The State of Diablo 4 in Season 4

[@ByGeorge846]

Me: *wakes up* Oh they updated D4 yesterday? Rax: I am already level 100

[@Hollowdub]

Lmao fr this guy is one of the best

[@Adama.1]

He Just plays while we work

[@Aijendo]

@@Adama.1 He works when you play, because he works all the time.

[@jjviper7136]

By the time I'm done with my shift he's gonna have all classes maxed saying there's nothing to do in game.

[@herrwahnsinn4229]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@rudleylegerme4457]

The fact that you can finally speed boost on your horse in town got me!

[@bradw.1945]

My favorite quality of life change

[@lifewithbreion1392]

Who knew!?😂😂.. my favorite change 😂😂. It moves like season 2 again!! Season 3 it sucked!

[@shawnadams1460]

Ohhh...I played for like 45 minutes last night and didn't notice!!! SWEET!!!

[@herrwahnsinn4229]

Horsey now moves at the speed of light! 😭

[@Matt34677]

Until you get to the gate going out of town it slows back down for some reason.

[@nephram1702]

I messed around for a few hours last night. The game is crazy now. Whispers, helltides, nmd all feel better. The codex of power is fantastic. It feels the true release of the game.

[@mattb6646]

Well its an acceptable release of the game considering what actually released. The game could have still been amazing on release, meaning still way better then what it is right now

[@shimik11]

Im loving it

[@nephram1702]

Hopefully the game has longevity after vessel of hatred.

[@trolltroll5931]

People said all this at season 2 launch.. What happened with that?

[@sephrinx4958]

Only took a year of paid 70 dollar alpha testing to go from Alpha to Beta build.

[@Seanidor]

One thing that was a little annoying when tempering was that if you don't get the effect you wanted you have to go all the way back through the list and find that one specific temper to try again. If you temper something, just keep that same temper selected so you can click once if you need to try again.

[@jordanwright2697]

Totally ! yea like a choice to keep same affix the previous item had.

[@helljumper_]

I completely agree, this would be such a tiny, but great change. Kind of annoying and tedious to operate that menu

[@umbranoxx]

Dude the Helltide is so crazy now, I love it. It's just constant chaos, doesn't get old. So easy to spend so much time in there and get great gear, boss pops and fighting the mega boss frequently. Absolute win.

[@Despond]

I hope they don't fk up and start going backwards. Gob loot bags should stay too.

[@bonelessthincrust]

The best new thing by far is legendary aspects being automatically stored (and stored forever) when you salvage a legendary. I had a stash full of max roll aspects that I never used because I was always waiting for that perfect piece to use it on. I'm the same kind of player that will finish every Final Fantasy having never used an elixir or megalixir, because "I better save it" mentality won every time.

[@NoodlesXmachina]

Me with nuka Cola quantams. If you know you know

[@jasonlucia6682]

This combined with the sell all button has been such a wild improvement to QoL. I knew about the changes before playing, but I wasn't prepared for just how much better it would feel.

[@slakk5093]

@@NoodlesXmachina im not sure ive ever used a quantum now you mention it haha

[@2genders-tk2ue]

What I dont like is that all the content will be removed after the season. That bothers me.

[@Ultimita01]

that elixir comment lol im bad for that.

[@tipep]

The tooltip on the Caches states their power. They are named Legendary/Sacred Legendary/Ancestral Legendary Cache.

[@SirLunchAL0t]

Tip for easy Tree of Whispers: During "most" helltides you will get at least 1 "quest" to kill the new zone boss lady, which will award 5/10 whispers. What I usually do is watch out for that quest while doing NM dungeons and Pit. This way I can get some easy whispers without losing much time on ToW and still getting a good amount of gold from it. From my experience the "legendary chaos" whisper caches have a very large amount of gold.

[@ineedtogetalife86]

My Xbox died from a power surge 2 days before the update dropped. Such is life...

[@MrWiggz69]

F

[@djbootymeatlive1484]

it's like that brother, keep your head up

[@shanvandamme6291]

Now you can buy a PS5 or a gaming PC :)

[@maonmanak]

@@shanvandamme6291or another Xbox since he owns it there and other games

[@thugmario2473]

happen to me before next time try buying them surge plugs they might help you

[@Scottysaweet]

literally the first dungeon I did on Hardcore... butcher kills me at lvl 8

[@markd9318]

Welcome to dark souls

[@scottle6]

Thats sort of the whole point of hard-core is that RNG is one potential component of death just like skill is I am a glass half full sort of dude… So just be thankful it didn’t happen at level 50

[@TehBeavs]

Glad I saw this comment forgot about that …

[@paxt17]

What do you get when you play hardcore? You get what you fucking deserve!! gg go next lol.

[@ThEBrEaDMaN3]

El oh el

[@Nipperbibbo]

Raxx: we need a way to make reliable gold, selling your items instead of salvaging feels bad Also Raxx: i have so many crafting mats, I don't pick up items anymore to salvage

[@poochz2]

It’s been out 1 day and your maxed on mats? Doubtful….

[@Nipperbibbo]

@@poochz2 no, my mats aren't maxed. My comment was about Raxx, talking about how he doesn't pick up anything anymore because he doesn't need the salvage, but was also complaining about not having gold.

[@poochz2]

@@Nipperbibbo Yeah, his comment made no sense on that. Sell materials for money. Easy solution. Sorry I misinterpreted your comment.

[@MrCorvou]

yeah he dropped the ball with that comment. he listed two things that he could do to make money, said he's ignoring them, and wants some other way to make money. it's like he wants everything to come from the one activity he wants to do.

[@EmDee3d]

I think hes a bit tunnel visioned (and made a video too quickly) because you certainly can makeup for gold roadblocks by actually selling stuff

[@TENiNCHMASSACRE]

Diablo 4’s 9 month beta is over

[@Dgnine]

It went from a bad game to an average game. There is definitely progress.

