Discussing The Future of Diablo 4 With DM, DatModz & wudijo

[@zarombiste9158]

Huge mistake with AH. I WOULD LOVE TO TRADE, BUT GOING OUT OF GAME, especially on Xbox and go in your phone or tablet to some trade websites just sucks.

[@PankyNips]

Get a browser on your Xbox lol

[@stefan.antonio.]

100% Either support trade in a robust way in game, or get rid of it. Certainly at least do not balance around an experience that is found off your platform.

[@robertlefeaux]

@@zarombiste9158 I hate having to refer to outside resources while playing. I would love a copy paste link in guides to use in game like they do in hearthstone.

[@proxmitikgames]

100%, il suffer without trading untill we get an ah.

[@Schmidteren]

Hey, what I've always said. But gotten flamed so hard in the past for this belief. AH is good, just not RMAH. RMAH is bad. Normal AH is good. Hate when trading is super cumbersome. In these games I want to play mostly, and spend less time doing the boring stuff like trading.

[@bevansmia]

It's turned into a one class expansion. It makes the other classes not worth playing.

[@bullseye7074]

There have been classes not worth playing every season. At least more than one build is fun.

[@chaddrusso8850]

@@bullseye7074nah man barb and sorc season 2 and 4 were the most fun I had in the game they just need some buffs to skills

[@peruru84]

They will revamp all classes to meet the new spirit born standard. It's a good thing, just a skewed expansion

[@chaddrusso8850]

@@peruru84that’s what the devs said in season 4-5 that they would buff the classes to barbs power level and instead they gutted 80% of barbs builds

[@xjustsomeguyx1554]

All the other classes imo seem fine, even great in some respects, up until tier 3. After that its back to one shots and hp sponges.

[@xlpode]

What DM said struck a chord. I love and hate the Spiritborn, love that it feels and plays so well, hate that it is leaps and bounds better than the other classes..

[@th3orist]

have not played spiritborn because its style is not appealing to me, i only like to play a class where i feel like i can identify myself with it to some extent.

[@Theyhateusandwedontcare]

It's only cause of the bugs...

[@Tsunat3z]

@@Theyhateusandwedontcare No its not. Take away the bugs and the class still feels good to use. Granted this makes sense since it is the latest class. The reason why the Rogue also feels the best out of the Vanilla classes is because it was made last.

[@Theyhateusandwedontcare]

@Tsunat3z never said it doesn't feel good but that's why it's far above the other classes. Without the bugs it wouldn't be

[@Larannis]

I agree there needs to be chase items but I don't like is finally getting that 3 or 4 GA item and the damn affix is min roll. That happened to me today and it felt really awful.

[@HDGaminTutorials]

3 ga or higher should always drop perfect rolls on affix

[@elchancho8432]

⁠@@PainIsBetterThanHateNo they don’t lmao It’s RNG my friend has a 4 GA with a terrible aspect rolled we all picked it up to look at it

[@Larannis]

@PainIsBetterThanHate they do not. I can prove it if you don't believe it. I still have the item. The only gear that drops with perfect rolls are mythics

[@jedirayden]

​@@HDGaminTutorials I disagree. I agree with Wudijo and Modz. There should be some sort of way to "re-roll" the affix roll on the unique or something along those lines. Or... If it is at least 3 GA, it should have a higher minimum value than the normal unique. Similar to what they were saying about the aspect rolls on Ancestral versus normal legendaries. Ancestral legendaries should have a higher minimum value than a normal legendary, and a Unique that drops with at least 3 GA should have a higher minimum value than the normal Unique. This keeps an item chase in the game for every type of player, even the blasters, while being less punishing to the more casual players who get lucky enough to see a 3 or 4 GA Unique. But I absolutely agree with the spirit of your comment that the current system SUCKS. Happened to me last season, was playing Sorc and I was using Fireball to farm LS/CL gear... Saw a 3 GA Gloves of the Illuminator, was VERY excited... Until I saw the aspect rolls was only 1 point higher than the absolute minimum... And I already had a pair with no GAs, but nearly max rolls on all affixes and the aspect rolls too. That 3 GA pair went straight to the salvage pile.

[@Larannis]

@@jedirayden I would be fine with a system like that as well.

[@Weneedcarlsaganback]

I despise the fact that all through D4 and D3 (on higher difficulty) you are either 100% HP, or 0% and dead. There is no tension, no dance, just spamming your skill-rotation and the occasional random one-shot death.

[@ronuss]

this is so true, which forces players to play just abit lower than really hard content, to stop one shots and maximize drops faster. which leads to a game that has no challenge. why cant more arpgs have actual mechanics even outside of boss fights. i want to be needing to move out of stuff, needing to stun x mob before he does a super strong attack , you know to actually feel like im having to pay attention. this is one of the few games you can just afk farm for the most part and have no issue doing so

[@sickofitall8486]

@@ronuss The stuff you mention is why I enjoyed the Dark Citadel when I did. You couldn't just blast the bosses and had to solve the puzzles (albeit pretty basic) to beat the death timer. And while you could argue the death timer is a one shot, it could also be argued the death timer is just a slow DoT spell the zone activates when you start the encoutner.

[@grrakkh4459]

just uninstalled for that reason. horrible game design through and through, slogging through millions of samey items doesn`t help either.

[@JamieR]

This sums up my main complaint too. It's why Titan Quest and Grim Dawn were and still are so good. Hopefully PoE 2 keeps the pacing and doesn't go all zoomy like the first game.

