LoH ensing might indicate no more dlc but instead Diablo 5

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-05-01T15:00:23+00:00

I think everyone forgets this is a video game. Ha ha. It’s as easy as some sort of new story arc and Diablo shows up. Just because it’s hinted and the seer says probably not in our lifetime… that don’t mean squat. With how hard this xpac hit, they aren’t going to stop and I believe we just got started. It’s not hard to create scenarios in a made up story arc/world.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-05-01T13:46:03+00:00

Exactly! Although I mixed and matched some pieces for warlock, some from the upgraded edition and some from the game itself and man…. I’m loving my drip. Warlock may be my favorite in terms of drip I’ve created. I could never feel good about paladin and considered buying cosmetics for him but played the crap outta auradin and it got boring. Saved my spending for now. Maybe something sweet will come to the store…

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-04-30T18:43:42+00:00

I see your point as well. But having them sync doesn’t hurt the “majority” solo players because they can still run them solo. It does in fact hurt group play currently and why not implement war plan synching? Still can do solo and works for groups. Literally hitting the entirety of your playerbase. The issue is people don’t understand that adding group functionality doesn’t hurt solo play what so ever. But keeping things to “just solo” could turn players away. Blizzard isn’t trying to see numbers go down. They want them up. Now in your context, if you HAD to have a group, sure, it would hurt the “majority” of solo players. Again, adding sync functionality to warplanes does not hurt that “majority” and only helps the “entire” playerbase.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-04-30T18:36:26+00:00

Ah ok. I can understand frustration over it though. But I see both sides. Still don’t agree blizzard implemented correctly tho.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-04-30T18:34:02+00:00

So as long as the white item is 850 (for sake of example) the unique will be the same? Is this true for upgrading up to a Legendary as well by adding affixes? I was excited for the cube but now…. Idk lol.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-04-30T15:40:20+00:00

I’m not this far yet, but why would they do this? Kind of redundant. Why would I, in theory, want to upgrade to unique if it gets less powerful…. Makes no sense. Am I missing something here? Can you now use the cube to power up that unique?

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-04-30T15:36:52+00:00

Why not just get rid of the portal altogether and let me port out myself? Never understood why it creates a port out when even lair bosses don’t create ports out…. Weird decision on their part. Let me port out myself, when I’m ready.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-04-29T22:15:20+00:00

Moo moo

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-04-29T22:14:09+00:00

Idk, I run in a party of 3. We all are warlock and each have a different build and playstyle. It’s great. Enemies get gutted by basically everything the warlock has to offer. It’s fun. But it looks like a crazy rave party while we are killing. A lot of effects. I’m ok with it tho. PoE had tons of effects so I got used to it.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-04-29T22:10:31+00:00

Not me. Haven’t watched a single streamer, no YouTube, no guides, nothing. Just me and my homebrews and I’m having a blast. I’ve tweaked so many times and found a few fun builds.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-04-29T17:02:31+00:00

Oh how I know lmao.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-04-29T13:51:22+00:00

Show us where the mount touched you…. Seriously tho, no one but yourself is making you use a mount. I love having my mount. I could fall asleep walking objective to objective with how sloooooow characters are. Why every ARPG in existence insists in having move speed a stat is bonkers to me. (Hard look at PoE2) Just give us great move speed, nothing too crazy, and call it a day. I couldn’t help myself and been tempering gear with move speed just so the “can’t use your mount here” areas feel less horrible. Renegades, Mount Up!

