Should you start on World Tier 1 or 2? The Breakdown - Diablo 4

hi everyone today I want to talk about choosing the right difficulty when you're starting out in Diablo 4. so as you may know from playing the open Beta or the server slam you can actually choose between two different difficulties when you make a first character now this is gonna change later in the game when there are Nightmare and tournament difficulties unlocking basically at certain levels and recommended for certain levels but at least for the 1 to 50 leveling experience you have the choice between Adventurer and Veteran that both go exactly in that same range and you see that veteran does not actually really increase anything all that much so the question arises do you actually want to play on veteran at all if it's about efficiency and not just about you know having more fun with a more challenging game so when I played in server slam and in the open Beta weekends I was almost exclusively playing on veteran but a lot of people didn't and a lot of people also kept discussing this like is it actually you know reasonable to do that it doesn't actually make sense especially photos a bit weaker classes early on in order for example Druid kind of need some time to pick up the pace and the barbs as well they're not really that fast in the early game leveling most of the time compared to something like for example sorcerer or Rogues that just are relatively powerful from the start with high damage output now we don't know the exact details of what changing the difficulty actually does like we know that monsters become faster smarter they aim better they uh the elite affixels become more powerful and you know they maybe spawn them more often or they hit the wider area and these kind of things so this is what these enemies are more challenging means so it's not just like a number scaling but these difficulties actually like change the game so that's actually a very cool design in my opinion and this is gonna increase later on as well when you go to nightmare and the torment of kill this but to stick to the topic of Adventure versus veteran the only real benefit they gain here is 20 more experience from monsters so the gold we can say is irrelevant at this point I guess because low level items are just worth a lot less than high level items so basically all the gold that you're gonna make you know in the in the lifetime of your character is going to be towards the end of it and not at a start so gold is irrelevant basically at early levels because also respecting doesn't cost anything I don't really spend much on like you know legendary upgrading or anything like that so it's just about the monster experience here we also not even sure if the drops are increased it doesn't seem so it also doesn't say anything so uh it might just be the same drops that you get on veteran and adventurer as well at least when we did a quarter ground Farm in the server slam basically everyone was just doing it on world tier one because it was easier monsters were just like you know easier to maneuver around they yeah just didn't hit you that much and they were able to survive easier and you still seem to get like a good amount of drops there all the time so I also didn't really notice much of a difference now that being said basically everything I've played was on veteran and I never really switched to Adventurer but I did try it here and there and one thing that I noticed is that at least bosses seem to have significantly less HP on adventure difficulty there's also supported by the fact that the Developers for example suggested to people to actually play an adventurer to defeat ashava and it also seemed to me that on world tier one ashava was a bit easier than on world tier 2. so there might be a certain like HP and or damage scaling involved at least for bosses and maybe Elites that just slows you down even if you have no trouble surviving and in consequence if you want to play veteran you need to find a sweet spot where this 20 experience is more gain than the time that you lose by progressing more slowly through you know killing those bosses more slowly or through you know trying to play more defensively with your setup you have to maybe include another defensive skill you might have to include defensive passes to stay alive because you play on veteran and there's generally a higher incoming damage amount and the thing is that 20 experience is actually not really that much of a bonus especially because if you're playing the campaign you don't actually get more XP from the quests and Santos pain quests actually give you a significant boost in XP when you complete them and those do not seem to be Amplified by this because it only talks about monster experience and also from the testing that I've seen it does not increase so there's 20 bonus XP is actually not exactly 20 bonus XP because of the quest that you complete so it may end up being something like 15 bonus XP or something like that maybe even less I don't know exactly what is the distribution between monster XP and Quest XP but it will probably be somewhere around that number and well in that case we are actually not really gaining all that much and not everyone is going to play a class or a build that will just like easy peasy blast through veteran from the Stars well it seems like Adventure is actually going to be the choice for very much everyone including myself actually so while I said that I played on Metron basically all the time in those server sign weekends Etc I think really I'll also do Adventure just to like fly for your campaign a little bit faster now there is something to consider here which is that you do get total less XP so even though you are faster maybe going through the campaign doing those campaign quests you are going to end up with less XP total than if you had done it on Metron this might mean that you actually end up under leveled if you just rush rush rush through the campaign so there might be a bit of like a bigger reason to do side content while doing the campaign for example getting like a renowned skill point here around skill point there I think this is generally going to be a pretty good strategy to at least pick up the first skill point in each of the regions as you progress through the campaign and you're