Suggestions for D4 Future Improvements

I just wanted to share some of my ideas for d4 improvements. This is coming from someone with an extensive Diablo(2/3) background and reached level 100 the first week and continued playing and grinding gear.

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1. Armory - the ability to save builds and easily swap between them. It would be nice to be able to swap to saved builds for other activities, such as fast pace low sigil grinding, sigil pushing, bossing, and just other builds to play for fun. Arpgs are about trying other builds and it's way too expensive to respec and requires you to rip aspects. Something similar to how the Diablo 3 armory functions would be ideal.

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2. Leaderboards - they give players more incentive to further optimize their builds and drive some competitive nature and encourage party play/optimization.

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3. Restructure NM dungeons - I think most veteran Diablo players would agree NM dungeons are generally not very enjoyable. They feel like you are literally doing Diablo 3 bounties (arguably the worst part of the game). This is an ARPG and most people would prefer to actually play their build (blast and kill monsters), not go free prisoners or find some item and backtrack to a place.. more than once.. please drastically increase monster density!

As it stands, you are encouraged to just skip most of the dungeon and run to the lame objectives. IMO the Diablo 3 structure for Greater Rifts are much more preferred. Just blast and after a certain amount of "progress", the boss spawns. Maybe in D4's case, you and your party members would just get teleported to the dungeon boss after earning enough progress.

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4. Increase sigil levels beyond 100 and make higher sigils more rewarding - the highest lvl shouldn't be doable within the first two weeks of the game's release. Especially if seasonal mechanics are added and there is even more power creep. The highest level would just become a joke and easily farmable and would get old very quickly. It is currently too easy to level glyphs to the max level. 21 feels too low, maybe increase them beyond 21 and lock them behind clearing higher tiers? Perhaps reward more gold from higher tiers? Pushing needs more incentive!

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5. Rebalance sigil dungeon affixes - many are basically unplayable or slow your pace so much you might as well salvage.

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6. More endgame activities - I'm glad there is something like Uber Lilith but it's not very rewarding. There definitely needs to be more endgame activities besides one boss and high NM dungeons. More bosses? specific uniques that drop ONLY from certain bosses?

There needs to be more things to do. Leaderboards would be a start and give some players the drive for competitiveness. I think adding the ability to corrupt items for additional stats or the chance to brick the item would be another great addition. This builds more chase items (good items with GG corruptions) and would likely create more longevity to a season. Also, I think we can all agree that the giga rare uniques are just... way too rare.

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7. Cap gold cost per item reroll - feels horrible to basically brick good items when you don't get the roll you're after and it becomes 50m+ to gamble on one item.

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8. MORE STASH TABS!!!

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9. Teleport to party member by right-clicking portrait - having to go to town and then portal for 2 load screens feels bad.

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10. Mounts need to be reworked - they feel terrible. remove barriers in the open world? reduce cd to remount?

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11. "unlearn all" for the paragon board - You shouldn't need to individually unlearn each point when you are respecing.

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12. Add more PvP content - The pvp is more fun than I thought it would be. Consider adding battlegrounds or even arena. More pvp areas with different objectives/rewards? Also please increase the people/area limit past 12. Encountering 4 player groups vs 4 player groups is currently next to impossible and this might actually be really fun.

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13. Level requirement for items - item level requirement shouldn't be based on the level you are at when they drop. Being max level makes it nearly impossible to gather gear for "alts" since everything requires lvl 100. It should be tied to item level or have some sort of cap? maybe level 80?

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14. Pets - Having pets would be a great cosmetic addition but would ideally be for looting your gold! There could be rare pet drops from bosses. You could have Uber Lilith as a pet! or other future bosses.

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15. In-Game Auction House - It would be so nice to easily be able to trade. Something similar to WoW auction house would be amazing. Having to trade through discord feels EXTREMELY BAD.

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I imagine many people will read this and think this guy just wants d3 remastered. But I genuinely enjoy D4 so far and am optimistic about its future. I just wanted to share my thoughts and ideas and I encourage others to do the same.

Regardless of anything, I'm looking forward to the first Season and what this game becomes. Feel free to add more suggestions in the comments or rip these ideas apart :)

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Edit: Added Pets (Thank you Evrews) and Auction House.

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