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Don’t kill Masterworking. Add time played to RNG for yellow/orange upgrades to class-specific ga:s. Why? Grinding 50+ (100?) hours for materials and failed upgrades is the whole problem. Win-win – players will start more chars after maxing, more cosmetics money for Bliz.

D4 was my first ever arpg. I stopped playing because the game got to difficult for me. I got sick of there always being a meta class that pushed to the higher difficulties while im on a handicap. Game just sucks.

It infuriates me they ruined this game entirely before the Paladin came into the game. Clueless fucks. I hate Blizzard.

hello season 0 player coming to see what color the helltide is this season. is the game any fun yet?

The state is the same as it was 9 seasons ago . This got me recommended and I can’t resist to comment. I have no respect nor understanding why you would invest more than 50h in D4, I stopped playing before season 1 . So are you dumb? Lonely? Pain addiction? YouTuber without a Goal? WTF is it ???

Dead bad

d4 bad

Ive told them 1000 times what to do.
** HAVE A SEASON Where there are like 200 Crazy drops that last for 5 MIN to 5 HOURS random chances. You can add them to 1 of every item you have
Make GOD TIER crazy random items like 5X what Mythics are if those things existed and I did not need to TARGET FARM I hate Target farm… Then I might be back. Right now I just dont care

With poe 1 and 2 and Last Epoch simply existing, I don’t understand how people are still accepting payed expansions

Idk, As soon as I saw the changes and the interview with Rhykker I said this season is gonna be trash, what they did to masterworking is terrible and it is just fake math, in order to get 2/3 masterworks now u need ~30 rolls to guarantee it, and ~130 to get 3/3, alright that sounds like a lot on paper but at the point where u are chasing 3/3 u have infinite resources so that 130 isn’t really a problem and ofc u can sometimes hit it rly quickly so it just sounds bad but in reality it is fine and solid rng, in POE for example u can spend mirrors worth on crafting and never hit full god tier wep, it happened to me during the Tattoo season.

As for new system and why it is bad, masterworking just adds GA and u have 1 in 4 chance if it is 0 GA or guaranteed if it is 3/4 GA, but in order to reroll u need a resource which is more rare, but not only that now standard items have 4 stats instead of 3 meaning you will have much harder time getting a bis item, and as u know more than 1 GA on an item is rare, so not only do u need 3/4 correct stats instead of 2/3 on top of that u would want a GA which I think is a huge RNG increase compared to ~130 rolls on masterwork to hit 3/3.

I usually just gamble amulets and sell them in order to buy bis full ga items, for example this season I played maybe 70h pushed pit leadearboard to get in top 60 and I dropped 1 double GA that was useful, so yea not only is item RNG bigger, you also have sanctification which can totally ruin your item, lets take Amulet as an example cuz bis is gonna be 3 passive to skills + %int, which will be insanely hard to get, so you get that and sanctification will ruin it, I got 1 amulet like that each season, anyone who farms full bis builds knows how much these amulets go for and how hard they are to farm.

I think they need to change the way GA items are obtained, either make some form of guarantee of double GA in a difficult game mode (Like tower for example) or any hard endgame content, or just introduce some form of crafting, cuz as things stand right now new systems will add Insane amounts of rng and they presented it as improvement by presenting fake math.

masterworking looks fucking horrendous compared to S10

You awesome smart and tactical. Thank you for this video.

Sanctifying since is more exciting endgame type of crafting now than masterworking/tempering and a step in good direction should be pernament not seasonal

I’ve played the PTR for a couple of days and overall I think the changes are good. However there is not much new or interesting other than sanctification.
Progression is a lot slower and build diversity for T4 has shrunk, kinda back like it was in earlier seasons, pretty much just taming the massive power creep that has accumulated over each season.
Last year they attempted to tame the power creep before VOH released. That didn’t pan out.

I feel this is just another attempt to control power creep in prep for the next expansion and more of the same old shit will be implemented back into the game that they had previously removed.

I didn’t even buy the first expansion. The other day I was like maybe I should try the game out and see how far it’s come, then remembered there was a $40 paywall on that. So, I went back to old tried and true, Diablo 2. That game is so fun.

I’m glad you used the PoE comparison for sanctifying gear. I found it so weird how so many people are absolutely seething with fucking rage over a mechanic that will not impact their progress whatsoever. We’re going from two ways to brick an item to one. My only hope is that they finally decide to just stick with this rework. The community will never, ever be satisfied with any loot system you choose.

my comment to the patch and to the recent devs stream is just a huge /facepalm

24:44 – bricking is a bad thing when it comes to sanctifying an item. The definition of “sanctify” according to Merriam-Webster means “to make holy, purify, or give sacred or moral legitimacy to something.” Nothing about bricking an item makes it sanctified. If you click a button that says, “Sanctify” but it instead desecrates… something’s wrong. Replacing an affix that is pertinent to your build with something that is NOT makes that item less useful, therefore some would say, “it’s bricked.” And “indestructible” is a dog shit possibility as well unless you plan to charge trillions of gold to repair items (and even then that’s trivial for a lot of players).

They should probably give up by now and look at the next game. The ship has sailed now

Is Rax not the nicest most pleasant guy to just sit and listen to? Thanks Rax!

Also I bought a blue hoodie, repping out here in New England

Remember when reviews for this game were 100/100 or 99/100. Lmfao

Throwing diamonds in the dumpster does not make the dumpster elegant. They made egregious decisions.

@ 20:15 …same brother

Raxx is happy clearing pit 45 🤣. Have fun never maxing out your glyphs. Devs out of touch, raxx out of touch.

Here Raxxanterax again destroying Diablo with his useless mentality of playing games! You should be banned for speaking about Diablo and games in general!

No boss fight needs to last longer than 5 minutes. ever. in any game. period. That’s literally just artificial difficulty and is not fun at all.

Vaal orbs work in PoE because you have storage available to store all your alternative items, D4 does not, especially if you are playing alts and/or multiple builds.

When can we expect Blizzard to make comments on the stuff reported in by ptr-testers? Really curious on what they think about this, and their direction forwards about the game.

This was great. Just when you started mentioning bugs in the very first minutes, I was like Oh oh xD

30 seconds in, and I can already tell this isn’t an honest opinion.
3 minutes in, and.. yep … this was a mistake to watch.

I can answer 1a, in the beginning Blizztard took the renown away. This means less health pots and 12 less skill points. Also, no minions as you have to REOPEN the Den, Hordes, and many other areas. Basically, you start at season 0.

As for Capstones, snooze fest, way to long, ooh Butcher, another Butcher, Another Butcher, okay 10 Butchers later, really. Low XP and crap gear receives. WHY? 1 Capstone, ok, 2 ok, 3, really, 4 then 5 then 6.

What you don’t say:

1. Dungeons are useless again. Bad loot, bad xp, no reason to run.
2. All leveling is back to Helltides, Pit, Hordes (if open). We have done this season
3. WB to much xp
4. Stash, still to small
5. Class imbalances, Specialization imbalances (Hota Vs Basic).

The rest you said, spot on.

My favorite part of Raxx’s D4 review, is him telling people how good Path Of Exile is. 😂😂😂

7:42 not everyone understands the game in the way that you do or look up builds.

This guy put more thought and effort into this video than D4 Devs put into keeping their player base

I just want my ZDPS builds. It’s a shame the game is so shallow there’s no need for them

diablo 4 creators are pathetic no clue anymore what their fanbase likes. they want it to be too hard to beat unless you pick the right build and get the right gear to plow through the game unless you make mistakes you get punished. and be able to progress to the point you can insta kill everything on screen late game by putting in the work

Pit 100+ is unreachable fast, Sanctification bricks gear, Masterworking’s just boring armor/res spam, & 4-affix loot = dead stats galore. Toughness hides armor/res, feels vague & punishing.
Fixes: Revert to 3+2 affixes, varied Masterworking (offense/utility). Make Sanctification safe (70%+ upgrades, add undo). Buff DPS/healing, tune mob damage (-10-20%), ensure Pit 100 in 1-2 weeks w/ optimized builds. All classes need 2-3 viable 100+ builds. Tower/Conquests need better loot (Mythics!), no level caps. Publish Toughness breakpoints!
Big ask: Delay S11 2-4 weeks. S10 was PEAK—build on that, don’t regress with RNG pain. Make it fun, not forced grind!

