09:17 AM (EST) - Expansion Site is up!!!
09:00 AM (EST) - The 10-minute gameplay Crusader video is replaced with a better quality version!
8:59 AM (EST) - A screenshot of the Crusader's inventory added
8:29 AM (EST) - Blizzard confirms changes to game systems will come as a free patch!
8:26 AM (EST) - Lylirra answering Reaper of Souls questions on Twitter - Tweets added
Reaper of Souls Cinematic
Reaper of Souls Teaser
Official Site
The site looks pretty empty right now, but you can check out the female version of the Crusader there!
Here's what's new:
- New Class: The Crusader
- New Feature: Loot Runs
- Loot 2.0
- The Mystic
- New Level Cap - 70
- New Act
- Major Paragon Changes
- New Monsters
New Class - The Crusader
- Inspired by the Paladin.
- Focuses on Shields. Uses Flails as weapons.
- Mid-range melee character.
- Uses the resource "Wrath"
Image Courtesy of Arreat.de
New Feature - Loot Runs
- 15-20 minute completely random dungeons!
- Random weather!
- Random enemies!
- Random boss!
- Multitiered (severa levels deep)!
Loot 2.0
A comparison was given between how items in Act III drop now and how they'll drop in the expansion:
- Now: 256 white, 399 blue, 275 yellow and one legendary items.
- Then: 73 white items, 266 blue items, 83 yellow items and 7 legendary items!
- Legendary will be build-changers as seen in the screenshots below
Image Courtesy of Diablo3.judgehype.com
Images Courtesy of Arreat.de
Image Courtesy of Diablo3.judgehype.com
The Mystic
- Can Transmogrify items, so you don't have to sacrifice looks for power.
- Item Enchanting - allows to reroll one of the affixes on a rare/legendary item.
New Level Cap - 70
- Every class gets new Skills and Runes
- Which means a fresh economy and new power-cap as well
New Act
- Featuring what looks like Westmarch, with lots of graveyards and other fun places!
Major Paragon Changes
- Is now Account wide.
- No longer has a cap
- Seems to have Stat Allocation tied to it
Image Courtesy of Diablo3.judgehype.com
New Monsters
New monsters are introduced - The Seraph, Summoner of the Dead, Executioner and Death Maiden.
Images Courtesy of Arreat.de
Lylirra Answering RoS Questions
Originally Posted by Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
(Interesting, seems you 'Assign' Paragon Points to a character. So you earn them with 1 hero but can put them onto another? #D3RoS
@Narull Correct. All normal characters on an account will share a Paragon level, same for Hardcore, as well as earned Paragon Points. (Twitter)
What about dying in HC? How will that affect your paragon levels? Loss of applied points to that specific character?
@eikEn_ @Narull No loss of points or level in those situations. Benefit of it now being account-wide rather than character-specific. (Twitter)
Any estimates on release date at this point? I'd assume 2nd-3rd Quarter 2014.
@FallenHeavens No release date info to share right now. That's pretty typical, though! (Twitter)
But what do paragon points do? can they only be used once on each hero? do they add stats or?
@Narull It's a customization system. Paragon Points can be spent on various stats like STR/VIT/DEX/INT, movement speed, crit chance, etc. (Twitter)
also, what happens to the people who've already leveled up in Paragon?
@peli_can_flip Bonuses are retroactive. I.E. If you have two p100 heroes right now, the current plan is that you'd have 200 points in ROS. (Twitter)
Will the Crusader be STR based class?
@Twinkeyzzz1 That's the plan! (Twitter)
So dark and creepy love it! also gives wallpaper size of Malthael
@Malithras @mumper There will definitely be epic wallpapers in the near future. Seriously. I'm excited just thinking about them. (Twitter)
PS - I gots a sweet new t-shirt. #gamescom2013 #ReaperOfSouls #giggity pic.twitter.com/BU61sQhR7G (Twitter)
great news Lyli !! P500 people wont feel bad when they hear this P330 here, might get to 500 until RoS.
@DBraveZ Feature is still being developed, so some details might change. Just stay tuned; we'll be sharing more info in the coming months! (Twitter)
@Narull Correct. All normal characters on an account will share a Paragon level, same for Hardcore, as well as earned Paragon Points. (Twitter)
What about dying in HC? How will that affect your paragon levels? Loss of applied points to that specific character?
