Checkpoint

Checkpoints in Diablo 3 function similar to respawn points in FPS games. Players who die appear back at the last checkpoint they reached, usually at the stairs that they took to reach the current level, or the closest chokepoint that separates two outdoor levels.

Description

Checkpoints visible on the map from BlizzCon 2009 snippet of Act II.

Checkpoints are not spots on the ground that must be clicked, like waypoints. They aren't visible in the game at all, until your character passes through one, at which point a "checkpoint reached" title pops with flashing graphics.

You will notice it.

Checkpoints are designed to save players time and effort when they die, allowing their character to quickly rejoin the party and continue the battle. Players restart at the last checkpoint they passed through, fully equipped and recovered in health. Checkpoints are common enough that a character seldom requires more than a minute to run from one to the site of their death.

List of Checkpoints

Act I

Quest: Fallen Star

• Entrance to Tristram
• Just as you reach Old Tristram Road
• As you enter The Old Ruins
• After returning to Tristram from the Ruins and speaking with Captain Rumford

Quest: The Legacy of Cain

• Approaching Adria's Hut
• Entrance to Cathedral - level 1
• End of Cathedral - Level 1 at entrance to Leoric's Passage
• When Headcleaver is dead
• Handing in quest

Quest: A Shattered Crown

• In Cellar of the Damned - After killing Haedrig's wife, Mira.
• Just outside Tristram at the end of the bridge into The Weeping Hollow. Opens up as you reach the end of the bridge, usually having killed a pack of Scavengers first.
• Just beyond the gates of the Cemetery of the Forsaken.
• Inside the entrance to the Chancellor's Tomb - Just after you have killed Manglemaw.
• After returning the crown to Haedrig in Tristram.

Quest Reign of the Black King

• Inside the entrance of the Cathedral, Level 2 from Leorics Passage.
• Inside the entrance of the Cathedral, Level 3 on the 'Reign of the Black King' quest.
• Entranceway to Cathedral, Level 4, after accepting the help of the Templar on the 'Reign of the Black King' quest.
• Inside the entrance of Cathedral, level 4.
• Inside the entrance of The Royal Crypts.
• End of the bridge from Cemetery of Forsaken into Fields of Misery at the start of Sword of the Stranger Quest.
• Outside entrance to Khazra Den on Sword of the Stranger Quest.

• As you approach the slope up to The Old Mill on The Broken Blade quest.
• After activating the Waypoint just before the Drowned Temple whilst on The Broken Blade quest.
• Just across the bridge that Alaric raises for you from the Drowned Temple to The Festering Woods on The Broken Blade quest.
• Just inside the entrance of Warrior's Rest and Crypt of the Ancients on The Broken Blade quest.
• Just back across the bridge from The Festering Woods to the Drowned Temple once you have collected the Beacons on [[The Broken Blade] quest.
• After killing the unique brothers in the Drowned Temple.
• After retrieving the Glowing Sword Shard in the Drowned Temple on The Broken Blade quest.
• After returning the shard to The Stranger is Tristram.

• As soon as you land in Wortham on The Doom in Wortham quest.
• After killing Urzel Mordreg outside the Chapel.
• After returning to Tristram through the Wortham Waypoint.
• After the cutscene at the end of The Doom in Wortham quest.