[@Weneedcarlsaganback]

@@ronuss exactly, ”gameplay” turns into literally holding my ps5-controller in one hand, pushing down square, and AFK-zipping from pack to pack..

[@gzayas08]

Still so confused for no in-game auction house but websites work in place. That's dumb. Blizz loves relying on third-party. It really breaks immersion.

[@bondsmatthew]

Agreed completely. In PoE you wanna know what we do when we want to sell something? Put in a tab labeled 10c, 25c, 50c, 1d, etc and go back to mapping. When I want something I go to the official trade site(which still isn't the greatest, would rather it not be a website but it is what it is)

[@stu.chainz]

Bro talking about immersion in Diablo 4 is probably the funniest thing I’ve read all day 😂 yea I’m so immersed in my fixed Birds Eye’s view camera casting spells 5 times a second and blinking across the screen. Get real bro lol.

[@JCurry1123]

and while we're at it, why do I have to add a player from trade chat to my friends list to invite them to my party? Stupid blizzard decisions

[@arnocastelein5111]

there is not supposed to be an ah

[@Thad91]

Have you ever played D3 ? Then you would know why there is NO auction house.

[@AlainNavasDrama]

why can't we have Bash Barb. Lighting Spear Sorc, and Spirit borne all in one season... Why must they pick winners and losers every season...Aside from scaling other great leveling builds for endgame, keep those old builds viable as well, you can never have enough choice for builds, but it seems they just want everyone playing the same exact build every season.

[@MasterJohnam]

The goal of the game should be to keep good builds good, and raise up all other builds with continual balance patches and seasons. Provide aspects of flare and fun to existing known good builds without making them too powerful. It's a hard ask.

[@evg3nius]

Spiritborn didnt go through PTR. If other classes weren't on PTR they all would be doing quadrillions of damage. We've seen all the PTR clips.

[@MasterJohnam]

@@evg3nius That's by design. They want people to be overpowered to encourage them to go try the "new thing" - D3 Crusader on release was pushing the highest level rifts 150+, Necromancer on release in D3 was super overpowered pushing rifts 200+, Demonhunter in Hearthstone was mega OP on release, Demonhunter in WoW was mega OP, Monk in WoW was mega OP, new Dark Iron Dwarves racial was super OP, dracthyr new race racial was super OP and of course Spiritborne was MEGA op. This is all by design.

[@jasonzimmer7714]

thing is, there will always be a best class. which is ok as long as other classes can be playable and compete somewhat for kill. but spiritborn literally does 1000x and more damage than any other class. there are videos of spiritborn doing over 10 quadrillion damage. no lightning sorc or barb or any other class has even gotten remotely close to that. No class in any game, ever (as far as i know) has ever hit numbers like that.

[@Asdfqwerty12341]

@@MasterJohnamGod don’t remind me of Demon Hunter in Hearthstone. Was able to hit legend rank with Midrange Demon Hunter. Even all of the basic class cards were pretty good. I won 18 consecutive games with that deck, it felt so dirty. Hand of Guldan was so busted, I remember thinking “who the fk looked at this s*it and thought it would be ok?”

[@bizerker21]

The pit, NMD, and Undercity are basically the same thing (run through a dungeon) with minor nuances. The only difference is the result items provided. It is removes the complexity and makes the end game very repetitive. This season lacks the dopamine provided on previous seasons, getting gear is a massive chore. Even if you find your ideal piece, the dopamine doesn't even hit since you have to still get past the temper and masterworking hurdles ahead of you that erodes any possible excitement. The lack of dopamine is also tied the new aspect system, where you can grind for hours and only improved on irrelevant aspect that you don't even use. Add how some Rune seem to not drop either, it just makes the players that chasing the string at the end of the stick (yes, not even a carrot attached to chase) and makes it very unsatisfying.

[@Dparkour13]

Recommended changes (Bugfixes not included): - Make scrolls of restoration (retempering scrolls) infinite use and remove the 1-per-item limit. - Make quad GA items have a min-roll threshold for aspects. - Ancestral aspects minimum roll is always better than non-ancestral max roll. - Stack together rewards from IH chests & Whisper caches to avoid lengthy collections. - Improve mythic drop rates for bosses at Torment 4 - Improve Dark Citadel Cosmetic Rewards - Better support for solo boss runs (re summoning cost) Systematic (large-scale) suggestions: - Auction House / In-game marketplace - Roguelite integration (new seasonal mechanic or spanning full season) - Material vendor (trade in excess materials) - Loot Filter - Armory - Overhaul paragon legendary effects

[@ancientrunekrp6895]

id add turn Rod of Kepeleke usable by all classes or turn it into an aspect

[@Dparkour13]

@ancientrunekrp6895 That would be insanely cool! I think that would only really come alongside a full class balancing overhaul since the other classes have a much more interesting range of core skills than SB does - and with that comes the chance of breaking the game (stability wise mainly, but also balance wise). They'd talked a little in the podcast about Blizzard being more ambitious with skill tags and this definitely falls into that category.

[@gs1042]

So one thing I think would help in a huge way with items is that when you get a GA item, but a crap stat GA, let me enchant that affix at occultist and let me keep the GA on diff affix. I would actually get a usefull item, it becomes acc boud anyway so I cant trade it. It's a meaningfull upgrade for me, and it would actually also drive the exorbitant prices of items on market down . Because not everybody has 15b for a gloves lying around. Thumb up if you like the idea

[@liabakar]

First few days playing expansion, i felt like a student again, studying how to use restoration scroll (didnt realize if masterworked items, cant use the scroll, it has to be tempered only, jeez!) Then googling on how to get tributes… but hey its kinda fun to finally get it. I create party all the time now, not less than 1 minutes other players join me. Undercity is the best.. target farm specific hundreds of times now… Feeling good. Thanks Raxxx ❤ you

[@maxmustermann3938]

I have used the restoration scrolls on masterworked gear.

