The State of Diablo 4 in Season 4

I'm Raxxanterax and I make Build Guides, Leveling Guides, Tier Lists and More for Diablo 4, Last Epoch, Path of Exile and Path of Exile 2. Season 4 started yesterday on May 14th. I was able to blast all the way to 100 in 12 hours with my Minion Necromancer. I think Diablo 4 is in a better state than it has been up to this point and I'm excited for the direction the game is headed in.
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00:00 *The Good*
00:59 Loot Reborn
02:09 Helltide
04:04 Class Changes
05:27 Greater Affixs
06:43 Endgame Systems
08:36 UI Improvements
09:54 Glyph XP
10:38 Uniques & Town
11:30 Salvage All
12:05 Elixir of Holy Bolts
12:36 Dungeon Events
13:12 Hardcore
13:40 Good Drops Anywhere
15:02 Trade & Obols
15:50 *The Bad*
16:08 Gold & Sell All
19:46 Nightmare Dungeon Sigils
22:25 Preload Patch
23:25 Capstone Dungeons
24:51 Iron Wolves
26:13 Common & Magic Items
26:36 Season Theme Shallow
27:12 Leaderboards & Events
28:39 Too Many Items
30:58 Greater Affix Indicator
32:42 Tempering
34:04 Scattered Prisms
35:49 Death Respawns
36:12 World Bosses
36:55 Minion AI
39:30 Keep Adding Endgame
42:40 Summary
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[ByGeorge]

Me: *wakes up* Oh they updated D4 yesterday?

Rax: I am already level 100

[rudleylegerme]

The fact that you can finally speed boost on your horse in town got me!

[Seanidor]

One thing that was a little annoying when tempering was that if you don't get the effect you wanted you have to go all the way back through the list and find that one specific temper to try again. If you temper something, just keep that same temper selected so you can click once if you need to try again.

[umbranoxx]

Dude the Helltide is so crazy now, I love it. It's just constant chaos, doesn't get old. So easy to spend so much time in there and get great gear, boss pops and fighting the mega boss frequently. Absolute win.

[nephram]

I messed around for a few hours last night. The game is crazy now. Whispers, helltides, nmd all feel better. The codex of power is fantastic. It feels the true release of the game.

[dukenukem]

You gotta get over the gold problem which isn’t there. Whispers takes literally 5 min. 2 red dungeons or 2 pvp boss kills fills it and you have 10 mill gold. Please stop trying to force the game to be nothing but “nightmare dungeon only because nothing else matters” please let the game have variety. The gold is perfect right now. Grind gold, or grind xp, or grind glyphs, or grind loot. Game would suck if you force all of that to come from 1 activity

[SirLunchALt]

Tip for easy Tree of Whispers: During "most" helltides you will get at least 1 "quest" to kill the new zone boss lady, which will award 5/10 whispers. What I usually do is watch out for that quest while doing NM dungeons and Pit. This way I can get some easy whispers without losing much time on ToW and still getting a good amount of gold from it. From my experience the "legendary chaos" whisper caches have a very large amount of gold.

[ineedtogetalife]

My Xbox died from a power surge 2 days before the update dropped. Such is life...

[bonelessthincrust]

The best new thing by far is legendary aspects being automatically stored (and stored forever) when you salvage a legendary. I had a stash full of max roll aspects that I never used because I was always waiting for that perfect piece to use it on. I'm the same kind of player that will finish every Final Fantasy having never used an elixir or megalixir, because "I better save it" mentality won every time.

[tipep]

The tooltip on the Caches states their power. They are named Legendary/Sacred Legendary/Ancestral Legendary Cache.

[Krysdavar]

TBF, if you would have gotten the Iron Wolf caches naturally instead of saving, one of the caches early on like #6 or 7 gives you a bunch of mats, which also includes enough dust to make several NM dungeon sigils. I received this cache just a couple levels before I was ready to do NM dungeons, so worked out perfectly for me.

[anm]

Easy way to expand the end game is to make quests for cosmetic and unique gear, different to what you can buy or drop, quest only items. If you have to farm, say 2 hours to collect enough loot for 1 such item and there are 10, all of a sudden that's extra 20 hours.

[Scottysaweet]

literally the first dungeon I did on Hardcore... butcher kills me at lvl 8

[Thorgrimn]

I love the sense of fear now when doing helltides when I am not paying attention and something spawns right on me. I hope this never changes. I would like to see the reward chests all converted to the same mystery chests with a mix of rewards so I don't have to run around the map looking for one chest, similar to what world tier 1, 2 Helltides are like. Salvaging and getting the affixes automictically is a massive improvement. Overall this was a huge win for D4 and I was one of the biggest critics. I agree with almost all your feedback during the video as well.

[OppiusBrutus]

The best thing about this season for me is the amount of aspects in the codex of power. I really hope they don't reduce the amount and only add to it as the game progresses, allowing greater build diversity. If they need to nerf stuff, so be it, more options more better.

[dwarfcow]

I started my necro minion build yesterday around 7:30pm, I was level 44 before I went to bed around 11, when i got my seasonal caches I felt a huge boost, fighting mobs never became frustratingly difficult where I felt like my power progression was going backwords due to monster scaling (which happened every single time I've tried to play the game previously) - it's just been a fun grind with rewarding levels of experience and loot. I actually want to try making some other classes and keveling them up when i get done toying with the end game, just to see how it plays. I LOATHED the thought of grinding new characters before.

[acelynch]

39:00 - @Raxxanterax - what they can do to help minions is add an attack button, similar to Last Epoch. Hit "A" and your minion attack wherever your mouse is pointing. If there's nothing to attack, they run to that spot and then run back to you.

If a little tiny company like EHG can figure this out, there's zero reason that Blizz can't do it. We do NOT need a cast bar spell for "command skeleton" like we had in D3. That was nice, but it would truly suck to lose one of our casts for something that can be done with a hot key. Make it "A" just like we have in LE and then every class that has minions can use it.

[MikeSakaru]

Personally with the gold issue, I really don't want it to be more common outside of whispers. It's nice to have such genuine motivation to interact with multiple mechanics. You definitely shouldn't be able to just run Nightmare Dungeons and not have to worry about gold. Nightmare Dungeons already have multiple reasons to be running them, they're already quality content.

Whispers being the preeminent way to get gold is a good function for it, that other content can't really offer. That's great. Helltides are already amazing, Nightmare Dungeons are already amazing. I'm definitely not for them removing the major function of Whispers by just giving you a bunch of gold elsewhere. I do agree with the fact that Whisper turn in giving WT4 Nightmare Sigils could be nice.

[Nipperbibbo]

Raxx: we need a way to make reliable gold, selling your items instead of salvaging feels bad

Also Raxx: i have so many crafting mats, I don't pick up items anymore to salvage

[_SLEEPY]

I agree with you on everything said, great video. So far lvl 52 I am having fun in season 4. I am worried everyone is going to blast through the content too fast and be starving for season 5 way early. That's where leaderboards would come in to keep people fighting for their spot and grinding.