Diablo 4's Latest Patch Makes Unique Items Easier to Come By

I watched the interview with the team today at Blizzard. They have great plans for the game and the seasons and battle passes are near perfect in design. You can do the battle pass for free or pay for costume gear only. No pay for power. Blizzard has always been my favorite game studio and it was sad when i was watching them lose their way of old. But Blizzard is back with Diablo 4.

Loving diablo 4. The only gripes i have are the cinematics are rough around the edges and some rubber banding although thats few and far between. Currently rocking a barbarian high bleed build level 40 and i've just unlocked a buff for hammer of the ancients from a dungeon which was massive. I saw in the review that stated this was more like destiny 2 but i have to disagree with that 100% as this is more like diablo 2 and if i'm going to be really picky (which i am) destiny 2 is more like diablo 3 and borderlands 2..the only reason i can think of why anybody would compare the 2 is because they are both live service games..

Awesome stuff allready there and more to come! Level 70 sorc in WT4 atm. Starting to change my gear for the last time to ancestral gear. Wow what a buff in every way. I love this game.

@ORO_ERICIUS i'm playing on world tier 1 because the extra goodies by starting on wt2 were very negligible to be honest. I've only been playing it for a week now but i'm sucked right in. One question are the ancestral drops akin to the green sets in d3?

@Northern_munkey it is my first Diablo so I cannot say anything about that sorry mate. Ancestral gear is the highest you can get. Only a few unique items are better.

@Northern_munkey Sadly no, they are just a high jump in item evel. Set armor is apparently coming in Season 2 and the end game really needs it imo to bring builds together.

The new gems look interesting in season 1 and the developers noted they make some builds crazy. Should be fun

@THEH4MM @ORO_ERICIUS thanks for the info guys..hope you 2 are loving this as much as i am.

So uber uniques are temporarily disabled at the mo it says upon logging in (yeah i'm really maximising my d4 time today) but i guess i'm nowhere near having those drop anyway 🤣..just a quick heads up..

@NinjaNicky this wont happen imo.

@NinjaNicky to be honest its not really bothering me that much. Its not as intrusive as i thought it would be.

Man this game is off to a running start, hope they keep this up! Very impressed by the game and enjoying it a lot.

Just clocked 220h+... only 1x character is lvl 100. Really excited for seasons to come. Love to see that in dev streams they show passion and they are showing that they care to make game as best as they can. Yeah, it will take time to implement substantial fixes but I am here to wait those extra stash tabs, Gems moved to resource tab, etc.
Crossing fingers that Season 1 Sidestory will have some substantial value with many missions. Grind is good, but I would love to hear more "stories" around sanctuary.

In overall I am very satisfied with this game.

Easier to come by? Not exactly a good choice of words, unless you know something we don't...
It will all depend on the drop chance, which was not mentioned, and which, knowing Blizzard, will be very very low...
So the "easier" part would actually be attributed to a "femto-sized" increase... but I guess we'll see what the community says in the coming days.

I’m knee deep in this game right now and having a ton of fun with it. The open world design, the MMO-lite mechanics and improved boss battles really do a lot to elevate this game above the rest of the series.

I'm really enjoying this Diablo 4 over the third one. I think this one is just better in many respects. Just a shame this is likely to be the last. On the PS console.

I hope season is optional, because I still didn't finished main game. Lvl 50,5 but have only 2-3 hours a day...

Not sure if I'm being cynical, but setting a high bar first, before "climbing down" seems to be a common strategy now with live services. It happens to rarity, pricing, etc.

@Northern_munkey Some advice i would jump on to world tier 2 as soon as because the endgame is designed around Nightmare and over and going from WT1 to WT3 will feel brutal as hell.

@WallyWest i've made the jump to wt2 but the extra gold and xp is not really worth it. My barbarian is a bit of a beastie to be honest but thanks for the advice buddy..

This is good news to here.

I have 196 hours logged in the game so far. Level 83 druid and 53 wiz. I have all but given up druid just due to the horrible drop rate of unique items needed to actually make him work worth a damn. Waxing Gibbous Axe and the Tempest Roar helm. Guess I'll get back at ot this weekend and get to grinding!

@OMG_Waffles

You are miles away from a final build for the Druid, it's not worth worrying about the unique drop rate enough to stop playing it. Your Paragon Board and the Glyphs is what you need to get right for any build to make gear work effectively in the first place. You need to work on levelling up the right glyphs and putting them on the best boards for maximum effectiveness.

For example, I'm a level 100 Frost Sorcereress who has concentrated on crit chance/damage and vulnerability. But my 4th Paragon Board is Burning Instinct only because the Glyph Point spot is surrounded by the most Dexterity spots of any board. So I place my Destruction Glyph on it as it scales with Dexterity. My Destruction glyph has been levelled to 15 to make its radius bigger which means I can put points into all the Dexterity spots and get a bonus of 74% extra crit damage.

So it doesn't matter rof your level 83 Druid isn't great yet, you are no where near as powerful as you could be and it's not down to unique not dropping, at least not yet.

Anyway this patch deals with droprates so that another reason to persist.

@Northern_munkey the extra XP is DEFINETLY worth it. And you should be using elixirs every half an hour just for the 5% bonus.

You should aim to get to WT4 as soon as possible. I've seen level 50s there, presumably helped by friends to get there. In a game that takes around 200 hours to get to level 100 playing solo it makes no sense to make that even longer not taking advantage of all the XP gains you can get.

@riceNpea i'm not in a rush though.. i was not aware that i was in a race to finish it. The thing i like about games like diablo is that you can play them for as long as you like and any way you like. How do you know i'm not using elixirs? I'm having a blast mate but to me right off the bat at level 1 starting on wt2 was a moot point. Sorry if i'm not playing the way you think i should be.

@Northern_munkey

Why are you being sarcastic with me? I was giving you honest advice about XP. For most players as well as having fun the aim of the game is to grind for loot, XP and gold in order to make your build better.

I don't known if you've ever played Diablo before and if you know any of what I said. I also don't expect you to be using elixirs because why would you, you dont think the extra 20% XP from WT2 is worth it so why would 5% from elixirs be worth it?

I was trying to be helpful and you get defensive. Are you normally like that with people, it's quite rude.

@riceNpea ok my bad. I read your post as if you were telling me i should be approaching it in a certain way and not how i was going about it. Apologies my friend 👍

@Northern_munkey nice one. Thank you 👍😊