So let me get this straight. I need to jump through loops in the over world to acquire these pearls to gain a blessing by a statue in a special “vault” dungeon.
But said dungeon is littered with traps and if you’re hit by any of them you lose your ward?
Why? Who thought this was a fun idea?
Get gear → do ‘x’, ‘y’ and ‘z’ to gain access to ‘v’.
Now, forget about your gear and focus 10 000% to not get hit by
popup traps littered through a “mysterious seasonal” dungeon.
Got hit 3 times in less than a second?
Aaaaawe, sorry, you need to redo.
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I got in to season 3, thinking it might be better as youd expect every season to make the game better when it comes to this game. I already gave up on it, its too much the same. They pretend new season theme is something special and new, but it isnt. Never will be. Itll always be copy of the previous. The “new enemies” are behaving exactly like any other would, theres just nothing new in any of the seasons other than the surface. Once you dip your toe deeper and see whats beneath, theres no interest to continue.
Might be better to just wait straight up for PoE2 release, see how Diablo 4 is at that point and if (most likely not even if) the game hasnt gotten any more interesting and is the same shallow garbage; time to change games.
EDIT:
No wait, my bad, they did nerf the only fun part of sorcerer so now sorcs suck again. They did still keep licking barb, druid and necro buttholes so wet even a rogue could slide right up there without problems.
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The worst idea in a gameplay, that could ever come to someone’s head.
What else is coming? Time-limited missions? Stealth missions with no fighting? Stop ruining the game, damn it. That traps are not fun. Not fun at all. It’s Diablo, not an Indiana Jones simulator.
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And this design is super boring as a melee build, with little movement skills aka druid.
I wonder how they had fun in testing these seasons. My faith in the devs is gone
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I got to level 27 and got bored already. Your right this is not fun at all. The vaults are a waste of time to level in so your better off leveling normally. Palworld is giving me more enjoyment and it doesn’t cost much more than the D4 season pass !!
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Yep, this season feels complete trash. I quite enjoyed season of blood, but this one is plain boring. I am done, just uninstalled the game and will not be coming back.
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Sadly the same as the above posts. I was looking forward to the new season level 30 and was just bored. What a terrible idea this season is. It seems like season 2 was just a fluke.
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Was pretty cool with vampires, yea. Good powers also, could get some stuff done. A few options, not too many but there were a few to try.
This one? Robot spiders? Does it give me attack speed or crit or something? No? But it got mockery, which is ironic.
Yeah, this will fail. But there’s always season 4 and the great itemization revamp. Just half a year out, dw… super chill. Suck on this treat meanwhile. Who doesn’t love traps and pets? I wanna re-run dungeons for hours trying to navigate through hard-mode precision-requiring trap mazes with my controller, that’s why I bought the game! It’s my dream come true.
And then, just before Christmas 2035, season 15 finally hits and this time it will be all troll.
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blizz be like 'yo we know you hate ‘em slowdowns, knockbacks, traps and other annoyances that slow your progres, so we put a 100000 of them in this season! enjoy! UwU’
the more i play this season the more i ask myself ‘has anyone from the design team played this stuff for more than 30 minutes?’
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So basically if you’ve got delay because you live in a place that has no servers close by you’re pretty much screwed this season, hopefully they’ll change this mechanic in some later update, because when there’s not much you can do about it, it’s just not fair. But with policies like in D3 where you get killed on hardcore because Blizzard had some server issues (confirmed ones by them), it’s still your fault, you signed the contract.
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I managed 1 vault run with 3 Wards left… i have no idea how, i can’t repeat that (i played all the vaults in that gateway), i tried the loom vault with the wards… I had 10 before the last boss… by the time i killed him i had a epic repair bill and no wards… at early levels so like at lvl 50 that boss is not possible to kill with wards… especially as a ball lightning sorc it took ages to kill him… Unless you got some seriously high end movement speed then it may be doable as you can run around all the stupid traps… Though how unfair is that bosses RNG… he spawns the ice like trap repeatedly. like 5 times in a row… thanks for making it basically an RNG dependent fight.
I’ll see how stuff goes at lvl 100 but yeah i’ll agree with the general census here the vaults suck… avoiding traps is just painful, made a million times worse with rubber banding and lag spikes and general RNG.
After last night I’m going to skip that Vault of Loom till after lvl 100 as I just can’t be bothered with content like that.
There is also no useful notification/indication if you still have wards… apart from a little icon top right some of the traps repeatedly hit you in like seconds before you even notice your in a trap. I mean a big DBM warning like “3”, “2”, “1” or something on your screen in big ass font would be easier to notice or see, some of those rooms full of traps are just horrible you don’t have time to look at your ward level… if you look you lose all your wards…its pretty stupid.
Also considering D4 has never been a day without lag since its release this Season I foresee being absolutely terrible, lag + traps = no wards.
I’ll try a nightmare vault tonight, but if its basic loot without wards is rubbish then the seasonal content is pretty redundant (for me anyway) as that’s a big factor in this season. I usually don’t get angry enough to rage quit, but these traps… and that loom vault oh damn… i was close.
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It’s not that bad. You play some ‘overworld’ and get some potential bonus rewards in ‘dungeon’. Simple gameplay loop.
What’s ridiculous about it is that it’s IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO loose the ward in the last dungeon room, because 90% of the floor is a trap, there are missile traps, tons of enemies, VFX, CC and you just CANNOT POSSIBLY SEE.
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Yeah the last room is pretty nuts and just forces you to waste pearls. Btw is there no way to see how many pearls of warding you have ? I searched the whole game and looked for it in the internet but everything is only about “where to get them” and not “where to see how many you have”.
Looks like nobody cares about that… but it irks me pretty hard.
I just run the vaults as I would any ND in S2 - I flame shield skip and teleport through the entire dungeon and only kill elites and end boss - loot the chest - TP to town rinse and repeat
I am positive this is more loot per hour than actually doing the ward thing
I dont even run to pick up the shattered stones I only get those that are in my path that is how little I care abou the new system tbh…
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Btw is there no way to see how many pearls of warding you have ?
Open char screen, “Stats and Materials” button on the left, choose bag icon tab (2nd one) should show you all seasonal materials first - Shattered stones, elemental cores and then Pearls of Warding.
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Agree boooored season, especially after vampire season. Loot is not enough, mobs at the start are also not enough.
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Robot jumps on your back like a dope backpack, give us cosmetics under back transmog tab, imbue is with those powers, buff those power roughly x10.
Boom, epic season of the construct.
Oh yeah also, one more row of stones to allow us to completely avoid and negate the traps in the vaults, for those that hate them.
I came here to say that this is a completely effing stupid mechanic and makes me not wanting to do vaults. Congrats to whoever thought of it
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Another major fail from the clown dev’s at blizzard. how can you possible not get hit by trap when there are like 1000 different actions happening…
They really just can’t release something good. what are those mechanical stuff that look like Protoss Dragoon from StarCraft. that as nothing to do with Diablo…
Another major fail blizzard