move your mouse over your mini map....if it says "Conduit Shrine" then its a shrine....if it says nothing when you mouse over it on the mini map its a cursed one.
all the shrines are trash in this game. you waste half of the buff moving around because your character moves at a snail's pace until you're at endgame.
I'd like for treasure goblins to drop an item which resets tempering on an item. Would feel awesome to know seeing a treasure goblin is going to let you revive a bricked item.
I fear that would only cause people to hold onto bricked items in hopes of finding a goblin, and then causing storage issues (which is already an issue)
This would probably be like a best case scenario. I'd even be happy with a special goblin, that allows you to get back one attempt at tempering to try and unbrick an item. So that there's a bit of a grind to get these "rare" items. But they can't make the gobby's so rare that they might as well just not even have the option. But that's just me. :) Happy Season 5 all!
No, I do not want to have a new system with a new material we can grind for and then I have tohoarde bricked items. The easier and better solution is just fix tempering. Let me select my affix and then gamble for my value of the affix or let you have infinite chances to temper if you have the material and material cost would go up each time.
I like how levelheaded and thoughtful your critique and compliments are. You get to the point, suggest things that need to happen and don’t completely bash them to death when it actually does seem like they are trying to improve the game and the player experience. Keep doing what you’re doing Raxx
If you thing they are trying to improve the game after its had 5 seasons and people are saying its improving but not great shows your very gullable thinking Blizzard will make a good game. To put in perspective Blizzard haven't made a game thats great for about 15 years because all they care about is how much money can they take from you. If you find enjoyment in a generic ARPG thats fine but your clearly have no standards or have any concept of what a good game looks like, sorry to be blunt but I hate such a greedy company like Blizzard and people like you encourage Blizzard to not care about the community. I want Blizzard to be their old selves but they won't because they can put lil effort into their game and fill it with MTX then you people buy it so they will continue to scam you's because you let them get way with it
@@MrBulldawg6 if you hate blizzard and this game so much then why are you on UA-cam watching videos and complaining about it? Go play something else. I didn’t say it was a perfect game. I said they are actually trying to improve it, which they are, the game is better now than it was at release so that literally proves what I said. Get a life and things like this wouldn’t bother you so much.
Condi pylons are bizarre in that they enforce a transformation on you. The other pylons are additive, where you can continue to use your normal abilities. The simple fix is to go back to the D3 design and have the Condi effect as an add on that fires of automatically as you move through the dungeon.
My biggest missing QoL feature is more tabs for the inventory. IMO we need at least 2 more tabs: One for Nightmare Sigils, Infernal Compasses and Abyssal Scrolls One for Boss summoning materials The rest are elixirs, whispering keys, mindcages etc, they fit in one tab just fine. They keep on adding more and more consumables without the necessary inventory space and I hate juggling all the materials between that one tab and the stash in town
They should make glyphys work the same way as gems in PoE, socket lvl 1 glyphy, and lvl it up passively just by doing any activity that gives you exp, or just % of exp earned from killing monsters
Yeah I could see glyph xp being constantly earned at a low level and then make the NMDs give way more so it's still better but not the only thing. It would also let NMDs be the only way to level a glyph you aren't wearing.
I really like this idea, because you can engage in other content and not do ND at all, like i do every season because i strongly dislike the few dungeon layouts and i prefer to play in the overworld.
The reason the seasonal story felt like something, is because it brought back the very first plot point of the game. The fact that we consumed Lilith essence and how that actually can do something for our characters power wise. Its the most connected to the main story the seasonal plot has ever been.
Disagree about the glyph. The only reason to do nightmare key is to level up glyph. If they put this system in another feature, nightmare dungeon will be useless and the pit is the way to go.
They could just add a different way of leveling it up but keep the nightmare dungeons being the best way to do it. You would end up doing both, also nightmare dungeons are mostly a good way of leveling up so you'd still do it in the end
Good. If a feature is inferior and less fun, move on from it. Sure it WAS a core of the game, but why hold on to it? Why do we NEED nightmare dungeons?
@@MarkusArkus5 This is the core of the issue to me. It should be at least on par and fun, sole glyph XP source or not. Otherwise why is it in there indeed.
Got to level 60 last night, and I was doing a mix of Infernal Hordes, Breaches, Helltides, Whispers, and NMDs. Unlocking the battlepass chapters by doing all activities made the leveling process feel really good. Happy with the season so far.
My problem with the loot filter is there's no way to target to pick up what you want on console. Its just a pile and you have to pick up everything to get what you want.
This. Its sooo annoying. Also certain skills like Firewall or Hydra just cast randomly in whatever direction youre facing, no way to be precise with them.
Okay but a loot filter would make it so the item doesn’t even show up. Unless you specifically press a certain key. At least that’s how they do it in last epoch and it’s great. Granted last epoch item bloat is WAYYYYY bigger than d4. So it’s almost necessary to have one or you spend more time looking at items than actually playing the game.
@@amp2193 nothing about being poor. Consoles are generally more balanced on 99% of games. Also y'know, PC can use a controller but console cant use a mouse on D4, whats that about?
@@hiddenxalpha7053 it's just a joke bud. Most my friends play on console or budget PC's. Just a bit of shiz talking. PC players like myself just pay a lot so it looks better. Consoles are for the masses. Nice and budget friendly and ya still get most of what a solid PC can do.
Can't see that it's already been said, but for your comment on Conduit Pylons there is a way to check if it's a legit pylon or a cursed one. If you mouse over the pylon icon on the minimap if the name doesn't pop up, it's cursed. That way you can click for the curse, without needing to risk debuffing yourself with the conduit.
This season I was able to destroy my capstone dungeons 20 levels under as Blood Surge. In 3 hours I was in WT 4 at level 51. Those pants for give 150%[X] overpower damage to cursed enemies are awesome.
Good improvement points, what about the random crazyness we had in d3, running into a room with 20 different goblins, getting a puzzle ring or whimsydale. I expected more randomness and crazyness with this.
I skip the condy pylon too. My version of a remake would be to lose the teleport, add 2.5 × movement speeed and just have it explode anything I run through. And when a mob explodes it also explodes any enemies nearby.
Raxx you usually make great points, however the one with the waller affix baffles me a little. People are always talking about the game being too easy, no challenge, etc . . and then complain when there is an affix that negates some skills? Isn't that the whole point? See a wall, don't cast your spell. Walk around it. Teleport.
My buddy made a good point on the loot filter. When you set your filters to more godly gear once when you are pretty geared , you know when something drops that it's something really good. That dopamine hit will be more impactful
@@2.0.1.0.what have you found better because so far at level 40 I’m not finding anything fresh in this season and I love D4 and have about a dozen level 100s completed. Should I keep pushing?
I legitimately feel this is the best season yet. If nothing else, the questline sold it for me. As a long-time Diablo fan and lore nut, I loved every second of it right up to the gruesome, hopeless ending. I think it sets the tone perfectly for VoH, the only real gripe I have is that so much of it felt like rubbing salt in the wound for everyone who wanted Paladin back.
@matthewmitchell7293 the two world bosses I took part in at levels 10 and 20 went down in roughly 3 minutes. Better than 3 seconds I suppose, but it still leaves a lot to be desired.
I think one more thing i will add is that this is the odd season team, to the odd team devs: you guys rocked this season, I've been waiting to say that since most people only throw shade but forget to praise. Well done odd team!!!!❤
The way to solve NMD and Glyph leveling in my eyes, is to spice up Nightmare Dungeons themselves, I think you do this by doubling down on random events. E.g. A room of goblins, Butcher, Son of whatever his face was, A Council Member, Hellborne Death Squad, quite frankly anything that accomplishes two things. 1: A Challenge that wakes you up and tests you in some way 2: a huge bump in rewards, XP, Gold, Uniques Whatever. For me though if these happened every few dungeons I would really be excited to see what plays out, oh an don't limit these random encounters, let them overlap a bit, and let TP out be an option to have these enemies de-spawn if too tough.
I like that it takes many different sources for you to do in order to make your character feel good. Such as, nightmare dungeons for glyphs, helltide xp/gear/mats, then u got the new mode for mothers hearts that also helps you with lvling, then after all that u got the pit towards the end game it feels very nice how they got everything separated.
