DIABLO 4 SEASON 10 HYPE!! - PTR & PALADINS?
Hello everyone and welcome back to the Apprentice Corner!! We have done all we’ve set out to do in Season 9, even getting Dad to play some with me (more rare than any item in the entire game 🤣🤣). I was on the road for some work trips and come back to some Season 10 PTR news, and apparently the Paladin has been leaked as well?!?! Lets take a look….
As stated in the last MazeCast, Season 6/VOH launch was kind of a nothing burger for most (including me). The Spiritborn thematically never interested me, and was of course OP at launch and then nuked to mediocrity until the release of the Balazan’s unique this past season. Everyone since then has clamored for a return to form in a way to a darker more true to Diablo roots in the form of a Paladin (I personally wouldn’t mind another crack at the D3 witchdoctor, but I get the appeal of the Paladin). Well, we Paladin enjoyers got some cool news this week with a supposed Paladin leak in the game files for an upcoming patch, the below screenshot is from the linked WoWhead article:
As you can see, the vendor tags were changed to include Paladin text. Could this be some kind of new item or aspect? It would shock me if they called an item Paladin after all the uproar for the class to be included.
Season 10 will be the Season they “rework” Infernal Hordes…honestly, compasses were some of the better content imo in endgame. No annoying objectives, just horde mode with guaranteed obducite, gold or gear. Rinse and repeat. with a halfway geared duo or trio farming these on T4. It looks like ALOT of the changes are just improving the overall experience with better offerings and drops, QoL changes, hopefully bug fixes (SHOW ME HOW MUCH DAMN AETHER I HAVE!!!). Aside from an overall better experience with compasses, it also looks like a TON of new mechanics have been added like mini-bosses and “Chaos Monsters”, and we look to have a new seasonal/borrowed power in these new Chaos Power previewed below, so we’ll definitely have to check that out and report back with PTR impressions!
Also included in this update, which I’m assuming you’ll earn a lot of this through killing Chaos Monsters is “Chaos Armor” which on the surface sounds like just a modifier to your gear…but I’m going to ask you to go deeper in your thinking here….Chaos Armor are new modified uniques that change the armor/weapon/jewelry slot a certain Unique normally drops in…so the list below are all Druid Uniques (you can see the full list of each classes possible drops on the D4 Patch notes link below…around here we only talk Druid…mostly!), take Tempest Roar for example, it’s a unique helm, always has been, BUT….now it can drop as another slot. For reference check out the screenshots below. This change of slot for some Druid Uniques is sure to shake up a lot of builds and the meta as a whole. Lightbringer doesn’t HAVE to be a 2H mace now, and you can run another 2H mace with min-maxed tempers, that alone is a HUGE buff, or a Tempest Roar build with an Heir of Perdition helm….this season will really be something and is absolutely a theory crafters dream! Can’t wait to get some time on this under my belt and touch base back here with all the crazy new synergies and builds!
Druid Chaotic Uniques
Airidah’s Inexorable Will
Earthbreaker
Fleshrender
Greatstaff of the Crone
Hunter’s Zenith
**Kilt of Blackwing** (New Unique) WHATS THIS?!?!?!
Malefic Crescent
Mjolnic Ring
Rotting Lightbringer
Tempest Roar
The Basilisk
Vasily’s Prayer
Example of Chaotic Uniques below:
