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'''Quests''' lead the story and progression of Diablo 3.
  
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==What Are Quests?==
  
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[[Image:Q-little-girl-ghost.jpg|thumb|300px|right|A [[Wizard]] completes the [[Little Girl Lost]] quest.]]
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Quests are the meat of Diablo's plot, story, and progression. They must be followed to progress.
  
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'''Diablo 3 Quests''' are how a character progresses through the story or accomplishes tasks. Quests are missions with varying levels of complicated objectives, normally giving the player [[experience]], [[gold]], [[item]]s or other rewards when completed.
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==How Quests Work==
  
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Quests in [[Diablo III]] will be made more in line with the story, and less obtrusive than traditional action RPGs. There are core storyline quests in all acts, plus numerous side quests, random quests, and other smaller adventures to spice up and vary the gameplay experience.
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Quests are triggered and continued by following the instructions below the minimap on the side of the screen. When completed, they provide experiance and gold (only), which is a big change from how the Diablo II quest system worked. In addition, all quests ''must'' be completed, one after another in the order they are given. There is no way to fail a quest in Diablo III. It is possible to have a high level character "carry" you through content, until you reach level caps. It is even possible to [[powerlevel]] through the content.
  
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* See the [[Quest window]] article for more information about the quests interface window.
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[[Waypoints]] and [[Checkpoints]] are unlocked based on quest progress.
  
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==Quest Interface==
  
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==Diablo III Quests==
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[[Image:Q-the-skeleton-king1.jpg|thumb|125px|Blizzcon 2008 display.]]
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The [[D3 Team]] wants to improve on how quests were handled in [[Diablo II]]. They want the major quests to be interesting, important, and plot-driven. Many of these quests will be character-specific; your character won't (always) just be an errand boy and the quest won't just be something minor; it will advance the [[story]].
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[[File:Quest-window2.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Blizzcon 2009 display.]]
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Each act has numerous major, plot-related quests, all of which have various related minor quests related to them. Blizzard has released very little information about the game's plot, so the only quests known thus far were the ones seen in the playable demos at Blizzcon 2008 and 2009.
 
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In addition to the official quests, there are numerous smaller "Adventures" which play like mini-quests. See the section further down this page for more details on them.
 
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Kevin Martens spoke on the variety of quests in Diablo III in an April 2011 interview. [http://www.atomicgamer.com/articles/1235/diablo-iii-interview]
 
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<blue><font color="#FFFFFF"><b>Atomic Gamer:</b> Is there anything specifically from Diablo II that the team felt needed improvement and wanted to tweak for Diablo III?</font><br>
 
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<b>Kevin Martens: </b>The questing and story. I think we’ve added way more quests, more variety of quests. We’ve randomized the quests, and have these sort of quests that are self contained. For example, if you enter a dungeon in Diablo III, there might be somebody standing at the entrance, like a treasure hunter, saying, “Hey, I heard stories about The Idol of Rygnar is hidden somewhere in this dungeon. Help me find it and you can share in the reward.” Then you go through the dungeon and protect this guy. Then you’ll find the idol and you’ll get the reward.
 
  
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People will turn on you…you’re never quite sure what is going to happen. We’re adding all those random elements all over the world. There is way more quest content overall than Diablo II, period. Also, I think we wanted to do a much better job on the storytelling aspects, not just the cinematics, which are fantastic, but also in the storytelling itself, like more twists and turns, more interesting quests, more variety of experiences. That’s what we spent a lot of time on, and making the co-op nature of it better as well.</blue>
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The final quest interface was modified from the blizzcon versions. The final version consists of a small description of the task to accomplish, and a journel entry for whatever class the player is using. A very easy way to check what is needed to be done on a quest is to look to the right of the screen, which has the instructions on how to progress in the quest.
  
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==List of Quests==
  
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==Known Quests==
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Below are all the quests in [[Diablo III]].
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[[Image:Follower_interaction.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Barbarian]] helping [[followers]] on the [[Escort Mission]] quest.]]
 
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All known quests were researched in the Blizzcon 2008 and 2009 playable demos. Details of these quests may change in the final game.
 
  
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Click the quest names below to read full articles on each quest with many more details and screenshots.
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===Events===
  
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[[Events]] are mini quests that build off, but are not directly connected to (usually) the main quests.
  
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===Blizzcon 2008 Quests===
 
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All these quests were located in [[Tristram]] or the dungeons below the ruined town. The base camp at Tristram was quite small and inhabited by only two [[NPCs]], neither of whom were merchants. It's expected that the full town of Tristram will be quite a bit larger. (Or this base camp might be where new characters begin the game, and they only reach the full Tristram after completing these introductory quests.)
 
  
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* [[Little Girl Lost]]
 
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* [[Escort Mission]]
 
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* [[The Skeleton King]]
 
  
  
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===Blizzcon 2009 Quests===
 
  
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All of these quests were located in the deserts of Act 2, somewhere in the mid-section of the act. Characters started out just beyond the walls of [[Caldeum]], and could not return to the city. The designers revealed that this was a special fix just for the demo, since players would have seen a great deal of the game story in Caldeum, and the didn't want to reveal that much of it yet.
 
  
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* [[Find Alcarnus]]
 
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* [[Blood Money]]
 
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* [[Stranded]]
 
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* [[The Lost Girl]]
 
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* [[Alesar's Pendant]]
 
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* [[The Collapsing Tomb]]
 
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* [[The Lost Wagon]]
 
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* [[The Necromancer's Book]]
 
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* [[A Miner's Gold]]
 
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* [[The Idol of Rygnar]]
 
  
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Quest names are tentative, and may change in the final game.
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===Act I Quests===
  
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[[Act I]] has 10 quests.
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The following quests are in Act I:
  
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===BlizzCon 2010 Quests===
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* [[The Fallen Star]]
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* [[The Legacy of Cain]]
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* [[A Shattered Crown]]
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* [[Reign of the Black King]]
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* [[Sword of the Stranger]]
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* [[The Broken Blade]]
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* [[The Doom in Wortham]]
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* [[Trailing the Coven]]
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* [[Imprisoned Angel]]
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* [[Return to New Tristram]]
  
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http://www.diablowiki.net/images/thumb/e/e5/Treasure-hunter3.jpg/180px-Treasure-hunter3.jpg
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The [[Return to New Tristram]] is manditory for doing the [[Infernal Machine]] event.
  
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The 2010 BlizzCon demo had very few quests, compared to previous years, and the quests that were there were found in every game; they were not randomized at all, and only the three core storyline quests were ever present.
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===Act II Quests===
  
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* [[The Torture Chambers of the Mad King]] -- Sounds like the name of a dungeon, but this quest took place in the [[Halls of Agony]].
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[[Act II]] has 10 quests.  
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* [[Escort the Weapon Maker]] -- Very short escort mission.
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The folling quest are in Act II:
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* [[Queen Alyssa's Servants]] -- The only proper quest in the 2010 demo.
 
  
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* [[Shadows in the Desert]]
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* [[The Road to Alcarnus]]
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* [[City of Blood]]
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* [[A Royal Audience]]
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* [[Unexpected Allies]]
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* [[Betrayer of the Horodrim]]
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* [[Blood and Sand]]
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* [[The Black Soulstone]]
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* [[The Scouring of Caldeum]]
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* [[The Lord of Lies]]
  
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==Quest Design and Theory==
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===Act III Quests===
  
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[[Leonard Boyarsky]] is the main story guy on the [[D3 Team]] and while he isn't the only person who makes up quests, he heads up that department in the development of Diablo 3. Leonard was asked how quests are designed in an October 2009 interview. [http://hellforge.gameriot.com/blogs/Hellforge/Diablo-III-The-Lore-of-the-World-An-Interview-with-Leonard-Boyarsky/page1]
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[[Act III]] has less quests than the other acts, with only 7.  
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The following quests are in Act III:
  