That's definitely why they still have glyphs locked behind NMDs, they want people to still have to do NMDs and not JUST farm (and get bored that much faster by) the pit and now breaches. That's probably why they also removed the middle sections of NMDs, because they knew that would alleviate a large amount of the complaints about them.
All this talk from Rax about sigil dust struggles, meanwhile I just salvaged a couple Infernal Hordes keys and I was swimming in sigil dust from before I even entered World Tier 4.
This is the answer; I feel like he didn't know about this when he made the video, because yeah you can salvage even just the 1 or 2 tier 1 ones you have by then and get enough to craft multiple ancestral sigils.
this is one faults of raxx - he doesn't play the game - he just blasts to 100 - i was watching him the other week and there were so many things he didnt even have a clue about that is the base game...
24:45 this right here. Very infuriating when you roll 3-4x and get the same exact affix with just a percentage change and usually you get screwed. I’ve even traveled to different blacksmiths to see if the affix would change but nope I roll my final roll and again same affix that I don’t want or is useless to my build
I honestly disagree with the fact that leveling slower is bad when tbh I feel it keeps players like me busy so we don't get board quickly plus stops people from just blasting through season then leaving until next season
@MyFixarn Funny enough that is EXACTLY how I feel right now. I'm returning from Season2 and it feels like the exact same game, nothing is different at all. I'm already getting bored.
@@MyFixarnisn’t that how most of these games go though after like a week into the season they drop off a lot even PoE that people go crazy over does the same too. They get spikes when new leagues or seasons come out, but then they fall off until the next one
Yes, that's true. People just don't know what they want. All games of this type play the same way. Maybe they want to bring back memories of their childhood when they sat around and beat diablo 500 times. That will never happen again.
@@raminol8110 It's not an MMO, i'm getting on now, business, house etc. D3, D4 and good POE leagues are great for me. Just blast for 2-3 days for diablo and a week or so for POE. Got my fix / recharge and back to life.
Hi Raxx! Thanks for the video, always great! I noticed an unusual slowdown in the experience too... Many of my friends say that it levels out quickly, but to me it seems a little slower :P
The infernal hordes quest is not the seasonal quest. The infernal hordes quest is evergreen and stays in (it has important lore connecting to the expansion) hence it is a white quest and available on eternal. The green seasonal quest with the hell breach dungeons is a separate thing and will go away tho.
I'm playing a Sorceress and I got a pair of Axial Conduit pants early in the game. I'm at level 60 now and still haven't swapped them out because they're that good. I did get to play one of those Infernal Hoardes with a compass thingy and it was better than I expected. I'm really enjoying this season's changes.
No Glyph Exp in Infernal Hordes was such a missed opportunity. We go from Helltide Leveling to Nightmare Dungeon Glyph Exp Grind, maybe add a splash of Boss Ladder for certain Uniques, and then Pit grind to the end of days for Masterworking Mats... when are we supposed to do Infernal Hordes? Edit: To update this, strangely enough Infernal Hordes is a complete Pit replacement, granting Masterworking Mats through the material chest.
Greater affixes gear, gold, gem dust and other materials..... so many reasons to do infernal hordes dude. You're definitely doing it wrong jumping straight from nmd to hardcore grinding pit
@@synistargg2502 If it's not as bad as I initially thought then that's great - I'm still grinding NMD. I definitely want to check them out more still - that said, rn I do think for Gold it seems better to do Whispers, to then also get Varshan Mats for Duriel. Helltide is really great for Whispers now, esp. Bloodmaiden, which has loads of drops for salvage Mats, and fsr also seems to drop far more greater affixes, for me at least, than everything else in the game. So it's really just Gemdust left to actively seek out the Hordes for, and only if you don't want to be patient with it just naturally accumulating into endgame. So I'm not convinced yet, but I'll see.
@@asum7786 well, having done many tier 3 hordes, I can tell you I make about 20 mil gold every run if simply sink it into the gold chest. I don't think whispers competes with that. Gem dust you get about 3-5k dust of every gem type. so it's a bit of a grind but it works really well if you're lookin to get those royal gems asap. You also get obducite and other legendary craft mats and that's all from a single chest...
@@synistargg2502 My point isn't that Whispers compete with Hordes in terms of gold, they don't, but that you probably want to do Whispers anyway for Varshan->Duriel, and just happen to get loads of gold farming that up. Hordes dropping Obducite is good to know though, means Hordes can be run over early Pit instead. I honestly rather them provide an alternative to NMD than Pit though. Grinding these ~7 glyphs up these days, since the additive stuff in the boards has become useless with tempering and glyphs are almost all that matters now, is a pain.
my biggest winner this season is the reward caches from the seasonal journey. the community thrives so much with everyone having a few sets to do ubers! so many rotas, and almost none involves scammers. getting someone geared enough to carry etc, that added so muhc for me
Intentional or not, I'm a big fan of levelling taking around 10 hours. Any less feels like an underwhelming experience IMO, it's why the season rewards + reputation rewards feel like the correct pace.
Talking about battlepass and cosmetics, it would be so good if they add a way to change the skin or effects of skills like they add a skin to portals and stuff. Man, I would love that
@@cho8437So its not pay to win. And they're not releasing their best skins yet. If they release them now, no one will want to buy skins bliz gave now. Maybe with expansion to get more sells, better skins will be there, or even later.
Tempering I think too easy quick ways to fix it are, Just give us like 10 rerolls plus one for every greater affix. Or just make it where we can select which one we want specifically but the percentage on it is completely random and you have a higher chance of getting a low percentage. Where randomly selecting one gives you a Way higher chance of getting a higher percentile or manually selecting what you want is usually lower. I think that would be a good give or take
Perhaps with tempering, they should widen the roll ranges and then add a final tempering mechanic where if you "brick" an item, you can one time apply any specific tempering modifier you want, but it will be minimum roll. This would greatly reduce the pain of not getting the rolls you want and maintain an incentive for the item hunt to keep rerolling for improvements.
Some of the seasonal quest could totally be side quests that you stumble upon in later seasons. Like a side quest that lets you revisit the vaults just for a taste or reminder. The content doesn’t have to exist still but the work put into the quest can remain
Tempering and master working needs to be fixed for sure. Master working needs to let us reset 1 rank at a time. Having to reset 3 ranks, farm all the materials again, to most likely not get what you want is beyond rage inducing. The "customization" feels so bad in this game. I'm no programer, but there's got to be a way they can make you have a better chance to get tempers related to your equipped skills. So if I have Barrage equipped it should give me a much better chance to get the Barrage themed tempers instead of giving me rapidfire 4 times in a row. If they can't give us more control over the tempers, then they need to make GA gear drop at much higher rates, and give us more materials. It's really the worst part of the game.
Agreed 100%. You spend a huge portion of the game completely in control of how you want to build your character just to get to the endgame and have most of it RNG. GA items, tempering, master working etc. Incredibly frustrating.
@@HugeBusch no issues for me at all since launch. But after the latest patch crashes have been very bad. Had a couple more today - one even caused my computer to reboot!
Hey Rax, great video as always. I just have a quick suggestion, although I am not sure how easy it would be to happen. It would be great if, during the edit, some details are appearing on screen. I understand that someone that plays a lot would already know pretty much every item/aspect in the game, however, my understanding is that your videos are also addressed towards more casual players. For example, and since I am not native english speaker myself, I had to pause and rewatch when you talked about Axial Conduit, as I was not aware of that item. If there was a card/image of it floating for a couple of seconds on the screen while talking about it, it would be much easier and accessible for the viewer to know exactly what you are talking about. Your feedback / guide videos are already in depth and I believe this would add a nice touch. Tons of respect for your content, of course, thank you for the amazing videos and apologies for the long comment.
They need to fix tempering yesterday. After about the third time around of rolling nothing but crowd control mods yet again, I wanted to just log off and never play again. Bad rng in tempering greatly reduces the fun in finding good items.
Tempering numbers in general arw too high, ppl would do it for 15% crit dmg, why put 150 it just makes an item unusable no matter how godly it is in comparison if most dmg comes from tempering
Last season i got so many good items... of which i bricked 99% of em, and the i didnt brick got still crappy rolls which i didnt wanna risk re-rolling cus id brick it for sure...and ik so many ppl got some godly 3GA items that were bricked on arrival essentially due to tampering.
