To support this new system, Blizzard has made a number of other major changes to the way items, affixes, and aspects work in Diablo 4:
- Item stats are now simplified into flat bonuses like more damage and more health
- Items with stats like intelligence and strength will only drop for the classes they benefit the most (e.g. sorcerers won't see strength items)
- Legendaries in world tier 4 will almost always drop at max item power
- Uniques will drop in world tiers 1 and 2, and Uber Uniques can drop from level 55+ monsters—giving you build-defining items as you level up
- You can now trade Legendary and Unique items you haven't crafted on to other players, which will fully veer Diablo 4's economy into MMO territory
- The gold cost to reroll stats through enchanting will hit a cap instead of exponentially increasing
- Every Legendary aspect in the game will be available in the Codex of Power
- When you salvage Legendary items, the best aspect rolls are added to your Codex of Power for unlimited uses on other items
- Ancestral Legendary and Unique items (Ubers too!) can drop with stats already upgraded before you even start crafting
Blizzard has effectively pulled the most exciting loot into the earlier parts of the game so everyone can get a taste of different builds sooner, and shifted the value of loot for endgame players who know exactly what they want away from the moment it drops. The drawback, of course, is that the chase for the best stats and best gear probably won't have a definitive end as they do now. You will simply have to decide
when you're satisfied.
New endgame activities
All of these improvements will give you the extra power you'll need for Diablo 4's newest endgame activities:
- Helltide will show up in all world tiers with more monsters and a new summonable boss
- Andariel is a new boss who drops the same items as Duriel
- The Pit of the Artificer houses timed, randomized dungeons of increasing difficulty (over 100 tiers) for rare crafting materials and items to summon…
- New "Tormented" bosses who have a higher chance to drop Uber Uniques and will drop a Resplendent Spark (you need four to craft an Uber of your choice) on your first kill