Instead, there’s a new, yet unnamed consumable item to customize late-game builds. Ancients used to be very rare, super powerful versions of Legendary items. Power comes from everywhere in Diablo 4, a key difference from Diablo 3.įinally, the studio revealed that it’s removing Ancient Legendaries from the game. If you want to truly increase your power, you’ll need to upgrade your skill ranks, character level, talent trees, the end game progression system, and the items you wear. The studio also declares that items are only a piece of the puzzle for Diablo heroes. However, it’s still a viable choice for players who don’t want to fuss with all the stats and affixes. But Blizzard clearly states in the post that only picking items based on stats won’t be the optimal way to play. This removes some of the frustration from Diablo 3 of finding a great new sword that makes your hero far too easy to kill. If you’re looking to bolster your defense, you need to find better armor. If you want to increase your attack, you’ll need to change out your weapons. Attack and defense stats are now only on related items. This plays into another major change for the franchise. If you upgrade for stats, you may lose some Demonic Power, and therefore an affix that really makes your build sing. Instead, each new item presents you with choice. A new item isn’t just a stat stick designed to increase your power. The goal of this major change is to give players more agency in how they build their characters. The other affixes aren’t active in the example tooltip, because the wearer doesn’t have the requisite 55 or 60 Demonic Power. There’s a 10% chance to land a Crushing Blow, only active when the wearer has 55 or more Ancestral Power. It has a 15% critical strike chance and three affixes. The new affix system in action Blizzard Entertainmentįor example, Blizzard showed off an amulet called the Fiery Amulet of Malice. Without meeting a specific threshold of each of these stats, certain item affixes won’t activate. Ancestral Power increases the chance of on-hit effects (also known as proc chance), Angelic Power increases the duration of beneficial effects like buffs or healing, and Demonic Power increases the duration of negative effects like debuffs or damage over time. However, you’ll need to hit certain thresholds of three new stats to activate these affixes: Ancestral, Angelic, and Demonic Power.Įach of these new stats focuses on a different type of in-game buff. These affixes upgrade skills you already have or increase your damage resistance to a particular element. A new blog post from lead systems designer David Kim touches on item affixes, stats, and the removal of the super powerful Ancient Legendaries.īlizzard will add new affixes to items in Diablo 4. D3‘s current season ends November 10th, so the current Triune theme is ending soon, but Season 19’s Pandemonium should be hot on its heels.Like its last post on Elective Mode, the Diablo 4 development team revealed potential changes to the way the series handles items. The differing themes change the player goals in the game from season to season, with S17’s Season of Nightmares encouraging players to farm those legendaries, and S18’s Season of the Triune (aka ‘hopscotch buffs’) providing a boost from the onset. Seasons have significantly extended the re-playability of Diablo, from the initial ladder system in Diablo 2 to the current incarnation in Diablo 3. It was a minor inclusion, and Kim made it clear they haven’t finalized all the details yet to deliver seasons in the new D4 system, but it’s a confirmation! He went on to highlight a small example: including new legendaries and spotlighting different existing ones based on a theme. Lead Systems Designer David Kim stated outright, “Of course we’re going to have seasons in Diablo 4,” with the primary goal of changing things up for the player community across each season. Questions about “are there going to be major content drops? What is that loop(?) going to look like?” Post-game support, seasons, that kind of stuff. People mentioned that they really enjoyed playing seasons, other people said they wanted to see more. And the community wants to know about Seasons! Specifically:Ī number of questions around how we’re going to support the game once it’s live. Today’s Diablo 4 Systems & Features panel included a Q&A section with contributions from the community from Twitter, Reddit, and more. BlizzCon Day 2 is proving to be as full of goodies as Day 1.
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