Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Collector's Edition

Ok, so no secret that the original Diablo 3 was terrible. It played pretty bad, it was horrible when it came to loot, and the leveling up system was dull. In comes the expansion to right everything wrong with the original Diablo 3. AND I must stress, it RIGHTS everything that was wrong. Basically with this expansion, you have an entire new Diablo 3. Aside from the graphics, pretty much everything gameplay wise has been rebuilt from the ground up. The loot has vastly improved where it's actually fun to collect now. The, way that you earn new skills and spells by leveling up has a better feel to it now due to the fact that gear has been changed around to benefit most of your skills. What do I mean? You can find a bunch of gear that all increase the amount of damage of a specific spell you are using so now that spell has a new meaning than before where you might of not used it. It makes for greater build varieties and experimentation with things you might of not used otherwise. The auction house has been removed which brings back the feel that everything is up for grabs now. No longer do you feel cheated or that only people who paid the most have the best gear. The playing feel has been leveled out now and anyone and everyone has a shot at the very best gear the game has to offer. Monster density has been improved. No more patches of dungeons or areas outdoors where you are running for great amounts of time that you don't spot any monsters to kill. Now they are greater and more varied. The new Adventure mode that opens up after beating act 5 is a great welcome. You can just run around from way point to way point accomplishing little "missions" if you want to call them where you earn greater rewards and tokens that eventually allow you to open up what they call, "Nephalem Rift" portals. This is basically a huge dungeon run that allows you to collect even greater rewards while you kill monsters combined from many different acts in dungeons that are mixed and matched together from all the acts. Reaching the new level cap of 70 and above continues to allow you to spend points in your paragon levels that give you an additional feeling of achievements after reaching the level cap. The new Crusader is an awesome addition to the Diablo 3 cast and feels great. His hits feel solid and his spells do serious damage. Putting aside the fact that he was the only new character to try out with the expansion, I was hooked directly to him for 50 levels straight before trying any of my other characters which I enjoy just as much. The Crusader is just real fun and fits perfect. Honestly, I love everything they did with the expansion. What I originally thought was Blizzard's worst game they put out has done a 160 degree about face and can hold it's head up proudly again with the Diablo name. My only complaint that I think everyone could agree was having only 1 new additional character. Even Diablo 2: Lord Of Destruction gave us two and it was great having choices right out the gate of the expansion to decide which to go with. Having only 1 new character means everyone goes right for it, but luckily it was a great new class so Blizzard can be forgiven. I only suspect they gave us 1 character because they will put out another expansion before Diablo 3's time is over and will obviously give us another additional character. Until that time, we have a great expansion that EVERYONE that owns Diablo 3 must get to fix EVERYTHING wrong with it.

The game is great. Played about 6 hours yesterday (3-25-14) and leveled the Crusader to lvl 15 as well as my Wizard to lvl 64. Love the mousepad, the artbook, the soundtrack. It's a great game.Note: If you do buy this, just go to Battle.net and register the product code. The download/update from February did the install for you. So the physical disc is kinda worthless. It took me 10 minutes trying to figure out why I can't install the expansion. To get the digital goodies, after you are ingame with any toon, down in the bottom left corner there is an envelope, click it to claim your angel wings, spectral dog, and 2 books for plans for the Mystic (which I have yet to find). With the wings and the dog, leave them in your chest and they can be put on any toon. After you have them in your inventory, just click on it to activate then put it back in the chest.I would also like to add, people that are butt hurt about the game, if you don't like it then don't play. I played WOW for a year and paying the monthly fees was enough for me to quit. I have never had a problem with the Diablo III servers crashing, glitching, or anything. Not that Blizzard is the best company in the world, but they are a company and they are in it to make money. Just like sports franchises, if you don't like it then don't participate. I love this game, don't really like Starcraft, and don't want to pay-to-play WOW, so guess which game out of the 3 I have bought, installed, and play.This is a review about the game not about the politics inside of running a corporation. Stick to the review of the game.

This is not a review of the game itself, but rather a review of the collectors edition. This was a gift for my 16 year old son. He was interested in Diablo III, but the reviews on that game were not all that great. I decided to get this collectors edition primarily due to the extras in the box. My son is an artist, and so I thought the book included would be a great idea for him. I was right. He loved it! The book has some great illustrations from the game. Artwork that he enjoys looking at and creating himself. The collectors edition also had a nice mouse pad, and a music CD. FYI, this collection does not have the original Diablo III game included. We weren't sure from the description if that would be included, but it is not. All in all, I think that just for the quality of the items included (along with the game) this box set is worth the money.

With Reaper of Souls Blizzard really nailed it! The main focus is again the game and player itself. I must say I do feel 1996 nostalgia once again! Also I really love the fact that everything is now shared among all of your heroes. Now having Mystic on your side that's able to enchant and transmogrify. Again all strings are safely in players hands. So building your custom warrior has never been so easy and unique! Collector's edition will pamper with many great details about the making of the game itself and few unique extras. Anyway what I want to say is that Blizzard really listened and revised the game perfectly. So if you liked Diablo 3 trust me you will LOVE Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls! This is my very first Collector's edition from Blizzard and from now on I'm down for every single one...

I ordered this item after having taken a long break from Diablo 3. I was pleasently surprised at how they handled updating the game itself with different rate drop style and finally getting rid of the stupid auction house, so I decided to try out the expansion. The game came the next day (even though UPS screwed up the delivery, which they do everytime) so I ended up actually getting it two days later. Regardless, no fault of amazons.The first thing i noticed was how large and well designed the box itself was, after opening it I was surprised at the quality of the items it came with including an absolutely gorgeous art book as well as a nice mouse pad.Pros: Amazing quality, beautifully designed hard cover art book, premium package, awesome add-onCons: None! the only thing that may scare other is the high price for something that isn't a full fledged game. Understandable, but as a collector and fan, it was worth the cost.

なぜブリザード社が世界的であるかがその3分の１は分かることになる。（１０年近い世界トップのDiablo、WoW、Starcraftのシリーズの一つであることから）やったことない人はこの世の中で一度は経験した方が良いと思う。

Although finished in under 12 hours, the expansion added enough playability for many more hours after the initial game play.

Good expansion for D3

It arrived quickly and it works. What more can be said about a video game.