Diablo 4 Patch 1.03 is right here, and it is a huge one.
In a prolonged checklist of patch notes posted to their weblog, Blizzard detailed Diablo 4 Patch 1.03, which included an infinite checklist of gameplay enhancements and a few hotly requested adjustments to handle the endgame XP grind.
Many points which have bothered gamers have been addressed, like rogues changing into invisible indefinitely within the PvP-focused Subject of Hatred zones, and disappearing corpses when utilizing Corpse Tendrils as a necromancer.
However essentially the most notable adjustments will be present in a bit known as “Expertise Rewards,” the place quite a few enhancements to the endgame XP grind will be discovered.
A significant concern with the endgame grind is that Nightmare Dungeons, which are supposed to be one of many predominant actions for gamers to sort out, have really been much less environment friendly for leveling than doing sure commonplace dungeons. One of many causes for that is that many Nightmare Dungeons are just too removed from quick journey factors to be value mountain climbing over to enter the exercise within the first place, whereas a second much more important motive is that Nightmare Dungeons merely did not give sufficient XP to make the high-difficulty exercise value it.
Each of those points are actually being addressed, as gamers will now have the ability to teleport on to Nightmare Dungeons, which have been tuned to provide off dramatically extra XP. Equally, Helltide chests now present “considerably extra bonus expertise when opened” and XP granted from finishing Whisper bounties has been “considerably elevated.”
If the patch notes ship on these adjustments, it ought to dramatically enhance a prolonged endgame grind that has annoyed some gamers in its sluggishness, particularly when tackling the actions that had been meant to be grinded weren’t essentially the most environment friendly technique to degree.
Diablo 4 arrived earlier this month and it has up to now confirmed to be a serious hit for Blizzard. For extra protection, try our in depth map of Diablo 4’s Sanctuary.
Travis Northup is a contract author at IGN.