First, item affixes should be a meaningful part of character power. We went through so much great community discussion, including a fair amount of conflicting feedback, and we’ve had dozens of hours of discussion on this topic. The reason we’re sharing this so early is because we want to involve the community in our process and learn as much as we can from your feedback, as soon as possible. There will be problems with these ideas we’ll have to iterate through, and what’s presented below is almost certainly not final. Again, we feel it’s important to stress that this is very early design, and we’re sharing this with the community far sooner than we ever have before. That said, thanks to your feedback, we have some potential changes we’re actively discussing internally regarding itemization that we’d like to share with you today. It’s worth calling out that, on this subject, there was a lot of mixed feedback and differing opinions, and we acknowledge that means there’s no single approach that everyone in the community will agree on. We don’t want to create an exact copy of Diablo II or Diablo III. Our plan is to take the best parts of previous games and improve upon them while introducing new elements to make Diablo IV unique. Second, we agree with the feedback that Diablo IV shouldn’t just mimic the itemization in our previous Diablo games.
Another important philosophy across the whole game for our team is the concept “ Easy to learn, difficult to master.” This core philosophy helped many of us become the hardcore gamers we are today, and one we want to embrace throughout the Diablo IV development process. To be clear-we believe Diablo IV itemization should be deep and rewarding and that’s one of our highest priorities. This has been the most-discussed topic since we revealed Diablo IV. Let’s start with two key principles that guide us as the Diablo IV development team.įirst, we agree that adding depth and customization to your character through itemization is incredibly valuable and important to the game. We’re focusing specifically on itemization in this blog because it’s a complex and nuanced topic. Itemization is a huge core part of any Action RPG. I recommend checking that out if you haven’t already. In Part I, we addressed many of the open questions from the community about the Diablo IV game designs we revealed at BlizzCon.
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