This is the entire reason I loved the hidden areas in older games and made suggestions earlier in this post. They provide a reason and a reward for taking the time to explore everywhere and disincentivizes speed.
Endgame items that gain certain rare affixes based on secret areas you discover along the way. Or endgame stat/skillpoint bonuses based on the percentage of the hidden areas you uncover on your journey. For example: gain a bonus skillpoint for every 10% of the total secret or hidden areas you discover on your journey. 10 bonus skillpoints max. This would incentivize exploration and increase replayability.
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Yes, I think this can be a good alternative to classic ARPG speedfarm: finding secret areas that always contain something valuable (or, have a greatly increased chance to drop something valuable). But in this case all such secrets mustn’t stay on one and the same place (and we know that D4 open world will be static, I mean, without a random layout).
I dont mean a level grind cow level … more like you find a hidden place and get a useless cow head transmog for your helmet (and in open world you only find other helmets like wolf head, bear head) or even further you find one of x pieces that leads to a full transmog into a walking cow.
More like Wirt’s original leg in D3. Useless, a bit hard to find, nice to have for cosmetics.
Since D1 the cow was an secretly strange thing and this is (for me) part of the must have eastereggs for every Diablo part.
Also some hint about Tristram,the unlucky place with cursed king Leoric and some hero who helped in some ancient tome, maybe from Cain, was easter egg enough. But some kind of easteregg about Tristram should be made.
I love, how the hero from D1 is the wanderer/diablo in D2.
When you meet the ghost sorc in act 5 shortly before you fight Maltael you see she is styled like the basic sorc in D2.
I am not sure but this also may be true for other classes.
I want small details like this to be eastereggs in D4, but no power-level. That is indeed stupid.