If you have any questions, let us know in the comments section below.

How To Level Up Faster: Reach level 60-70 in under two hours:

Levelling up in Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls is of prime importance in the game. The video guide below (courtesy of Youtube user Rhykker) shows how you can level up real quick in the game. Take a look.

Adventure Mode – Bounties Guide:

The adventure mode is one the biggest additions in the series. The guide below [courtesy of Youtube user TheGullofdoom) shows how the the adventure mode works and how you can complete all five bounties. Upon completion you’ll return to Tyrael and receive a Horardric Cache. This contains a ton of loot which also include Rift Keystone fragments.

Mystic , Transmogrify & Enchanting Guide:

This video shows the new NPC Mystic. This will allow you to  enchant your rare and legendary weapons /items. First of all you would need materials. This can be obtained by salvaging. You will also need a sum of money and apply an attribute on the weapon you want to replace. Transmogrification  will be available once you receive legendaries.

How To Get More Nephalem Rifts 

You can obtain Nephalem rifts by completing bounties and getting Rift Keystone Fragments. The Rift Obelisks are available in each of the towns and you will need 5 fragments to unlock them. Eventually when you enter the rift, you will face against the Rift Guardian. If you defeat it you will earn a lot of loot.

Legendary Reaper’s Wraps Crafting & Farming Guide:

The video guide below will show how you can farm materials to craft the Legendary Reaper’s Wraps. If you have a health globe, it can restore up to 30% of your primary resources.

Demon Hunter Torment Burst Farming Build

The video below shows how you can use your Demon Hunter to get into Torment difficulty and farm for gear in Adventure mode.

Adventure Mode Bounty Reward Legendary Items Guide:

This is a complete guide for Legendary Items guide for the Adventure mode. A Redditor has described each one of them. You can check it out below, along the video guide:

Act 1

• Mad Monarch’s Scepter – 1h mace – After killing 10 enemies, you release a Poison Nova that deals 1050–1400% weapon damage as Poison to enemies within 30 yards
• Ring of Royal Grandeur – Reduces the number of items needed for set bonuses by 1 (to a minimum of 2)
• Pauldrons of the Skeleton King – When receiving fatal damage, there is a chance that you are instead restored to 25% of maximum Life and cause nearby enemies to flee in fear
• Golden Gorget of Leoric Amulet – After earning a massacre bonus, 4–6 Skeletons are summoned to fight by your side for 10 seconds
• Sanguinary Vambraces bracers – Chance on being hit to deal 1000% of your Thorns damage to nearby enemies

Act 2

• Cloak of Deception – DH cloak – Enemy missiles sometimes pass through you harmlessly
• Illusionary Boots – you may move unhindered through enemies
• Gloves of Worship – Shrine effects last for 10 minutes
•  covens criterion- You take 50-60% less damage from blocked attacks

Act 3

• Burst of Wrath – 2h axe – Killing enemies and destroying objects has a chance to grant 20% of your maximum primary resource
• Boots of Disregard – Gain 500 Life Regeneration per second for each second you stand still. This effect stacks up to 8 times
• Pride’s Fall helm – Your Resource costs are reduced by 30% after not taking damage for 5 seconds
• Envious Blade dagger – Gain 100% Critical Hit Chance against enemies at full health
• Insatiable Belt – Picking up a Health Globe increases your maximum Life by 5% for 15 seconds, stacking up to 5 times
• Overwhelming Desire amulet- Chance on hit to charm the enemy. While charmed, the enemy takes 35% more damage

Act 4 

• All of the legendary items drop in Act 4 – If you want a specific legendary, I’d advise against farming act4 as the chance is diluted by all other possible legendary item drops.

Act 5

• Death’s Bargain pants – Gain an aura of death that deals 750-1000% of your Life per Second to enemies within 20 yards. You no longer regenerate Life
• Soulsmasher 2h – When you kill an enemy, it explodes for 500% of your life per kill as damage to all enemies within 20 yards, you no longer benefit from your life per kill
• Helltrapper – 7–10% chance on hit to summon a Spike Trap, Caltrops or Sentry
• Salvation shield – Blocked attacks heal you and your allies for the amount blocked
• Pandemonium Loop – Enemies slain while Feared die in a bloody explosion and cause other nearby enemies

Farming gems and XP off cursed chests:

Here is how you can farm gems and XP off of cursed chests in Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls.

