Diablo 4 is constantly evolving and adding new quality-of-life improvements and changes. Season 8 is around the corner with more upgrades coming, so let’s talk about one that’s sorely needed.
You’ve Got Mail… and It’s ALMOST FULL!
While it’s technically not “mail”, Diablo 4 does send legendaries/Uniques and boss materials you don’t pick up to your stash. And while the boss material part will solve itself in Season 8 (well, mostly, there will still be Hoard keys), the items are still a big issue.
The limit to how many things you get sent to the stash is 10 and has been since the start. Considering how dramatically the volume of legendaries and Unique drops has increased, this is no longer enough. The sheer amount of loot left on the ground is extreme pretty much after a few days. After a while players are only looking for Ancestrals and Greater Affixes, leaving a whole lot on the ground. That 10 item limit gets filled up pretty much immediately, and now you have a constantly blinking stash indicator when you’re in town!
A Filter… of Loot
We’re not going to go into the whole loot filter discussion here, but we have to mention this expanded feature would have to have some filters. Even as it stands now, it’s ridiculous that it picks up ALL legendaries. Players very quickly get to a point where they don’t care about non-ancestrals. And after a while, they don’t really care about non-multi-Grater-Affix ones either! At a minimum, this feature should be changed to only save ancestrals. Then maybe it can even have one or two extra filtering options for later in the game.
More Than Just Items
While the list of things we’d rather just get mailed to us is a long one, it’s a tricky thing to balance. But one thing everyone can agree should go to the stash (possibly in a separate incoming tab) is runes. Now, you already get legendary runes in there, so this would be a simple upgrade. These already aren’t marked terribly well and are easily missable, so being sure you’d get them mailed to you would be an amazing improvement. Boss materials are no longer a thing in Season 8, but keys for the endboss hoards are, so those should probably make the list as well.
The Functionality Is Already There
Not that increasing a number from 10 to a bigger one is hard, but we already have a bigger “mailbox”! The post-season transfer can hold all the items we might ever need, so why not this as well?
A Middle-Ground
Now, obviously, this shouldn’t move to players just not picking anything up ever and going back to a giant list of items that dropped. But there is a middle-ground solution that would improve missed drops and still keep the classic Diablo loot feeling alive. Whether that’s a specific (but larger than what it is now) number, filters, or something else entirely, is unclear. Hopefully Blizzard can come up with a solution, and we lose fewer items to the ground!