Yeah we need more max power viable builds not less….this is ridiculous I’ve played since beta and I’m about to be done with this bs

I’m still waiting for a reason for nahantu

Releasing a second expansion when you STILL can’t make up your mind about what the core mechanics are going to be is crazy work. They’ve stolen too many systems from too many different ARPGs and now the game is stuck feeling like a confused mess with not a lot of cohesion between content types and power mechanics and I don’t think they’re creative enough anymore to have an idea of how to get out of the hole they’ve dug themselves into.

Abyss is from poe1

Season 10 was a snooze fest hopefully 11 will be better.
the reason p PoE2 is so popular is that monsters and bosses actually are a challenge, you never ever die in D4 unless your not getting ress/armor capped.

Kind of funny that you tell folks at the end that they should give POE a shot.

It feels like the different dev teams for D4 do not have a cohesive design game plan and it’s shows…

I love this for one huge reason. A few big creators were absolutely smoking the D4 pole trying to hype up huge massive good changes. And this is it? It cements my (and many others) opinion of these creators in question. Think of the 3 biggest D4 shills…thats who I am referring to. Raxx isnt one of them!

The issue with Diablo’s difficulty “choices” is that it’s not really a choice, but more like a progression. It doesn’t matter where you start, but you will ALWAYS have to end at the same place. For Diablo 3, it was I think Torment? For Diablo 4, it’s the same, there are somethings that just don’t unlock until you’re at like a certain level of rifts etc. So Diablo 4 doesn’t actually have a difficulty scale. It’s a progression scale, not a difficulty scale. All it does is that people who want to relax hack-n-slash will drop off the game relatively early on, while those who want challenges find it too easy and can skip a large part of the early to mid game. It’s an issue that can be easily fixed by actually providing a real difficulty choice, instead of trying to pass off the linear progression stages as parrallel difficulty choices.

Is this game worth playing? I’ve only played d3 after reaper of souls and I was doing g rifts.

To fix D4, first they need to fix Blizzard… sad but true…

The Tower kind of grows on you. The maps are kind of blah thou. If they really want to take stuff from D3, how about a Festering Woods tileset map? Stuff like that. The level design in D4 is really bad for anything strategic.

“the first one is 30 and hard, thats what she said” gotta be one of the best “thats what she said” jokes AHAHAHHA

D4 is just so poor, so much wasted potential. It’s a near parody of an arpg now

big no no, once again. but thank you raxx for bringing it together.

He’s still playing this shit? I thought he quit a long time ago.

People complaining now that we Have to click 4 times to some upgrade,Now IT can be 20 ,So fixed …

i really want inna mystic ally (water) in d4

Maybe for tempering to make it more exciting.

Make the tempering manuals 1 time use when adding to an item, then you can reroll it for the %

then you have to find the manuals you want for you build.
(obviously with the amount of manuals just make it a grid tab that shows all of them and make them unlimited stacks and different rarity share the same square, you can choose which rarity to add when tempering)

Its good.

SEASON 11 = SLOG OF THE BRICK BRICKING. AT THIS POINT HYDRA SHOULD BE PROGRESSING PAST A MINIMUM OF 500 BILLION UP TO A TRILLION. this sameo nerfo garbage where yo barely eek out pitt 105 is boring as fk.also were not suppose to be re earning skillpoints. they promised it would not happen anymore. they lied!again for the 11th season

yea i dont think there moving anywhere but in circles tbh

Season of Sanctibrickation is gonna be nuts! 😂

new diablo szn… and at the same time … alt szn!!! lets go cookie dao 🍪🌛 icp 💁♾♾♾

If excitement equals more RNG I’m not for it. Only no lifers can brute force the fun aspects of relying on random drops with random rolls that get random upgrades.

Poe is the only arpg since d2 that i can honestly say I enjoyed and it really picked up the mantle left behind by old blizzard can not recommend enough and buy the unique tab asap to hold onto all your legendary drops for collection sake

i give it 6 months before the Alter from D3 is in D4

Love the content! Reinforces my not playing. $100 wasted.

I don’t mind difficulty, but I don’t like feeling like I’m being _artificially_ slowed solely to milk out content.

IN SUMMARY: Game is booty cheeks (not the good kind, probably more like your nana’s in its current state but the cheeks are in the front of her torso for some reason) 🥴

Why do games like this even need a crafting or upgrade system? Why isn’t it completely loot driven. If you only can improve your supposedly good item with upgrades after looting. But then never really know if a looted item is potential better or not, only to waste a considerable amount of material to realize it’s in vain because it wasn’t an upgrade after all.

Also the mythics are not mythic at all, because every usable build is somehow based on them. I understand they are actually chase items, but how special are they if you inspect any random person and they are decked out in at least a few.

I mean they should be game changing, but not in abundance.

Loot means nothing if it’s too abundant

How could sanctifying or vaal orbing brick an item? Maybe the addition doesn’t make it any better, but can it actually make it useless? I’m genuinely curious. Never played POE past act 1 and I’m barely into act 4 on POE2. To be it seems like if you’re adding something it’s only a positive or at worst no gain.

For masterworking I think a better option would’ve been to make some sort of dynamic weighted system.

Welcome back Wanderer!❤

The main change I kinda hate is the nerf to b the tp enchantment. I mean, I get why they did it, but it’s so fun to flash around the map.

It’s goes D1 , D2 , POE, POE 2. There are no more Diablo games after D2 LOD

26 seconds in spoiler alert it won’t bring me back.

I watched the videos to support blue sweater guy… That is all 😂

I’ve really enjoyed the chaos armor in season 10 had the most fun with quirky builds ill miss it.

Personally my gripe will be with the sanctifying and the randomness of it all, i got my first mythics ever this past season and it was the best season I’ve played by a very large margin. to know that after all that time i now have an opportunity to enhance that piece of gear of completely screw it up is not something I’m going to enjoy. I already was often frustrated by the other mechanics of masterworking and tempering and blowing an enormous time trying to get those really power enhancing last few stats. I’m so confused by some of these changes but others like life regen and stuff I’m fan of. however I’m not going to enjoy it if like others they have tried this now and stated that you are often just one shot constantly, that’s not a good feeling. I think they are going to really need to fine tune some of this.

thank you rax for keeping us up to date with honest opinions 👍

You can relax in T1

tldr; it’s still shit, some would argue it’s even more shit

I thought they should make it that you can always apply a rare affix via tempering. So you can always have a good affix that helps your build. The legendary affix is randomized and you can run out of attempts. Then add items to augment the legendary tempering I.e. guarantee a roll, reset attempts etc.

Hard agree that reworking systems as season mechanics isn’t exciting.

I will add, why rework the whole thing at once instead of making small changes over time. Seems like they could be adding a few new horde choices, make a new pit map that adds something to chase other than 4 glyph points and gear you wouldn’t take a dump on. It’s questionable to rework and rework

I would like to have the masterworking to be way more expensive and in return grant way more power per upgrade. this way its not a rush and every time i have the mats to upgrade i can really feel the increase in power. and then give it a glow with increasing ranks. and i get my beloved Lineage 2 feeling back <3 god i miss Lineage 2 grind

How about some ACTUALLY new content…

All this time ive been pronouncing rax’s name wrong, until he said it.

Remove chaos armor – a lot less build viable, no exciting drop besides mythics, less fun. Making game harder – less build viable. This changes are ok if it was diablo 4 beta.. And yeah, now we have this shitty resistance from first seasons again. It’s not a step forward, it’s like intentional killing your game.

And stil…. D3 > D4

Don’t know why you all thought it would be different, this game has been too far gone for several seasons now 😂

They should change it to when you finish the capstones you get to temper an item as the reward, if lvl 30 you can only temper common, if capstone lvl 50 you can temper the rare ones, etc… in this case they could put the tempering values fixed for each rarity since you would need to farm the manuals and then finish the correct capstone to temper.

I started with 1 skill point on a fresh character. Tempering is basically just the crafting bench from PoE now. Not really exciting but a way to plug holes in your other gear.

love ur feedbacks man.

„Excitement“ was to brick or not, „Excitement“ was if I can triple crit masterwork the right stat. Now the system is changed to boring and you ask for the Excitement again. But I kind of understand what u mean.
PS its supposed to be a straight and unrisky journey until you are at the sanctification which is the big gamble and excitement.

Why do you always say “That’s what she said” every time after the word Hard? Like are you always walking around with a hard on? 😂

Im actually concern about difficulty changes, how they are planning to balance it. Will they balance it around meta builds so most people and streamers will actually feel it being challenging and making it unplayable for all other players who dont follow meta? or will they balance it around normal players and most people that playing meta builds will dont feel any difference? because i like usually doing my own usually non-meta builds, should i be worried?

