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The '''Realm of Trials''' (AKA Trials or RoT or Greater Rift Trial or Grift Trial) is a mini-game feature that players can must use to earn higher level a [[Greater Rift KeystonesKeystone]]. Finishing more waves in the Realm of Trials will cause Orek to reward the player with a higher level Greater Rift key, enabling them to start off in higher that level of [[Greater RiftsRift]]. Players The Realm of Trials is a closed area, and players can not leave the Wave area during the combat, or respec skills/change equipment. The Realm of Trials arena it except by returning to town, which can only be done after ends when the player does not kill all the enemies in a wave is failedbefore the timer runs out. There At that point the Realm of Trials is also no way over and a blue portal will appear to let players return to [[respec]] skills or change around equipment while in a Trialtown.

The Greater Rift Key awarded corresponds directly to the highest level Wave cleared in the Realm of Trials area . The wave to RGK level is roughly a small, dark, shadowy, circular, arena1-to-style map with a couple of health pools around the outside. Once there1 ratio, players undergo but GRKs are a Trial as waves of monsters appear. Each wave spawns about 40 enemies and starts a 20 second timer. If players kill all the monsters in few levels lower than the wave before the timer expires, another wave spawns with slightly harder (more hit points and higher damage) enemies. (Changes during the PTR caused waves there's some randomness to jump more than 1 rank if prevent players cleared them very quicklyfrom scoring precisely the level of GRK they are seeking.) This process continues until players are unable to finish For instance, finishing Wave 20 will generally yield a wave within GRK in the time limitlevel 15-18 range.

==Setting and Strategy== The Realm of Trials feature was added area is a small, dark, shadowy, circular, arena-style map with a couple of health pools around the outside. Once there, players undergo a Trial as waves of monsters appear. Each wave spawns about 40 enemies and starts a 20 second timer. If players kill all the monsters in the wave before the timer expires, another wave spawns with slightly harder (more hit points and higher damage) enemies. Each wave begins with a text display of what level wave it is, and waves will jump up by more than one (a maximum jump of 6 waves is possible) if players complete them very quickly.  Players can fail to complete a wave on purpose, by running to the edge of the screen or just not killing the enemies. This is done if players don't want to start off in too high a level of Greater Rift. For instance if only a level 15 GR is required to get 3 guaranteed Legendary Gem upgrades via Urshi, players might only complete up through Wave 16 or 18, aiming to get an easily-cleared GR15, rather than having to struggle through a GR20. (All figures and difficulty of course vary greatly between characters and parties and their power level.) When a wave is not cleared within the time limit, the Realm of Trials is ended and a blue portal appears to take players back to town. There they must speak to [[Patch 2.1Orek]], after extensive testing on who will reward them with a Greater Rift Keystone that corresponds to the highest level wave they were able to complete in the Trial. The difficulty of the waves roughly corresponds to the difficulty level of the Greater Rift, but the GRK reward is scaled down a bit, to prevent players from entering a Greater Rift that's too hard for them.  This can also be a risk for players who have builds that are very good for large groups of weak enemies, since that's how the Waves are formed in the Realm of Trials. Lots of trash mobs of varying enemy types appear and rush in, which works very well with some builds. It's very possible to have a build that excels in the Realm of Trials, but isn't going to be at all as successful dealing with the Elites in a Greater Rift of that approximate level. Blizzard initially said the Waves vs. GR level was in about a 3:2 ratio, so that a player who completed wave 30 would receive a GRK of about level 20.[[PTR]http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/realm-trials-greater-rift-levels]That ratio has since been adjusted to be closer to 1-to-1, with the GRK only a few levels lower than the RoT wave completed.

Images from The Realm of Trialsfeature was added in [[Patch 2.1]], after extensive testing on the [[PTR]]. Selected images showing off the Realm of Trials and associated game features.