I am done with Diablo 4. Current version is not fun any more. Just finished season’s story. Next task would have been renown grind which I just did couple weeks ago and doing same quests I just did in previous renown grind. You have to do renown grind to have any change to survive on world tier 3.
I played on world tier 2. It was quite fun until last few days. Endured it because I wanted to see the season’s story. Now that it is done I don’t see any reasons to log in. Game just isn’t fun any more. Before last couple days I understood why I died and what I should have done to survive. Some times reason was I was under leveled for the content. Now I am on correct level for content but I feel I am under leveled for some of the fights. Game just throws stuff that is almost impossible to survive. I don’t record my game play. I can’t watch why I died. At one point I am fighting the mob and everything looks fine. Next moment I am dead.
I understand challenge. But what Diablo 4 gives now is cheap deaths. I am playing on world tier 2 and have level 48 character. Whole screen shouldn’t be full of enemies and different effects and powerful enemies shooting from off screen. One time I died after I cleared dungeon. I got notification of dungeon completion. Right after that tons of enemies attacked and couple seconds later I was dead. I thought I could relax but no. It wasn’t over.
Blizzard offers increase of mob density as solution to game’s problems. It is one of the problems. Game becomes impossible when there are too many enemies with crowd control powers. You are in crowd control all the time and high density mobs kill you in seconds. That is not fun. Blizzard want to see more variety in builds but make changes that only certain kind of builds or classes can survive. I don’t want to study which skills and gear I need to be able to survive. I just want to log in and have fun. Not to constantly die for reasons I don’t understand.
Game has problems even when you are not dying. Inventory management is huge issue. You need to constantly get back to town to empty inventory. It just breaks the game play when you have to go to town during dungeon, event or quest and check what you want to keep and what to salvage or sell and what you can keep in stash. Blizzard’s solution is to add one more tab to stash. You still need to stop what you are doing. You can have more items in stash but it doesn’t solve the main issue. Season 1 made this worse because there are more items in inventory now. Having gems as materials doesn’t help this issue. I have this issue with my main. I stopped picking gems with it but still had to teleport to town constantly.
Horses. Almost everyone hates horses in Diablo 4. You spend lot of time on horse. You try to avoid mobs when you ride your horse. But there are places where you can’t avoid mobs. You have to fight mobs before you can continue and horses have cooldowns. You can’t continue to ride right after you have killed enemies. You have to run during the cooldown which make it harder to avoid mobs. Do you think increasing mob density will help with this issue? Most of the portals were locked at the start the the season. So you need to ride you horse to open them.
I feel like I am fighting against distractions more than doing interesting content. Tree of Whispers quests, legion events and helltides are fun. But to be good enough for them I need to do renown grind again and going to those I need to fight trash mobs. Increase of mob density in helltides could make those really annoying if they go too far.
Diablo 4 was fun until season 1’s update. Early season was reasonable fun but they have changed something since then which has made the game not fun to play. Don’t tell me to try different class. I play twisting blades rogue this season. It should be best at the moment but I think necromancer is better. I might try it next season if I come back. Probably won’t get back if renown grind is still a thing when season starts. I understand doing it once but not doing it every season.