Good Morning Folks! I’ve not been hitting Diablo IV as hard as I could, but I am still making fast progress sitting at 57 as of this morning. I unlocked World Tier 3 at level 44 and given how powerful I already feel… I am contemplating giving an attempt or two at unlocking World Tier 4. I am largely following the Upheaval Endgame build from Maxroll and it feels pretty freaking great. I had never played with Iron Maelstrom before now and it is such a freaking “me” ability as I swing around giant hellraiser chains hitting everything on the screen. For cosmetics I have gone back to my good ole Cold Iron set that I picked up during the first season, and it is probably still my favorite appearance.
I am not sure if this is a new legendary affix or if it is just “new to me” but I was cracking up last night when doing a boss fight and almost every player was running this games version of Convocation of Elements (called Circle of Elements in D4). For those who did not play a lot of Diablo III, this is an ability that cycles through giving you an element buff and is largely just “more damage” and as a result, every build ends up running with it. This one is a bit weaker but cycles between two buffs that each add there “elements”. It weirds me out that poison in this game is considered an element because I am used to there being some differentiation between the whole Fire/Water/Wind/Earth thing and any other ability that applies an affliction.
Last night I took down several world bosses and they all pretty much evaporated. I was holding off on doing these until World Tier 3, because there is the chance of getting Uber Uniques to drop starting then. Uber Uniques supposedly drop at full end-game power no matter when you find them, so I was hoping that maybe just maybe I would luck into something amazing. At this point I have fought Avarice, Wandering Death, and Ashava and all were pretty easy. Ashava is still probably the worst of the three because of all of the Giga poison damage. I’ve found a handful of uniques but I won’t start finding anything really amazing until I manage to pass the World Tier 4 capstone dungeon.
All in all thought I am having quite a bit of fun. It seems like Blizzard is also doing a big push to get players back as right now the game is on sale for $35 on Battle.net and has a free trial available. If you are a Gamepass subscriber it is also available through that service as part of your subscription. If you tried it at launch and were disappointed, now might be the time to reinstall and check out the changes. There are still a number of things that I would love to see… like they still keep fighting the addition of loot filters and map overlays… but the game is in far better shape than it has ever been. I figure this weekend I will probably hit level 100 and start checking out some of the proper endgame.
If you are interested in more specific information than my random thoughts… I would suggest checking out the Season 4 State of Diablo IV Video that Raxxanterax released. It goes into a lot of detail about the good bits and the bad bits alike. For me… I need to sort out how the heck to fight the Beast in the Ice because it apparently has the highest drop rate for Hellhammer. I might now mess with that until I jump to World Tier 4 however because I would prefer to not have to get it twice. Anyways… are you playing? Are you having fun? Drop me a line below with your thoughts.