@eikEn_ @Narull No loss of points or level in those situations. Benefit of it now being account-wide rather than character-specific. (Twitter)
Any estimates on release date at this point? I'd assume 2nd-3rd Quarter 2014.
@FallenHeavens No release date info to share right now. That's pretty typical, though! (Twitter)
But what do paragon points do? can they only be used once on each hero? do they add stats or?
@Narull It's a customization system. Paragon Points can be spent on various stats like STR/VIT/DEX/INT, movement speed, crit chance, etc. (Twitter)
also, what happens to the people who've already leveled up in Paragon?
@peli_can_flip Bonuses are retroactive. I.E. If you have two p100 heroes right now, the current plan is that you'd have 200 points in ROS. (Twitter)
Will the Crusader be STR based class?
@Twinkeyzzz1 That's the plan! (Twitter)
So dark and creepy love it! also gives wallpaper size of Malthael
@Malithras @mumper There will definitely be epic wallpapers in the near future. Seriously. I'm excited just thinking about them. (Twitter)
PS - I gots a sweet new t-shirt. #gamescom2013 #ReaperOfSouls #giggity pic.twitter.com/BU61sQhR7G (Twitter)
great news Lyli !! P500 people wont feel bad when they hear this P330 here, might get to 500 until RoS.
@DBraveZ Feature is still being developed, so some details might change. Just stay tuned; we'll be sharing more info in the coming months! (Twitter)
Changes to Game Systems Will Come as a Free Patch
Our caring member TheLordOfTerror shared with us the great news that players won't have to buy the expansion in order to get the game system changes like the new Paragon system for example. Here is the info:
DiabloFans Quote:
Polish Diablo III Community Manager, Wuluxar, has confirmed that changes made to the game systems will be available to all Diablo III players as a free patch:
http://eu.battle.net...c/7960896792#13
Translation:
Forum user: “It’s likely that when the expansion comes out (or shortly before that) there will be a 2.0 patch.”
Wuluxar (Blizzard): “Changes to the game systems will come in a patch preceeding the release of the expansion – they will be available to all players, including the ones that don’t have the expansion (of course for free).”
There's 2 ways they could go. Either go the Torchlight 2 offline full moddable with no economy, or go the PoE/D3 way, online only with an actual player-drive economy. Whether the choice was good or bad, there's no way to remove the "real money" aspect that's tied to the second model.
I am though, its because I don't expect the best game in the freaking world.
Guys seriously, games are meant to be fun if you don't like it..just put it down, walk away, go outside.
I mean come on, no need for such negative feedback and vulgar language..because the game isn't what YOU want it to be.
Its Diablo 3, not Me 3.
Would be weird to see Inferno go away, but there's one thing they are missing too!
Charms or Runestones!
My biggest issues with D3 (current version) were lack of randomized content, How Paragon gave you incentive to play only one class and how the skill rune system took replay value away from rerolling the same class as a different build.
So far They announced loot runs which takes care of my randomization issue.
They Announced a Paragon system with point allocation that has no cap and is account wide... basically promoting Alt character play...
They fixed everything, Sure they still have the Skill/rune system but the paragon 2.0 system is enough that it makes me want to play more than one class and thats all i wanted.
Other things like better loot, new class, new act, bosses, monsters, items, mystic and transmorg are all great bonuses as well.
If the expansion released today i would wait on a 10 hour line to buy it.
Dont know if this is up yet... gives a lot of good info. Its a gamespot video.
Please remove or limit RMAH
Please remove or limit RMAH
Please remove or limit RMAH
...then nooo.
Good thing though are the features they added from Path of Exile: Build changing legendaries and rerolling a stat on item.
Oh, hello Path of Exile, we'd like to steal your mapping idea, only ours will be shitty.
Yep, PoE invented it.
So PoE is just utter shit then?
D3 could be shitty, but god dam PoE is just UTTER shit!!!!
Played 5 minutes and logged off, they stole ideas from these other games.
I don't respect companies that steal, obviously Diablo did it right back.
Gosh you big silly willy.
From the images I've seen each character has a cap on how much they can place in a stat. For base stats it seems to be 50 points. They each add 5 stat points each which means all stats can get a 250 bonus to their stats
- No word on the talisman and charms?
- Will the mystic be in a patch with the 2.0 loot and 2.0 paragon -or- in an expansion?
Save for blizzcon? Like the diamond gem and the saphire gem?
All the time I put into gathering those damn souls, thinking I left them in safe hands, and this fool just comes and takes them back!!!