[@shaunybravo]

I want all druid nerfs reverted after playing spiritborn

[@chaddrusso8850]

Same I want season 4 barb back

[@HDGaminTutorials]

I want sorc to have its third enchament slot back and hydra unnerfed

[@HDGaminTutorials]

Also the capping of passives in the paragon board was trash revert that.

[@cptmittelstrahl]

@@PainIsBetterThanHate trolls are normally pretty intelligent and well spoken people. you on the other hand are just boring

[@DeathComeInPeace]

@@cptmittelstrahl Those are the D4 players

[@pokemonfan2630]

Ill try my summoner build every season until it's good.

[@Danny-zw7sw]

Almost done pit 100 with it, I think it's good this season (I mean not compared to bugged Spiritborn but relative to other classes)

[@jasonzimmer7714]

@@Danny-zw7sw i am running a blood surge necro, and have hit 101, hard...but did it. my clan leader is a quill spirit, and ran me through pit 150, in 1.75 minutes end boss died as i blinked

[@Danny-zw7sw]

@@jasonzimmer7714 yeah I’ve done 150 with quill spirit and the 2 other classes I play and struggling for 100, arguably they have better gear too, 4GA winter glass and fists of fate etc but power level sucks.

[@milenivanov5436]

Why don't you try Witch summoner in PoE2 after 3 weeks? I can guarantee that it will be 10 times more fun and complex for you to play than D4 summoner on start!

[@pokemonfan2630]

@@milenivanov5436 I did just that lol

[@dolo2233]

My (current) list of things I would like to see change (in no particular order) 1. Ability to replace health potion with resource potion 2. Hearts to summon helltide boss need to be buffed, nerfd too hard 3. More skills 5. More gem types, chance to freeze, critical strike chance, etc. 6. Make it so basic elixers can be enchanted with another item to become the same type of elixer but it becomes Advanced 7. Auction house (NO RMT) 8. Loot filter 9. Class balance 10. Armory (Loadouts) 11. More end game bosses 12. Special solo dungeons with solo player mechanics (Similar to new raid but for solo play only) 13. Make Legion events fun 14. Mounts needs more sprints (even 1 more would be nice) 15. Fix tempering and masterworking systems 16. Armor sets (full set grants some kind of bonus, should not exclude uniques and mythics from sets, so maybe 3 pieces max to a set) 17. More rune types and combinations 18. Make boss mechanics more noticeable (color changes, boss shouts before attack, etc.) 19. More ways to get cosmetics FOR FREE 20. Depending on how many GAs a unique item has should determine how high the main affix stat is)

[@hiddenxalpha7053]

i kinda dislike 20, All items are already worthless when 'GA's exist, seeing as you can equip one in every slot (Unlike Primals in D3), its the same as ancient items in d3 "If not ancient/GA, delete it".

[@dolo2233]

@@hiddenxalpha7053 I've seen D3 videos but never played it. Diablo 4 is my first diablo game so I apologize for my lack of knowledge on the subject. Let me propose this then: if 1 GA, you have X percent chance to roll a higher main affix percentage. The percentage increases per GA to possibly roll with even higher main affix percentage. Would that be more feasible or is that not good either? Thank you for your reply by the way, I'm trying to compile this list in hopes people see it, interact with it, and help me make changes to it to where I can one day present them to someone that may have a say in implementing these changes. Edit/addition: what if we create a 3rd "tempering/masterwork" systems where you can upgrade the main affix on uniques?

[@Asdfqwerty12341]

@@dolo2233I agree with the idea that if you were to get a 3 GA Ancestral legendary that the ability affix roll should not be able to roll any less than 75-80 percent of max. If not than at least on unique items, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten a 2-3 GA unique and had to scrap it because the ability is dogs*it.

[@dolo2233]

@@Asdfqwerty12341 yup, it doesn't even phase me anymore. I just go "welp that's shit" *salvage* lol

[@adamjohanssonn]

ive been in the helltide twice and i have 34 hearts

[@jaixc]

Actually, I'd like them to have a decent loot filter that we can apply to our pets. One that'll auto pickup everything dropped (equipment, runes, gold, mats).. then we can set it to either auto break down for mats or auto sell everything upon a dungeon/horde completion. Make it somewhat complex so we could target save 2-4 GA ancestorials/mythics later on. Also a "sell all" button in the vendors would be nice too.. Spending less time teleporting back to towns to sell or break stuff down makes for more productive farming.

[@proxmitikgames]

100% UP!!

[@phillipjfry4943]

Hey Raxx it's great that gambling worked out so well for you early game. I spent probably 7-8k in obols leveling and trying to gear and didn't get a single unique item for my build. I got all my build uniques from bosses.

[@whoopsie321]

Yeah ngl going back to the other classes and especially druid which is my main is going to be tough 💀Also Spirtborn right now feels like how Death Knight were when first released in WOTLK being extremely overpowered and being a "hero" class. I remember Crusader and Necro being super strong in D3 on release but not this insane.

[@gotaplanstan]

Been messing with druid this season and it's been pretty awesome tbh

[@Djuntas]

Same with demon hunter in wow.