I’m here to listen to someone hate on a game.

I mean to me the difficulty was whatever, it was the feel of no real chase items. Once you hit level cap and have your gear, it just falls completely off.

The next season is set up to be the worst most disappointing season yet…

Love how all these streamers are saying there’s nothing to do the season is over in 2 weeks, when diablo 2 speedrun record is less than 2 hours and diablo 3 speedrun is 1 minute. Second best is when they say there’s no challenge, but 100% of them have failed to ever try t4 without helm, chest armor, and low level weapon. They are just bunch of idiots running their mouths trying to influence blizzard to change the game for their individual profit nothing more.

Until they actually put some effort into the seasons i dont think i give a damn with them just moving things around.

im still waiting for Rax to make a video on D4 that really entices and excites me into giving this another go, but i honestly have less than, idk, 50 hours on this game and i bought it on release day…season 11 and it still seems like a game i shouldnt bother with.

No paladin or templar still?

I just love how people whined about bricking, had bricking taken out, and Raxx actually says “eh idk if there is anything at stake.” THERE WERE STAKES. And everyone pissed and moaned and now there are no stakes. You got the game you wanted. This is infuriating to watch.

The Vaal Orb comparison is spot on and I hate them. Great when you have extra copies and currency to YOLO, but not good for much else. PoE 1 on October 31st, D4 still sucks.

Blizz stuffed up with an over world that doesn’t work, a horse that’s pointless and have tried to make the rest of the game better but it just won’t solve the problem that the game world just sux. No matter how much tweaking is done. I’m just going to say D4 is not a good POE like game…. Even LE is still better than D4.

Press I and see everything wrong with diablo IV.

100% agree with all you said in this video! Crafting does not need re-working, it needs re-inventing in total. And the game is too easy in general.

Another day diablo is snubbed in his own game

Few points that I think should be clarified:

Sanctification cannot actually BRICK your item like a vaal orb can. Unless they have changed things to PTR that they did not communicate in the original blog post. The “bricking” in sanctification is relative to the other outcomes. Essentially if you could flip a coin and you would have the option of either winning 100 dollars or not getting any money. Relative to each other, one of those is “bricking” but no one is actually gonna take your money and girlfriend like a vaal orb could when you lost the flip. I do think sanctification will make it more fun to chase end game upgrades to your gear, you know that point where your gear is 1-2 GA in every slot (or even better) and you are only realistically interested in the 2+ drops? With sanctification it makes it so that the absolute best 1-2 GA (well, 2 GA with masterworking change obviously) gear takes longer to make and you will be more interested in those drops for longer which is a good change imo. Though have to say that the mythic unique gamblery will be even more frustrating because the runes to craft mythics take so long to farm, but at least we will by default have 2 GA mythics now I guess due to the masterwork change which is nice.

Blizzard mentioned that they want pit and tower to be separate because one of them includes player power and one does not. So pit is still meant to be farm for glyph levels (and xp) while tower is purely for testing your characters strength and leaderboard potential. Any rewards they add to the tower will be purely cosmetic and one time in nature, the idea is that you will not have to repeat levels that you have already finished. I personally think that it is good for them to be separated as mechanics so that the tower can be designed in a way that best suits leaderboards.

The season loot/mob power mechanic seemed kinda bland when they introduced it. Essentially you slap in atlas stones to buff loot that you want (like obols, I mean I love obols so yay free obols) and the downsides based on the dev description seemed more like “well the content gets slightly more annoying/harder but you get more loot”

Hi Rax! Do you think tempering would be more interesting if, instead of wandering around the game world and modes to find manuals, you had to search for already tempered items and then go to the blacksmith, destroy those items (if they weren’t very good stats) to get the tempering recipes in your inventory? I’m writing this before finishing the video, so I don’t know if you mentioned it.

Noob question… Santification is that permanent or just seasonal? How rare are the token to try it?

they should really stop reworking stuff and instead add on top of the already existing systems…

NObody is saying anything about renown. Probably the biggest thing holding me back

If Blizzard put as much effort into Seasonal content/balance changes as they do the MTX armor sets this game would be phenomenal.

Summary.: “Yup still trash, but I dont want to upset the fan boys by saying it out right” Just saved you 33 minutes.

D4 BAD

2 years down the line and theyre still just copying D3…

Sanctifying as optional seem like a stretch, its a season mechanic, everyone is meant to use it in end game. Maybe if they didn’t gut the crafting systems it could be seen as optional, but it is literally the only real crafting in season 11.

I guess I’ll give it a shot, Not much hair left from the stress of tempering and bricking over the past seasons, If there was a Guiness world record for tempering failures several times in a row I’d be the guy to beat.

Instead of completely getting rid of it, have the option to start with beginning skill points? But I am with the relaxing, blasting demons crowd 🤷
If I want a challenge and depth, i’ll just boot up PoE…

Is Diablo in the game yet

sometimes u wish D4 would make eternal realm useful.. maybe like how PoE leagues finish and those league themes and mechanics get added to the game.. kinda wish they did that for eternal realm in D4..

Looking good poppa smurf

Bricking is good think !! thats RPG not kids games

I thought we were done with this wishy washy, they keep taking things out then putting them back in 🙄…
Also why not make the pit/tower the same thing then have something like ToG from WoW? Some rogue lite tower gameplay? 🤷‍♂️

I played all the Blizzard games growing up starting with Warcraft 1. While I had friends who loved and played Diablo, it never hooked me until 3. I did everything there was to do in that game, season over season.

Path of Exile is an ugly, convoluted mess that reminds me of all the worst parts of Diablo 2 and I don’t know if I could ever enjoy it.

Diablo 4 has been on a weird journey, subject to all the corporate drama of their owners… I had fun with the campaign. I had fun with a couple of seasons. Despite all the fun though I actually still haven’t even finished Vessel of Hatred story yet…

Mechanically I think there are tons of cool ideas and improvements over 3 especially with certain classes and abilities, but man 3, especially with the Loot 2.0 and expansion, D3 just hit all the right notes for me. Idk how many cumulative hours I have with one of every class/sex combination filling all my character slots across all those seasons.

Idk what D4 needs to do to bring me back, but I think it has to start with an increased pace and greater risks for the sake of the Rule of Cool and what’s actually fun. They need a long hard look at other games and what makes people stick around for so long. They are missing it, whatever it is.

ONE DAY were gonna have a BAAL and or DIABLO fight, and thatll be the day its COMPLETE 😀

geez. I wish I wouldn’t be able to notice 1000 missing from my account every month lmao

I bet it was ModZ…

I’d give it a try…except I noticed I’d have to buy the 40$ expansion… so instead I got palworld

I dont agree with the complaint about Tempering, how is it different to POE 1 crafting bench? You’re finding your item, and deterministically choosing 1 stat to add.

Same thing with Masterworking complaint – it’s the same as Quality a weapon or armour in POE. It’s just something you do, you click it 10 times or whatever for the minimal increase. Just feel like it’s bad faith to complain.

Also anyone that says bricking is bad for Sanc = no balls.

did diablo 2 have the difficulty sweet spot? just 3 of em and the jumps , primarily from nm to hell was quite intense.. as a kid i absolutely rarely played thru hell without someone carrying me through the questlines so i could do MF run/baal/cows.. far too difficult for my entertainment 😀

I want Blizzard to make up their damn mind about D4. I want a direction that is clear and concise. Going backwards a year with the capstones and rediscovering everything on the map, getting rid of renown, all feels like too much change at once. They should allow the map to be fully unlocked like it has been. Give us something for all the work we put into getting the renown system. I get not getting the skill points and paragon points, exchange that for potions. Give us a bunch of level 1 potions at start and then when we hit gon 1 give us some level 2 potions. I also want to see the same number of seasonal events and the same quality of seasonal events as people playing Immortal get.

the bricking in d4 is from the trolls in devs team,,, every season someone should be able to hit 150 pit..not everyone. .should let us take are glyphs to 150..be a reason to grind more

Did anyone speak about leveling up 40 times in 5 minutes just by killing Azmodan? lol Wanted to test the leveling and made the mistake to try Azmodan, now paragon 20 under 5 hours lol

Great feedback

I mean, 10 seasons or so of powers and we got tired of it. So sanctification being a random roll is fine from that viewpoint. But, its a season mechanic. Why do we need to FULLY masterwork to the end an item before taking that gamble ? Fuck my ressources, time and money if it fails, right ? Meh. If sanctifying could be done on a fresh drop and it turns it into a fully mastergeared item before rolling the final good or bad outcome ? Now we talking😅

I do realize the angels are dicks so the gambling makes sense, but we need something else

Okay, so here’s my question for you.

