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It has been confirmed that there will be a gem tab in the future:)

My first character (and first to level 20 in this beta) was the Druid. I used Bear (Maul/Pulverize) with poison vine, and I reached level cap without much to hold me back. I only had trouble with the one spider boss (who kept snaring me, kiting me, and hitting me from range), but I eventually killed her by adapting my tactics. I found the dungeons to be OK, albeit less than I had hoped for, the combat to feel balanced, and the game performance to be better than expected. All of the changes I noticed in comparison to the last beta were in a positive direction. All except the Necro, that is. They beat that poor Skellymancer into a coma with the Nerf Stick.

The Ashava stagger mechanic was there in the previous beta. It was just a way more difficult, if not impossible to stagger her.

i had a lot more fun with the server slam than the open beta! the feeling of progression and actually having to think of your build using just rares felt a lot better than when we were swimming in legendaries. the qol changes were nice too, especially move and interact on one keybind. that one change just made the game feel so much better.

So the biggest one I've heard issues about was the minions for the necromancer. I have played that class in depth and I can easily see that it's not as bad as people say. If you have ZERO points into improving your minions, health regen, damage and life... yes the minion are not great and die fairly easily. However if you fully spec onto minions and focus on that they are similar to how they were last beta weekends and do stay alive even in boss fights. It's almost like... if you're not speced to be a summoner.... your minions suck, shocking I know. Aside from that I felt that in general, Blizzard has managed to make all classes I general feel relatively balanced and good to play. I actually am still unsure which class I want to start off with even at this point, which is great. Not knowing which to play means that all classes feel relatively good to play. I definitely feel the diablo 2 style of progression in this game and I genuinely hope they don't cave to the demands of some online personalities who simply want a D3 style game where they ha e huge numbers of damage and can pummel even through some of the hardest enemies simply for content. I think there are still a few areas of improvement of course but I think it's good and am looking forward to a successful launch

I tend to carry a few items with me to switch out and when I'm done with a run I've always got to be careful not to junk or sell them, they need to add a hold/keep flag rather than flagging everything as junk.

I loved Druid on the Open Beta, and I loved it even more now. Pretty smooth now. What I'm kinda stumped about is why they nerfed some of the Key Passives, given that we were unable to play with them on the Open Beta... For Druid it was only Perfect Storm, but maybe there was some for other classes too

Liked and subscribed! I like your balance of information and opinion 😀 Now for the feedback on the weekend! 1. I did actually play all the classes to level 20 and did dungeons with all of them. Here is my opinion: Barbarian - I played a haste barbarian that I TRIED to play in the first beta. It was magnificent. I felt effective and progression felt smooth. The dungeons are still definitely harder for melee than they are for casters, but it is no longer anywhere near as painful. Shouts, while nerfed drastically are still super effective in the early game, so still very playable at least at the start. Necro - Minion necro has been destroyed and will be utterly unplayable until at least level 50 when the paragon board unlocks. Necros can still be VERY effective, just not minion Necros. I tried putting every point possible into making the warriors and mages tougher and higher damage. Despite this, they still dropped like flies. Corpse explosion was nerfed heavily, but its irrelevant for a minion necro because you will rarely cast it as all of your corpses will be chewed up casting and healing your minions who die regardless of the little heal and damage buff they get from overcasteing. If they don't fix this, the most iconic thing that makes a necro a necro will be meaningless. You will just be a blood mage as that is the only real option at the moment. Sorcerer - Yes chain lightning and hydra were nerfed. However, just to see how bad it was, I crated a build that still used both of those skills as the cornerstone of my build. It was just fine. Yes things took a little longer to drop, but the build had the same general effectiveness when it came to how they were being used in the past. So, I saw not remarkable forced build changes. Rogue - I did not find the gameplay immensely changed from the first beta weekend. Terrific class for high damage high speed play Druid - I built a rend/poison Druid with a poison creeper. It was SUPER effective. There are still the basic frustrations of a melee class, but it felt great to play and progression and power felt really terrific. Creeper/Bear slam was also really fun as you can make crit 20% more likely when using creeper strangle. So, you strangle then slam and everything in a very wide range that is not a tanky elite dies. 2. Difficulty - I NEVER got a legendary drop off of a mob on any character on any level except when I beat Ashava; I loved it. With the overall nerfs to the classes and the overall reduction in loot "quality" the game felt WAY more balanced and challenging on world tier 2 where I always played (except for Ashava because I am not insane). 3. Monetization (SUPER just my opinion) - Battle passes = money for continued content. Number of people who want pay to win = EXTREMELY LOW. So therefor Battle pass = cosmetics. I think it is completely unfair to ask Blizzard to support a game like this with regular infusions of more gear, more skills, more side stories and more bosses without allowing them to make more money. If all of this cash grab was just to support the base game and one or two expansions that we would have to pay 30 or 40 dollars for, I would tell them to go scratch. But since they have made a clear road map to quarterly free additional content (that's right free), I say more power to them to try to compel people to donate more money to them. That is what a paid battle pass is: a voluntary donation that gets you ZERO game changing content. Besides, there will be hundreds of cosmetic items to get for free and many of the ones I have seen from the first beta and in their previews have been fantastic. Few players will even get all of those. So, begrudging the developers putting some of their art behind a paywall seems unfair (again from my perspective). 4. Stagger - are you sure that is new for Ashava? I thought it was there before but the stagger mechanic was generating too little stagger in general to every achieve the threshold. I ended up staggering several bosses in the Slam and I had never staggered one in the first beta when I know they at least had the mechanic. I am not saying you are wrong. It just seemed like the whole stagger mechanic seems to work more effectively. Thanks for reading this (anyone who did) 😀

