Inferno will be a fourth and even harder difficulty that unlocks after beating the game through the Hell difficulty and getting your character to level 60. Designed as an end game objective for players, monsters faced in this difficulty will all be at least level 61. Designed with more HP, damage, resistances, and more aggressive AI, the monsters pose to face players with the most difficult challenge of the game. Along with this, some monsters and bosses will even have extra skills at their disposal that you will only see in Inferno.
The objective of the Inferno difficulty is to give players something to do once capped but would avoid running the same bosses over and over again like the Baal runs of Diablo II. The entire game will plateau in this difficulty meaning that there will be no one particular place that would be best to farm for items. Blizzard is hoping that this will give the players an incentive to repeat the entire content of the game while looking for the best items and not just one section repeatedly. Even if players find a particular area that maximizes results for their efforts, Blizzard said they will add incentives to run through the entire content.
Official Blizzard Quote:
The idea was that we wanted a difficulty mode where the entire game was viable. So you don't have to pick and choose key areas [to replay].
We do expect there to be a certain amount of... runs to get items, but we wanted players to do it over a lot more content. We're trying to make sure that there's a lot more opportunities for players to see a lot more variety.
With end game finally revealed, and Beta beginning in a "little while" what else could gamescom hold in store for Diablo III. Stay tuned on Saturday when Diablo's two performances and interview are being held for some more possible news.
There was also 14 new screen shots that were shown as well that you can find on our wiki.
You can also check out force's video covering this news as well.
Official Blizzard Quote:
As a side note, any rumors you may have heard about a gate to Diablo’s Burning Hells opening in Cologne are completely unfounded. Seriously, nothing is happening at Rudolfplatz from the evening of August 16 — especially nothing to do with demonic invasions.
A special thanks to Lorgarn for sharing the pictures and evilenginen9 for informing on the Inferno news and hicksology for starting the discussion on the topic.
Diablo dream come truuue.
Everyone's stunning, curses, freezings better not be wasted on the same target. Classes such as Wizard, Witch Doctor cannot get a scratched on them at the level. Get in, and get out. Quick like a cat. Grab and run.
LIKE I SAID, before you guys post your comments, READ THE FULL INTERVIEW FIRST, so that you are not ignorant of the facts:
http://www.diablofans.com/topic/27203-inferno-revealed/page__st__40#entry636873
And I quote:
"Blizzard Entertainment game director Jay Wilson tells Kotaku that Diablo III's Inferno difficulty is aimed at players who have maxed out their character by reaching the level 60 player cap.
Only then can they tackle Inferno difficulty, a challenge that will throw enemies at the player that are of even higher levels.
Wilson says "the level for every monster in Inferno will be, at minimum, level 61 making Diablo III's hardest difficulty setting an overwhelming, often uphill battle."
So, please, stop making assumptions base on what gossip you've heard from somebody else or from sites that doesn't have the full detailed interview,
& direct your tttention on what the game director said on his most recent interview with Kotaku at GamesCon 2011 instead.
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For those who are just reading this thread just now. Welcome & hope you are enjoying the new good news about the game.
Again, Inferno level is the End Game but you cannot access or wont even see it in the menu options until you've defeated the 3 difficulty levels of the game, namely Normal, Nightmare & Hell, and until you've reached the level cap of 60.
So now the equation is:
COMPLETED HELL DIFFICULTY + (LEVEL ≥ 60) = INFERNO DIFFICULTY LEVEL ACCESS GRANTED
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I don't consider it the fourth difficulty like normal, nightmare, and hell, because it does no get progressively harder. The monsters in Act 1 inferno are just as tough as the monsters in Act 4 inferno.
The objective is to give people the entire game to farm for better gear instead of just the last boss in hell. There is no incentive to fight in any one particular area in inferno/
Klingon Chips.
Inferno Difficulty is the intended End-Game for ship. There was some speculation if it there was going to be other end game, but Inferno is it (and I'm actually okay with that being the end game atm provided they have some really rare drops to find)
We're getting mixed signals here...
"Max levels for monsters is 61"
http://www.judgehype.com/images.php?img=232151
LIKE I SAID, before you guys post your comments, READ THE FULL INTERVIEW FIRST, so that you're not ignorant of the facts.
Click here: http://www.diablofans.com/topic/27203-inferno-revealed/page__st__40#entry636873
And I quote:
"Blizzard Entertainment game director Jay Wilson tells Kotaku that Diablo III's Inferno difficulty is aimed at players who have maxed out their character by reaching the level 60 player cap.
Only then can they tackle Inferno difficulty, a challenge that will throw enemies at the player that are of even higher levels.
Wilson says "the level for every monster in Inferno will be, at minimum, level 61 making Diablo III's hardest difficulty setting an overwhelming, often uphill battle."
So, please, stop making assumptions base on what gossip you've heard from somebody else or from sites that doesn't have the full detailed interview,
& direct your tttention on what the game director said on his most recent interview with Kotaku at GamesCon 2011 instead.
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If you actually looked at the link he provided, it was from the OFFICIAL Blizzard slide at gamescon and it said the MAX level for monsters was 61 specifically contradicting what Jay said. It's probably a typo but legitimately worth pointing out.
There will obviously be monsters far more powerful than 61. The question is; how much more powerful? Keep in mind they want to make expansions. It would almost be a spoiler if they threw a level 91 monster at us at this point in time.
I'm hoping there is a bit of a difficulty ramp to match with the expected gear progression in Inferno, otherwise we'll just be smashing through it by the end, rather than still having to think a bit about those tricky boss fights.