Diablo 4 adds eight Torment difficulty tiers in Lord of Hatred

Diablo 4's Lord of Hatred expansion will add eight new Torment difficulty tiers as an alternative to nerfing overpowered builds. The change was revealed in an interview with YouTuber Wudijo, where associate game director Zaven Haroutunian asked whether the game "is actually asking you to have numbers that need to be that high to begin with?" and noted that "big numbers feel cool" for players.

Director of systems Colin Finer and game designer Aislyn Hall expanded on that idea in a conversation with PC Gamer, explaining that difficulty should be something players opt into as a risk/reward choice. "You can think of torment as your floor—you're going to constantly increase that, and that's much more granular now in this 12 torment world, the jumps aren't quite as big," Finer said.

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