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Diablo 4 Developer Update Livestream: April 20th

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Game Director Joe Shelly, Associate Game Director Joseph Piepiora, and Associate Director of Community Adam Fletcher have returned for the latest Diablo 4 Developer Update Livestream to uncover details about the game's endgame and post-Beta changes.

Developer Update Live Stream Highlights

  • Players must complete Capstone dungeons to unlock higher difficulties (World Tiers).
  • The recommended level for your first Capstone dungeon is 50, but Rhykker had no problem completing it at 45.
  • Higher difficulties in Diablo 4 aren't just about mobs having more health and dealing more damage. The mobs learn new abilities and the world feels more aggressive and hostile.
  • World Tier 3 gives you access to Sacred items while World Tier 4 unlocks Ancestral items.
  • Helltides are going to unlock at Nightmare World Tier. Players collect a currency that unlocks caches. The caches have fixed locations and are tied to certain item slots. When you die, you will lose cinders.
  • Helltide locations will rotate every hour or so.
  • Nightmare Dungeons will be a great source of Sacred and Ancestral items.
  • The team talked in-depth about the Paragon Board nodes. Probably the most interesting bit were legendary nodes that have been described as powerful and rarely present on the board.
  • Blizzard recently highlighted post-beta changes based on community feedback.
  • All classes have been designed to mitigate crowd control effects.
  • Many objectives have been redesigned to be more intuitive and better correspond with layouts.
  • Players will be able to play Diablo 4 one more time before release! A Server Slam weekend is taking place between May 12-14. You can earn a new Beta-exclusive reward.

Q&A Highlights

  • New skills and passives will be added in future expansions.
  • Renown will reset every season, but the stat gains will not reset.
  • No class changes are planned after the Server Slam, but we may see some go live after the game launches.
  • You can gather herbs while mounted.
  • They have no plans to add couch co-op for PC.
  • Ray-tracing will be implemented after launch.
  • No overlay map will be available when the game launches. 

The livestream will take approximately 90 minutes. You can watch it now live on YouTube. We will be updating this post with highlights.

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