggyback off the infernal hordes comment. I didn’t hate them by no means but it really felt like “we have Hades at home” as far as the boons were concerned. Also I straight up skip strongholds unless it’s been proccing legion a lot or gates a codex aspect dungeon……
So with the change in crafting mythic uniques does that mean now I can't target craft one if I don't have the expansion? Before I could use 4 Sparks to craft my mythic, but now without access to runes does that mean I loose this ability?
RIP LS sorc. we had one short season of glory. And return to the back of the bus we go.😢
Make sure you push the barbarian over to make room 😂
LS Sorc was great in S4 as well.
But I can think of 4-6 different builds that I played this season that rival LS; the difference being you actually have to play the sorc instead of idle roaming spamming LS and occasionally selecting a red or a blue shield like your were dining at a fancy restaurant ordering wine. I'm looking forward to seeing how certain special combos play out, especially Vox + Andy (more dmging than LS, especially on single targets like bosses, but very inconsistent sustain - S6 might offer a solution), or Esadora + Andy + Spear of Lycander (this was by far the most entertaining build I played all S5 out of 22 characters/builds played).
@ThePunisher-h5i barb has had one poor season out of 6 (5 seasons + pre-season) and you're cracking out the violins?
Considering the bugged Ding Dong sword requiring it to be un-equiped + re-equiped every zone change, this still makes barbs only partially as bad as where necros are. Shadow necro has been bugged+gimped since their changes after the open beta. There's something like 8 uniques still bugged for necro (shadow DoT has the most, with direct dmg builds less bugged) and things like desecrated earth not stacking making shadow blood wave triple aspect to be pointless. Necros are the only class without a mobility skill, and while they do have fortify, necros struggle to maintain being fortified as so many things interrupt &/or it fades out often between encounters (4s lifespan).
Agreed, barbs are in a sad place, but they're in a far healthier place than necros.
kinda glad tbh it was too strong but also playstyle was dull af, I'd much rather have a more engaging build top instead
LS Sorc hurt my fingers so much. glad its over.
I think chain lighting will be the play in season 6
Raxx the GOAT
I went from looking forward to season 6 to looking for another game to play
The 2 sparks + runes is going to suck considering that players can't even get runes if they don't have the expansion. And if the runes are rare it's going to suck for even the people with the expansion.
I HATE the stat squish and having to grind the pit to unlock difficulties. Hate the raids. The 50m gold to do a dungeon for shit-tier drops is absolutely delusional.
Lightning spear got nerfed indirectly, since max stacks of conjuration mastery is 30 now, instead of 50+ people were reaching. But it needed it. I completed Pit 100 in a minute and a few seconds on PTR. It was obscene. Better for Sorc build diversity that they nerfed about half of it.
30 stacks is so fair imo, the master blaster was fun but made everything in the game feel foolish. And did not make playing in a group fun at all. I either had to slow down or just blow through and wait at the boss, just to absolutely nuke it.
I saw a comment from someone else on another video, LS itself is capped at 12 spears maximum. If this is true, LS is probably dead.
@@jediraydenit absolutely is. Splintering energy which was the damage dealer also got nerfed and can arc only once every 0.2s. Reaching 12 also won't be that easy as FW is also nerfed and the CDR can't be masterworked.
So basically, it will attack 10 times less often and deal 4 times less damage per hit.
Regarding that last point.. the alt friendliness. Paying attention to it for new things is cool and all, but they NEED to go back and fix it so the game is just more alt friendly. I don't make alts now because I don't want to do all that bs again.
I'm REALLY sad that D4 didn't learn from D3. At the end of D3 it felt like they (the dev's) knew (finally) how to do things the right way. How to make the consumer happy. Then D4 just ignored ALL of that. I get that it is totally different teams, but that is no excuse for the D4 team not to do their homework.
Just so stupid on their part. And honestly I mean while it is good that they are (finally) paying attention and trying to make things more alt friendly it is too little. I won't say it is too late, but it is way too little. Just because the follower crap carries over means nothing. I just don't want to go through all the bs to make an alt again. If I have to go through the leveling grind with my main, fine.. that is what seasons are. That is something I'm ok with and actually like. But an alt is something that I should be able to make quickly, hop right in and try out. It is something that keeps me playing for another week or two. Then maybe I make another alt.. and I play for another week or two. Instead, now I play a main... then after a couple of weeks quit.
How would you propose they do this. So after you level a character you can boost all characters to max with one click?
I get it, but part of an ARPG is leveling. It's already insanely easy to level. They have effectively took that process out almost. With all the consumables you can stck this season. But maybe you are just that guy who plays for a week and that's it. That's OK too man. Enjoy that week and don't rush it. I just don't think they should take leveling out of the game, even if it is for an alt.