Druid resource was better as a Bear/Melee, but when I did Tornados, I didn't get any spirit when running around and then did sorc and my mana bubble filled up in the blink of an eye by regen. I think for range Druid they need something to help with that.

The stagger was available last time as well. The yellow bar fills up albeit slower last time, to the point where I have not seen the stagger last beta.

Same for me with the legendaries - in fact nearly half my kit was still blue by level 20 with a solitary socket in a ring. I don’t mind this as it make legendaries truly valuable. Summon necro, which is my favourite in D2 is a delicate little flower now in D4, with skellies that seem to faint at the first opportunity, so spamming skellies faster than my rogue fires arrows, which is not a great twist on the builds gameplay.

100% agree on gems. i was surprised to see them there after the hints they were giving that they will have their own tab.

good ol' Dbrunski diablo video! thanks My freshly leveled Pulverize druid almost got me an Ashava kill, but i just wish we had more sorcs and rogues to help with the damage which we were lacking with that random group. Regardless i did kill Ashava a few times on my rogue before leveling a druid, just to be sure about it lol.

"for the 1000th time there is no pay to win." I can hear your frustration when saying this but Blizzard brought it upon themselves for shady handling of Diablo Immortal so i have no sympathy for them when people hassle them about this issue. Maybe after a few years and their word stayed true to their word with D4 their reputation may improve and people will stop asking about it.

they nerfed damage around the board and I like it. This gives me confidence that they are remaining true to not wanting this to turn into diablo 3 damage.

I didn't play it earlier but I had a blast playing thunder druid. It is amazing and I'm going to play it from launch even though I was going to start with sorc. He has cool mechanics, deals a lot of aoe damage and is very tanky thanks to damage reduction from primary attack (25%), wind shield (10%) and werebear shout (70%).

I didn't play the previous betas, but went in with a sorc. Leveled using lightning on WT2, and it felt perfectly fine. I swapped a lot at 20 to try some things, and ended on firewall which was definitely doing some work. Wish I had more time to try Rogue as well, as they are the two classes I'm between for my first. Pretty sure the beta sold me on day one as well.

This beta was a lot harder than the last ones I played necro again and my minions actually died a ton lol while last time they could solo butcher and it took ashava like 1 min to kill a single skele on WT2. I honestly don't mind the nerfs since I'm still able to clear everything even if it's harder the difficulty aspect is fun and hopefully late game fully geared my summons will be more durable.