[@Kjetilstorm]

Funny thing is that is on the short end of betas. Games nowadays spend 4-8 years in beta.

[@ahmedmoslemany3908]

@@Dgnine it was never a bad game, just bad endgame. now it has decent endgame

[@nopepsi206]

9 month? it's been 11month now

[@ЕгорКорин-ч2б]

@@ahmedmoslemany3908 Diablo is an endgame game. Bad endgame = bad game. And yes, the game is still crap, and I'm sure it will remain so. The developers don't know how to make games and do what the players tell them. It's a shame that they don't have their own vision, they don't have a fundamental understanding of what their game is and how to develop it. The same thing happened in d3.

[@KJismo]

Listening comprehension is a problem here. Rax said, "when you get into WT4, you are gold starved." It has nothing to do with him skipping loot now because he no longer needs the mats. Two separate points in time.

[@bungmonkey2295]

The new helltides are kick ass. I like the nydus worm that spits out zerg I mean demons

[@hsdExorcist]

Love the ref :D

[@Gregski3]

😂😂

[@liabakar]

its kinda cute too.. he ambush us anytime. Real fun

[@danieldobie973]

The game desperately needs an in-game trade economy where items can be placed on a trade board for in-game currency, not just gold. Adding this one thing would really bring the game to life.

[@MikeSakaru]

Personally with the gold issue, I really don't want it to be more common outside of whispers. It's nice to have such genuine motivation to interact with multiple mechanics. You definitely shouldn't be able to just run Nightmare Dungeons and not have to worry about gold. Nightmare Dungeons already have multiple reasons to be running them, they're already quality content. Whispers being the preeminent way to get gold is a good function for it, that other content can't really offer. That's great. Helltides are already amazing, Nightmare Dungeons are already amazing. I'm definitely not for them removing the major function of Whispers by just giving you a bunch of gold elsewhere. I do agree with the fact that Whisper turn in giving WT4 Nightmare Sigils could be nice.

[@mapron1]

Yeah, "I dont like NMD and don't want run them, please upgrade my glyphs a little on tree of wispers". same.

[@MrWiggz69]

I agree. It's a bad take from Raxx and he is usually pretty good with stuff like this. Variety is why people like the other games in the genre. We don't need to be pigeonholed into just NMD's.

[@th1zzend220]

@@MrWiggz69 I honestly agree that the variety with all of this is good, i dont know how bad the gold issue is, but if its a very big problem, i dont see an issue bumping the gold income in lets say NMD's by 10-15% if it makes so you can pretty reliably upgrade your gear and so on. While whispers still having a good reason to do them and possibly adding smth to them for an even bigger reason to interact with all of it, just getting that sweet spot of not being forced to do smth you hate but also having it be the best use to get certain things. Thats whats so good about POE, there is so so many thngs to do and you are never forced into any specific type of content, however that is ofc due to trade but you get the point im sure.

[@TheDude044]

@@th1zzend220 The gold issue isn’t as bad as Raxx is making it sound. I hit 100 on my Druid today and had like 60mil to play with and that was on the low side for me.

[@vii1751]

agreed, everything should have a niche.

[@thehotspotgamer8496]

Whats great about this system is everyone is enjoying it cuz we all took a long ass break lmao.

[@You0nlyLiveonce]

I haven't been back since the first season, I'm not coming back for at least another year or two. The game will be unrecognizable and I look forward to that lol.

[@thehotspotgamer8496]

@@You0nlyLiveonce try 4 years when diablo 5 gets announced lmao.

[@thehotspotgamer8496]

@johnWayne-vd1qy i wish i could get into poe As a console player the movemnt is jank and its just to much for a new person. Plus im lazy. That skill tree tho when you first start. Sheeesh

[@bofygaming9672]

So a 2nd honeymoon after the divorce...

[@DarthRambo]

Yeah I liked season 2, but skipped season 3 after looking at it. This season is very very good so far

[@Ramblr]

What I love is that he doesn’t just make complaints, he also gives possible solutions. Well done, man!

[@digitalstatictv]

Classic Raxx!

[@ЕгорКорин-ч2б]

Really. The developers of this game are imbeciles, they need to get solutions to problems from the players, they themselves cannot understand what needs to be fixed in their game and how to develop it.

[@rektop8506]

The tester they didn’t need to pay for

[@OppiusBrutus]

The best thing about this season for me is the amount of aspects in the codex of power. I really hope they don't reduce the amount and only add to it as the game progresses, allowing greater build diversity. If they need to nerf stuff, so be it, more options more better.

[@anm767]

Easy way to expand the end game is to make quests for cosmetic and unique gear, different to what you can buy or drop, quest only items. If you have to farm, say 2 hours to collect enough loot for 1 such item and there are 10, all of a sudden that's extra 20 hours.

[@dwarfcow]

I started my necro minion build yesterday around 7:30pm, I was level 44 before I went to bed around 11, when i got my seasonal caches I felt a huge boost, fighting mobs never became frustratingly difficult where I felt like my power progression was going backwords due to monster scaling (which happened every single time I've tried to play the game previously) - it's just been a fun grind with rewarding levels of experience and loot. I actually want to try making some other classes and keveling them up when i get done toying with the end game, just to see how it plays. I LOATHED the thought of grinding new characters before.

[@mathew00]

I'm loving the Codex of Power changes. So great!

[@thethumblessn00b19]

amazing change 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@blajx]

I mean it was so bad before its funny they fix it after ONE YEAR

[@DanielgunKim]

@@blajxyou still complaining? I bet even if they did fix it one year earlier, you’ll still have things to complain. Just be grateful they did change it.

[@Sephiroso.]

