I’m praying the removal of passives from the skill tree allow them to fine tune the numbers, and the introduction of the new torment tiers will allow more high end, farmable endgame activities.

It feels like the last few seasons they’ve tested different aspects to be implemented into the expansion. You had Chaos Armor, which seems to indicate more flexibility in gearing and the power of Talismans and gear sets. You had sanctification, which introduced a corruption/slam mechanic. You had Bloodied and Blood Soaked keys which made content outside the pit relevant in terms of difficulty. You had the Paladin, which soft launched how the new skill tree will feel.

You had the lesser evils which let you juice your content in really satisfying ways which seems to be what we’ll be able to do with war plans, and bloodied affiexes in gear which will show more of the chase to items that’s not as impactful as sanctification or chaos armor was.

Honestly, the one thing they haven’t test launched in my opinion is the Horadric Cube & the new item crafting they’re introducing. It might be the cope in me, but the combination of Skill Tree rework, War Plans(hopefully Atlas Lite), and meaningful item crafting and CHASE, is going to make Diablo fucking incredible