I managed to unlock Torment VII, but that’s currently a bit of a showstopper. Barely timed Level 50 of the Pit and Level 45 of the Tower. Surviving is less of a problem than doing enough damage. Very close to Paragon 150, which doesn’t seem that high either.
The next Season goal needs a Torment VIII kill of a boss, but I need to get there first, and right now it’s not looking like it.
Still need to upgrade my 3 Glyphs from 31 to 50, so that’s about 12 Pit runs, other than that I’m relatively happy with my Season progress, but I think the next step will be the last, if I manage to do that one. 36h /played.
I am halfway through Rank 4 of the Season and have unlocked Torment II, at Paragon 89. Haven’t played there, still wrapping up stuff in Torment I, but I have a full set of mediocre Legendaries and one Mythic. I’m at 17h played now and it’s getting more fun. But I’m not exactly sure how the people just killed the World Boss on Torment I in 3 seconds.
At first I didn’t pay a lot of attention to the cosmetics and this Reliquary Tab but apparently I have already earned enough currency to buy everything in the “Overwatch Reliquary” and the “Battle Pass Reliquary”, with the latter even giving me enough Platinum to unlock the “Premium Battle Pass Reliquary”. Interesting.
So we weren’t 100% sure how it worked, but apparently you can at least take part in the early ranks of the Season even if you don’t own any of the expansions.
I just hit Level 70 on my Necro, just about after finishing Rank 2 of Season 14. 7h in total, everything solo. Was fun enough and the first proper goal was reached.
I had to switch to the Penitent difficulty to progress to Rank 3 and do one Dungeon that was mostly easy with some medium hard parts in between, no deaths, and then continued to just do events for my last 4-5 levels.
And yes, I know full well the real game only starts with the Paragon levels, but for some spontaneous “I am kinda in the mood for Diablo” I’m happy enough I managed to reach this and not lose interest halfway through those 7 hours.
For some reason I got the idea to install Diablo IV again, then I found out that a new season had just begun.
So now I have a Necromancer (never tried that one before) and we’ll see if it was a 20min visit or if I will play a bit.
That’s also when I learned it goes to Level 70 and 300 Paragon now – I have chars with 50+50, so I seem to have already skipped the 60+200 part of the first expansion.
First event in Diablo IV, at least for me, iirc. It has 10 tiers of rewards and you complete them by doing shrines in the open world that are marked purple. Didn’t take too long, was easy to spread out over several days, was fun. Nothing much to add, not a grind like WoW’s events and also not a nobrainer 30min affair like FFXIV’s.
I’m 53 on my Sorceress and now that the event is done, I unrelatedly finally got all Altars of Lilith and 100% map completion, and so we’ll go World Tier 3 next, I think.
In other news, still having fun with the game (when taken in moderation), but I’m skipping this season.
Came back to Diablo IV the last few days, started the event today, and finally reached 50 for the first time. Not in the season, but continued my S2 Sorc. It’s fun but also kinda weird, so much unlike D3.
Unfortunately lack of time and a few other things didn’t really allow me to continue playing Diablo IV in Season 1, but I did manage to unlock quite a good chunk of the Altars of Lilith on m Eternal char, in preparation of Season 2. Well, let’s just say I’ve not yet managed to create a new char, about a week after it has launched. Then we had some hardware troubles in the house and have to see if we can even play together in the next few weeks.
But at least I did manage to play a good amount of EVE in the second half of October, so not all hope is lost.
Yeah, after exiting the game in a meh mood last night (just created my Seasonal Rogue, never logged in) today was a fresh day and the difference was night and day. I skipped the campaign I’d just done (not because I didn’t like it, but because it felt moot to redo it just after finishing it) and just did some dungeons, events, quests, and worked on the Seasonal stuff. Managed to do Chapter I quite quickly, then continued to Chapter II, which I finished a bit earlier in the evening.
So I’m Level 26 now and it’s really fun – I just didn’t like the Barbarian that felt so weak. Glad I stuck with it but I kinda hate the fact that they gated the Season behind this artificial wall and I had to suffer through this (or restart). Bonus: At Level 10 she already looked cooler, or maybe I just prefer the Leather/Rogue style.
Yeah, the post title might be up for debate but if you look at Diablo IV as a game where you play through the story, then it’s correct.
I originally wasn’t really interested but then I got talked into getting it and we leveled a duo of Barbarians and it took like 3 months until schedules had lined up enough to finish this and last night the credits rolled. From what I’ve seen and heard the Barbarian as a leveling class felt very slow and very squishy compared to two different Rogue builds, and at times it was a real slog. But now it’s done and I mostly enjoyed it. Compared to the older Diablo titles you can call it a story – it wasn’t stellar but it wasn’t worse than that of most other games.
I find it a bit silly that you can’t create a Seasonal char without finishing the story, as it’s quite long (Level 45).
So now I have a Seasonal Rogue but I instantly logged out after creating her after that multi-hour session we had to first grind the last 2 levels and then do the last (very long) story part.
Did I like the game? Mostly. Barbarian didn’t feel great and I didn’t want to start a 2nd non-seasonal char and it was also not bad enough to restart.
Will I continue playing? Yeah, can’t wait to try a second class now.
Was it worth the money at launch? Eh, if you play with someone, probably yes. Overall? No, would’ve waited for a sale.
Am I being unfair by not really being in a mood for Diablo? I dunno.
So let’s see, maybe some more posts in the future.
