News Tag: Diablo 4 Season 4 Loot Reborn

Are you happy with how Diablo 4 is doing so far? Diablo 4 Season 4: Loot Reborn just launched a few days ago, and I’m really happy with how this season turned out and how much there is to do in this game right now.

Here, we’ll cover the story of Season 4, which includes meeting and joining Iron Wolves, defeating some demons, and going on a lot of Helltides. At the end, I’ll share my thoughts and opinions on the story itself and some changes that have happened during this new season. Let’s get started.

Character Creation

You might be used to season names like Season of Blood or Season of the Construct, but this time, the season name is just Loot Reborn. Why, you might ask? Because loot is the most important factor of this season. It always should have been, in my opinion.

Now, as always, let’s start with character creation. Choosing a class has never been hard for me, because I’ve been a Necromancer player since I got my hands on Necromancer in Diablo 2. And in this season, Minions are really strong. So I decided to go with the teal-themed Necromancer, giving it that reaper look that every Necromancer wants.

Main Story Begins

After creating our character, we will skip the campaign and go straight to Seasonal Realm on World Tier 2 difficulty. Obviously, as the game suggests, we have to raise Hell ourselves and talk to Doomslayer Pira. Let’s see what she wants and ask her about Helltides.

Call Of The Wolves

Our first mission is to fight in Helltide. Starting this season, Helltides can be played on any World Tier, not just Tier 3 and 4, so let’s go explore and fight some demons.

As you can see, when fighting demons in Helltide, they drop Medallion Shards. We have to collect enough shards to remake a Medallion and then present it to the leader of Iron Wolves.

Once we have collected enough shards, we go to Iron Wolves Encampment to talk to Soudeh. Once there, we’ll hear her celebrate her victory over Hellborne.

After listening to her inspiring speech, it’s time to ask some questions. We’ll start by asking her questions about Medallion, and then we’ll ask her some general questions to get a better understanding of who she is and why Iron Wolves.

How To Improve Reputation?

Now that we know the background, we can move on to the major story. But before that, let’s take a look at the Reputation board for this season.

As you can see, in order to advance the story, we have to improve our reputation with Iron Wolves. Every time we improve our reputation, we’ll be rewarded with items and materials.

So, how do we improve our reputation? We have to go back to the Helltides and kill and exterminate demons. By doing this, we can not only improve our reputation but also get cool Diablo 4 items!

I’m not going to show that kind of empty, boring gameplay here, so I’ll skip reputation grinding until we have reputation rank 1.

Wooden Wolf Quest

Since we now have Rank 1 reputation with Iron Wolves, we can go back to Soudeh and talk to her. She trusts us enough to even tell us a secret!

Now let’s focus on Wooden Wolf Quest and track down the missing caravan. Eventually, after a long journey, we find the missing caravan. There, we discover that these Iron Wolves are mad and they hear demonic voices that tempt them to betray their comrades for power.

We can’t let this happen, so we’ll follow the clues and investigate Cultist’s Den. Once inside, we’ll find some cultists who are performing some kind of ritual. After defeating them, we can search around and find out more about how Iron Wolves view their deal with the devil.

From the rituals and sacrifices they perform, we can only imagine that they are trying to summon a powerful demon to this world to give them more power. But for now, let’s go back to Soudeh and tell her what we know.

A Gift Of Robes

After going through many Helltides and defeating a bunch of demons, we finally reached reputation rank 5 among Iron Wolves. Now let’s go back to Soudeh and talk to her. Maybe she has a new idea about how to stop Iron Wolves that betrayed her.

Next we will start the quest, A Gift of Robes. Since another Iron Wolf has lost himself, we have to go looking for him. This time in Fractured Peaks.

Once there, we have to look for Telan deep in the forest. He has also accepted the deal and fell victim to the voices, so we have to get rid of him the way we know best. After defeating him, we will go back and report our findings to Soudeh.

A Voice In The Night

Is it possible that even Soudeh has fallen victim to the voices of the demons? What should we do about this? We are ready to put an end to this at all costs. However, not until we reach rank 9 with Iron Wolves.

To do this, we need to talk to Soudeh again and listen to her plans for the whole situation. The demons seem to be getting louder and louder, and we are running out of time, but Soudeh’s plan might actually work.

Soudeh asks us to meet her at a designated location to continue our journey against the demons. This is where the demons are summoned, or more precisely, the dungeon. I will skip some dungeons before we get to the demons, because honestly, it’s just a dungeon and nothing special happens here. However, during our stay in the dungeon, Soudeh will occasionally talk to our protagonist.

After a lot of fighting and corridor exploration, we will find the demon that has been tormenting Soudeh and the other Iron Wolves. Or, more precisely, this is the demon encounter. It is not as difficult as I thought. Now that we have dealt with the demon, we can talk to Soudeh again before the end of this season’s story after returning to the camp.

Outro

With this, the story of this season ends. Of course, as a player, we still need to visit Soudeh to get rewards that improve our ranking or reputation among Iron Wolves, because this is the whole mechanism of this season.

Now, let’s talk about the actual situation of this season. Everything the developers did with Loot Reborn should have been in the game from the beginning. However, in order to achieve that, we had to sacrifice the narrative aspect of the season. If you’re a story lover like me, you’ll notice the difference compared to previous seasons, especially Season 3. In my opinion, this is the best season story yet.

Overall, I’m not disappointed with this season, but I’m a little sad that in order to get such a wonderful rework for loot, we had to give up the narrative aspect of the content. Anyway, this is pretty much my only complaint about this season. As for the rest of the season, the items, the gameplay, the ending, everything feels great!

