Terror Zones feature is now live!

After the game updates this morning (Sept 22, 2022), now

Terror Zones are found in BOTH Ladder and Non-Ladder games.

WOW ! That's a big surprise !

Nice. Another reason to NOT play season 2.
The game will be too easy with Sundering Charms.

Yeah, I wasn't sure that Non-Ladder would be included. Hope it stays.

Now the question is how I may create a

Terror Zone enabled game. The checkbox is greyed out for me, meanwhile I see plenty of games with it enabled.

Ahh, I see what's going on.

I happened to be on a char that hasn't killed

Baal. Only chars that have finished the current difficulty can enable it.

Next level Troll... My first ever Terrorized game is Kurast Sewers

The zone switch is right on the clock.

Just switched to

Dry Hills at 11:00 PDT.

chokapyy wrote: 2 years ago

Next level Troll... My first ever Terrorized game is Kurast Sewers

It's the same for everybody. Nice debut by Blizzard, lol

Not gonna lie the XP gains at lvl 96 are totally bonkers even on players 1

Just did a full clear of

Dry Hills and Halls of the Dead on my 95 Pally, 1 player.

First impressions:

• The mobs are quite easy. Didn't feel a difference in clearing speed. Cleared in ~10 minutes.
• The red hue feels like I am watching Apocalypse now. LOL
• Decent experience gain, got 1 mil within 10 minutes for my level 95, which is similar to 4-5 Chaos runs, not bad.

Other thoughts: now I may finally be motivated to get more way points, as there's a purpose now. What a chore =p

Bisu wrote: 2 years ago

Just did a full clear of

Dry Hills and Halls of the Dead on my 95 Pally, 1 player.

First impressions:

• The mobs are quite easy. Didn't feel a difference in clearing speed. Cleared in ~10 minutes.
• The red hue feels like I am watching Apocalypse now. LOL
• Decent experience gain, got 1 mil within 10 minutes for my level 95, which is similar to 4-5 Chaos runs, not bad.

Other thoughts: now I may finally be motivated to get more way points, as there's a purpose now. What a chore =p

Halls I liked cuz its a good amount of mobs in there. Dry hill was deffo "dry" as far as density goes.

100% agreed with didnt see much of a difficulty. Cant wait to eat my words when getting my behind kicked by a burning soul

Fanaticism pack.

Just had 2 runs in a2, well, not as difficult as i thought. to be honest, not at all.

Was looking for a sunder charm to drop, did not happen. but a

Sur Rune, my first ever. so paid off

I just did a few tests, here is what I found:
-

Terror Zones are currently availables in both NL and Ladder,
-

Baal quest must be completed for a newly created game to have a

Terror Zone,
- EDIT (for clarity): If not, making a game with one that did complete the quest then swapping to another that didn't WILL work (maybe a bug),
-

Terror Zones are region agnostic,
-

Terror Zones are game mode agnostic,
-

Terror Zones are difficulty agnostic.

Recap: There is only one

Terror Zone worldwide no matter how you play D2R.

Blizz forgot to mark Hall of the Dead as terrorised.

Baron_G wrote: 2 years ago

Just had 2 runs in a2, well, not as difficult as i thought. to be honest, not at all.

Was looking for a sunder charm to drop, did not happen. but a

Sur Rune, my first ever. so paid off

Nice going. Grats!!!

Tetra wrote: 2 years ago

I just did a few tests, here is what I found:
-

Terror Zones are currently availables in both NL and Ladder,
-

Baal quest must be completed for a newly created game to have a

Terror Zone,
- If not, a character swap WILL work (maybe a bug),
-

Terror Zones are region agnostic,
-

Terror Zones are game mode agnostic,
-

Terror Zones are difficulty agnostic.

Recap: There is only one

Terror Zone worldwide no matter how you play D2R.

Thanks for testing.

If it stays this way, then the task of tracking

Terror zones become super easy -- a simple report in a post will do.

The new charms are in the code but won't be turned on until October 6.

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo2 ... 5-now-live

Hang on, has the PTR finished and patch dropped then? Wasn't expecting it so soon. So far I am not terrified or terrorised, it's all very easy.

I'm not sure why anyone expected TZ to be more difficult. You could raise a

Fallen to mlvl 200 and it still wouldn't matter for most endgame players.

The only characters that should notice any difference are ones that rely on AR, and even then, it might not be all that noticeable.

Snakecharmed wrote: 2 years ago

The new charms are in the code but won't be turned on until October 6.

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo2 ... 5-now-live

And... the charms have variables now. More time sink to get those "Best" charms, if you are into that.