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  Diablo 4’s new Spiritborn class lets you be an animalistic martial artist

  Polygon - Ryan Gilliam

  Blizzard fully unveiled Diablo 4’s new class — the Spiritborn — via a livestream on Thursday. The Spiritborn is the first wholly new class to come to a numbered Diablo game in over a decade, and will arrive in Sanctuary as part of the Vessel of Hatred expansion on Oct. 8. The developers behind the …

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  After playing Diablo 4’s new Spiritborn class, I’m glad it’s coming before Paladin

  Polygon - Ryan Gilliam

  Rumors of a Paladin or “sword-and-board” class have been circling around Diablo 4 since before it was released. Of the five original classes, the “holy warrior” archetype is the one that the acclaimed ARPG has truly felt like it’s been missing. As a huge Crusader fan in Diablo 3, and an enjoyer of …

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  You might need to unlock a new difficulty level to get the most from Diablo 4’s season 5

  Polygon - Oli Welsh

  Blizzard has given a fairly comprehensive picture of what to expect from Diablo 4’s fifth season in advance of a weeklong test on the game’s Public Test Realm (PTR). The as-yet-untitled season 5, which begins on Aug. 6, will offer a new quest line that sounds as if it will lead into Vessel of Hatred, …

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  Diablo 4’s Vessel of Hatred expansion release date announced at Xbox showcase

  Polygon - Cass Marshall

  The first expansion for Diablo 4, Vessel of Hatred will be released on Oct. 8, 2024. Blizzard first revealed the upcoming expansion at the Xbox Games Showcase. Blizzard announced the expansion back at BlizzCon 2023, where we learned it would include a new region, new class, seasonal play, and …

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  Diablo 4 never had enough treasure goblins. Next week, that changes

  Polygon - Oli Welsh

  Diablo 4 is definitely on the right track after its current season, titled Loot Reborn, made sweeping revisions to the item game of Blizzard’s flagship action role-playing game. But it still lags behind its predecessors in a few areas, one of them being its relative lack of treasure goblins — those …

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  Diablo 4 is finally great

  Polygon - Oli Welsh

  When a live-service game undergoes a massive systems overhaul, it’s often characterized as a reversal, a change of course, even a mea culpa — particularly if the game had been headed in a direction the community didn’t like. But a truly successful update of this type is one that enables a game to …