(02-26-2014, 04:08 AM)Occhidiangela Wrote: OK, what just happened?
No longer in Hell Diff. My sorcie was in Hell Diff, Act III.
Should I choose Expert or Hard? .. or normal?
OK, I am lost. Will take a look again in a few days.
It reloaded my PC, and I had to reconfigure the visual settings, which had gone all fuzzy.
Talk later. Not sure what I am going to do.
Ok, the old way, monster level was determined by difficulty and location; i.e. You were in Hell difficulty, Act III, mobs were right up around that 60 level, regardless of your level.
The new way, the monsters are always your level, no matter where you are, from outside the gates of Tristram, all the way to Diablo, and into Act V when the time comes.
Difficulty is now more or less actually that. Higher difficulties get higher +gold and +xp, and from what I can see higher diffs get more elite packs of all kinds. Of course, all mobs have more health on higher difficulties, and hit harder. The key to this is that Normal through Master drop the same loot. A 60 in Normal can now get what was Inferno loot before. So, you pick your difficulty, not the loot level.
Then there's Torment, with a slider from I to VI. There are Torment-only Legendaries, but, again, I think what drops on Torment VI can also drop on Torment I. Not completely sure on that.
The upshot of this is that you're no longer confined to 'most efficient DPS build that can survive in Inferno'. You can run in Normal, still get good drops, and have off-key 'fun' builds. Or go to Torment VI, and get forced into cookie-cutters to stay alive. Your choice, or anything in between.
This is my understanding and feel for the 'new' difficulty scheme in D3 after quite a bit of time in PTR, and playing some last night on live.
Normal through Expert are available immediately, Master when you complete Act IV on any difficulty, and Torment when/if you have a 60.
The other nice thing about this: When I did a 1-60 on Expert difficulty on the PTR, I was within a quarter-level of 60 after killing Diablo, so you no longer have to do 3 or 4 passes to make it to 60.
My advice to Occhi is to pick a difficulty, see how it feels to your sorcie, and go on from there. From what I can tell, glass cannons no longer work very well at higher difficulties, so just try Expert, and see if it's fun. If not, adjust difficulty accordingly.
I'll stop rambling, and go play from here.
--Mav