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<p>Blizzard has started releasing short clips with highlights from the latest Campfire Chat on YouTube.</p>



<p>Yesterday, we&#8217;ve looked at <a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/news/diablo-4-season-8-adds-whisper-caches-shrine-changes-and-faster-leveling-adjustments/">Whisper Caches, leveling changes, and Shrine updates</a> that went live in Season 8. Today&#8217;s clip deals with skill tree and legendary aspects.</p>



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<li>The developers are looking into making major updates to the skill tree in the future. As they want to provide players with a polished experience, this will take some time to finish.</li>



<li>They&#8217;re also looking at aspects as they are closely connected to the skill tree.</li>
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<p>You can watch the short clip below.</p>



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Big Changes Coming to Diablo 4’s Skill Tree and Aspects—Here’s What We Know


<p>Blizzard confirmed they&#8217;re still working on the problem with previously purchased Battle Passes not working and players not receiving Platinum compensation for them. </p>



<p>Since the start of Season 8 and the new Reliquary system, players have been reporting not being able to use their old Battle Passes at all. Blizzard stated before the season even began that they&#8217;d need more time to fix the transition, but now we have confirmation that that&#8217;s still not complete. They are tracking player reports on the matter, and have people working on the issue. </p>



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Blizzard Update on Missing Old Battle Passes and Replacements


<p>Now that Season 8 is almost a week old, players are getting a whole lot of items. Now sure, it&#8217;s not quite as many as in previous seasons but it&#8217;s still plenty! This is around the time the recently added loadout-saving feature comes quite in handy. We can save builds and switch between them, having our gear and all skills/paragon points, and the rest instantly swap. Well, most of our build anyway. </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">A Missing Piece</h2>



<p>The Armory was added with Season 7, and players immediately noticed one pretty big thing missing from it. It was not saving seasonal powers. Back then it was Witchcraft that was the non-saved issue. Now here we are in Season 8 and it seems this has not been upgraded/improved, as Boss Powers are not being saved! Now sure, this isn&#8217;t exactly a big problem as it&#8217;s just 4 things to select between the main and supplementary powers. But it&#8217;s an easy thing to miss, at least until the wrong laser starts blasting! </p>



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<p>So when you&#8217;re making a switch to a new build, don&#8217;t forget to manually switch your powers! Well, if you&#8217;re planning to use different ones. You can check out all the available ones and where to get them in our <a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/guides/boss-powers-guide/">Boss Powers guide</a>. </p>


The Armory Does Not Save Boss Powers


<p>Diablo 4&#8217;s Season 8 is in full swing, but some players are raising concerns over what feels like a major nerf to drop rates for <a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/guides/runewords-guide/">Legendary Runes</a> and <a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/news/mythic-uniques-tier-list-the-best-and-worst-items-in-diablo-4-right-now/">Mythic Uniques</a>.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Players Report Low Legendary Rune Drop Rates</h2>



<p>Reddit user <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/hennyis1/">hennyis1</a> started a thread on Reddit, asking the community about their Legendary Rune drop rates in the ongoing season. </p>



<blockquote class="reddit-embed-bq" style="height:316px" data-embed-height="316"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/comments/1kdks3l/legendary_rune_drops_is_really_bad_this_season/">Legendary rune drops is really bad this season</a><br> by<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/hennyis1/">u/hennyis1</a> in<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/">diablo4</a></blockquote>



<p>It didn&#8217;t take long for others to chime in, and in fact, multiple players confirmed lower drop rates. Specifically, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Pandeyxo/">Pandeyxo</a> saw just 3 Legendary Runes at Paragon 200. </p>



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<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/bza4207/">Bza4207</a> is at Paragon 170 and saw just 2 Legendary Runes drop so far in the season.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Crafting System Feels Broken</h2>



<p>A separate thread added more weight to the discussion. This one&#8217;s about the crafting system and how broken it feels with the Legendary Rune drop rate nerfs. Crafting Mythic Uniques now feels &#8220;impossible&#8221; due to the requirement of 6 Legendary Runes per craft.</p>



<blockquote class="reddit-embed-bq" style="height:316px" data-embed-height="316"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/comments/1kdks3l/legendary_rune_drops_is_really_bad_this_season/">Legendary rune drops is really bad this season</a><br> by<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/hennyis1/">u/hennyis1</a> in<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/diablo4/">diablo4</a></blockquote>



<p>Blizzard has yet to comment on the drop rate concerns, so stay tuned for updates!</p>


Did Blizzard Nerf Legendary Rune and Mythic Unique Drop Rates in Diablo 4 Season 8?


