The Hack’n Slay Diablo 4 will become significantly more difficult with Season 8. Blizzard has announced that progress in the action RPG has become too easy with Season 7 and now wants to make achieving certain goals significantly harder. At the moment, Blizzard states that 50% reach Torment difficulty 4, and starting in April with Season 8, only the top 10% of players should be able to achieve that. This is prompting some players to react quickly to reach a milestone. They want to conquer Pit 150.
This is Blizzard’s announcement: On March 7, Blizzard announced in a Campfire Chat that they want to significantly increase the difficulty in Diablo 4 again:
With Season 7, the number of players who completed Pit 65 and thus unlocked the difficulty level Torment 4 has doubled. About 50% of Diablo 4 players have reached this goal.
With Season 8, achieving the difficulty level will become much harder: Instead of 50% of all players, only the top 10% of all Diablo 4 players will be able to unlock Torment 4.
Pit 150 is said to become 73 times harder from April, says a creator
This is the assumption now: As reported by Dexerto, the content creator Rob2628 calculated about 2 weeks ago that a current milestone for ambitious players in Diablo 4, Pit 150, will be about 73 times harder in Season 8 than it is now in Season 7.
He calculated that it will require 73.5 times more damage to successfully complete Pit 150, according to the creator (via YouTube).
Some players criticize elitist Blizzard
This is the result now: Blizzard’s announcement is being discussed controversially. In the forum for Diablo 4, there is a negative interpretation. One user says that Blizzard effectively wants to exclude 40% of the current players from Torment 4.
This is an “elitist attitude” that reeks of people who are only about being as elite as possible in grinding games.
The user says he is not angry at Blizzard, just very disappointed.
Players see it as motivation to really dive back into Diablo 4
However, there are also some players who feel motivated by the announcement of Season 8. For example, one player said on reddit on March 22: He actually no longer feels like playing Diablo 4, but now he has scraped together all his motivation and tackled Pit 150 and even completed the challenge, as he believes that it will not be feasible for him to play at such a high level in Season 8:
I had 0 motivation to bring the BW cheese beyond Pit 135 – it’s not a fun build, it’s totally overpowered and only relies on improving your gear to the point where you can crush everything in your way.
But then I saw the S8 patch notes and realized that it’s now or never to achieve the 150 clear.
Other users also say that they are now seizing the chance to really grind in Diablo 4 before it becomes impossible for them to reach such high levels with Season 8.
When is it over? Season 8 of Diablo 4 will start on April 29 and run until mid-July 2025.
Fear of the patch notes as motivation
What’s behind this: Normally, announcements of new patches and content demotivate players.
It usually becomes less fun to play the current content because players have already started thinking about the new stuff, and the current content then seems irrelevant and unappealing. Therefore, many developers hesitate to present upcoming expansions and patches early.
Ironically, however, Blizzard seems to have generated more interest in the current content with the announcement that they want to make Diablo 4 significantly harder, at least for some players: Blizzard wants to make Diablo 4 much harder – now players have discovered how hard