I've been torn about sharing my barb build with people. Not because I think it's game breaking or 'never been tried before', but because I don't generally like playing builds that everyone else is using. However, I greatly enjoy this channel and I know melee isn't your favorite but try this build on a barb when you make them- you may enjoy it as much as I do: 1. Frenzy for main and building attack speed. 2. Furious Whirlwind- bleeding WW is like shooting holes in a full water bucket. 3. Mighty Leap- helps with mobility a lot, slows enemies for that WW. 4. Hamstring- better bleeding. 5. Ultimate: Iron Maelstrom- maybe, maybe not. I doubt it was touched after early beta but we didn't get to find out. Either way, it was the best room sweeper after chaining the other skills for a bit. 6. Speculation, but I'll try Gushing Wounds for the passive. The legendary set up is fairly obvious, but the aspect to keep any eye out for THIS build is Bul Kathos as it creates that earthquake when your leap lands. Personally I'll focus on WW and bleed/slow enhancers, skulls in the weapons and thorns in the armor. If anybody wonders why I like this build, even in the server slam without great equipment I had no issues and managed to take out the butcher solo on tier 1.

You have to understand that Actiblizz has pulled bait and switch shenanigans with not just Diablo Immortal, but with the CoD games and other IPs as well. People are fully justified in not trusting Blizzard's word on the P2W issue. If you look into it, it's pretty disgusting.

I only played the mage(20) during the previous beta open. This time, I leveled up a rogue(20), barbarian(20), necromancer (20), and another mage (10) before it closed today. Took on one boss, cleared a lot of the available map. Even saw the butcher pop up at random places. Can’t wait to take it down.

I would like to play but only managed 20m at a time, can't stand the close in zoom, for whatever reason it doesnt work for me. Give me something close to D2 zoom and maybe.

i would love to see an option to change the color of the cursor. Im losing track of it during fights with a lot going on

Not sure why a beta weekend to stress test the game would change my mind. People coming to final conclusions on how the game will play out is insane to me!

Played the sorcerer quite a bit. Super fun still. Nice and mobile with teleport and hydra is still amazing especially with the fireball augmentation that causes kill to be mini carpet explosions.

I thought the balance changes were spot on. I was a bit disappointed with the "no back tracking" changes, I didn't really notice much of a difference in most dungeons. As for PTW, sure there will be no PTW at the beginning. But down the road, when the head office says "More dollar$$$!!1! Add some PTW!! (or your fired)", they will add PTW. It's coming. Hopefully not soon. Edit: did you get a new camera? Your video quality and lighting is awesome.

All the nerfs made game feel better imo, necro to after they buffed the health of skellies...the boss fights felt awesome.

I’ve played druid open beta & server slam weekends. The resource generation still feels absolutely terrible to me & I was taking nodes where I could to help, kinda sucks. However I do appreciate we do not have the class mechanic, I get we didn’t have that part of the map to obtain it but it would’ve been nice if they’d just turned it on or something so we could’ve had a better (hopefully) experience with Druid. Still plan on going Druid but I’m hoping resource generation isn’t always going to be an issue

With me I played Rouge during Server Slam and I can say this that during the early lvling up to 20 using bows were better than using her melee attacks with swords/daggers however I am expecting late game with her that she will improve tenfold. From your gameplay the Druid looks massively improved they are actually killing stuff. I am going Sorc with the retail release of the game because The nerfs to the Sorc are not that bad and it was expected due to the same reason as the Necro. However with the Necro I kind of changed my stance from they nerfed him too much to that this is early game he shouldn't be this OP at this stage of the game. Also there might be aspects to beef up your skeletons from gear or the paragon board.

THANK U DBRUNKSKI POSITIVE SO MANY PEOPLE BASHING THIS GAME COZ THE PASS BUT SERIOUSLY WAS GOOD FRESH OF BREATH AIR HEARING THIS AND YOUR THOUGHTS

what about how the necro minnions hit hard asf but insta die in boss fights and are useless

I was trying Barb and Druod again and that immprovememts which they made are so good,i am just waiting to realese date but for me its ok the good content will come withe the seassons later,i hope so 😎👌

They Killed Summon Necro. The Skeletons don't grab agro, they die constantly, and you have to run defenders if you want to even try to play Necro. What is the point of having a Necromancer class if you can't summon the dead? The game went from some challenge to way to hard on all classes. I spent the last 45 mins trying to beat a dungeon boss on my 20 Rouge with a "Streamer" good build and gave up because of the constant stun locks and not being able to heal through one shots.