Game is so geared toward seasonal stuff anyway I have no alt. They all are mains cause they all reset anyway. I get you though
Paragons are realm wide now that makes it more alt friendly.
@@joeywilliams604 They could have/should have had a system like D3. You still have to play through the game on your first character every season. The pacing for that is fine. But glyphs for example. Why can't they should be account wide, not character specific. And come on.. I think that was an obvious one. Glyphs are like D3's gems. You could level/share gems on any character. Having to level these things in boring content is not something I want to waste my time on. I'm not a no lifer. I have work. I have hobbies. I have a social life. I have other responsibilities. I like to play a few hours at night before bed. I want to enjoy the content. I can't imagine as the game is now people think, "oh yes!! I'm so happy I have to level these glyphs in the awesome nightmare dungeons!!"
It seems paragon will be account wide, which is a great first step. But are they usable from Level 1? If not.. I think again, just slowling down alt progression for the sake of slowing it down. Let me get a fully paragoned/glyphed out geared up character at level 1 and absolutely destroy any leveling content on an alt. Why not? I've done the season journey. I've done all of that. Now I just want to mess around with new characters for a little.
Their way of keeping us playing isn't working. Like I said.. play a couple weeks.. get bored and make an alt.. can jump right into fun stuff and play another couple of weeks.. get bored.. do it again.. that is how they would keep a lot more players playing. Instead, I go through and play on my main.. get bored.. think about playing an alt, realize I have to do all the boring shit again.. quit and wait until next season.
Now, if you are a no lifer and just play this and think the slower the better, fine, but I can guarantee you YOU are the minority. There are far ore casuals out there. Hell, to them I look like a no lifer. I'm honestly probably in the middle.
But honestly.. if they don't do that.. fine.. I'm happy to just play a couple weeks.. I don't miss it when I am done. But I just think blizzard missed the mark there. They could have more retention if they did it like D3 did it.
@@coldfire22 isn't that the problem? It's too much like D3. They need to try their own thing. I get it. If it works don't mess with it. But maybe that wasn't the mind set. Not defending just saying.
But like you say just play and move on. No one will fault you, and your sanity will be intact
Yay for 2 tempers on non-ancestral legendaries and masterworking up to level 8.
After the 4th when you are able to give videos will you be letting people know if there is certain gear that is not worth keeping on eternal if they decide to play there. Considering cleaning out a lot of stash tabs but I'm unsure what I should keep if anything.
Nothing
They still need to make paragon glyphs account wide. It's fine to unlock the class based ones with each class but having to level them up each time is a pain with alts, and will be just as bad with the new chance based system.
Raxx sad about Victimize:😢😢
Druid Shred/storm claw mains for the last 4 seasons: 💀💀
If you can Raxx, let us really know how things are on the 4th. I want to get a really good feel before I decide to jump back in or not. I probably will anyway but more info the better I guess.
They did, LS is dead. Capped at 12, FW's cooldown is inherent and cannot be MW and splintering can arc only every 0.2 second.
Rax doing video about leveling to max level in 20 minutes through stronghold ..... blizzard nerf stronghold XP. Also Rax: Im actually really surprised that they did this ... ^^
@raxxanterax
Will you be able to have a Merc if you are playing couch co-op ?!?
Or only when playing solo?
I stopped following updates after being kind of disappointed in my PTR testing, but I guess there's still no news regarding an armory for this season?
This is looking great, but what about the Cow level !?!
After seeing the new goblin blaster build, hopefully the nerfs are just, you need to wear SOME armor because that build looks crazy.
Haven't had time to watch the full chat. Do we know if Merc Rapport carries over to the next season? Not sure if I like the idea of lvling up ever merc each season, unless it is quick.
It won’t
I dunno, the more I hear and read about the Expansion and changes the less hyped I am... it just seems they have absolutely zero plan on where to really take D4.
I loved doing the strongholds. those were more fun than the dungeons
Not the weekly reward, i already feel the fear of missing out in world of warcrafts vault system
Some good/ ok things, but 2 major sucking news. It's really bad that people outside USA can't get some skins again, and it really sucks to be forced to play in groups to get everthing (raids)...
And just when they got it right with itens, they go and change everthing again...
Probablly another year before D4 get good again
Temper reset currency being locked behind raids sucks.
@@BarryTGashThey are adding re-temper scrolls to the Hordes equipment chest.
@@BarryTGashre tempering as a scroll or any other type of item is just stupid... Just let me re temper as much as I want I'm the one thats gotta farm the materials and farm the gear so y am I limited to making my gear the way I want it?? Smh masterworking/temerping is a garbage system and those scrolls ain't gonna help nothing.
Anything about being able to change Mats to other Mats like we used to be able to?
ENYA? SPOTIFY? lol.. didn't expect you to know enya or listen to her.. good one!
