Playing seasonal, but that still means I have all the altars of lilith, etc. The game is far too easy on hard, but I have yet to reach level 60. It’s just time consuming. Just unblock the increased difficulty levels, let me choose how hard I want the game to be. If it’s too hard I can lower it, if not hard enough, I can increase it in town.
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I think you already have what you want my friend, just go to the statue and choose.
no, you are locked to hard until you do certain tasks.
I’m pretty sure you just have to finish the main campaign (original campaign, not VoH). Which it sounds like you have.
I think it just unlocks automatically after you log in, if you skip campaign. It’s just easy to miss (I didn’t notice until later either). Just check and see?
Sorry if I’m wrong here, but it’s worth a look.
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only torment levels are locked till you complete certain pit levels. you can go to the statue and change it to penitent right away if you want
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you have to complete it as the character, I believe, and at the very least as seasonal. The characters I beat it with are in eternal and predate any seasons. You can’t start the game as expert either, I’m not certain what that’s locked behind anymore (not switching characters but apparently that’s unlocked now, penitent isn’t).
cant talk about eternal, but on season you can for sure go to penitent right away. only torments are locked.
did you try starting a new game with the original campaign? tias. If it works, you’ve probably already beaten it in seasonal. Point is that even torment shouldn’t be locked. Right now penitent is still locked for me, and at the start of the game the max was hard.
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oh, no the new game i started was with both campaigns skipped.
Try this then (no idea if it’ll work, but this is what I’d try):
- make a new character (skip campaign)
- log in on that new character to unlock expert/penitent
- now, go back to your campaign character and see if you can change difficulty
Big question, why only torment 4 is the max?
Are we really going to pretend this d4 did something creative with the difficulty levels? All they are is just equally scale up the xp, gold drops, monster damage, hp, and an additional item drop. There’s absolutely no difference in mechanics on ANYTHING.
So why not just let me play a torment 5+ if I want? This is really not difficult.
Have you tried T IIII ? That a pretty difficult level.
If you have, and you play SB - lol well nvm then.
no, the game won’t let me select T3, that’s the B*. It locks things behind completion. I just beat elias, I don’t think I took a wound (maybe playing rogue and I have the potion damage thing that I did activate) and I did the above so now I’m on expert.
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I agree that difficulties shouldn’t be dependent on finishing campaign, because it ruins the campaign experience.
I had hopes to replay the base campaign, but I decided to postpone it, because of limitation to Expert.
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yeah, the only boss that has given me any pause at all is Ashava, that F-er killed me like 5 times before I beat it. That’s how the boss’s should be. I’m on penitent now and could sleep on my keyboard and win. I need to go do the pits to unlock torment…
update: and after doing the pit 20, I went straight to pit 35 and am now playing on torment 2 without much problem, can’t unlock torment 3 yet though, and echos of lilith was a nogo for me on torment 1… but for the most part… I jumped straight from Expert to Penitent to Torment 2. I finished the “main quest” for everything around paragon 70. Probably could have been as low as 50 (even 40) if I hadn’t had to recover a bunch of stuff blizzard lost and ran around in helltides a couple of times.
Oh, and no I’m not playing a spiritborn, I’m playing a Dance of Knives rogue.