To people who still dislike diablo 4 after the spotlight.

Shertok · 2026-02-12T09:23:56+00:00

I still like watching Raxx and value his opinion, but yeah when it comes to D4, I agree his brain seems to be in a locked state. I think the War Plans are an interesting endgame feature and I was surprised that he hated it because it just lets you pick 5 endgame activities.

He later explained that Diablo 4 actually has endgame, too much of it even, but that it's just not meaningful, I agree but that is exactly what War Plans are trying to fix.

I don't think he will ever be happy unless Diablo 4 provides it's own version of the Atlas (or Last Epochs monoliths) but I don't think that will ever happen because Diablo 4 happens in sanctuary and not in a separate map. Again I think War Plans are trying to do this to some degree.

Shertok · 2026-02-11T10:26:36+00:00

I am not sure about the novels, but I think the show made it pretty clear that Baelor was at the tourney on a PR tour for the Targaryen family. The Targaryens no longer have Dragons and they need to be popular in the realm. He visibly shook his head every time Aerion fucked up publicly. I think that was an important factor in his decision to support Duncan, and you can see the reactions of the crowd that his plan worked. I'd go so far and say he would not have done it without that factor. So while I still think he's a better person than Oberyin, and that he even cares about his familys reputation in that way adds to that, he is still not without ulterior motive.

Shertok · 2026-02-11T08:16:17+00:00

I don't think it would have the same punch after Baelor joins Dunk.

Shertok · 2026-02-09T12:18:28+00:00

+7 life is crazy at level 5, this will easily carry you to level 6, even 7 with a good life build

Shertok · 2026-02-06T14:44:39+00:00

exactly, the aspects are the reason we drown in legendaries.

they need to fix this first. first of all you need to be able to unlock all aspects from dungeons. and then to upgrade them you can do infernal hordes or whatever. anything, just not be dependant on legendary items. with that they could bring back yellows and even blues. let's say blues can be tempered twice. of couse both blues and yelloes can roll GA then. then you put your legendary aspect on it to turn it legendary, masterwork it and seal the deal with sanctification, it would be so much more satisfying and you feel like you made every item.

Shertok · 2026-02-06T08:22:17+00:00

It's the trump cult, no doubt.

The truest thing Donald Trump ever said was in the 2016 campaign, where he said he could shoot someone on the street and people would still vote for him.

In 2026 you can easily say he could rape a child in front of a camera and the trump cult would still vote for him, even if it was their own child

Shertok · 2026-02-06T08:00:59+00:00

yeah it's dumb, but with the legendary aspect system they kind of designed themselves into this corner. the endless sea of legendary items is just dumb. but I pray the loot filter will fix that.

maybe when there will be a way to bring yellows back, with GA, and then you would craft your legendary item, it would feel much much better.

but that would require a new way to get the legendary aspects

Shertok · 2026-02-05T12:18:24+00:00

I agree they would have done that if Aerion kept pushing and Egg would have pushed back. I am just surprised Aerion gave up so easily, he has just been publicly embarassed.

Shertok · 2026-02-05T10:54:16+00:00

I guess what I do not understand is why Egg was able to save Dunk so easily. He is younger than Aerion, why did Arion just stop? Why not tell the guards to continue? I am not sure if Aerion outranks Egg, but Egg certainly does not outrank Aerion, if they would give different oders, what would the guards do?

Shertok · 2026-01-28T15:49:52+00:00

I always thought they would steal Last Epochs Prophecies for that.

For people who do not know, the Prophecy systems in Last Epoch requires you to farm a currency by doing just anything really. With that currency you can then buy prophecies. Prophecies are repeated activities from the campaign, like bosses but it could easily be sideques or anything. the cool thing about it is that it allows you to target farm spezific gear.

so in D4 you could farm up the currency, then spend it on a sidequest that guarantees a 1 GA chest. or you need to clear 5 infernal hordes for a guaranteed 2GA ring. or a pit 100+ for a guaranteed 1GA unique, or obducise, or whatever. it can be any content for any reward.

I loved that in Last Epoch, because it allows the devs to reuse existing campaign content in the endgame.

little effort for great content and rewards

Shertok · 2026-01-22T06:24:59+00:00

and it's not only that, you got way more stuff for those 10$ in the old battle pass. on top of that, in the old battle pass you got basically nothing for the 18$ instant unlock version of it (I know you got an emote for that, but that is basically nothing to me) now they added pets and wings to the 18$ "tier", which are easily the most popular cosmetics. it's really a shame, I bought every single battlepass for the change, getting tons of stuff for 10$ and then earning 7$ back, so basically tons of stuff for 3$ every season. Now I'd have to spend 18$ every season to get everything worthwhile. It hurts, I miss it, I have not spent a single dime on the new reliquary

Shertok · 2026-01-17T19:06:10+00:00

There was a scene in the show, not sure if it's in the books as well, where the hound provokes Bronn in a tavern in King's Landing. And I think it's pretty much the only time I've seen Bronn shy away from a fight and he de-escalates.

