“Diablo IV” (Diablo IV) The first season “Evil Season” is scheduled to arrive on the 21st of this weekend. Although it is not certain what changes will be made to the pass or the new Meta, according to Blizzard executives, it is almost certain Several things will happen, one of which is a nerf (NERF) that players are not very happy about, and the other is that there will definitely be new rare and unique unique items.
Just last weekend on the 13th,Forbes interviewGame director Joe Shely and brand general manager Rod Fergusson asked what changes the first season would bring, and they confirmed that the scale of the first season might be slightly smaller, and all missions would be open in the first week, and there was no phased unlock time limit.
The two executives outlined the relevant information of the first season. For example, the overall content scale of the first season may be slightly smaller (because the first season was developed at the same time as D4), and the content scale of subsequent seasons may be larger.
At the same time, it is not difficult to complete the pass in the first season. Blizzard emphasized that even if you only play for a few hours a week, as long as you can play the challenge mission, you should still be able to complete the 100-level battle pass within 12 weeks, and the character level will not So close to level 100.
It is worth mentioning that the advanced battle pass needs to be paid for $10 to unlock, and there will also be platinum coin rewards inside.But the total amount of Platinum coins isn’t enough to buy the next battle pass. In the interview, Blizzard suggested that players can save up to buy a set of appearance equipment.
Furthermore, the new season will bring 32 professional-specific “heart skills”. Like the newly launched ancient legendary equipment or dark gold equipment, there will be a mixture of professional-specific or general-purpose types at the same time. The heart slots of the equipment are separate from the gem slots, and there are 3 pieces of jewelry equipment with heart slots for players to freely match.
In addition, there will be no new gem level in the first season, and the royal gem will be maintained as the highest level.
When it comes to balance updates, the first season will be different from the previous mid-season updates where 99% of them are BUFF. There will definitely be some NERF weakening at the beginning of the season. Director Joe Shely said: “We have to weaken some things, and we can’t always be in BUFF All the things.”
As for the “new unique dark gold equipment” that was not mentioned at the beginning but is now confirmed, the foreign media asked about its drop rate, and the director only said that “it is easy to increase the chance of obtaining this item, but I want to make it popular. is hard” to imply its rare drop rate.
Finally, Shely added that the drop rate or acquisition method of unique dark gold equipment in the future should not be as rare as “one in a million” now.
Finally, when asked why many dark gold items are weaker than some legendary items, Blizzard explained,Dark gold equipment does not necessarily have to be the “ultimate” equipment higher than legendary equipment, but it should be used with certain Builds at the same time to show its uniquenessrather than a single product must be stronger than any other equipment.
This thinking is Blizzard’s emphasis on making a difference from the past system where “you have to get every unique equipment to have every Build genre”.
The first season of “Diablo IV” (Diablo IV) “Evil Season” is scheduled to come on July 21. If there is no accident, the currently popular Build may also receive a wave of weakening.
