While I am loving d4 gold, the further I get into the endgame, the greater I want to start experimenting. That includes starting other characters, and that's why I have a level 48 Rogue, but I would like to try different builds inside my class. That…is a more complicated story.

Before the sport was released, I spoke with the team about attempting to blend Diablo 2’s unforgiving skill point system and Diablo 3’s easy switching and basic paragon points. They landed in the center and did say they thought you'd be better off making payment on high costs to respec everything instead of making a totally new character. Given just how long it takes to level post-50, I really realize that bit now.

However, I still don't love where we landed here. Say I want to test out a Bleed build rather than the Stun build currently on my small Barbarian. It’s not only switching out my gear, which can be a chore to handle. And it’s not only switching out my skills, which costs a little bit of money but is comparatively straightforward. But now with the help of the Paragon Board, the sprawling, maze-like assignment of stats and bonuses as well as legendary abilities, it’s kind of a nightmare to even think about doing the work.

One of the greatest additions to Destiny 2 in recent memory was that game’s addition of loadouts a year ago. It dramatically exposed build diversity making experimentation much, easier. But I am prepared to compromise here, and I don’t necessarily need totally frictionless switching if that’s not really a road Diablo 4 really wants to go down.

They can continue to make it a gold sink. Granted, I do think the sport has enough gold sinks because of the high costs of repairs, upgrades, and affix extraction and implantation later, but fine. I want to change my preset Stun build to some separate one I designed for Bleed. Charge me 500,000 gold or whatever so I’m not doing the work on the fly constantly.

But the thought of changing absolutely everything, as well as your entire Paragon Board, after which if you want to change back doing the work all over again slowly, it’s just much more work of computer needs to be. It discourages experimentation and herds everyone into the same metals, because they’ll just stay there and stay with the one thing they are fully aware of, will work instead of undoing everything just to try another thing.

I have that this is not traditionally how diablo 4 boosting has been doing things, past maybe saving some gear options. But we're in uncharted territory here, especially with this new vast Paragon system that needs a different kind of management. I just don’t know what the sport benefits by looking into making switching builds this involved. Both the sport and players would benefit from a more refined system compared to the one that exists now.