{"id":75777,"date":"2026-04-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75777"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:40:00","slug":"diablo-4-lord-of-hatreds-new-endgame-everything-you-need-to-know-ign-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75777","title":{"rendered":"Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred\u2019s New Endgame \u2013 Everything You Need to Know | IGN First"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>One of the most challenging parts of playing a new game is knowing whether or not the endgame experience will have the legs to sustain itself when measured in months instead of days. I fell prey to this particular pitfall myself after Diablo 4\u2019s vanilla debut in 2023, when I said some things about the endgame experience that I later regretted. Sometimes an endgame experience seems like it\u2019s great in the moment, then a couple weeks roll by and that content begins to feel thin, repetitive, or not nearly as fleshed out as you originally thought (again, my bad). I\u2019ve generally really enjoyed the endgame activities Diablo IV has had so far, whether it\u2019s the tree of whispers bounties from the base game or the super unique raid-like activity from Vessel of Hatred. But Diablo 4 is a game that practically begs you to play it every waking moment of your life, and each version of the endgame so far has failed to remain compelling more than a few weeks after launch, largely due to the fact that each iteration has directed you to a small number of activities that, while fun, just weren\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s with all this in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most challenging parts of playing a new game is knowing whether or not the endgame experience will have the legs to sustain itself when measured in months instead of days. I fell prey to this particular pitfall myself after Diablo 4\u2019s vanilla debut in 2023, when I said some things about the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":75779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75777"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75781,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75777\/revisions\/75781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}