The many buffs and debuffs you can gain and dull out really make strategy comeback into play this time around. Refreshingly Diablo IV rewards skillful players by letting adaptability be it’s strong suit, allowing me to more directly cater to my playstyle. No offense to my skelly bois but lightning just hits harder than bones. If you aren’t sure what class to pick the strong suits of each one become pretty apparent quickly, but for my money I had the most fun zapping everything in sight with my sorcerer than I did probably anything else. No matter which of Diablo IV’s 5 classes you pick, you’ll quickly find that success is found just in loot or even leveling. I spent a lot of time with my rogue, turning points into stabby shadow damage as I shadow stepped across the arena to stun enemies setting them up for a flurry of blades or arrows. Thanks to a new skill point based system, the reward gained through leveling allow you to explore, adapt and more widely benefit specific builds. There is nothing quite like taking your no-name, one skill having basic character and carefully crafting an unstoppable, demon slaying, killing machine hell bent on having the best fashion.

If you think you have any real skill playing random crapshoot PVP like D2 think again.A renewed since of progression builds on the already excellent gameplay loop of the diablo series. He mopped the floor with everyone of course (it’s an objectively faster and more precise input) and walked out with the 5000 dollar grand prize. He ordered it from Japan, they couldn’t disqualify him cuz it was a Playstation branded input device.

A guy walked in with a PS one mouse and keyboard (look it up, they were a thing). Went to a Quake 2 tournament in Edmonton Alberta back in the day. Everything was right there in the map accessible to everyone.

Physics based projectiles, long TTK’s and fast movement.

That’s why old shooters like Quake 2 and Unreal Tournament 3 are the kings. You need the same movement, health/sheilds, loadouts and abilities (or at least a carefully balanced sandbox) to have skill based PVP (also everyone needs to be on the same input devices as well) They do that so unskilled ppl can pat themselves on the back when they two tap someone from behind. The whole point is skill is irrelevant on an uneven playing field.

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