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<blue><font color="#FFFFFF">Hellforge: How do you come up with ideas for the creation of quests in Diablo III. Do you start with simple quest concepts and build around them with storyline elements or...?</font><br>
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* [[The Siege of Bastion's Keep]]
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Leonard Boyarsky: It goes both ways. What we do, the way we start off, is that we first create the storyline of the game and then we kind of iterate on that a lot as well as once we start building the game and putting quests in we refine those. Our artists, our level designers, everybody might have ideas about quests that would be more like simple adventure concepts or simple quest concepts that you’re talking about. And then we’ll put lore into them. Sometimes, we just have lore and we say to the level guys or some the gameplay guys, “Hey, how best do you think we can show this?” So it really goes both ways, any which way.<br>
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* [[Turning the Tide]]
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* [[The Breached Keep]]
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* [[Tremors in the Stone]]
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* [[Machines of War]]
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* [[Siegebreaker]]
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* [[Heart of Sin]]
  
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There’s been times when we really wanted to hit certain points and it wasn’t really working because you know, it was too complex for the way the game is working or the way the story is rolling out so you know it’s really just an iterative process like the other stuff we do.</blue>
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===Act IV Quests===
  
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[[Act IV]], like [[diablo II]]'s {{iw|Act_IV Act 4}}, is the smallest act in Diablo III, with a grand total of 4 quests.
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The following quests are in Act IV:
  
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==Randomization?==
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* [[Fall of the High Heavens]]
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* [[The Light of Hope]]
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* [[Beneath the Spire]]
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* [[The Prime Evil]]
  
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While the main quests in each act will not be random, most of the smaller quests will be. Diablo 3 quests will not be totally random; there is writing and design involved in creating them; but most areas of the game will have more quests than can occur each game. There may be 6 quests that can possibly appear in one section, of which 3 or 4 will appear each game. In this way players will see different combinations of events each time they play through the game.
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==Events==
  
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There may also be rarer quests, ones that appear very seldom, giving a special surprise to players who luck into them. [[Leonard Boyarsky]] elaborated on how random quests will be integrated in an October 2009 interview. [http://hellforge.gameriot.com/blogs/Hellforge/Diablo-III-The-Lore-of-the-World-An-Interview-with-Leonard-Boyarsky/page1]
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[[Events]] are small sub-quests that have a random chance to spawn in an area. They can appear accross every act besides [[Act IV]]. Typically, they consist of completing a task for an npc, such as the [[Matriarch's Bones]] event or the [[Forged in Battle]] event.
  
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<blue>We’re doing -– there’s a main storyline that is, parts of it might be randomized depending on the area, depending on what the quests are, depending on what the actual objective is. But apart from the main quest, most of our other content is randomized, so from game to game it will be completely different. I can’t give you any kind of percentage because we’re still playing with those numbers, but that’s really the way we built this game is so that we can have a lot of randomized content, including story elements and including quests.</blue>
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==Quest Development==
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==High Level Quests==
 
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The Diablo 3 team has brought up quests as one way to solve the [[end game]] problems, where characters wind up just "running" the same bosses over and over again.  The team hopes to allow/require more variety in gameplay by offering a variety of quests in the late game, giving players more viable activities to engage in. Julian Love addressed this question in an October 2009 interview. [http://www.diablo-source.com/index.php?cmd=article&sec=news&act=view&id=354]
 
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<blue><font color="#FFFFFF">I think Jay hinted during Blizzcon that there might be updated quests to keep higher level content exciting to keep people coming back and playing again. </font><br>
 
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Julian Love: It's not so much actually high level versus low level. I think we have a plan that facilitates high level content. What I think you're really getting at there is replayability, and what that gets down to is the way we're exercising randomness within the game. We've put a lot of focus towards what kinds of randomness are really beneficial in supporting replayability and what things are just, heh, not all that important or not all that awesome. One of the things that we have in the system that we have is something that we call - well, we have a really technical name for it -- sub-scenes.
 
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What it comes down to is we can sort of like create a hole in the world that's like a socket that we can fill with just about anything that we want. It could be empty ground with a bunch of monsters on it, it could be a giant canyon that a really elaborate scripted event happens, it could turn into a caravan walking across the desert that you have an escort quest on. The point being is that this hole in the earth can randomly, at any time become something totally different. It could even be a doorway to a whole new dungeon that you've never seen before. So, the fact that the world is able to change things up and actually deliver different events, stories and quests is what's really going to make the game a lot more replayable at the both the low and high ends.</font></blue>
 
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==Quest Interface==
 
 
[[Image:Q-the-skeleton-king1.jpg|thumb|125px|Blizzcon 2008 display.]]
 
