The Diablo III Reaper of Souls Friends and Family beta test is now underway, Blizzard has announced. In addition to your standard media contacts and key members of the Blizzard community, 3,000 of the most active Diablo III players from around the world will also be part of the Friends and Family beta. Participants in the Reaper of Souls beta will not be require to abide by an NDA, so expect plenty of coverage coming soon for Diablo III‘s first expansion.
If you’re disappointed that you didn’t get an invite to the Reaper of Souls Friends and Family beta, don’t fret. Closed beta for Reaper of Souls is expected by the end of the year. Invitations to the closed beta however will be extremely limited since all content in the expansion will be available, excluding the final boss fight.
So if you’re interested in beta testing Reaper of Souls, make sure you’ve opted-in with your Battle.net account. Around the same time that closed beta kicks off, Blizzard will be launching the Public Test Region (PTR) for Patch 2.0.1. That patch will include Paragon 2.0, Loot 2.0, the new difficulty system, additions of Clans and Communities in addition to balancing and tuning for all five classes.
Source: Battle.net
