Responding to someones inquiry about how leveling will work in Adventure Mode:
The following is their current line of thinking…. Adventure mode is unlocked on a per act basis. So once Act I is completed in Campaign mode with one character, Adventure mode is unlocked for Act I account wide. Previously, they were testing it where all acts needed to be completed in Campaign mode with one character before all of Adventure mode was unlocked account wide.
So yes, once you’ve completed the Act I campaign, you’ll be able to switch to Adventure mode and take part in bounties and rifts. Their plan as they mentioned is to give you different ways to play. This includes where and how you level.
So if you wanted to add an additional layer of difficulty/better exp+rewards from the monsters own dynamic difficulty scaling, you can set the difficulty level of the game as they are unlocked (Master unlocks once any character reaches 60, Torment is unlocked at 70).
Thus anyone who goes into the expansion at level 60 with Inferno difficulty completed, will already have Adventure mode unlocked to Act IV and up to Master unlocked where you could theoretically set the game difficulty to that for a newly created character (making low level monsters super difficult to deal with, but yielding better rewards and experience).
Personal opinion: I think they’ll end up changing how the difficulty system works for lower level characters since their current design iteration has no level requirements.
At the moment, players are not actually required to complete the entire game in Campaign Mode before unlocking Adventure Mode. Whether or not it stays that way is another matter, but for the moment we’re allowing you to unlock each Act, one by one. So, complete Act I in Campaign Mode on one of your characters, now you’ve got Act I unlocked in Adventure Mode. Complete Act II on one of your characters in Campaign, boom — Acts I and II are now unlocked in Adventure Mode. And so on. Completing an Act in Campaign Mode would also unlock that Act in Adventure Mode for all your characters on your account, not just the one who completed in Campaign Mode.
We’re still experimenting with this pretty heavily, though, so I’d imagine some changes to be made to how Adventure Mode is accessed before we ship. This is just our current thinking. 🙂