Crafting Guide:

Classes Abilities Guide:

In Reaper of Souls, all classes have new abilities at level 61. This includes runes along with three new passives. When players reach level 70 they can unlock a passive slot at level 70. Skill set courtesy Wowhead.

Barbarian:

Demon Hunter

Monk

Witch Doctor

Wizard

Blood Shards:

You can acquire blood shards by bounties.

• Normal: 1
• Expert: 2
• Bonus: 2
• Master: 4
• Torment: 4

Note: This guide will updated once we have more information about the game.

During a the launch event of Diablo 3: Reapers of Souls, GamingBolt got in touch with the title’s lead producer Alex Mayberry. During our 15 minute chat with Alex, we were able to ask him about how the PS4 version of Diablo 3 was shaping up.

With the PlayStation 4 and the games that have been released so far, there’s been a lot of talk regarding frame-rate and resolution. We asked Alex whether there will be a case of scaling back certain things on the PS4 from the PC or is it going to be full HD with high frame-rates like what everybody wants.

“Our goal is to always have the highest resolution we can get and the fastest frame-rates. We will have to make adjustments to take advantage of the console architecture versus the PC. They do behave slightly differently but whatever changes we make should only be for the benefit of the platform and not something that players would really notice, more under the hood kind of changes. We really look at trying to make the game experience great from holding a controller in your hand and it kind of starts from there. You know having the dual-sticks and being able to drive your character, the gameplay of the console version feels inherently different anyway because they are different controls. So we will really cater the game to take advantage of that, of holding a controller in your hands,” Alex explained to GamingBolt.

We also asked him about the chances of seeing an Xbox One version of Diablo 3, to which he replied:

“I can’t say when or if that will happen only that we develop for both platforms as part of what we do. If it does come to Xbox One we’ll make announcement, once that’s for certain.”

Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls is now available for the PC platform. Stay tuned for our full review of the expansion pack later this week.

This is set to be the first expansion pack released for the game and although it will be being released for the PC and Mac version of the title, it will indeed be ported to the console versions.

Whether or not this will be a paid expansion for console players has yet to be commented on. Diablo III: Reaper of Souls is expected to launch on March 25th of 2014 on OS X and Microsoft Windows,  and will be available at retail and via digital download.

• 1. Story
• 2. Gameplay
• 3. Classes
• 4. New Features

Story

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls is set a short period of time after the events of Diablo III following a brief period of peace. With the defeat of Diablo finally being achieved, a mysterious object called the Black Soulstone is recovered by Tyrael. The strange artifact houses inside itself the fundamental essences of the seven Great Evils which still pose a credible threat. With this knowledge in hand, Tyrael and six Horadrim take the Black Soulstone to Sanctuary where they attempt to hide it away from the prying hands of both the mortals, hoping it will never be found.

They however are unsuccessful in this, the group is set upon by Malthael. Malthael was last seen after his disappearance following the events that led to the Worldstone being destroyed twenty years prior. With Tyrael incapacitated and his party of Haradrim all but annihilated, Mathael is free to take the Black Soulstone putting his plan into action.

Having regained consciousness, Tyrael dispatches the last surviving member of his Horardrim party to find the Nephalem (you, the player) that destroyed Diablo. After locating the players character, your journey will lead you to the land known as the Kingdom of Westmarch which is currently under siege.

Gameplay

Gameplay for Diablo III: Reaper of Souls will remain largely unchanged in regards to overall gameplay mechanics and player interaction with the game world. Rather then change the gameplay for Diablo III, a changelog and new introductions can be found in the “New Features” section of this wiki.

Classes

Given the nature of this update, any information regarding classes and abilities can be found in the “New Features” section of this wiki.

