Diablo 3 gets 50% XP boost until April 7

With over 1.5 million Diablo 3 players having braved the forces of Death, Blizzard is rewarding the entire community with a special +50% XP weekend through Monday, April 7 at 5AM PDT.

24

Over 1.5 million Diablo 3 players have bravely journeyed through Reaper of Souls to stare down Death himself, since the expansion released on March 25. Blizzard is celebrating this milestone by offering Diablo 3 players a bonus XP weekend.

According to Battle.net, anyone that logs into Diablo 3 from today at 5PM PDT through Monday, April 7 at 5AM PDT will get a +50% XP bonus. Now that the Paragon level cap has been removed, it's a good time to take on the forces of Death repeatedly and try to snag any loot along the way.

As has been the case with Diablo 3's other bonus XP weekends, the boost will only apply to PC and Mac players.

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?

From The Chatty
  • reply
    April 4, 2014 2:00 PM

    Ozzie Mejia posted a new article, Diablo 3 gets 50% XP boost until April 7.

    With over 1.5 million Diablo 3 players having braved the forces of Death, Blizzard is rewarding the entire community with a special +50% XP weekend through Monday, April 7 at 5AM PDT.

    • reply
      April 4, 2014 2:02 PM

      I guess I can get a wd to 70 tonight so that I can clear out my stash of int items.

    • reply
      April 4, 2014 2:18 PM

      I just picked up Diablo 3 and am unfamiliar with this kind of stuff, but can I choose not to have this? I wanted to play and enjoy the game, not just get to an expansion.

      • reply
        April 4, 2014 2:27 PM

        It doesn't really matter, the monsters level with you. If you are level 70 and in ACT 2 then so be it.

      • reply
        April 4, 2014 2:29 PM

        The monsters level up with you so you won't get to content any faster with this. You'll just hit a higher level faster.

        This is really for people who already have 70 and are farming paragon levels or people who want to level their ults.

      • reply
        April 4, 2014 2:29 PM

        I don't think this'll affect your experience all that much. Monsters now scale with your character level, so there won't be a disparity between your level and wherever you are in the story. You'll level up and thus unlock skills/runes faster while the buff is active, but otherwise I don't think you'll really notice it.

        • reply
          April 4, 2014 3:26 PM

          Yeah, but that's what I am concerned with, maybe unwarranted because it's been forever since I've played a Diablo game, I was just worried to having access to items and powers before they were intended.

          But then I realized, there isn't that kind of expectation for this type of game (or is there?) because I could theoretically grind the first area until capped, so shouldn't be a big deal I guess.

        • reply
          April 4, 2014 9:35 PM

          It somewhat ruined my experience. I was able to play through the game solo with ease as a wizard with absolute ease. Laying waste to mobs, never even giving the enemy a chance to attack. Sometimes I had no idea what I was killing. There were just gibs and bits of table flying all-over.

          I bought D3 when it went on-sale. With absolute hatred I just had to try the game, and it is exactly what I was expecting.

          It plays like a parody of past Diablo games. It was obviously made by people who never enjoyed Diablo. They had no idea what the experience was all about and fundamentally changed the way the game functions.

          Teleporting, checkpoints, skill system, matchmaking, no chat. People don't even say hello when they enter a game!

          • reply
            April 4, 2014 10:06 PM

            Yeahhh, we're talking about things that have changed with patch 2.0. Things have changed drastically since D3's launch, especially with the patch and the expansion. I dunno about people saying hello though; I think that's people, not the game.

            I'm not even sure I'm addressing what you're talking about... your post seems to be talking about your past experience...? I'm not sure how that applies to a current XP boost promotion.

            • reply
              April 4, 2014 11:07 PM

              Just purchased game during sale. Played through the story predominantly with 50 xp boost, not by choice. It is my experience.

              • reply
                April 4, 2014 11:12 PM

                Diablo 3 has been a major let-down for me. Everything about it just quantifies, for me , what we have become as a society: pussies.