How do they not understand the essential mechanic of tempering is bad. It's like if you had to use the occultist every time you want to improve any piece of gear. Completely random and stacked against you for rolls that you actually need with no way to improve or manipulate the process. Masterworking isn't much better, but that's also at the very end of your gear grind and it's a resettable end-game gold sink. Tempering is just bricking with extra steps and a real low chance of success. This is a showstopper for me. Hated it in S4, not going to do it moving foward.
The problem with the tempering bricking items is that it turns what should be dopamine hit into a general sense of dread at best. Say you see a 2-3 GA item on the ground. My first thought is not SCORE!!! It's... ok... Life per second is one of them. On the rare occasion that the GAs are good... then it's well... let's see if it tempers... after you spend all this time working on the piece you get more relief than excitment when it rolls your ways. If the GA stayed a GA when you rerolled an affix... I would feel so much more dopamine. That "life per second" gross feeling would be gone with... Hey I can reroll that until I get what I WANT... and I would use so many resources on that.
Spot on take and S5 feels like another step in the right direction so far :) Though hilarious that I went Sorc and decided to go Fire direction only considering everything that would always drop before was for Fire builds - what do I get in the first 35 levels, everything for Lightning builds and hardly anything Fire (not just the season questline rewards either) - actually said that would happen anyway lol
So far I only played 3/4 HS but I have to admit is probably the most fun season start yet. I really like the dopamine hell tunnels it actually fits the vision of recreating the scene of the march to hell quite well. I just want them to delete WT3 they even give you sacreds Ilvl 600 as soon as you reach it which means that you can essentially jump to wt4 as soon as you can equip sacred. So they are symbolically removing it, very likely this will get solved with expansion stat squish and they just don't bother until then.
Leveling a character isnt "The game". The game is creating a build, and killing bosses/events/dungeons/putting it to the test. one of the best parts about D3 was 'Level 70 in an hour, lets go actually progress'.
@@hotpancakes9814 You say that, yet im already done with the D4 season, so now what? :) All ubers dead, season journey complete, battlepass complete, No reason to push pit because no leaderboards, no reason to improve gear because i've done everything.
Frostburn gloves along with just a couple lucky hit chance tempers are amazing for firewall leveling. I hit 52 in like 3 hours and was just freezing and deleting packs of enemies even in WT3 with barely any gearing. The leveling feels so smooth and the changes to the unique like you said actually makes me want to go seek them out while still in the 1-100 grind
Battle passes are hot garbage and need to go away, I hate seasonal type content in games. Just give me a large monetized expansion every 6 months to a year
Pretend it doesn't exist, other people who pay for it are the reason you get new content every 3 months. Regarding expansions, if they plan on doing an expansion once a year thats amazing, and I'm more than happy to support the battle pass to make that happen.
Hey raxx... I just want to appreciate you and your fellow streamers to what a new season is a hard work for you. I mean you do so long streams, followed by some videos about analyzing that stuff. I would die by doin 20 hours of stream. Guess its a very hard time then to come up fast with content. Loved that video and agree with most of it.
I really liked the seasonal quest dungeons. Really wish they would have expanded on those and given us keys for them instead of the infernal hordes. They were very fun, dense, and felt like I was blasting juice ona good pace. Season is totally acceptable and like the direction of the current design philosophy. All good things looking into the expansion, really high hopes for the expansion to have a reaper of souls comeback for d4.
No, most players won't be able to progress maps. Poe of for the top 10% . If you have to follow a guide to be able to progress its not a game for most ppl.
I thought S4 was too fast to lvl 100, so if they slowed it a little bit, that's fine. 10-20h to reach endgame seems totally acceptable. That's what it takes in LE and PoE.
Totally agree. If they want the game to "start" at max level, they should let you make a character at max level. If they want the game to start at level 1, then 1-100 should be FUN, not FAST
Simple solution for tempering: every roll doesn't override the current unless you choose to do so. Instead they are all stored until you use all your rolls (5,7 whatever it is). Then, you can pick which of them is the best for you
Literally said the same thing about the powers and potential powers, the mixing of uniques and gear. I was actually having fun. Leaves me wanting to play more classes and more builds. Its in a good state.
i was waiting for this video hahah. the season really impressed me, speccialy the infernal hordes. they could put a more diverse affixes in the waves, but is a good start.
Would LOVE a type of Path to Hell mode where you're outrunning a timer and a wave of fire while blasting through hordes of minions and elites to get to the end. And don't forgot some cinematic music to go along with the breakout of hell.
I'm a pseudo-casual player and I had noticed many of the things you mentioned, so it's not just world-class players who would benefit from your recommendations to Blizzard. Thanks for fighting for ALL of us!
Hey Rax, thanks for the great content! I would only disagree with nightmare dungeons being the only best way to level now. If you are level 70-80 you can start blasting Infernal Hordes level 3 (monster level 100 - pretty good level difference). Then after 90 whenever the player feel may switch to nightmare dungeons and have a good time with higher level nmds and level his glyph xp much faster rather than having to open 30-60 sigils. Of course for that matter you need to make a pitstop for some boss kills and get unique items AND can mix up with some nmds if you really need some glyph leveled at least to 15. But still - the ratio of Infernal hordes against ndms in 70-93 can be 80% to 20% which is still decent.
It really says something about the QOL of respeccing, that you'd rather spend 6-10 hours leveling a new character, rather than having to respec everything. I started to do the same thing last season, but ended up not doing it, because the time investment was too big. They could even just let you import a string that you copy from a website, that has all the paragon stuff in it, if they wanted to make a quick and dirty version.
@@seanmcginnis7564 i mean if you were maximizing your characters you'd have 3 builds: trash clear, boss killer, and pvp.the fact that this game doesn't have loadouts but D3 does is hilarious. I would personally rather spend a day getting a new character levelled than wasting any time respeccing back and forth on a character. It is pure time sink and waste. tempering does more than just exacerbate the issue, it makes you also have to store more gear for potential. Also, the idea that you're playing spec_a to collect gear the most efficiently for spec_b is just a horrid game design. versus character_a having literally 2 builds. It's not even worth talking about, it's such an obvious feature that's missing, but blizzard has gone the route of listening to whatever gets whined about the loudest so here we are. whine whine whine please fix your silly game to allow me to have fun instead of become nauseous at the prospect of not having multiple specs easily accessible in an ARPG. They've monetized basic UI functionality. That's simply a dark design pattern. "save the cool stuff for x patches from now" just like their goofy original gem system, resists, whatever they're thinking with armor, the entire legendary system, and now ... tempering being a dumpster fire. whine whine whine please undo your obviously intentional dark design patterns
@@frottery I agree 💯. This is a game not a job. I have fun playing different styles of each character. I leveled 7 last season, but you shouldn’t have to level 1 class more than once.
About the chain lightning being blocked by the monster waller affix. One thing I've always wished for in ARPG's is ways to customize your playing experience. Being able to block certain things, or make sure some things appear more frequently. For those who have played PoE, you know that rolling monsters reflect physical damage on a map with a vaal orb as a physical build instantly bricks your map. Or as in Raxx' case getting elites with waller makes gameplay incredibly annoying. I'd love it if we could somehow block certain modifiers from appearing at the cost e.g two other affixes/modifiers becoming stronger. That way it's not just a straight boon but a tradeoff.
I agree with Con Pylons. I didn’t even think about it because I never leveled enough to really get way more powerful than them. But yesterday I clicked on one and was like, “wow I’m doing crap damage and this is slowing my run down, never clicking these again”. I like that we have to struggle with gold until reaching WT4. It should be a struggle, making you prioritize what is really important while leveling. Up until 50 I was consistently around 10k to 100k gold, barely enough to keep up with potions. But it made me really choose which legendary affix’s I really needed. Then after completing 2-3 Tree of Whispers or clearing out an Infernal Horde and dumping nearly 200 Aether into gold, never will have an issue again. I stopped playing after S2 and came back in the final weeks of S4 and the improvements to the overall game are amazing. Still more room for improvement, but now I feel like I will keep coming back for future seasons. This is the first time I will be getting into endgame content. In 1 day already have out leveled any character I had before. Max at launch I had was 80 and yesterday got my Necro to 84. Should hit 100 tonight. And looking forward to see how the Pits are or getting my ass kicked in Infernal Hordes. As a casual player, it is a lot more fun now than it ever has. Kudos to Blizzard.