I just mained druid and loved it Only found 2 legendarys all weekend tho

I played the other beta as druid (the not buffed version) then this server slam as necro (the nerfed version), so i had the worse case scenario for both! Damn, the game is super fun regardless. I'm really obsessed with the thematic and atmosphere of this game though.

Who is that guy ServerSlamr? His character seems strong.

I don’t think I can play if the camera doesn’t get zoomed out a bit. Just a tiny bit…. Too close for me unfortunately 😢

It's good to have a D2 named streamer come out a say good things about D4, I will play Sorcerer Frost Explosions on release. and as stated below if you put points it to Necro minions they are fine as are the drop rates, now you look at rare items for what they should be build - building blocks in the early to mid game then as you get legendary drops you either change up to that style or farm till you get what you need. If you don't like links on your page I'm ok with that if you could just kill it as it's just the build. Only bad thing for me is ti sucks that there is no Steel Box version for PC, I would have refunded and got it local if there was, console only from what I can tell.

i can see some immune builds going to be a problem at end game still. you can almost get no cd on blood mist if i take into account the fact your in the form for a period of time. you can get cd to around 10 seconds. that is with out consuming corpses to reduce it but how this works now doesn't reduce cd allot, the explosion operates differently now its very meh but you can still maintain and very very high uptime on immune.....

Will be there a next beta test?

I hate that i care so much about cosmetics that it sours the game for me when there are cool purchasable cosmetics. I always want the game to bring in a system of unlocking/collecting cosmetics within the game. However for some reason with indie games on steam, take astroneer or space engineers. Im down to buy those cosmetics. I think with space engi its because theyre tradeable and very very cheap. Astroneer they look very cool. I still get frustrated having spent what i spent on that tho.

The font change might have seemed stupid for you Dbunski, but it doesn't mean it wasn't a legitimate concern for others.

i tryed sorc and most of the attack were better in the first patch

17 more days!

I played the necro. CE, not like it used to be. Skellys kept dying, ok. Sever(5/5) hits everything. Blood lance (1/5) one shots enemies. Decompose (4/5)is slow but effective. Cant speak to the curses, they didnt seem to do much. theres something cool about the mages, floating in the back throwing cold. Got 4 legendaries after playing all day.

i played 20 mins this time and i got bored, i went back to d2r

The problem with balance is if your character is weak intill endgame you won’t keep playing that character. Easier to level faceroll class then twink weak character. Or just ply the meta.

i try sorcerer this time. chainlighting still good even nerf, ice blade is too op for cd reduce, hydra kinda weak now but this test it have new legendery too. i think even some skill get nerf it too fast to say what build is op / too weak.

Necro is a lot weaker than it used to be overall. Still a fun character to use though. I didn’t get a single legendary leveling 1-20 on it. The blood spell for attacking can’t target anything but monsters which kinda sucks you can’t break random things for potions. I tried the barbarian and I’m gonna be honest it was terrible. I needed more time to mess with the skill tree but the cool downs are pretty long and ww still uses too much fury. Over all really fun game especially with friends.

Whats the deal with force move? Isnt moving normal enough?

The problem I see with cosmetics for sale is that it lends to the idea of making gear you find not look good.

As long as you do all the alters of lilith Ashava was pretty easy

i regret starting out with Necro. Felt so weak compared to the prev beta weekends. Just a HUGE nerf to them. Felt it was worse than the Druid from prev beta. I did enjoy Sorc. I stayed away from Rogue because it wasn't my play style. Barb was pretty fun though.

DBrunski are you a wrestler or BJJ practioner? First time noticing your ears👍

Since it's a live-service game and they will be adding stuff, I really hope that every class will get more core skills in the future. Even with paragon-board combinations, I feel like 4 core skills per class are just not gonna be enough long-term.

I personally did not really enjoy playing it, but I played it on last gen console.

I felt the fire sorc is a little bit weaker than the before, speccialy Hydra

Everyone is playing Druid and I neither played Druid or Assassin in D2 - until the last couple of years ... Just stubborn I guess - as I didn't originally buy the expansion until years later - because I didn't think it was worth 19.99 ... holy moses was I wrong ... LoL !!

Necro still feels good, so idk what people are upset about. Necro needed some toning down.

