News Tag: Diablo 4 Season 8

I believe you should have known through experience 2.2.0 PTR or watching related information that Diablo 4 Season 8 will bring boss power as a seasonal power plan, and will also bring back the classic boss Belial who once showed his prowess in Diablo 3.

According to the known information, Belial is expected to meet you in D4S8 as a Lair boss. On this basis, if you have not played Diablo 3, you may still be in a state of knowing nothing about it-in fact, 2.2.0 PTR does not fully show the combat content related to it. Therefore, in order to prepare in advance for obtaining Diablo 4 Gold and boss power by farming this boss in Season 8, you may want to know Belial’s identity, combat method, and what role he plays in the entire Diablo series plot.

Although Belial’s final performance may be different from that in Diablo 3 after Diablo 4 Season 8 is officially launched, the core information should not change too much, and the following information should be able to provide you with some reference.

What Kind Of Character Is Belial In Diablo Series?

If you know something about the entire Diablo series, you will know two premises about the plot: first, the names of almost all villains come from the Bible; second, these villains can be divided into Prime Evils and Lesser Evils according to their identity and strength. As one of the most important demons in Hell, Belial’s design inspiration comes from Belial in the Bible, and he is one of Lesser Evils.

In the story of Diablo, Belial and the other three Lesser Evils Azmodan, Andariel and Duriel often conflict with Prime Evils, including Diablo, Mephisto, and Baal, and eventually expel them from hell to Sanctuary and imprison them. However, this is only part of Diablo’s plan to escape from Hell and conquer the human world and even heaven.

In the stories of Diablo 2 and Immortal, only Belial and Azmodan are still active demons, and the rest of the demons returned to the void after being defeated, so they planned to take the opportunity to conquer Sanctuary. However, not only did they fail, but they were also imprisoned in the soul stone together, except for Diablo, whose whereabouts are unknown. After that, Diablo continued to attack Sanctuary and Heaven until he was defeated and thrown back into the abyss at the end of Diablo 3. But his failure also led to the release of Belial and other demons, which may mean a more terrible future.

In the current Diablo 4 story, Andariel, Duriel and Lilith have joined forces to put an end to Diablo and his conspiracy, but Belial and Azmodan have not yet appeared. Therefore, it can be foreseen that if Belial really returns to Season 8, Sanctuary is bound to face a more hard storm.

Belial Boss Fight In Diablo 3

In Diablo 3, Belial’s boss fight takes place in the final mission of Act 2. After a short cutscene, you will officially face him in Imperial Palace. The entire fight is divided into 3 phases. The first phase is called “Even if you defeat me...” During this period, Belial will not fight himself, but will summon a fixed number of Veiled Sentinels and Veiled Evokers to attack you.

If you enter phase 2, “I will not be undone!”, it means that the previous summons are ineffective against you and Belial needs to be alert to you. Belial’s health will not be very high in this phase, but it should be noted that he will still summon minions and use the following skills, depending on the battle situation:

• Fly Swarms
• Melee Attack
• Reinforcements

When Belial’s health in phase 2 is reduced to less than 25% of his total health, it means that phase 3 is about to begin. During this time, Belial’s health will be restored to the maximum, but he will also become unable to move, and his skills will be changed to:

• Fist Slam
• Meteor Strike
• Breath

This boss is almost immune to control impairment in phase 3, so you must deal direct damage to him. Based on this, it would be a good choice to equip Xephirian amulet. In addition, the boss skill that really deserves your attention in this phase is Fist Slam, which is the most dangerous.

Belial In D4S8

Belial is expected to have three forms in Diablo 4 Season 8. The first is Apparition boss, which you can unlock double loot drops by defeating it quickly. Later, in Torment difficulty, Belial will continue to appear as a Lair boss. Defeating Belial in this case will unlock his Crystal Decoy boss power. If you can also defeat his Exalted Lair boss version, you can even get Eye Beams power.

In addition, if Belial will receive a similar story setting as Lilith, Mephisto, and Lord Zir in Season 8, you may also encounter his story boss version in the story quest. However, these and more related information can only be confirmed when Season 8 is officially launched.

If the information we provide makes you more interested in this boss, you can try to experience Diablo 3, or go to the forum to read more detailed Belial story lines compiled by other players. Thank you for reading.

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.

