Diablo 4 endgame activities explained in new Blizzard video

Diablo 4’s endgame is where many players will spend much of their time, growing and customizing their characters with new skills, abilities, gear, and cosmetics. In a new video released Wednesday, Blizzard outlined the various endgame activities players can expect to busy themselves with, well after they’ve completed the story campaign and (presumably) sent big bad Lilith back to Hell.

You can see the video in the following: Diablo 4 game director Joe Shely is joined by Kayleigh Calder, lead game producer; Ash Sweetring, game producer; and Joseph Piepiora, associate game director, in detailing the game’s unlockable World Tiers, Paragon upgrade system, Nightmare Dungeons, PvP, and everything else endgame-related.

Here’s what’s in store:

World Tiers

Upon completing the campaign, players will get access to a special “capstone dungeon,” Piepiora says. You will receive the first World Tier after completing that dungeon. It will also unlock new levels of difficulty as well give you access to new loot, and other advantages. Do you need to? Diablo 4This is what you should do.

Paragon System

Players can customize their character using Paragon, which goes beyond the basic skill tree. The Paragon board will offer “a lot more depth, a lot more customization,” Piepiora says. Calder noted that players can rotate the Paragon board to personalize the overall direction of their endgame upgrades — many of which look like boosts to character stats.

The Codex of Power is closely related to the Paragon System. Players can use it to equip Aspects which are earned by dungeons. Players can create items from the Aspects they discover. Diablo 4’s world more powerful, turning them into legendary-class items.

Nightmare Dungeons

Players can return to dungeons they’ve already played through and modify them with a Sigil. These Sigils, Sweetring explains, will “alter the play style and intensity of a dungeon.” Nightmare Dungeons are more difficult, have additional objectives, and will feature modifiers called Affixes. Piepiora emphasized one of these Affixes, Hellgate. This will open randomly in dungeons and summon monsters from other regions.

There are “over 120 dungeons to play through and find in Diablo 4,” Piepiora says, and every one of them can become a Nightmare Dungeon.

Endgame Exploration

The Overworld of Diablo 4The game will be modified to allow for targeted activities in Helltides. Players will have to face more monsters and deal with new environment effects like meteors falling from high above the ground.

There’s also a bounty system centered around a location called the Tree of Whispers, which tasks players with completing bounties in various locations across Sanctuary to earn rewards. Blizzard explains that these activities can be done solo or together.

The Fields of Hatred

Parts of the world of Sanctuary are poisoned by Lilith’s presence, and when players visit them, they can engage in player-vs-player combat. Players can earn items called shards in PvP, and redeeming them involves a twist: Shards must be “purified” before they can be redeemed back in town, and other players can try to stop you (and steal your shards) on your return journey. This system has a little bit of an extraction shooter feel to it. Diablo 4. You can turn in shards of purified glass at local towns for special cosmetic rewards.

Diablo 4 Post-launch Updates

Blizzard says that launch day is “just the beginning,” with Piepiora saying that Diablo 4 will receive a “living, breathing set of updates” for players to engage with after the game has gone live.

Diablo 4The launch will take place on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 on June 6, on Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5.