[@tomieedzsi]

What???DK was nowhere as nearly overpowered wtf are you talking about...

[@keepingitrealproduction9475]

But you need to do pit 100 to level the glyphs to 100 optimally. So saying it’s ok for a build to cap at pit lower than 100 is not ok. If it’s a requirement or feasible to level glyph to 100 which is pit 100. Then all class should be able to scale to complete that at the least. Then getting to glyph 100 will then define how far classes can push beyond pit 100 to 150.

[@sols.2525]

Rax and DM YES!! Chase items that are hard to get but they are things that last forever, unlike mythics that just last the season. Love DM idea of the miniture boss pets and things like that.

[@MrJethroll]

Wanted to make another character and noticed I just wasn't having fun. Spiritborn makes the other classes feel unfinished. Time to make another Grim Dawn run.

[@Djgrapejuice900]

I’d love something like “Meteor is a lightning skill, lucky hit : when meteor strikes an enemy it sends out 6 charges bolts”

[@SuperLifestream]

you mean, blizz should just make runes good then you can do this

[@amd3636]

I am loving the DOT build from DonTheCrown. I hope we can push this beyond where it is sometime. Watching a wave of enemies die to your poison aura is super satisfying. It has a cap of 100ish currently. I hope that D4 finds a way to elevate other builds/classes to similar levels. I am not upset with the occasional meta shift per season, but the other classes really need an adjustment in the expansions ahead. They have place the classes in quite the competition pickle.

[@iuribogar9611]

Raxx's description of killing the T4 beast in the ice reminds me of playing the beta and trying to kill the world boss before time runs out. It was difficult because we were seriously under leveled, but it was really fun for me.

[@maguszero]

"...doesn't work with couch co-op? That's crazy!" Wudijo: "Okay next topic."

[@ahyesiseeisee557]

@@maguszero seems about right 😂

[@rowanbrown7736]

As a ex WOW player of 20 years i have been completely burned out on blizzard style multiplayer content. I have no issues with raids being in the game and im glad those that have played them enjoy them. However D4 seems to be leaning harder and harder towards multiplayer content and the discrepancy between solo farming vs 4 player farming does feel pretty bad. I hope the D4 team boost the solo content to be as good as the raids, without changing or watering down the raids for those who enjoy them. if they lean towards raids being the best content as the expense of solo content (which is my fear) ill have to find another ARPG to play and POE 2 is right around the corner. Also Cali is Best girl.

[@tylicius4329]

This pod is actual 800% value! Love it ty!

[@LycanDreams9159]

What if there was a rotating “hells chosen” mechanic where 2 or maybe 3 times a week a different ladder boss get buffed to be stronger and the chances for mythic uniques and greater affix increase to be durial level or possibly higher. That makes it so that your not always just killing durial but your also sometimes killing grigore or the vampire boss for the mythic uniques and stuff

[@TeeCreate]

Spiritborn is fun but not sure why they nuked the other classes before the season started if this is how they knew this class was going to come in. Bugs or not its skill tree and class uniques clear other classes. Sorcs cant have to many lightning spears or Druids cant have to many lightning storms but Spiritborn can have 5000%CSD, insta cooldowns, max attack speed, giga damage reduction, no resource problem, perma unstoppable. Nice balancing. Solve 1 problem to create another. Season 7 of classes reborn!

[@cptmittelstrahl]

i think that is blizzards plan. fuck up everything so they don't actually have to be creative for a season theme. they just fix shit (if actually) and call it "season of barb fixes" etc.

[@Elidan1012]

the bugs literally 100x their damage compared to what it should do. They could have buffed all the other chacaters and it would not have made a different on the perception of the Spiritborn in its current state.

[@theragingsky]

I don't mind having the pit be more skill based or even more difficult, but I think the max glyph level should be lowered so that your character's power isn't softcapped by a single mechanic that many classes can't get to max even multiple weeks into a season.

[@MainChannelHubbo]

I love the more active gameplay of spiritborn. It feels so good to smash all the mobs, and the gameplay is really fluid. I’ve not had a similar experience with any other class besides sorceress. Also gotten further than any other season, so super hyped about how it currently works.

[@krylesangerbeaver]

45:00 I think the number of stars on an ancestral should have increased chance depending on the tier you are playing. So a 4 star ancestral in torment 1 would be a godly drop but to find it in tier 4 is still rare, but not unheard of or anything. 2 and 3 stars more common in torment 4. If you made it to Tormet 4 your gear is p[robably already decent. You are looking at attacking the most difficult stuff.

[@evilsquirrelfarm]

The problem existed before spiritborn. Has there ever been a sorc build that didn't include Tal Ras?

[@theStamax]

I think this is true for most classes, but sorc suffers more than others for sure. Both rings are basically the same on every build and you spam the same defensive skills on every build since they also grant the best generic damage increases and you have no way of defensive/offensive scaling aside from them:/. They all play almost identical

[@armorvil]

Rhykker said the undercity was a way to gear an alt. If only! We need tributes for each class's gear.

[@moddernmonk1637]

First of all amazing podcast guys! What Modz said, I am one of the solo players and I'd love to do the Raids, but if they could have a solo experience where your build is good enough to kill the bosses and do a variation of solo mechanics like they have on Destiny's Dungeons ( They are like mini raids that can be done solo or up to 3 players ) that would be ideal. I've still not spoiled my self on what the mechanics and bosses are so I have that to look forward to, but I also now feel extra let down that the reward structure is not even up to snuff on there. I did like the idea that Modz also said that maybe as a solo player we can have a loot multiplayer so we don't feel like we are just wasting mats when doing boss rotations. I often invite people for free boss runs as I feel like I am wasting the mats if I just kill the bosses by myself. Diablo 4 has improved at lot since launch and I am excited to see where it is going. We still just lack a lot of endgame and that really kills the game. I'm gonna try and push for Paragon 300, but just hoping I can get there before POE2 comes out LOL Great discussion guys! Keep up the amazing work!