What do you want, that will you find “Exciting”, that isn’t 20 layers of RNG and potentially bricked items/wasted time? Like, what would make you happy, that could also provide steady progression for people who don’t spend their whole life grinding the game?

Like, how do you think it’s possible for them to satisfy both crowds? Or do you think this is not possible?

Personally, I’m fine with higher level content being elitist via skill checks. I’m not okay with it being elitist via time gating and RNG. I don’t think people’s item progression should be subject to extra layers of luck on top of the base level of hoping the damn things drop in the first place. I personally believe the base level of RNG associated with loot tables and affix rolls is already a massive gate for most people.

I feel like the item changes are worse for the game. The season sounds kinda cool tho, and something they should consider having go core. Overall tho, D4 still in a bad spot. The game is just aggressively mid.

We really need a loot filter now with this item changes. They just added more affixes

The pit doesnt even go down. I think that makes it very bland. I want a hole or stairs or something visually indicative of actually going DOWN. Same goes for whatever the tower ends up being. Dont make greater rifts reborn and call then the pit when there is no actual fucking pit

It’s funny because so many people want D4 to be good, and are willing to give it a chance. But Blizzard just continue to ignore all feedback. They need to add more skills to all the classes. Just keep adding new skills, and increasing build variety

No WAY is this the huge update we were supposed to be hyped for??! This looks worse than the last 2 seasons I never logged in to. WTF!? Lmao😅

on the idea of captones i am still so happy from when I did an icshards build at lvl 27 and got to wt3 with it after only like 30 min

This PTR is the first time I’m playing more than 2 hours since Season 7

They made gambling even worse. They want a chase mechanic and can’t figure it out

this patch isn’t coming til December? wtf

I agree with most of what you said Rax and i wouldnt mind more difficult mechanics and such. My problem after testing is that the defenses are ridiculously nerfed. I built a character using the cheat vendor after testing leveling and such, and we are SO MUCH more squishy than before. Even with more armor and resistance than current season with incenses i am looking at barely 70% res stats and maybe 74% from the armor, and thats with the “powers”. Going into helltides or deep into pits the affixes just 1 shot, definitely feels worse than current season defensively. It feels like playing a glass cannon even when built like we normally would within current season. Just my take.

Maybe make a game like d2 instead of d3. It might just work

What’s interesting is that, being a D1 and D2 player, I don’t understand why so many people don’t get this game. It was built on random loot drop. And let me tell you…in D1 and D2 IT WAS NOT CLASS SPECIFIC. There was also no modification mechanics on your items, just your build. So that one stat that was not useful on a godly weapon…didn’t matter. Nowadays if people get +3 onto a skill by rolling tempering vs. +4, they think it’s over for them and they now have to find a brand new exact weapon to start again. We didn’t have “build guides”. You asked your 3 buddies in school what they thought was best and went from there. That’s how I’ve always played this game and it’s always interesting to me. Maybe don’t try and find someone who has the perfect guide to the game to make it super easy. Maybe try and figure it out for yourself…D2 style.

– The 2nd big itemization change in 2 yrs. Loot Reborn was the 1st one. So, I’m guessing they’re going to turn all of our gear to “legacy” again so we have to delete it and start over
– Taking away all those potions, with no starting skill point, along with the monsters ambushing you more often is nothing more than artificial difficulty. They encouraged us to max out our renown a while back and our reward was to get those skill points and extra paragon nodes for future characters. Now, they’re taking it away to add a layer of difficulty due to their lack of creativity.
– And Raxx, you saying that the above particular changes are good for the health of the game is the same thing Destiny 2 content creators said about raising the power level between seasons. That didn’t work out so well.

Beta testing since 2023.🎉

lmao every time I come back and raxx is still not impressed. stopped playing season 7 haven’t come back. sad to see.

Guess I’m labeled as a Dad gamer, father, work 40-60 hour weeks as an Electromechanical Tech. I know a lot of people see casual dad gamers as they just want everything easy but it’s not true for myself and my group. Been a Diablo player since the begining. Everything has gotten to a state of brain rot for us. No real challenging content. Best example is we came from games like Division 2 where there was Legendary/Master difficulties, Incursions, eight man raids on almost impossible content. But the rewards were great, you was challenged and in some cases you had to actually have a team or clan that worked good together to complete. But felt accomplished and rewarding and not necessarily meaning drops. I would just like to see higher difficulty settings, raids, and just a lot more content that doesn’t feel arcade style. Alot more focus on Legions and or big events. I see capstone’s return as maybe the biggest win here. Thx Rax, as always.

D4 is dead

making this game harder is just gonna lead to people leaving and then they gonna make it easier we saw this in season 1 and ima be honest they found a spot as the easy ARPG and should stick to it not lean into some half baked hard but only hard cause its gonna be tedius shit

18:49 that hotel analogy was a trip

same shit you do in PoE? weird dude

im sick of doing the same thing every season…. with the same goddam builds

I really like that the developers are trying to make the game more fun and challenging. Capstone. I also like the mob attacks because they are almost unpredictable and in certain situations you don’t know what to expect. They could increase the drop rate of mythical items on bosses so that they drop more often. I also agree that they should improve the boss mechanics so that there are more of them so that you don’t know what to expect, even if they are deadly. Bosses should be fun and I want more mechanics for each boss

I think you’re great Raxx but I don’t think catering to you and Rob and Wudi is what most players want. Most players don’t want harder leveling to 60 or slower paragon grinding. Sanctification just moved the annoying part of crafting to an unfixable final brick.

I would enjoy this game so more if they just removed glyphs from the pit and let us just level the as they are equipped on the paragon board!!!!!!

dude … really has blizz ever had fully working tool tips in any diablo game.. sanc and item… fk my dude my codex isnt maxed so i cant sanc it till that happens. good fkn luck dude.. of that max codex dropping so you can finally sanc and item and not bricking it.. and you cant even change the codex once you do get a max version.. lame
their entire ‘risk reward’ system is still a fail

however loving the leveling.. trash on my necro and got to 60 in four hours lazy grind.. only did the first capstone didnt do the 2nd till 60 lol the fact i cant tell what got a ga on the last masterwork unless you notice the diamond is gone.. visual.. dude its supposed to be a AAA game company.. they cant simply code a gd astrek? thats gd fkn lazy.. 3yrs in and its a new game.. so i called this lilith 1 cuz no diablo.. now its generic beta arpg.. its still not diablo.. so they fire the woke dei hires.. and revamp the game.. now we got this trash.. sigh

they heard poe2 had towers so they added towers *yawn*

The real question with sanctifying is, is it necessary to become powerful enough to do the higher difficulties. If yes then in makes the risk worth it more so than not….?

My biggest combat problem is survivability. You either cant be killed or get 1 shot or close to it by everything.

I think the minion necro will have a bigger advantage than others. I’m on board with you about the few days playing, but my issue is I love to get to max level but when I get there I can never find the items I need and I just get really frustrated.

People are overreacting to Sanctifying and complaining about it “bricking” their item. I’ve seen so many streamers calling a item “bricked” because they only got an affix they didn’t want. That isnt bricking the item. The item is still just as effective as before you sanctified it. Even if you get indestructible, the item isnt bricked. The ONLY way ot bricks is if you replace an affix you needed and that’s only one option of many.

So yes its possible to “brick’ and item, but not getting the exact outcome you want is not bricking, the item is still improved, just maybe not in a way you wanted.

My watch time for videos where Rax talks d4 far surpasses my playtime of d4

I don’t think there needs to be something at stake for tempering or master working but I think it would be somewhat exciting if you could only masterwork with a specific dropped currency. You get a tempering orb and you can temper an item. They could be somewhat rare but that might be a little too much like PoE currency.

You mention difficulty, but I don’t think you know what that means. Difficulty isn’t based on how fast or slow you can progress through content, it’s based on how much skill is required to progress through content. Elden Ring is difficult, even if I can 10-shot bosses, whereas D4 is a waste of time, and therefore money and energy, even if I can 1-shot the content. It’s not about speed, it’s about how much skill expression there is in the game. From this perspective, D4 was never meant to, and could never be, a difficult game.

