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* Individual item drops. (Players see only the items they can pick up, so no more [[ninja]]-looting.)
* No more party system. (Players are automatically in a party together if they are in the same game.)
* Improved [[Friends List]] features on [[Battle.net]].
* The [[Banner]] system allows players to easily warp to the location of their friends in a game. (Replacing * Many quests and [[Town Portalboss]]sbattles are designed so players can (or must) do them together to receive the rewards.)
While these features are definitely boosts to co-op, some fans have pointed out that they're more about the removal of anti-co-op features, rather than actual the adding of specific benefits to it. On that side of the coin, Diablo 3 has some areas with fewer co-op bonuses than were present in Diablo 2.
* Max The [[maximum players ]] per game is has been lowered from 8 to 4.* The [[experience]] gained no longer scales up hugely with more players.** [[Monsters]] do still gain more hit points, though.([[Beta]] testing indicates a 75% increase per additional character in the game.)
* There are many fewer [[shared skill]]s in Diablo III. (Many [[Auras]] and [[Warcries]] shared in Diablo 2, while most [[Necromancer]] [[Curses]] were of benefit to all characters in the vicinity.)
* Diablo 3's The [[questdifficulty]] system strongly encourages all is so much lower (at least on the beta content) that players have no need to play together in order to succeed.* The shared [[stash]], shared [[gold]], and shared [[artisans]] make self-[[muling]] and [[twinking]] ridiculously easy, which removes much of the same game motivation to play on the same questwith a friend for a rush or to transfer equipment to a new character. For their part, Blizzard has said little more than, "It's more fun." as an endorsement of why players should team up, rather than playing solo, or going their own way in a larger game. Other than fun, faster killing speed (This can be seen when in a co-op party) is often brought up as a pro and a con benefit,[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/bonuses-to-co-op-in-d3] as it concentrates the additional players in will (theoretically) boost the same areagroup's damage output by about 100%, but makes it less likely while monsters only gain 75% more hit points in larger games. <blue><font color="#FFFFFF">Part of me thinks it’s cool that I can play solo and never feel like I’m missing out on something. But another part of me thinks that since this is an online-only game that friends with much different level characters we should WANT to play in Co-Op and that there should be added incentive for doing so.</font><br>Faster killing speed means more drops, more drops means more power or money. Since the goal of the same gameessentially boils down to either power or wealth, but not or both, the advantage (in the same areaour opinion) is pretty clear and doesn’t need any additional incentive.)</blue>
<blue>Bashiok: Faster killing speed means more drops, more drops means more power or money. Since the goal of the game essentially boils down to either power or wealth, or both, the advantage (in our opinion) is pretty clear and doesn’t need any additional incentive.</blue>
* See the [[Multiplayer]] article for more details on co-op and related issues.