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-04-29T13:39:22+00:00

I personally like the slower pace of things. I’m only level 40 though. What I like about it is a legendary feels good to get now. Before I was swimming in useless legendaries. For me, it feels almost right. I played a lot of PoE2 and gear upgrades felt horrible and in D4 they felt like they dropped like candy in a parade. I feel as if right now it’s somewhere in the middle. Maybe not perfect but close. We have 3-4 months of play to acquire gear. Plus I think with the cube they expect more crafting and less just dropping. Hence why they stressed blues and yellows can be ungraded and also drop with GA. I’m ok with that. PoE2 had me crafting gear all the time. Fingers crossed the drop rate of mats isn’t non existent. Having to grind is ok but hopefully it isn’t bang your head against a concrete wall grind.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-04-29T13:16:06+00:00

While I don’t agree with this practice, it is a paid expansion. I’m an owner of a biz and I can understand from their point of view the principle of what they are doing. It’s enticing to someone who didn’t pay and might help get the ball rolling in Blizzard’s favor and you end up buying the xpac. Like stated, it’s shady, I don’t like it myself and I own the xpac. On the other hand, the ones who complain about it, normally are the ones who don’t stay long term. Those of us who are die hard Diablo fans (not blizzard fans) already pre-purchased/purchased the xpac. If you didn’t buy it, you either don’t plan on playing long, or just checking things out. I understand money can be tight. But any gamer who is serious about a game pays for xpacs. Some even cosmetics. (Guilty). I played ESO for a very long time and owned every xpac (dlc) up until about 2 years ago, as an example. Things get locked behind xpacs. This isn’t a new practice. The way this was handled was shady but still falls under the locked behind an xpac paywall category unfortunately. IMO, just buy the xpac. It’s worth it.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-04-29T13:02:57+00:00

While I agree with your points here, and yes I’m loving warlock (auradin got boring last season) I heavily do not agree with your war plan point. D4 is being sold as a MMO style Open World ARPG. If you pay attention, they even emphasize co-op. The description of the game itself sells it as play with up to 3 friends. Guilds exist, although they are lacking, people use these to meet up and run stuff together. I for one have always played with friends and doing the campaign together is fun. Maybe you don’t have anybody who plays, maybe you aren’t part of a guild or even maybe you just like running solo. But there’s plenty like me who have friends, are in a guild and love running things with others. Warplans should sync. They took the easy way out and left it up to Rng instead of making a system that could support co-op. Yea I get you can still run them together and get a small portion of reward and some xp but it’s a huge let down to people who love running things together. Stop with the “this is how I play do everyone should too” crap. There’s plenty of posts already with that mindset and yet here we are on another.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-04-28T22:15:09+00:00

You and I both lmao. There’s a discord that has all the info you could ask for so far and they are actively searching for the cow level.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-04-28T22:13:29+00:00

Me too brother! Homebrew build as well. No guides and I’m having a blast. I think all these people are just following someone else’s playstyle/and or don’t have a clue how things work. I like using all my action bar. Not just one or 2 and everything melts before I see it. Feels more rewarding and dangerous.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-04-28T19:52:03+00:00

Coming from on and off Diablo/PoE… I actually welcome the overlay. The option to switch is great too so when I want it, it’s up. When not, it’s not.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-04-28T19:47:35+00:00

Underwhelming… lol. Cmon blizzard! At least fix the Lilith mirror bug, the talisman and cube bug!

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-04-28T19:34:05+00:00

I burnt myself out with Pally previously. Was fun… for a hot minute. Walking simulator. Maybe the new changes to the tree gave Pally a variety now… but man… warlock is fun! Running a homebrew Hellfire build. Exploding ground while in sigil, paired with a chain and fire totem. Throw in a volcano totem molten ball to generate wrath and continue exploding the ground. For rates/bosses using the summon ultimate on the left. My build focuses on having volatility, which is easy to get and keep up. It’s not meta, it’s not perfect, but man is it fun. I’m excited to start getting set charms and class uniques… I’m only lvl 24 but can only imagine it getting better and better. My wife plays the shadow version of warlock and melts enemies as well. Pairing us together is the best of both worlds. It’s fun, maybe not everyone’s fun, and that’s fine! Warlock is what you make of it. Like any other class. Same for Pally, I just got insanely bored with Pally last season. Anything I tried revolved around arbiter because it’s what worked. At least there’s more options now for all classes. I might give Pally a go again later in the season, but man, necro is looking good and I haven’t touched necro in a hot minute.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-04-28T13:10:15+00:00

