r/diablo4

The mobs that I fight, anywhere, do not damage me at all. The only thing that does an iota of damage is an on-death *thing*. And by iota, I mean instant-death.

Leaving out gimmick bosses like Lilith, Bartuc, Mephisto who have instant-death mechanics, other bosses cannot even tickle me.

This is what I noticed since my first time back playing D4 since it released - deaths are never from the usual stuff you'd expect in an RPG game - a mob crits you from one of their attacks, a boss hits you with a wind up that you failed to dodge, you literally stood in fire too long or didn't mitigate strong poison fast enough.

This game - oh, your forearm hair brushed against a spark from the explosion, you're DEAD!

Why is the game in this state?

Played since beta, every season. I play 1-2 hours a day. Here’s what a month of that got me in Season 15.

First, the good. Fighting Diablo again is great. The D1, D2 and D3 callbacks are the best thing this game has done in a long time. Targeted mythic crafting and charm rerolls are real improvements.

Two things still don’t work for me.

1. Time.

I’m on Dance of Knives rogue, a top-tier build, just not the one everyone’s running. I crafted my Cowl of the Nameless and hit T12 for the first time.

Getting there took every hour I had, on one character, and the build is only now coming together.

The Cube needs its own mat farm. You get one crafted mythic and every other slot is still drops. Account-wide War Plans help alts. Gear, Cube mats and the mythic still start from zero, so a second character isn’t happening for me.

2. Homework.

Charms, runes, the Cube. Very little of it is taught in the game itself. Your options are streamer guides, which is a second tax, or reading ALL the patch notes every time and doing the math yourself on what changed. That one at least works if you need help falling asleep.

Worst example: the Prime Evil powers. A new splinter dropped, so I tried it. Now I’m leveling a reputation track that doesn’t fit my build. The only way back is another splinter from the largest Waking Nightmares, and as far as I can tell which one you get is random. I haven’t seen the one I need since.

The swap rule is in a Blizzard blog post. I shouldn’t have to hunt for blog posts to learn the systems they keep adding.

I’ve played every season and I still need outside guides to understand the stuff they add. Or I find out from a streamer that something is bugged, after wondering why it doesn’t work.

Shorten the climb or teach the systems in the game. Ideally both.

Got tired of beating my head against the wall with Spiritborn this season and decided to roll a warlock. Had the bright idea (surely not the first to think of it) to save up a few experience times to see how quickly the ones I got as a 200 paragon would level up a new toon. The answer is pretty much instantly. I feel like an idiot for not thinking of this before but I’m wondering if there’s any downside. Or maybe I’m just thick and this is what everybody does. Thoughts?

Got tired of pulling up a page and wanted something that I could just glance at as needed!

https://preview.redd.it/qb78h01lxwuh1.png?width=688&format=png&auto=webp&s=b9788612c22a07114058c894cf6b2627e61acda8

first time in echo of trist.. getting my handed to me by diablo's fire.. if i leave now, i assume ill need to farm another set of coins?

The ability to infintely farm tristram hellfire torches has been patched.

Also, echoing hatred is now much, much faster. It's actually fun, t12 in about 40 seconds.

That's all.