@@DanielgunKim You're the type of person that would tell someone, "you only got hit once, stop complaining. You should be glad you didn't get hit more"

[@blajx]

@@DanielgunKim dude there is levels in terms of people and money available for blizzard compared to other developers. The game itself is premium priced PLUS in game transactions. U expect it to be THE ARPG, and previous to this patch it was awful in the most important aspect which is itemization. They had lots of feedback from previous titles as well and needed whole year of constant backlash to make it right. Im glad they did finally fix big part of the game coz i finally get back to it and im having fun. There is still skill "trees" that need to be changed, especially when u compare that to last epoch, and they already copied itemization from them and did it right so i hope skills overhaul is next in menu with dlc release.

[@MidwestDangler]

We really need to have a happy medium with speed of progression. The same people complaining about a lack of content also complain about not being able to min max a char in one 12 hour playing session. I do agree we need endgame, and i dont want a long drawn out leveling situation, but we need to meet in somewhere in the middle.

[@kevinsims5791]

These guys are a rare breed. Their numbers are so small in the players base that the game needs to lean more towards casual gameplay

[@dtczyk8976]

Right wtf he is level 100 I haven’t had time to log in yet sheesh!

[@RAIVEN.]

I am happy for my minion necro. I feel so lonely playing without minions . Happy to have a strong build finally.

[@kevinsims5791]

@@RAIVEN. its good for druid companions too. Im pretty these minions buffs also work for the sorceress conjurations.

[@Terminator-ht3sx]

@@dtczyk8976it’s his job is it not?

[@Krysdavar]

TBF, if you would have gotten the Iron Wolf caches naturally instead of saving, one of the caches early on like #6 or 7 gives you a bunch of mats, which also includes enough dust to make several NM dungeon sigils. I received this cache just a couple levels before I was ready to do NM dungeons, so worked out perfectly for me.

[@davor1599]

For tempering,you don't have to wait for animation to finish. Just press ESC,it's faster and you will have that bonus

[@williambland8717]

The Helltide feels like the Gate of Hell has actually opened. Intense mob density, as you gain anger from the demons, it's frantic. Riding your horse and the demon comes from underneath and knock you off, IS AWESOME! You think it is sweet, get off your mount. THEN, the orange boss that comes out IS INSANE. Kudos Blizzard 💯

[@____GoMeZ____]

I think it'd be cool if they added another Capstone event once you hit level 100 that unlocked a new end game mechanic. It'd help to add the feeling of "Ok i am now truly in the end game"

[@itsnotthatserious9102]

Lilith was supposed to be the capstone to world tier V.. but yeah, they swept that under the rug, most likely due to not finishing the game in time of the deadline so they cut it short

[@____GoMeZ____]

@@itsnotthatserious9102 I havent heard that from anywhere and I've been watching the development of the game super closely. lilith was always supposed to be the Pinnacle boss, not anything to do with WT5

[@bigjones7357]

This

[@corpsefoot758]

Isn’t that explicitly what Pit is? The quest starts at level100

[@____GoMeZ____]

@@corpsefoot758 no, the pit opens once you complete NMD lvl 45. You can complete that at any time theoretically speaking,

[@bighammer3464]

Bruh is at lvl 100 hardcore and doesn’t even need to fully upgrade his potions. 😂

[@Nooctae]

From my experienc,e it's kind ahard to get the gold to upgrade the potion unless you sell a lot of loot somehow lol

[@toptiermediocrity3345]

Some of the higher level gear I got through helltide that I couldn’t equip for another 20 levels sold very well and made buying potions a non-issue for me. I think I got those from the blood maiden.

[@OMFGcataFAN1]

isnt that what hardcore players always do? play content they cant die to anyway. why would he need potions xD

[@sonnyankau9239]

they made the game stupid easy now

[@thethumblessn00b19]

@@sonnyankau9239 stupid easy? go play rogue lol my hands hurt after like an hour 😂

[@Thorgrimn]

I love the sense of fear now when doing helltides when I am not paying attention and something spawns right on me. I hope this never changes. I would like to see the reward chests all converted to the same mystery chests with a mix of rewards so I don't have to run around the map looking for one chest, similar to what world tier 1,2 Helltides are like. Salvaging and getting the affixes automictically is a massive improvement. Overall this was a huge win for D4 and I was one of the biggest critics. I agree with almost all your feedback during the video as well.

[@acelynch8110]

39:00 - @Raxxanterax - what they can do to help minions is add an attack button, similar to Last Epoch. Hit "A" and your minion attack wherever your mouse is pointing. If there's nothing to attack, they run to that spot and then run back to you. If a little tiny company like EHG can figure this out, there's zero reason that Blizz can't do it. We do NOT need a cast bar spell for "command skeleton" like we had in D3. That was nice, but it would truly suck to lose one of our casts for something that can be done with a hot key. Make it "A" just like we have in LE and then every class that has minions can use it.

[@cinecastmedia]

Diablo 2 doesn't even have something like that and it's a superior game. Don't fix what's not broken.

[@acelynch8110]

skeletons wandering around aimlessly IS broken. D3 had a "command skeletons" skill. That worked great. D2 not having something doesn't make it ok. Last Epoch has a completely different key that doesn't "waste" a skill. A = attack the spot where your mouse is. IT works phenomenally. Just one of MANY reasons that Last Epoch is so much better than D4. I say that as someone that has been playing Diablo games since 1997.

[@hansolo8080]

I think the horse sprint in town came from the fact that EVERY spell that did damage was disabled.

[@e-studio]

Sprint was disabled in town at launch when it didn’t do damage. Blizzard is all about wasting your time and making you play longer.

[@ShaneMcGrath.]

@@e-studio Which might explain their BS with season journey this round, Uber boss kills that most casuals won't be able to do, But it keeps them in game longer pumping up those BS statistics making Blizzard look good for the quarter.

[@unluckyrican]

Glad its moving in the right direction it left a sour taste in my mouth after season 1 this is the 1.0 we deserved now they just need to keep building up the endgame

[@Flourikum]

My guess is come dlc they will add new world bosses, the new equivalent to Lilith (Mephisto), monster archetype(s) for the jungle biome, 2 bosses equal to Andariel and Duriel, and lastly some kind of gearing addition such as Mercs, Sets, Rune Words etc.