Completely agree with the breaches and the story. I went in with zero expectations and had to take a second at the second or third quest because it took me by surprise
Conduit pylon sketti: Places a lightning aura around the character. Grants 25% move speed, 20% damage reduction, and electrocutes enemies it contacts for 250% weapon dmg (this might need to be higher).
For glyph xp, you could have "glyph orb" drops. Each one would be worth 1 xp, and can drop from chests, bosses, etc. In prder to minimize the impact to game infrastructure, the next time you complete a nightmare dungeon, those orbs are consumed and add to the amount earned. This eliminates the need to build out an extra menu and still requires you to do dungeons. It also allows for fairly easy adjustments to drop rate so that dungeons are the best way to target farm glyph growth.
I said it before and I'll say it again tempering and enchanting should be flipped. Tempering is taking a well rolled item and adding build specific modifiers. Once a temper type is selected it should fill that spot permanently but you should be encouraged to attempt to spend more and more materials rerolling (3 choices where 1 is keep current) to get the specific stat you want and to maximize your roll for that stat. This achieves your item journey idea while locking that item into the build the player is making it for. I'd even be fine if the range values were weighted to make getting the high range values less likely. Enchanting is taking a not perfectly rolled item and trying to get the rolls we want on it, so having it very limited, having no choice to keep the existing stat value (though the option to spend your enchanting on rerolling the range value instead of the entire stat would be cool) or even having it 'brick' an item is perfectly acceptable as it was already not up to par when it dropped. You still have the potential to find better base stat items and go on a new tempering journey to replace your existing items.
I said after pre-season that season 4-5 would be when people should come back and try it again, and I stand by that. I think it may take till season 10 to catch up to what we all hoped it would be with socials, end game, and QoL ironed out.
Funny thing with "We want your choices to matter". Wow did that and it is apparently now being taught in game design courses that the concept of "locking into a build" is antiquated and not something that should be designed for in RPGs due to the backlash of shadowlands.
Hey Raxx, I noticed something while doing nightmare dungeons that I didnt see you mention here that I think is something worth talking about. I found one of those mid dungeon events where you click an injured NPC and it spawns waves of enemies, and it says to defeat 5 waves. It used to be that after those 5 waves are done, they would just keep spawning until the timer ran out. It does not seem to do that anymore, once I hit the 5 waves, all mobs just completely stopped and I had to stand there doing nothing for 40 seconds until the timer ended to get the loot chest.
Rax thank you for pushing the group finder issue. It really stinks to have to lfg in the trade channel and tbh I know we're not all playing the same but I love blasting demons with a team.
I so agree with the conduit pylon thing. I remember to complain about at reddit when they released the Open Beta. The pylons is supposed to reinforce a build, not change it
The removing of those middle sections of NMDs has completely changed the game. Go now and do even just 40-50s if you're only level 60-80 and you get a TON of exp and dont have that boring (literal) gatekeeping section to slow you down for no reason. Any build with lots of movement speed or mobility skills like rogue sorc and barb (my group, not sure about dru and nec) can just tear through nmds and get at least all 5-7 glyphs to 15 no problem. Edit: and about waller, this is the sole reason why I deviated from the guide I was following for barb (I loosely follow them anyway before endgame) and got both leap and charge, because charge is great for movement and when you use brawler+veteran brawler it's a monster, but also leap for getting over walls, up/down cliffs and other drops in dungeons, etc. The fact barbs can leap, and sorcs can teleport, up/down stuff is kind of ridiculous given Blizzard's love for ladder/cliff/whatever sections.
Raxx! Great video, agree with all your points in the vid. There is something else I would like to address with blizzard. I am a casual player and I have a full time job, I make decent money. However. I still feel like Items in the cosmetic shop are still vastly overpriced. Every season I buy the premium battle pass, I feel like the value is worth the money I spend. Cosmetic items in the shop need to drop in price.Or they need to put them on sale more often. If items were 75% percent less money I would be inclined to buy more stuff off the diablo 4 shop. Another great idea is to be able to buy pieces of gear transmogs independently for less money. For example, there is a really cool Necromancer shield that I like on one of the armor sets but I don't like the armor set itself. If they offered the shield for like 3 bucks , I'd probably buy it right away.
This game is so close to being perfect. We just really need more things to connect with eachother. Clan wars, group finder, world chat etc. cow level ...
move your mouse over your mini map....if it says "Conduit Shrine" then its a shrine....if it says nothing when you mouse over it on the mini map its a cursed one.
Legend
Same goes for healing wells
Didn't know that about wells and shrine... many thanks
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I'm shocked he didn't know this
Agree about conduit pylons, I think they should just make them how they are in D3, added lightning aoe damage while I can still play my character
all the shrines are trash in this game. you waste half of the buff moving around because your character moves at a snail's pace until you're at endgame.
Big yep. Leave my skill-bar alone!
exactly my thoughts since day 1 D3 had much better conduit shrines. I dont even bother picking them in D4
@@sonnyankau9239 if youre going slow anything past level 40, you are built very wrong.
big facts
I'd like for treasure goblins to drop an item which resets tempering on an item. Would feel awesome to know seeing a treasure goblin is going to let you revive a bricked item.
I fear that would only cause people to hold onto bricked items in hopes of finding a goblin, and then causing storage issues (which is already an issue)
This would probably be like a best case scenario. I'd even be happy with a special goblin, that allows you to get back one attempt at tempering to try and unbrick an item. So that there's a bit of a grind to get these "rare" items. But they can't make the gobby's so rare that they might as well just not even have the option. But that's just me. :)
Happy Season 5 all!
Oorr just make tempering unlimited rolls problem solved.
Just farm a new item or buy one. Its not hard
No, I do not want to have a new system with a new material we can grind for and then I have tohoarde bricked items. The easier and better solution is just fix tempering. Let me select my affix and then gamble for my value of the affix or let you have infinite chances to temper if you have the material and material cost would go up each time.
I like how levelheaded and thoughtful your critique and compliments are. You get to the point, suggest things that need to happen and don’t completely bash them to death when it actually does seem like they are trying to improve the game and the player experience. Keep doing what you’re doing Raxx
If you thing they are trying to improve the game after its had 5 seasons and people are saying its improving but not great shows your very gullable thinking Blizzard will make a good game. To put in perspective Blizzard haven't made a game thats great for about 15 years because all they care about is how much money can they take from you. If you find enjoyment in a generic ARPG thats fine but your clearly have no standards or have any concept of what a good game looks like, sorry to be blunt but I hate such a greedy company like Blizzard and people like you encourage Blizzard to not care about the community. I want Blizzard to be their old selves but they won't because they can put lil effort into their game and fill it with MTX then you people buy it so they will continue to scam you's because you let them get way with it
@@MrBulldawg6 if you hate blizzard and this game so much then why are you on UA-cam watching videos and complaining about it? Go play something else. I didn’t say it was a perfect game. I said they are actually trying to improve it, which they are, the game is better now than it was at release so that literally proves what I said. Get a life and things like this wouldn’t bother you so much.
@@StealnSoulz105 I do and I check up cause I want it to meet my standards but admittedly I have a strong passion to hate Blizzard
@@MrBulldawg6 lil bro forgot overwatch 1 the best hero shooter ever
@@febsho9613 I agree then they cloned the 1st game and add a number 2 to resell it
Condi pylons are bizarre in that they enforce a transformation on you. The other pylons are additive, where you can continue to use your normal abilities. The simple fix is to go back to the D3 design and have the Condi effect as an add on that fires of automatically as you move through the dungeon.
My biggest missing QoL feature is more tabs for the inventory. IMO we need at least 2 more tabs:
One for Nightmare Sigils, Infernal Compasses and Abyssal Scrolls
One for Boss summoning materials
The rest are elixirs, whispering keys, mindcages etc, they fit in one tab just fine.
