** Diablo 4 Thread **

Cool, how do I chat on the PS5, anyone know? Always see the messages popping up but can't work out how to send them on console :confused:
On my xbox I press the up arrow then I think its down on the radial to open chat. It's really slow to communicate so generally i play on my pc when I don't want to Solo.
 
Just hit 100, last 13 levels or so were very quick due to the recent exp buffs from NM dungeons. Managed to get all 6 glyphs to lvl 21 by the time I was lvl 99, probably no longer possible as you gain exp so fast now.
I have played WW Barbarian from lvl 5 I think (as soon as I unlocked WW), the first 50 levels or so were kinda slow and constant mana issues but I didn't have issues with killing monsters or killing bosses. I think my build really came together at about lvl 70 when I got all them cooldown reduction, fury cost reduction, resource generation etc items. I wish this type of items were not needed but they are kinda mandatory it seems, at least for WW barb.

It took me a while to get to lvl 100, I played alone doing dungeons, helltides and then NM dungeons when I was able to do so solo. I was doing NM dungeons 3 levels above me (char level - 51) and I almost never died, I will try to push now as high as I can even though I know WW barb is not the strongest in that regard.

Play Time : 5 days 23 hours 10 minutes
Last Time Played : 30/06/2023, 18:04:08
Monsters Killed : 221352
Elites Killed : 9136
Gold Collected : 74994558
Power : 792
World Tier : 4

I am not sure about all the level scaling, from like lvl 70 to 100 my experience of playing has been exactly the same, I didn't feel like i was clearing faster or slower no matter what type of content I was doing, just doesn't make any sense. Never did I feel strong. I am not sure if I am going to push for another lvl 100. I have already got my moneys worth and I am still not done with the game. Still going to play S1 and then we will see beyond that. Just going to try other classes I guess with new seasons.

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Handling +20 NMs quite well now, albeit the cherry-picked ones. Still loads of room for improvement though. Some gear/affixes need optimising alongside getting all the paragon points from the side quests. Wanna swap ult for leap and experiment with that too if I can get the right affixes for the latter.



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Question - any reason/is it worth finishing up all side quests? Pretty sure I can max out the area renown without doing them all (I.e dungeons etc) - pretty much ignored most side quests from start of Act 3 so quite a few to get through if there’s a reason I should…

Lvl 70 atm so XP gain from them seems pointless.
 
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Question - any reason/is it worth finishing up all side quests? Pretty sure I can max out the area renown without doing them all (I.e dungeons etc) - pretty much ignored most side quests from start of Act 3 so quite a few to get through if there’s a reason I should…

Lvl 70 atm so XP gain from them seems pointless.
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Question - any reason/is it worth finishing up all side quests? Pretty sure I can max out the area renown without doing them all (I.e dungeons etc) - pretty much ignored most side quests from start of Act 3 so quite a few to get through if there’s a reason I should…

Lvl 70 atm so XP gain from them seems pointless.
I went around and started with quests, once I had done all the 1s on the map (there are hidden ones so you will not get all of them) I started doing dungeons.

Sometimes you can max the renowned without having to do all the quests.
 
I am at lvl 59 now and its so slow and a total grind. Think I prefer D3 over this, it was much faster and easy to find a group, so levelling was less of a grind. I have ~65 hours and only been in one group so far, the game might as well be a single player game. I might drop back to WT 1 or 2 as its just to much of a gring on 3, it not hard just slow.
 
I am at lvl 59 now and its so slow and a total grind. Think I prefer D3 over this, it was much faster and easy to find a group, so levelling was less of a grind. I have ~65 hours and only been in one group so far, the game might as well be a single player game. I might drop back to WT 1 or 2 as its just to much of a gring on 3, it not hard just slow.
That's 1 thing I miss, no public grouping for anything so for me it's solo as I don't have any other friends that play this.

I know it's done automatically for world bosses but for dungeons or farming xp and helltides it's all on your own unless you get a random invite
 
Sorry if someone has already mentioned this, but does anyone use helltides.com event tracker? Really handy. It tracks the time for the next Helltide, World Boss and Legion.

The Helltide one will show the locations of Tortured Gifts of Mysteries (175 cost) which have been dropping 3-4 legendaries each for me. Seems to be much better than the other chests.
 
I am at lvl 59 now and its so slow and a total grind. Think I prefer D3 over this, it was much faster and easy to find a group, so levelling was less of a grind. I have ~65 hours and only been in one group so far, the game might as well be a single player game. I might drop back to WT 1 or 2 as its just to much of a gring on 3, it not hard just slow.
It'll be even more of a grind on WT1 ... after lvl 50 you really need to think about moving up to WT3 as the XP gain otherwise is painfully slow. Have you done the capstone dungeon yet ?
 
Sorry if someone has already mentioned this, but does anyone use helltides.com event tracker? Really handy. It tracks the time for the next Helltide, World Boss and Legion.

The Helltide one will show the locations of Tortured Gifts of Mysteries (175 cost) which have been dropping 3-4 legendaries each for me. Seems to be much better than the other chests.
Yes, the mystery chests are the best. But once you've run enough helltides you can predict where the mystery chests spawn. That website is a great resource, though.
 
I am not sure about all the level scaling, from like lvl 70 to 100 my experience of playing has been exactly the same, I didn't feel like i was clearing faster or slower no matter what type of content I was doing, just doesn't make any sense. Never did I feel strong. I am not sure if I am going to push for another lvl 100. I have already got my moneys worth and I am still not done with the game. Still going to play S1 and then we will see beyond that. Just going to try other classes I guess with new seasons.
Agreed. I'm only 1.5 levels now from hitting 100. From lvl 70 onward has been a real grind even with the recent nightmare dungeon XP boost. The problem is twofold : level scaling and bad loot itemisation. The former destroys any sense of character progression and the latter takes away the incentive of playing to find a build defining unique item .... they just don't exist ( outwith the literal 1 in 10 million chance of striking lucky with one of the super uniques ). Blizzard has a lot of work to do. At the moment I think D3 is genuinely the better game, graphics aside.
 
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I don't get the issue with level scaling. It's only effective in open world and normal dungeons, which is (now) irrelevant since there's no need to be killing mobs in open world, barring helltides. If you want a metric on how well your build is doing against a specific level of mobs, run that specific level of nm dungeon. The only reason to fight static level mobs in D3 was for bounties and grift key farming. Both chores, I'll take the random drop / crafting method of sigils for nm dungeons over grift key farming. However, they have work to do to homogenise the xp/effort in nm dungeons, they are not equal and there are far too many low xp turkeys.
 
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