New Features

As one would come to expect from an expansion pack to an action role playing game, Diablo III: Reaper of Souls brings with it numerous updates and tweaks to the established game, thus changing and improving various elements of the game.

New Primary Antagonist – Malthael is finally making a return to the franchise.

Followers – While there are no new followers being introduced to the game, the already existing followers will have their personal storylines fleshed out and given new background information and side missions.

Artisans – The Artisan and her Transmorgifaction services will be returning in Diablo III: Reaper of Souls alongside similar character expansion to that found in the Followers portion of this wiki.

New Game Chapters – Serving as an official entry in the Diablo III canon, a fifth chapter has been inserted into the storyline. This new fifth chapter takes place primarily in the Kingdom of Westmarch.

New End Game Content – Diablo III: Reaper of Souls will bring the Nephalem Rifts into the game, these are 15-20 minute long randomly generated dungeons that can be cleared for gathering loot.

New Level Cap Ceiling and Unlimited Paragon Level Points – Players can now level-up their characters to Level 70 and continue to level with the removal of the Paragon level cap, given account wide special points to be allocated as seen fit.

Loot 2.0 Tweak – The 2.0 loot drop tweak will lower the overall amount of loot drops in the game, but the loot drops that do occur will more likely be usable by your characters class.

Adventure Mode – A new game mode where the game world becomes a player battlefield. Bounty quests will also be available with bounty specific awards being awarded for completing all quests in the act.

Difficulty Revision – The game difficulties Normal, Hard, Expert, Master and Torment have all been revised to bring a difficulty that better reflects their allocated name.

Note: This wiki will be updated once we have more information about the game.

Loot 2.0 strongly improves upon the original loot system of Diablo III. This is the way the itemization should have been in the first place since the beginning of Diablo III. After playing numerous characters from scratch in the beta I was actually having a-lot more fun than I did in the original version of Diablo III. The system is much more rewarding, fair and it’s well balanced.When you kill mobs and item drops, chances are that that it has the appropriate stats for your class as opposed to something completely opposite. The loot drops less often, but the point is that when it does drop it’s actually useful and most likely an upgrade, especially during the early levels in the game.

"At the end of every act the final boss guarantees to drop a legendary, although it is still possible to get multiple legendaries throughout the act depending on how lucky you get."

The loot system also applies to the crafting system. Crafting is now actually useful and gathering materials are worth your time. You can easily craft items and get good stats/rolls within the first 5 or even less crafts. However, sometimes you can get a bit unlucky and not get what you want until 10 crafts later, but that’s usually not the case and it’s not really an issue. Another nice thing is that items of white and gray quality are not useless anymore because they can be salvaged for a new crafting material called “common debris” which are required for crafting items.

Loot 2.0 has also added many new secondary stats that never existed in the original game. The biggest update in the loot system is the fact that legendary items are now actually deserved to be called ‘Legendary’ due to their massive upgrade and truly unique stats. It’s quite exciting now to see legendaries drop items because they can totally turn the game around for you, especially when you are playing Hardcore mode and trying to stay alive and have as much advantage as possible early on.

At the end of every act the final boss guarantees to drop a legendary, although it is still possible to get multiple legendaries throughout the act depending on how lucky you get. One of the legendary that I have received during my playthrough was a mace that had good stats for my Crusader and an awesome proc that had a chance to cast chain lighting across multiple enemies on a hit. It did a decent amount of damage, looked cool and it made me feel more powerful as a low level despise the fact that I was only level 20 or so when I have received the legendary. Stuff like this is what makes the game fun and exciting. Blizzard has finally delivered the fun factor to their itemization system for Diablo III.

The paragon system has also received a major overhaul/update due to the majority of the players asking for state allocations. Blizzard has finally implemented a true stat allocation in their ever-popular Paragon system. The paragon levels are now infinite rather than 100 cap at per character. What’s even better is that all of your toons will be at the same paragon level because the system is now account-wide. However, Hardcore and Soft-core characters will have different Paragon levels depending on your toons on each of the two different servers. If your character is level 75 paragon on Hardcore then the rest of the characters on Hardcore will also be 75, but, if your software characters are 50 then they will also be 50 on soft-core. Long story short, the Paragon levels don’t share experience points across hardcore/soft-core servers.

