In the current Campfire chat, Blizzard addresses the concerns and wishes of players in Diablo 4. The development team has heard the criticism and now wants to make changes to the items. They aim to tackle the problem with the numerous affixes.
What kind of problem is it?
- In Diablo 4, each item has a fixed attack or armor value as well as a fixed property. All other bonuses on the items are affixes.
- There are over 200 different affixes. This makes it difficult for those who do not delve deeply into the individual bonuses to recognize upgrades.
- Due to the high number of affixes, there is only a small chance that the perfect item for your build will drop.
Blizzard has recognized that it is hard for players to do anything with their loot (via youtube.com). However, the team wanted the path to perfect gear to be a journey for the players. Therefore, they will address the issues in an upcoming season.
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Diablo 4 wants to change its items
What is Blizzard working on? Blizzard has not revealed specific plans regarding what changes will be made in the future. However, the development team wants to address the problem that there are currently too many affixes. Whether they will remove or combine affixes has not been disclosed.
Additionally, there should be options to personalize your items. Modifying items is crucial for player progression and would make Diablo 4 overall more exciting. One possibility would be to introduce tools that would allow this.
Moreover, the loot filter is under discussion. The German Twitch streamer wudijo has already called for a loot filter because there are simply too many useless items. This way, players would quickly recognize which items they can use.
As soon as Blizzard knows how exactly the changes are to be implemented, there will be a new stream from the developers.
When will the changes come? Blizzard states that the item changes will not be introduced until Season 4. The team wants to wait so that all changes can be applied at once and not just introduced piecemeal. Only then can a harmonious interplay of all changes be ensured.
What do fans say about the changes? In the reddit forum, there are many players who are happy about the changes. To reduce the number of affixes, fans suggest that useless affixes should simply be removed from the game. The current selection of affixes is too complex.
The loot filter is also a desired feature. User anchuto writes, for example, that with a loot filter he would not have to analyze every single item anymore.
Besides the changes to the items, Blizzard is especially focused on endgame content, which is another point high on the developer team’s list. Players criticize that there is too little of it:
Diablo 4 has no endgame? Players explain what many do wrong: ‘Treat it like Diablo 2’
