GamesRPGDiablo 4Blizzard snuck in surprise quality of life changes into Diablo 4’s massive list of season 4 patch notesWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
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In addition tochanging almost everythingabout Diablo 4’s loot, Blizzard also snuck some excellent quality of life changes into this month’s gargantuan update.
On May 14, Diablo 4 season 4 will drop with the biggest list of changes the game has had since its release. The rework to its loot is fundamental and will shape how you play the game going forward, but there are a few extra surprises that Blizzard didn’t mention until today’s stream.
Most of the update focuses on boosting the power of Diablo 4’s Legendary items, giving them fewer and stronger stats, and letting you add bonus stats onto them through crafting. But with player power skyrocketing, Blizzard wants to avoid making people juggle stats just to survive in the game’s hardest dungeons.
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Enter one previously undocumented change that I’m excited for: Armor from your gear will now have a hard limit for how much it’ll protect you from physical damage, which simplifies one of Diablo 4’s most unintuitive systems and prevents surprise deaths. Before, you had to guess or find someone’s Excel sheet to figure out how much armor would keep you alive against monsters above your level. Now, you’ll just need a few extra armor stats—via crafting or Legendary powers—on your gear to hit the cap and then you can never think about it again. Blizzard says the tooltip will even tell you the exact number you need in a patch soon after the launch of season 4.
Murmuring Obols, a currency for gambling items that was effectively useless before, will now be one of the easiest ways to gear your character up. Obol vendors are guaranteed to give you Legendary items at the maximum item power once you’re level 100. Tons of dungeons and events reward you with these already (you can now carry 2,500), so now you can take them and hope you get something perfect for your build.
Blizzard noted a few other quality of life changes coming in season 4, including:
If there’s a theme to most of these changes, it’s that Blizzard wants you to spend time making your gear stronger and not fussing with arbitrary requirements like the armor and resistance caps. The goal is to become a god in your own way, especially in the absence of a unique seasonal power.
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The full patch notes, including class changes, are now available onBlizzard’s post.Compared to the season 4 public test realm last month, little has changed outside of what I’ve highlighted here. Barbarians won’t fill the screen with tornadoes, for example, but the reduction is mostly visual: they’ll still hit almost as hard. And necromancer minions will remain just as good as they were before—with a few extra buffs on top.
Diablo 4 season 4, which will largely include permanent changes to the game, launches on May 14.
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