They keep on adding more and more consumables without the necessary inventory space and I hate juggling all the materials between that one tab and the stash in town
They should make glyphys work the same way as gems in PoE, socket lvl 1 glyphy, and lvl it up passively just by doing any activity that gives you exp, or just % of exp earned from killing monsters
Or just double the glyph XP you earn so it only takes like 3 tier 100s to fully max a glyph... XP should scale from 10 to 1000 not 10 to 400
@@droid5785 honestly the best solution
Yeah I could see glyph xp being constantly earned at a low level and then make the NMDs give way more so it's still better but not the only thing. It would also let NMDs be the only way to level a glyph you aren't wearing.
dont even play poe but when i kept finding the same glyphys i was like why cant this add exp to it
I really like this idea, because you can engage in other content and not do ND at all, like i do every season because i strongly dislike the few dungeon layouts and i prefer to play in the overworld.
The reason the seasonal story felt like something, is because it brought back the very first plot point of the game. The fact that we consumed Lilith essence and how that actually can do something for our characters power wise. Its the most connected to the main story the seasonal plot has ever been.
I had the same thought. It felt like an extension of the main story instead of the usual random stuff that feels shoehorned in.
@@solitude7566 yeah usually something random that just dissapears afterwards.
I loved it and this type of reputation need to stay in
yeah they should mesh the campaign with the seasonal stuff more often.
Disagree about the glyph. The only reason to do nightmare key is to level up glyph. If they put this system in another feature, nightmare dungeon will be useless and the pit is the way to go.
Very true
They could just add a different way of leveling it up but keep the nightmare dungeons being the best way to do it. You would end up doing both, also nightmare dungeons are mostly a good way of leveling up so you'd still do it in the end
Good. If a feature is inferior and less fun, move on from it. Sure it WAS a core of the game, but why hold on to it? Why do we NEED nightmare dungeons?
@@MarkusArkus5 This is the core of the issue to me. It should be at least on par and fun, sole glyph XP source or not. Otherwise why is it in there indeed.
Most people hate nightmare dungeons so something has to happen
The season quest line is very good
Got to level 60 last night, and I was doing a mix of Infernal Hordes, Breaches, Helltides, Whispers, and NMDs. Unlocking the battlepass chapters by doing all activities made the leveling process feel really good. Happy with the season so far.
My problem with the loot filter is there's no way to target to pick up what you want on console. Its just a pile and you have to pick up everything to get what you want.
This. Its sooo annoying. Also certain skills like Firewall or Hydra just cast randomly in whatever direction youre facing, no way to be precise with them.
Yeah it sucks to be poor...
Okay but a loot filter would make it so the item doesn’t even show up. Unless you specifically press a certain key. At least that’s how they do it in last epoch and it’s great. Granted last epoch item bloat is WAYYYYY bigger than d4. So it’s almost necessary to have one or you spend more time looking at items than actually playing the game.
@@amp2193 nothing about being poor. Consoles are generally more balanced on 99% of games. Also y'know, PC can use a controller but console cant use a mouse on D4, whats that about?
@@hiddenxalpha7053 it's just a joke bud.
Most my friends play on console or budget PC's.
Just a bit of shiz talking.
PC players like myself just pay a lot so it looks better.
Consoles are for the masses. Nice and budget friendly and ya still get most of what a solid PC can do.
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We need it.
This.
Can't see that it's already been said, but for your comment on Conduit Pylons there is a way to check if it's a legit pylon or a cursed one. If you mouse over the pylon icon on the minimap if the name doesn't pop up, it's cursed. That way you can click for the curse, without needing to risk debuffing yourself with the conduit.
This season I was able to destroy my capstone dungeons 20 levels under as Blood Surge. In 3 hours I was in WT 4 at level 51. Those pants for give 150%[X] overpower damage to cursed enemies are awesome.
This is awsome until you do a boss and have to afk for 20 mins
my season start had about 7 random game freeze/crashes so it's nice you didn't have any issues
Good improvement points, what about the random crazyness we had in d3, running into a room with 20 different goblins, getting a puzzle ring or whimsydale. I expected more randomness and crazyness with this.
I skip the condy pylon too. My version of a remake would be to lose the teleport, add 2.5 × movement speeed and just have it explode anything I run through. And when a mob explodes it also explodes any enemies nearby.
Ya when I click on pylons by mistake I’m usually pissed.. there needs to be a way to disable imo
They should just be like in D3: your character receives a lightning aoe, so you get an additional dps regardless of your build and gear.
Raxx you usually make great points, however the one with the waller affix baffles me a little. People are always talking about the game being too easy, no challenge, etc . . and then complain when there is an affix that negates some skills? Isn't that the whole point? See a wall, don't cast your spell. Walk around it. Teleport.
My buddy made a good point on the loot filter. When you set your filters to more godly gear once when you are pretty geared , you know when something drops that it's something really good. That dopamine hit will be more impactful
Never would have thought to use a loot filter to filter out shitty drops. Thanks for the revelation
Yes and the n you dont Pick up everything and have 0 materials haha @@droid5785
@@droid5785 copied from L.E 😂
@@zayon0170 LE, the first ARPG with a loot filter -_-
That’s the entire point of a loot filter… you guys have the iq of working ants.
Season four is the first season I played start to finish… even made my first hardcore run. Hoping season 5 continues the vibe.
It's way better. It's like HJ vs BJ difference.
@@2.0.1.0.This gave me a huge laugh. Thanks lol
@@2.0.1.0.this comment alone might get me back on diablo
@@2.0.1.0.S6 will be anal or wdyt?
@@2.0.1.0.what have you found better because so far at level 40 I’m not finding anything fresh in this season and I love D4 and have about a dozen level 100s completed. Should I keep pushing?
I legitimately feel this is the best season yet.
If nothing else, the questline sold it for me. As a long-time Diablo fan and lore nut, I loved every second of it right up to the gruesome, hopeless ending.
I think it sets the tone perfectly for VoH, the only real gripe I have is that so much of it felt like rubbing salt in the wound for everyone who wanted Paladin back.
Did a world boss at lvl 12 in WTII and it was a damn war zone… SUPER FUN!!
@matthewmitchell7293 the two world bosses I took part in at levels 10 and 20 went down in roughly 3 minutes. Better than 3 seconds I suppose, but it still leaves a lot to be desired.
I think one more thing i will add is that this is the odd season team, to the odd team devs: you guys rocked this season, I've been waiting to say that since most people only throw shade but forget to praise. Well done odd team!!!!❤
The way to solve NMD and Glyph leveling in my eyes, is to spice up Nightmare Dungeons themselves, I think you do this by doubling down on random events. E.g. A room of goblins, Butcher, Son of whatever his face was, A Council Member, Hellborne Death Squad, quite frankly anything that accomplishes two things. 1: A Challenge that wakes you up and tests you in some way 2: a huge bump in rewards, XP, Gold, Uniques Whatever.
For me though if these happened every few dungeons I would really be excited to see what plays out, oh an don't limit these random encounters, let them overlap a bit, and let TP out be an option to have these enemies de-spawn if too tough.
I like that it takes many different sources for you to do in order to make your character feel good. Such as, nightmare dungeons for glyphs, helltide xp/gear/mats, then u got the new mode for mothers hearts that also helps you with lvling, then after all that u got the pit towards the end game it feels very nice how they got everything separated.
That's definitely why they still have glyphs locked behind NMDs, they want people to still have to do NMDs and not JUST farm (and get bored that much faster by) the pit and now breaches. That's probably why they also removed the middle sections of NMDs, because they knew that would alleviate a large amount of the complaints about them.
All this talk from Rax about sigil dust struggles, meanwhile I just salvaged a couple Infernal Hordes keys and I was swimming in sigil dust from before I even entered World Tier 4.
This is the answer; I feel like he didn't know about this when he made the video, because yeah you can salvage even just the 1 or 2 tier 1 ones you have by then and get enough to craft multiple ancestral sigils.
Good point, and another reason why it’s silly rax makes these state of the game videos on the first day when he doesn’t even know these things.
A lot of his issues are from an unrealistic experience. He literally just farms to level 100 the fastest possible.
this is one faults of raxx - he doesn't play the game - he just blasts to 100 - i was watching him the other week and there were so many things he didnt even have a clue about that is the base game...
@@MrHoopski He played the full game now at least hopefully he has new opinions of the game.
Once again..super on point and quick feedback. Thank you for all your work to help improve D4!