probably gonna stay kind of on track with the recommended level that it should be for the zones that you're going to because the Zone levels increase over time but in general I think that we're gonna see most people actually play an adventurer even though veteran is not exactly hard but yeah it's it's slower basically in most cases so the only time when veteran is going to be useful I think is when you are kind of like getting a huge power Spike for example on the Rogue at level 15 you get a class Quest you get a comma points and then level 20 you get inner side so you have a really huge power Spike at both these levels depending on your build and this can be similar for other classes when you unlock your class specializations for example on the socks you have the enchantment slot at level 15 and then another one at 30. these are huge power spikes and those might actually be those moments where it won't really matter if uh you know monsters are a bit more challenging if bosses are a little bit more tanky and maybe you actually want to switch to veteran for a while and then go back to Adventurer but maybe start on adventure go until you feel video overpowered then switch and you know maybe you're also gonna get a big legendary drop you might find like a really huge weapon you know for your main skill and suddenly you do like twice the damage or something so those are definitely those moments where I will consider going to veteran and then just blasting through it with higher XP gained but for the most part it's probably the safest bet to just start on adventurer this will also ensure that when you're playing through the campaign for the first time you're gonna have an easy time defeating all those bosses because you know you don't know the mechanics you don't know the fights so it's generally Harder Than You Know doing it the second or the third time or something like that because yeah of the unknown factor so this is another reason to go Adventurer in my book later on you won't really have that luxury of choosing anymore so you kind of have to go nightmare you guess the only option that you have here is deciding on when to go there so once image all 50 around that time you know maybe plus minus a few levels you want to complete that Capstone dungeon to unlock nightmare difficulty and then you see here recommended for 50 to 70. so on veteran Adventurer the monsters will probably just like stop scaling at a little 50 you also cannot find those sacred items you kind of find unique items and if those monsters don't scale up anymore after level 50 and it's just kind of capped in that range similar with the 50 to 70 from Nightmare you are forced to move on to the next difficulty you know at the very least around that level and the same with torment as well so if you go here it says level 70 plus so it will have this level floor at 70 and then from there the monsters scan up all the way to 100 but at least for the early levels you can definitely optimize around those two difficulties but there's one last thing to consider here and that is that especially when you are not doing the campaign for example in your second character veteran difficulty might generally be the better option actually because you don't really have to fight those campaign bosses anymore that will massively slow you down when they have higher HP and you can just grind and you don't have to do quests anymore so for example what people were doing to try to speedrun 1 to 20 or 1 to 25 and their betas was that they were just grinding the same dungeon over and over and over which you can still do when you're in a party or you have like a strategy that I also previewed for the server slam with like you know you do a dungeon you do an event you do a dungeon you do an event these kind of things or you just go around you know the areas and you know for example complete dungeon by dungeon just grinding your way through and completing Renown objectives in those cases the monster HP scaling of bosses doesn't matter at all because you're not really fighting any real bosses most of the time and you also don't need complete quests that do not gain the 20 bonus XP so then you have pretty much like a flat bonus of 20 XP for the most part so if you're doing any kind of like grinding to a level 50 strategy outside of like doing the campaign then this is definitely the way to go I think and this is also what we have seen from some testing for example gymnasium has done some speed running tests uh he's like one of the big Diablo two speed runners in in the world right now and he actually was significantly faster playing on veteran in the open Beta up to level 25 he benchmarked his times from 1 to 25 and you can see here that on world tier one he took roughly two hours and on road tier 2 it took 1 hour 40 minutes and uh of course there's a bit of RNG with you know what kind of drops you're getting when you get like a big weapon upgrade but you can definitely see that at this point that I just mentioned definitely holds up because you get more XP and this XP carries you to the high levels faster but you can definitely see that this point that I just mentioned holds up where if you mainly grind and you don't really have to deal with bosses you don't have to deal with quests then the veteran is a pretty good choice so in the end my recommendation is for everyone to start on Venture unless you want to have it a bit more challenging so if you don't care about your actual efficiency then yeah veteran is definitely more fun I think but when it comes to speedrunning when it comes to you know learning the game Adventure is probably the way to go and then maybe you can try to solve it around sometimes just go to the Statue and kill our shot you can switch it to Metron maybe after a huge upgrade as I mentioned like your class specialization like a huge legendary weapon or something like that there might be those bike points where I'm just gonna switch for a while get some free extra XP and that's about it so those are my two cents on the topic I hope you enjoyed it let me know what you're gonna do or if you have any other thoughts on this or any other testing you've done even that would be great to know otherwise I'll see you guys next time

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Published: Mon May 22 2023