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Confirmed, Reaper of Souls expansion.

 

News: Diablo 3 expansion Reaper of Souls announced - ComputerAndVideoGames.com

 

As for some of the additions:

 

Important Characters:

Malthael, the former angel of Wisdom is seemingly the main antagonist.

- Angelic wings of bone, dark and grim appearance. Can drain life and so on.

 

New class:

Crusader.

- A mid-range class with shields, flails, and heavy armour.

- Very paladin-esque.

 

Abilities include:

- Shield bash.

- Fist of heavens.

- Shield's Flare.

- Falling Sword.

- Law of Valour.

 

New Area:

Westmarch.

 

New Level-Cap:

Level 70.

- More skills.

- More runes.

 

New Monsters:

Confirmed so far:

Seraph.

Summoner of the Dead.

Executioner.

Death Maiden.

 

New Items:

Confirmed so far:

- God Butcher (Flail).

Mentioned:

- A Wizard wand that now has a greater chance of summoning hydras, and more of them.

 

Story:

Malthael wants to end the eternal conflict by destroying all demons. The Black Soulstone is meanwhile hidden somewhere on Sanctuary by the angels and the Horadrim. But as we see in the opening cinematic, Malthael steals it, nearly killing Tyrael in the process.

 

Loot 2.0:

- 'Smart Drops', items drop less but when they do, there is a chance stats are tweaked to suit your character.

- Less 'junk' loot (white, yellow, etc.) - but the stuff you do find can be 'Smart Drops' sometimes.

- 6 new Legendary items.

- Legendaries will be build-changers.

 

Paragon 2.0:

- Now account-wide.

- No longer a cap (!).

 

New Artisans:

- Transmogrification (change item looks).

- Enchanting (re-roll a rare legendary affix).

 

Loot Runs:

This is a new feature with randomized 15-20 minute dungeons to mix up the endgame a bit.

 

Other notable features:

- More focus on endgame variety.

- Transitions between external and internal locations are now seamless.

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An couple "everything we know so far" threads that will be updated I assume as more information is revealed that Raven referenced

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/9678948971

http://www.diablofans.com/news/1984-the-massive-expansion-recap-everything-we-know-so-far/

 

Official RoS Links:

Gameplay Video - [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGp5dkJdi0w]Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Gameplay Teaser - YouTube[/ame]

Cinematic Video - [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb7QJwQ58T0]Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Opening Cinematic - YouTube[/ame]

RoS Website - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/reaper-of-souls/

 

 

 

7m Crusader gameplay demo

http://au.gamespot.com/events/gamescom-2013/diablo-iii-reaper-of-souls-crusader-class-gameplay-demo-6413366/

 

 

Screenshot of evil Maltheal

 

http://images.scribblelive.com/2013/8/21/452ebd7b-729e-4064-ac28-f537fb580abf_400.jpg

 

And screen shot of the new class Crusader.

 

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/621757_10152168511369478_1749185200_o.jpg

 

New Legendary

http://s14.directupload.net/images/130821/dzop83qu.jpg

 

 

Looks like manually being able to manually allocate stats for paragon levels is going to be added as well

http://images.scribblelive.com/2013/8/21/7ddbf428-4dfd-4c06-a2be-34a561879134_800.jpg

http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/press-03.jpg

 

Couple Pics of the Crusader skill tree

Passives;

http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/press-08.jpg

 

Secondary;

http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/press-02.jpg

 

 

New Monster screenshots

http://images.scribblelive.com/2013/8/21/6057b60e-6cbe-46e6-910e-f4ac09668eba_800.jpg

http://images.scribblelive.com/2013/8/21/7e051d6b-68eb-4cc1-8389-48c14ffff5d5_800.jpg

http://images.scribblelive.com/2013/8/21/750434f0-0944-4dbf-91dc-45657ab8adcc_800.jpg

http://images.scribblelive.com/2013/8/21/01a775cf-8630-4402-9a5f-42f11fd46b71_800.jpg

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I'm just assuming that this is coming to PS3/PS4 as well as a DLC? Did they mention anything specific on console support? I played this game on PC as a demon hunter and finished inferno difficulty but I'm thinking of re-rolling a wizard when it comes to PS4. I might wait longer until this expansion comes out if it's coming out the same time or close to PC to play this new class from the get go.

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Not surprisingly if RoS comes to consoles it won't be until after the PC version.

 

 

Blizzard hints at Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls console release plans | Polygon

 

 

"Our philosophy has always been we work on one project at a time," said Mosqueira. "We've got Diablo 3 on PC, we released it and then a small team splintered off to work on Diablo for the current consoles. Now the team's really focused on Reaper of Souls for PC. So if you look at the past, you can probably infer what the future might bring. We don't have any announcements at this point."

 

 

Even if we don't get the expansion it's still possible that we will get some of the features as a few things they mentioned they currently plan to patch in rather then be part of the expansion

 

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/9679139107#19

 

We want to implement a lot of the new systems and features in a pre-expansion patch for free. That should include Paragon 2.0, Loot 2.0, Loot Runs, and Nephalem Trials. For now, you'll need to purchase the expansion to play as the Crusader, explore Act V, unlock the Mystic, and level up to 70. These details may change as development moves along, but we want some of the core gameplay improvements to be available for everyone.

