Diablo 4 players are being slaughtered in droves by tuned-up World Bosses - because they're all turning up to "leech"
Oct. 19, 2023“Every time we fight it’s a slaughterfest”
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Diablo 4 Season 2is upon us, and among numerous other changes we’ve gotten much tougher World Bosses - so tough, in fact, that they’re turning servers into slaughtering grounds once again.
The newDiablo 4patch makes World Bosses more frequent, more rewarding, and more dangerous. The fullpatch notesexplain that the World Boss spawn timer has been “reduced from 6 hours to 3.5 hours” and the quality of rewards you get for beating one of these baddies has been “significantly” boosted. Then, ominously, there’s also the note that “World Boss health and damage has been increased.”
Players are having some good fun with the more destructive World Bosses - particularly now that they’re absolutely destroying the low-level “leech” players who cannot contribute to clearing the content but still hang around in hopes of grabbing a share of the rewards. In the image below, captioned “World Tier 2 World Boss starter pack” onReddit, we get a pretty decent sense of how fights against theDiablo 4 Avarice World Bossare going post-patch, as you’ll see a chat log populated by nonstop “[playername] was slain by Avarice!” messages, alongside a capture of the boss’s health bar with barely a tick of life taken out.
“Every time we fight it’s a slaughterfest,” asReddit user Question_Fewputs it. “But there are benefits to it. Now you actually get to learn about the different bosses' habits since they aren’t being melted in seconds. I didn’t even know the one boss with the treasure chest on his back summons a bunch of treasure goblins to distract everyone when his health is low. It’s a bit harder for low levels to freeload a few kills though. If the people there are too low I’d rather just reload the zone rather than die and have to repair my gear for nothing.”
It’s a far cry from the days whenDiablo 4 players were slaying World Bosses in the span of seconds, and broadly it seems fans are pretty happy with the state of the game post-patch, since discussion forums are now filled with afair bit of praisefor the new season. Given how dismal the community has sounded over the past few months, that’s already a marked improvement.
Praise for Season 2 hasn’t been enough to mitigate themixed reviews Diablo 4 has received on Steam.
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