The Best Change In ‘Diablo 4’ Season 4 Is A Quality-Of-Life Godsend

Diablo 4 brought sweeping changes to the game in Season 4, including big loot tweaks like Tempering and Masterworking, in addition to a total overhaul of Helltides to make them the most enemy-dense activities in the game.

But there’s one change in particular that’s easily the best thing Diablo 4 added in Season 4, one that makes my vault cry with joy now that it’s able to breathe. I’m talking about the new Aspect codex system.

Previously, the codex only contained a certain number of base level Aspects that you could apply in an emergency. NOW, each The aspect is here, and you can now save your best aspect roll you’ve found to apply to all future gear to come.

This means that if you reach world level 4 and find a weapon with a max aspect stat that you want, but the rest of the weapon won’t work for you, you can take it down and it will retain that max level. statistics for the Aspect. Then you can apply this to a different weapon in the future.

I can’t tell you not only what a great “hunt” this is, but also what it brings to the quality of life of looting. Previously, my vault was probably 95% full of legendaries with aspects that I was saving for a future drop, or a future build that I wasn’t doing yet (if I wanted to switch between fire and ice sorcery, the ranged or melee thief, etc.). This meant you had to fill pages and pages with material that had a look that you otherwise wouldn’t have used, sometimes in multiple copies because you knew you would likely go through equipped equipment and have to once plus reapply the same look as you. just left behind.

NOW? My vault is almost entirely made up of unique items and… materials? That’s really it. There’s simply no reason to keep legendary gear just for aspects, just if it’s a great stat/affix alternative that you might want to trade for later. Again, this eliminated almost all of the clutter from my old safe and the Codex system is much better than what we had before. This reminds me a lot of an almost identical system in The Division where you could store similar gear modifications. I’m really happy to see this “stolen” here.

It’s a good season, if you can get past the non-existent story and the very boring leveling process. The changes to loot and quality of life are great, and it was definitely the boost the game needed. I’m addicted to it again for sure right now.

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