[@dominotetris]

Considering that the main gold tip in the past has been "sell your yellow drops" and you're skipping picking up yellow drops, do you think that might be part of your issue with both gold and yellow drops?

[@corpsefoot758]

Not even close to making up the difference. A single Masterworking reset is like 3mil

[@jabzxtreme2737]

I still don't understand why respeccing skills and paragon board costs gold, at least before level 100. I leveled my druid all the way to 100 and never even opened the codex of power. Rares are auto-salvage now, so the codex has no purpose. I also get absolutely horrible menu lag when I press any hotkey to open the map, inventory, skills, battle pass. I actually task manager closed Diablo 4 a bunch of times because it indefinitely froze. I even froze on a loading screen while using a waypoint. Otherwise, I feel about the same as you about the current state of the game and all of its systems and experiences. Great in-depth analysis.

[@raymondwhitman]

Thanks for the tips, my wife and I have been playing since the beginning, and we did get fed-up in season 3, but I agree that they deff seem to have made changes in the right areas, we are casual players but after listening to your comments were back on. thanks Rax

[@Shagrath06]

That was fast Raxx, GZ! Greetings from Croatia.

[@AlexN813]

Nobody cares where you're from.

[@Kerr15]

Leaderboards are a big thing to me friendly competition is fun. Hell I’d like to see total damage at the end of world bosses or nightmare dungeons

[@itsmespenmoney]

Yessss THIS

[@fgagaerhjhjyfyjfyyjkf]

I saw lucky Luciano 1 shot rogue in my recommended so if true while things like those exist leaderboards are completely pointless

[@etrosknight2254]

I would love damage meters, I'm sure we won't get them because it would promote "toxicity" or some nonsense. Monster Hunter World had awards at the end of the hunt for which player did the most damage, this was removed and replaced with who used the most tools or used slinger the most 🙄

[@Jdiroe]

Diablo 4 is in the best spot it’s been in since launch for sure! I want it to be perfect too but I’m currently enjoying the changes. Necromancer is absolutely busted however

[@jaweel6205]

Yeah dude I killed Elias at level 55 in under 10 seconds with no build guide, no tempered gear, and no socketed gems. I’m having a blast but capstone bosses were way too easy

[@corpsefoot758]

@@jaweel6205 You’re probably not playing Rogue then, that’s the true hardcore experience

[@jaweel6205]

@@corpsefoot758 thanks bud I don’t like torturing myself

[@corpsefoot758]

@@jaweel6205 But isn’t this entire genre torture? :(

[@greenwolf2299]

shop prices still need to go way down. Those skins are so much better looking then from what the game itself offers

[@etrosknight2254]

The stupid thing is I might spend $5-10 on multiple items, but not $30, they would make more money I'm sure by lowering the prices

[@Herodotus888]

@@etrosknight2254 No they wouldn't. Everyone always says this, but every game does this now for a reason. They make more money selling at premium prices to whales than they do if they lower the price. Not defending it I hate that skins are so outrageously priced now, but it is what it is.

[@KyloB]

For real man, "sounds of war" for barbarian on my female character looks absolutely sick, and I want to get it so bad. But it's €20. Since it costs 2500 platinum but packages are obviously sold at 1000 or 2800. I can't in good conscience spend €20 on one cosmetic skin when I already paid quite a lot for the game and have to maintain PS+ just to play the damn thing.

[@Flyinshoe]

Dipped back in for the first time since S1. Played for ~3 hours last night. I really enjoyed myself and looking forward to playing some more.

[@josegouvea7676]

Instead of skipping yellows, you could pick them and sell them for gold

[@Lucyller]

They need to make a button "sell everything" just like the salvage one tho...

[@TrellSkywalker]

​@@Lucyllerjust mark them and sell

[@Lucyller]

@@TrellSkywalker a full inventory is still 20+ individual mark. That's not a good solution. Make a vendor (they already exist, Armor AND weapon) that can buy everything just like the armorsmith can salvage everything.

[@SteliosKantos]

​@@LucyllerSounds lazy to me. I have to press buttons. I have to do things other than the thing I wanna do. WAH WAH WAH.

[@Lucyller]

@@SteliosKantos lmao okay dude, I really hope you salvage each item individually then. Bunch of clown

[@aspikbardamu6040]

The game is much better but it is a bit sad the "journey" to end game is that fast. we got many recipies(blue one) for example that we will use only for 2 hours gameplay - without rushing it took me 4 hours to go from 1 to 50 and drop to WT3. All the drops until ancestral will be used for 30 min and not much sense to engage with. Now that the game has more meat would be nice if they could slow down a bit the pace. Not only level 100 is important.

[@collinrea6183]

This is why I enjoy hardcore, gotta slow down a little and you may eventually die and need to go again, endless content lol

[@rain6353]

They’re finally fixing the game, don’t ask them to fuck it up! Thank you

[@AvatarOfSouL]

hey Rax , in regards to the seasonal rewards - if you mouse over them and read the description they'll tell you what gear is inside , INCLUDING if its sacred/ancestral. Loot from them is static so for anybody reading - just use them up asap

[@sabihrashid252]

They fixed a lot of the tedium and annoyance but the game still lacks depth or variety in the itemization and class customization. I had some serious whiplash going from Last Epoch to the new D4 season, started my Fire Sorc and went "Now how am I gonna customize my Fire Bolt?" only to realize...you really can't. Item rarities are also meaningless now since you can get a full suite of Legendaries after 2 hours, and every other rarity (except the occasional unique) is worthless. The game is also turning into D3 and I strongly dislike that. The levelling process is nonexistent and outside of some of the endgame stuff, the game is stupidly easy. There's no sense of progression since they just hand you good loot like candy. 3 tiers of the new Iron Wolves quest and you get like 5 legendaries and a unique...

[@gumsterify]

this is what the community asked for lol

[@fnShaft]

8:05 back at the blizzcon where D4 was announced they floated a system like this: the "Artifacts." They were items (red in color) that were super strong but you could only equip one at a time. Guess it never came to pass

[@emdmao1]

Expansion maybe

[@mattb6646]

It's in d3, primals, or the crafted primal anyway

[@LizardMammaryGlands]

That's interesting, but imo only on paper, at least with their idea of what a unique item is meant for. They seem to want to you to pivot one, or two builds at most around uniques, making the uniques essentially the bottleneck, and not something that would trigger a wider variety of builds. Think about Tempest Roar, for instance. It enables werenado, and that's pretty much it. Then that build obviously got much stronger (especially pre nerf) than most other Druid builds, because Tempest Roar was really hard to find, so they wanted to balance its build power around the difficulty in finding the gear for it. I'm not saying they aren't capable of it, and I am seeing more and more variety, but it still seems to be very much funneled into specific builds, not archetypes.

[@Arachnaphobian]

I think it was a season theme in d3 ‘ethereal items’ - super unique powerful items and can only hold one.

[@arcc4]

That's really not the same thing. If a limit has to be put on how many can be equipped then you're probably just getting into the absurd power creep of stacking more and more powerful tiers of items. The chase uniques in PoE like Headhunter, Mageblood, Original Sin etc... are not independently strong items. In fact in terms of raw stats they are basically trash rares that are vastly weaker than high tier crafted stuff. Their 'godly' power comes from building/investing around the trade-off mechanic from the unique affix that gives some kind of multiplicative benefit that is greater than the additive power of better stat items. For this reason there is no need to enforce a limit on them because there is only so many directions a character can invest in without being spread too thin and it all comes at the cost of wearing lots of trash/missing stats that doesn't leave a lot of baseline power for those mechanics to really multiplicatively scale.

[@ashavon7128]

Fun thing. I have a older pc 6700k and a GTX 1060 6GB. My performance with raytracing is better than w/o while using FSR2. I can crank that bad boy to ultra on my old rig, it has 0 stutter, pc doesn't pver-heat as it did in the previous season on normal high. I don't know what the devs did there but if any one of you guys from D4 reading this, a big thank you from me. I can finally play the game fully decked out at 1080p and it's amazing!

[@mikepullman2513]

You know 1060s don't have rtx right? So I call bs unless your cpu done how taking all the work load..

[@SilentSeventh]

I’m using a laptop with an rtx 3060. For whatever reason it also runs way better with fsr2 and ray tracing low instead of using DLSS and no ray tracing. Kinda weird

[@o0GermanGuy0o]

The devs are really insane if they manage to make a 1060 run ray tracing at playable fps xD In no way will raytracing give a performance boost, ever. What is probably happening here that enabling ray tracing disables other graphic options without actually enabling rt itself.

[@ashavon7128]

​@@mikepullman2513 I know a damn GTX doesn't have RT. This is the reason why I wrote the comment in the first place. The thing is that in Season 3 with ultra settings on I was getting 35-40 fps while my pc was close to over heating, basically could be used as radiator at that point. Since Season 4, I'm using ultra with rt on and it works better than ultrat w/o. I'm getting 75-80 fps with fsr2 and rt on on ultra while w/o rt on but still ultra and fsr2 on I'm getting 55-65 fps and it does also stutter once a while for like 2 seconds. I don't know why and how this phenomenom happened but for some reason for me at least it's better and it looks better on ultra than it did in S3. Also the pc is hotish but not stove like hot which again is a great bonus for me. Whatever they did with these changes, they did a goddamn good job at it.

[@doge_]

im running with 4090, when i turn on dlss+rt, my 13900k cpu usage spiked to 100% and my gpu was barely having any pressure, idk what is happening

[@dacco9414]

As for the beams.. I really hope they give the control to the players, to customize however we want the beams to look.

[@tillermax2874]

Here is one way to solve the yellow items. Once you complete seasonal event, your pet picks up the yellow and salvages them. Similar to D3 alter.

[@GarouTFD]

i love the fact that you can finsish the season in 1-2 days and move on

[@cyberthreat7735]

wrong

[@ShaneMcGrath.]

Most casuals won't be finishing this season, Dummies at Blizzard made the last part of journey too hard for most, Uber boss kill. Good luck to the solo casuals.

[@giano3715]

somehow I'm not hating the speed of levelling because I know I will be pouring in more time on crafting my end game items.

[@jasonpickens9839]

I don't understand your comment about gold and prisms not dropping enough. The fact that you are lvl 100 is irrelevant. It's only been 12 hours. It's actual play time that matters. I'd be pretty bummed if I maxed my gear within 12 hours. Maybe you find the last 0.01% of the game where you are min maxing your stats the most enjoyable but for most people it's better to take a bit longer and be incentivised to play different parts of the game. Otherwise whispers etc become dead content.

[@2_SLEEPY]

I agree with you on everything said, great video. So far lvl 52 I am having fun in season 4. I am worried everyone is going to blast through the content too fast and be starving for season 5 way early. That's where leaderboards would come in to keep people fighting for their spot and grinding.

[@TwinerJack]

My suggestion about the gold situation would be the Pit and nightmare dungeons should contribute to whispers event. just a few points every dungeon, 1-2 maybe. solves the problem of being forced to do whispers and the lack of gold

[@TimShoup-og4md]

I don’t understand the Whispers complaint. You don’t want to do them, but you complete them automatically when doing Helltides now. Speaking of Helltide, there isn’t much reason to do any other activity in the game now. Helltide has more xp, more loot, more gold (because of whispers), and is more fun due to the mob density/ambushes. The only reason to do nightmare dungeons is to level glyphs, and frankly, I find nightmare dungeons to be the most boring, monotonous, and now least rewarding, content in the entire game.