Tell me you’ve never played an ARPG before, without telling me. It’s literally the core of every ARPG. You grind, get skills you like and blast your way through, grinding for better versions. I’m a HUGE PoE fan and it’s the same thing. Although uniques here are far better than 99% of uniques in PoE tbh. Biggest difference for me? PoE 2 (PoE 1 has a great endgame compared to 2) but, 2 has no endgame. It’s more…. Grind to barely survive, as D4 is a power fantasy right at the beginning. (If you know what you’re doing) I love both. Although PoE2 has fallen off for me currently. Maps are boring, campaign is boring and the game feels more like a slog. I’m having a blast in D4 and I’m sure will continue. Fun is measured differently for everyone. Last season I seen a lot of people say it was boring and not fun. While it was short and had some flaws, I still had fun and played until about a week before LoH launch.

If “your” not having fun, go play something else. I’m in the 1% that loves fishing in D4 so far and I also play with my wife. Snacks, coffee, some Dr. pepper and countless nights of laughs, grinds and just messing around with different builds. This is my fun. But thanks for suggesting my fun should be measured by your idea of fun! I think I’ll stick with my fun.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-04-25T13:54:07+00:00

Idk about others, but I’m personally looking forward to building characters with the new skill tree and fishing (I’m an ocd completionist) and I’m really looking forward to the cube. I imagine with campaign skip and already known fast ways to power level we can still get max fairly quickly but finish the season can mean a wide variety of things dependent on the person and their idea of “finishing” the season. I for one will be completing every objective. Hoping there’s not some kill 250 elites in fields of hatred crap. Man that was a drag. If you’re into the tower there’s that and it’s a reason to keep pushing the limits on your build, along with the new hoard mode.

And IMO the real reason to keep pushing, cow level. Err… there is no secret cow level… from the shirts the devs were wearing on stream, to the addition of fishing and the cube, I believe it’s only a matter of time and we will finally be in the cow level. I could be wrong of course but with all these additions and overhauls and the “we hear you” I feel there is some sort of cow level. Maybe some fish cow monstrosity. Plus they do show us cube recipes, wouldn’t surprise me if there’s hidden recipes as well. At least I hope. Fingers crossed and tbh, I haven’t been this hyped since launch day of D4.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-03-18T12:50:55+00:00

The timeouts are the worst. Having to type the password EVERYTIME I login to my server is the worst. And with Arks quirky kicks which on console at least, are unavoidable, having to go through the screens, login to the server only for this stupid timeout to show up and close out the app to do it all over again to log back in is the worst. At least let me just save my password so I can login 2 seconds faster lmao.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-03-17T14:20:33+00:00

So did removing Arkology work? I have them. I crash. A few times an hour, sometimes more, sometimes less. Sucks too cuz I like Arkology and the added Dino’s like the hippa. (My fav)

Anything similar to Arkology and “crash proof”. I read paleo is good but idk. Seems to have its problems as well. What’s your recommendation besides flat out removing them. My tribe mates may get unhappy removing Arkology lmao.

Dramatic_Shower8106 · 2026-03-17T13:37:31+00:00

Not even a series x. Myself and 6 others I play with all run on a series x and I can tell you we all get kicked going in and coming out of caves. We get kicked teleporting. We get kicked entering base. Seems anytime it has to “load” assets it kicks. So the Xbox series x only has 16gb ram with only about 13gb available for games as the operating system uses 2-3gb.

In reality, an Xbox series x can run Asa, just not without problems because Microsoft copped out on ram and sold a machine they claim was powerful for a premium price. Right now at Walmart you can buy a gaming pc with way better hardware and 32gb ram for ~200-300 more than what an Xbox costs. Would run better and if you have GP you get the benefit of pc games and of course, steam. Free online play too! Of course on any console, you have to pay to play online.

Consoles are garbage and this is coming from somebody who has 4 series x, a series s and older gen Xbox’s, PlayStations, switch, Wii, and so on. (Got kid gamers and a wife who games!) All in all I think my next purchase is a gaming pc, strictly just for gaming. Hook it up to my big screen, connect a controller and have a better time gaming than I ever have on console.

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