Maybe before January 2025, you were looking forward to entering Diablo 4 Season 7 as soon as possible to experience the power of witchcraft, but now you may have become tired of these fancy seasonal powers! After all, players always get tired of Diablo 4 season so easily.
Fortunately, in order to adapt to your “bad habit”, Diablo 4 will also update the season at a suitable frequency to ensure that you can play new content in Diablo 4 before you turn to other games because of boredom. Although you will know the bad news recently that the launch time of Season 8 has been postponed, at least you can still get a preview through the 2.2.0 PTR.
Among all the content shown in this PTR, the most attractive one should be the available boss power - just like the witchcraft power in Season 7. This mechanism is likely to be the future seasonal power of Season 8, which encourages you to challenge all Diablo 4 bosses in this way, even the extremely difficult Lilith!
2.2.0 PTR Introduction
This PTR for Season 8 was launched on March 11 and will last until the 18th. It shows a series of new content that may appear in Season 8, such as after defeating the boss, in addition to picking up a large amount of Diablo 4 Gold dropped, you can even get their skills and abilities as new rewards!
On this basis, 2.2.0 PTR also shows you the new boss Belial by adding the phantom invasion event-it has appeared in D3, and through it and Urivar from the DLC, a new lair boss system is established to redefine the working method of Diablo 4 endgame boss. In short, all these signs in 2.2.0 PTR indicate that Season 8 will bring you countless boss battles that subvert your cognition.
What Does The Availability Of Boss Power Mean?
While defeating bosses like Andariel or Varshan has been one of the best ways to farm resources in past seasons, the new mechanics shown in the 2.2.0 PTR, which will be part of Season 8, will undoubtedly give you more motivation to fight bosses. Because the beauty of these boss powers as rewards is that you can get its power as long as you defeat the corresponding boss, rather than randomly dropping it like regular loot.
When facing a battle where you can’t confirm the reward results, you are likely to be in a more passive state from the beginning, especially if the difficulty of this battle is high. But if the game mechanics guarantee that you will get something, like boss powers, most Diablo 4 players, including you, will be more willing to fight. This will not only drive the activity of the entire game community but also make those daunting bosses in the past better integrated into the season process, such as Lilith.
In addition, it is expected that the use and acquisition of all boss powers are not restricted by your character’s class, so you can make full use of them to improve your Diablo 4 build, and the relevant modifier abilities will also increase the possibility of you benefiting from boss powers. What’s more interesting is that using boss power may allow you to perform cool moves like the boss in battle, making your gaming experience richer.
Lilith’s High Challenge
As a classic villain in Diablo series and one of the main bosses of Diablo 4, Lilith has a good popularity on the one hand, and the difficulty of killing her on the other hand makes many players want to retreat from her encounter in actual combat, even though the loot is also rich.
However, if Season 8 really sets boss power as the main seasonal mechanism, it means that you will be able to obtain her unparalleled abilities by defeating Lilith. It can be said that the more this boss scared you in the past, the more you will want her power in the future. In fact, with Lilith as a representative, it can be foreseen that when Season 8 is officially launched, all traditional Diablo 4 bosses will be rejuvenated, and it is very likely to rewrite Diablo 4’s boss encounter completely.
Impact On Gameplay
First of all, these new powers will improve builds, which will most likely help builds that were not very strong to become better, or upgrade already strong builds to become more effective, such as Beastmaster’s Training power that you can get in Apparition Incursion event shown in the 2.2.0 PTR.
After obtaining this power, Beastmaster’s active skill will make your summons or mercenaries taunt enemies and gain 40% damage reduction when you first summon them; the modifier skill will increase the damage of all summons by at least 5%, and if you have better items or a more comprehensive Paragon board equipped, this value can even increase to 17%. In fact, this summon-related power will be very suitable for Necromancer builds.
In addition, some higher-level boss powers will be very interesting when they are yours. Duriel’s Burrow will turn your evasion into an attack, allowing you to dig tunnels underground, immobilize enemies and deal huge damage to clear them. Lilith’s Wind of Hate skill will send a wave of spikes to the enemy, dealing 250% physical damage, and further increasing the damage each time it hits the enemy.
Although it’s easy to get bored with new seasonal powers, it has to be said that at least at the beginning they all brought you a lot of novelty. Future boss powers may have a chance to perform better in Season 8, and all we have to do is wait and see.
