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Not a bad idea, the only thing I don't particularly care for is if people could team up and split into different areas to clear the game faster. It would encourage team play but at the same time I don't think you should in theory be "punished" for playing solo.

I think that Blizzard is tuning the game such that actually soloing in a multiplayer game will be very hard. So venturing on your own in a 4 player inferno game may very well be impossible. Not saying you can't solo the content if you wanted in your own game, but when playing with others you should actually play together. Imho.

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Solution: increase MF chance by a % for each boss you or your party kills. Thus you are rewarded for clearing the whole thing and even encouraged (possibly) to consider what order you go in (linear might well be the best, who knows). You could also give an increased chance to drop something that is normally not on, or very scare on the loot table. Certain runes, gems, etc.

This is actually a pretty cool idea, possibly go a step further and have extra loot, or gold, or a random gem/rune or something drop after clearing all bosses for those who do manage to clear it all in one sitting.

That would be cool. I would do it. Even if it was .05 percent per boss heh. It encrourages an entire game walkthrough. Love the idea

Do you want more outrageous gear than weve seen so far for inferno?

What I'm half-expecting and curious about, is whether in Inferno they would start fresh players out with every waypoint, and all primary story quests would already be completed. Basically it would function like you had just cleared Hell, but with the Inferno bumped foes and gear. That really pulls off any incentive to "scale" difficulty in the later areas.

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I would disagree. There are plenty of games (Diablo 2, Mass Effect and its sequel, the Elder Scrolls games, among others) that mostly contain PvE/PvM combat, but they easily last a very long time. If the story is interesting enough, and there are enough reasons to replay the game, it can continue on for as long as you want to keep playing it. Especially considering Blizzard seems to be hinting at post-release content, I don't see the games focus on PvE making it last any shorter than it would if it focused on PvP.

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Is inferno end game?... It IS end game in an ARPG viewpoint because ARPGs like champions of norrath, baldurs gate, diablo, titan quest, etc. are all about grinding until you get the best stuff and then mastering how to play your "perfect" character through the hardest difficulty runs and PvP. I don't understand how a special level, events within the game, daily quests or anything else would be any different.

Sixen said something about raids being end game for WoW and yeah it's either that or delving into PvP basically... but the equivalent in Diablo 3 would be to just add 1 extra hard new dungeon with the best loot. While Inferno isn't brand new content I'd say Blizzard did something above and beyond that by making the entire game like a raid which is pretty cool. If something like a raid qualifies "end game content" I'd say inferno difficulty easily makes it into that category.

I think based on what Sixen said about end game he'd like a unicorn level or something totally unique like that where all the monsters have like 5 levels on you and you cant get the drops anywhere else and they're also so much better than the stuff you can get in the "campaign" mode that they're absolutely game breaking when you go back for new play-throughs...

In all seriousness though, I don't get how inferno wouldn't be considered "end game content" for a game like Diablo... it's completely what the game is all about.

EDIT: ALSO!!!!!! when you beat your heroic raids and are totally geared up in a game like WoW it's the same as completing the game fully... Beating Diablo on inferno is the same thing.. so I don't get that mentality either.

OP, Diablo is about perfecting your character, not continually expanding story. Plot helps drive the game of course, but it's not what makes the game replayable. It's about the of high difficulties, finding better gear, PvP, and exploring different builds, all the while trying to find obscure builds that work better than anyone would have thought.

This is exactly why competitive pvp and game modes should be developed and supported ( I.e. Content racing, "hoard mode," etc.). Eventually the story line will end. There needs to be some form of cometition to encourage loot farming for more than it's own sake, and of course the given that these options would be insanely fun!

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I agree with Stev89 I don't think Inferno will be that hard if your good. It will be harder than baal runs but how hard were those.