Diablo 3 Blizzcon 2014 announcements include new rarity tier, map & more

With Blizzcon 2014 around, the Diablo 3 fans are looking forward to more news about the Blizzard’s action role-playing video game. The fans can expect a lot of game-changing features, major additions and even expansions for the title.

The Diablo 3-What’s Next panel at Blizzcon announced the new features which can be seen on the fan-site DiabloHub. New sets of each class that focus on various skills can be expected. If you die in the game, your corpse will be eaten by a New Boss called The Rat King. Everytime you hit him rats come out of his back. He also Summons Rat Tornados.

Three new Goblins were aso revealed.They are :

  • (1) The Blood Thief: Drops Blood Shards
  • (2) Odious Collector: Drops Crafting Materials and Plans
  • (3) Gem Hoarder: Drops Gems

Goblins now seek out enemies and have unique minimap icons.

Coming to the Legendary Gems, the current ones will not be redesigned. Instead they will be adding new gems. Hoping new legendary items will make the under used legendary gems perform better.

The other announcement included of a new map,The Ruins of Sesheron which takes place on the snow covered Barbarian capital is a full fledged map with various locales and it’s very own spot in Adventure Mode with new bounties and monsters to undertake. The new Adventure mode will have new bounties and monsters. New Act Layouts in towns. To make all the artisans closer to each other.

The Season 2 will be hitting PTR (Public Test Realm) soon and will include new conquests on top of old ones, such as killing certain bosses within twenty (20) minutes of starting the game. It will also include new legendary items, more transmogrification of the Conqueror’s set and more.

The changes will be available in the the patch 2.1.2 which will hit the PTR soon but has no release for the live patch. We can expect it in coming month or so.