Nerfs from trillions and billions of damage down to 100’s of million is stupid when monsters have trillions of effective HP later on. Combine that with various 1-shot mechanics, invulnerability, death effects, and 0 visibility of effects in general, especially when playing in a party, these changes aren’t trying to slow down the gameplay, they’re meant to waste players’ times. Overall, I think the changes are a sign of severe CTE, but I’m hoping against logic these droolers are planning to do SOMETHING with them in preparation for the next DLC.

As an aside, I’m almost hoping the next DLC doesn’t contain the Paladin because at least then I will Blizzard will be completely removed from my PC and life. This would prove these extra 21sts have no intention of listening to their player base, and instead will work on whatever their DSM4 pg39 rainbow hearts want to, which is fine as long as it’s not at my expense. Still not sure how they didn’t release the Paladin in the last DLC; who the hell asked for Aztecs in a game about how mortals struggling through a never-ending war between Angels vs Demons?

I honestly can’t stand the new capstone dungeons (at least the first two): They take way too long (15-20 mins on average) and the 08/15 casuals probably won’t surpass the first semi-boss (as many attack patterns as later lair bosses) or would die constantly to the fire/ice mechanic. The later two capstonedungeons are way quicker done and no real mechanics to look out for. They should switch the first two capstones with the 3 and 4 ones, so casuals get an easier time to get into the game and get a good challenge, if they opt to tackle the harder difficulties. Nonetheless: Don’t like the fact, that the door designer had his/hers/its fieldday again and it would make more sence for me to cut the first two capstone dungeons in half and make them seperate extra capstonedungeons. Also I didn’t like the level pacing compared to the season journey. You need to do stuff in a specific order to get to your skill and paragonpoints, but Blizz didn’t give a good explanation or visual representation when to go where. What I liked in the current season was the freedom of choice leveling the first character. If it stays on live season 11 like its on the PTR, you have to start on hard (or switch after class quest and/or getting the 2 hearts for summoning in the helltide) to not have to kill Asmodan multiple times for seasonal journey. When it comes to late/endgame game feels alright, but i miss the chaos armor already.

Good patch but not enough, damage in millions is for imbeciles.
As for new Expansion, if its going to be radical feminism like base game and current expansion than its a 100% pass.

Changes seem interesting but agree. The comparison to POE2 abyss doesn’t feel great here tho. Honestly abyss isn’t ground breaking to me and the crafting in POE2 makes me want to slam my head in a wall. 200 crafting currencies and a data table I need up on a second monitor to even start crafting feels awful, so in that regard D4 feels a little better even if less exciting

As someone who is a long time Diablo fan that is waiting for D4 to become “fun” again. I enjoyed scrolling through your bullet points as I don’t care enough about the game (currently) to sit through you talking about it for 33min.

33:03 They’re calling every league update an expansion for a long time already

This season i didn’t even max level. It was so boring. Mainly because I got to a point where I was so strong that I could kill anything and everything but I couldn’t access torment difficulty. So I was capped on the difficulty below that but I was still too strong for it. Very boring.

Guess WHAT?!

It’s bad.

Doesn’t mean you can’t choose to waste your time on it or enjoy it, but it’s objectively bad and has been since launch.

Crazy this is the slop we got. I couldn’t wait for a new Diablo, now I wish they just sat on it longer and released a decent product.

They’re holding back content for expansions and do renovations in between them to max the $. Too much good feedback with 0 meaningful changes. Entire game is in beta. S10 was fun for 3 days.

Tower pointless just make pit have a leaderboard…. Chaos armor should of stayed in game permanently made for lot of fun builds, just make it so you can not sanctify it. Most will feel like leaderboards be pointless to try for, when it comes down to super RNG on sanctifying. Removing the indestructible be good, as u got so much RNG on bad legendary affix or stats being rolled on it anyways.

Diablo 4 is a bad game that we played because it was easy, mindless fun. Now it’s a bad game that is also difficult…

S11 looks pretty shi ngl
Everything is nerfed to the ground and slow af
How tf is this fun?
Oh right its Blizzard, they wouldnt know fun even if it kicked them straight in the balls

Thanks for your honest opinion, no bias, that’s so important!!!

7:54 Makes sense though, D4 players are pussies

I truly cannot believe people are still wasting their time on this absolute garbage tier ‘game’

@Raxxanterax can we shout from the balcony “WE WANT A SELL ALL BUTTON!!!” just a bit louder?

I swear all these streamers are in lala land. None of you talk about class balance. All of these changes mean only 1 thing: Game harder, S tier classes may not struggle, but weaker classes WILL struggle, they’re DOA basically. No new end game activities, just same old but with more repetition.

Have fun playing this game for 30 seasons long and having to repeat capstone dungeons and earning renown every single season, and keep dying on weaker classes before you even hit t1. Yaay, so much excitement.

What could possibly go wrong? Amirite?

where do you find the capstones in season 11

I chose normal to test it, and no boost to max. Dang! Now I feel the difficulty!

I also tested T4 buffed, and.. I didn’t die. took longer to kill but hey I feel the game is going better!

Duriel, Azmodan, Helltides “don’t go to the bathroom or take a sip of water else you die, this is what I expect from a Diablo game: making us FEAR death.

So didn’t bother much with temper and the rest, powers: make sure to get the maggots on helltides that gives you xp balls.. wow!!! you level up very fast even without whisper (still go to whisper 😉 )

All in all, I’m looking forward to it.. in DECEMBER T_T

Weird, I started with no skill points (not sure how you started with 12, since there weren’t any of the Renown bonuses from the past), but I had up through Penitent unlocked, right from the start. I had thought the Difficulty Setting changes hadn’t come through in the PTR. Was I the only one who could start at Penitent right at 1st level? (NA servers). I did put that in the Feedback within the PTR, by the way, as well as other bugs I found. Anyways, good video, I agree with every point you made. Thanks for the feedback.

I have absolutely ZERO love for a mechanic that can brick my item!!!

The seasonal theme buffs your character no matter what mode you are doing, for instance, I chose the Divine Gift, Essence of Lies to be Purified and no matter what I was doing or what mode I was in, I was getting Fortified for 1% of my max HP per second. Also had +20% Armor and RES no matter what mode I was playing, so the Divine Gifts apply to your character at all times.

I’m less concerned about power creep- and I’m more concerned about build diversity. I want a lot of different ways to aproach a build and not be pigeoned into one or two meta builds. Which the chaos armor has been great for – but now that’s going away & with the changes I’m worried we are taking 3 steps backwards on build diversity.

I was so let down when D4 started to lean more into the D3 path, that I don’t think I can get excited for this game anymore.
I watch some videos for these “big updates” kinda hoping to see something good
But what I see is that they’re still trying to make core game mechanics interesting (and failing), adding 10 year old mechanics like vaal orb, still dealing billions of damage and clearing screens mindlessly in some cookie cutter build. It’s just sad, I really wanted to like this game

ok but what is that lighting behind you? is it on the floor? what is that i want it

If I had an army of followers ready to replace my bricked item, I’d be in favor of Sanctification too!

I miss armor cap and all res cap!

the 20 upgrade is not an issue for me, but the fact that u can break your items on the sanctifation by replacing an stat and the fact that u can get item indestructible is the most daft thing blizz has done,,, this is NOT POE.. Vaal system is not for Diablo players.

Just go to poe2

throwing masterworked items on the ground? doesnt locking prevent that? why wouldnt it be locked?

Ughhh d4 is just unfuckable

Are you guys still playing Diablo 4? The game is depressing, save your own sanity guys and quit

Also diablo andies finally know what a Vaal orb is 🤣🤣🤣

These changes look good… But I don’t know if I’ll enjoy them right away. I’ve been playing season 10, I like the craziness from the chaos armor and op ‘perks’… But once I can roflstomp torment 4 the fun is gone pretty fast. I’ve played a rogue, as heartseeker and dance of knives poison trap… And a sorc first as Hydra and tonight I changed it over to crackling energy which is cool that we have such a new build… But in the end it’s basically the same thing. I’m pressing a slightly different sequence of buttons but still watching everything around me get vaporised. Once your fingers are used to what buttons to push in what order, it’s completely brain-dead.
But getting nerfed, even when it’s needed for the game, always feels bad. It’s always like, I got all this cool stuff easily before and now I have to work for it, it feels not worth it. But I think given enough time for that feeling to wear off the game will be in a better state.
I don’t know, I’m pretty much done with the season so maybe in a month and a half I’ll be ready for this new D4…

More powers. 🥱😴😴💤💤🛌

No endgame, but creators aren’t pushing for it, so I doubt we ever see one. Pass.

