There will be Diablo 3 seasons after the launch of Diablo 4.
Just like there were Seasons of Diablo 2 during Diablo 3.
Enthusiasts gamers could even expect a Diablo 3 Remaster.
That would be awesome to replay Diablo 4 with high resolution textures and high polygons models.
I don’t think Diablo 4 is near to be released.
I would say minimum 2 years before release.
There are still lots of ongoing questions on monetization.
The rejection of Diablo Immortal’s business model probably changed some points of view at Blizzard.
Diablo 4 could follow the release model of Baldur’s Gate 3.
Release Act I in early access, and collect feedback.
The seasonal theme described in this proposal, introducing Chaos items, could be simply used for Diablo 4, like a permanent realm, a parallel universe with its own rules, somehow acting like a mod, against an entry fee of $1.
For example, in Starcraft II, the paid mod Desert Strike is very popular.
What do you think of this seasonal theme ?
Anything that could go wrong with the rules ?
You mentioned items could disappear, if that happened without warning such as during combat or such that you don’t notice you no longer have such and such item anymore, it would be a disaster and honestly the opposite of what a loot hunt game should be. Once you find an item it should be yours forever, the idea that they can just vanish sounds horrible to me.
Also, the loss of Legendary Gems seems excessive, unless there is something else to replace them.
Add new items with the new powers using the same slot as the old ones so that wearing the new power item replaces the older one, but the old one still exists and you can swap between them as desired. I am fine with having more options and choices, just not with having hard work and effort put toward something simply being taken away.
Some gems are vital to build integrity and removing them will severely handicap some builds. For example Wildebeast for shields, Gogok for CDR, Boon of the Hoarder for Avarice and gold farm, LoD should be obvious (a huge entire set of builds would be off the table without this one), Gem of Ease…
Chaos items roll up to 7% Damage reduction.
7% x 13 = 91% Damage reduction.
That should be plenty enough.
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CDR, or variations of this power, could be the basis of some generic, cross-class chaotic powers as they do not directly buff the damage.
They would need to be heavily conditionned.
As the most popular Legendary Gems are directly buffing global damage, for the sake of the balance and diversity, all of Legendary Gems have to be erased from existence in order to let the RNG shine.
One might say that even static chaotic powers would be the anti-thesis of both RNG and Chaos.
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Nope.
Chaos items:
have no durability
If items don’t need to be repaired, players have no usage for Boon of the Hoarder
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Nope.
This season drops chaos items instead of:
legendary items
Legendary items drops are replaced by chaos items drops
Without Legendary items, players will never drop the Avarice Band ring.
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Nope.
This season drops chaos items instead of:
legendary items
Legendary items drops are replaced by chaos items drops
Without Legendary items, players have no usage of LoD.
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Nope.
Chaos items:
have no level restriction
If chaos items can be equipped at any level, players have no usage of Gem of Ease.
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You wouldn’t love the end of Avatar The Last Airbender (“I am taking your power away !”).
But okay, main post fixed !
They can appear or disappear during the season.
New powers can emerge during the season.
That sounds like an extreme amount of server processing given there would be 3x powers changing on 13 items per character every 10 seconds (not to mention whatever you have for follower gear, will there be chaos items to emanate there too?). I would expect that to generate more lag than the recent Necro glitch, but on a much grander scale since it would be applied to every single player in the game not just the ones who were glitching Necro powers.
Also, it sounds possible of build breaking combos where suddenly you lose all damage potential, or your defense vanishes, and you just die instantly without knowing how or why. Especially for HC that would be a nightmare.
Next. Conquests. Every season has them and unless a very specific set of them was built into the season then some of them would be entirely impossible. Such as the Set Dungeons conquest. Not to mention the 2 parts of season journey which require Set dungeons.
And there goes the Avarice conquest.
Also, Haedrig’s Gift, well since we can’t have sets what use would that be then.
Also, the Cube, if there are no legendaries, then no powers for that. Can Chaos items be upgraded to ancient or primal? What happens when we use the upgrade rare item, does the cube explode and kill everyone in town? What about the reforge legendary recipe?
Also, missed adding this bit in my previous reply… Gold is needed for more than just repair. It’s also needed to empower GRs, buy the Hellfire patterns, etc. Much more than just repairs.
That is one item which not everyone wears. What you are suggesting is 3xPowers on 13x Worn Items. Plus X times items in inventory at any given moment, plus X times items in stash. For every single player in the game. You are talking literally hundreds or even thousands of computations per player every 10 seconds. That would melt the servers. Now if you managed to somehow limit the randomizing to only the equipped items (which I figure would be near impossible to do), that would still remain a game breaking amount of computations per character every 10 seconds.
And there goes yet another favored part of the game, gone. I and my friends love running the vaults together, we especially get together to run the ancient vaults.
And given that Bovine Bardiche would also be gone there goes the Cow Level too, yet another extremely fun and favored activity just tossed out the window.
Since Whispers of Atonement for augmenting items are technically Legendary gems, those would be out too, so no reason to have ENs either, another game activity gone (not that it was a very good one, but still).
I absolutely hate that thing. I do it once at the start of season to get a jumpstart and then never again until the next season. Most of them are so broken they are not even remotely fun and often not even possible without extreme luck.
So what is left then? No Puzzle Vault, No Cow Level, unless we somehow get luck on a goblin kill. No EN, or at least no reason to run them. No reason to run bounties (not that I would miss that bit). So all we would be doing the entire time is running Nephalem and Greater Rifts the entire time endlessly. Sooooo Fun… (sarcasm)
To be fair I have seen a lot of your proposals have at least some merit, but this one sounds like an utter and complete nightmare both from a development and playing standpoint…
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