On September 14, a hotfix for Patch 1.1.4 for Diablo 4 was released, promising an EXP gain. However, players see no significant improvement. MeinMMO reveals what is behind it.
The developers continue their efforts to reverse the controversial changes from the unpopular Patch 1.1. Instead of repeating past mistakes, the Diablo team seems to be correcting them step by step.
Players are still dissatisfied after improvement
What are these changes? Update 1.1.4 brought back an EXP bonus. The hotfix increased the experience gained for killing monsters in World Tiers 3 and 4.
- World Tier 3: Up by 5%
- World Tier 4: Up by 15%
The intention behind these changes was to bring players to level 100 faster and to offset the previous downgrades that had caused frustration.
- Originally, players received 25% more experience points when defeating monsters that were three or more levels above their own level.
- With the recent changes, this bonus has been reduced to only 15% when the difference was about ten levels.
Despite these adjustments, the new values are still less advantageous than the original experience point bonuses that applied at the time of the game’s launch.
How are players reacting? Many players would apparently have preferred that these mistakes were avoided from the start. In a Reddit post, they write:
- A player named SQRTLURFACE says:
Typical Blizzard. Reducing the XP and then giving XP back. In the end, they call it a hotfix/patch.
- Searchlights laments:
There’s still nothing to do.
- PaoLakers sees the XP reduction critically:
By reducing experience points, the game was effectively killed. Instead of having fun leveling multiple characters to 100, we had to max out one character, which burned out the fun.
- LurkerDude0 hopes for more changes:
I’m waiting for a lot more than just an XP buff to play again.
Players are undoubtedly upset about the current developments in Diablo 4 and hope for further improvements in the game. It remains to be seen how the developers will respond to this feedback.
Are there still aspects in the current patch that you think are missing or need urgent revision? What do you think about the XP changes?
After leveling, there are also other issues that Blizzard needs to address in the near future, according to the players:
