I’ve played diablo 4 since day one and I’ve loved just about every minute of it. Now that doesn’t mean I don’t take breaks. I do. But for the most part I’ve played a lot.
But this season has already lost me and I’ve only gotten to level 20. Most of the times I may start to lose interest with a toon around lvl 90 and either I play a new class or that’s when i decide to take a break until the next season. So how am I only lvl 20 and already bored?
First off, lets adress the big elephant in the room. THE PET IS ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE
Now I don’t necessarily mean the pet is weak, it kind of is, but more so pet ai is horrible in d4. So I can’t fathom why blizz when down this path. You have absolutely no control over it. Like with most pets/minions you at least can somewhat send them to your target. Not this thing. And it almost always is a mile behind you. So by the time you’ve killed the mobs it finally catches up to you. Also the stones you use to augment the gameplay/abilities of it literally does almost nothing for your actual character. You yourself dont feel any gameplay changes from this. Both previous seasons at least had some degree of you noticing some gameplay changes. These stones should have augmented your own abilities.
Two, the traps are not fun gameplay. I dont want to spend hours farming vaults just to upgrade my stone (which is point 3) and having to deal with these horribly boring not fun traps with every single run. And the outside content the obelisk’s all have the annoying traps tied to them. theres the one that freezes constanly which tries pushing you out. you almost have no time to cast abilites before you are knocked back. not fun at all. at least the blood syphon thing was a race to see how long you could stand in there before you lost all your health. much more fun.
Three, Wudijo I think did the math and it will take 2000, yes 2k, runs of these vaults in order to upgrade all of your stones to max. Who in their right minds actually approved this at blizz?
With how the pet is horribly implemented it doesnt even feel like a new season. It feels like the base game with just a few annoying mechanics added.
The pet should have been something attached to your toon like an armor or some sort. Because then you would notice shooting lightning or doing a mini whirlwind.
Or the pet could have stayed a pet, but it actually augmented your abilities. For example i see some stones that now make some of the damage deal a different spell school of damage. So say for necro one stone would have done your blood damage now deals X% of it in shadow damage or bone damage. The shear amount of builds that would open up would be insane, but no. We are pretty much playing the exact same things as last season.
Overall this season was horribly executed
This season might be the one where two thing might happen.
One we might get ptrs out of this. The reason being is if this was tested then there could have been some huge changes done before launch. Which then we wouldnt be in this mess. Not saying huge sweeping changes could have been done because all of this was already developed, but the stones and the upgrade would have been massively reduced. And so forth.
Two, the doomsayer in all of us, this could be the nail in the coffin that puts d4 on the same path as d3. What i mean is d3 was planned to have many more expansions, but after the first one the rest were all cancelled. D3 was off to a horrible start and then higher ups said nope thats it, time to move on to making d4. Gotta feeling the same thing might happen here.
same thing happened with season 1 and I’m going to end up doing the exact same thing. Finish the bp tiers and then wait for the next season.