09:17 AM (EST) - Expansion Site is up!!!
09:00 AM (EST) - The 10-minute gameplay Crusader video is replaced with a better quality version!
8:59 AM (EST) - A screenshot of the Crusader's inventory added
8:29 AM (EST) - Blizzard confirms changes to game systems will come as a free patch!
8:26 AM (EST) - Lylirra answering Reaper of Souls questions on Twitter - Tweets added
Reaper of Souls Cinematic
Reaper of Souls Teaser
Official Site
The site looks pretty empty right now, but you can check out the female version of the Crusader there!
Here's what's new:
- New Class: The Crusader
- New Feature: Loot Runs
- Loot 2.0
- The Mystic
- New Level Cap - 70
- New Act
- Major Paragon Changes
- New Monsters
New Class - The Crusader
- Inspired by the Paladin.
- Focuses on Shields. Uses Flails as weapons.
- Mid-range melee character.
- Uses the resource "Wrath"
Image Courtesy of Arreat.de
New Feature - Loot Runs
- 15-20 minute completely random dungeons!
- Random weather!
- Random enemies!
- Random boss!
- Multitiered (severa levels deep)!
Loot 2.0
A comparison was given between how items in Act III drop now and how they'll drop in the expansion:
- Now: 256 white, 399 blue, 275 yellow and one legendary items.
- Then: 73 white items, 266 blue items, 83 yellow items and 7 legendary items!
- Legendary will be build-changers as seen in the screenshots below
Image Courtesy of Diablo3.judgehype.com
Images Courtesy of Arreat.de
Image Courtesy of Diablo3.judgehype.com
The Mystic
- Can Transmogrify items, so you don't have to sacrifice looks for power.
- Item Enchanting - allows to reroll one of the affixes on a rare/legendary item.
New Level Cap - 70
- Every class gets new Skills and Runes
- Which means a fresh economy and new power-cap as well
New Act
- Featuring what looks like Westmarch, with lots of graveyards and other fun places!
Major Paragon Changes
- Is now Account wide.
- No longer has a cap
- Seems to have Stat Allocation tied to it
Image Courtesy of Diablo3.judgehype.com
New Monsters
New monsters are introduced - The Seraph, Summoner of the Dead, Executioner and Death Maiden.
Images Courtesy of Arreat.de
Lylirra Answering RoS Questions
Originally Posted by Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
(Interesting, seems you 'Assign' Paragon Points to a character. So you earn them with 1 hero but can put them onto another? #D3RoS
@Narull Correct. All normal characters on an account will share a Paragon level, same for Hardcore, as well as earned Paragon Points. (Twitter)
What about dying in HC? How will that affect your paragon levels? Loss of applied points to that specific character?
@eikEn_ @Narull No loss of points or level in those situations. Benefit of it now being account-wide rather than character-specific. (Twitter)
Any estimates on release date at this point? I'd assume 2nd-3rd Quarter 2014.
@FallenHeavens No release date info to share right now. That's pretty typical, though! (Twitter)
But what do paragon points do? can they only be used once on each hero? do they add stats or?
@Narull It's a customization system. Paragon Points can be spent on various stats like STR/VIT/DEX/INT, movement speed, crit chance, etc. (Twitter)
also, what happens to the people who've already leveled up in Paragon?
@peli_can_flip Bonuses are retroactive. I.E. If you have two p100 heroes right now, the current plan is that you'd have 200 points in ROS. (Twitter)
Will the Crusader be STR based class?
@Twinkeyzzz1 That's the plan! (Twitter)
So dark and creepy love it! also gives wallpaper size of Malthael
@Malithras @mumper There will definitely be epic wallpapers in the near future. Seriously. I'm excited just thinking about them. (Twitter)
PS - I gots a sweet new t-shirt. #gamescom2013 #ReaperOfSouls #giggity pic.twitter.com/BU61sQhR7G (Twitter)
great news Lyli !! P500 people wont feel bad when they hear this P330 here, might get to 500 until RoS.
@DBraveZ Feature is still being developed, so some details might change. Just stay tuned; we'll be sharing more info in the coming months! (Twitter)
@Narull Correct. All normal characters on an account will share a Paragon level, same for Hardcore, as well as earned Paragon Points. (Twitter)
What about dying in HC? How will that affect your paragon levels? Loss of applied points to that specific character?
@eikEn_ @Narull No loss of points or level in those situations. Benefit of it now being account-wide rather than character-specific. (Twitter)
Any estimates on release date at this point? I'd assume 2nd-3rd Quarter 2014.
@FallenHeavens No release date info to share right now. That's pretty typical, though! (Twitter)
But what do paragon points do? can they only be used once on each hero? do they add stats or?
@Narull It's a customization system. Paragon Points can be spent on various stats like STR/VIT/DEX/INT, movement speed, crit chance, etc. (Twitter)
also, what happens to the people who've already leveled up in Paragon?
