Gamle Diablo-fans har længe prikket til Blizzard med ønsker om få indført et rangstigesystem i Diablo III på linje med det, forgængeren i sin tid bød på. Og Blizzard har hørt deres kald, kan man læse på Diablofans.
Under et livestream i forbindelse med Reaper of Souls-lanceringen fortalte Blizzards Josh Mosqueira om planerne for såkaldte Seasons, der vil blive en del af spillet i den første indholds-patch.
"One of the features you guys have asked about a lot, that we have done a lot of research for, is something called ladders. I'm happy to say that as part of our first big content patch in a couple of months, we will be releasing Seasons, which will include a ladder-like aspect to them. We're still working on them, but the general gist is that you'll level up a new character, we'll have specific ladders for Seasons, and also some goodies that will drop along the way. There's more information of that to come, and we're not making an announcement of when, but that's coming in the first major content patch - not the first patch, but the first major content patch."
Samtidigt vil den kommende 2.1-patch også indføre noget, udviklerne kalder Tiered Rifts. Ved at gennemføre et Rift-dungeon vil man her få adgang til et nyt og sværere dungeon, og sådan kan man blive ved, indtil man dør, i konkurrence med andre spillere om at se hvem der kan nå længst:
"There is another major feature in the patch 2.1, which is going to be what we're internally calling tiered Rifts. The idea is a challenge scenario, where players do increasingly hard Rifts, to see who can get the farthest. You do your bounties, you do a Nephalem Rift. If you clear it, there's a chance to get a Greater Rift Token. If you successfully do that, you'll get a Greater Rift Key (rank 2), then Rank 3, etc.. Much like seasons, we're going to have a leaderboard as well, so you can see who got to the highest tier Rift, and what time were they able to obtain on that."
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