In Diablo III, not only do your levels not increase your survivability or killing power in any way (besides new skill runes), by the time you feel like you aren't strong enough to defeat an encounter you'll most likely have few or even no more levels left to gain. If my character was getting decimated in Act IV of Nightmare, I could go back and gain a few levels and maybe get some new items in the process.
As such, leveling up doesn't do much other than allow equip items with better stats.īecause items in Diablo II gave, comparatively, closer benefits to gaining another level than those in Diablo III, I felt like I was making progress with either a level up or a nice item drop. A _single_ item can give me more of a stat than I gain from leveling all the way from 1 to 60. I don't know about other characters, but I believe my Monk is getting 2 vitality per level (and there are 60 levels). In Diablo III, a high-level item is giving you 200+ vitality. This high level item was roughly equivalent to only 4 character levels (of which you got 99).
Your character got 5 stat points per level which you could, if you wanted, put all into vitality. For instance, in Diablo II a high level item would give +20 vitality.
Another thing, related but not frequently discussed, is the change in how important gear is vs.
