Reaper of D2R Items Souls, with its adventure mode that is generated procedurally is aiming to be that next layer. Mayberry states that the expansion will make the game more of an open-world sandbox and less like a directed experience which is more similar to the original game.

"If you examine the classic Diablo, the first game. Diablo the first version of Diablo it's playing that story narrative. This was the model that they came up with back then, and one of the major challenges to create Diablo was: "What is it that we have to do with the previous games and what should we change?'" The emphasis on just the story "made Diablo feel more small than it really was," says Mayberry. "Because you're constantly being driven to go there, and now you're going to go there."

People who have been staying away from Diablo due to its less than stellar collection of loot could also find sufficient new loot that warrants another appearance. It is now possible to synergise with one another, Mayberry explains, and there are way more combinations for interesting character builds. "I got something to drop at the time I was awarded the Massacre bonus.

It caused gold to pour down. And then I discovered something that boosted my gold drop by 35 percent or something which resulted in more gold. And then I got something that, when I got gold, based on how much I bought.

This would temporarily increase my toughness. This is why gold was a power-up for me! With my Wizard I would condense as many players as I could, burn them all down, and they'll release gold and I'd grab the gold and my strength, briefly was buy D2R Ladder Items boosted by hundreds of percent."