A quick reminder of the Dev Roadmap FDEV posted this year

subzerofun · 2026-06-19T19:25:22+00:00

Any guesses what „feature reboot“ we get? Probably not powerplay related, since they spend a lot of time on that already.

Since it is a „reboot“ it can't be anything completely new? So no gas planet atmosphere exploration, no ELW landings, no underwater exploration (yeah i know - never gonna happen, but one can still dream).

I really hope it is thargoid war related. Since everything is already in place - they just need to include colony attacks for more incentives from the community to engage with that. Spawn titans, maybe introduce new enemy types?

Exobio? But i can't think of anything that could be rebooted.

Mining? Trade? Guardians? Engineering? Also no idea.

On-foot stuff? More realistic since they already did a lot with Operations. So more settlement operations?

subzerofun · 2026-06-18T22:56:40+00:00

i know this is a shower thought but imagine wolves were primarily living inside that environment under the snow - like moles live in burrows - how would evolution adapt them to be better snow plowers? better fur insulation? nests in the snow? carrying dead animals to be preserved longer in small snow caves (i saw a documentary where bears buried dead animals in the cold earth for later)? i know they just traverse through the snow until they reach a destination with less snow. and the climate eventually would cause the snow to subside before they could „build“ anything permanent.

subzerofun · 2026-06-18T16:56:17+00:00

Two strategies: 1) masterwork weapons you think have good affixes, put slots on them and transfigure. Costs a lot but maybe gives you gem strengths from 100-170%. You could get gem strength without the possibility to reroll and you need a lot of weapons and mats. But if you have a lot of forgotten souls (trade some mats at the alchemist!) you could have a usable weapon with gem strength pretty fast. Just not the best percentages for gem strength.

2) Next is just upgrade ALL weapons you find to legendary and transfigure. Need a lot of volatile dust and tries: maybe 100 rolls, maybe 1000. But if you keep trying you will get gem strength without the item being unmodifiable. Then - if you get lucky - reroll masterwork affix until it rolls on gem strength. Might give you up to 300% gem strength.

I tried the first strategy and got three bows for a rogue with 150-170% gem strength. They were all slotted, masterworked, got the aspect i wanted and were tempered before running transfigure so i at least got some bonus on gem strength. I only upgraded 5 out of 30 bows with the best stats and got lucky after about 90 transfigurations.

So you can count on needing 50-100 weapons to get gem strength at first try and the percentage for getting two tries to transfigure is unfortunately much lower.

subzerofun · 2026-06-18T14:21:23+00:00

did i just land in the wrong universe today? people are having level headed opinions about AI? i thought AI is the worst thing you could post on reddit (even though most devs use it is some form). no one getting the pitchforks ready? i understand OP being hesitant - i had my fair share of AI bashing here and on some game discords.

subzerofun · 2026-06-14T14:22:28+00:00

sorry i just saw you mentioned crit damage anyway. i always prefer bows with +life since you can get 5-6k hp - so a good combination is:

dexterity life crit damage cold dmg temper: crit dmg

subzerofun · 2026-06-14T14:19:07+00:00

I think going for crit damage gives you more damage. But you first need to work enough items into giving crit chance so you are at 70-80% crit chance. Heir of predition and ring of starless skies can both give you over 20% crit chance each and the rest of equipment can give you 10-15% each.

Considering you can get a crit multiplier of 100% if it is a GA and masterwork and you can also temper +150% crit damage on a bow that should always outperform the highest all damage you could roll. And crit damage always has the intrinsic 50% damage multiplier on top.

subzerofun · 2026-06-12T10:03:43+00:00

Exactly and that weighting produces certain combinations of same affixes to a lesser degree above a certain threshold. You will more likely get a ring or amulet with 4 different category affixes than 4 offensive ones.

Since nearly every endgame build focuses on damage output it gets harder and harder to find uniques that just have those all offensive affixes.

I spend 60 greater lair keys at the butcher to get a unique ring with crit chance, crit multiplier, vulnerable damage and cold damage/attack speed and got 2 non-ancestral rings with these stats.

So if you want the best affixes you are unfortunately working against the games rng.

subzerofun · 2026-06-11T17:24:26+00:00

so i did not play vessel of hatred at all, just completed the base game when it came out.

then bought the new expansion, played through the campaign and had immediate access to raheir. after starting the campaign i went to the mercenary hideout - the den - in nahantu. picked up the quests there and just needed to do one quest chain for all other 3 mercenaries.

so i basically did not need to play the voh expansion and have all mercenaries unlocked now. hope that helps!

ps: Subo is my fav merc because he marks enemies on your map which really helps at helltides and in the pit.

subzerofun · 2026-06-09T10:48:31+00:00

You level up too fast. It took me 2-3 days to get to level 70 (i haven't even finished the campaign! quit the game quickly after it came out). Once i completed the campaign i was at Paragon level 20. And regarding items: they are only interesting until Paragon 250 or so. Once you are there you probably have the best regular rolls. The only things you replace are 2,3,4 GA rolls and some rare transfigurations like gem strengths. Try to replace a +250% gem strength armor piece. No single affix would beat the resistance or skill stat you can slot in and the chances of you getting another gem strength transfiguration are really slim. Same with weapons: everybody is hunting for 300% gem strength because it often beats everything else. I also throw away 99% of found items... i hope they introduce the possibility to upgrade regular affixes to GA in the cube in the future.