[[Image:Q-the-skeleton-king1.jpg|thumb|125px|Blizzcon 2008 display.]]
 
[[File:Quest-window2.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Blizzcon 2009 display.]]
 
[[File:Quest-window2.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Blizzcon 2009 display.]]
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The quest interface has changed repeatedly during development. The most recent version was seen at Blizzcon 2010, and it was reportedly much the same in the demo build that debuted in July 2011 at a media event at Blizzard Irvine.
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<blue><font color="#FFFFFF"><b>Atomic Gamer:</b> Is there anything specifically from Diablo II that the team felt needed improvement and wanted to tweak for Diablo III?</font><br>
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<b>Kevin Martens: </b>The questing and story. I think we’ve added way more quests, more variety of quests. We’ve randomized the quests, and have these sort of quests that are self contained. For example, if you enter a dungeon in Diablo III, there might be somebody standing at the entrance, like a treasure hunter, saying, “Hey, I heard stories about The Idol of Rygnar is hidden somewhere in this dungeon. Help me find it and you can share in the reward.” Then you go through the dungeon and protect this guy. Then you’ll find the idol and you’ll get the reward.
  
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Se the [[Quest window]] article for full details.
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People will turn on you…you’re never quite sure what is going to happen. We’re adding all those random elements all over the world. There is way more quest content overall than Diablo II, period. Also, I think we wanted to do a much better job on the storytelling aspects, not just the cinematics, which are fantastic, but also in the storytelling itself, like more twists and turns, more interesting quests, more variety of experiences. That’s what we spent a lot of time on, and making the co-op nature of it better as well.</blue>
  
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This was one of the first statements blizzard made on behalf of quests in diablo III. As you can see, blizzard was origionally intending to make quests diverse, interesting, and much improved to diablo 2.
  
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==Quest Items==
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===Blizzcons===
  
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[[Quest Items]] were initially objects like any others, that players could pick up and hold in them in the [[inventory]]. As in Diablo II, such items were given out or found on quests, and were required to complete them. None of the quest items in Diablo III were going to be equipable or usable; but players had to hold onto them to complete quests.
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At [[Blizzcon 2008]], a couple of quests were playable. They were:
  
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This changed during development. For a time there was a tab on the inventory pack that held quest items separately from regular equipment. This feature was eventually dumped as being too complicated, and in the final game quest items are held invisibly, unseen and inaccessible to players. It is now impossible to drop or lose them, and you need not pick them up or touch them in any way.
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* [[Little Girl Lost]]
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* [[Escort Mission]] (not actual name, the real one was never stated)
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* [[The Skeleton King]]
  
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Bashiok confirmed this in October 2010:[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/blue-on-the-new-paper-doll-and-quest-items-in-inventory/]
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All were featured in Tristram/ nearby dungeons. Quest rewards were small items (random boots and the like). Only the skeleton king quest appeared in the final game.
  
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<blue>Quest items are now stored directly within the quest itself. They don’t take up any [inventory] space at all.</blue>
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At [[Blizzcon 2009]], many more quests than the last year were avaible, based in the deserts in [[Act 2]]. They were:
  
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Besides the quest items that are used only for quests, there are several interface items granted by quests that players hold in special spaces in their inventory and use throughout the game. The first one revealed was the [[Nephalem Cube]], an object used to [[salvage]] items for the materials required for [[crafting]]. The [[blacksmith]] gives this cube to the player as an early game quest reward.
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* [[Find Alcarnus]]*
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* [[Blood Money]]
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* [[Stranded]]
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* [[The Lost Girl]]
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* [[Alesar's Pendant]]
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* [[The Collapsing Tomb]]*
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* [[The Lost Wagon]]
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* [[The Necromancer's Book]]
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* [[A Miner's Gold]]*
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* [[The Idol of Rygnar]]*
  
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==New Tools==
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Some of these quests appeared in some form or another in the final game (*'s). Rewards were items and experiance.
  