24:45 this right here. Very infuriating when you roll 3-4x and get the same exact affix with just a percentage change and usually you get screwed. I’ve even traveled to different blacksmiths to see if the affix would change but nope I roll my final roll and again same affix that I don’t want or is useless to my build
I honestly disagree with the fact that leveling slower is bad when tbh I feel it keeps players like me busy so we don't get board quickly plus stops people from just blasting through season then leaving until next season
Feels much smoother to play over all, i'm having a blast. Been a proper critic (with good reason) the past year but i'm genuinely having fun.
it's always fun for a day or two, then there is nothing to do, game is the same as always.
@MyFixarn Funny enough that is EXACTLY how I feel right now. I'm returning from Season2 and it feels like the exact same game, nothing is different at all. I'm already getting bored.
@@MyFixarnisn’t that how most of these games go though after like a week into the season they drop off a lot even PoE that people go crazy over does the same too. They get spikes when new leagues or seasons come out, but then they fall off until the next one
Yes, that's true. People just don't know what they want. All games of this type play the same way. Maybe they want to bring back memories of their childhood when they sat around and beat diablo 500 times. That will never happen again.
@@raminol8110 It's not an MMO, i'm getting on now, business, house etc. D3, D4 and good POE leagues are great for me. Just blast for 2-3 days for diablo and a week or so for POE. Got my fix / recharge and back to life.
Hi Raxx! Thanks for the video, always great! I noticed an unusual slowdown in the experience too... Many of my friends say that it levels out quickly, but to me it seems a little slower :P
The infernal hordes quest is not the seasonal quest. The infernal hordes quest is evergreen and stays in (it has important lore connecting to the expansion) hence it is a white quest and available on eternal. The green seasonal quest with the hell breach dungeons is a separate thing and will go away tho.
Right, I was talking about the green seasonal quests before the infernal hordes chapter
@@Raxxanterax just wanted to clarify that for people because I see a lot of guys being confused about this
I'm playing a Sorceress and I got a pair of Axial Conduit pants early in the game. I'm at level 60 now and still haven't swapped them out because they're that good. I did get to play one of those Infernal Hoardes with a compass thingy and it was better than I expected. I'm really enjoying this season's changes.
No Glyph Exp in Infernal Hordes was such a missed opportunity. We go from Helltide Leveling to Nightmare Dungeon Glyph Exp Grind, maybe add a splash of Boss Ladder for certain Uniques, and then Pit grind to the end of days for Masterworking Mats... when are we supposed to do Infernal Hordes?
Edit: To update this, strangely enough Infernal Hordes is a complete Pit replacement, granting Masterworking Mats through the material chest.
To target specific greater affix gear I believe
Greater affixes gear, gold, gem dust and other materials..... so many reasons to do infernal hordes dude. You're definitely doing it wrong jumping straight from nmd to hardcore grinding pit
@@synistargg2502 If it's not as bad as I initially thought then that's great - I'm still grinding NMD. I definitely want to check them out more still - that said, rn I do think for Gold it seems better to do Whispers, to then also get Varshan Mats for Duriel. Helltide is really great for Whispers now, esp. Bloodmaiden, which has loads of drops for salvage Mats, and fsr also seems to drop far more greater affixes, for me at least, than everything else in the game.
So it's really just Gemdust left to actively seek out the Hordes for, and only if you don't want to be patient with it just naturally accumulating into endgame.
So I'm not convinced yet, but I'll see.
@@asum7786 well, having done many tier 3 hordes, I can tell you I make about 20 mil gold every run if simply sink it into the gold chest. I don't think whispers competes with that. Gem dust you get about 3-5k dust of every gem type. so it's a bit of a grind but it works really well if you're lookin to get those royal gems asap. You also get obducite and other legendary craft mats and that's all from a single chest...
@@synistargg2502 My point isn't that Whispers compete with Hordes in terms of gold, they don't, but that you probably want to do Whispers anyway for Varshan->Duriel, and just happen to get loads of gold farming that up.
Hordes dropping Obducite is good to know though, means Hordes can be run over early Pit instead.
I honestly rather them provide an alternative to NMD than Pit though.
Grinding these ~7 glyphs up these days, since the additive stuff in the boards has become useless with tempering and glyphs are almost all that matters now, is a pain.
my biggest winner this season is the reward caches from the seasonal journey. the community thrives so much with everyone having a few sets to do ubers! so many rotas, and almost none involves scammers. getting someone geared enough to carry etc, that added so muhc for me
Intentional or not, I'm a big fan of levelling taking around 10 hours. Any less feels like an underwhelming experience IMO, it's why the season rewards + reputation rewards feel like the correct pace.
Talking about battlepass and cosmetics, it would be so good if they add a way to change the skin or effects of skills like they add a skin to portals and stuff. Man, I would love that
So nice also is it only me or the battle pass is lacking I never find myself wanted to buy it. Why does it feel useless?
@@cho8437So its not pay to win. And they're not releasing their best skins yet. If they release them now, no one will want to buy skins bliz gave now. Maybe with expansion to get more sells, better skins will be there, or even later.
Tempering I think too easy quick ways to fix it are, Just give us like 10 rerolls plus one for every greater affix. Or just make it where we can select which one we want specifically but the percentage on it is completely random and you have a higher chance of getting a low percentage. Where randomly selecting one gives you a Way higher chance of getting a higher percentile or manually selecting what you want is usually lower. I think that would be a good give or take
That’s not that bad of an idea I like it.
ur so right bro. the first thing i noticed right off the bat was wow.... class balance isnt absolute garbo now
More positive notes than negative notes, that's a win to me!
He says their are more positives than negatives and then spends 80% of the video talking about negatives. 😅
@@bradencluster4739well there isn’t much to say if something is being done well, while the problems need to be discussed more
Thank you for voicing the stuff that all of us are thinking!!
Perhaps with tempering, they should widen the roll ranges and then add a final tempering mechanic where if you "brick" an item, you can one time apply any specific tempering modifier you want, but it will be minimum roll. This would greatly reduce the pain of not getting the rolls you want and maintain an incentive for the item hunt to keep rerolling for improvements.
This is a great idea
Some of the seasonal quest could totally be side quests that you stumble upon in later seasons. Like a side quest that lets you revisit the vaults just for a taste or reminder. The content doesn’t have to exist still but the work put into the quest can remain
Tempering and master working needs to be fixed for sure. Master working needs to let us reset 1 rank at a time. Having to reset 3 ranks, farm all the materials again, to most likely not get what you want is beyond rage inducing. The "customization" feels so bad in this game. I'm no programer, but there's got to be a way they can make you have a better chance to get tempers related to your equipped skills. So if I have Barrage equipped it should give me a much better chance to get the Barrage themed tempers instead of giving me rapidfire 4 times in a row. If they can't give us more control over the tempers, then they need to make GA gear drop at much higher rates, and give us more materials. It's really the worst part of the game.
Agreed 100%. You spend a huge portion of the game completely in control of how you want to build your character just to get to the endgame and have most of it RNG. GA items, tempering, master working etc. Incredibly frustrating.
I agree with all of your items on the Needs Improvement list but they’re all small pickings for how much fun I’m having.
Diablo 4 has never crashed on me as much as it did last night. Something about it is funky.
Mine was a stuttering mess since launch until I moved to 32GB ram. Shouldn’t even matter but it did a lot.
@@HugeBusch no issues for me at all since launch. But after the latest patch crashes have been very bad. Had a couple more today - one even caused my computer to reboot!
@@StarRightStarTight that sucks, first thought is a dusty fan though lol. But I’m an IT so that’s how my dumb brain always thinks
@@HugeBusch wouldn’t hurt to give the boys a little cleaning
I had similar problems last season, game crashed like every 30-60 min and lagged a lot. Reinstalled the game then and no problems since.
Hey Rax, great video as always. I just have a quick suggestion, although I am not sure how easy it would be to happen. It would be great if, during the edit, some details are appearing on screen. I understand that someone that plays a lot would already know pretty much every item/aspect in the game, however, my understanding is that your videos are also addressed towards more casual players. For example, and since I am not native english speaker myself, I had to pause and rewatch when you talked about Axial Conduit, as I was not aware of that item. If there was a card/image of it floating for a couple of seconds on the screen while talking about it, it would be much easier and accessible for the viewer to know exactly what you are talking about. Your feedback / guide videos are already in depth and I believe this would add a nice touch. Tons of respect for your content, of course, thank you for the amazing videos and apologies for the long comment.