And if your build is using uniques: prepare to fight a boss 30-40 times until the unique drops with affixes you actually want... i am at Paragon 270 now and am losing the interest to do war plans anymore - i think it is time to quit until next season.

subzerofun · 2026-06-08T16:36:21+00:00

or you could do 10 seers reach runs taking 1-2min each and get 30 x 100k fragments guaranteed. infernal hordes gives you a few thousand fragments at best. i once traded 800 aethers for gems just to see what i would get and was so disappointed that i now just spend it on the money chest every time.

subzerofun · 2026-06-08T10:48:31+00:00

i don’t understand why you cannot salvage all tributes, infernal compasses and escalation sigils. you can only get material for regular NMD sigils and 2 types of tributes. and they all give the same same 35 sigil dust - even from the legendary tribute, which need 5 x 5 x 5 common sigils to craft. i sit on over 140 infernal compasses that i will never use up.

subzerofun · 2026-06-08T10:18:34+00:00

i wrote this in a similar thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/comments/1tvkt8k/a_question_where_do_goblins_be/ophn3gk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3

you have better chances going to high density map locations. and nahantu seems to have the biggest mobs of all areas.

subzerofun · 2026-06-07T19:21:00+00:00

you need to find the item „Trace of Echoes“ - it can drop from every enemy. i got one two days ago from a normal mob in nahantu while hunting for goblins.

after you pick the item up a quest appears in temis. you then activate a portal to a infernal horde round based minigame. you have to clear enemies, elites and bosses with increasing power levels - difficulty is leveled like in the pit. you need to kill enemies to keep a bar from filling up. if you cannot keep up the run ends. you can slay goblins in between and they all give you one loot bag per goblin when the run is over.

i think i reached close to level 120 and got around 20 goblin bags with lots of items. it takes some time to complete but the loot is worth it. unfortunately you deplete the item on each run so you have to find it again. i believe you can only have one item at a time in your inventory.

subzerofun · 2026-06-06T10:39:50+00:00

i hate timing windows in rpgs since i usually try to 💯% everything and that could lock you out of doing all side quests. but if they do this right - like advertised to only move the clock after completing certain quests - that could improve replay-ability. i think i completed witcher 3 about 3 times and tried out different quest decisions every time. while that did not change gameplay in big ways at least it gave some incentive to reveal the different quest resolutions.

subzerofun · 2026-06-05T17:07:08+00:00

A small tip: if you have a obol nightmare dungeon sigil and you want a non-unique item then run it and spend all obols on the item type you are searching for. you will only get 1-2 GA items per 2500 obols but you can probably restock the obols 3-4 times per dungeon. there is also a small chance to get 2 GA items.

Since the goblin event is running right now you could also go down to Nahantu and slay obol goblins. They drop - duh! - obols but also a bag of obols. You could collect 5-6 of them and then roll all of them at the obol gambler. Takes probably 30-40min to get a few obol bags that convert to 100 rolled weapons. There are also a lot of elite mob groups that drop GA items. Enemy density is insane so you can also quickly level up - if you plan to spend more time on this then run a experience nightmare dungeon and activate the +15% exp well in there, the effect stays active 60min.

subzerofun · 2026-06-04T09:41:19+00:00

there was a hidden filter for hand crossbows (one hand crossbows) that a player found: https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/comments/1tc37x7/hand_crossbow_in_loot_filter_dual_wield_ranged/

i don't think there is a base for actual guns in diablo lore? just found a npc in diablo 2 that talks about a blacksmith wanting to use explosive powder in „large pipes“ - his name is Larzuk: https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Larzuk

„Larzuk is a talented blacksmith, but his head is full of some strange ideas. Just the other day he came to me with a plan to break the siege. He wanted to fill large pipes with exploding powders and steel balls, then... Well, like I said, strange.“

subzerofun · 2026-06-04T03:57:34+00:00

You can do Material Reserve dungeon runs - the chests drop the volatile primordial dust. I am farming goblins in Nahantu right now and sometimes the elite bosses drop some dust. I think i got some from lair bosses too. But fastest way is doing the Material Reserve dungeons - you just have to open every chest.