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There are a variety of improvements to the quest aspect of the [[User Interface]] in Diablo 3. Besides the basic quest window, there's an audio player-style interface that pops up on the side of the screen when a character has an NPC speech to listen to. This gives players the ability to listen to longer NPC dialogues, or to "read" ancient tomes and other objects that relate the game [[story]] without having to stand still for the duration of the audio.
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A couple small quests appeared at [[Blizzcon 2010]]. They were:
  
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[[Leonard Boyarsky]] elaborated on this in an October 2009 interview. [http://hellforge.gameriot.com/blogs/Hellforge/Diablo-III-The-Lore-of-the-World-An-Interview-with-Leonard-Boyarsky/page1]
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* [[The Torture Chambers of the Mad King]]  
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* [[Escort the Weapon Maker]]
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* [[Queen Alyssa's Servants]]
  
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<blue>The lore book that we’ve been putting in has been really popular. People like the ability to hear background stuff while they run around killing things as opposed to having to stop to read.
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All 3 of these quests appeared in the final game, although the first mention was expanded upon as the [[Imprisoned Angel]] quest.
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...we put in some background of Leoric, his journal and Lachdanan who are characters that you’ve heard about and didn’t really meet in their human forms in the first Diablo, so you get to hear their voices and their stories from their point of view. It’s just that I think people are really kind of interested in that especially if they’ve played the games all the way from the first one.</blue>
 
  
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===Early Stances===
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Julian Love: It's not so much actually high level versus low level. I think we have a plan that facilitates high level content. What I think you're really getting at there is replayability, and what that gets down to is the way we're exercising randomness within the game. We've put a lot of focus towards what kinds of randomness are really beneficial in supporting replayability and what things are just, heh, not all that important or not all that awesome. One of the things that we have in the system that we have is something that we call - well, we have a really technical name for it -- sub-scenes.
  
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==Quests as Story==
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What it comes down to is we can sort of like create a hole in the world that's like a socket that we can fill with just about anything that we want. It could be empty ground with a bunch of monsters on it, it could be a giant canyon that a really elaborate scripted event happens, it could turn into a caravan walking across the desert that you have an escort quest on. The point being is that this hole in the earth can randomly, at any time become something totally different. It could even be a doorway to a whole new dungeon that you've never seen before. So, the fact that the world is able to change things up and actually deliver different events, stories and quests is what's really going to make the game a lot more replayable at the both the low and high ends.</font></blue>
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[[Image:Wizard_vs_King_Leoric.jpg|right|150px|thumb|The [[Wizard]] meets [[King Leoric]].]]
 
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The [[D3 Team]] is trying to make Diablo III much more [[story]]-driven. They want the characters to be individuals and to be important figures in the world; not just interchangeable errand boys, as they usually were in Diablo II. [[Leonard Boyarsky]] talked about this in an interview in September, 2008.[http://www.gamebanshee.com/interviews/diabloiii2.php]
 
  
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This was somewhat implamented in the final game, but not to a great extent.
  
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<blue>We’re doing -– there’s a main storyline that is, parts of it might be randomized depending on the area, depending on what the quests are, depending on what the actual objective is. But apart from the main quest, most of our other content is randomized, so from game to game it will be completely different. I can’t give you any kind of percentage because we’re still playing with those numbers, but that’s really the way we built this game is so that we can have a lot of randomized content, including story elements and including quests.</blue>
  
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==Class-Specific Quests==
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This did appear in the final game in the form of events. However, the main story is completely static.
  
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The developers considered including Class-specific quests, but ultimately rejected the concept for practical reasons. Such quests wouldn't have worked in a co-op friendly game like Diablo III since players can join and leave games at any time, and this would have broken class-specific quests.
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<blue><font color="#FFFFFF">DF: Will there be class specific quests in the game? If so, can you explain how they would work?</font><br>
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This was a hard decision to make, and the developers had to scratch long-held plans to include such quests in the game.
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Jay Wilson: We are still discussing whether or not we would like to include class-specific quests in the game mainly because of the simple fact that it may not really fit in with the fast-paced play-style known to the Diablo series. While this is definitely something we would like to consider, we just haven't agreed on how just yet.  
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Jay Wilson spoke on this issue from Blizzcon 2009. [http://www.gamingshogun.com/Article/5130/Interview_with_Diablo_III_Game_Director_Jay_Wilson.html]
 
