The open beta of Diablo 4 rewards you with loads of strong items. This is intentional but will not stay that way.
This is happening in the beta:
- From March 24 to 27, the open beta of Diablo 4 takes place, free for everyone.
- During this time, you can play all classes of the game up to level 25 and explore the entire first act.
- If you want to invest more time, you can farm legendary items for your own build. This is significantly easier during the beta.
Why is there so much loot right now? Diablo chief Rod Ferguson confirmed on Twitter in response to a question that the drop rates for legendary items are significantly increased in the beta. We noticed this as well during our testing.
In the best farming spots in Diablo 4, there is at least one orange drop every few minutes. The world boss Ashava drops up to 6 legendary items when defeated.
This allows you to farm specific effects more easily and create your own builds. On one hand, this pleases the testers, but on the other hand, there was criticism: if Diablo 4 throws loot around like this, it will become inflationary. Gear loses value. But this will not stay that way.
You can find the best builds in Diablo 4 with gameplay here. Recently, we played the new druid as a powerful werewolf alpha:
“A fuller experience during the beta”
Ferguson emphasized in the tweet that the drop rates are increased for the beta. This means that in the finished game from June, significantly less will likely be found, and legendaries will become rarer again.
If you have gotten used to constantly seeing something glowing orange, you will have to prepare for significantly fewer loot explosions at the start. Set items, by the way, don’t exist at all, at least not at release.
How much the drop rates will be adjusted downward, we cannot say yet. One problem at the moment is that some builds only work with certain legendaries. The druid is almost useless without the right gear.
Blizzard is working with the data from the beta on technical improvements, but also on balancing. What exactly is happening, we will probably only know shortly before release.
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