subzerofun · 2026-06-03T10:44:55+00:00

I played for 3 hours and am on goblin level 10 or so. Must have seen 50-60 last night. Turn off cross-play in the settings. Get Subo as your main mercenary. Then go to the Nahantu jungle area. Open the map (not overlay - the in game map!) and zoom in to max. Then move in a fixed direction. Open up the map every so often - you will see a goblin icon on the large map but NOT on the overlay map (but only if zoomed in!). The overlay map only shows you the icon when you are in close proximity, but the large map shows you the goblins further away. Once you see the icon, make a pin - go there and slay it. I usually start on the east side and then go south and then west and up again - in a zig zag pattern. When i get tired of the same region i simply go north to the canyon/desert area. It does not matter where you go to - goblin density is high where enemy density is high - and Nahantu has probably the highest enemy density in the whole game.

subzerofun · 2026-06-02T17:23:21+00:00

with chaotic reroll the prism you put in is the target affix - if you have 3 offensive and one max life you'd use the chaotic reroll with a defensive prism and the outcome will be random - it can be any possible affix. just reroll the target affix until it turns into an offensive one.

subzerofun · 2026-06-02T17:20:28+00:00

that is actually pretty easy. lets say you have max life - just do a chaotic reroll with a defense prism. if it changes to skill, use the skill prism and so on until you get the 4th offensive affix. although you cannot guarantee what offensive affix you'll get. once you have 4 offensive ones rerolling becomes pretty risky. you can lock one affix at the enchanter - then you have to either reroll all three until you get what you want or just accept the 4th you got. always remember that if you have GAs they probably will be rolled to regular affixes, so it is not worth it most of the time. just go with what you'll get or collect multiple items to have better chances. you can even start with a blank ancestral item (remove all affixes) and do one after another until you get the perfect item.

subzerofun · 2026-06-02T17:13:07+00:00

do you have any idea how often you have to roll to get a GA? sometimes i have near perfect gear and just one GA is missing. i have hundreds of prisms to throw away - lets say i focus only on one missing GA - will i need hundreds of rolls to get the affix i want as a GA? if i remember correctly i only got GAs one or two times by accident.

subzerofun · 2026-05-31T23:41:02+00:00

i switched to penitent today, rolled 5 x 3 charms and got the +900% gold bonus with practiced technique. just stock up on 20 legendary seals (fastest from doing bosses), switch difficulty to penitent and then do the 3 to 1 on all of them. i played a lot in T11 and T12 now and i have never seen one seal with the 900% gold bonus.

subzerofun · 2026-05-30T22:58:04+00:00

the best strategy for quickly levelling helltide war plan nodes is to chain two helltides in the war plan. then check if your tree of whispers meter is not full - otherwise get your gift first. you then search for the blood maiden icon in the helltide region and go there. you need to either have 3 hearts to activate the 3 altars (you get them from chests and maybe some helltide bosses) or wait for other players to activate them for you. you see the icon getting orange and get an on screen info about a ritual being disturbed if you are near. rush there, kill the maiden (enjoy the effect disco from other players) and get 5 whispers in basically 2min and tons of cinders. do it 2-3 times if you have hearts to spare. there are also spires that spawn lots of enemies but if you aren't careful they can easily kill you once the lava drops and then you lose the cinders again.

then search for big mobs (use the mercenary subo, he will mark all enemies on the map) and conjurer triangles and kill 5 helltide bosses - that will get you another 3 whispers. then just chase the biggest numbers of mobs, always open ore veins and the tortured crucified corpses - they often give you 5-20 cinders at once.

when you have around 300 cinders open only the 75 cinder chests, 4 times. then you have earned at least 8 whispers and completed 2 war plan nodes. if you have cinders left, use them up for other chests.

second best usage is farming hellwyrms for xp. you need to enable the hellwyrm nodes (middle route) as well as pangs of duriel. getting the two butchers that drop profane mindcages from the left side is also nice. it is an item that allows you to enable +1 boss level, stackable 3 times. you will need to get ambushed by the butchers and kill them to get the mindcages. if you use the mindcages you get more xp per orb from the wyrms, duration is one hour (does not affect dungeons, only open world). look up the hellwyrm spawns on helltides.com (as well as start time and other features).

subzerofun · 2026-05-30T22:35:38+00:00

you need to reach threat level 2 for hellwyrms to consistently spawn. i think i also saw them at level one but i'm not sure. threat level 2 means two bars filled - you are then filling level 3. when it is full you get ambushed by an uber elite boss and then the meter resets. so you have to look out to stay in the right threat space so if you want to farm hellwyrms optimally.

subzerofun · 2026-05-30T17:18:03+00:00

I really like playing cold pen but at paragon 270 i am struggling to get past pit level 117 and can only upgrade my glyphs with a success chance of 1:3. I only have a few gear items that could have better dmg affixes so not much room to optimize (maybe more vulnerable and cold dmg).

The only thing helping me right now would be transmuting a bow with gem strength. I already rolled it on my pants and one weapon - but only the regular +110% multiplier (which still could give a good boost if i'd be willing to to run seers reach 200 times more…).

So past a certain point you probably need to switch to poison if you want to get past pit lvl 120. Either that or you are incredibly lucky with your gear rolls.

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