People talk about an Act 6 expansion… but what about an expansion based between the acts?

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This wouldn’t alter the story of the game, it would fill the void between acts and be a nice ground to add more dept to the lore. Cain explaining the Mage clan war while travelling to our golein, telling you about Pandemonium or kurast

Between act 1 and 2 you take a big trip between the rogue camp to Lut Golein, what happens during this trip? You could discover areas between those 2 places, defend the caravan, encounter people requesting help

Same for between act 2 &3, you could encounter islands where the ship docks to refill

Same for between act 3&4 and 4&5, rather than the portal porting you directly where you need to go, you have some areas to walk before getting there

When you step out of the Durance portal you spawn at the gates of hell and you have to walk to pandemonium which is, according to the lore, is a crossroad, not a deadend

Then when you take Tyrael portal to harrogath, you could be spawning in a temple at the base of mount area, Harrogath being an outpost midway Up

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This kind of expansion wouldn’t add much lore but could be a ground to add more monsters, areas, game challenges and to deepen the heroes story

Use those interActs as alternative gameplay

“Defend the caravan from the ambush” waves of monsters come at you

“Cleanse the island” kill all monsters so Meshif’s crew member can gather food or repair the ship

“Destroy Diablo’s soulstone”

Note: it could be Hell only, creating a sense of novelty to the boring repeatetivness of norm/nm/hell and avoiding making rushing longer and over leveling

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I do think that would/could be very fun, or at least interesting. Also adding new quests to act 4, destroying Diablo’s soul stone, even going after Marius, only to find Baal got to him first…

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what’s the roman numeral for 5.5?

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Yep, inbetween act content would definitely fit with the missing Diablo soulstone quest

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This would certainly be interesting. Especially if it was extra hard content designed around multiplayer all while filling in blanks and expanding on what was already told through exposition.

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Yep and this could be done without expanding the story of the game, they would be limited by the already existing frame of the game, that would have for effect to maximize faithfulness