  
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However, we would like to do something in regards to character specificity. We are looking into having different dialogues and experiences for the same quest or interaction for each of the classes. Each character will react differently and have different responses for different scenarios. For example, the Barbarian may do or say one thing in response to what an NPC has to say, whereas a Witch Doctor will treat the encounter in a complete opposite manner.</blue>
 
<blue><font color="#FFFFFF">Can you tell us anymore about the class-specific quest system in the game?</font><br>
 
<blue><font color="#FFFFFF">Can you tell us anymore about the class-specific quest system in the game?</font><br>
 
Jay Wilson: Not a a lot but I can tell you we do intend to do some class quests and mostly what we want to do is give [[story]] arcs to the characters. We don't want them to be kind of nameless...I think we've reached a point where we are trying to build a universe and a universe is filled with characters. And so a lot of what we want to do with the class quests is support that idea to build characters.
 
Jay Wilson: Not a a lot but I can tell you we do intend to do some class quests and mostly what we want to do is give [[story]] arcs to the characters. We don't want them to be kind of nameless...I think we've reached a point where we are trying to build a universe and a universe is filled with characters. And so a lot of what we want to do with the class quests is support that idea to build characters.
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Jay Wilson: Originally we wanted to do an origin - we wanted to actually have the characters start in their own location but it was a monumental cost for us to do it so we decided that we would have everyone start in the same place. We do try to set the characters up though. We have a little event early on that's going to try to setup where the characters come from and what their mindset is.</blue>
 
Jay Wilson: Originally we wanted to do an origin - we wanted to actually have the characters start in their own location but it was a monumental cost for us to do it so we decided that we would have everyone start in the same place. We do try to set the characters up though. We have a little event early on that's going to try to setup where the characters come from and what their mindset is.</blue>
  
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Jay Wilson spoke on this again in a November 2009 interview. [http://www.diablofans.com/topic/16947-diablofans-exclusive-jay-wilson/]
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===Summary===
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Jay Wilson: We are still discussing whether or not we would like to include class-specific quests in the game mainly because of the simple fact that it may not really fit in with the fast-paced play-style known to the Diablo series. While this is definitely something we would like to consider, we just haven't agreed on how just yet.
 
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However, we would like to do something in regards to character specificity. We are looking into having different dialogues and experiences for the same quest or interaction for each of the classes. Each character will react differently and have different responses for different scenarios. For example, the Barbarian may do or say one thing in response to what an NPC has to say, whereas a Witch Doctor will treat the encounter in a complete opposite manner.</blue>
 
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[[Image:Mon-thousand-summon2.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Thousand Pounder]] being summoned.]]
 
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[[Jay Wilson]] talked about some of the scripted events seen in the BlizzCon demo in an interview in December, 2008.[http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?pager.offset=2&cId=3172030&p=]
 
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Quests lead the story and progression of Diablo 3.

What Are Quests?

Quests are the meat of Diablo's plot, story, and progression. They must be followed to progress.

How Quests Work

Quests are triggered and continued by following the instructions below the minimap on the side of the screen. When completed, they provide experiance and gold (only), which is a big change from how the Diablo II quest system worked. In addition, all quests must be completed, one after another in the order they are given. There is no way to fail a quest in Diablo III. It is possible to have a high level character "carry" you through content, until you reach level caps. It is even possible to powerlevel through the content.

Waypoints and Checkpoints are unlocked based on quest progress.

Quest Interface

Blizzcon 2008 display.
Blizzcon 2009 display.

The final quest interface was modified from the blizzcon versions. The final version consists of a small description of the task to accomplish, and a journel entry for whatever class the player is using. A very easy way to check what is needed to be done on a quest is to look to the right of the screen, which has the instructions on how to progress in the quest.

List of Quests

Below are all the quests in Diablo III.

Events

Events are mini quests that build off, but are not directly connected to (usually) the main quests.




Act I Quests

Act I has 10 quests. The following quests are in Act I:

The Return to New Tristram is manditory for doing the Infernal Machine event.