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Interesting. I'm trying to think who this could relate to, but I can't think of any of the Lesser Evils or similar evils that have a name/title even remotely like this. Guess we'll find out.

 

The one in question is called Malthael, he is an ex-archangel of wisdom. He is the brother of the archangel Tyrael and he is now planning to end the eternal conflict and his ultimate goal is to destroy Sanctuary

 

Tyraels plan was to hide the Black Soulstone, but as seen in the cinematic, Malthael found him down in the depths.

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AusGamers Diablo 3 Console Developer Interview with Matt Burger and Josh Mosqueira - AusGamers.com

 

 

AusGamers: Obviously the big burning question you’ve likely been asked throughout Gamescom since announcement, but Reaper of Souls… console… ?

 

 

Matthew Burger: You’d be surprised [but] not everybody asks me that question. So, is it going to come to console? Yes. Obviously we wanna bring this expansion to console, we don’t exactly know how we’re going to do it yet (we haven’t announced that), and we’re going to treat the expansion in the same way we treated Diablo III when we moved it onto console, which means that we have to make sure that it is adapted to the console eco system in a way that is going to play the best way possible.

 

So that’s going to require some changes; some additions, some subtractions, just like we did with the original game, [but] it will definitely come to console.

 

 

 

 

Unrelated to the expansion but still worth noting

 

 

AusGamers: What about players who can’t wait until next-gen launches and they buy the game now? Will their profiles carry-over if they upgrade to the next-gen release?

 

Matthew: So, that’s what we want to do. We haven’t done it yet but our engineers tell us that we can and since that’s what we want to [happen], that’s our plan.

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  • 2 weeks later...

The demo has been data mined and the skill changes for the present classes have been revealed. Naturally it's probable that they aren't final at this stage but does give some idea of what to expect when the expansion eventually comes out.

 

Monk

Monk Reaper of Souls Datamined Skill Changes

 

Witch Doctor

Datamined Reaper of Souls WD Skill Changes: Massive List

 

Demon Hunter

Big List of DH Datamined skills changed from RoS

 

Barbarian

Barbarian Reaper of Souls Datamined Skill Changes

 

Wizard

Datamined Wizard Skill Changes for RoS: Huge List

 

and some of the Crusader skills

Crusader skills - Diablo Wiki

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The demo has been data mined and the skill changes for the present classes have been revealed. Naturally it's probable that they aren't final at this stage but does give some idea of what to expect when the expansion eventually comes out.

 

Barbarian

Barbarian Reaper of Souls Datamined Skill Changes

Looks like the favourite barb builds are getting a heavy nerfing if that's anything to go by. No more passive life steal, no more passive crit chance, no more fast whirlwinding, no more unlimited WotB.

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You know one thing I wouldn't mind seeing with this expansion is a 5th difficulty, to coincide with the new level cap. With the right gear even Inferno Master V/MP10 is a joke, so with 10 extra levels, skills/runes and the ability to boost stats with paragon levels, it'd probably end up being a walk in the park. Having something like Abyss Mode for level 70 only would be great.

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Hope so cause this console port is fantastic so far....

 

You can see the success of the console version by seeing blizzard removing the auction house, this was purely due to the success of loot 1.5 on console.

 

You know one thing I wouldn't mind seeing with this expansion is a 5th difficulty, to coincide with the new level cap. With the right gear even Inferno Master V/MP10 is a joke, so with 10 extra levels, skills/runes and the ability to boost stats with paragon levels, it'd probably end up being a walk in the park. Having something like Abyss Mode for level 70 only would be great.

 

They did say they would tweak current difficulties for the expansion though. The loot runs / Nephalem trials should be a way to counter the endless stat progression issue.

 

I also remember Blizzard talking about endless dungeons getting gradually harder, but that was before Diablo 3 was finished, so they might have forgotten about it.

 

What this game needs is runes and runewords (loved that from D2), another class (besides the crusader), a mailbox for console users, a trading room like the old trade channel on battle net and definitely bring back unidentified rares so you can choose on knowledge what to pick up.

 

Another thing that would be absolutely amazing is the old unique item system (items were in a category ie Dusk Shrouds, Hydra Bows, Laquerated Plate etc) so you knew what legendary item you would get when the item dropped, not when looking at its skin :p

 

Edit: Wow, i forgot the most important thing, the horadic cube. That thing is what we need, but with a seperate function like an extra inventory feature to cube items alongside of the crafters

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Some people said they datamined some info that has to do with the new expansion.

 

If the rumors about Life Steal turn out to be true, how will that effect yall's playstyle?

 

 

The info about Life Steal below is a small part of what they supposedly found.

 

*Life Steal is less effective when you are higher level.

*At level 60, Life Steal gains a 0.10x multiplier.

*At level 70, Life Steal no longer functions.

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