Diablo 4 is going to change a lot before its release and it’s thanks to the whole community. Blizzard has taken the feedback into account and is listing what will be changed.
Diablo 4 is coming soon and has already completed several testing phases. During these periods, thousands of players were able to test the game before its final release. There has been a lot of feedback regarding game mechanics, balancing, and bug reports.
Blizzard has obviously taken note of all this since many changes have already been made.
This is just an overview of the upcoming changes. More details will be given soon during a livestream to be held on April 20 on the official channel.
Blizzard listening to players to polish Diablo 4
Diablo 4 is expected on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series from June 6th. So there are only a few weeks left for Blizzard to polish its baby. The developers have shared some of what will be changed before the game is available for everyone.
And the community has been listened to since most of these changes are due to the many feedback we get from players.
After the Early Access and Open Beta weekends were over, the development team read all of your feedback and reviewed the game data. Using this information, we’ve made a variety of fixes and updates. to multiple systems Diablo 4. They will all be present in the final version which will be released on June 6th. None of this would be possible without all of you. THANK YOU !
Dungeons have been revamped
First of all, it’s a large part of the dungeons that have been modified. As Blizzard explains, one of the biggest complaints about dungeons is that you often had to go back and forth unnecessarily and unexcitingly. The developers have therefore decided to remedy this on a wide selection of dungeons. More adjustments will follow later, and Blizzard promises to monitor feedback closely once again.
List of dungeons that will be modified
- Caldera Gate
- Defiled Catacombs
- Derelict Lodge
- Forbidden City
- Hoarfrost Demise
- Immortal Emanation
- Kor Dragan Barracks
- Maulwood
- Rimescar Caverns
Additionally, many adjustments have been made to make dungeon exploration more dynamic than ever. In this case, there will now be more random events, actions on the environment have been simplified and there will be no need to search every corner of the dungeon to look for the last remaining creatures.
All changes applied to dungeons
- The chance of an event appearing inside a dungeon has been increased from 10% to 60%.
- To reduce back and forth, a small number of scattered monsters will now seek out the player to help them achieve the “kill all monsters” objective.
- When the Animus is gathered, the player and nearby allies are entitled to bonuses:
- Resource gain.
- Reduces all active cooldowns by 1 second.
- The channel time required for Animus activation has been reduced from 3 seconds to 0 seconds.
- The time required for saves has been reduced from 3 to 1.5 seconds.
- When a rescue is successful, a health potion is now given.
- When carrying a dungeon special item (ex: Bloodstone, Ancient Statue…), you will now receive a “Momentum” bonus which will grant you and your nearby allies a 25% increase in your movement speed.
- Activated bases have had their channel time reduced from 2 seconds to 0 seconds.
- Returning a wearable to its pedestal now fully restores health, resources, potions, and resets cooldowns for all nearby players.
- All doors will now ping the minimap when opened.
- All structure objectives in dungeons now offer new challenges to overcome.
Equilibrage des classes
The classes will also be entitled to several modifications, mainly balancing. Many skills have been retouched and Blizzard will give more details shortly before the game’s release. For now, here are the changes, in broad outline, shared by the developers.
- General
- Special effects like Stun or Freeze can be applied to Elite monsters for twice as long before they become Unresponsive.
- Review of skills for each class to confirm that all classes have access to enough skills that remove control impairing effects.
- Many legendary powers have had updates.
- Barbaric
- Flat 10% passive damage reduction for the Barbarian class. Some skill tree passives have had their damage reduction effects reduced to compensate.
- The skill “Whirlwind” now deals more damage and consumes more fury.
- The “Double Swing” skill buff refunds its full fury cost when used on stunned or knocked down enemies.
- Druid
- Companion skills will now deal greatly increased damage.
- All ultimate skills have had their cooldowns reduced.
- Improvements have been made to “Maul” and “Pulverize”.
- Using a non-Shapeshifting skill will transform a Druid into their human form.
- Necromancer
- Summoned minions will die more often, forcing players to use corpses more often.
- Many “Book of the Dead” bonuses have had their stats increased.
- The damage inflicted by the skill “Corpse Explosion” has been reduced.
- The brightness of Skeleton Warriors and Mages has been reduced.
- Thief
- Subterfuge-type skill upgrades have had their bonuses increased.
- Several passive skills have had their bonuses increased.
- All imbue type skills have had their cooldowns increased.
- Wizard
- Charged Traits damage increased and mana cost decreased.
- Decreased the damage of “Chain of Lightning” and reduced its effectiveness against Bosses.
- Decreased the cooldown of the enchantment bonus of the skill “Incinerate”.
- Walls of Flame will now appear more frequently under enemies when using its enchantment bonus.
- Increased the critical hit chance for the enchantment bonus of the skill “Meteor”.
Other Important Diablo 4 Changes
In addition to dungeons and classes, several other facets of Diablo 4 got a little overhaul. The user interface, the fights or the caves all have their share of changes.
Once again, the developers aren’t going into the details of everything that’s been changed, but they’re giving us a rather extensive preview of what to expect on June 6.
- Interface
- Fixed an issue where the built-in screen reader would not read keystrokes, game option details, and other UI text.
- Fixed an issue where actions could not be bound to the mouse wheel.
- Fixed an issue where some actions could not be bound to the correct analog stick on the gamepad.
- Chat will now display on the left side of the screen when the action bar is centered.
- A character’s stats will be displayed by default when players click the “Materials” and “Stats” button in their inventory.
- Changes for key customization.
- The font has been replaced with a new font with serif.
- Bosses and special enemies
- Fixed several issues that caused bosses, such as the Butcher, to not move.
- The Butcher has been rebalanced and will present a greater challenge in world levels 3 and 4.
- Bosses such as T’chort, Malnok, Vhenard and others have been rebalanced.
- Fixed an issue where Vampire Brutes were using the wrong skills.
- Caves
- Increased the chance of a dungeon event occurring in caves.
- Cellars will now always reward a chest once they have been completed.
- Fixed an issue where caves were prematurely marked as completed.
- Fixed an issue where the guaranteed Elite monster was missing from a cave.
- General
- Fixed an issue where players could increase attack speed by canceling attacks earlier.
- Fixed an issue where characters were not immune and untargetable after charging into an area.
- The “Reset Dungeon” button has been disabled.
- Fixed an issue that caused some locations to have fewer monsters than intended until campaign quests in those territories were completed.
If you want to go a little deeper, you can find the whole of this post on the official website of Diablo 4.