Sanctifying an item is not like a vaal orb in the regard of it being just an option. Sanctifying is required to be able to push the highest pits and the Tower leaderboards. Sorry but leaderboards won’t be very fun if you brick your gear. And it’s not simple enough as having another item that’s the same/similar. Not to mention even if u don’t brick your gear it might not have been as good as the other person still causing discrepancy with leaderboards and pits. Build guides will be impossible to make or copy if they require Sanctifying certain gear with certain sanctified rolls.

I came back for season 10 and I actually liked the chaos uniques and the builds they enabled. Season 11 looks very disappointing sadly. I don’t get why they are redoing the core game yet again. Another thing for me is that in PoE, after they alter items you still get to keep yours in the standard league as they are. It really annoyed me the first time they downgraded every piece of gear I collected in early seasons. Why even have an eternal realm then if it is not, you know, eternal. Season 10 increased the amount of viable builds dramatically which is what drew me back the most. This feels like 5 steps back. The only thing I liked is that they are adding lesser evils back in the game and that the angels are returning lore-wise.

Woohoo….made it 5 min but then realized I still don’t care about Diablo 4.

I’m fine with ARPGs becoming easy in the endgame but it should require A LOT of investment and time. “A lot” I would define for d4 is like 100-200 hours.

3:48 if you don’t follow build guides I’m sure you’ll be having a challenging and more enjoyable time if thats what you’re looking for

D4 sucks and nothing will change it. Looks and feels like a mobile game. Waiting for D5.

Rework the Pit and rebalance the game, not everything has to die by just walking next to it.

I will say I’m going to be very judgmental on the difficulty changes. I don’t want Diablo PoE edition. I’ll wait and see but this is one thing that could completely turn me off the game. I’m not a huge PoE (1 or 2) fan so I hope they don’t try to make it like those games.

BELIAL CHEST – why why WHY does it reset when someone picks a boss loot table choice. Insane this got past coding it let alone so many seasons in.

If still this Legendary shower on ground and get everything I need in few hours, still bad, sadly..

I mean, you hit the GA you want on masterworking, tempering is guaranteed, Sanctify doesn’t really “brick” your item like in PoE does it? It can only add value to the item, but thats it. Maybe a 2GA drops and sure, that one ends up being better than your sanctified item, but the previous item wasn’t completely useless, no?

It is not that suddenly D4 become mid game. Diablo 3 was the same if you compared its seasons to PoE seasons. Now we see the same with D4 vs PoE2. D4 is McDonald. PoE2 is fancy restaurant. McDonald will never become fancy restaurant. And maybe that’s a good thing. Sometimes I really like to eat junk food that tastes good.

I’ve played every season except season 2 and they maybe another one. I hated capstone back then. Why did i waste my time with alters only to have them put in a system i use to skip. These changes might be good for someone’s but not me and that’s fine. Just sad to see maybe i am not the target audience sad they had me even when other didnt now to get them and they lose me. Cant have both blizz

Did we get more stash/bag space yet?

“I think you should try poe” best line out all of then😂
Great video!

In Short: IT STILL FUCKING SUCKS. Fucking Blizzard killed our Diablo Franchise. Fuck off Blizzard.

Bro, left align your taskbar…pretend like you’ve been around for a minute.

I love it when my favorite creators get sponsors, even better when it’s not a predatory product.

I’m a degenerate sports gambler. Sanctification sounds amazing

Best advertisement for rocket money: “ if you have so much money that you dont notice a thousand dollars a month disappearing from tour account, this app is for you!”

@7:30 I felt super undergeared in end game pushing pit 65-70 simply bc I get one shotted by anything and cant one shot, two or even three shot a boss at the end. I personally dont mind the normal mobs killing me or the fact that I one shot them. I just want ANY survivability against an end game boss

Always enjoy your opinion pieces, they are just honest no frills. “Here’s my opinion” Thanks again.

The problem with D4 devs is they are stuck in this reiteration loop without progress. Instead of watching your car evolve from a Pinto to a Mustang, all we get is the same Pinto with different colors. And no, I’m still not buying the expansion until I see an actual progression. I’m not talking about player power and big numbers, actual progression like new skill tree, making some “borrowed power” permanently added to the player skill tree, paragon skills actually doing something instead of just increasing numbers, etc.

I’m so sick of Blizzard giving shit for content in all the games they run. I’m about done with them all.

All they had to do was basically a ravamped D2 in terms of graphics, keeping core mechanics mostly intact, new lore, and new items

It all sounds kinda meh. Not even sure what to be happy about here. And this new difficulty “hard” even more meh… Basically same result only harder game. Did they at least make “hard” reward u with more gold/exp for the effort?

I’m just upset that theyre getting rid of chaos uniques. Those were the best addition to the game, the most fun and different, since season 4. “wow we finally added something fun. lets do away with that”

D4 has pretty much been in beta since launch 😂😂😂

Hydra sorc is the best build in the game bro of course your Hydra feels fine

Not getting excited about the new MW is exactly what I don’t like about it… Just getting a boost to the item base stat is just uninteresting and too little customization.

It’s just too similar to the original blacksmithing upgrade pre-S4. I just wish that they had done what many asked for… keep it the way it was and only reset to 4/8… tempering was fine, just let me choose if I want to keep the current one

My only issue is again I have to go grind my gear again, I’m getting sick of my equipment getting legacied because their still figuring out how the gear should work. I’m not here for it and I don’t have the time to grind for it again and again and again. So much for a game for working father’s haha.

Im playing d2 not sure i understand what is d4 have a copy even have new expansion not sure i made it through the original story. Where as d2 i have palyed ladder more then 3 or 4 times thats stiry times 3 times 4! Oh yea there is akso no paladin.

Tempering got so boring migth aswell remove it from the game. No idea what they were thinking. I guess crybabies made them change it.

I would guess 99% of your viewers would know if they were missing $1000 a month. Come on man.

I don’t need rocket money when I have no money lol

Honest suggestion. Blizzard needs to hire the Diablo 4 streamers for consultation. Take the top 5 and seriously develop the future WITH them. They say they want feedback. Well pay for it from the streamers that have dedicated so much time to your game!

The season / update theme is “We made everything worse and added a new version of the pit with a leaderboard”

32:32 is all you need to see, if you don’t have time to support raxx and watch the whole video…

So far I’ve sanctified like 100+ items and gotten nothing but useless low tier augments and bricks (a lot of bricks). I watched Rob Brick like 100 mythics yesterday and not get anything good. I wouldn’t interact with this content at all given the current drop rates of mythics/uniques. Not worth the risk.

I still have no interest to return the game as its just not fun on a fundamental level.

Pit 45 is god level of power? Come on Broh. I know you don’t think that having 100 levels of the pit inaccessible to the general public is good game design. Building the game difficulty around the .01% of players who are youtube content creators is stupid. You guys already had pit / tower levels 100 – 150 to flex your epeen if you want to feel better than everyone else * ehem! I mean if you want more challenging content. Should they add more content that scales like that so you guys have more challenges than just the pit? Sure. But they shouldn’t be inflicted on everyone else. The Pit was perfect in the sense that once you go beyond the point necessary to upgrade your glyphs, the returns are diminished and the point becomes the challenge / bragging rights. Adding 0more content like that is good. Making the whole game harder for everyone is bad design.

meh

i wish they would just keep updating d2r. d4 sucks sadly its broken at its core.

Removing the original capstones/world tiers was a huge mistake.
Tower feels and looks the same as the pit, it’s pointless.

Until build craft and build variety gets way deeper, I think any hope of D4 holding a candle to PoE2 is copium.

Overall, it is a decent step in the right direction, but it really just feels like we continue to get almost nothing new added to the game. Season 10 was all about remaking Infernal Hordes (which barely moved the needle on that mechanic imo), and now we’re just adding in capstones again and making crafting slightly better? I dunno. I’ll continue to keep my eye on the game, I tend to hop in for a few days every couple of seasons and have a decent time that way, but man I miss feeling excited for D4.

“Maybe these changes setinng up a good expansion”…. Based on this logic players need to pay three times in order to get the good game? Great logic Blizzard great logic

Don’t worry – around 2030 they will announce Diablo 5 with hype based on “this time it will be dark” + “we have implemented everything what we learned from previous games” xD

I opened the livestream right at the time he was in the new dungeon fighting the new bosses, TOMB LORD and DEN MOTHER.