[@Smudge7Four]

When you play it, all enemies and bosses get one shot by spiritborns, even in T4. Just wait for S7 if you want a true raid experience.

[@ancientrunekrp6895]

when i unlocked them i saw it was co-op and didnt even bother.

[@TheDaysEnd]

Naw making the ubers more costly to summon is dumb. They need another way to access the loot. Put it in undercity.

[@HDGaminTutorials]

I'm already bored of undercity but I guess it's better than duriel spam

[@mosh4him]

Yeah. I wish mythic unique would be able to be acquired through multiple means. Maybe a little higher drop as well. This is coming from a casual player. And it is very discouraging spending the little time I can give to the game not to be able to complete me build.

[@wendijoe2793]

1:45:07 fav part

[@fredspekvet5875]

I have actually not touched spiritbourne yet. I started my season with a druid. having a blast with the season, tbh

[@Michael-cb4xo]

Great cast guys loved it 👍

[@pixelrangerstudio86]

i made a spirit born, killed all tormented bosses in t4. done all the activities, farmed enough mythics to kinda have fun, tyrel and some other for a sorc build - which i ended up not using, being weak compared to spiritborn. There is nothing left for me to do...i am at paragon 170. I dont feel the need for more. I dont want more mythics,i dont even want to start a new character... the power gap is so big. 2-3 weeks into the seasson?

[@sehablablahblah]

Duude I love this, my 4 favorite Diablo streamers!

[@ssjnaruto3350]

DM is a pedo..

[@yo-its-death]

Boss mats from the titan tribute is my favorite part of undercity. Blasting it for a few hours Granted me enough mats to do boss rotas for the rest of the day

[@TheSpacemanSpliff]

At the end, around 2:39:30 DM mentions playing the couch coop and that it's possible to do the Dark Citadel, but it requires a third person. Is that true??

[@operatorludi]

I played the new expac for 3 days. Got the spiritborn to max, got the build, cleared a 100 pit and i uninstalled. Things like that just ruin the whole progresion, fun and point of the game. Playing anything else in grp for example gets you kicked out etc. it beyond bad tbh

[@bennyjay1982]

I would love to see the towns get taken over in events and even have them fall to the fallen or whichever enemy. Then you could donate blue or yellow items to the local militia, who are fighting the hordes back and once enough items have been donated, the town returns to normal and is once again accessible.

[@DualGaming-YTC]

This is gonna be a hot take but I disagree with Rax and Wudi complaining about having to do Duriel so many times. The casual dads will barely even get 5 kills in, and last season we didn't have mats to kill them at all. We finally got that and now the complaint is "well now I'm just killing him too much"? You can't have your cake and eat it, too.

[@nanoflipps2871]

The passive bonus on uniques could get higher when masterworking if it's not at max.

[@Wakaflakaseagulls]

Great intro guys 😂

[@teebee6136]

Raxx directing about Blizzard banning people towards Wudi is just gold. Ahhhh a hidden gem

[@vapixdarmana4428]

For the GA item issue, wouldn't the simplest solution being closing the range per GA the item has? So for kepeleke, a 1 GA could have a 1.5-30 range, 2 GA could have a 2-3 range, etc?

[@Tfisk]

27:26 It would be great if, like the codex of power, you can basically sacrifice a unique item to keep its roll on the effect to then place on a better unique later. like make a new merchant. then when you go to them with a quad greater affix on the KEKW staff with minimum roll, then combine it. it doesn't keep any of the stat rolls. just the unique power roll. So you can get hyped when you find a max roll unique, then when you eventually find a beautiful tri or quad roll, then you can throw the max roll on it and thrive.

[@mrbuIIets]

You know what I just noticed as I quit the season? (Done everything that can be done) The expansion didn’t add a ladder boss. A whole ass expac and not a single new boss to fight.

[@teejayroth3909]

For the GA affix issue, what if for each GA on an item they raised the minimum roll, by say, 20%?

[@ImJustRiley]

I really like the pod. I enjoyed the aspect that there was differing opinions and not an echo chamber.

[@NannouLT]

Aspects should be separated from wearable items in Loot 3.0. Also, there should be an icon on item label that would indicate if aspect is codex upgrade for me. So, i choose whether or not i should pick up that item.

[@Mikebritt43]

My question, is if you can't get beyond Pit 80ish, how are you supposed to level your glyphs to 100? That doesn't make any sense. All classes should be able to level the glyphs to 100.

[@maxmustermann3938]

All classes can do that currently. Just not every build and different builds require different amounts of investment.

[@Dparkour13]

I think Season 7 really needs to focus entirely on balancing. The game has so much potential in that every class has loads of skills and options that you COULD in theory base a full build around if the numbers were tweaked in a way that helped them scale better. I find it crazy how many 'potential' builds there are but like 80% of them are D/F-tier purely due to their output. It feels like a lot of skills, even full classes are getting left in the dust in the wake of something new and shiny - and I get that with the seasonal model there's always going to be some of that in play, but I don't want to feel so limited in buildcraft every season to the point where there's a 100[X] gap (or more) betweeen S+ and A/B-tier builds, and even within A/B-tier there are maybe 2-3 options per class when there could easily be 10+.

