Diablo 4 World Tier 5 Assets Discovered in Datamine But These Appear to be Older Leftover Dev Assets

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Diablo 4 World Tier 5 assets were recently datamined, hinting at a new difficulty level. From the looks of it, however, these discovered assets could just be older leftover development assets.

Blizzard's most recent Diablo entry currently packs a total of four world tiers, each tier having its own difficulty and rule settings. Yesterday, however, dataminer 'DataMineRPG' reported that evidence of World Tier 5 was found in the Diablo 4 game assets. In addition, additional gems were discovered by the dataminer.

Things might not be as they seem though (when it comes to a new World Tier that is) as outlet Wowhead now writes that their own digging into the matter suggests that the discovered assets might very well just be older unused assets that were removed during the game's development. "our own digging suggests the complete opposite - that they're actually old assets rather than new ones", Wowhead writes.

While there have been five World Tiers in test builds, the fifth World Tier, 'Torment, was actually removed from the live build, and the fourth World Tier was renamed 'Torment'.

"In previous test builds, there really were five world tiers - Adventurer, Veteran, Nightmare, Hell, and Torment - which progressed the same way we do now, with each being unlocked through the completion of a different capstone dungeon", the outlet explains. "In this build, progressing from World Tier 4 to 5 required completion of the Archives of Issalia capstone dungeon, which was removed in the live release, while WT4 was renamed Torment and WT5 features like Ancestral items merged down."

Interesting stuff, especially since the more recent interviews with Blizzard only mentioned four World Tiers whereas Game Director Joe Shelly earlier mentioned five