Blizzard has revealed the Diablo IV beta that took place over the last two weekends was the largest in the franchise’s history. Thanks to the official Diablo Twitter account, we now have information on how many times players died, which classes were the most played, and more.
The popular classes throughout both betas were the Sorcerer and Necromancer. The Sorcerer was available during the Early and Open Beta, while the Necromancer was only playable during the Open Beta.
In our review-in-progress of the Diablo 4 beta we wrote that all three of the initially available character classes in the beta were “pretty great,” saying of the Sorcerer, “The Sorcerer has a similar set of mostly long-range skills based on fire, electric, and ice attacks, but I found them to be better at controlling large groups of enemies (like with a chain lightning attack that zaps six enemies with every blast) rather than doing high damage to a single opponent. Plus, dealing elemental damage and freezing enemies in their tracks or lighting them on fire is great – they even have different death effects.”
We also called the Necromancer “among our favorites” out of the gate. “The fantasy of raising a private militia and making atrophy and death your wicked allies is wonderfully realized, and once I got aboard the dastardly train the Necromancer was all I wanted to play,” reviewer Travis Northup wrote.
A popular beta
Throughout the six days that Diablo IV was available, players invested over 61 million hours of gameplay, equating to a little over seven thousand years, and over two million players earned the Beta Wolf Pack.
With all those hours invested into the game, players managed to kill over twenty-nine billion monsters. But there were also forty-six million deaths recorded, with Ashava being the cause of ten million people dying and the Butcher being responsible for over a million players being killed.
I’m maining a Necromancer in the second round of the Diablo 4 beta and… I understand. Me and my skellies are going places. pic.twitter.com/h6mnBYHq1q
— Miranda Sanchez (@HavokRose) March 25, 2023
Even though both of these monsters were the main reason for many people dying, players managed to kill the Ashava over one hundred thousand times and the Butcher over five hundred thousand times.
For more news on Diablo IV, check out our story on how one streamer basically defeated Ashava on their own.
Luis Joshua Gutierrez is a freelance writer who loves games. You can reach him at @ImLuisGutierrez on Twitter.
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