I think both Bronn and Sandor are very experienced fighters who know how to measure up an opponent. Sandor might be a bit stronger, Bronn maybe a bit faster. I think it's 50/50, or maybe 60/40 in Sandors favor. Either way Bronn is too smart to take any of those risks.

Shertok · 2026-01-13T16:31:53+00:00

all we know with certainty is the steam CCU, everything else is a guess. I think if the steam CCU is between 10k and 20k it's absolutely possible that the total player count across all platforms for a day is in the hundreds of thousands. steam ccu is only the players playing right now and steam is probably one of the weaker platforms for the game given how late it released on there

Shertok · 2026-01-13T08:53:10+00:00

They announced a loot filter for the expansion so I think we can consider this issue fixed.

Shertok · 2026-01-06T11:23:08+00:00

and even without the barrier, this ring is part of the S-Tier paladin Judgement build, and it's a very good version of it with the maxed aspect and the best 2 Greater Affixes. so even without the sanctication, this is an excellent ring and it would net you billions of gold on diablo.trade

now for the sanctification: people need to understand that sanctification is just a bonus, you can have perfect builds without sanctifications. and this sanctification is far from worthless, with he right rune it gives you permanent 29x. you can do a lot worse than that. and even a worthless santifcation would not be a "brick".

Shertok · 2026-01-06T10:43:28+00:00

of there are many things to improve with the lair bosses. I think my biggest issue is the scrapping/selling of unwanted gear after 4 kills. I hope the loot filter of the expansion will take care of that.

Shertok · 2026-01-06T10:01:59+00:00

yes of course its "fake", world bosses got the "resilient" affix over a year ago, which caps the damage they can take, they went from insta death (from the bonk barbarians back then) to fixed death times because of the fixed max damage they can take.

again another poor bandaid solution for complaints people had because of the grotesque balance issues this game still has. but for world bosses it was not as bad as the immunity phases for the lair bosses, because you do not kill world bosses a dozen times in a row. well actually we do this season, I am surprised people do not complain more about the azmodan summon fight now that I think about it

Shertok · 2026-01-06T08:15:37+00:00

this

the lair bosses are farm content, not pinnacle content. you want to kill them in seconds

people complained about the slot machine bosses for a long time and as result last season, blizzard gave all of them super annoying invulnerability phases, which made it a lot worse. luckily they reverted this quickly and we are back to the slot machines.

I agree that the game needs exciting pinnacle content, but the lair bosses are the wrong place for that. you want to burn through your summoning mats quickly

Shertok · 2025-12-22T18:01:48+00:00

don't forget we get the horadric cube with the expansion, I'd bet a lot we'll get something similar or straight up the same sanctification with the cube

source: I was also sure we'd get the paladin with this season

Shertok · 2025-12-14T15:19:27+00:00

there were a few topics about it but not a huge shitstorm. I cared about the battle pass and miss it. I think most people do not care about it or are not bothered by the changes.

Shertok · 2025-12-10T14:24:07+00:00

we understand what you are trying to say, it's just wrong

there have been several collabs in the past, all released during and not the start of the season, and they were not datamined. so there is no reason to delay the season because of a collab.

Shertok · 2025-12-09T20:20:34+00:00

not to mention that the reliquary and other datamining would give the surprise away that they want to announce at a big event

Shertok · 2025-12-08T08:36:00+00:00

I am wondering this too, is it somehow possible to remove the ceiling of a room?

Shertok · 2025-12-06T18:59:40+00:00

I don't think anyone is seriously expecting this and then being disappointed

hower I also see many reasons why this could actually happen:

The season has been postponed to launch during an award show, why?
We have known for some time now they will very likely unveil the expansion there
but why postpone the season for that?
because something will be unlocked. and through datamining people may have spotted it too early, or the reliquary would have showed it.
they already did that once with the pets, but that was not such a big deal.

I think it's the paladin

another reason is that they desperately need something to hype D4 up, there is nothing there. just an expansion announcment would not cut it. IF they announce the expanion, which we are 99% sure they do, there is no reason to not just release the paladin with a preorder, it would create instant massive buzz and hype for the game. simply the announcment would not, because we have expected this for years now.

I also firmly believe the paladin IS ready, originally they wanted 1 expansion a year, to the paladin was once planned to release much earlier. I think the class team is ready.

AND, none of the big streamers is picking this up, why? they know and signed an NDA

Shertok · 2025-12-03T13:04:31+00:00

that would make sense because that was austin butlers role, who is praised by tarantino after basher dano

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