Wow, people are really quick to jump to conclusions and make videos these days.
If Josh Mosquiera tweets "Loot 2.0 is coming". People be posting videos 5 minutes later talking about how loot 2.0 is just around the corner.
Yeah, exactly.
If people would just watch "Game of Thrones" and get the reference... they've been saying "Winter is coming" for 3 seasons now, yet the sun is shining every day in King's Landing.
Stupid question: How will the ladder work?
Do you create a ladder character or are all your characters automatically part of the ladder? The reason I ask is, I'm a slow player, I enjoy taking my time, and I have no intention to rush through paragon levels, not now, not when RoS launches. So the idea that they will periodically scrape the paragon leveld I've been accumulating is a very disconcerting thought.
It's not a stupid question, it's a very good question!
Thing is, before Travis's post no one at Blizzard even went so far as to mention the word "ladder", afaik. So there is absolutely no word on that.
I, too, hate to lose progress just for some kind of artificial reset once every few months; I don't play 24/7 so the game doesn't wear out as quick as for those who reached p100 on one (or multiple) chars.
The worrying question that needs to be answered if there is ladder-only content, though. The low-level runewords were the reason why I played ladder in D2, even though I dislike the concept of progression reset, which is against RPG concepts.
It's great to know that the Paragon system 2.0 will add up all the paragon levels of our characters to a sum.
Paragon 2.0 will add up all the paragon EXPERIENCE of your characters is what he said. BIG difference because P500 today will be more more than likely be something like P200 in RoS because of the level curve.
Just one small thing to add: we have also no idea if they keep the scaling the same, like an insane exponential curve, or if paragon levels equal paragon points in paragon 2.0. The idea is that two players who have similar paragon experience get about the same paragon points, that's it. So, if you have one paragon 100 char and your friend has 5x paragon 50 chars, you'll probably end up with about the same paragon points in paragon 2.0 (roughly). Note: since Travis informally confirmed ladder including resets (see OP) today, it might very well be that paragon 1.0 experience doesn't matter after all. Those people who are interested in a rat race right now will probably enter ladder anyways.
(Btw, there are some hilarious videos by some streamers who did funny Excel charts "predicting" the paragon 2.0 experience curve, and I feel it's important to let people know that for every citation of these curves as "fact" an innocent kitten will die.)
Yeah, exactly.
If people would just watch "Game of Thrones" and get the reference... they've been saying "Winter is coming" for 3 seasons now, yet the sun is shining every day in King's Landing.
It's not a stupid question, it's a very good question!
Thing is, before Travis's post no one at Blizzard even went so far as to mention the word "ladder", afaik. So there is absolutely no word on that.
I, too, hate to lose progress just for some kind of artificial reset once every few months; I don't play 24/7 so the game doesn't wear out as quick as for those who reached p100 on one (or multiple) chars.
The worrying question that needs to be answered if there is ladder-only content, though. The low-level runewords were the reason why I played ladder in D2, even though I dislike the concept of progression reset, which is against RPG concepts.
Just one small thing to add: we have also no idea if they keep the scaling the same, like an insane exponential curve, or if paragon levels equal paragon points in paragon 2.0. The idea is that two players who have similar paragon experience get about the same paragon points, that's it. So, if you have one paragon 100 char and your friend has 5x paragon 50 chars, you'll probably end up with about the same paragon points in paragon 2.0 (roughly). Note: since Travis informally confirmed ladder including resets (see OP) today, it might very well be that paragon 1.0 experience doesn't matter after all. Those people who are interested in a rat race right now will probably enter ladder anyways.
(Btw, there are some hilarious videos by some streamers who did funny Excel charts "predicting" the paragon 2.0 experience curve, and I feel it's important to let people know that for every citation of these curves as "fact" an innocent kitten will die.)