Act II Quests

Act II has 10 quests. The folling quest are in Act II:

Act III Quests

Act III has less quests than the other acts, with only 7. The following quests are in Act III:

Act IV Quests

Act IV, like diablo II's Act 4, is the smallest act in Diablo III, with a grand total of 4 quests. The following quests are in Act IV:

Events

Events are small sub-quests that have a random chance to spawn in an area. They can appear accross every act besides Act IV. Typically, they consist of completing a task for an npc, such as the Matriarch's Bones event or the Forged in Battle event.

Quest Development

Blizzcon 2008 display.
Blizzcon 2009 display.
Atomic Gamer: Is there anything specifically from Diablo II that the team felt needed improvement and wanted to tweak for Diablo III?

Kevin Martens: The questing and story. I think we’ve added way more quests, more variety of quests. We’ve randomized the quests, and have these sort of quests that are self contained. For example, if you enter a dungeon in Diablo III, there might be somebody standing at the entrance, like a treasure hunter, saying, “Hey, I heard stories about The Idol of Rygnar is hidden somewhere in this dungeon. Help me find it and you can share in the reward.” Then you go through the dungeon and protect this guy. Then you’ll find the idol and you’ll get the reward.

People will turn on you…you’re never quite sure what is going to happen. We’re adding all those random elements all over the world. There is way more quest content overall than Diablo II, period. Also, I think we wanted to do a much better job on the storytelling aspects, not just the cinematics, which are fantastic, but also in the storytelling itself, like more twists and turns, more interesting quests, more variety of experiences. That’s what we spent a lot of time on, and making the co-op nature of it better as well.

This was one of the first statements blizzard made on behalf of quests in diablo III. As you can see, blizzard was origionally intending to make quests diverse, interesting, and much improved to diablo 2.

Blizzcons

At Blizzcon 2008, a couple of quests were playable. They were:

All were featured in Tristram/ nearby dungeons. Quest rewards were small items (random boots and the like). Only the skeleton king quest appeared in the final game.

At Blizzcon 2009, many more quests than the last year were avaible, based in the deserts in Act 2. They were:

Some of these quests appeared in some form or another in the final game (*'s). Rewards were items and experiance.

A couple small quests appeared at Blizzcon 2010. They were:

All 3 of these quests appeared in the final game, although the first mention was expanded upon as the Imprisoned Angel quest.

Early Stances

I think Jay hinted during Blizzcon that there might be updated quests to keep higher level content exciting to keep people coming back and playing again.

Julian Love: It's not so much actually high level versus low level. I think we have a plan that facilitates high level content. What I think you're really getting at there is replayability, and what that gets down to is the way we're exercising randomness within the game. We've put a lot of focus towards what kinds of randomness are really beneficial in supporting replayability and what things are just, heh, not all that important or not all that awesome. One of the things that we have in the system that we have is something that we call - well, we have a really technical name for it -- sub-scenes.

What it comes down to is we can sort of like create a hole in the world that's like a socket that we can fill with just about anything that we want. It could be empty ground with a bunch of monsters on it, it could be a giant canyon that a really elaborate scripted event happens, it could turn into a caravan walking across the desert that you have an escort quest on. The point being is that this hole in the earth can randomly, at any time become something totally different. It could even be a doorway to a whole new dungeon that you've never seen before. So, the fact that the world is able to change things up and actually deliver different events, stories and quests is what's really going to make the game a lot more replayable at the both the low and high ends.

This was somewhat implamented in the final game, but not to a great extent.

We’re doing -– there’s a main storyline that is, parts of it might be randomized depending on the area, depending on what the quests are, depending on what the actual objective is. But apart from the main quest, most of our other content is randomized, so from game to game it will be completely different. I can’t give you any kind of percentage because we’re still playing with those numbers, but that’s really the way we built this game is so that we can have a lot of randomized content, including story elements and including quests.

This did appear in the final game in the form of events. However, the main story is completely static.

Randomized Quests

DF: Will there be class specific quests in the game? If so, can you explain how they would work?

Jay Wilson: We are still discussing whether or not we would like to include class-specific quests in the game mainly because of the simple fact that it may not really fit in with the fast-paced play-style known to the Diablo series. While this is definitely something we would like to consider, we just haven't agreed on how just yet.