"Your core stats can be raised infinitely, but the offensive, defensive and bonus stats each can only be raised by 50 times each."

Stat locations are divided into 4 different groups; Core, Offense, Defense and Bonus. Your core stats can be raised infinitely, but the offensive, defensive and bonus stats each can only be raised by 50 times each. Your core stats include Strength, Intelligence, Dexterity and Vitality, those can go up infintely. However, stats like Attack Speed, Crit Damage, Crit Chance can only go up by 50 levels each and get capped. It’s very difficult to judge on how this system actually works out in the long run due to the simple fact that this something that needs to be tested worldwide once the game gets released on March 25th. However, from my personal beta experience, it’s safe to say that this the step in the right direction and it makes the game feel a lot more progressive and interesting for those who enjoy the true end-game progression.

The Crusader is a brand new strength based class which are pretty much the Paladin from Diablo 2 with a couple of new tricks and unique gameplay mechanics. Playing the Crusader from start to finish multiple times was a complete blast. It was refreshing to try out something and exciting at the same time.The best way to describe this class is by saying that he/she is simply a walking tank that is able to pull off a decent amount of damage up-close and personal or even mid-range. One of my favorite Crusader abilities is the Shield Bash which allows you to charge an enemy and beat the living crap out of the demons. The shield bash does a lot of damage on its own and feels very powerful thanks to the fantastic particle effects/graphics.

Another one of my favorite skills is called Shield. The Crusader can throw it at the enemy and it bounces off from one to the next and then back to you causing tremendous damage and creates satisfying sound effects. The best part about this skill is that you can put a rune on it which stuns enemies every time it bounces off them making it one of the most useful skills for tough fights and its fun to use.

"Blizzard has created new graphical additions to their Diablo 3 engine that makes Act V feel more immersive than the previous acts."

The Crusader is also able to get on his mighty ghostly steed that runs super fast and can be used as escape mechanism to get out of difficult situations. This ability is called Steed Charge and it can also be used to damage enemies or even heal yourself and your party depending on the rune you decide to choose. It’s a super flashy skill that is fun to look at and it makes the Crusader truly stand out on his/her own. The Crusader has many more abilities that I can talk about all day, but that’s something that will have to be saved for our final review of the expansion. Overall, I was satisfied with this class and I am looking forward to playing him/her in the retail version of Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls later this year.

Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls adds a new Act to the main storyline/campaign of Diablo 3. The new Act takes place in Westmarch, which is a gothic-like city that has been taken over by Malthael. He is the next baddie that you will have to take care of in the expansion. Malthael has risen ghosts, undead and all kinds of evil things from the dark to wreak havoc upon Westmarch to destroy humanity and it’s the Nephaelms (the players in Diablo 3 lore) job to stop him from killing innocent life and protect the Soulstone from evil.

Blizzard has created new graphical additions to their Diablo 3 engine that makes Act V feel more immersive than the previous acts. First and foremost, the act is much more randomized both in exterior/interior areas, the lighting system is improved. My favorite part about this Act is the story and the setting/mood that it has to offer. It’s much more dark, gritty and evil than previous Acts and that’s how a Diablo game should feel like the majority of the time.

Blizzard has also over-hauled the core gameplay mechanics by adding a new difficulty system, scaled leveling and of course the addition of Adventure mode. Leveling is less tedious and much more enjoyable due to the fact that monsters now scale up with your character as he/she levels up. So for example, you can replay your favorite part of an Act and get yourself all the way to 70 without killing a single boss if you really wanted to.

"In Adventure mode, players are able to travel to any waypoint that exists in the game and jump across Acts whenever they want to at any during their adventure."

