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Worth a read if you havnt already.

Totally agree, that is a very informative thread indeed :-)

Patch 2.0.1 will soon be available for testing on the PTR, and everyone interested will be able to have a go at hardcore mode for themselves with the new systems to see how it feels. Once you have had a chance to try things out on the PTR, we would greatly appreciate it if you would post feedback about your Hardcore mode experiences :-)

Can you give any further information if Lifeleech will be disabled at Patch 2.0.1 or not? Currently it looks as if life leech is just disabled on the way to Level 70, which would mean that it still has a major role on the Patch 2.0.1 PTR. I think testing the class balancing changes WITHOUT life leech or at least without LL playing a major role, would make a lot more sense regarding the future of Diablo 3.

That is a totally valid concern and I will see if we can get some clarifications on that to share with you :-)

At level 60 in the RoS beta, and also in patch 2.0.1, Life Steal is multiplied by 0.1, which means that you will only get 10% of the Life Steal you have built up on your pre-expansion characters. If you copy your characters to the PTR, you will be able to test how that feels like.

So I got an update on this, which is that we have no plans to disable Life Steal at level 60 on the PTR. This means that Life Steal on the PTR will work the same way it does in the RoS F&F beta; You will have 100% Life Steal up to level 59, You will have 10% Life Steal from level 60 to level 69, and no Life Steal at all at level 70. But since you cannot play a character above level 60 on the PTR, you will not be able to test the game with no Life Steal, unless of course you equip gear that has no Life Steal on it :-)

So the last question remaining is: When we can copy our chars to test it?

I hate to do this, but as I cannot give you a date yet, I'm going to throw in the classic Soon™ here... Maybe that should be a Very Soon™ though :-) (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

So, will a paragon level 10 character be level 70?

Paragon level experience and character level experience are independent of one another. All characters will start in Reaper of Souls at level 60 and adventure their way to level 70, regardless of their Paragon level progression.

will the total amount of experience on an account be used to determine the account-wide paragon level?

This (with the caveat that Hardcore and Normal experience pools are calculated independently). Some players have already calculated out the approximate experience current Paragon levels are equivalent to in the expansion. However bear in mind that the numbers datamined/currently in use in the Friends & Family Beta may not be final and are subject to change before launch. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

WoW has one build in. For Diablo 3 we don't know, maybe the 'Christmas event' is the PTR who knows.

Once the time comes I'm sure Blizzard will let us know in time :)!

Well... unlike WoW, Diablo III doesn't really have a persistent world, and the gameplay is more tied to a specific setting and storyline. As such we don't really have any immediate plans to add seasonal content to the game.

We are of course not against the idea of adding such content if we can make it fit well in the world of Sanctuary, but since this kind of content is quite resource-intensive, we feel it is best to prioritise game content and improvements that are not limited to seasons. It might happen in the future though, some day when the developers have more time to dedicate to things like this, so please feel free to share your ideas for cool seasonal content :-)

Pretty sure they said something like this last year.

We did.

Our stance on seasonal events haven't really changed since last year though, which is why this post might sound similar to the one we made last year.