The Adventure mode doesn’t add new content so much as give players the incentive necessary to keep hacking and slashing after the credits roll. It was a pretty satisfying length.īeyond the fifth act’s new environments, enemies, and euphony sits a brand new mode called Adventure, which adds fresh enemy and boss bounties to old dungeons. Completing these bounties earns you rift keystone fragments which you can use to open a Nephalem Rift – essentially a new dungeon type with an unpredictable mix of enemies. I didn’t time my quest, but a level 36 witch doctor character I used to complete the first four acts grew to level 55 over the course of completing just this one act. Blizzard Entertainmentīut now you may be wondering: If I can get this major, game-altering patch for free, is there any reason I ought to pony up 40 loonies for the expansion?Īssuming you intend to spend more than just a few more hours with Diablo III, then the answer is probably yes.įor starters, it adds a surprisingly large fifth act to the story, in which your hero is on the hunt for Malthael, the Angel of Death, who is intent on putting an end to humanity as a drastic means of resolving the eternal war between good and evil. Suffice to say, the patch gives hardcore Diablo fans a lot of what they’ve been pining for since the original game’s release. And it turns out this is an instance in which the fans knew what they’re talking about. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

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