Anyone who has played Season 7 will have noticed the speed at which you reach max level is fast. Season 8 will feel different according to Blizzard with Diablo 4 Season pacing being slowed down.
The speed at which you hit max level in Season 7 (9 hours average) was twice as fast as Season 6 (15 hours average) which felt like a better experience. In Season 8, the levelling pace is being slowed down again with it taking longer for players to get from 1 to 25, bringing it closer to Season 6’s pacing.
Currently players are getting a Legendary item every 3 to 4 minutes after playing for only an hour. This means that Legendary drops as you level are being reduced with Magic items now having up to 2 affixes and Rare’s 3 affixes in Season 8.
Now Magic and Rare items in the early game will be more useful as Legendaries won’t be dropping so prevalently, and with the added affixes, they are more useful. Blizzard expects this to smooth out the levelling curve for Season 8.
