Developer Blizzard Entertainment shared the gameplay trailer for the latest Diablo IV season, titled Loot Reborn. Season 4 is available now for all heroes of Sanctuary! It brought massive changes to itemization, two new systems (Tempering and Masterworking), updated Helltide, and more.
“The forges burn with renewed vigor, stoked by braziers to hone the steel of Sanctuary’s finest. Across the land, Hell’s expanded Legions gather and multiply, marshalling their strength to ambush wanderers that fall prey to their Helltide.”
In the new season, players are able to take advantage of the overhauled itemization that persists beyond the Seasonal Realm and affects the Eternal Realm as well. The main goal of the changes was to make it easier to understand which items are upgrades when they drop.
Adventurers’ World Tiers will also directly affect the rarity of the items earned. Sacred items or higher only drop in World Tier III, and only Ancestral items will appear in World Tier IV. Extracting Aspects, Greater Affixes, Masterworking and Tempering gives you more control over your items than ever before.
Helltide Reborn, the latest iteration of the feature, is inspired by the Vampiric Blood Harvest in Season of Blood. Now payers’ ferocity draws the attention of increasingly dangerous foes. Once you hit Threat Level 3, you will become Hell-Marked. That, in turn, leads to being besieged by a frenzy of densely packed monsters, culminating in a battle against a Hellborn.