[@Dparkour13]

There was also some discussion in the video about people relying less on online guides and "learning the game" which in theory is an amazing sentiment - but in the current state of the game where the top builds are so far above anything else AND rely on multiple bugs to perform the way they do, no average player is going to take the time to rigourously test every skill and aspect to compare damage numbers and assess what actually works as intended, and what doesn't. That's the biggest reason that guides online are so widely relied upon and useful - half of it is literally QA work.

[@ckwi2245]

27:30 Buff the minimum power roll by 25-33% per GA on the item.

[@arthurkillingsworth5718]

My luck has been awful for mythic unique. Over 200 boss kills t4 and not one has dropped. It was so bad I quit my char to play spiritborn.

[@chaddrusso8850]

That’s insane man in like 50-80 boss runs with randoms all of us got 1-2 mythics a piece

[@Trevbot789]

Just have to chalk it up to bad luck. I've had one drop so far after all the grinding. My wife has had 4 and one was a 2 GA tyraels from obol gambling. Talk about in your face. First I got mad, then I said congrats honey.

[@subzero308]

200 lmao... Bro I have no lie close to 1k boss kills just on T4 alone all with my mats haven't gotten 1 to drop yet the 2 friends running with me got 3 and 2 to drop for them in the same day smh... I'm everyone else's good luck charm lol... Rng for me this season sucks. But this season is also garbage af IMO so I blame that 😂😂.

[@HDGaminTutorials]

They have a pity system sorta tho with the runes you get

[@dannyalford1755]

So idk if this is old news… but you can start a ravenous soulspire when a Helltide is about to end… and then the soulspire never ends. Infinite xp glitch?

[@eagleotto2527]

Legendary Powers should display as (0/16) so 16 still seems to max at 16, and then if you unlock the 17-21 stages, it'll display as +1 thru +5, example: (16/16) +5, that would better show that its a bonus over the top in my opinion, and not that you arent maxxed with non-ancestrals.

[@Killboyy-kx2bo]

I just feel there is a lack of anticipation for loot. In PoE you can drop items or currency. I know that my chances for a headhunter or mageblood may be 0.00001% but i can still drop divine orbs and whatever else. In diablo, there just isnt much excitement because the loot is predictable.

[@darielsantana4381]

Ancestral should have a higher min roll aspect or give us a way to reroll it but if you use this method it doesnt update the codex of power if you salvage it

[@Weaver_Games]

I quit playing cause of the Dark Citadel. I hate grouping, I won't do it, and it's clear where the game is going.

[@Orion3T]

Let us use mats of some sort to upgrade either the Codex or Unique powers? As a failsafe against really bad luck so you can passively acquire upgrades much like Masterworking.

[@maxmustermann3938]

I have gotten a lot of legendary runes in kurast undercity and it gives out mostly rares honestly. In fact if you want blue runes you lower the difficulty to T1 specifically which is what people are doing to farm the Moni runes and sell them.

[@tron7116]

I haven’t tried spiritborn yet and probably won’t, chose a rogue to play first may regret it but it’s fun so far. However, I have probably some of the best gear in the game and the ceiling of my class is clearly visible, and I really can’t get much better save finding some aspects. Whereas the entire game seems to be immediately accessible to the spiritborn it has been a learning experience to get through all of the torments for sure.

[@trevsguitarstash4967]

I've been playing elemental constellation fractured conjuration sorc and blasting having fun, i love the new familiar too, helps apply burn so you can free up firebolt enchant for more orbs and ice blades Conjuration stacks max at 30 so just masterwork conjure passive on winterglass to make it worth more and my 2handed elemental constellation hit bosses for billions. No where's near max glyphs paragon or masterwork so lots more damage to scale, no mythics yet. I dont need quadrillion damage to beat d4 I enjoy making builds and finding synergies

[@JozaMuva]

This feels like professional Photoshop users trying to help Microsoft improve Paint.

[@romandrabek7312]

Paragonboard is a good idea, for much more options to play every build what i want and that help me and not + dmg pr + heal, let me choice what i want for my build.i hope for this

[@marcking9760]

What bargain do you need to farm to get the passives for the amulets. Not very clear 😕 thanks

[@c-tothefourth4879]

The one that gives ancestrals

[@sobolblade7565]

The one thing I would change about D4 at this stage is itemization...again! All the fun just sums up there. Make itemization worth hunting for. Not just looking for star items with a slight more power on them. Make itemization interesting just like Diablo 2 and Poe 1+2.

[@nathan-cg7sq]

Andys rogue last season used healing to stay alive with the life on hit plus damage reduction from teryels

[@cdiers26]

As far as the pit goes with regard to balance, I really want every class and well thought out build within each class to be able to do pit 100. If you have every ideal piece of gear with 1 ga and every glyph at 45-80 and gear masterworked at levels 8-12 then that should be doable. I want each class to have a best build that can get to 125ish and skill to be able to get you maybe 10 levels beyond that. I don't want groups to be disbanded or get kicked because I'm not on Spirit born or I have to suffer a 1 percent chance to upgrade my glyph in a solo pit run that takes me the max time with nearly perfect everything like I am now with my minion necro. Over 100 should be for pushing your limits and competitive sake

[@cosmic.unicorn]

It would be great to be able to craft higher tier infernal hordes with higher wave cap up to 20 and the option (bargain or tribute) to have the mobs drop extra items (materials, bossmats, gold or tokens) where tokens can be traded for specific max aspects at one of the "seasoned themed vendors". Since its just no fun going into a 6 or 8 wave infernal horde and before things get interesting the fun is allready over...