Levels are also not seperated by difficulties like they used to. You can play the entire campaign from 1-70 on any difficulty you want. Previously, you were forced to play through the entire campaign 4 times to get to 60. First you played on normal to get to level 32, then Nightmare to get to 50 and Hell to get to 60 and then finally you unlocked Inferno which was the end-game difficulty for Diablo 3. This will not exist anymore as soon as patch 2.0 hits live servers which will be available sometime before Reaper of Souls and will be playable for original Diablo 3 owners without the purchase of the expansion.

The new difficulty system now has Normal, Hard, Expert, Master and Torment which has a difficulty slider adjustment on top of it. Torment can only be unlocked by reaching level 70. The difficulty will also have higher drop rates for legendaires, it will also drop items that are exclusive to that difficulty and will be mostly played by players who want to experience the ultimate challenge and the best rewards possible in the game.

Exclusive to Diablo III: Reaper of Souls is the Adventure mode. Adventure mode is a completely new gameplay mode that can be unlocked after finishing all of the 5 Acts. In Adventure mode, players are able to travel to any waypoint that exists in the game and jump across Acts whenever they want to at any during their adventure. However, the main mechanic of Adventure Mode is the bounty missions and nephalem rifts.

When you start playing Adventure Mode you are randomly given 25 different bounties to complete, 5 in each Act. Bounties can range from killing a specific/certain amount of mobs in a particular zone, completing specific events and so on. Once you complete all 5 bounties in an Act you will be given a item that will grant you access to Nephalem Rift. Nephalem Rifts are randomized dungeons that have random environments, bosses and monsters. Once you complete a Nephalem Rift you will be given a special bag that you can click on in your inventory to see the rewards you have received.

This is a completely new way to play Diablo III and farm for items and this mode is where most end-game players will spend their time in for the ultimate loot hunt. Although, the Adventure mode was a tad buggy and had missing bounties in the beta on Act 5, but that’s because everything is still in work-in-progress and hopefully will be fixed in the final release. Despite the current technical issues in Adventure mode, it’s probably one of my favorite additions in the expansion besides the new Act and the new Crusader class.

The beta for Diablo III: Reaper of Souls has left a positive impression on me. Thanks to the new loot system, Act 5, Crusader class, difficulty system overhaul and Adventure Mode there is a lot to look forward to talk about and experience. Look for our final verdict of Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls in the coming months as we get closer to the release of the expansion.

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls, the expansion for the troubled third installment in Blizzard’s storied franchise, will be hitting the PlayStation 4, Blizzard has confirmed, and it will be making its public debut at Blizzcon, where it will also be fully playable.

The Blizzcon PS4 demo will have players explore the haunted streets of Westmarch as one of our five original classes, or test their mettle as the unyielding Crusader. Blizzard is promising innovative controls for the game using the DualShock 4, and its touchpad technology, as well as some unique social features, utilizing the extent of PS4’s connectedness.

Blizzcon 2013 will start on November 8 2013, and then continue on through the weekend. Many major announcements are expected, including the next Starcraft II expansion after this year’s excellent Heart of the Swarm, the next World of Warcraft expansion, details on Blizzard’s MOBA, and maybe a look at their upcoming MMORPG. Stay tuned to GamingBolt for more coverage and information.

Diablo III’s launch and subsequent post launch support period have been a bit of a debacle for Blizzard, as some stupid decisions aimed at maximizing revenue and profit, such as the inclusion of the Real Money Auction House, and the rebalancing of the entire game based around that, or the always online connection requirement (see also: SimCity) led to massive backlash against the game and a forum life less than a tenth of its predecessor’s.

With all that in mind, Blizzard has announced the first expansion for the game, Reaper of Souls, which might manage to fix some stuff with the game, and might even redeem the game in many fickle gamers’ eyes.

“From the beginning, Diablo has always been about the struggle between good and evil, and Reaper of Souls explores the darker notes of that conflict,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment in a press release. “This expansion also represents a big milestone in the ongoing evolution of Diablo III, with key enhancements to the core gameplay, along with a new act to experience, a powerful new character class, tons of new loot, and even more end-game options. We think players will love playing Reaper of Souls, and we can’t wait to get it into their hands.”

So it looks like they are fixing some of the core functionality of the game. We’ll see.