Diablo 4 Players Want Major Changes To One Core Feature

Diablo 4 players are calling for some major changes to be made to events at some point in the future. While this doesn’t seem to be on the roadmap for Season 11 of Diablo 4, it’s one area of the game that some players feel is in need of an overhaul.

Right now, Diablo 4 players can take part in events both in dungeons and in the overworld. These events typically (but not always) tie players down to a minute-long timer, in which they can complete a Mastery objective for extra loot. For new players, these events are interesting, but for many veterans, events are nothing more than an inconvenience to be skipped at every opportunity. They’re never a necessity to complete a Diablo 4 dungeon, so those looking to get to the endgame content as quickly as possible will often just skip over them when the loot is no longer worth the time.

Diablo 4 Players Want To See Events Overhauled in the Future

A thread started by Redditor Hawke023 has raised the current issues with events in Diablo 4. As the player points out, most players are able to complete the Mastery criteria within seconds, and are still tied into a full minute-long timer that could be spent doing other things. This is especially prevalent in dungeon events (compared to local events), where the main objective is usually to survive the enemy assault. As a result, this makes experienced players ignore them, because, as Hawke023 explains, it “kills the pacing of the game entirely.” That the rewards are usually “underwhelming” is another huge problem according to the player.

Hawke023 didn’t just come with problems – they also raised some potential solutions, suggesting that events could be cut to just 30 seconds, or the timer could drop to five seconds when the Mastery timer is complete. Elsewhere in the thread, players agreed with the sentiment about events being slightly stale in Diablo 4, with another user raising the possibility of a kill counter while events are active that has “an incremental gold/xp multiplier reward that increases based on your kill counter.” While Diablo 4 events have been frustrating some players for a while now, some of these suggestions could possibly remedy the most significant issues.

Although Blizzard has a good track record of listening to what players want and acting on it, it doesn’t seem as though Diablo 4 Season 11 will have any focus on rejuvenating events. Instead, Season 11 will focus on Tempering and Masterworking changes, as well as the Divine Gifts and Sanctification gear system arriving as seasonal mechanics. It’s always possible that Blizzard will take a look at this a little further into the future, though.

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June 5, 2023

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