Hell

Hell in Diablo III can mean one of the following:

Location: Hell

The Burning Hells is the birthplace of demons like three Prime Evils of Diablo, Mephisto or Baal. They are in conflict with the High Heavens, where Angels like Tyrael rule.

Game Difficulty: Hell

Difficulty settings in Diablo III are planned to work very similar to Diablo II. When starting your first character in Diablo II, you will automatically have a character starting on 'Normal' difficulty setting. This difficulty setting dictates monster hit points, damage, immunities etc. It's mathematically impossible for a starting character to survive in any other difficulty setting than Normal (if it was possible to do that). When a character kills Diablo, he can then continue to the Nightmare difficulty, playing the game again. When Diablo is vanquished on Nightmare setting, a last testament on Hell difficulty can start.

"End-game" things like the Pandemonium Event or killing Uber Diablo can only be done in Hell difficulty in Diablo II.

Diablo III Difficulty settings will probably be quite similar to Diablo II.

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