[@violetbliss4399]

Another comment about the raids, i actually would love if you could use the companion for raid solo, BUT it should not be the most effective way to do raids. But for when you want to chill or just feel out of your depth I think having a slow option would be fine. Time is after all money to those who invest into arpgs, so i feel like this would be more for if you just enjoy playing the game a bit. I definitely think they should avoid doing "LFR" though. Typically it just makes for really boring fights.

[@EthanBonardel]

4 GA unique roll should be 90%+ perfect roll on the base, 3 GA 75%

[@cptmittelstrahl]

no don't play if you don't like ! but don't make the game toddler friendly because it already is at kindergarten level

[@Asdfqwerty12341]

@@cptmittelstrahlGear rolls on affixes don’t affect the difficulty that much. Most players who don’t play 10 hrs a day or pay real money to get specific gear will never even see 3-4 GA mythic/ ancestral uniques. So when I do get lucky enough to get a 2 GA unique I’d like not to play this bulls*it slot machine and have to throw it away simply because the ability roll was terrible. I despise mechanics that are purely in the game to waste my time. I realize ARPG’s are just kind of like that, but I’d rather the game itself be harder than my gear acquisition be gatekept by terrible rng mechanics. I absolutely hate the change to the legendary aspects, they made it far too difficult to fill out your codex.

[@Elidan1012]

@@cptmittelstrahl "don't play if you don't like" is toddler level response, so it would match your speed at least.

[@EthanBonardel]

The dude is all over the comments lol. I solo self found from scratch and had a great time. I have absolutely no idea what the guy is on about flaming everyone like it is him against the world🤣

[@wizardsofscript]

I've had non-ancestral legendaries come with the max level aspect which did update my codex to the max range for that aspect. Only on my rogue character though.

[@X1nk3dx]

You should be able to combine the same uniques and choose which affix you want the one you are keeping to inherit

[@captainn-tgm]

My take on loot as a slightly more than casual solo (mostly) player. Bossing: Duriel/Andariel shouldn't be the most efficient loot for everything. Have specific loot drops for each boss. Give other options to get loot as efficiently. Kurast Undercity: The timer is too easy. It needs to be reduced to make it sweaty. Otherwise, the timer is useless. In general, the rewards are underwhelming, even to just doing helltides. Bargains are even less useful, and sometime they don't even work (like dropping 1-3 more items and only 1 item total drops) The dark citadel is fun for a few times, but the rewards are so mimimal for all the time spent doing the 3 wings. As a solo player, the group finder needs work. Most of the time, when I attempt to join a group, there is no response, or the group is full. If a group is full, it still shows open when you hit refresh. It just takes a really long time to get into the DC as a solo player, and that is not a good feeling. It would be better to join a queue and just get put together randomly based on difficulty tier and search parameters. As soon as 4 ppl qualify, you're in the citidel together, and you can only kick someone via reporting for bad behavior. (False reporting should result in a ban.)

[@TheOm4n]

I want this season end because I want to play other classes but it feels so bad when spirit born is so OP

[@yorkshirelad3133]

im 2 minutes in, datmodz is my type of guy, being british i love that sarcasm, im sold haha SUBSCRIBED

[@AndJusticeforAll567]

Mythics felt much better to get Pre-dlc. Having the seasonal quest be repeatable for sparks to craft (without all this rune nonsense) made me play the game a LOT more. I'm not farming Duriel 500x anymore, if I don't get my mythics I'd rather quit than grind "infinitely" for rune drops or have to trade.

[@trane4096]

Runes not hard to get doe 😂 or ubers. Ive gotten 7 drops and have crafted 2. Makin a barb this weekend that runs 4ubers just to chase them. Ubers were 2easy 2get. This way better

[@chaddrusso8850]

@@AndJusticeforAll567 it’s really not that bad man I’m 25-50 hours in this season and have 4 mythics and sparks to craft 2 more. Do whispers and if you get the tribute of ascendancy which gives you a super high chance for an uber

[@NedMethod]

just remove boss farming tbh and fix droprates for everywhere. most boring and rewarding part of the game

[@AndJusticeforAll567]

⁠@@chaddrusso8850I’ve done 3/4 Ascendancy tributes and not a single mythic. I should mention I’m not rota farming yet… I’m just saying I miss the intentional grind path towards getting one. Last season, you didn’t HAVE to rota farm or rely on rng. They put a way for you to earn a mythic just through raw playtime and leveling up different characters. This was also much more fun, as I got to try other classes, and was motivated with a good reward at the end.

[@RyanAKAStreakk]

​@@AndJusticeforAll567it's not a rare item if you get a charity mythic. That was lame. Just play eternal if you don't actually like playing the game

[@KoeiNL]

The problem with the paragon system for me is that leveling alts takes so long. If we could just swap builds more easily then I wouldn't. I don't mind leveling a Barb (well not this season) when I already have a Necro. But if I already have a Necro then I don't want to level a Necro again. So maybe make paragon levels not account wide, but class wide (or just make swapping builds easy). Same goes for Glyphs.