<p>It&#8217;s time to grab that Resplendent Spark and all the other season reputation rewards quickly! The community has found the fastest way to get to max rep, and are already worried it might get nerfed. </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">&#8220;Delete This Post&#8221; Levels of Good</h2>



<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Krimmarkjell/">Krimmarkjell</a> shared a really fast way to get Season 8 reputation, promptly receiving many comments of &#8220;delete this&#8221; in fear of Blizzard nerfing the method. There&#8217;s nothing too fancy to it either. You will need Infernal Hordes keys, which you can get from Whispers, as well as Helltide Mystery and Steel chests. </p>



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<p>They can also drop from Nightmare Dungeons and the Pit.  Once you&#8217;re in a Horde simply select all Aether Lord options, focusing on those that spawn more of them. Each kill gives you a bunch of seasonal reputation, and there&#8217;s plenty of them if you get the spawn option early enough. Aether Lords are classified as bosses, which got their <a href="https://www.icy-veins.com/d4/news/diablo-4-season-8-hotfixes-may-2nd/">reputation gains buffed in a recent hotfix</a>. That plus the actual bosses at the end equals a whole lot of rep! </p>



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<p>Players are reporting already finishing the season reputation. It&#8217;s not impossible that this gets nerfed, so head on over there and get those reputation rewards and spark soon! Blizzard also buffed reputation gains from other sources yesterday as well, so you won&#8217;t need to only grind Hordes to get it done. </p>


The Best and Fastest Way to Farm Season 8 Reputation


<p>This one sounds pretty annoying, as many players are reporting their keybinds getting reset every time they launch the game. Even worse, some players just get any keybind removed entirely, not just the changed ones, having to rebind every time to be able to use the button at all! </p>



<p>There&#8217;s several threads on the Diablo 4 Reddit talking about the issue. The first part of the below thread has been resolved, as R no longer always pops up the Reliquary. The rest is still bugged, with players not being able to use certain keybinds at all unless they set them every single time they start the game. </p>



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<p>We can imagine the annoyance as the issues differ from keybind to keybind. Some are losing their unmount bind and just stand there in the middle of a mob pack on their horse as they get beaten to death. Others actually get their evade and core skill attacks/right mouse button removed! </p>



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<p>Hopefully, Blizzard can address this issue soon. Have you run into these problems?</p>


Players Getting Keybinds Removed Since Season Start


<p>Players are having an interesting issue with two Belial&#8217;s Return Season Journey objectives, as they can&#8217;t quite figure out which of the many Belials to kill! </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Four Belials, Two Kills</h2>



<p>There are two Season Journey chapters that require you to &#8220;Defeat Belial, Lord of Lies&#8221;. However, there are actually four versions of the boss. You have the one everyone&#8217;s definitely seen by now, the Belial at the end of the Appartition Incursion seasonal events. Then there&#8217;s Lair boss Belial, aka Supreme Belial. There&#8217;s also the seasonal story quest fight with Belial. Well, it&#8217;s none of those! </p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">The True Lord of Lies</h2>



<p>The Belial players will be looking to kill for the Chapter 4 and 6 objectives is actually the random one that can spawn after any Lair boss kill &#8211; or rather after opening the Hoard chest after said kill. For the Chapter 6 kill, you&#8217;ll need to do it in Torment 3 or higher. He will appear after the other boss is defeated and drop another chest from the killed boss. Also, it&#8217;s not enough to just kill him, as you have to open his lair chest to get the credit, which means using a second lair key for the boss you fought that spawned him. Since the spawn is random, you might want to put your Smoldering Ashes into the increased chance of him spawning. </p>


Which Belial to Kill for the Season 8 Journey Chapters?


<p>Players can finally feel safe from the pop-up of death! </p>



<p>Since the season launch the Reliquary was permanently bound to the R key, even if removed manually in options. Players have actually been dying to it as many use the key for their regular abilities. This patch addresses the issue and you can now unbind the Reliquary from the R key as usual. </p>



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Diablo 4 Season 8 Patch, May 2nd: Reliquary Keybind Fixed


<p>We have our first real batch of hotfixes after that single-issue one. </p>



<p>Hotfix 2 of Season 8 brings increases to reputation gains from bosses, as well as a reduction in Incursion boss HP. There&#8217;s also the always present stability improvements. </p>



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Diablo 4 Season 8 Hotfixes: May 2nd


<p>Blizzard have announced that the <a class="icy-gtnbrg-link" href="#"><span class="icy-gtnbrg-tooltip"><img decoding="async" class="icy-gtnbrg-tooltip-img" src="https://wp.icy-veins.com/static/d4/latest/images/icons/2DInventory_Items_Helms_Generic_30.webp" alt="Crown of Lucion"><span class="tooltip-spell-name" data-item-type="Helm" data-item-quality="unique">Crown of Lucion</span></span></a> Unique has been disabled and will return in a future update. It seems the item had a damage-scaling issue, which was causing problems.</p>



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Big Changes Coming to Diablo 4’s Skill Tree and Aspects—Here’s What We Know

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