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Diablo IV Vessel of Hatred Official Cinematic Trailer
New Trailer for the upcoming expansion (October 2024). It's....dark.
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I watched the Spiritborn trailer (which included some gameplay), and my first thought was....it's a lot like a monk. Since then I've seen a few articles that agree with me.
Basically, you run and jump around the battlefield, calling on animal spirit guardians to empower you in various ways: Gorilla, Eagle, Jaguar, Centipede.
I'll more than likely play one.
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I picked up the new expansion pack the other day, but beings so busy I've only had a little time to check it out. Maybe 40 minutes total.
So far, while it's kind of cool, I am not impressed.
If you play the expansion with an existing character, it knocks that character back to level 50. However, if you start a new character, it defaults to putting you at the same starting point, but at level 1.
That, to me, is a bit discouraging. Like maybe whomever was developing this didn't think things through all the way. Like they didn't care that people might be pissed if, for example, their level 71 sorcerer got knocked back to level 50.
Anyway, I think I'll just keep playing through the expansion with my sorcerer. Then see if the game will let me start from the very beginning with one of the new Spirit Borns.
Youtube animator Carbot has done amusing Diablo videos for pretty much the whole series
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Well, I beat the Vessel of Hatred Expansion with my fire sorcerer. The ending sets up for either more expansions, or a fifth game.
I was thinking of writing a more in-depth review. That would come later, probably after I've had a chance to play a Spirit Born character. For now, I'll just say I've had fun playing the game, but the story just isn't as good as the earlier games.
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First impression of the Spiritborn - kind of like the love child of a D3 Monk and a D4 Druid. Fighting moves and elemental spirit powers.
I started the one I created at the very beginning of the game and have him up to 17th level. He's....okay. Not the greatest class. The build I'm using makes heavy use of poison power. So while I keep hitting the bad guys, the poison is also eating away at their health.
You get 4 spirit animals to choose from: Eagle, Gorilla, Jaguar, and Centipede. Each one has its own theme. Centipede is poison. Gorilla is toughness and doing lots of thorns damage. Not sure about eagle and jaguar.
The special ability you unlock at level 15 is adopting one of the spirit animals of the class as a primary. In this case, I chose the gorilla. It does damage as thorns in a radius around you whenever you use a gorilla power. Then makes all powers gorilla powers.
I'm not crazy about some of the looks of the character. He has tons of piercings I couldn't get rid of. And the looks of the armor and helms they get don't blow my skirt up, so to speak. But that's just cosmetic stuff. Not really important.
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I've been playing the game off and on since the new class came out. They've changed a lot of small things as well. Adding runes for sockets in items. New dungeons. Changes to the difficulty levels, and how you increase them. Things like that.
They made some changes to the Helltides as well, adding both random and fixed locations where you can get hit by waves of enemies. It helps build up the little shards you use to open the Helltide chest.
So, just this morning I couldn't sleep and hopped on. They had another update, and all of a sudden I'm getting massive amounts of those shards. At one point, I had over 1500. Then I just ran around opening chests.