How hard will the game be? - Page 24

On May 09 2012 08:45 Polar_Nada wrote:
im not sure if this has been asked (only briefly skimmed through this thread...), but is it possible to join a friend's game who is near the end of say, normal difficulty? even if you are level 1? once the party completes it, does that make you complete it as well? thus, allowing you to start nightmare? haha.

On May 09 2012 08:45 Polar_Nada wrote:
im not sure if this has been asked (only briefly skimmed through this thread...), but is it possible to join a friend's game who is near the end of say, normal difficulty? even if you are level 1? once the party completes it, does that make you complete it as well? thus, allowing you to start nightmare? haha.

On May 09 2012 09:50 DDie wrote:
At first it will be hard.


After the optimal builds are discovered it will be easy.


When people get godly gear it will be mediocre.

On May 09 2012 09:22 mordk wrote:

Not possible, you can only join games in quests you are engaged on, or have previously completed, and I think if a higher level character joins a game created by a level 1 player, on the first quest, waypoints are locked so level 1 player can't follow a high level character into a high level zone or boss.

On May 09 2012 10:18 rezoacken wrote:


That is not true at all. A friend level 1 can join your game no matter where you are, he cannot join a Nightmare game before having unlocked it however.

That is not possible for public games though, only friend games.

For example in beta a level 1 could join you to fight the skeleton king, he gets shitty experience but he can join.

Is "rushing" a character possible? Or are there some kind of restrictions that keep a player from getting to Nightmare/hell/Inferno in a significantly shorter time period than usual.
JayWilson: A higher level character can help you jump past content within a difficulty, but you get greatly diminished XP, so you really need to go through legitimately. We have hard level requirements for difficulty levels, though, so no shortcuts there.

On May 09 2012 10:39 Polar_Nada wrote:

so it is possible to join a friend's game right before they complete normal difficulty? thus allowing you to go into nightmare once completed normal?

EDIT: For the beta, i did in fact join a friends game when i was level 1, and they were almost at the skeleton king haha.

On May 09 2012 12:08 rezoacken wrote:


Like skyr said. You can do it but there is a min level for difficulties so you will finish normal at level 2 but have to wait level 30 (or whatever) before going into nightmare

On May 09 2012 13:41 SolHeiM wrote:


That is fucking bullshit because if I can beat the encounter I shouldn't be limited by some ridiculous level gap. Blizzard are really fucking retarded some times.

On May 09 2012 13:51 rezoacken wrote:


yeah you being carried by your friend = you being able to beat encounter. Not sure where you got that from... people are really fucking retarded some times.

When they said there are level caps it doesn't mean they are high it just means you cannot go in nightmare at level 2 after having been rushed by a 60. Who cares ? Just play legit and I'm pretty sure you will not get blocked.

On May 09 2012 14:04 skyR wrote:
What are you talking about lol? Naturally playing the game will get you into the next difficulty even if you decide to skip as much as you can. I highly doubt Blizzard is as stupid as you make them out to be since they do this for WoW as well.

On May 09 2012 13:57 SolHeiM wrote:


No, that's not my point. I was talking about the level gap, not about getting boosted. Me and my friends will rush the content, skipping as much as we can. Why should we have to stop progressing because of these retarded level gaps?

On May 09 2012 14:07 SolHeiM wrote:


"We have hard level requirements for difficulty levels, though, so no shortcuts there."

That's what I'm talking about. I don't want to have to wait several levels before I can keep progressing if I am good enough to beat the content I'm facing.

On May 09 2012 14:28 rezoacken wrote:


This blizzard response was in response to someone asking if a level 1 could get rushed into nightmare. The "hard" imo just means its a real cap rather than a "soft" cap (being denied access vs too difficult).

Dont worry you and your friend will probably not get blocked if you do the game normally. Maybe you'll get blocked a bit before inferno since it requires to be at the level cap of 60.