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BlizzConline - Diablo IV: What's Next?
The Diablo: What's Next panel is where members of the Diablo development team discuss the latest content coming to Sanctuary! This panel focused on information for Diablo IV.
Diablo IV
- The panel started with the Rogue trailer for Diablo IV.
- Rogues can use Swords/Daggers, and Bows/Crossbows
- We got a better look at character creation/customization.
- Rogues get three different specializations
- Shadow Realm, Combo Points, Exploit Weakness
- Rogues can imbue their attacks with different elements like poison or frost.
- Different regions will provide different looking armor and weapons.
- Chill builds up to a full freeze over time.
- Rogues are extremely mobile.
- More classes will come in the future.
- Having an open world in Diablo IV allows the team to figure out how the world fits together better.
- There are many mounts to collect in the game.
- Mounts have customization options, like changing horseshoes to increase the speed of your mount.
- The team didn't want people fighting on mounts, so dismount skills are what help bridge the gap between being mounted and being in combat.
- If you are attacked while mounted, you will be dismounted.
- Camps are strongholds of evil in the overworld.
- Monsters have moved into abandoned places left behind after the reapers killed countless people in Reaper of Souls.
- Camps are permanent fixtures in the world. When defeated, it becomes a town and waypoint for the player.
- Defeated camps open up new activities to complete in that region of the game world.
- The ability to jump over chasms or up/down elevation has been added
- There are PvP areas called Fields of Hatred which are optional.
- Collect shards of hatred from doing content in the fields.
- Purifying the shards will turn them into a usable currency.
- Players and monsters can interrupt players who are purifying shards.
- Players who kill a lot of other players will have a bounty placed on them.
- Ears are a trophy that can be collected through PvP.
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Posted Feb 19, 2021The PvP conceptually sounds amazing but the problem is every time world PvP is attempted it just boils down to "large premade groups roam about farming players".
I would have much preferred an option to turn PvP on/off and be able to do it throughout the entire game, it'd feel more fluid. I hope the game has a dedicated duel option to, the dueling-world is what kept D2 alive.
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Posted Feb 19, 2021I think it's worth reminding people that there is a character cap in regions of the world of D4. Large event boss areas increase that cap, and dungeons decrease it. It's possible a character cap in the PvP area would prevent the large premade groups from being a problem.
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Posted Feb 19, 2021Love what im seeing so far but god this game still looks like its years away ugh. D2R should keep me happy in the meantime
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Posted Feb 20, 2021Agreed. I can't see D4 being released until the end of 2022 at the earliest. D2R is looking solid (I'm not getting Warcraft 3 Reforged concerns like a lot of people), but with them saying the release is in 2021, for all we know it'll be a Christmas release or something. For all we know, PoE 2 will be coming out a short time later and could beat D4 to the punch. Such an interesting time for ARPG's.