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Diablo Immortal wants to make you tempted to pre-order with a new trailer
After the beta, Blizzard announced a surprising number of changes to the game, but has now started the pre-order phase for the free-to-play offshoot of the Diablo series. A specific release date however, they remained guilty.
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Half an hour later appeared a post on the official website, who revealed several gameplay details about Diablo Immortal. Among other things, it should be possible to change your class, without losing your most important progress.
The mobile version of the demon chase breaks with a genre and series tradition that Blizzard had maintained since the first part appeared in 1997. Still, it might be the right decision for the different target audience in the mobile market.
That Diablo Immortal is definitely fun, but under no circumstances should it become a model for Diablo 4, Michael Graf addresses the issue in his powerful column on the subject:
Pitfalls of a Diablo MMO:
Diablo Immortal shows how Diablo 4 shouldn’t be
Free look, free class change
With the Accessories you should be able to change your appearance without losing the stats of the gear underneath. In contrast to classic skins, however, they can also contain special animations and adapt to the respective class.
Furthermore, your optics should change depending on the expansion level of your legendary gems dramatize. If you push your resonance value to the lim it, you can add cosmetic wings to your conspicuity factor.
Depending on the accessory set you have created and the gemstone resonance, your look should change.
However, the most important is the announced one free class change. This is to avoid forcing players to start over from scratch just because they wanted to try a different class.
Specifically, the following things are retained when changing classes:
- your paragon levels
- your item progression
- All gems
- All progression of Horadric Vessels and Reliquary of Hell
However, so that you also have new item targets afterwards, you still have to collect the legendary items for the new class yourself. Your previous gear will not be lost and can be re-equipped as soon as you undo the class change – because yes, that is also possible.
To ensure that the original class selection still retains a certain meaning, the developers are currently discussing possible limitations of the system. Just the sheer amount of time it takes to get a class perfectly equipped should result in benefits for those who remain loyal to a discipline.
We were able to convince ourselves that Diablo Immortal was already fun in the alpha and summarized our impressions in a video for you. If you want to try it out for yourself after the release, but don’t feel like playing on your mobile phone, then our practical PC instructions might help you:
Tech Tip:
Play Diablo Immortal on PC: How it works
As with any game for on the go, you have to think about the payment model here too. We analyzed Blizzard’s intentions in a separate article at the time, but the cosmetic accessories now mentioned should also play a role in the real-money shop. A definitive picture will only be revealed to us in the release version.
How do you feel about the mobile offshoot of the Diablo series? Did the post-beta changes and any gameplay impressions convince you to give the game a chance, or is it still a red rag for you? Feel free to share your thoughts with us in the comments!
