Recently at the Bonfire Symposium, Blizzard developers reflected on the latest season of Diablo 4, and they admitted that Diablo 4 has become too simple.Compared with the previous seasons, players' level improvement is too easy, resulting in a significant reduction in the motivation to brush equipment.Therefore, Blizzard announced that the 8th season will significantly increase the difficulty, making the game more challenging while retaining a refreshing experience.The developer introduced how to adjust the growth curve from Level 1 to Level 60, and how to increase the challenge of end-game content.
"Diablo 4" expansion pack "Body of Hate" has made a major adjustment to the game's pace, but design director Colin Finer said that players' speed of promoting content is still far beyond expectations.The time for players to reach full level in the latest season is half shorter than last season, making the early experience unchallenging.In response, Blizzard decided to extend the upgrade time from level 1 to level 25 in Season 8.
The drop rate of legendary equipment will also be adjusted.Before level 60, legendary equipment will become more rare, while the attributes of low-level equipment will be improved to fill the equipment vacuum period.Fener said that such changes will give players more motivation to experience the growth of each stage, rather than relying solely on legendary equipment to quickly become stronger.
As for the final content, that is, the stage when players continue to challenge higher "pain" difficulty after the maximum level to obtain stronger equipment, Blizzard is also increasing the challenge.The gradient between each "pain" difficulty next season will be significantly increased.The final boss battle will also be even more serious.The development team wanted to avoid players from repeatedly killing bosses like they would like to swipe "Ticket Vending Machine", so all bosses were redone to ensure they could present real challenges to players who built a strong genre.
There will be three new bosses in the 8th season, which is more challenging.Summoning props no longer occupy backpack space, and all bosses can now challenge directly.After defeat, they will drop a treasure chest that needs the key to be opened, and the new boss Beliar may even suddenly appear in the battle and join the battle.Blizzard will open the PC version of the 8th season test server from March 11 to 18, and the official season will be launched on April 29.
