Diablo 4's Next Big Addition Has Been Teased By Devs? (Skill Augmenting) 

This is a very interesting possibility for the future of D4.

What people don't understand is gaming is not like it was back in the day. Games are live stream games now. So we get a game we play and it evolves as time goes on. All we can do is play give feedback and hope they listen for the next season.

One idea I had to improve the skill tree in a kind of unique way is the idea of "Skill Swapping". The idea is that each class has a selection of skills that can be swapped for a skill from a different cluster in the tree. The skills then function in a way that suits the cluster it has been moved into but still fits the theme of the original skill. It's kind of too abstract to explain it like that so here's an example... Take the sorc skills, Ice Blades and Frozen Orb. Now swap them around so Ice Blades becomes a core skill and Frozen Orb becomes a conjuration skill. Casting ice blades performs a short range cleave type attack with one blade while the other blade appears and cleaves some random enemy elsewhere on the screen (or the same enemy in the case of a boss), it has a mana cost and no cooldown just like a core skill. Meanwhile Frozen Orb, as conjuration skill, conjures an orb that drifts around, loosely following the player, shooting ice bolts at random enemies until it explodes when its duration expires. Now apply this principle to several skills per class, including some options that result in the damage type changing to a different one. We'd get so much more functionality out of the skill tree without making it a convoluted mess.

It was available in d3 where every skill had 4 different type of runes where you choose what elements you want the skill to hit

Early in D3's development, the skill runes that we ended up with were actually an item that dropped on the ground. I was really disappointed when they removed it from D3 and had it so they all just unlocked as you levelled. I would love them to return to that idea: itemised skill runes that change a skill's effects but have some variation so that it feels good to find a perfect copy and so that it encourages trading. Just turn each skill node on the tree into a socket of sorts and have the skill runes slot into that to "sidegrade" each skill.

Loved skill runes in D3. And LPowers that grant "All runes" letting you use the element you want. Stone of Jordan added all the more flexibility. Would be great to see this kind of build diversity expanded in D4.

i dont think the skill tree needs to be complicated, its just there for basic skills, the modifiers with ur gear and codex is where you really make ur build

I miss my decrepify aura ... speaking about skill modifications

Excellent video!

it should be in skill tree

I'm glad they are giving D4 an end game crafting system but all this talk about adding element changing tempering affixes is just ppl trying to make D4 into Last Epoch.

Just hit level 100 have yet to get a tempering manual it must be the most rare thing in the game I've done beat multiple world bosses nightmare dungeons did hell tides trying to get it out of cinder chests no luck this literally has made me just not want to play the game because ur only going to get so far without that

it pisses me off that diablo immortal has so much more game modes and content than d4... they even have raids and battle grounds.. ridiculous

They need to keep adding depth into everything.

That be amazing and also add elements to classes that don't have any elements like barbarian or add more to all classes

How would that work for rogue since it’s affixes are straight up nothing special

1.More space in chest 2. Loot FILTER 3. End FUCKi'N'NGAME what is the problem for real ? You are talking about system of damage but DEVS can't fix the game that is 1 year already on the market....

Diablo Immortal has those and are called Essences. Lots of variants which change your skills completely!

In my book an infinity of possible builds means the choice of skills is trivial. I failed to enjoy this game.

I was sad it wasn't this way at launch, I hope they do this. I've been waiting all year!

There's been this dream I've had of mixing all 3 blood bone and darkness skills with necro together and it is possible, but wt4 Uber lilith possible isn't there yet. This would allow for that! I would love this for tampering

Blizzard needs to stop trying to balance everything ans just let everything be OP and broken. If im farming for perfect pieces of gear i should be able to ge to the point i 1 shot anything in the game.

Sounds like more LE. Diablo 4 Season 5: Age of Epoch

No, we need RUNEWORDS to do all that crazy stuff!

So basically what you do in D3? Where you could glyph it to another element.

We don’t want skills tied to items. We want augments to move different types of damage around and a skill tree that allows the different bases

time to skip borring seson 4