Diablo 4 is a Diablo 5 waiting room at this point. Took them 12 going on 13 years to just permanently reuse every single piece of content and assets in game.

What would the solution be for tempering to be exciting?
Like should temper manuals be limited and itemized? So a legendary temper manual drop is a bit of dopamine.

That has its own issues but I want more chase and wouldn’t it feel cool to get that mythic tempering manual to drop and now you can finally slam it onto your 3x ga weapon and make it near perfect. Then sanctify it after. Would be sick but maybe I wait for Poe for that lol

It’s a good sign when one of our Arch Neckbeards who hast been absent from the lands for a full year gives praise and plans to return.

The ” early game journey of starting with just a stick in your hand ” is only ” fun ” if leveling is actually part of the game and it takes so long that finding ANYTHING to boost you and building around it for stretches of time is also a thing. Just making things take longer while not providing a meaningful reward or fulfilling challenge is ridiculous.

And I mention the challenge but just making things take longer to kill because monsters have more health and you do less damage is not a challenge beyond your mental health going down the drain from it being so tedious. Its the same shit with classic WoW. Giving people 2 buttons that take all your mana and do no damage, forcing you to auto attack even as a caster, so that single mobs take 30 seconds to kill is awful gameplay. The inability to fight 3-4 mobs without running around like an idiot because you have no skills to outplay them with is awful gameplay.

Im fine with mobs not being one shot. But, don’t just increase mob health and reduce our damage and call it a challenge. Increase their health a bit, reduce mob consistent damage, and make it so mobs actually do something flashy and interesting that we have to counter or dodge to introduce a skill component. Don’t just make it a boring time sink of auto attacking and using 2 skills on long cooldowns.

Diablo 4 stays consistent as the worst game of all time.

I stopped playing 2 seasons ago and the next expansion will be woke as shit.

I know there’s a change coming to Heist and ID’ing items, but there’s an almost expansion amount of changes coming?? LOGIN boys!! 😀

How can you not see a 1000 dollars out of your account for 2 years ??!! -_-

Thanks for the review Raxx, been away for several seasons, happy to know that I don’t need to come back (not a hater here, just a disappointed Diablo player)

i appreciate you made this video, i really trust you after you literally quit the game when you were not feeling it, mad respect to you for that. unlike CERTAIN content creators who will glaze the game even when they deliver dogshit content over and over just to secure the $ bag $

Well this just solidified me not coming back to the game

Honestly, Diablo 4 is still in a really bad state.

Blizzard are making slow improvements to systems that have been bad from the start, but they are still not getting it right – there is no excitement.

I think what is even more scary is they have no vision for what they want their game to be. But if they do have a vision, they sure don’t know how to go about creating it.

There is still no true end-game!
Why would anyone realistically want to log in, just to do the same thing we’ve been doing for the past X amount of seasons? This season will be no different, just at a much slower pace.

At this point they should be doing what Hello Games did with No Mans Sky, giving us free updates to a broken game. But Blizzard are selling these ‘improvements’ as part of a new season.

We are been farmed for money and they don’t show any remorse, they are not sorry for what they have done or are doing.

Rhykker’s latest interview with some of the team leads was quite good, he asked some difficult questions – like why are we still revisiting core systems which have had re-works on top of re-works. They gave a passable answer, albeit a load of rubbish. But they didn’t really explain why they haven’t been able to land at a point they are happy with and works well after all this time…

The D4 “season” is like a small mid-league patch of PoE1 or 2. Even LE gives us more in 4 months with waaaay less resources than this… makes you wonder what those 400+ devs in the Blizzard Diablo team are doing and how can they still be so out of tune of what the general ARPG community wants 11 seasons later?

Diablo 4 is the same as D3 for me. Farm loot for a weekend and blast a bit. Then, never log back in for that season.

I agree with Raxx that changes seem solid, but this isn’t brining anyone back who hates D4 as it currently is because it’s just going to be more of the same.

D4 BAD AGAIN

All these changes really feel like part 1 of an overhaul, I hope this isn’t all the changes cuz I found it underwhelming. The 1-60 experience is changed and maybe more fun but I don’t see much of the bland endgame changing yet. Hope things to improve the endgame are coming soon.

COD of ARPGS Diablo.

D4 is too far gone to ever be good again. It’s for low IQ, low skill people.

Diablo 4 should have stick to the original formula at launch and keep building that instead of trying to complete overall it every 3 month.

We start with a launch version heavily inspired by Diablo 2 with bad balance

Then we slowly push easier and more Diablo 3 ish.

Now not sure what they are trying to do

I’m going to be honest, not every game has to be hard or difficult. Blizzard had their opportunity to make Diablo 4 hard and now it’s just a casual game, whether they like it or not. So if you want a difficult ARPG you got POE 2 and if you want a casual ARP to you got Diablo 4. Not every game has to have an extreme hard mode then it’s casual mode because once you start asking for the same thing from everybody it just gets convoluted and messy.

What’s with the unsolicited GGG glazing? Abyss is not a “whole new mechanic” it’s been around since 2017 and the crafting mechanic isn’t new either; unveiling dropped 2018. You talk about recycling old content, that shit is 6-7 years old repolished their old turds and you guys lap it up lol. The same way “act 4” is more recycled, map versions of act 1-3 areas with a few new NPCs and a couple extra fetch quests. The same way “SIX NEW ACTS” was less so 6 new and more like one new act 5 and acts 1-5 again backwards and with darker tilesets. smh

I’ll save you 28 mins just skip to the final thoughts

What made me quit D4 was the “anual” expansion mentality with almost full price for every expansion. Now we won’t have expansions every year, so maybe It’s time to give it another chance. But I REALLY wanted a loot filter, it was too boring to filter loot later in the game, where 99.99% of what you drop is trash.

Honestly, this crafting system would’ve been better had it borrowed from LE. Shatter an existing item with the affix you want to craft on… At least then, you have some sort of chase/crafting interaction. Then they keep trying to rename the seasonal theme, but unless they get away from reskinning and relabeling the same tab, they will always be powers.

Ahhh, another perfectly…fine? Baby step for one of Blizzards biggest franchises. Game should honestly be golden come season 100.

I’m looking forward to a more engaging leveling experience in S11. Leveling has been a pointless exercise for way too long.

Improving is a strong word that I would not use for D4 Lacking is all I can say

With a community so toxic like arpg fans in the year 2025, PoE wouldn’t have survived their first two years.

They can’t listen to these spoiled cry baby players if they ever want the game to be better.

Bad take. Blizzard screwing us again. Rax is bought and paid for.

Grinding the pit sucks. I finally got one or two charectrs to Torment 3 and the reward is grind to T4. The loot for the pit is ASS. Also can they finally give us a FORGOTTEN SWORD Transmog?

I try and come back every season but lose interest every time during the slog that is the paragon points also the ranking up of the seasonal powers, to me that is just boring and a ill conceived idea

Not to mention the fact they are making items less deterministic with the temper/affix change making it harder to get what you want.

As someone who comes from looter shooters into ARPGs. I think bricking, is the WORST FEELING MECHANIC EVER OF ALL TIME!!!
Imagine… gambling. “Yea im just playin 1 dollar spins so i can have fun. OH MY GOD! I GOT SUCH A BAD SPIN THEY TOOK 50$ FROM ME?!? WHAT THE FUCK!?!”
Yea that sounds fun???
Just make it a material waste. And increase the cost. Its still a risk. But if i love that item, and will actually be fucked if its bricked, i can fix it.
(Sry 2nd comment. Maybe itll boost the algorithm lol)

I spent platinum this season so I could finish the battle pass off and be done for the season that’s how boring the game is who knows maybe in December things will be different.

d4 still bad after all this time. 3.27 login

poe2 literally have the same mechanic, sanctified,. omen + divine orb.

I wont be playing this season it’s just not exciting enough. Appreciate the summary.

15:35 kiting mobs would be nice to do if it weren’t for the awful, short leash they put on mobs to prevent us from doing that

Sounds like overall they are going in the wrong direction by reverting some of their more popular changes…Anything that prolongs you getting to the end game is just wasting our time. (at least in the seasonal realm)

TLDR. POE1 3.27 Reveal is tomorrow.

Rax, don’t expect anything to change anytime soon! As the devs themselves said, it takes them about a year just to process feedback and make any adjustments. I honestly don’t understand why you keep putting in all this effort when the developers don’t seem to care — and when they finally do something, it’s a year too late.

