Diablo 3 only had three, while D2 had four, with rogues, town guards, Iron Wolf sorcerers, and Barbarians. It’s reasonable to say there should be more variety in followers. So if we’re going to have a follower system in Diablo 4, how should it work? Once you start pushing higher levels of Torment, the follower feels utterly superfluous. While it’s fair to say that followers are far and away more interactive than mercenaries were - listening to the Enchantress talk about Kormac with my Barbarian is hilarious - it’s also fair to state that I never needed a follower to do well in the game, and I often end up with them dead unless I have an item equipped that keeps them from actually dying. Indeed, some players even see this as a positive, stating that the amount of player control over the mercenary is far greater than the limited control over the followers, with a few items of gear and a few talent selections being the only means to control what the follower adds to your playthough and the follower simply not having much of an impact on the experience as a whole. Diablo 2 made the mercenary practically imperative for soloing, to the point where they were often necessary for certain classes to overcome specific damage resistances or even immunities that rendered certain builds less than capable. While we haven’t heard much from the development team on Diablo 4 about whether or not the game will have such a system - the game’s focus is on a more open-world, multiplayer experience - it’s worth considering what could be preserved from those systems and make an appearance in Diablo 4.įirst, let’s consider that both systems had flaws.
The latter system featured followers who provided quests and were fully voiced characters but were not as generally powerful or important to actually succeeding in the game as the mercenaries were.
Some players prefer the Diablo 2 system of mercenaries, while others liked the three-follower system of Diablo 3.
Both Diablo 2 and Diablo 3 had some form of follower characters in the gameplay.
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