@peli_can_flip Bonuses are retroactive. I.E. If you have two p100 heroes right now, the current plan is that you'd have 200 points in ROS. (Twitter)
Will the Crusader be STR based class?
@Twinkeyzzz1 That's the plan! (Twitter)
So dark and creepy love it! also gives wallpaper size of Malthael
@Malithras @mumper There will definitely be epic wallpapers in the near future. Seriously. I'm excited just thinking about them. (Twitter)
PS - I gots a sweet new t-shirt. #gamescom2013 #ReaperOfSouls #giggity pic.twitter.com/BU61sQhR7G (Twitter)
great news Lyli !! P500 people wont feel bad when they hear this P330 here, might get to 500 until RoS.
@DBraveZ Feature is still being developed, so some details might change. Just stay tuned; we'll be sharing more info in the coming months! (Twitter)
Changes to Game Systems Will Come as a Free Patch
Our caring member TheLordOfTerror shared with us the great news that players won't have to buy the expansion in order to get the game system changes like the new Paragon system for example. Here is the info:
DiabloFans Quote:
Polish Diablo III Community Manager, Wuluxar, has confirmed that changes made to the game systems will be available to all Diablo III players as a free patch:
http://eu.battle.net...c/7960896792#13
Translation:
Forum user: “It’s likely that when the expansion comes out (or shortly before that) there will be a 2.0 patch.”
Wuluxar (Blizzard): “Changes to the game systems will come in a patch preceeding the release of the expansion – they will be available to all players, including the ones that don’t have the expansion (of course for free).”
I fully expect a QQstorm from people who don't understand how ARPG expansions work, and also fully expect to ignore it completely.
Either they'll just let people keep the full effect of their accumulated paragon levels while they're leveling (it doesn't, after all, affect XP gain), or switch it off until we reach the new level cap at which point we pick up where we left off. In either case, except to see no MF on xpack gear.
sure makes you get a sense of progress while you play more but having no cap at all also eradicate the feel of complete achievement...
Blizzard, the ripoff artist extraordinaire, strikes again!
... can we transfer all the chars and current gear to the expansion?
I don't remember how it was with Lord of the Destruction.
I read in some interview, when talking about Paragon levels, that when they changed the system, the change would be retro active. If you have 100 levels already, you would get all the bonuses when the expansion goes live.
Now, about the announcement.... It's quite nice, but recently i said i wouldn't like a level cap increase, but i think it's the only way to clean the mess that vanilla D3 is.
At the moment i won't touch Diablo 3, until the expansion (or if a patch before it comes). I can't force myself to play if everything will be tossed away. <.<
LoD was actually GAMEBREAKING for me
Liked the Classic D2 better
"15-20m random dungeons" is endgame for now. PvP/more PvE events can and will probably be patched in once the stuff that is really important for an ARPG (loot, skills, balance, character progression) is done. And they seem to have focused on that for the x-pac, I +1 that.
Say I have a p100 p50 and p20 character would I end up with account paragon lvl 170?
If so wouldn't it be best to aim for as many paragon lvls as possible on all chars combined?
I am just saying the grind from p100 to p170 is probably much worse than bringing 2 characters to p35 before the addon.
I assume they'll just add all the paragon XP together and assign your account the corresponding paragon level... anything else would be badly broken.
Thanks Overneathe and Diablofans, your job is appreciated!
What comparison is there besides stat allocation; being nothing new for either or any game? The distinguishing thing about BPs is how you earn them which is nothing like how you'll earn paragon points which are more akin to something like AAs from EQ.
Must have missed it, reading broad brushes, what reason is there to think you'll be able to go above 100?
Edit: I see it now.
I'm seriously worried about that. Some people would be paragon 1000 by now, the majority hasn't even reached p100; how are they gonna make sure the game still stays balanced and these 24/7 players don't cause havoc to the system?
I saw there is a limit on how many stats you can allocate on a single attribute, soooo, the cap is when you maxed everything? °°
Oh, I didn't see that! Awesome, amazing! I love caps. Seriously, even in D1 they had (really low) caps on every stat, and it was so great because it wasn't just "more more more" but at some point your 4 main stats were maxed and you could worry about other things. Great. Well, let's just hope they test this out internally for really high stats, because they clearly haven't thought about that some people would reach 600k DPS ;-)
A lot of people asked for such feature. It's not about making the gear look good, it's about not having faith that gear power can be 100% balanced. If everyone uses the same gear, at least they won't look the same anymore.
For "whatever reason"? Turns evil "all of a sudden"? Please, go read the actual Diablo lore before pretending you know what you're talking about.
Just leave. It will be better for you, honestly. There are a dozen+ awesome gaming franchises out there for all tastes (Titanfall, F1 2013, FIFA, BF4, Thief, Dragon Age, Witcher, Smash Bros, Minecraft, Terraria, CoD:Ghosts, etc). Gaming is about having fun, if you're bored or enraged, you need to find a game/franchise that pleases you.
Not sure if... yeah.. nevermind.