Splitting Act 3 into a "Piety Act" and a "Dominus Act"

Act1 and 2 feeling pretty solid right now. Act 3 was so good until Dominus. It had the right length and the right rewards.

Now, after Piety, you jsut think: Oh gawd and now all that way up to Dominus.

Would love to see another Act4 for Dominus and current Act 4 moved to Act 5 (And please, remove at least one 1 Mine, 1 Kaoms Path and 1 Belly level. It feels so long..)

In general, pretty gud idea. Not sure if its in their Budget this year ;))

I too would like to see this happen. I think both respective characters deserve their own areas, right now Dominus feels rush and Piety feels overshadowed. Given how interesting Dominus SHOULD be it feels criminal that he gets very little dialogue and such a small area. I even love the concept of ascending a tower, going through a maze, fighting through an archive etc.

I think if nothing else, they could really expand upon the oppressive nature of going up a very tall tower, with multiple floors, areas etc. Like, imagine if the Dominus act begins with going through his courtyard maze and eventually getting to his tower. Then the tower itself had the library and archives within it, as well as other floors of a similar nature. It would make the climb feel epic as well as claustrophobic and give him some real depth depending on what rooms were in there. You'd get a feel for what the man was like before reaching him, especially so if he had dialogue whilst you were going up.

That's just my on the fly idea about it, but I would like to see it expanded upon like you said, here's hoping they do something with it!

The right way to expand Dominus story would be to talk about his rule as the High Priest. We don't hear a lot about him. There should be more hints about his abuses of power besides the letters in Lioneye's Watch and some dialog. It escapes to me why GGG hasn't hyped Dominus enough, like if he was Diablo or something. I wish I was terrified of him before the fight. Maybe Charan could use the batsignal for that (?).

The question is: if this Act 4 (or 3X) was to exist, what content would be added? It would be fairly short as it is (although the Labyrinth would be unlocked at that point). Making Scepter of God even more long, like Wraeclast's Tower of Babel? More side areas? Which ones?

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Jaxxxson wrote:

I think if nothing else, they could really expand upon the oppressive nature of going up a very tall tower, with multiple floors, areas etc. Like, imagine if the Dominus act begins with going through his courtyard maze and eventually getting to his tower. Then the tower itself had the library and archives within it, as well as other floors of a similar nature. It would make the climb feel epic as well as claustrophobic and give him some real depth depending on what rooms were in there. You'd get a feel for what the man was like before reaching him, especially so if he had dialogue whilst you were going up.

That's just my on the fly idea about it, but I would like to see it expanded upon like you said, here's hoping they do something with it!

I like this idea too :D

It's like Diablo 1, going down into Tristram to reach the titular final boss, only in a reversed direction.

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who would like an expanded 3X Act; good to know I didn't write that book-report of an OP for nothin' lol

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linkblade91 wrote:

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Jaxxxson wrote:

I think if nothing else, they could really expand upon the oppressive nature of going up a very tall tower, with multiple floors, areas etc. Like, imagine if the Dominus act begins with going through his courtyard maze and eventually getting to his tower. Then the tower itself had the library and archives within it, as well as other floors of a similar nature. It would make the climb feel epic as well as claustrophobic and give him some real depth depending on what rooms were in there. You'd get a feel for what the man was like before reaching him, especially so if he had dialogue whilst you were going up.

That's just my on the fly idea about it, but I would like to see it expanded upon like you said, here's hoping they do something with it!

I like this idea too :D

It's like Diablo 1, going down into Tristram to reach the titular final boss, only in a reversed direction.

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who would like an expanded 3X Act; good to know I didn't write that book-report of an OP for nothin' lol

I've written a lot more that's gotten ignored, you should feel blessed haha. But yeah, my tower idea was totally derived from Diablo 1, I'm glad someone caught that haha. One legitimate criticism I could see about it is it might feel too same-y due to having to be semi tower shaped, but the extra rooms would help bring variety if done right. Heck, if people could put up with 16 floors of it Diablo, I'm sure they'll do okay here haha.

A giant tower would be tolerated only if you remove Cruel or something. Else you won't see the end of rage threads. As it is, the difficulty system discourages big zones that share the same themes, and favours more shallow levels.