


Many people who saw the BlizzCon demo interface think that Diablo IV will lock skills to specific slots. In a Part I article, Lee promises to go into more detail regarding Itemization, but did update on other topics in the meantime. At the same time the team has been looking at giving players more options on customizing items, so that we can enjoy trying out a wider range of effective Diablo opportunities rather than looking online for the optimal build. Lee says he's still going through the feedback he's received on Itemization but he's been busy working out ways to add more depth and complexity to base items, including Rares) and methods to add more variation to item affixes to add a little more spice to these powers and make the choices more meaningful. In a recent post, he discussing how the latest version is progressing. Prior to this shift, Piepiora was a senior game designer on Diablo 4.David Kim, Lead Developer at the Diablo IV design team has been discussing how he has been drawing from the Diablo player community when designing and developing Diablo IV.

Meanwhile, Joe Piepiora has stepped into Kim's vacated role. Over on the website, David Kim, a Blizzard veteran and previously the lead systems designer on Diablo 4, has revealed he is now off the project and working as a Principal Game Designer on World of Warcraft. And the same applies to this latest update courtesy of LinkedIn. In 2020, all we've gotten are development updates providing highly specific insight into certain aspects of the game's development, which fans appreciate, but none of this exactly satisfies the quench for media and pertinent information. Many assumed we would at least get a second trailer in 2020, but it looks like Diablo fans will need to wait until 2021 to see the game again. At the moment of publishing, there's no word of a release date or a release window, and there's still no word of platforms. Since announcing Diablo 4, Blizzard has said nothing consequential about the game. A new Diablo 4 update has surface online courtesy of LinkedIn, and it's not the news fans wanted to hear.