[@Just-A-Regular-Joe]

theres something with raxx's camera that made me think he had full back of hand tattoos for a minute at the start of the video lol

[@Douglas-nt7jd]

Make unique affix the same as legendaries. You have to destroy a better one to upgrade a different one. Also. They could do a special Hordes even where an actual boss spawns. Then the next round 2 bosses spawn. So by round 10 you might have to fight the butcher, duriel, blood bishop, etc. all at the same time. But give a massive loot table for these

[@violetbliss4399]

Spiritborn really pointed out the fundamental issue with d4 imo, in that the other classes work but they are rarely exciting in a inter-class synergistic way. It's better than it was, but it really just feels more than speed and convenience, it just feels like it flows. You rarely get that with the other classes where you just feel functional and produce numbers. I think what they need to do is to identify what is actually fun with the others, and start over with the rest. Unfortunately it takes dev time so I don't know if that would actually happen... I think it's also a visual thing, and not just with the skills. Druid for example is just really slow-feeling from a visual standpoint, and that's just going to be a constant debuff sitting there in the back of your mind. I also think it would have been way better to be more neutral with some of the design decisions, because when dealing with skins devs are rarely going to accomodate for model choice - too much work. That means if the model has a really niche player preference look, it will just be less played when players look for a character - there are way less players in a niche. In an ideal world we'd have devs spend resources to have different choices, but realistically it's one of the first things they save time on in a game with skins. Also to add, the only thing I feel is a little complex is the paragon board, and for me that's largely because of how it's laid out. The visual design of it is like a debuff on wanting to interact with it. I don't have this at all with the PoE star chart, because i can visually see groupings of skills, pathing etc. The paragorn board is just a mess of blocks until i really learn a class.

[@geoffpowell3338]

I think for the pit it's basically rifts. Make the runs longer more elites to kill to fill the bar. But also make the levels have multiple floors like GR from d3. I enjoy farming GR more than the pit . I also rather the boss spawn in the open world. Rather than always going to a "boss room".

[@geoffpowell3338]

Make the pit more like a roguelite like we want . Take the best parts of GR and take the best parts of rogue lites. And have an infinite run through floors . Killing bosses every 5-10 lvls and even like double boss fights .

[@SieRoX87]

Great podcast!!

[@chibisan8516]

Having a maxed out build is great. It should take a relatively substantial amount of time, but not an entire season. This is coming from a casual player, of course. Once I reach max, I feel like I’m done, but I also feel like I’m done after 5 days, 3 to 4 hours a day trying to get literally one item. There needs to be a balance there. What would personally feel great, imo, is if there was something else to grind, instead of items and materials. I want a relic or something that I can upgrade, or craft inscriptions or something to put into this relic that’ll either make me stronger, or further change up our builds. I also want the gems from Season 1 back, and I want more of them. They should not be socketed into gear. Give us something else to grind for, fit this grind into already existing content, so we’re not juggling 30 different activities, and make it specific to Torment 1-4.

[@Douglas-nt7jd]

I'm a Barbarian player. Even in this expansion. I can say when it started and I was hung up on the Spirit Born. But once I just pretended that class doesn't exist i have been having a great time. I am using a rupture/leap build that auto resets Call of the Ancients. I cleared pit88. I have call of the ancients down to a 6 second cooldown before bleed resets. At one point i had 11 calls running at the same time. I agree every class, Barb in particular is very undertuned compared to spirit born. However i have 3 barbs leveled just playing around with fun builds I've never seen before. I don't know, even as a Barb i like this season.

[@SuperJByrd]

I would love to see the attack power calculate all types of damage so it says what your actual attack power is. Why is it there if it doesn’t actually tell you what your actual attack power is?

[@mythicdrakefox]

What happened to the dumping 5x mats for 5x reward boss thing. Why do I have to do 20 rotations on a boss. Let me just slam my entire inventory of boss summoning Matt’s to increase the loot explosion and call it a day

[@maxmustermann3938]

you get the 5x reward baseline now for no additional mats in T4.

[@buzzb7848]

I don't know what your are talking about regarding Uniques. I got quadrillions of Uniques from gambling. What I'm in need of are Ancestral Legendaries. They are like 10 times rarer than uniques.

[@z3raph83]

Raxx when you spoke about the gambling it is better now! I gambled for gloves and got an Andariels Visage. So big fan personally of gambling for gear.

[@Kamken81]

The game gives no real reason to actually play it more than 3 days... Its super boring.

[@Njutarface]

Endgame is killing 2 uber bosses over and over and over.. for... ??? exactly. nothing

[@duugenheim21]

I stopped playing once I had my chain Sorc top tier and some keyboard face roller ran by with no master worked gear and was killing faster than me with 4 mythics and fully worked synergized gear

[@JayShifu]

@@Njutarfacenot to mention that you become so powerful the “hardest” content is 2 shot. That’s like saying I start a game of chess and 2 moves later I checkmate every opponent. What’s the point of the game then?

[@Njutarface]

@@JayShifu yea game is total garbage, i hope more people quit this shit until they fix it

[@Njutarface]

and 40$ for a fuckin class is lunatic

[@lssthnthr3]

Goated podcast!!! I have been saying for months that they should Copy/Paste Survivors Bane (rogue light mode) from Immortal! Im so happy these guys finally brought it up and agree!!! Lets gooooo 🤞🏼

[@Lebronat40]

the 4 boys. D4 is back and great again and we got a podcast with the 4 pillars of d4. lets go

[@quitwastinmytime]

I really want them to turn that one legion event that is like a race to fill the soul spheres into an actual race event. They could also just do kill events where two players or two teams compete to see who can clear a room first.

[@thoso1973]

Runes for crafting mythics still won't drop for me. I've blasted T4 Duriel runs and the undercity today in a party and nothing. Not a single one. How do the streamers get those runes? 🤪