What do YOU dislike about Diablo IV?

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What are your complaints about Diablo IV?

I’ll go first:

  1. Lack of build diversity for all classes. If I wanted to be pigeon holed into one of 3 specializations, I’d play WoW.

  2. Unlike previous diablo titles, you can’t stack enough armor/resistances to feel truly powerful at high level content. There’s feeling of real power creep anymore. You plateau but everything mobs keep getting stronger. Item level doesn’t increase proportionally or meaningfully after about level 70. Why grind to 100?

  3. Some of these mechanics are stupid - Stand in a bubble for 5 seconds every 20 seconds since you can’t mitigate the mechanic enough to ignore it with armor or resistances!

  4. Game still feels like a Beta port. Buggy, inconsistent behavior from AI. Mob aggression is a joke. Events in high tier dungeons are a tragically comical. Seriously, do your coders use spaces instead of tabs? FIRE THEM ALL!!

  5. Mob density is threatless, and makes gameplay feel overwhelmingly slow at high levels. Seriously, why do I have to run for 30 seconds after entering a dungeon to encounter 3 mobs? Give me 30 or give me death!

  6. Nerfs to “protect the health of the game” - the game is literally cancer right now with how awful canned builds feel. Instead of bringing underperforming classes/abilities up, you nerf everyone so that the game is just a dull shell of what it could’ve been.

  7. Developers don’t seem to care about community feedback - would rather triage with BS explanations and fireside chats than actually use their grey matter to think of viable solutions to the problems their own incompetence created.

  8. Exponential increases to crafting make the grind more tedious, less rewarding. Yes, I’d super love to pay 5B gold to reroll an item again for min roll 3% crit when all I need is Max Health, thanks RNGesus!

It feels incredible to have paid 100$ for this game expecting a Diablogasm follow up to D2/D3 only to get a broken mindlessly boring grindy game with a half-baked story, coded by people who use spaces instead of tabs, managed by people who must hate ARPGs, and limited playable options for class specializations.

Have a great Season 1 Dev team; I hope your dumpster fire keeps you nice and warm!

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That I can’t refund paragon points with one button.

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  • Super-grindy, especially after this latest nerf.
  • Total lack of storage
  • Too hard/expensive to respec, especially paragon. There should be a reset all button, and it shouldn’t cost the 20 million or so it does to completely respec the paragon points. That’s just idiotic.
  • When they nerf the crap out of classes they should give us all a free respec, I had to pay 20 million because you stuffed my class.
  • That the devs don’t seem listen to the community (eg sorc got nerfed instead of buffed).
  • That you cant reroll more than 1 stat on an item
  • That rerolling stats is exponentially more expensive but keeps giving you the same crappy stats over and over again.
  • That you cant reroll stats on uniques
  • That other classes literally do 10,000 TIMES more damage than my class (see youtube vids of bulwark druids hitting aoe for 1.8 Billion damage, when my sorc can’t even do 180k damage. And what’s worse is that that class spec is essentially an invincible tank so what’s the purpose of a sorc that does 10,000 times less damage and gets one shot by everything?
  • That 99.9999% of the population will never find an uber-unique (they may as well not be in the game).
  • Sorting through loot is a nightmare, no storage, no searching, no filters to not show items you don’t want (like don’t show sacred, don’t show white/blue/yellow etc),
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‘Out of touch devs’ is now my top reason. Everything else can take a backseat now.

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  1. No interesting items to go after to motivate play
  2. No reason to even find interesting items if they even existed because there’s no trade outside of rares
  3. No motivation to make alts because no smart loot toggle and no interesting items anyway
  4. No varied content where certain classes/builds can perform more efficiently than others thus a reason to make alt or do different things (javazon to cows for example)
  5. No lateral rare meme builds to chase like Tesladin
  6. No target farming to motivate doing anything other than boring NM dungeons (trav for runes, cows for bases, etc)
  7. They made a group meta, then no way to find groups in a pug maker or something
  8. Level scaling ruins the feeling of progression or a way to farm an area for gear before making the change to a harder area you couldn’t beat before. It’s just an infinite slog of meandering slop.
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Clueless, lazy, ignorant, sloppy game design. Fraudulent game title.

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The builder/spender system sucks all of the fun out of this game. At least other games treat the builder/spender system as a minor limiter thing until mid game where the players have easy access to tools to get rid of it.

Crafting/Respeccing costs are INSANE.

Lack of any in game trade system (PoE got lucky that the community designed a somewhat decent trading system for them, no chance of that happening for D4)

Those would be my big 3.

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That the Devs heavily marketed it as this “Amazing Open World” with “Tons of Things to Do”. Yet the difficulty, rewards, and purpose of the open world disappeasr at level 70. Then you live in Nightmare Dungeons for 30 more levels, to gather enough gear, to go into another dungeon to fight a boss you already fought, in hopes of killing for nothing but brownie points, since she literally drops the same crap you could get out of a Silent Chest.

Instead of nerfing the living sh!t out of all the classes, and gutting defensives. Maybe… just maybe… Add T5,6, and 7, and allow the difficulty modifiers to scale into NMDs.

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My biggest problem is that class unique for certain characters suck so hard like these are supposed to be rare why are some of them just so awful and they didn’t even touch most of them in there mega nerf patch

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My dumb horse.

6 characters required

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The gear. The gear is just horrible, lazy system design.

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Cool story, you sound mad bro.

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The “GAMEPLAY DESIGNERS”.

All the remaining dev team as we can see are very talented people, from artists to the the guy that made the items architecture per example all genius, assign our rolls as probably a float that will after lerp a % range was an amazing idea to allow balancing and updating what bring us to…

How in the name of god someone can mess too much a game balance with all the tools they had in hand? Why paying consumers need to be treated as guinea-pigs while they try validate their ego-based theories about what is fun?

Really tired from these guys trying to validate their theories instead of letting us simply play.

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  • List item The hairstyles are limited

  • List item The faces are hideous, some are trolled as down syndrome faces, especially druid

  • List item hardcore features like death notify in clan are non existant. Cant even tell in vids if im watching a softcore or a hardcore player.

  • List item No rebirth mentioned for seasonal

  • List item Unique’s seem lackluster and desire to nm hunt for gear is not as strong as it was for d3 and d2.

  • List item The community here is much worse than d3 and d2 was. Its hard believe i play with these people but it all makes me feel better when i realiz most of these toxics are softcores and i havent touched sc in 20 years.

  • List item clan feature and group finding is really limited.

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too many things to put down. never playing it again even if it gets good, because im done doing beta testing for this company

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  • The mob density is low
  • There is no overlay map
  • Storage is very limited
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Cooldowns for mounts is a disgrace.

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The whole game, throw it away. Keep the art though.

Will wait for D5 or another ARPG that knows how to be one.

Literally nothing about D4 is worth redeeming at this point.

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I feel your truth friend, it takes so long to recalibrate paragon. Ugh, what an oversight.

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  1. No magic find
  2. Increase in difficulty of dungeons doesn’t aid in higher drip change of uniques. No point I’m doing higher sigils other than leveling glyphs faster which cap out quick
  3. Inventory space is absolutely idiotic
  4. No in game lfg system
  5. Not being able to port into nightmare dungeons
  6. Lack of interesting boss encounters
  7. More people in pvp zones. Maybe add fun pvp zones you can queue up for
  8. No more power leveling lol?
  9. 3 month seasons way too short. Will probably end up being the reason I don’t continue to play.
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