Current dead HC characters count in p2.0?

#1 - Sept. 10, 2013, 3:19 p.m.

So the hardcore forum has been making threads about this since the announcement of paragon 2.0. what we want to know is as follows:

1) will the experience and paragon levels currently on dead characters count towards 2.0?

2) if so, will archived characters and "dead" characters (still taking up a character slot) both count?

3) if i have 2 WDs, is it only the highest level that counts? or will the both count towards paragon 2.0 (credit to hojoking for thinking of this)

i think many of us feel these need answers as soon as possible. this is because it affects how we approach hardcore (which is obviously serious business :P :P). for example, a friend of mine has a dead paragon 100 that he has not archived. right now that is taking up a character slot. however if he were to archive that character, only to find out the xp no longer counts, thats 100-200 hours down the drain. normally we would all say "suck it up this is HC" but since we no longer will lose XP on death, it stands to reason this should be retroactive.
another scenario is; i have a paragon 100 WD. while i love the MF, is it really worth it for me to risk playing it and lose all my xp? i made a new WD and tried a new build for fun (and to level again), but i think many would forego playing a p100 right now if they knew the xp would not apply retroactively.

thank you for your time and consideration. we may not always feel we receive a lot of attention, but we recognize HC is a small community of passionate players, and we definitely appreciate how blizzard has helped us in the past.

-Isolation

Travis Day

Game Designer

#38 - Sept. 13, 2013, 11:11 p.m.

I see this question popping up in several places, including my email inbox from coworkers so I thought I'd chime in.

When the Paragon 2.0 system is released our current plan is to take all the experience players have currently accumulated and sum that into a single value, well two values really, HC and non HC. If you have 5 paragon level 100 characters on your account in soft core that we will add that total experience earned into a single value and your soft core paragon level will be equal to whatever that amount of experience translates to into levels.

The current plan is to do the same thing with all of your hc characters. We are still discussing what we do with dead vs active characters but I'm leaning towards including experience of dead hc heroes as well.

The purpose of the paragon 2.0 system is the reward players who want to invest lots of time as opposed to specific characters. Under that philosophy I don't see any reason to deny hc players experience they previously earned.