Due to the nature of Diablo 4 being a live-service game, players have been trying to figure out how to handle recurring events since its launch: when and where the world boss spawns, when the Helltide occurs, and whether Legion events are similar. A rough consensus was formed fairly early on, only now they have gone and blown the bloody doors off.

A player named Shalzuth recently posted a labor crystal on the Diablo 4 subreddit, claiming to have calculated (with help) all the above spawn times.

"World bosses spawn in a repeating pattern, with repeating times and some blackout times," said Salzuth." Many world boss times are spawned and much data is documented (with some missing points). Below is the data, including the missing data due to my own server downtime. The time pattern alternates 1-2-1-2-2-2.

Salzuth details the blackout time period (if a spawn is scheduled for this time period, it will take place 2 hours later instead) and the order in which the bosses appear.

"The boss pattern alternates 3a-2b-3c-2a-3b-2c, with each letter being a boss. For example, there are three Ashavas, two Wandering Deaths, three Avaris, two Ashavas, three Wandering Deaths, two Avaris, and then loop back to three Ashavas."

However, while this seems fairly accurate, I am not sure if it is accurate in all areas. This is because we noticed that PCG eagle-eyed Sean Martin, in between slaughtering loot goblins, predicted a boss spawn that did not happen in the EU region earlier today.

I'm just impressed that players take this stuff so seriously. And we're not done figuring out the inner workings of Diablo, it's a well-known gag that EVE Online is a game of spreadsheets, but Diablo 4 players just say "hold my mead" to that, and now with this wonderful document, we have all the world boss spawns, which are also tracked down to the millisecond. What chance do the denizens of hell have against the Excel corps?

In other Diablo news, Blizzard is promising big changes to endgame content (the developers point out that most players aren't done with the game yet, but many complaints remain). Diablo 4's director has a simple message issued: "It's time for a buff."