Itemization Update Summary - Diablo 4 Season 4

Diablo IV Posted 2024/03/20 at 1:24 PM by silec

Season 4 Campfire Chat livestreamBase Item Updates

The amount of loot dropping will be reduced, but overall loot quality will be higher. The goal is for players to use crafting to customize their gear further.

Smaller affix pool - many unused affixes have been removed from the game.

More relevant and potent affixes, such as Core Skill Ranks and existing affix values will be adjusted so they can be felt.

Legendary or Unique items will now be tradeable. Modifying an item, e.g. through Enchanting, will make it account-bound and thus no longer tradeable.

Only Sacred items will drop in World Tier 3.

Only Ancestral items will drop in World Tier 4.

Legendary items will now have 3 affixes, down from 4.

Rare items will now have 2 affixes, down from 4.

Additional Itemization Updates

Legendary items dropped from monsters level 95+ will always have 925 item power.

Gems have been simplified and made stronger.

Gold costs to reroll items at the Occultist now have a cap.

Some crafting materials have been removed and consolidated.

Forgotten Souls will now also drop from Whispers and rarely from Elites.

Many Unique items can now drop in World Tier 1 and 2. All Unique items can now drop in World Tier 3.

Uber Unique items start dropping from monsters level 55.

Codex of Power Updates

All Legendary Aspects can now be found in the Codex of Power.

Salvaging a Legendary item at the Blacksmith will upgrade the Aspect's values within the Codex of Power. These can be upgraded up to 16 times to reach their maximum potential.

Legendary Aspects with maxed-out values will now only drop in World Tier 4.

New System: Greater Affixes

Affixes now have a chance to appear as Greater Affixes on an item which are 1.5x more powerful than regular affixes.

Greater Affixes can only appear on Ancestral Legendary or Unique items.

Greater Affixes can be rolled off through Enchanting. However, they cannot be crafted onto an item and are thus only found through drops.

New Crafting System: Tempering

Tempering is a new crafting system that will allow players to add new affixes to their gear.

Tempering Manuals will add one of their 4 affixes to an item (at random). These drop from most content in the game.

Ancestral items can have up to 2 Tempered affixes (from different categories) applied to them.

Items will have a limited Tempering Durability that will determine how many times a Temper can be rerolled.

New Crafting System: Masterworking

Masterworking is a new late game item upgrading system that will include 12 ranks.

Masterworking improves the values of your current affixes. Most ranks slightly increase the value of all affixes. Every 4 ranks, a single affix is significantly upgraded.

Comment by frozenembersWhy share the link to this page on social media before anything is even added to it?Comment by WowvocateWhy share the link to this page on social media before anything is even added to it?Comment by sx777Tl;DR
They have checked out Last Epoch's crafting system and decided to copy it. Not saying it's a bad thing because it's not bad at all, but i yearn those days when Blizzard was a trend setter, not a follower.Comment by DLChaosAbout time codex of power is going to be worth it now. They did copy Last Epoch crafting system or parts of it. If they can't be original at least make whatever they steal better.Comment by pilek01Tl;DR
They have checked out Last Epoch's crafting system and decided to copy it. Not saying it's a bad thing because it's not bad at all, but i yearn those days when Blizzard was a trend setter, not a follower.Comment by CnugsTl;DR
They have checked out Last Epoch's crafting system and decided to copy it. Not saying it's a bad thing because it's not bad at all, but i yearn those days when Blizzard was a trend setter, not a follower.Comment by KerathrasSo they basically straight up copied Last Epoch's crafting system. Good for them, lol.Comment by shmohawkeWhen Blizzard was good they took others ideas and polished them or made them better.

When arrogant Modern Blizzard tries to reinvent the wheel, subvert the genre standards, or be innovative and ground breaking is when they run into trouble.Comment by johntravolta342Tl;DR
They have checked out Last Epoch's crafting system and decided to copy it. Not saying it's a bad thing because it's not bad at all, but i yearn those days when Blizzard was a trend setter, not a follower.Comment by GaddTl;DR
They have checked out Last Epoch's crafting system and decided to copy it. Not saying it's a bad thing because it's not bad at all, but i yearn those days when Blizzard was a trend setter, not a follower.Comment by HelluiinTl;DR
They have checked out Last Epoch's crafting system and decided to copy it. Not saying it's a bad thing because it's not bad at all, but i yearn those days when Blizzard was a trend setter, not a follower.Comment by shmohawkeIt's true that Blizzard games back then set a standard that other game companies embraced and imitated. So in that sense they were "trend setters".

Just that the actual games themselves were usually taken from existing beloved but niche games and were remade to be more accessible while still retaining what made the originals so good. IMO that was the genius of old Blizzard.Comment by TheGoldenElmThis seems like a nice improvement over what we have right now.Comment by NinTanDao64Tl;DR
They have checked out Last Epoch's crafting system and decided to copy it. Not saying it's a bad thing because it's not bad at all, but i yearn those days when Blizzard was a trend setter, not a follower.Comment by zolphinusTl;DR
They have checked out Last Epoch's crafting system and decided to copy it. Not saying it's a bad thing because it's not bad at all, but i yearn those days when Blizzard was a trend setter, not a follower.Comment by moofox6Tl;DR
They have checked out Last Epoch's crafting system and decided to copy it. Not saying it's a bad thing because it's not bad at all, but i yearn those days when Blizzard was a trend setter, not a follower.Comment by moofox6Tl;DR
They have checked out Last Epoch's crafting system and decided to copy it. Not saying it's a bad thing because it's not bad at all, but i yearn those days when Blizzard was a trend setter, not a follower.Comment by AbomTl;DR
They have checked out Last Epoch's crafting system and decided to copy it. Not saying it's a bad thing because it's not bad at all, but i yearn those days when Blizzard was a trend setter, not a follower.Comment by DemotedPlayers had the most fun in the beta, they will be back to having fun in the PTR. WoWs best game right now is anything but retail WoW. This ^&*! is crazy.Comment by DemotedTl;DR
They have checked out Last Epoch's crafting system and decided to copy it. Not saying it's a bad thing because it's not bad at all, but i yearn those days when Blizzard was a trend setter, not a follower.