They need to fix tempering yesterday. After about the third time around of rolling nothing but crowd control mods yet again, I wanted to just log off and never play again.
Bad rng in tempering greatly reduces the fun in finding good items.
You have not prayed hard enough to RNGesus.
Tempering numbers in general arw too high, ppl would do it for 15% crit dmg, why put 150 it just makes an item unusable no matter how godly it is in comparison if most dmg comes from tempering
Yup tempering is garbage and always will be males me not even wanna play end game at all.
Last season i got so many good items... of which i bricked 99% of em, and the i didnt brick got still crappy rolls which i didnt wanna risk re-rolling cus id brick it for sure...and ik so many ppl got some godly 3GA items that were bricked on arrival essentially due to tampering.
How do they not understand the essential mechanic of tempering is bad. It's like if you had to use the occultist every time you want to improve any piece of gear. Completely random and stacked against you for rolls that you actually need with no way to improve or manipulate the process. Masterworking isn't much better, but that's also at the very end of your gear grind and it's a resettable end-game gold sink. Tempering is just bricking with extra steps and a real low chance of success.
This is a showstopper for me. Hated it in S4, not going to do it moving foward.
22:30 on point! Need challenge/reward structure in end game beyond pit.
The season mechanic is pretty lame this go round i disagree with it being a better season
Cause you're gay
Went hard on S4 and now waiting for that expansion
The problem with the tempering bricking items is that it turns what should be dopamine hit into a general sense of dread at best. Say you see a 2-3 GA item on the ground. My first thought is not SCORE!!! It's... ok... Life per second is one of them. On the rare occasion that the GAs are good... then it's well... let's see if it tempers... after you spend all this time working on the piece you get more relief than excitment when it rolls your ways. If the GA stayed a GA when you rerolled an affix... I would feel so much more dopamine. That "life per second" gross feeling would be gone with... Hey I can reroll that until I get what I WANT... and I would use so many resources on that.
Was literally just thinking about how I need a video encapsulating S5 and Rax uploads this 😭
The good: its D3+
The bad: its D3
This pretty much has been my fear since first time they showed D4 at blizzcon. Rather than elevate the IP forward they got stuck in the d3 format.
There is nothing that makes this D3.
@@antennencerebralpgaming2872 how exactly would you elevate the IP? :)
Spot on take and S5 feels like another step in the right direction so far :)
Though hilarious that I went Sorc and decided to go Fire direction only considering everything that would always drop before was for Fire builds - what do I get in the first 35 levels, everything for Lightning builds and hardly anything Fire (not just the season questline rewards either) - actually said that would happen anyway lol
Only thing I can say is. why the fuck is tampering still so annoying? So many bricked items its infuriating.
Skill issue
It’s absolutely terrible, they need to fix that asap imagine getting the 3ga item you need and then brick it, it’s really bad
So far I only played 3/4 HS but I have to admit is probably the most fun season start yet.
I really like the dopamine hell tunnels it actually fits the vision of recreating the scene of the march to hell quite well.
I just want them to delete WT3 they even give you sacreds Ilvl 600 as soon as you reach it which means that you can essentially jump to wt4 as soon as you can equip sacred. So they are symbolically removing it, very likely this will get solved with expansion stat squish and they just don't bother until then.
10 hours to max level is insane. It SHOULD NOT be any faster IMO
Agree! We don't want this to turn into D3
Leveling a character isnt "The game".
The game is creating a build, and killing bosses/events/dungeons/putting it to the test.
one of the best parts about D3 was 'Level 70 in an hour, lets go actually progress'.
@@hiddenxalpha7053 nope. That’s why d3 seasons lasted 2 days.
@@hotpancakes9814 You say that, yet im already done with the D4 season, so now what? :)
All ubers dead, season journey complete, battlepass complete, No reason to push pit because no leaderboards, no reason to improve gear because i've done everything.
@@hiddenxalpha7053 so you agree then it moves way too fast lol
Frostburn gloves along with just a couple lucky hit chance tempers are amazing for firewall leveling. I hit 52 in like 3 hours and was just freezing and deleting packs of enemies even in WT3 with barely any gearing. The leveling feels so smooth and the changes to the unique like you said actually makes me want to go seek them out while still in the 1-100 grind
I hate the battle pass
Yeah, it’s kind of underwhelming, I only like how the skins look on Barb
Battle passes are hot garbage and need to go away, I hate seasonal type content in games. Just give me a large monetized expansion every 6 months to a year
Then don't buy it
@@jaweel6205 exactly
Pretend it doesn't exist, other people who pay for it are the reason you get new content every 3 months.
Regarding expansions, if they plan on doing an expansion once a year thats amazing, and I'm more than happy to support the battle pass to make that happen.
Hey raxx... I just want to appreciate you and your fellow streamers to what a new season is a hard work for you. I mean you do so long streams, followed by some videos about analyzing that stuff. I would die by doin 20 hours of stream. Guess its a very hard time then to come up fast with content. Loved that video and agree with most of it.
A fee bugs..apparently in hord mode you can lvl +30 from a boss kill. Also they didn't fix the pay to win from battle pass dohh
What pay to win are you referring to?
@@deepestpurplesmoldering ashes
I really liked the seasonal quest dungeons. Really wish they would have expanded on those and given us keys for them instead of the infernal hordes. They were very fun, dense, and felt like I was blasting juice ona good pace. Season is totally acceptable and like the direction of the current design philosophy. All good things looking into the expansion, really high hopes for the expansion to have a reaper of souls comeback for d4.
The best build you can play in D4, is closing D4 and opening Path of Exile.
No, most players won't be able to progress maps. Poe of for the top 10% . If you have to follow a guide to be able to progress its not a game for most ppl.
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True words never been spoken
Path of Math
My wishlist is:
1. Armoury/Loadouts
2. LFG tool
3. Auction house identical to the implementation in WoW
I thought S4 was too fast to lvl 100, so if they slowed it a little bit, that's fine.
10-20h to reach endgame seems totally acceptable. That's what it takes in LE and PoE.
fuck no why would u want to go slower >-> wasting 20h just to actually start playing the game on every alt is the main reason i quit ARPGs early
Totally agree. If they want the game to "start" at max level, they should let you make a character at max level. If they want the game to start at level 1, then 1-100 should be FUN, not FAST
@@gecgoodpasi1654absolutely right
Simple solution for tempering: every roll doesn't override the current unless you choose to do so. Instead they are all stored until you use all your rolls (5,7 whatever it is). Then, you can pick which of them is the best for you
Literally said the same thing about the powers and potential powers, the mixing of uniques and gear. I was actually having fun. Leaves me wanting to play more classes and more builds. Its in a good state.
i was waiting for this video hahah. the season really impressed me, speccialy the infernal hordes. they could put a more diverse affixes in the waves, but is a good start.
Would LOVE a type of Path to Hell mode where you're outrunning a timer and a wave of fire while blasting through hordes of minions and elites to get to the end. And don't forgot some cinematic music to go along with the breakout of hell.
I'm a pseudo-casual player and I had noticed many of the things you mentioned, so it's not just world-class players who would benefit from your recommendations to Blizzard. Thanks for fighting for ALL of us!
always important thanks raxx
Hey Rax, thanks for the great content! I would only disagree with nightmare dungeons being the only best way to level now. If you are level 70-80 you can start blasting Infernal Hordes level 3 (monster level 100 - pretty good level difference). Then after 90 whenever the player feel may switch to nightmare dungeons and have a good time with higher level nmds and level his glyph xp much faster rather than having to open 30-60 sigils. Of course for that matter you need to make a pitstop for some boss kills and get unique items AND can mix up with some nmds if you really need some glyph leveled at least to 15. But still - the ratio of Infernal hordes against ndms in 70-93 can be 80% to 20% which is still decent.
I like it when the last like 10 levels are a grind
ayo d2
@@tpola3648 best telebow on d2pk!
The good thing will add on this october rather than now, thats why this season is similar to season 4
It really says something about the QOL of respeccing, that you'd rather spend 6-10 hours leveling a new character, rather than having to respec everything. I started to do the same thing last season, but ended up not doing it, because the time investment was too big.
They could even just let you import a string that you copy from a website, that has all the paragon stuff in it, if they wanted to make a quick and dirty version.
