The Truth Of Diablo 4 Vessel Of Hatred

Let's talk about diablo 4 vessel of hatred blizzard expansion and season 6

Timestamps
Intro: 0:00
Progression: 0:40
Materials: 2:40
Tempering: 2:58
Pacing: 3:19
Variety: 5:12
Undercity: 6:34
Dark Citadel: 7:22
Gameplay: 8:09
Alts: 9:18
Paragon: 10:22
Experience: 10:59
End Game: 11:20
Mercenaries: 12:09
Tree Of Whispers: 13:03
Criticisms: 14:09
Conclusion: 16:10

#diablo4

[dmdiablo]

Timestamps
Intro: 0:00
Progression: 0:40
Materials: 2:40
Tempering: 2:58
Pacing: 3:19
Variety: 5:12
Undercity: 6:34
Dark Citadel: 7:22
Gameplay: 8:09
Alts: 9:18
Paragon: 10:22
Experience: 10:59
End Game: 11:20
Mercenaries: 12:09
Tree Of Whispers: 13:03
Criticisms: 14:09
Conclusion: 16:10

[nacherel]

A new season: launches.
Every D4 youtuber: this is the first time I'm having FUN with this game.

[ujaku_]

Spoiler ahead. I love everything about this expansion so far... except for the resolution of the story. I had a big "Is that it?" Moment before learning that yes, that was actually the final boss.

Bro. This was billed as a Mephisto expansion. I wanted to fight Mephisto. Feels like they edged us and then pulled it back to save for later. Not a fan of this at all.

[TheShawnMower]

Blizzard has an obsession with creating more and more types of currencies

[sheabishop]

Gameplay is great, story was kinda flat, price was about $10-$15 too much

[JayCalis]

It's been fun and I'm having fun. That's all that matters for me.

[nephram]

I finished the campaign. I feel like I experienced one of those videos where someone's like check out what's in the box and you open it and it's a dollar.

[framinthor]

Torment 16 coming to a Diablo 4 near you, just 1 to 2 "expansions" away

[nathanielwhittaker]

I am a sorcerer in torment 4. The only other class I have seen in T4 is spiritborn. I think the game balance is wack considering I am playing a very meta sorc build and have only hit for 500 million at the most but am averaging about 30 to 50 million depending on conditional buffs and debuffs. Highest pit I have cleared is 76. The boss took me 6 minutes to kill. I watch other players with equal gear on spiritborn farming pit level 90s... Spiritborn isnt at 100% more damage compared to other classes. By my estimation is close to 15x the damage of the next best classes.

Something has to change. If the game is intended to have players hitting for 600 million consistently like spiritborn does, then other classes need to be able to hit for 400 million.

I get that blizzard wants you to buy the spiritborn so they make it stronger than other classes. However, it is to absurdly overturned that I don't want to play anymore.

I am getting really tired of fighting a helltide boss for 10 seconds, getting it to 60% health, and then a spiritborn player rolling up and killing it in half a second.

I think you completely missed this point in your review.

[Menacetechnology]

D4 being different/better/improved because the expansion doesn't really mean much when the bar for improvement is set so low. Spiritborne being OP is a marketing tactic too, just like D3 Necro DLC release.

[ChristianHeid]

Kinda funny how ALL the Diablo partners that got into early testing are all making the exact same type of video on Friday and Saturday about the exact same things... And all talking about how they love to see more Citadel content as well. I think most players realize what is going on. Heck.. that's probably the reason why so many solo oriented players are NOT paying 40 bucks for this expansion and are walking away.

The only RELIABLE reviews we are seeing right now are on Steam cause only those that actually have a copy can make a review. The receptions are MIXED . Funny enough.. those that got a FREE COPY on Steam rate the game more positively tho. So lets put that into perspective for the Diablo partners and the streamers trying to hype this MID content up.

[Jdiroe]

The need to remove the “pick up this key item to put in this key slot” mechanic from the nightmare dungeons.

[Pashigagiga]

Vessle of hatred feels like a 40$ seasonal story line more than a premium DLC.

[zeriel]

As a non spiritborn, I don't find it enjoyable at all. I don't mind them being OP or broken or defeating all content or whatever you want to say about that, but the visual pollution is so bad. Being near one makes your eyes melt out of your skull. I'd be happy to never see that dumb projectile spam ever again.

[justdroppingby]

After learning all these endgame features are locked behind vessel of hatred this season like runes and raids etc i honestly deleted the game, we were told that transactional extras were to be left out of d4 other than cosmetic, i can get behind an extra story and character being a justified reason to pay out aswell, but when the majority of Season 6's key features like the addition of runes and player raids are part of the design aswell its basically just a con to force people to have to pay out to continue playing d4 with all future key features ongoing.
PoE can't come soon enough

[peezy_]

Had a starless skies drop from duriel last night and on the next run my game crashed. Tried loading back in and it said the game needed time to “save everything from my character” and when I loaded back in I didn’t have my starless skies or loot that dropped from the run. FML

[kaiz]

Havent bought it, dont plan on it either. Thanks for doing reviews

[EAZUP]

The truth... If you dont buy the dlc. The game is very slow. Finding items are harder and few in-between. Nothing feels good until you unlock T1. But to get there is soooo much longer then before. Hell finding the mats to even enter the pit is harder to find. The game is really f up with out the dlc.

[Narxes]

You still don't get to fight a prime evil.

Blizzard still doesn't listen to feedback or test their product, otherwise they would know mats and class balance are a problem.

I'm glad I waited to hear what people are saying, and didn't buy the expansion. Maybe if it goes on sale, but it's definitely not worth $40.

Season 5 was great, then they gutted it.

[cainfree]

Overall, it's not a bad expansion, but I do have a bone to pick about the story progression. I have very little sense of accomplishment/resolution from the story. It feels like I bought and act from d2/d3 story wise, and now I have to wait till they "let me" buy another one, so that maybe, just maybe, there will be some real progress to the story