I gotta say, i really dislike that EVERY dungeon gets stronger as you level-up. That's not how Diablo 2 is. Early dungeons stay low level, no matter your level. Especially for hardcore, makes it kinda lame. Would much rather have consistent dungeon levels. They could always make it an option to have the original level of the dungeon OR level the dungeon up to your current level. That's what they should do. Very excited for the game and will play a lot, but I do feel that every dungeon always being equal difficulty (effectively), it makes progress feel "cheaper". I like seeing older dungeons get easier and getting strong enough for future dungeons. It's a major part of character building in an RPG and feeling your character's strength growing. I really dislike when (A)RPGs remove that whole concept.

They already promised that the skill tree will be expanded

Yet there is a P2W mechanic.....character leveling > battlepass leveling so buying the accelerated battlepass makes you able to spend "ashes" sooner/faster....thus letting you level up faster (or the other 2 ash mechanics they introduce/change each season)

Does anyone else remember that there wasn't supposed to be any paid to win in world of warcraft classic too? But remember they said it 1000 times that they weren't going to do paid to win :-). I have only one word gullible. Good luck guys.

I have to say the duengons with ''SLAY all enemies'' Was super horrible... they said the monsters would pursue you more aggresively, but i FELT nothing of that sort. it was more me aggresively hunting htem down.

Ashava was pretty easy, just gotta learn her moves.

Server slam pretty much made me go from maining necro to maining rogue. They overnerfed necro, it's ridiculous. The legendary was the problem.

playing d4 this weekend actually made me depressed

I feel like all the comment come from either ppl saying they played it or inventing a story. My only issue I had this weekend was a staggered lag that teleported me back to where I was... shit like this happen in so many online so Im over it. Only 1 build to play.... wtf play what you want and stop coying every build you see ... every class has many spell yes some underperform but your level 20 only ... In the end I feel ppl are just trying to hate just to hate. The game has flaws but no game is perfect in the world we live in ...

But I just got my first enigma…. Kinda hard to play d4 now

I'm going to disagree with you on the Druid, dbrunski. The Druid is still really bad. Until you get legendaries, the Druid is still exceptionally poor in the early game. I just wish they would move some of the legendary powers of the Druid out of legendaries to tweaking the baseline power up of the Druid. I wanted to start at launch with a Druid, but these two betas have just confirmed for me that a Druid only makes sense to use as a second char when you've accumulated a bunch of gear you can give to it to twink it up first. Playing it without legendaries even for the first levels, leaves a very bad impression of the character's power and I'm afraid not many people (myself included) will slog through the early levels to make it to end game when it does have legendaries.

The light sorc even with the nerfs are still stronger then a druid . Both with no legs. Im not going to bank on druid getting stronger end game.

There is a lot of negativity surrounding this game and we have only seen about 1% of the game so far.I think the game is going in the right direction and don't mind giving Blizzard the extra money for the cosmetics and I paid for the deluxe version of the game,4 days early access. When answering questions and responding to feedback,the devs have been quick to respond and have made changes that were appropriate when a large part of the community asked for them. This is not the same Diablo team like D3.I am not dissing D3 but it's my LEAST favorite game of the series. I think that D4 could be my potentially favorite game in the series,I am very excited for it and probably won't sleep that much for the next 2 weeks or so LOL.

They basically took Necro and Sorcerer and took a huge dump on top of them.

Wow no wonder ashava took so long to kill. . That clip showed like 100dps lol.. I was spamming 2-3k crits with my rogue... basically had to carry every single time

Paying for cosmetics is perfectly fine for me. Honestly they are a company that needs to make a profit, no profit means no more games. And the box price is not enough to sustain big companies anymore, so pay for cosmetics is perfectly fine. If you want to look cool, buy it. If you dont care for it, dont buy it. Doesn't change your actual gameplay.

I have mixed feelings on D4. I was bored and played server slam for 5 minutes then uninstalled the game lol. I played previous betas and was moderately entertained. I won't pre-order it but maybe pick it up on release day / week. Early game is a bit boring and abilities don't have much punch.

druid went from 17dmg to 22 dmg felt slightly better but still really bad tbh

Not happy about the Necro corpse explosion nerf. Tis was such a fun build to play :(. Blizzard has done this continuously, where they develop a fun build and then nerf it. Not sure if I am looking as forward to the game now as I was.