[@TheGreatBeanis]

You say you're annoyed with yellows and walk by them but previously complain about having no gold. So how about just pick up the "worthless" yellows and sell them. Lack of gold situation fixed.

[@arminkozek1921]

The, indeed, worthless yellows fill your inventory so you have to go to town more often, causing a net loss in gold earned/time. I do feel for you if you had the time for that, but after your third character on 100 you do not want to go to town more than you need to (you want to play the game).

[@TheGreatBeanis]

@arminkozek1921 Well as someone who has multiple 100s since day one and has no issue with gold. Maybe it's just the way you're playing. He clearly broke down a lot of gear in town to have over 4,000 vieled crystals so why not just sell for gold if you feel you already have too many. Hot take, it's honestly how one plays the game and manages their inventory. Not so much a development issue. Hey a higher rate of gold drop I'm not going to complain about but, to me I don't really care.

[@arminkozek1921]

@@TheGreatBeanis I play since day one too and I also have multiple 100s including hardcore. I never said you shouldn’t sell items you don’t need. I said: it is a waste of time to get drops that are worth a small amount IF you take an extra 5 minutes traveling instead of playing the game. Stops me from blasting, is repetitive, inventory management is fun but after understanding the stats it just gets boring imo. I don’t want you to enjoy it less I just think that expecting players to do the same trip 3 times/level to get the needed amount of gold is bad design.

[@TheGreatBeanis]

@arminkozek1921 that makes sense. Though I feel the need for gold could push players to trade their items for others gold. Kinda give them a push communicate with each other and thus it actually adds some value to gold because everyone needs it. But hey we will see what happens. The devs should give us an alternative to accumulate more gold other than running to whatever drops.

[@EmilKlingberg]

Played it 4h today, enjoyed every moment so far.

[@Kingtut2121]

I'm 5 hrs in on my barbarian and the season is like a breath of fresh air. Looking forward to playing more!

[@MrWiggz69]

I rolled Druid but Barb is where I'll go next. Dust devils looks cool.

[@robinyoud-x8v]

- There should be at least 1 more tab in your inventory. The consumables tab fills up way too quickly, due to holding sigils, potions & boss mats - Gems need addressing. The mats required for gems is too high. I still only have 1 royal gem for my character at level 100. - Need to be able to level beyond 100, whether that be paragons or just visual levels, they need to add something. - Necro minions don't attack bells in dungeons when all other enemies are dead, even when destroying them is the main objective at the time. - Minion Necro's suffer the worst when dying as they have to move to a certain point through the dungeon to find any corpses before being able to re-summon minions. - Making an alternate character is just as hard as making your initial character. In D3 you got to keep paragon points, in D4 you have to go through the entire process again for every alternate character. - Legendary, Sacred, Ancestral & Unique Items all should have a different colour beam & should look a lot more distinguishable in your inventory.

[@brotherbear4200]

My main class I play is druid and at lvl 12 I got the shockwave aspect for pulverize and the unique necklace dolmen stone and was super hyped! Fast forward the next day I am lvl 80 now and I honestly this is the the best season for me. So many uniques are now accessible and you just feel so much stronger moving into tier 3 and 4. All in all I really enjoy this season and honestly their going in the right direction for this season.

[@CatfishChisel]

Yeah them making most uniques worthless AND walling them behind the tiers made no sense.....early D3 the only good items basically were rare.....such a misunderstanding. Glad they are sorting loot

[@aldawgd]

Requesting less yellow is a weird request. If you want to walk past them then cool. Don’t take them out for others though

[@exaltedexile6290]

Yeah he says "we" a lot when he should be saying "I"

[@HDGaminTutorials]

There irrelevant tho there is ZERO reason to even look at a yellow anymore

[@MrWiggz69]

​@@HDGaminTutorialswell he complains about gold when he can literally pick them up to sell them. It's just contradictive.

[@aldawgd]

@@HDGaminTutorials maybe once you geared up. Not every is playing for the quickest way to max out. So people will get the gear at different paces. And if you don’t want to look then don’t look at them. They can still be sold and stuff. Not everyone is trying to do 50 dungeons an hour. And don’t mind going to town to sell gear or such. It doesn’t solve anything. Now saying they need a loot filter like Last Epoch has. Ok. I’m all for that.

[@HDGaminTutorials]

I always disenchant I'm only level 56 right now so I totally get what you mean but it doesn't make the point anybetter is that they are useless AFTER a certain point

[@84Xeros]

I’m very positive about D4 but I don’t like the fast leveling experience. It was fine in season 2. Or create an endgame leveling system. Now most people will probably done with the season after one week playing 😂

[@kevinsims5791]

Actually that amount of people is very small. Most are casuals. They want everyone to be able to reach 100 and take part in the endgame they have. Now they can. The highest i reached was 94 in season 2 and i played for about 1 to 2 hours about 5 or 6 days outa the week

[@MrWiggz69]

Most people are casuals so it's great for them. I'm sure they'll adjust it for the next season, I think they just want people to explore the new systems.

[@schizorazgriz7231]

Fairly casual player. Dad with just the 1 job. Have played every season through with multiple lvl100 toons in each. Got to lvl42 in 3hr yesterday just doing the seasonal content (helltides). The season is shallow but I am happy to trade that for the MASSIVE quality of life improvements I am experiencing. Huge step in the right direction after the season 1 and season 3 backsteps.

[@th1zzend220]

Shallow in what way? Havent played since season 1 launch and that was pretty bad. Do you mean shallow in the way that you dont have many options for leveling or that they didnt rly add much new stuff but mainly focused on improving the systems and adding needed QoL?

[@TheDude044]

⁠@@th1zzend220 Most likely a mix of what you said and the fact that they cut out a major season theme for more QoL/content updates (which I’m totally fine with).

