Blizzard breaks down Diablo 4’s endgame activities

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Diablo 4’s endgame is where many players will spend much of their time, growing and customizing their characters with new skills, abilities, gear, and cosmetics. In a new video released Wednesday, Blizzard outlined the various endgame activities players can expect to busy themselves with, well after they’ve completed the story campaign and (presumably) sent big bad Lilith back to Hell.

In the above video, Diablo4 game director Joe Shely is joined by Kayleigh Calder, lead game producer; Ash Sweetring, game producer; and Joseph Piepiora, associate game director, in detailing the game’s unlockable World Tiers, Paragon upgrade system, Nightmare Dungeons, PvP, and everything else endgame-related.

Here’s what’s in store:

Upon completing the campaign, players will get access to a special “capstone dungeon,” Piepiora says. Completing that dungeon will unlock the first World Tier, which will in turn unlock a new level of difficulty, but also grant access to powerful new loot and other advantages for your character. If you want Diablo 4 to be much, much harder, this is for you.

Beyond the base skill tree, players can further customize their characters using the Paragon system. The Paragon board will offer “a lot more depth, a lot more customization,” Piepiora says. Calder noted that players can rotate the Paragon board to personalize the overall direction of their endgame upgrades — many of which look like boosts to character stats.

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Related to the Paragon system is the Codex of Power, through which players can equip Aspects, which can be earned through dungeons. Through Aspects, players can make items they find in Diablo 4’s world more powerful, turning them into legendary-class items.

Players can return to dungeons