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.
Also, is there a reason why most (if not all) of the new screenshots that are being released don't have a user interface visible? I love seeing the juxtaposition of the static, but complex UI against the gameplay animations.
There will be no resets, and no ladder. The closest thing to resets that could possibly happen are patches where certain item characteristics are changed, which in itself probably won't happen with the careful planning they're doing with item stats.
Same for D2, until the introduced Über D and the pandemonium events, which were/are great IMO.
I just hope we get a version of the Secret Cow Level. If we don't, I'm afraid I may hurt somebody. Somebody whose name rhymes with May Filson...
Actually, it is common practice in many games to introduce "champion"-like mobs as mini-bosses. This sets the tone for the next time you meet him. You will encounter much larger and more difficult mobs before you meet him again... hopefully you would have seen an upgrade or two before then, too... that way your next encounter will be much quicker.
They are very familiar with US currency and trust me when I say gold farming is not coming from SEA. The ONLY countries where gold farming thrives are countries where the dollar exchange is much lower. Singapore and Brunei's current dollar exchange is about US$1 = S$1.25 and cost/standard of living is equivelent to that of a major city like New York or Tokoyo.