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!
