Suggestion: Have a setting that allows private instances for you and your party (other than maybe world boss areas?) so players can have the best of both worlds, depending on preference. It wouldn’t be a deal breaker, but it didn’t feel ‘Diablo’…

In town, this wasn’t so much of a factor.

The open-world aspect was not enjoyable and somewhat immersion-breaking for both me and my friend.

Thought: Pre-mount, it does feel like quite a bit of open space to cover.

(I can’t wait to get mounts, though, with the size of the world).

The combat feels very seamless, and other than some issues entering new zones with rubber banding and weird forcefields stopping you going forward for a while (which I am putting down to Beta bugs, hopefully), it was overall a good experience. Likewise, the gameplay, for the most part, is very smooth. (Ensure you have the 85GB download if your computer can support it). The look, feel, and the sound was just undeniably good. Similarly, with sound effects and ambience. The aesthetics, especially for dungeons, are a testament to the time and effort taken to develop them. Graphically, I felt the game looked great. In others, a little miffed and, in some instances, worried. In some aspects, I was pleasantly surprised. My friend had also levelled a Rogue to 25 and a Barbarian to 15 and given some opinions too. Having got one character (Barbarian) to level 25 (and several hours beyond) and a second character (Sorceress) to level 15, I felt that I had given the Beta sufficient time to give feedback. But, I have tried to be as balanced and fair as possible and consider some aspects, such as login queues and disconnect errors, as symptoms of an early access Beta (please prove me right on this Blizzard). These are just my personal thoughts and opinions.

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