6-10 hours to redo a character rather than change skills and redo Paragon boards? That's a fools errand.
@@Mike-om4tvI did it 3 times last season as the gearing with tempering just exasperated the issue.
@@Mike-om4tv fool's errand doesn't mean what you want it to mean.
@@seanmcginnis7564 i mean if you were maximizing your characters you'd have 3 builds: trash clear, boss killer, and pvp.the fact that this game doesn't have loadouts but D3 does is hilarious. I would personally rather spend a day getting a new character levelled than wasting any time respeccing back and forth on a character. It is pure time sink and waste. tempering does more than just exacerbate the issue, it makes you also have to store more gear for potential. Also, the idea that you're playing spec_a to collect gear the most efficiently for spec_b is just a horrid game design. versus character_a having literally 2 builds. It's not even worth talking about, it's such an obvious feature that's missing, but blizzard has gone the route of listening to whatever gets whined about the loudest so here we are. whine whine whine please fix your silly game to allow me to have fun instead of become nauseous at the prospect of not having multiple specs easily accessible in an ARPG. They've monetized basic UI functionality. That's simply a dark design pattern. "save the cool stuff for x patches from now" just like their goofy original gem system, resists, whatever they're thinking with armor, the entire legendary system, and now ... tempering being a dumpster fire. whine whine whine please undo your obviously intentional dark design patterns
@@frottery I agree 💯. This is a game not a job. I have fun playing different styles of each character. I leveled 7 last season, but you shouldn’t have to level 1 class more than once.
About the chain lightning being blocked by the monster waller affix. One thing I've always wished for in ARPG's is ways to customize your playing experience. Being able to block certain things, or make sure some things appear more frequently. For those who have played PoE, you know that rolling monsters reflect physical damage on a map with a vaal orb as a physical build instantly bricks your map. Or as in Raxx' case getting elites with waller makes gameplay incredibly annoying. I'd love it if we could somehow block certain modifiers from appearing at the cost e.g two other affixes/modifiers becoming stronger. That way it's not just a straight boon but a tradeoff.
I agree with Con Pylons. I didn’t even think about it because I never leveled enough to really get way more powerful than them. But yesterday I clicked on one and was like, “wow I’m doing crap damage and this is slowing my run down, never clicking these again”.
I like that we have to struggle with gold until reaching WT4. It should be a struggle, making you prioritize what is really important while leveling. Up until 50 I was consistently around 10k to 100k gold, barely enough to keep up with potions. But it made me really choose which legendary affix’s I really needed. Then after completing 2-3 Tree of Whispers or clearing out an Infernal Horde and dumping nearly 200 Aether into gold, never will have an issue again.
I stopped playing after S2 and came back in the final weeks of S4 and the improvements to the overall game are amazing. Still more room for improvement, but now I feel like I will keep coming back for future seasons.
This is the first time I will be getting into endgame content. In 1 day already have out leveled any character I had before. Max at launch I had was 80 and yesterday got my Necro to 84. Should hit 100 tonight. And looking forward to see how the Pits are or getting my ass kicked in Infernal Hordes. As a casual player, it is a lot more fun now than it ever has. Kudos to Blizzard.
Thanks for your video, Raxx! Always appreciate your thoughts on D4. I'll go back to POE - I'm loving this season Settlers of Kingsmarch.
Completely agree with the breaches and the story. I went in with zero expectations and had to take a second at the second or third quest because it took me by surprise
Perfect timing for work rax. Before watching I'll lyk, love the additions to the season. D4 on right track.
More treasure goblins! And more types of treasure goblins! And bring back that little laugh they used to have in D3, I loved that sound.
Conduit pylon sketti:
Places a lightning aura around the character. Grants 25% move speed, 20% damage reduction, and electrocutes enemies it contacts for 250% weapon dmg (this might need to be higher).
For glyph xp, you could have "glyph orb" drops. Each one would be worth 1 xp, and can drop from chests, bosses, etc. In prder to minimize the impact to game infrastructure, the next time you complete a nightmare dungeon, those orbs are consumed and add to the amount earned.
This eliminates the need to build out an extra menu and still requires you to do dungeons. It also allows for fairly easy adjustments to drop rate so that dungeons are the best way to target farm glyph growth.
I said it before and I'll say it again tempering and enchanting should be flipped.
Tempering is taking a well rolled item and adding build specific modifiers. Once a temper type is selected it should fill that spot permanently but you should be encouraged to attempt to spend more and more materials rerolling (3 choices where 1 is keep current)
to get the specific stat you want and to maximize your roll for that stat. This achieves your item journey idea while locking that item into the build the player is making it for. I'd even be fine if the range values were weighted to make getting the high range values less likely.
Enchanting is taking a not perfectly rolled item and trying to get the rolls we want on it, so having it very limited, having no choice to keep the existing stat value (though the option to spend your enchanting on rerolling the range value instead of the entire stat would be cool) or even having it 'brick' an item is perfectly acceptable as it was already not up to par when it dropped.
You still have the potential to find better base stat items and go on a new tempering journey to replace your existing items.
thanks for the video!
If you did the season questline asap you also get the keys for the infernal hordes to salvage for dust (to get your first WT4 key faster)
I said after pre-season that season 4-5 would be when people should come back and try it again, and I stand by that. I think it may take till season 10 to catch up to what we all hoped it would be with socials, end game, and QoL ironed out.
Funny thing with "We want your choices to matter". Wow did that and it is apparently now being taught in game design courses that the concept of "locking into a build" is antiquated and not something that should be designed for in RPGs due to the backlash of shadowlands.
Hey Raxx, I noticed something while doing nightmare dungeons that I didnt see you mention here that I think is something worth talking about. I found one of those mid dungeon events where you click an injured NPC and it spawns waves of enemies, and it says to defeat 5 waves. It used to be that after those 5 waves are done, they would just keep spawning until the timer ran out. It does not seem to do that anymore, once I hit the 5 waves, all mobs just completely stopped and I had to stand there doing nothing for 40 seconds until the timer ended to get the loot chest.
Rax thank you for pushing the group finder issue. It really stinks to have to lfg in the trade channel and tbh I know we're not all playing the same but I love blasting demons with a team.
I so agree with the conduit pylon thing. I remember to complain about at reddit when they released the Open Beta. The pylons is supposed to reinforce a build, not change it
The removing of those middle sections of NMDs has completely changed the game. Go now and do even just 40-50s if you're only level 60-80 and you get a TON of exp and dont have that boring (literal) gatekeeping section to slow you down for no reason. Any build with lots of movement speed or mobility skills like rogue sorc and barb (my group, not sure about dru and nec) can just tear through nmds and get at least all 5-7 glyphs to 15 no problem.
Edit: and about waller, this is the sole reason why I deviated from the guide I was following for barb (I loosely follow them anyway before endgame) and got both leap and charge, because charge is great for movement and when you use brawler+veteran brawler it's a monster, but also leap for getting over walls, up/down cliffs and other drops in dungeons, etc. The fact barbs can leap, and sorcs can teleport, up/down stuff is kind of ridiculous given Blizzard's love for ladder/cliff/whatever sections.
I love the loot filter in Last Epoch.
Something i JUST noticed, we have new allowance caches froms 20-50 at the elixir maker, cache of legendaries to make that leveling process smoother😮😮
Raxx! Great video, agree with all your points in the vid. There is something else I would like to address with blizzard. I am a casual player and I have a full time job, I make decent money. However. I still feel like Items in the cosmetic shop are still vastly overpriced. Every season I buy the premium battle pass, I feel like the value is worth the money I spend. Cosmetic items in the shop need to drop in price.Or they need to put them on sale more often. If items were 75% percent less money I would be inclined to buy more stuff off the diablo 4 shop. Another great idea is to be able to buy pieces of gear transmogs independently for less money. For example, there is a really cool Necromancer shield that I like on one of the armor sets but I don't like the armor set itself. If they offered the shield for like 3 bucks , I'd probably buy it right away.
the first time I picked up a conduit and artillery was such a WOW moment, they are so cool and fun to play with
The reason I’ll never buy a battle pass, they don’t even give you the money that you spent back. like every other battle pass in every game.
This game is so close to being perfect. We just really need more things to connect with eachother. Clan wars, group finder, world chat etc. cow level ...