It isn’t that large and features rooms with sparkling treasure chests overflowing with randomized leveled loot as well as lots of undead enemies, many who are ranged, as well as a lot of melee focused demons called Fallen, a familiar staple of the Diablo franchise. Our rogue eventually found a small town of people being plagued by monsters spilling from the nearby Icehowl Ruins, which serves as the game’s introductory dungeon. Each of these basic attacks can also be customized further by being enhanced by three enhancers each, also using skill points. Since you only have two skill shortcut slots at the bottom of your action bar, if we wanted to try out several of the basic moves, we would have to switch them out. Each of these four attacks can be customized by up to five upgrades each, which increases each attack’s power in small increments.

The game itself begins right after the lengthy, “Birth of Lilith,” cinematic, finding our character in a cave set in a snowy, frozen landscape. Our journey north involved dispatching a number of low level wolf-like Wargs and undead enemies. The Rogue, while equipped with two daggers and a bow, only has use of the daggers until level two. At the level up, a skill point can be assigned to one of four basic skills. Two of these are melee based attacks and two are ranged. Of Barbarian, Necromancer, Sorcerer, Rogue, and Druid, only Necromancer and Druid were unavailable. We selected Rogue, favoring ranged combat and entered the game.īefore entering the game, we were presented with a number of visual and audio accessibility options, many for colorblind players and dictation and text to speech options, which were a nice touch. It’s always nice to see developers making some effort towards furthering accessibility in their games. Our first experience with Diablo 4 was waiting in a 49 minute queue to actually get into the game. Once in the game, the character select screen featured the now infamous group of heroes standing around the fire.

Diablo 4 beta impressions