In this guide, we will show you the steps to fix the issue wherein Diablo 4 characters are feeling weak after power up leveling to 85+. This newest entry to the action role-playing game from Blizzard has managed to grab the attention of the masses in such a short span of time. Its dark atmosphere, engaging narrative, and replay value have taken away most of the limelight and have gathered quite a lot of positive reception.
However, as of late, it is getting bugged by a rather intriguing issue. Numerous users have voiced their concern that their Diablo 4 characters tend to feel weak after power up, especially to level 85 or higher. Some have even gone on to the extent to say that power leveling at level 94 seems to be 60% weaker in comparison to when they were at level 70, which speaks volumes in itself.
All in all, it seems that their character is becoming weaker with each passing level, which in itself is counterintuitive because, at higher levels, there is an obvious requirement for a higher power. With that said, there does exist a couple of nifty workarounds that should help you rectify or at least mitigate this issue at the very max. So without further ado, let’s check it out.
Fix Diablo 4 Character feeling weak after power up
It is recommended that you try out each of the below-mentioned workarounds and then see which one spells out success. Moreover, the entire credits for these tweaks go to Redditor Kutsus, so make sure to thank him.
- Get your defensive stats on Chest and Leg armor. The offensive stats on these slots are a trap. Would you rather increase your overall damage output by 2%, or increase your effective HP by double? Look for Life, flat damage reduction, armor %, damage reduction from close, damage reduction while fortified (if you are a fortify class, you will need it late game), damage reduction from distant.
- Get your offensive stats on Gloves and Rings. Life on rings and resource gen on rings are exceptions, but these slots are where you can pick up crit chance, +4 skill level to your core skill of choice, crit damage, vuln damage, lucky hit and other important stats. These slots represent massive increases in your damage output – you could literally double (or more) your damage output by having ideal stats here.
- Get your utility stats on Helm, Amulet, and Boots. Cooldown reduction, movement speed, life, +ranks to utility skills, reduced resource cost, these stats are essential to make most builds feel smooth and get max uptime on your cooldowns.
- Weapon needs it all – high iLVL, and good rolls on stats like Core Skill Damage, Vulnerable Damage, Crit Damage, Base stat (Int/Str/Dex depending on class). All stats on your weapon can be a very viable choice when you need more stat totals to unlock paragon board bonuses.
- iLVL doesn’t matter as much on armor/jewelry. A 725ilvl item that has ideal stats for your build will vastly outperform an 820 ilvl item that has junk stats.
- You need a lot of gold to reroll stats. All those sacred items you leave on the ground? That’s gold. Pick them up and sell them, it’s worth the time. Reroll stats on your items *before* putting a legendary aspect on them, as it will be much cheaper.
- Rubies in armor aren’t as good as they seem. Rubies scale off your base life which isn’t great when you’re getting 4k+ life from gear. Topaz and Sapphires (depending on your build and fortify uptime) are generally the best option. Some builds still use Rubies when they have a ton of unstoppable and do not use fortify.
- Level up your glyphs. Glyphs provide a significant portion of your character’s overall damage multipliers, and can have build-changing utility aspects. You can level them up to 15 pretty quickly, then start pushing the most important ones towards 21. Just farm nightmare sigils that you can comfortably speed your way through, even if they are only tier 21-30.
That’s it. These were the numerous methods to fix the issue wherein Diablo 4 characters are feeling weak after power up leveling to 85+. If you have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution at the earliest.