Imo S11 will be full garbage, you even didnt mention the resists and armor rework which is now like the brain dead D3.

No word about the gear for Eternal players getting reset for the 4th times in 2 years. This is only a seasonal game, clearly. They’ve lost me.

Yall complained about powers now your gonna get a season where you’re nerfed and all you get is some armor and you can roll durability loss on items gg guys

Thats what she said has been played out 5 years ago

This game is just bad

Would love if they could do something about the training grounds for testing different things and builds but it’s just a dummy.

D4 alpha test 11 lets go! We making it to the beta with this one.

I genuinely want Diablo 4 to succed…I really do. I’ve loved this franchise for years, and part of me still hopes it finds its footing again. But if I’m honest, the last expansion left me with a pretty sour taste. I can’t shake the feeling that I got played a bit, and that’s coming from someone who considers themselves a fairly savvy consumer. I also work in the games industry, so I understand all too well how complex these projects are: The constant tug-of-war between creative vision, technical limitations, and business pressures, both internal and external.

That said, I’ve reached a point where even new announcements don’t spark any excitement anymore. Each season reveal, each update. it’s all kind of washes over me now. I’m tired of waiting on the sidelines, hoping for something to reignite that original spark I felt at launch. Maybe part of that’s on me…I played the game heavily from day one and stuck with it up until around Season 7. But at this stage, unless the next expansion brings a meaningful evolution to the endgame and introduces a substantial amount of fresh content, I’m out.

A new class and a small narrative continuation just won’t cut it anymore. It’s going to take something truly transformative, something that shows the team listened, learned, and built upon the foundation to stick it to the haters and prove D4 Isne’t just stuck on the rinse cycle in anymore.

Don’t need 33 minutes to know that it’s still garbage.

They aren’t “Powers” they’re “Gifts!” ……….

…………….lmao

Wake me up when they bring back the Paladin.

Season 11 sucks, everything you said sounds like a terrible game for everyone except streamers

Im happy it appears there was more thought and consideration into this than previous updates but honestly who cares at this point. They need to stop flip flopping on basic stuff like masterworking and tempering. They were fine, not perfect but fine. Pick a lane and stick to it blizzard.

What everyone is looking for is gameplay additions. ADDITIONS! not tweaks, not reworks, not changing which currency comes from what activity. Think breach, delve, abyss, some deeper mechanic that can be added to pits or nmds to truly change how the endgame plays. Give us something to strive for.

The sanctify thing I have a real problem with. You can brick god items and even Ubers with it if it takes away an affix you truly need and if you have 2 pieces of gear you need for your build and they both happen to sanctify with the same aspect then things are going to feel really bad. Trying to push leaderboards is going to be even more of a slot machine game now than a skill based activity. I do not think this is a good change for the game and I honestly feel like it’s waaaay worse than the current system.

they need to make masterworking mats more rare.

I don’t understand why content creators that cover D4 can’t just call this what it is. Seasons in D4 are nothing more than Blizzard edging the player base into buying another expansion. Just say the truth man.

Video begins at 32:55

This just goes to show that when Blizzard wanted to normalize the term “Diablo-like” doesn’t work, they end up being “PoE-like”

This game is not good enough to watch 30min video, where is the tldr

I hopped on, got my first skill point. I wanted to put a skill on the bind i wanted. And was told “you need 7 more skill points to use this skill slot”
What… the… fuck… is… that????

Paladin yet and let me make what ever power build I want not what skins your trying to sell. One more important thing bring back Tyrael that was a stupid story twist!

Rax you also are bit of a hater lol

I’ll give this season a whirl. I played the shit out of 0.3 in POE2 and don’t mind dipping back into D4 for a bit.

However I want to finish Doom TDA first.

Yea this doesnt get me too excited yet :/ ill keep watching

Looking forward for the 21th masterworking rework

Raxx seems to have missed the fact that sanctification is not a new system, it’s a seasonal mechanic that is deleted at the end of season 11 so having the mindset of getting multiple mythics in a future season to sanctify them is pointless.

As a seasonal mechanic this system is trash, because if you are unlucky and don’t get multiple copies of your good gear you will never ever get to sanctify your gear unless you want to risk bricking all your items.

I’ve played the PTR a bit and definitely noticed the difficulty hike in the early stages and the drops are far more impactful and noticeable in that stage. I took several season off from the game 6-9 and came back last season to try the chaos armor. I had the feeling where I’m rushing to the end game instead of just enjoying the process of getting there. These are welcomed changes for me and we’ll see how it plays out when they tune things a bit before launch. Cautiously optimistic.

God, I’m so tired of the ARPG community. A bunch of whiney, entitled, shut-ins.

Been a life long Diablo fan but then discovered POE 2 at launch, then played through POE 1. In my opinion, as a pretty casual player D4 has no chance of catching up to POE2 or POE 1 .

Short answer; it’s still 🗑️

Not sure why they didn’t just make a leaderboard for the Pitt, and maybe a boss rush mode that gets harder and harder. Something different as opposed to a eerily similar system to the pit

I will never touch this game until Paladin. They will probably make a “Rainbow Knight” with the power of “Caring”….

Thanks rax. Also i use rocket money. Pay rax more!

i always find it funny – get to end a just plow through things – i thought he was talking about poe 🙂

You do have to discuss anything you don’t like or want to, you can go away and not worry about it. But then again what would you have to complain about, right. What would this world be without cry babies. We need you guys to be the haters and remind us how to ignorant people can be.

Thank you!

I love how your sponsor link has your entire name I’ve been watching your stuff for years and I don’t think I’ve ever heard you say your whole name out loud

game is way better next season, capstone and the lvling gonna be so tasty(best part of game)…capstone were awesome, now they are back the only challenge in game, if u not that chinese farmerr and fishing maps push pit ….end game for players that doesnt push pit, get boring cause easy to make a build to destroy all content and do pit 100 at least and up glyph easy to 100…so capstone rock!!!!!!!

Obligatory “step in the right direction”: 32:06

I think Mr Raxx would make a great analyst to some other party, but is here slaving to an overlord that’s not valuing his guts. And, the most important part – D4 BAD… for none reasons mentioned here btw, but you know them already! Cheers!

I actually enjoyed D IV for a while, have like 300 hours in it. But when that first DLC hit it looked like trash so I’ve just never went back. I’d like to have a reason to enjoy D IV again, I’ve actually enjoyed all the Diablo games.

Before I watch the video, I’m going to go out in a limb and say, “Still not great, still no endgame, still working on core mechanics, moving in the right direction….”.

Did I nail it?

This is sad. Like really really sad for D4. WERE STILL IN BETA

11 seasons of beta, honestly liked season 10 and now all this is making me feel like it’s going to make us weak again, then in season 12 they’ll make us strong again because of all the complaints….

We get poe2 in December no? So i see very little people coming back for next season if they are hater or not. But i guess still in the right direction just lacking the vision idk

Just hoping this doesn’t become a trend where we get “full release” Betas for 2 years

Bruh I know you have to be tired of saying the same thing quarterly. They just need to go ahead and let this game die and come out with a Diablo 4.2

the lack of creativity on the d4 is astonishing. looking at other companies (GGG, EHG, etc) its not some miracle or shooting star. It’s game designers that are creative artists who love making interesting mechanics. WHAT IS GOING ON AT BLIZZARD?!?!?!?!?

*skips to the end* 🧐 still trash then. thanks for putting the shift in so i don’t have to raxx ❤

I don’t see any reason why we would need to run around and pick up anything…Not sure why D4 or any ARPG wouldn’t just automatically pick up orbs etc. so that we can concentrate on the important stuff such as builds and wrecking mobs. Is there any skill or intelligence required to go back and pick up orbs? The logic with this has always defied me.

vaal orb is single handedly the best gamba mechanic in POE… cant believe diablo didnt have it!

Reached the point that of d4 shut down. Id be like damm, welp anyway back to epoch/poe2

i agree with the lack of excitement with temp and masterworking. like where is the dopamine hit??

I love this game. I have a weird complaint that no one seems to mention. Why do I have to do all the Strongholds on every character?

turn the tower into a mix of the pit and hordes. Each level has a boss and after the boss 3 choices of boon(hordes). Each level scales(like pit) and you just keep going until its becomes too difficult and you die. Thus putting you on the leaderboard at what level you cleared and how long it took.

Having the kinda money where I don’t notice 1k leaving my account MONTHLY is something I cannot even imagine.