                • reply
                  April 4, 2014 11:16 PM

                  And that is why I emphasize "for me". For you it may be something else. But me? It makes me want to fucking destroy cities.

                  • reply
                    April 4, 2014 11:41 PM

                    Did you try a harder difficulty?

                    • reply
                      April 4, 2014 11:44 PM

                      Don't even get me started about the implementation of difficulty levels into Diablo.

                      • reply
                        April 4, 2014 11:46 PM

                        okay

                      • reply
                        April 4, 2014 11:47 PM

                        Go on.

                        • reply
                          April 5, 2014 12:13 AM

                          It is just another unneeded addition which detracts from the final product. The separation and difficulty in D2, the tiers: normal, nightmare and hell, worked so well. The new system causes confusion, uncertainty, and a useless division of the players.

                          The tone of Diablo 3 was how can we cater to the casual player. In this they forgot about the gamer.

                          Now, we can make things a little easier to dull the pain or you can rise up and conquer. We have chosen the former.

                          • reply
                            April 5, 2014 12:17 AM

                            Diablo was all too hard of a game. Far too unforgiving to actually be fun. Someone will always grab the unique before i get it. Act two was way too hard. I am always away from the group. And if there was an auction house where I could find great deals on cool gear I wouldn't even have to play this fucking game.

                            • reply
                              April 5, 2014 12:44 AM

                              you complain about how the game was too easy, then refuse to up the difficulty ?

                              you claim the difficulty is confusing ? it honestly, couldn't be simpler. You don't have to beat the game on easy mode in order to start playing somewhat more difficult mode. You just.. select the difficulty you want.

                          • reply
                            April 5, 2014 12:37 AM

                            The "gamer" chooses Expert or higher. It's not really that confusing or uncertain.

                          • reply
                            April 5, 2014 2:58 AM

                            This is, without a doubt, one of the most absurd comments I've ever read. I don't even know where to start, or how to brekekfefaef4f334yt5445

                            • reply
                              April 5, 2014 6:03 AM

                              I'm convinced the dude is trolling. D2's level-up experience was far easier than D3's. I used to have to play on "/players 8" to feel any sense of danger up until Hell difficulty. That's assuming you're not playing D3 on the easiest difficulty using the easiest class, which produces a similarly simple experience.

                              Yes, "Normal" is for casuals. You can skip it from day one and be rewarded accordingly. If you choose to play on an inappropriate difficulty then it's your fault -- don't blame Blizzard for giving you options.

                              • reply
                                April 5, 2014 7:48 AM

                                Diablo 3 is a parody of the past games.

                                The ease, hand-holding, cut-scene after cut scene, teleporting, cutscenes, no pvp, no trading, matchmaking, simplified skill tree, no attribute points, everyone gets their own drops, matchmaking, nice and shiny, diablo screaming "I am legion".

                                Made by people who hated Diablo.

                            • reply
                              April 5, 2014 7:52 AM

                              [deleted]

                            • reply
                              April 5, 2014 7:53 AM

                              Yeah, this guy's comment is ridiculous. I have no idea how anyone can think the current system is a step backwards. It's a terrible opinion.

                      • reply
                        April 5, 2014 1:00 AM

                        No, let's do exactly that.

    • reply
      April 4, 2014 6:47 PM

      Paragon 9001 !!!

      • reply
        April 4, 2014 9:07 PM

        It's over 9000!..... I'm drunk, I'll show myself out.

    • reply
      April 4, 2014 10:28 PM

      What's the shacker clan for West Coast? I want to join :D

    • reply
      April 5, 2014 7:39 AM

      I was going to try this... but I just spent 30 minutes trying to resetup my mobile authenticator and login to battle.net. I'm now completely locked out of my account so.... fuck this thing.

      • reply
        April 6, 2014 3:30 PM

        Call their support line. It'll take like 5 minutes and you'll be all set.

    • reply
      April 5, 2014 7:49 AM

      [deleted]

Hello, Meet Lola