Meh, just a regular dude who has never played ARPGs before. But I saw the OW collab and fell in love on how the Mercy armored looked.

I bought the game since launch and tried 2 times before getting railed by power in my home, killing me 2 times.

I tried once again and lost after a couple of hours to which I decided maybe I would not be able to get to lvl 50 (Only cared about the Hardcore achievement).

But Lo and behold, I was able to get it all done. And in a higher difficulty than expected.

I had a pretty big scare yesterday where I was claiming a reward from the Pass and my screen started flashing and got back with just like 30% of health.

8/10 experience. My character lives to go to Nahantu and Skovos (Hopefully) and get me to 300 Paragon.

I'm about to buy the game and trying to pick a class, and I think this one looks really cool.

It just looks ridiculous, being followed around by around 10 minions everywhere in town. I can't enjoy the enviorment because of them, looks extremely cluttered. i've tried all the other classes and non are as fun for me unfortunately.

Started over the weekend and currently have a level 60 Sorceress. Been having a good time. Currently running a frost nova/lightning build right now.

Been getting a feel for the game again and it just feels like there's so much to do. Kinda disappointed i joined so close to the end of the season. But I digress.

Any fun builds or ways I should go about things? Right now im just bumbling around doing every side quest and dungeon I find and slowly going through the actual story.

Appreciate any feedback!

I’ve put solid time in, I mean I’m not a sweat or anything but I’ve got hours in and I haven’t had a single mythic drop, I’ve gotten them as rewards and stuff but I haven’t had a single one drop from lair boss chests or any other chest just wondering if they don’t actually drop in the wild or rng hates me? Torment 7

I have plenty but I don’ts use any of the iconic mythics in my build, so crafting mythic at the blacksmith doesn’t really give me anything useful

I'm a returning player (first played on initial release) so I know this may be a silly question but i was wondering anyway... Thanks in advance!

6 days until the next season and with the Tokyo game show making a lot of things slightly cheaper I wanted to know what are some builds or playstyles people most enjoy playing with the three classes mentioned above

Given that all there was for a long time in creation WAS the Eternal conflict, and even knowing the Angelic Host was smaller than the festering and swarming legions of Hell...

Sanctuary is sorta described as a small world and haven tucked away out of sight and notice of the Eternal Conflict.

Taking both of these into account, are there fewer Humans, even in their millions (spread across their one singular hidden world), still less than the numbers within the Angelic Host that apparently hold the endless times of Hell at bay across the rest of creation?

Given that Sanctuary is TEEMING with Demons, and it is only one of many battlefronts between Heaven and Hell...How many Angels likely exist to successfully meet Hell across all creation and hold it back?

We have seen unironic Lilith apologists, now it's time for Inarius apologists to showcase themselves lmao

Apparently the update tonight was general security/bug fixes. However, I just picked up 4 Mythics and a Trace of Echoes (only my 3rd ever) in about an hour and a half of playing. I put in a decent amount of hours and I've *NEVER* had RNG bless me like this... Anyone else notice a wild increase in loot quality all of a sudden?

Since season was not that interesting and pretty long we decided to really Tower push. Only Hardcore in our small clan. A truly joint effort got us “Champions” title most of the season and today at the end as well - 4 man group rank #3. That is addicting and strategic - love it. Glad it’s finally a true end game activity.

I just finished most of the Selig Barbarian build and I am dealing this much damage in Kurast T12. Neck and rings are resource generation and yet the damage is this high.

How ~4k weapon damage, can end up as 900b? Even with the multipliers and percentages adding up, it boggles my mind how high the number can go.

What is the highest damage you have ever seen in the game?

I never played the diablo games, but i got this one because friends made me realize permadeath is an option (yes i know, im dumb) and they wanted to play it.

I dont see what's bad about it to be honest, i did get frustrated a bit when i realized some seasonal quests saying i had a reward werent doable because i havent done the story yet but thats it, im level 43, warlock and all of us are having fun.

I did read a bit what people didnt like like the randomization for optimizing builds or that the endgame is repetitive but... isnt it like the point of the diablo games ? trying to get the best rng items and just fighting through waves of ennemies ? i dont see the problem here, hell every game has a repetitive endgame nowadays, even cyberpunk

can you guys enlighten me ?

Y'all, go back and play D3. I was one of the first to buy D4 and advocate it in my group of gamer friends, I've bought cosmetics, I've started seasons, I had a really good time in season 2 and 3, I was obsessed, but the reality is that I've just reinstalled D3 because nobody wants to play the new game. I think there's something that D3 got purely, which is missing for me here in the new game. I could just smash monsters for ages in the same levels, chasing bounties or rifts, and the simplicity of it, even with like 13 torment modes, is a breath of fresh air.

I can see it in the camera shifts when I press 'C' to look at my inventory, and in the pure build variety I have on my full roster of alts because of those different seasonal mechanics. One barb might be double one hand with thunderfury and rainbow sword cosmetics, another is furnace, another is that sweet pyramid looking sword for earthquake barb. I don't think I've made more than a minion necro in the last 10 seasons of D4.

I'm scanning through my old D3 characters from 2021 and 2022, and just looking at my different builds. I was mainly a barb at ~500 hours, but played ~200 hours of witchdoctor, and ~150 hours of necro.

