Hitting Diablo 4's Level Cap Will Take Over 150 Hours
Diablo 4 will have a level 100 level cap. That’s 30 levels more than Diablo 3, and one level more than Diablo 2. Getting to level 100 in Diablo 3 will be quite the journey, however, as it’ll take over 150 hours to get there.
That’s according to game director Joe Piepiora who offered clarification to a confused Diablo fan over on Twitter. Previous comments from Piepiora confirmed that Diablo 4’s battle pass will require "roughly 80 hours" to complete while getting a character to level 100 would "take a little longer than that based on how you play."
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How much longer? Possibly more than 70 hours, depending on your skill. "Reaching level 100 will take 150+ hours for the average player experience," said Piepiora (via Games Radar+).
What happens after reaching level 100 is anybody’s guess. In Diablo 3, players started gaining Paragon levels that provided tiny incremental improvements forever, allowing them to dive into ever-deeper difficulty levels. Diablo 4’s Paragon system is said to unlock at level 50 and offer Paragon points up until level 100. Of course, we don’t know for sure as the Paragon system isn’t available in the Diablo 4 beta, which caps players at level 25.
Diablo 3's Paragon system was fairly well implemented and gave players something to grind for indefinitely. However, Piepiora has straight-up confirmed that Diablo 4 isn’t being built in the same way. "[Diablo 4] is not intended to be played forever," he said in a recent interview. Although players won't get any levels past 100, enemies in Diablo 4's Nightmare Dungeons are built to endlessly scale, providing ever-increasing challenges for players. And at the very pinnacle of these Nightmare Dungeons will be a boss
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