[@th1zzend220]

@@TheDude044 i see, well yeah im cool with that too for sure

[@fgagaerhjhjyfyjfyyjkf]

I don’t want the seneshal but why can’t they keep things like vaults in the game

[@TV-xv1le]

I really wish people would stop rolling the most busted builds every season (ball lightning, minion necro) then make comments about world bosses and capstone dungeon bosses falling over on spawn. The game can't be balanced around someone playing a busted build so they have a challenge unless blizzard does more frequent balance passes on other builds.

[@matiaharonyan9663]

To make the next leap they need to change the skill tree to make it more important like they did with the items. This accompanied with stretching the captain and side quests and make them count can make the game jump again to new levels. Great season

[@jclbc]

Did you run any legion events? I got prisms from there pretty frequently

[@Jabarri74]

On ptr i noticed they were massively nerfed in drop rate, thanks for the tip where to try to get some from other than world bosses, I just wish they would add something like a mini helltide to it instead of scratching ya butt at the campfire

[@corpsefoot758]

@@Jabarri74 Protip from me: listen to podcasts while playing this game, it’ll change your life

[@Chromatomic]

Honestly, the best world boss experience was on the first open beta, everyone was under leveled and beating it felt like an actual accomplishment. With there being so many more sources of legendary gear now I would love harder world bosses.

[@matthewrichards4078]

40:30 Whenever chaos or legendary chaos is an option for whisper hand in, take it. DOUBLE and TRIPLE the mat and gold count.

[@MrWiggz69]

Yup. Minimum I've got is 3 million a pop.

[@DCUOArsenic]

Wish they added little star you can check in the codex to favorite your aspects so you only see those. That would make it easier to add on the ones you want for your build rather than search for them every time and keep track of the ones you replace or are missing when replacing gear.

[@nogz01]

Love the camera distance. Wish it would be a bit more zoomed out but it's good enough

Im having a blast with my Frozen orb Sorc. Helltide is fun for most of the time. Switching between ND and helltide seems like a good gameplay loop. Now just need some new dungeon maps and new monster types, make it varied like PoE maps and I can see I will play this game for years

[@mattb6646]

Better add some fun and interesting loot and items like poe too if you want to keep people playing for years. Poes depth in build diversity and its map/gameplay options are a huge draw and retainer for players

@@mattb6646 that's great but not critical for me. Im satisfied with items currently. The thing I miss most is PoE maps: distinct looking regions with tons of varied monsters. If D4 somehow make ND great like that that would be awesome

[@korn7809]

When leveling is so fast what's the point in levels?

[@MrLu4o]

Its good, becouse you can do more different characters and enjoy.. For people with job, was kinda impossible to reach lvl 100, before

[@korn7809]

@@MrLu4o at this point just give us all the skill points.

[@adry0927]

@@korn7809 lol

[@MrLu4o]

@@korn7809 Well , i am lvl 14 and i played for 2 hours ,yesterday .. I think the system is pretty decent ..

[@samuelmcl.9474]

The point is that leveling your skills is only like 1/3rd of the power up process. The reworked gear system makes, getting good aspects, masterworking, tempering, and hunting uniques is the other 2/3rds

[@Mike-hv4sg]

Sorry but this complaining about games by streamers is getting ridiculous this makes games worse and I hope devs don't listen to them . Not gonna go into details but I can't hear any more of this.

[@mrsalty1019]

The second half of this video is unbearable

[@jamesg871]

The wolves caches clearly say that they are sacred or legendary drops. Its Very clear.

[@arl4693]

I actually find myself disagreeing with the much of the negative feedback presented here for once, and that's okay. I'll call out the feedback on prism scarcity in particular because I think you were being a little ridiculous. The idea of getting 2 socket-adding drops on the journey from level 0-100 sounds vaguely sort of rough at first, but then we need to consider that we're also only looking at a 12 hour timeframe. They're directly comparable to Ramaladni's from D3, and seeing 2 of those drop in a 12 hour span of gameplay sounds about right. Tack on the bonus that they're also target farmable from world bosses and that they're an endgame material meant to enhance already great gear and there's literally nothing to complain about here.

[@Steph1]

I don’t think “D4 bad” now, they have achieved “D4 mediocre” 🎉

[@AndreyGP]

IMO the game is getting worse, I had no problem with it before, I enjoyed it a lot from season 0, but now it's too easy for me, too easy to get to 100 and get some good items, I prefer to suffer a little bit to achieve something.

[@bigccwdude]

Are you playing hardcore?

[@dukenukem2480]

I mean the game 100% got better. Al activities and quality of life have been massively improved. So much more fun. I think the only issue now is it’s a little too fast. They couldn’t use to take away a lot of xp for a much MUCH slower climb up. It’s just too fast now but the gameplay is 5x better then before

[@AndreyGP]

​@@bigccwdude No, I can't play hardcore because my PC sucks and it freezes from time to time, I'll just die to lag. I wish we had a middleground between softcore and hardcore.

[@bananasInpajamas358]

D4 since day 1 was way too easy and they are just lowering the bar even further. They are trying to make everyone happy instead of making destinctive choices and they are falling on their asses.

[@Sephiroso.]

At least you admitted you prefer to suffer when playing video games. I don't expect that to be a popular opinion/feeling for others though.

[@dgavlo]

Raxx complains more than a middle aged woman in menopause. God!

[@ArmchairMagpie]

I will miss my beloved convoluted stats, what about my +3% Shadow Res On Dodge During Full Moon While Drunk, what about my +4% Lucky Hit on Crit after a Lucky Hit When Your Grandma Has Ordered A New Knitting Set For A Special Discount After Sundown? How will we survive this madness of stat simplicity?

[@defluppe]

Whisper solution: make a ton of NM sigils and stash them. Look at the whisper dungeons. Use the search function in your stash to find the sigil. Run the NM dungeon and collect the grim favors at the same time.

[@kivivikix]

Glyphs have always been a chore to me. I don't like them at all. Nightmare dungeons are way too big portion of the endgame...

