Diablo 4’s “insane” new Abattoir of Zir has players “done with Season 2”

❘ Published: 2023-12-07T03:23:01

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Diablo 4’s mid-Season 2 Abattoir of Zir update was never meant for the faint of heart. Despite knowing that, the punishing new dungeons have many players burnt out.

Diablo 4 recently turned a corner after an admittedly poor showing for its first season. The currently running Season of Blood’s new changes were incredibly well received and had players actively rooting for Blizzard.

Rather than stop at the new mechanics implemented at the beginning of Season 2, Blizzard has recently added a new type of multi-tiered dungeon. The Abattoir of Zir is Diablo 4’s answer to the hugely popular Greater Rifts from its predecessor.

Unfortunately, the intense challenge of the Abattoire of Zir has caused many players to sour on Diablo 4. Reddit user u/HipGamer cited the new dungeons as their reason for being “done with Season 2” and dozens of posts on the games Subreddit are echoing the sentiment.

I think I’m done with Season 2
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The Abattoir(s) of Zir is meant to be the penultimate Season 2 challenge in Diablo 4. It offers a powerful, upgradable Paragon Glyph as a reward but only the most optimized end-game builds have a shot of completing even the lowest tiers.

Another post in the Diablo 4 Subreddit has estimated that leveling this Paragon Glyph to 50 by completing higher tiers of the Abattoir of Zir would take “an average of 325 hours”. This is only a quarter of its maximum level of 200 and for that reason, players have already given up.

“Me and my buddies are just taking a break until season 3. Season 2 was fun, but grinding glyph XP just to say I did doesn’t seem fun,” one player explained. “It’s crazy how I was like ‘Oh yeah Abattoir of Zir is gonna be fun’, then I did it and was ‘yeah this ain’t worth the time’,” u/HipGamer replied.

“I don’t think I’ve ever gone from ‘holy s**t this looks fun content’ to trying it out and quitting the entire season in a shorter amount of time honestly,” another player put forward. Many others in the original post and similar ones seem to agree.

It’s all this guy’s fault. Lord Zir is causing all sorts of problems.

In Blizzard’s initial reveal for the Abattoir of Zir event, they claimed that the higher tier dungeons were for “the 1% of the 1%”. As it stands, even the lower tiers seem fairly prohibitive.

If you are looking to test your might against Diablo 4’s toughest challenge yet, Check out our guides for the game. One of them may be the difference between success and failure in the Abattoir of Zir.