Inferno and 18 Item Tiers

#0 - Aug. 19, 2011, 8:48 p.m.

We discussed this topic on the DiabloCast this week (which we just finished recording, should be up Soon™) and Force brought up a good question: with the addition of the Inferno difficulty, is the Inferno gear included in the 18 tiers of item visuals? Or will there be more tiers added onto the 18 now?

I had rationalized that the Inferno Gear could have potentially been the last tier of hell gear simply moved to Inferno and called Inferno gear, which would mean that there are still 18 tiers here. PhrozenDragon had disagreed saying that it seems like more gear had been added because of the visual of the Inferno gear itself, when Force had just said that it may have just been a color palette switch from the end of Hell to Inferno.

So again, I'm curious, are there 18 tiers of items still? And with Inferno now, what does the distribution look like?

Bashiok

#35 - Aug. 22, 2011, 8:34 p.m.

We have the actual visual progression looks nailed down, so I guess the direct answer is we're not looking to make any more beyond those 18. We're not nailed down on how we're pacing them because we're still creating a decent amount of unique armor pieces, which get more bang for the buck being placed around end-game itemization.