Diablo 3 gets 50% XP boost until March 24

Diablo 3 players on PC and Mac will get a 50% XP boost from now until March 24, the day before Reaper of Souls is released.

Ozzie Mejia

March 4, 2014 8:30 AM

Diablo 3 is ready to continue its story later this month with the new Reaper of Souls expansion. Blizzard is now offering to help nephalem everywhere prepare for the next battle by offering a 50% XP boost that will last until March 24, just before the expansion's release the next day.

Blizzard also hopes the XP boost will help spread the word about Diablo 3's new 2.0.1 patch, which includes a number of new features. One of them is the updated Paragon Leveling System, which has had its cap removed entirely, complementing the XP boost nicely.

According to Battle.net, the XP boost is only available for those that own the PC and Mac versions of Diablo 3. If the XP boost has enticed you to jump back into the game, check out the video below to learn more about the new patch.

Ozzie Mejia

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Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?

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Diablo 3 players on PC and Mac will get a 50% XP boost from now until March 24, the day before Reaper of Souls is released.
- Vogerl
  
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  March 4, 2014 12:28 PM
  
  how disgusting that it took them this long to figure out how colossally they fucked up.
  
  I was stupid enough to buy into the "subscribe to wow for 1 year, get d3 for free" and 1 week after actually being able to play it past release I uninstalled it for the laggy buggy and ugly mess mad me sick.
  
  I really hope all the people buying the add-on are going to have their money worth and plenty of fun, I can't.
  - jimvolk
    
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    March 4, 2014 12:35 PM
    
    You sound mad, bro.
    
    Actually, the latest patch is a lot of fun, and the add-on should be great. Better late then never.
  - FrayLo
    
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    March 4, 2014 12:39 PM
    
    Disgusting me mad sick
    - skankcore
      
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      March 4, 2014 1:18 PM
      
      ME MAD.
  - Hazim
    
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    March 4, 2014 12:55 PM
    
    It was a slap in the face to gamers everywhere.
  - Captain Loco
    
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    March 4, 2014 1:49 PM
    
    At least you got to play wow for a year.
  - tossitupdude
    
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    March 4, 2014 2:49 PM
    
    While D3 was a bit of a let down straight out of the gate, this section of Blizzard has really worked to make the game a lot better since that point in time.
    
    The patch last week did a lot for the game. Everything from the obvious loot problems being fixed to making the game a bit snappier and respond quicker overall. I feel that it is the closest D3 has ever been to feeling like D2 after the expansion.
    
    Speaking of that... D2 was no walk in the park great either. It took about a year for D2 to find its groove and then it continued to live for another 10 years.
    
    All in all, I feel the current staff working on D3 are doing an excellent job.
  - jedi_27
    
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    March 4, 2014 3:03 PM
    
    BRO RAGE!!!!! ... meh i was never upset with the initial release of the game. Laggy, buggy, and ugly, it was not....
    
    However it was missing a decent loot system. And that we now have
    - StealthHawk
      
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      March 4, 2014 3:29 PM
      
      The AH was extremely laggy at launch, I'll give him that.
    - jimvolk
      
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      March 4, 2014 3:29 PM
      
      I remember HATING the game when the elites were hard as fuck on inferno. They healed themselves, and when you died, it was very expensive to repair.
      - damageundone
        
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        March 4, 2014 4:38 PM
        
        Those fuckers, I had a monk and tried to take Act 3 inferno, I ended up running through to the bosses. I got stuck halfway through Act 4, I was the only person left from my group of friends playing, I'd gotten the farthest and then simply hit a huge brick wall and gave up.
      - Zek
        
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        March 4, 2014 5:04 PM
        
        Haha yeah they had some very fundamental misconceptions about what the community wanted out of the difficulty of the game. And they never tested the endgame in any stage of beta because they were afraid of leaking the plot.
        
        gzubluck
        
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        March 5, 2014 12:34 AM
        
        Diablo III has a plot? (I'm kidding, but the writing is so bad, I can't see how anyone could take it seriously)
  - Zek
    
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    March 4, 2014 4:59 PM
    
    Serious question, why can't you have fun with it now? If you can get over how mad it made you, the game is legitimately great now.
- iamcuddles
  
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  March 5, 2014 6:59 AM
  
  I found D3 to be fun. Sure, RARELY ever found any legendaries, but it was still fun.
  
  Fast forward to not having played the game for a long time...holy hell loot 2.0 is amazing. I can't stop playing it now.