In regards to the auto salvage saw we get a chance for it creating a unique (mythic?).
Raxx. I think you got something wrong in the Notes you took.
The cost to get skill Ranks in the new Time Dungeon wasnt 50 Mil. It was 5 Mil.
The cost to get the ranks on the amulett which is kinda the hardest part to get in game was 50 mil
Have never been less excited.
So can we play the DLC campaign with the season or are they separate?
I'm still unclear on that (may of missed it if they have confirmed)
We get one free barter per day. So a daily login reward.
Literally a D3 patch with better graphics.
Real hard to be excited for anything Diablo 4 related
Remove the paragon board limitations and I'm all good. There is zero reason for it being limited to only five boards. I checked and you'll be able to pick almost every Legendary, Rare and Magic from all of those five boards once max paragon. That just kills the diversity and for someone like me who gets the most damage from the glyphs, that halves the damage of my already underpowered, min maxed, pure Conjurer build. Thanks to most Legendary and Rare nodes being useless.
Game isn't for you. It's for dumb dumbs
Sorc: lightening spear nerfed by reducing to only 12 at a time max.
They nerfed amulet and deleted tempering, now Sorc: lightening spear is just concept of the build...
I wish this game would become decent. It'd be nice for it to be at least worth what it cost me. (Hint: I got it for a birthday gift.)
I don't have any hopes for the devs. More than a year later, they are begging people for more money, and they still have yet to fix the actual problems with the game. They have no clue.
I will make a point to never buy Trolli. I HATE product placements and using games as advertising platforms, this shit needs to stop now before Blizzard goes full EA
It’s not product placement. Trollis are not in the game. 😂 also it’s funny cause the 90s and 2000s had 10x the brand deals. Fast food, cereal, soda, candy, etc. you could hardly buy anything without a media tie in.
Also it’s funny the line in the sand for boycotting is a brand deal. Lmaooo
@@natedunn3933 This video is part of the product
@@adriaandavel9540 oh 😂 then to be clear: you are not buying the product cause raxx “placed” it in his rundown video?
Are they leaving Masterworking as is? I have to say as a casual player, the 3 stages of random ungrades to an affix means that most items are garbage until you reroll them and reroll them and reroll them some more and that stinks.
If u are casual why u need to worry for triple hit the masterwork at all when you will be able just to play T1 and blast? The game needs to keep the most hardcore players engaged..
@@M4RTN11 It's exaggerated. Even most content in the live game you never have to reroll masterworked affixes. The idea that you "need" a 0.5% roll of a +skill on an amulet for instance for builds, is just not true unless you are trying to compete to do 150 pits or something to be one of the top players for your class. I did all content in the current season, including the "hidden" achievement, on a non meta build, without rerolling the masterworks. Could I do Tier 8 IHs? Nah, but who cares. I could MW all the way to 12/12 and speedrun the pits to get the mats to do that, that's finishing the game more or less, IH tier 7-8 was just pointless number grind content for one or two meta builds that could climb the multiplier number wall. I think D4's endgame may be in a bad place because they don't communicate well what "finishing the game" actually is, but if it's getting all possible rewards, then it was fine as is.
@@zeriel9148 absolutely I don’t know why those “casuals” trying to make the game even easier if you are casual on the first place you will not even watch Rax’s videos at first place and will join enjoy the game as it is… as said before casuals ruins the game for the rest of the player base, I wish there are different modes for everyone so everyone can enjoy the game they want..
I don't plan on buying the expansion yet. Aside from the new class, I assume those who don't buy the expansion also don't get access to runewords. If there's anything else we can't have access to, would be nice if you let us know (if you know). The biggest thing for me that requires change is activities. Grinding the same 2 things (Helltides + Infernal Hordes) was SO brain numbing. More activities definitely and make the activities give same or similar rewards. Another issue is stygian stones and getting them. There needs to be a guaranteed way to get them. Can't believe how long these simple changes take to do. Hopefully PoE 2.0 soon enough.
blizz need to sell spirit born s6 and make it op so the ppl that didnt buy it yet started to swipe they credit cards ...unfortunately builds like Victimize stand in the way...what a shame
found this gem hidden in the patch notes… “As part of this fix, Classes will no longer be able to equip items with Tempering or Legendary affixes that are Class-specific for another Class.”
Well they did say that and also say that they do find this interesting but not healthy in the current state of the game. They might do something with these synergies reenabling them in the future but right now it would be bad.
I agree with their assessment.
@@TheDravic I didn't watch the stream, but I was hoping it would say something to them that maybe affixes like Crit Damage should be class-specific.
I'm about as excited for this expansion as I would be getting a tooth pulled.
Does reputation carry over? So if I have my reputation maxed out in regular D4 I wont have to do it all again in VoH?