Since the news that Season 7 was extended and Season 8 was postponed, most Diablo 4 players have become more excited about Season 8. Although you have to wait more than a month to enter Season 8, the good news is that you will be able to experience Season 8 PTR first in a few days!

Setting up a PTR for a new season is a common practice for Diablo 4. This allows players who experience it to find some deficiencies through early testing, so that they can make improvements before the new season goes online. On the other hand, it can also raise your expectations for the next season through positive feedback from these players.

As for Season 8, although the PTR has not yet been officially launched, there is already a lot of surprising news about the PTR and the season itself. Based on this, we will introduce it to you.

Season 8 PTR Overview

The developer released a new “What You Need to Know” article on March 7, bringing you a preview of Season 8 PTR. According to the PTR content shown in the article, this 2.2.0 PTR will officially start on March 11 and last for a whole week until March 18. During this period, you will be able to test the new content of the future Season 8 through the PTR in depth, and you will encounter the return of Belial.

In addition to these new content or bosses, the most important change in the eighth episode shown by the PTR is that the endgame will become more difficult. Although this may make your Diablo 4 Gold farming journey more challenging, it will also exercise your game level. In fact, the current Season of Witchcraft, as well as the sixth or fifth seasons that have ended, were once considered having dropped too much difficulty and ruined the game experience.

What Does The Return Of Belial Mean?

This boss first appeared in Diablo 3. As a disciple of Mephisto, he showed great destructive power and dark power. He is a boss that you need to be alert to deal with. In the future Diablo 4 Season 8, Belial will return as the most difficult lair boss in the game so far, showing you the difficulty changes of Season 8 from his perspective.

In order to push the endgame difficulty to a new height, Diablo 4 Season 8 will implement a new lair boss ladder through Belial, and it is even said that this battle is more challenging than Duriel or Andariel boss battles you are familiar with in the past. Perhaps in 2.2.0 PTR, you will experience Belial’s ambush on you and the chaos he creates.

In fact, in addition to Belial’s return, various special boss powers will also be introduced through Season 8, which means that in the future you will be able to use their powers to further strengthen your Diablo 4 builds by defeating various bosses, whether these bosses are world, event or endgame (now called lair) bosses.

According to the information revealed by the current 2.2.0 PTR, it is expected that 24 Diablo 4 bosses can provide these powers, including Lilith. It can be imagined that in the future, these new powers originally from hostile forces will inevitably set off an unprecedented Diablo 4 innovation in Season 8, thus completely changing the rules of the game.

Why Adjust The Endgame Difficulty?

According to statistics, Diablo 4 developers have found that since Season 6, the number of players who can quickly enter the endgame and reach the speed of Torment 4 has doubled, and in Season 7, 50% of players have even reached a higher level.

Although this means that more and more people are willing to play the game, if the endgame and higher-level difficult content of an ARPG become less challenging, it may cause players to lose interest in the future, which is not conducive to the long-term development of the game.

Based on this, the developers of Diablo 4 will first show you the difficulty of adjustment of the eighth season through 2.2.0 PTR, such as the reduction in the drop frequency of legendary items, the increase in the difficulty level of Torment, and the changes in the combat mechanism related to the final boss, so that you can get real training in the next season.

Main Content Of 2.2.0 PTR

In the latest “What You Need to Know” article, the developers showed you the main content of 2.2.0 PTR, many of which are very important mechanism changes and are closely related to your game experience. Based on this, we will introduce you to some of the main contents.

New Mechanism Of Boss

As we have already introduced, the power of 24 bosses may be used by you. Specifically, each boss can provide you with 2 kinds of power, and you can get the corresponding power after killing the target boss. These two powers include primary effects and modifiers. You can activate up to 1 primary power and 3 modifier powers at a time.

The primary power will become the main component of your future builds, while the modifier power is used to enhance the primary power of your equipment to bring it to a new level. Therefore, it is recommended that you learn how to combine primary power and modifier power in the PTR effectively to find the best combination for you to enter Season 8.

New Apparition Incursion Event

This may be the seasonal event of Season 8. The returning Belial brought his minions into Sanctuary. You need to work hard to eliminate them in order to ensure the safety of Sanctuary and obtain gold and other event rewards. In fact, completing this event should also help you obtain boss power.

The above is the new content related to Season 8 that we can provide you with at present. Please prepare for the upcoming PTR!