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Blizzard just announced patch 2.5 PTR. EDIT: Terror Zones are unfortunately online only for now. Whether that means online only for just the PTR or until the live patch drops, it's unclear. You can read the patch notes here: https://www.purediablo.com/diablo-2-resurrected-patch-2-5-ptr-is-live/
When playing a Terror Zone-enabled game, every hour, the armies of the Burning Hells will focus their demonic might on specific zones, terrorizing them. The monsters in these zones will be at least two levels higher than your current level or their original level, up to a maximum per difficulty. The experience received and the loot dropped by killing a terrorized monster will be based on this new level. In addition, terrorized monsters will also grant additional experience points.
Here are the level details for each monster type per difficulty:
Normal
Upon entering a Terror Zone-enabled game, you'll be informed of the current terrorized areas through a message sent to you via the Chat Box. When the time for new terrorized zones draws near, you will be informed of the impending changes via the Chat Box.
There are various other bug fixes and small changes mentioned in the notes but the Terror zones are the big thing.Huge implications for MFing and leveling that will be very exciting to figure out I'm sure. Looks like it will be much easier to level up, right? Monsters at level 96/98/99 is a fairly huge change. Since before the highest regular monsters were 85 and champs/uniques in those areas were 87/88 and you're always essentially gaining 5% of the exp a monster actually gives. So in those terrorized zones you'll be gaining 100% of the exp. I'm curious if this isn't too big of a change and if getting 99 will be trivial now. The online ladder race to 99 will certainly be a lot shorter.
I'm also curious how this will function on single player if you're not connected to the internet. Will the zones be chosen based off the time or what? And if so, would changing your computer's clock allow you to choose whichever zone you'd like to be terrorized? I don't understand how it'll work.
PTR is live now but I'm out of town all weekend long Some folks are saying it's online only, someone should download the PTR and check it out and let us know. It'd be a pretty huge letdown if it were online only imo.
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TERROR ZONES
The journey to level 99 is a celebrated experience for players and quite the milestone if achieved—a rite of passage, even. We want to offer an alternative to repeatedly farming Baal, Diablo, or Nihlathak. We also want the journey to level 99 to be accessible to a larger population of players, full of variety, and most importantly, challenging—this is where Terror Zones come in. As we get into details, please note that players can choose to opt-out of Terror Zones if desired.When playing a Terror Zone-enabled game, every hour, the armies of the Burning Hells will focus their demonic might on specific zones, terrorizing them. The monsters in these zones will be at least two levels higher than your current level or their original level, up to a maximum per difficulty. The experience received and the loot dropped by killing a terrorized monster will be based on this new level. In addition, terrorized monsters will also grant additional experience points.
Here are the level details for each monster type per difficulty:
Normal
- Base: +2 levels up to level 45
- Champion: +4 levels up to level 47
- Unique: +5 levels up to level 48
- Base: +2 levels up to level 71
- Champion: +4 levels up to level 73
- Unique: +5 levels up to level 74
- Base: +2 levels up to level 96
- Champion: +4 levels up to level 98
- Unique: +5 levels up to level 99
Upon entering a Terror Zone-enabled game, you'll be informed of the current terrorized areas through a message sent to you via the Chat Box. When the time for new terrorized zones draws near, you will be informed of the impending changes via the Chat Box.
There are various other bug fixes and small changes mentioned in the notes but the Terror zones are the big thing.
I'm also curious how this will function on single player if you're not connected to the internet. Will the zones be chosen based off the time or what? And if so, would changing your computer's clock allow you to choose whichever zone you'd like to be terrorized? I don't understand how it'll work.
PTR is live now but I'm out of town all weekend long Some folks are saying it's online only, someone should download the PTR and check it out and let us know. It'd be a pretty huge letdown if it were online only imo.
Edit:
SAD
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