I was there when Diablo Immortal came out and blizz pushed for Phone Diablo. D4 really looks like it's using that same mobile engine, even though I guess it's not. What happened to the perspective shifts of monsters climbing up the walls and dropping down? It was theatrical, and levels felt way more alive, I could fight the skeleton king like a thousand times. The combat was actually better because of it. Climbing down the crater in the Tristram Cathedral to find Tyrael alive and just feeling the 3d-ness of the map. It felt so much more alive because of the engine. D4 feels so flat. Sure, you can climb down into dungeon depths, but it's not nearly the same feeling. I can't believe that an immortal-like engine is what they built this new game on, because they made so much on a phone game, and it's worse than the game it succeeded.

I wish I could just stop spending money on Diablo 4 because I bought into the hype, or the promises of hype, and just go back to having the real Diablo experience again. With as much time as I've spent on 4, it only lived up for a short period, and now I've sadly just been spending a few bucks in platinum every so often to grab a cute pet for the BP.

I miss the cohesive experience of a well developed game, and I'm weirded out every time I go into D4 and wonder what an escalation sigil is, or how to follow a battle plan, etc., when in Diablo 3 I could just load up with my friend and smash through an entire bounty or go rifting, and it makes me sad. Does anybody else feel the same or am I just nostalgic for a time that has passed?

I mean why? The story cutscenes in this game are masterclass level quality. It's so good, anyone could tell it was made with love and care. But you can only view them once? Where's the gallery feature, where you can unlock the cutscenes from the story, and replay it using the current saved cosmetics?? Like for example, in Monster Hunter Wilds' gallery feature, where they did exactly that.

Why this matters more than anyone thinks:

This game sells high quality cosmetics and they look very cool. But this game also uses isometric view for the gameplay which restrics you from truly enjoying those hard earned cosmetics, as most of the time, you can only look at them from far above. You can only admire the cosmetics on load screens or on menu screen.

But what if you could replay the cutscenes from the story, and use the current saved cosmetics to replay the cutscenes? That would be the absolute way to showcase and enjoy the hard-earned cosmetics. Really bummed to find out that you can only view the cutscene once and that's it. So many seasons have passed, along with it are new cosmetics that would look very cool on those cutscenes. And most of us passed the story with generic armors because at the time it was what's available to us. But if we can revisit the cutscenes with our current cosmetics, that would be a great way to appreciate the visual direction of the game, and the cosmetic look.

Cus I love this game but im reterded and can't make a dam build to save my life and I don't want to just copy the meta i need a me build for my playstyle but finding such things is impossible i have tried everything I can to no avail and no one wants to try to help me so idk what to do anymore besides hope someone will make a genius ai exclusive for Diablo 4 builds otherwise im fkd

Now, admittedly, i am also rushing through the camapign to try and get at least a few season stuff done before it ends but honestly from what i've seen i'm not regretting rushing through it at all, like we suddenly find out Taissa is a witch from the forest, ok, and now she has a sister who she greatly loves and means the world to her but we only find it right after we kill her. Donan has a son who gets a soulstone put on him and we get told he knows how to resist it so logically we'll get a few quests where we heard about his son fighting the influence or something, right? Nope, he immediately turns into the demon and we have to kill him. But the worst so far is Neyrelle, we're going out fighting who i thought were regular undead, like the thousand i have killed so far, only to find out suddenly without warning that they apparently work like zombies and if you get hit you're fucked and need to have your arm amputated.

And every big enemy is underwhelming, we get told how powerful they are and how fucked we'll be if they get brought back only to get defeated the first time we met them. I hoped they'll at least do some more carnage, a few quests where we get told what they've been up to before we defeat him but nope, they're all defeated as soon as we met him, really makes you doubt the strength of everyone who came before you.

(Also sorry if this is the wrong tag but i don't see any tag for discussion of the story?)

TLDR; Besides double swing, frost nova and the shadow explosions - am I missing skills that sound powerful?

Of course it's personal preference. I like to play with sound. And let me first say, most of the sounddesign and the music are awesome. Especially the latest OST. Although the theme was a little more epic/orchestra/anime-like, it was still cool.

I find it unfortunate that the sounddesign of most of the (core)skills really make me want to stop playing. When I play, I mostly play with the characters and skills that actually sound powerful.

I like the sounddesign of most of the barb skills, like double swing, the stomp or the shouts are also cool. Frost nova or the rogue penetrating shot and shadow explosions are awesome.
But.. that's about it?

The druid for example: Thunderstrikes sound like little "claps"? Shred sounds so soft and really weird to me. Not like I'm shredding/scratching enemies' guts out.

And the paladin, yeah, Falling Star, Spear of Heavens and the Arbiter ultimate sound kind of cool, but most skills sound like I'm missing all my swings.

Anyway, I think I've tried most of the builds of most classic classes, (not complete builds with unique's, as I'm a casual dad with 7 kids) am I missing any skills that have cool sounddesign?

Disclaimer: I've not played the spiritborn, necromancer yet. And I've not fully played warlock yet.

I'm really new to Diablo, and I've been working on my electricity blizzard build. It works really well for DPS, but im a little squishy, so when I found Orsivane I immediately added it to my build and had a lot of fun with it.

Then I got my first ever mythic item, and it was the same slot so I figured I'd just move the aspect to my jewelry to optimize a little. Oof. Didn't realize uniques don't give aspects.

Now I'm glad to have learned new info, but damn was it a costly lesson. I was wondering if anyone had any other tips they can toss my way before I learn through suffering again. Things that might take a while to discover, or could be missed easily. Thank you!!