Diablo 4 acquired a brand new replace in a single day that delivered a small, however efficient change to the price of Masterworking within the recreation. Extra particularly, Masterworking objects in Ranks 1 by way of 4 will now be inexpensive.
This variation doesn’t have an effect on the Gold and Obducite value, nevertheless, it solely lowers the variety of fundamental supplies required for every operation.
The brand new patch, model 2.2.2, rolled out on all platforms on Tuesday. Blizzard explained that it doesn’t need gamers to keep away from partaking with Masterworking because of its materials prices, which is why the change was made.
Obducite and Gold prices aren’t usually an issue in these early ranks, however trying a number of Masterwork Resets in a short time will rapidly trigger you to expire of supplies, regardless of having sufficient Obducite and Gold to afford the rolls.
The patch additionally disabled DirectStorage on PC, a function that permits for quicker load occasions when the sport is put in on a supported NVMe drive. DirectStorage could also be liable for some efficiency points, so Blizzard has disabled it whereas it investigates. You possibly can nonetheless allow it, in the event you should, you’ll simply want so as to add ‘-enableds’ as a launch command to Diablo 4 by way of Battlenet.
Elsewhere within the patch, there’s a bunch of bug fixes that have an effect on a variety of various components of the sport. Particularly, it addresses quite a lot of points with the Display Reader, which, since the Season 8 launch, stopped studying sure areas of the UI – together with the menu for the new Reliquary battle pass system.
You possibly can learn the total set of modifications on Blizzard’s blog, which additionally covers UI, gameplay, and Season 8-specific fixes in patch 2.2.2.
Individually, Tuesday additionally marked the start of the Season 9 PTR, which, amongst different issues, introduces a brand new endgame exercise, makes a number of modifications to dungeons and extra. The PTR ends June 3.
