Trading is enabled between players, but with certain limitations (such as the inability to trade materials and Legendary / Unique items). Players can create clans while in the game and customize a clan banner clans do not offer any advantages to loot or power progression. The state of the world is unique to each player, depending on their progress through the campaign as well other variables (such as strongholds). The game utilizes a shared world system where groups may encounter one another, engaging in both PvE (PvM) and PvP activities dungeons are instanced, however, and can only be done with multiple players through the party system. ĭiablo IV can be played solo or in a group of up to 4 players per party. The second is through the game's seasons, however, seasons are self-contained storylines, unrelated to the core storyline. The first will be via expansions, which continue the overall storyline of the game.

The base game's storyline will be expanded in two areas post-launch. The feud between him and Lilith is one of the game's key plot points.

The Horadrim play a key role in the game's story, as well Inarius. A core theme of the game is 'hatred' the motif of hate consuming the world, and the hearts of the player character(s).

The main plot is similar to Diablo II in that it is a 'following in the footsteps of' story specifically, the game's player character(s) is/are pursuing Lilith across Sanctuary. Her grip on Sanctuary cuts deep into the hearts of men and women alike, cultivating the worst in its denizens and leaving the world a dark, hopeless place. In the power vacuum, a legendary name resurfaces- Lilith, daughter of Mephisto, the whispered progenitor of humanity. Years have passed and, as some semblance of regular life starts rebuilding, a threat as old as the land itself begins to stir.ĭiablo IV takes place fifty years after the events of Diablo III: Reaper of Souls, after millions have been slaughtered by the actions of the High Heavens and Burning Hells alike. After the destruction of the Black Soulstone, the defeat of the Prime Evil, and the fall of Malthael, Angel of Death, countless lives have been lost and the denizens of Sanctuary find themselves struggling through the darkest of ages.

Diablo 4 at blizzcon 2019