However, we would like to do something in regards to character specificity. We are looking into having different dialogues and experiences for the same quest or interaction for each of the classes. Each character will react differently and have different responses for different scenarios. For example, the Barbarian may do or say one thing in response to what an NPC has to say, whereas a Witch Doctor will treat the encounter in a complete opposite manner.
Can you tell us anymore about the class-specific quest system in the game?

Jay Wilson: Not a a lot but I can tell you we do intend to do some class quests and mostly what we want to do is give [[story]] arcs to the characters. We don't want them to be kind of nameless...I think we've reached a point where we are trying to build a universe and a universe is filled with characters. And so a lot of what we want to do with the class quests is support that idea to build characters.

: So when you start the game will the different classes begin in the same place or will you start at some sort of origin level to setup your character?

Jay Wilson: Originally we wanted to do an origin - we wanted to actually have the characters start in their own location but it was a monumental cost for us to do it so we decided that we would have everyone start in the same place. We do try to set the characters up though. We have a little event early on that's going to try to setup where the characters come from and what their mindset is.

Blizzard has not yet added class specific quests in Diablo III.

Summary

Long story short, blizzard appears to have had goals for making quests more interesting but ended up scrapping most of it, and now we have what we do today.

Quests in the Expansion

No changes to quests have been made so far in the expansion Reaper of Souls.


Quests & Events of Diablo III [e] Act I Act II Act III & Act IV Act V
Act I Quests Act I Events Act I Cursed Events [e]

• The Fallen Star
• The Legacy of Cain
• A Shattered Crown
• Reign of the Black King
• Sword of the Stranger
• The Broken Blade
• The Doom in Wortham
• Trailing the Coven
• The Imprisoned Angel
• Return to New Tristram

Defiled Crypt
• Jar of Souls
• Matriarch's Bones

Festering Woods
• Last Stand of the Ancients
• Eternal War

Fields of Misery
• Carrion Farm
• The Precious Ores
• The Family of Rathe

Wortham Bluffs
• The Sacrificial Hermit

Highlands Passage
• A Reputation Restored

Halls of Agony (Level 2)
• A Stranger in Need

Southern Highlands
 • The Crumbling Tower
• Revenge of Gharbad
• The Scavenged Scabbard

Leoric's Hunting Grounds
• The Apothecary's Brother

Cathedral
• The Cursed Chamber of Bone
• The Cursed Court

Fields of Misery
• The Cursed Grove

Halls of Agony
• The Cursed Bellows

Old Tristram Road
• The Cursed Cellar

Southern Highlands
• The Cursed Camp
• The Cursed Hatchery

Act II Quests Act II Events [e]

• Shadows in the Desert
• The Road to Alcarnus
• City of Blood
• A Royal Audience
• Unexpected Allies

• Betrayer of the Horadrim
• Blood and Sand
• The Black Soulstone
• The Scouring of Caldeum
• Lord of Lies

Howling Plateau
• A Miner's Gold
• Lair of the Lacuni

Stinging Winds
• The Rygnar Idol
• The Restless Sands
• Guardian Spirits
• Crumbling Vault

Dahlgur Oasis
• The Shrine of Rakanishu
• Lost Treasure of Khan Dakab
• Sardar's Treasure
• Prisoners of Kamyr

Desolate Sands
• Ancient Device


Quests Act III Events Act III Quests Act IV [e]

• The Siege of Bastion's Keep
• Turning the Tide
• The Breached Keep
• Tremors in the Stone
• Machines of War
• Siegebreaker
• Heart of Sin

Stonefort
• Waiting for Reinforcements
• Raising Recruits
• Protect and Serve

The Keep Depths Level 1
• Forged in Battle

The Battlefields
• Triage
• Tide of Battle

Rakkis Crossing
• Blaze of Glory
• Crazy Climber

The Barracks (Level 2)
• Blood Ties

• Fall of the High Heavens
• The Light of Hope
• Beneath the Spire
• Prime Evil

Quests Act V Events Act V [e]

• The Fall of Westmarch
• Souls of the Dead
• The Harbinger
• The Witch
• The Pandemonium Gate
• The Battlefields of Eternity
• Breaching the Fortress
• Angel of Death

• Unknown

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