[[File:Waypoints-beta-list..jpg|200pxthumb|left250px|Diablo 3 Beta Waypoints menu.]]'''Waypoints''' are special plates on the ground that form a network of jump points allowing players to instantly teleport between. The first one is in [[New Tristram]], Act 1, and the next is located in Old Ruins [[Old Tristram]] and will be available to jump to once the player has reached it. This is the case with all Waypoints, they activate once reached.
They Waypoints are free often located at [[checkpoints]], so a character resurrecting after death, or joining a game to travel between and there is no cooldown period when usingcontinue a quest, may appear near the waypoint.
The Waypoint user interface activates when clicking on a Waypoint and you simply click on the location you wish to transport to. The destinations are grouped into areas and can be collapsed when the list gets long as it invariably will as players work their way through the game.
Icons will appear next to significant locations - a house icon indicates the player's town waypoint and presumably this will move as the player advances through the acts. A brass goblet icon indicates the closest unlocked waypoint to the current quest.==Waypoint Function==
Simply click on a waypoint to move to it. Once your character is standing there, the waypoint interface opens up, with a menu showing all available waypoints. Clicking one of those will instantly teleport your character and minions to the selected location. There is no casting cost, cooldown, and the travel is instantaneous, making waypoints a faster way to return to town than [[town portal]] which has a casting time.
{{Clear|left}}Not every waypoint is displayed at all times. Unlike the Diablo II system, where there were just eight waypoints per act, all of which were available once a player had discovered them, there are dozens of waypoints per act in Diablo III. While waypoints must be reached through dungeon exploration to activate and add to the display list, not all waypoints are always available. Even for a player who has already completed an area. For instance, a player starting the fourth quest in the [[Diablo III Beta]] could only travel to the [[Cathedral Garden]] waypoint. From there the player descends to Cathedral level 2, which has no waypoint. Cathedral level 3 does have a waypoint though, and once a player reaches it that waypoint is added to the display. Further exploration takes the player down through Cathedral level 4, and then to the Royal Crypts, where the last waypoint of that quest is found. Players can travel freely between any of these waypoints and [[Tristram]] once they are located, but players can not simply jump down to the [[Royal Crypts]] upon creating a new game. This is an intentional feature, as it prevents players from exploiting the waypoint and quest system to quickly "run" bosses and obtain better drops and the large experience and gold rewards from completing quests. Blizzard explained the game logic behind a character "forgetting" a waypoint from one game to the next in a forum post from April 2012.[http://blues.incgamers.com/Topics/10/1/40/819//3] <blue>One way to think of it is that waypoints are not something your character remembers from game to game, they're discovered in each game based on your progression through the story. When you choose a previous quest it's like beginning a new game at that quest. If you want to jump to a later point you need to make or join a game that begins at that point. </blue>
==Known Waypoint Locations==
Every large area in the game has a waypoint in it, and most dungeons do as well, if the player must move through them on a quest or normal game progression. Smaller sub-dungeons and levels generally do not have waypoints in them, just [[portal stones]] at the end of the dungeon to allow a quick return to the entrance.
===Act One Waypoints===
Only those seen in the beta and the "over the fence" bonus content are known. Dozens more will be encountered later in the act.
'''Tristram'''
*[[New Tristram]]*[[Old RuinesRuins]]
'''The Cathedral'''
*[[Cathedral Garden]]*Cathedral Level 3*[[Royal Crypts]]
'''The Cemetery'''
*[[Cemetary Cemetery of the Forsaken]] '''The Fields of Misery'''* [[Fields of Misery]]* [[Drowned Temple]]* [[The Festering Woods]] <gallery>File:Waypoint-tristram1.jpgImage:Waypoints2.jpg|A couple of Waypoints early in the game.File:Waypoint-royal-crypts1.jpgFile:Waypoint-drowned-temple1.jpg|Drowned Temple waypoint.</gallery>
[[Image:Waypoints2.jpg|frame|350px|none|A couple of Waypoints early in the game]]
==Background==
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[[Category:Travel]]
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