For one thing, equipment is able to be ranked, and Diablo IV Gold then the rank can be transferred to a different item in the same slot. This means that a substantial amount of the progress your character makes is now shifted away from encountering exciting drops of monsters to an incremental grinding process that is colorless, in which you salvage vast quantities of unwanted loot for scraps to feed into your upgrade engine.
Furthermore, your items are now greatly enhanced by using legendary gems with enormous power. This is where the majority of complaints about Diablo Immortal's monetization has been concentrated.
In Diablo, an Immortal character is a legendary character with six gem slots. Each gem comes with the corresponding rating, which ranges from one up to five stars. The rating cannot be changed, and can greatly impact the power of the gem. Gems with five stars are more rare than one-star. Legendary gems can be upgraded and the most efficient way to do this is taking in other gems of legendary status. The upgraded gem could later be further enhanced using the "gem resonance" method that requires -you're guessed it –the addition of more legendary gems that is, up to five extra gems per gem slot.
If you're trying to enhance your characters -- and maximising your character is really what Diablo is all about -- you'll require a lot of legendary gems. You need to discover the perfect gems to suit your style, to get good star ratings, to improve the gems you haveand finally slot in each gem's additional resonance slots. It's endless.
Within Diablo Immortal's array of options for upgrading, currencies, and reward methods, legendary gems stand out as the areas where the business model bites the most. Blizzard and NetEase haven't been as crass as to sell directly through a luot device or gacha, but what they have created will be in a sense that is even more perplexing. Legendary gems only drop from the bosses of the randomly generated Elder Rift dungeons, and you can only guarantee that a legendary gem will drop by applying an legendary crest modifier the dungeon prior starting the dungeon. In other words, the rates of drop for legendary gems are extremely low.
In the absence of spending money on the game, you will only collect one legendary crest each month. Buying Battle Passes will only reward you with Diablo 4 Gold the equivalent of two legendary crests per month. If you want to get more, you'll need to purchase them from the source.
