Diablo 4: Quarter's update from December 2021 revolves around Loot and graphics

December 21, 2021

Diablo 4: Quarter's update from December 2021 revolves around Loot and graphics

As promised, the developers of Diablo 4 have already published a extensive quarterly update. In the December 2021 issue, it's about the most recently made progress, the Loot (Affixes, Legendary & Unique Items) and the graphics effects of Diablo 4. In the following we have summarized the most important findings!

General progress for Diablo 4

According to Game Director Joe Shell, since the last update, the team has achieved enormous progress since the last update, and to implement countless new content, graphics, balance changes and other revisions across multiple builds. Currently, a version of the game is tested internally, which represents a significant milestone for development. Why that is, Shell does not reveal us.

Objects in Diablo 4

In the first major theme block, Lead Systems Designer Joe Plethora reveals more about the objects that we can earn ourselves in Diablo 4.

In Diablo 4 there will be affixes for skill ranks. The more points you invested after graduates in skills, the more powerful these become. About items with the appropriate affixes you can additionally improve the skills.

Diablo 4: An item with an affix for skill ranks. Source: Blizzard

If you equip an item with skill bonus for a skill that you did not learn, you even receive access to this new skill. So you can try new skills before your points can invest in you. As far as the legendary items are concerned: legendary properties can appear in Diablo 4 on multiple equipment places. If you are looking for a legendary property, for example after martial arts (reinforces the skill of the barbarian), you can find this property on rings, breast growers or helmets. In occultists, you can extract legendary properties from an item and convert it to an essence. The object is destroyed. You can then use the essence to another legendary, which overwrites your original property.

Diablo 4: You can extract a legendary effect from an item and pack the gained essence in another legendary. Source: Blizzard

Unique items have a background story and should be unique. That's why the extraction and installation of an essence does not work there.

Loot depending on the opponent type

All monsters in Sanctuary seem referent to collect certain types of objects that they then drop more often than others. Bandits have seen it on dispute piston, crossbows and boots, but for a new leg protection, you should rather try the drowned trials.

The Paragontafel

With Level 50 you will unlock the paragon panel in Diablo 4. Your hero starts his journey through the paragon system at the central initial field of the introductory panel of its class. From there you will make decisions and work out to you. If your hero reaches a coalfield, you select a new paragontafel that you want to attach to this point. So you can put together your own set of bonuses. Diablo 4: On the paragon tables, your fields are free, which grant your hero bonus. Source: Blizzard The following field types are available on the Paragontafel:

Normal fields: These fields increase your values. Normal fields serve as connectors and often dive anywhere on the blackboard. Magic fields: Magic fields are rarer than normal fields and dive on the blackboard in groups, offering you strong as well as more diverse benefits. Rare fields Rare fields increase your power strong. When you call the Paragontafel for the first time, these fields represent important goals for you, especially if you have already very specific goals with your build. Rare fields also have additional properties that are unlocked as soon as the hero has brought an attribute to a specific level. Legendary field: After the first paragon panel, each new panel will have a single legendary field that is in its center. Legendary fields give your character a new legendary property.

Diablo 4: There are normal, magical, rare and legendary fields. Source: Blizzard

Glyphs and pedestals

A socket is a special field on the Paragontafel, which may include a glyph. Glyphs in turn are items you can find in all Sanctuary. If such a glyph is inserted into a Paragontafel, it grants different bonuses based on the number of active fields in their vicinity. You can also upgrade glyphs by ye dare particularly dangerous dungeons. Thus, the radius of its effect, thus depriving more active fields power or can give increased.

Offender and selection of panels

There is a gate array on each edge of the Paragontafel. Through your progress on the Paragontafel you will eventually reach a Morphed so that you can attach to your board another Paragontafel. All boards have unique arrangements of fields, new magical and rare fields as well as a legendary box in the center. Do you want to expand a Paragraphed about such a Morphed, you choose it from a list of Paragontafeln? The newly placed plaque can thereby also rotate.

The graphics of Diablo 4

Following is the lead visual effects' artist Daniel Briggs, who betrays us more about the video of Diablo 4, where he focused primarily on the fight effects of the game:

In a game like Diablo 4 it is extremely important that players can read situations correctly and not go down important information in the graphics thunderstorm. Therefore, the effects of skills, for example, staggered, so powerful attacks a higher visual intensity have as weaker. In previous versions of Diablo skills, effective area (AOE) or melee skills had a single claim area that has been applied to a single frame. Meanwhile, however, it is possible to animate target areas over several frames of time, providing designers with the animated target areas can vote on the replayed graphic effects. Increase on the type animated target areas, the accuracy of damage application. Battles feel impressive and monsters are thrown around by your brutal attacks. The game now recognizes also where their opponents meet: If you beat a goat man on his knee, the blood is also splashed out his knee. By the physical force that strikes the knee of the goat man, he is whirled as if you had kicked off his legs.

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