[@cb4895]

Really feels like the next thing that absolutely has to be added soon is an armory cabinet to save builds and quickly let the player swap between them. They had a great system for this in D3, they just to port that over into D4 soon

[@dlau707]

Maybe they should add a small whisper mission in each nightmare dungeon, like killing a certain elite, that lets you turn in a whisper after like 5 nightmare dungeons, for example. That would streamline things a bit. Or maybe just increase the gold reward at the end of the nightmare dungeon.

[@thomastalbott5915]

The biggest win hands down for Druids is opening up trade. I finally got my Tempest Roar before 60+ hours. Feelsgoodman

[@dajpeace]

38:02 a potential simple solution could be that when all minions are summoned, when clicking in the summon button, it triggers the priest/ golem power and also forces the target to where you’re pointing at. Similar to what the necro does in D3.

[@bimmerthing]

Scattered prisms are found primarily from world bosses as Shards of the Fiernd chapter IV objective states.

[@JodouTR]

Having revisited a game I enjoy called DarkTide recently, increased mob density is probably the best takeaway here because none of the loot changes really matter if the core game isn't good. I liked what I heard about Helltides actually feeling fun and hard to break away from because that's exactly why I quit this game: you had to hunt for the fun. The most fun I did have was dungeons that bottlenecked a ton of mobs and you could just plow through hordes of enemies. Looks like their limitations from shitty code are finally being addressed and the game is actually Diablo again. If I have absolutely nothing better to play, I might actually install it again.

[@Sile]

Blizz need to add a 5th spell for Necro's and Druids. PoE has a spell where all of your minions teleport to the player, so something like that would be nice.

[@KimJongPhil]

33:50 put that check box in the tempering menu not the options. have it next to the button to temper. also allow us to reroll that same enchant with less clicks(default assume we arent changing the enchant, make us right click to remove it if we wanna pick a different one)

[@liabakar]

i love the elixir of momentum. My necro minions killed the butcher in NMD Tier 45 in less than 5 seconds. It never happened before. the game feels solid now

[@tj-mb1xp]

Well first tha0nk you for all this info. I am one of the players that stopped playing before season 1 but your info confinced me to try it again. Thanks

[@vladstravelguide8580]

One very important thing is to expand the PVP. Expand the rewards. Add some pvp modes like 5v5, 3v3 arenas/battlegrounds or something. Add more rewards for pvp .. this could potentially be a very enticing end game activity for a lot of people that enjoy PVP

[@JsJustace]

This season I want to play multiple characters, I have 5 kids and a 71 barb and a 50 necro already. Planning on doing a sorc next. They hit the sweet spot and the only thing I want to see now is fully open free trade. Make it feel like I have something truly valuable when I get those perfect tempers etc. side note: I almost always play with youtube in the background so I can listen to some info etc. This season has kept me so engaged i've been forgetting to que up videos.

[@gurujot951]

To have a season theme be: ease of use, is kind of funny, but totally awesome. No more stash problems, fewer trips to town, beefed up hell tides with great mob density, better potions etc. the codex upgrade alone is great. thanks for freeing me of hoarding legendaries and painstakingly comparing them.

[@Lord_Drongo]

The worst part of white and blues dropping at high levels is they can be cosmetics (white) or elixirs (blue) that you may want and you move on because "oh look trash white/blue item" skip picking that up. Of the removed white and blues at T3, then it wouldn't be an issue.

[@gamerzero9764]

The greatest change was allowing the horse to sprint in town lol

[@ShaneMcGrath.]

And as soon as you leave it rubber bands because their serves are shit! Making it pointless to use mount.

[@lt1459]

It's still hard to fathom a modern ARPG not having a loot filter at launch let alone 4 seasons in. I haven't blasted through to 100 on this season, but I would assume a loot filter would STILL be worth having even at later stages in this 'reborn' D4 world.

[@adrianludwig282]

I started the new season with some colleagues, and so far, it's been great. My abilities feel really impactful, and we are breezing through the content. Here are a few things I've noticed: 1. **Bosses and Capstone Dungeons**: They no longer feel like a challenge. One idea could be to limit the number of high lvls in a group that consists mainly of level 60s and 70s for open world bosses. This way, it would feel like you have to fight for something (if you know what I mean?). This would also prevent "power leveling" and make lower levels fight longer than high levels. (Or just make the bosses harder ^^) 2. **Potential for Slower Progression**: If players choose to replay the campaign, they should receive more XP to match the progress of those who skip the campaign and dive straight into the seasonal content. Additionally, I ran through the content so quickly and easily that I didn't even need to engage with my champion. I destroyed everything anyway. 3. **Promoting Different Builds in the Leveling Phase**: To encourage different builds during leveling, the Season Journey rewards could be distributed randomly. For example, Player A might receive Dust Devils, Player B Upheaval, and Player C Whirlwind. Sure, some builds are more meta than others, but this would encourage players to engage more with the items they receive, similar to gambling with Kadala in D3, where your build depends on what you gambled. 4. **Season Quest Rewards**: I've also received sacred items in T4. This could be addressed by clearly indicating what type of items (normal, sacred, ancestral) are in each reward from the beginning. 5. **Travel**: If the game already promotes super-fast leveling in the season, it would be nice to have all waypoint portals unlocked from the start. 6. **A Bit More Gold, Please**. Thanks Raxx you for your videos. So far, D4 is a lot of fun!

[@jgassman]

Agreed. I think if the gold costs of masterworking and upgrading your potions at the alchemist were lower it would be perfect. Also, a lower cap on the re-rolling would help too. I think they thought everyone had so much gold previously, so they kinda over-corrected a bit.

[@Kryptonic83]

Great run down, thanks! I'm enjoying S4 so far after skipping S3. I just made it to WT4 at lvl 56.

[@mrmalph1264]

"Somewhat of an identity". That's exactly what I've felt playing season 4 so far. There's a bit of cohesion now, not just a mish mash of ideas that didn't work well together. Looking forward to see what's next.