From the recent update notes of Diablo 4 patch 1.4.0, we learned about a lot of new content that will be added to Season 4 Loot Reborn, from itemization rework, to updates about the endgame system to changes in class balance.

Beyond that, there’s the usual new addition regarding the new list of unique items that will have the biggest impact on your builds in the new season. Not only will these new Diablo 4 items increase the number of options players have for their characters, but some of them are powerful enough to create entire builds.

In this guide, we’ll take a look at all of the new unique items coming to Diablo 4 Season 4, and where players can try to target farm them, if possible. Without further ado, let’s get started.

All New Unique Items

Diablo 4’s next major update will bring more unique items than usual, with 12 new items being added to the game. Each class will receive two exclusive unique items, and there will also be two universal items.

In addition, 8 new Legendary Aspects will also debut. Again, two of them will be universal and applicable to all classes. While some of these Aspects fit into current build archetypes, others have other interesting effects that can create some new possibilities.

Unfortunately, only one of these new unique items in Loot Reborn is listed as Uber Unique, and that’s Tyrael’s Might. It is a powerful item that when your health is full, it can release the special effect of the divine barrage and cause a lot of damage.

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My guess at this point is that players may need to wait for this item on the loot table, or which bosses may drop Tyrael’s Might. Because Season 3 made it clear to us that some bosses are often the best choice for farming special items.

Of course, all new Diablo 4 Loot Reborn unique items have the chance to become incredibly powerful. They might completely change the way you play, or just make your current build more powerful.

Here is the full list of unique items that will be added to Diablo 4 at the start of Season 4:

Applicable To All Classes

Tyrael’s Might Unique Chest Armor: When full health, your skills will release a divine barrage, causing damage.

Yen’s Blessing Unique Boots: When it casts a skill, it has a 40-60% chance of casting a Non-Mobility, Non-Ultimate Skill that is currently on cooldown. Note that this effect can only occur once every 8 seconds.

Aspect of Frosty Strides: When below 45-60% health, Evade Freezes nearby enemies, causing cold damage and applying Vulnerability to them for 3 seconds.

Aspect of Concussive Strikes: On a Lucky Hit, damage dealt to an enemy has a 20% chance of causing them to Daze for 2 seconds. The damage you deal to Dazed enemies is increased by 5%-20%.

Barbarian

Arreat’s Bearing Unique Pants: Ancients you summon are empowered. Korlic creates an Earthquake when he jumps, dealing physical damage over 4 seconds. Talic leaves Dust Devil behind and deals damage as he Whirlwinds. When Mawdac upheaves the ground, he ignites the ground burning enemies, dealing additional damage over 4 seconds.

Twin Strikes Unique Gloves: After casting Double Swing 4 times, your next Double Swing will hit 2 additional times, dealing 10-25% more damage each time.

Aspect of Fierce Winds: Your Shout Skills will create 3 Dust Devils, dealing damage to enemies in their path. At the same time, your Dust Devils will grow 5%-20% larger, and deal 1% more damage for every 1% increase in size.

Druid

Earthbreaker Unique Ring: Landslide will cause the ground to erupt in tectonic spikes, causing 0.6-0.9 points of damage over 2 seconds. What’s more, casting Landslide in this area has a 20-30% chance of causing additional Landslide pillars to spawn within it.

Wildheart Hunger Unique Boots: When you shapeshift into a Werewolf or a Werebear, you gain Wildheart, which lasts for 5 seconds. Wildheart increases the damage of your Shapeshifting Skills by 1%-1.5% every 2 seconds, stacking 20 times.

Aspect of Fevered Mauling: When you hit at least 1 enemy with Maul, its attack speed is increased by 1%-2.5% and you gain 1%-3% damage reduction for 5 seconds, stacking up to 5 times.

Necromancer

Ebonpiercer Unique Amulet: It causes Blight to fire 4 smaller projectiles that pierce enemies and cause Shadow damage over 3 seconds.

Cruor’s Embrace Unique Gloves: When equipped, Blood Surge consumes corpses to create Mini Novas, dealing massive damage. The damage is increased by 10% for each target consumed by the initial cast, up to a maximum of 50%, and the damage it deals is also increased by 20% for each corpse consumed.

Aphotic Aspect: Causes your Skeletal Warriors’ attacks to deal Shadow damage and have a 5%-20% chance to stun enemies for 1.5 seconds.

Rogue

Scoundrel’s Kiss Unique Ring: Rapid Fire now fires exploding arrows, dealing 15%-25% increased damage.

Saboteur’s Signet Unique Ring: Casting Flurry skill has a 15-30% chance of triggering Stun Grenades, causing physical damage to the enemy and stunning the enemy for 1 second. Your Grenade Skills have a 5% Lucky Hit Chance.

High Velocity Aspect: Barrage Arrows can now penetrate 1 enemy, and Barrage attack speed is increased by 10%-20%.

Sorcerer

Fractured Winterglass Unique Amulet: Casting a Frozen Orb has a 35-50% chance of causing random Conjuration when it explodes. If Lucky Hits, your Conjuration has a whopping 50-70% chance of launching a Frozen Orb at nearby enemies.

Flameweaver Unique Gloves: Casting a Fire Bolt through a Firewall will cause it to split into 4 bolts, increasing the damage of each bolt by 80-100%.

Aspect of Tenuous Destruction: When you have no defensive skills on your Action Bar, damage dealt is increased by 25-40%.

Flamethrower’s Aspect: It divides Incinerate skill into 3 beams, each dealing 70-85% of normal damage.

Outro

Anyway, these are all the new Unique items and Legendary Aspects that will be added to Diablo 4 Season 4. New items will bring new build possibilities to players in the new season, and understanding these will help you be one step ahead when new expansions drop!