A Diablo 4 player has found a minor tweak in the settings that can improve the readability of loot stats and descriptions. Diablo 4's Season of the Malignant is almost here, and Diablo 4 Items the game's first season is set to bring new items as well as a battle pass to the world of Sanctuary.
Reading all the stats and effects of freshly acquired loot is a big part of Diablo 4, and players can often spend quite a long time weighing the pros and cons of a collection of new gear. Comparing equipped items with new loot and deciphering which item will best suit one's build is important, but sometimes certain stats can take up multiple lines of text, muddying the waters. This can slow up the process of reading stats just enough to make evaluating gear feel somewhat tedious, especially since players can accumulate fresh loot at a rapid pace.
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A solution has been found by a Reddit user named Hamiltoned who posted two images in the Diablo 4 subreddit of the same piece of Ancestral gear, Ghostwalker Doom Threads, side-by-side. On the right was the piece of gear with the default medium text size, while on the left was that same item with small text size. The difference may not be easy to spot at first, however, upon closer inspection, one can see that the Sorcerer-exclusive Frost Nova and Ice Armor stats take up an extra line and put a break in the text with the default medium format. The smaller text size keeps each stat contained on a single line, with exception to the imprinted stat, which improves the neatness and readability of the item.
Making text size smaller to improve readability may initially seem counterintuitive, as it's much easier to read larger letters on a screen. However, while this small change shrinks the overall size of the gear panel, it's made up for with every stat able to have its own line. It's also important to note that Diablo 4 doesn't pause. While many players first reach the safety of one of Diablo 4's towns before digging through their new loot, there are many cases where players examine loot out in the world or in a dungeon where they can be attacked at nearly any moment. Having neater stat text can help make that process quicker, thus decreasing the time that players spend vulnerable in these scenarios.
Commenters under the post, especially Diablo 4 Necromancer players, added that many of the stats and imprinted effects are so large that they look like entire paragraphs and can take a long time to read through while in a hurry. Perhaps Blizzard may take a look at further improving the readability of some item stats down the line. For now, Hamiltoned's solution of swapping to smaller text seems to be a sufficient remedy.
Many long-time Diablo fans were excited when it was announced that Blizzard would be introducing mounts to the franchise with Diablo 4, but now some players are asking the developer to make a major quality-of-life change to the ridable companions. Blizzard has shown itself to be at least somewhat receptive to player suggestions and feedback so far, recently revealing that it would be upgrading storage space in Diablo 4 following ongoing player complaints.
Following over a decade of waiting for a new mainline entry in the series, gamers finally got their hands on Diablo 4 in June. Moving away from the contentious, World of Warcraft-inspired art style of Diablo 3 and returning to the darker tone of the series' earlier games made the franchise's fourth entry feel like a return to form for many players. But despite receiving accolades for its revamped appearance and the addition of new features like ridable mounts, Diablo 4 hasn't been the flawless release some were hoping for. From progress-killing bugs to complaints about Diablo 4's dungeon bosses, players have expressed their frustration with multiple issues plaguing the otherwise-polished title.
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In the latest instance of gamers demanding changes, some Diablo 4 fans on Reddit are asking for mount speeds to be drastically increased. Calls for faster mounts came after Redditor TheeChamby shared a video of themselves racing on foot against a friend on a mount. Although the horse-mounted ally was able to keep up at first, TheeChamby quickly left them behind as they sped across the map thanks to some judicious use of their character's special abilities. While the other player was never more than a few seconds behind, the mount's slower speed compared to its fleet-footed competitor led some players to call for a speed buff for the creatures.
While some Redditors called for mount speed to be increased others felt the race wasn't entirely fair, with Redditors in the latter camp pointing out how TheeChamby was using their Rogue's speed buffs throughout. Other respondents felt the use of cheap Diablo IV Items buffs didn't matter, claiming that even when using tricks to increase mount speed in Diablo 4 the creatures are still far too slow.