Im not going to pre-order, too many games have been released in beta states over the years, not to mention being BORING, so i'll see how the game actually plays for the first week before i make up my mind if i want to purchase it or not.

I love that the game is no longer casual , great job , if casual players don't like they should not play veteran , or expect to get legendaries , sorry but a good game makes you work for power !

It's pretty lame that you can only put 5 skill points into a skill. It's going to make characters feel very flat and it'll make the game feel unrepeatable. In D2, you had to commit 80+ levels to the skill you want to focus on. In this game, it's what---7? maybe there's some synergies with the skill, so...13 or 19 skill points to focus on one skill, max? It's going to feel like once you play through a fire sorc one time, there's no reason to play another... Whereas D2, you might want to make a character for each skill of the fire sorc. If I am level 15 in D2, I can have 15 pts in teeth. Why would they greatly reduce our choice and freedom to develop our skills like that? Am i reading this correct? Or when they open the level cap, will that also open a skill cap from 5 to 20???

Know what's great about D2R? There's not 4 MILLION on screen text displays. I don't need to be reminded how much gold I just picked up. I don't need to see damage numbers every time I hit something. I don't need to see evade or dodge text. I don't need to see the spot on the ground I just clicked. It feels like baby's first Diablo. Let us turn all that crap off or I'll pass

BIG Updates?

Shop items are going to end up like shop mounts in wow. Don't forget they legit had to remove the spit emote because people were spitting on players with shop mounts. D4 you can look cool, but we will all hate on you lol.

Druid still feels off he still not hitting hard at all same with the pets I’m probly gonna stick to either barb or rogue

Why does blizzard always release games at the start of summer.

The Druid went from a 3/10 to a 4/10. Big improvement.

Who the fuck puts their empty pc parts boxes on a display shelf? Super weird.

For me this server slam was bad for the game, as I had more restrictions in terms of skill points, while repeating the same missions over and over. I'm already at a point that I want to see something new in this game. That just left a bad taste, as it seems the game "aged" badly in terms of repetition. Obviously this is not a definitive thing, as we barely scratched the legendaries and paragon boards to tune builds, but if those don't give a different feeling for the lvl 20-25 builds we already played, then this game will be a do once in a while campaing just like D3. That being said, looking at the legendary affixes, I think there will be cool, creative builds.

I miss dungeon level 1-2-3-4 and so on, this will be cool if they add in game. All items in inventory should NOT be all the same size! The good thing about game is legendary/unique drop rate! Should stay as low as possible

Font for items - old better

The lack of P2W elements in D4 is not just a "good thing", there should never, ever, ever, ever be P2W crap in the game.

I heard you can skip levels if you pay ???

no it´s not enough... i refunded pre order today

D2 widows are something else 😢

Imo, the game is not finished, there are very few abilities per character, and a paragon poor in diversity, it has a very limited pvp instead of having released it with a lot of pvp content(like wow), it will come out with only 3 world bosses, why not 7? that it has potential, it does, but I think the game still lacks 1 or 2 years

Still had issues. No collision is concerning. When I get 4 or more sound effects, they overlay into a indistinguishable noise. The legendary drop rate is WAY TOO high, fully kitted my guy in legendary items in about 6 hours of gameplay. Had many other concerns about U.I. functionality (Discription boxes cover other text). Think the game should be thrown back in the oven for 8-12 months... Or wait a year after release, definitely waiting for it to go on sale.

I just wanna play as a werewolf but it’s not fun when the other skills are much better😓 shapeshifting is my whole reason to play the Druid

I am surprised that nobody addressing the fact that we have only 10 character slots. 5 classes with hardcore and non-hardcore mode + future seasons + potential new class (as speculated holy themed one like paladin/crusader/cleric/priest). On top of that in one of the interviews Joseph Piepiora when talking about respec he said that at low level it will be very cheap but at the end it will be better to level up a new character rather than respec. And with all that in mind... 10 slots? I really like the game as it is (not that it is perfect by any means) but this thing honestly worries me. And the fact that nobody from the big streamers even mentions it is even more surprising.