Character Level

"Every day your power grows, you should be less impressed with your victories."

- The Memory of Tal Rasha^(src)

The Character Level, often abbreviated clvl, is a property of a character that is determined by the amount of experience gained. Killing monsters and completing certain quests, heightens this. Character Level is one of the key Requirements for most items in game.

Diablo I

Upon leveling in Diablo, a player character gains 5 stat points to distribute among their stats as desired, and a minor Life and Mana boost. The newly gained level also helps to determine the odds of landing a successful hit, blocking attacks, and all damage dealt, even with certain spells.

The game's leveling system is legitimately capped at level 50 for players, but monsters can go over that cap.

Diablo II

Diagram showing experience needed for leveling-up

In Diablo II each new level (Level-up) gives the character 1 skill point and 5 stat points. It is also used to determine Item Levels during Gambling (ranging between the clvl -5 and +4), Shopping (clvl +5) and crafting (clvl/2 + ilvl/2).

Character level also calculates a hero's base chance of hitting targets. A player's chance of hitting a target that is a higher level is reduced. Likewise, a lower level target will have an increased chance of being hit. If one cannot hit their targets, they may need to level up, rather than increase Attack Rating.

The highest level to achieve in Diablo II is 99, requiring a total of 3,520,485,254 experience to max out a character's level.

Experience Tables

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Required Experience	0	500	1,500	3,750	7,875	14,175	22,680	32,886	44,396	57,715	72,144
Level difference	0	500	1,000	2,250	4,125	6,300	8,505	10,206	11,510	13,319	14,429
Percentage of total	0%	0.00001%	0.00004%	0.00011%	0.00022%	0.00040%	0.00064%	0.00093%	0.00126%	0.00164%	0.00205%
Level	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Required Experience	90,180	112,725	140,906	176,132	220,165	275,207	344,008	430,010	537,513	671,891	839,864
Level difference	18,036	22,545	28,181	35,226	44,033	55,042	68,801	86,002	107,503	134,378	167,973
Percentage of total	0.00256%	0.00320%	0.00400%	0.00500%	0.00625%	0.00728%	0.00977%	0.01221%	0.01527%	0.01909%	0.02386%
Level	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33
Required Experience	1,049,830	1,312,287	1,640,359	2,050,449	2,563,061	3,203,826	3,902,260	4,663,553	5,493,363	6,397,855	7,383,755
Level difference	209,966	262,457	328,072	410,090	512,612	640,765	698,434	761,293	829,810	904,492	985,900
Percentage of total	0.02982%	0.03728%	0.04659%	0.05824%	0.07280%	0.09101%	0.11084%	0.13247%	0.15604%	0.18173%	0.20974%
Level	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44
Required Experience	8,458,379	9,629,723	10,906,488	12,298,162	13,815,086	15,468,534	17,270,791	19,235,252	21,376,515	23,710,491	26,254,525
Level difference	1,074,624	1,171,344	1,276,765	1,391,674	1,516,924	1,653,448	1,802,257	1,964,461	2,141,263	2,333,976	2,544,034
Percentage of total	0.24026%	0.27353%	0.30980%	0.34933%	0.39242%	0.43939%	0.49058%	0.54638%	0.60720%	0.67350%	0.74576%
Level	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55
Required Experience	29,027,522	32,050,088	35,344,686	38,935,798	42,850,109	47,116,709	51,767,302	56,836,449	62,361,819	68,384,473	74,949,165
Level difference	2,772,997	3,022,566	3,294,598	3,591,112	3,914,311	4,266,600	4,650,593	5,069,147	5,525,370	6,022,654	6,564,692
Percentage of total	0.82453%	0.91039%	1.00397%	1.10598%	1.21716%	1.33836%	1.47046%	1.61445%	1.77140%	1.94247%	2.12894%
Level	56	57	58	59	60	61	62	63	64	65	66
Required Experience	82,104,680	89,904,191	98,405,658	107,672,256	117,772,849	128,782,495	140,783,010	153,863,570	168,121,381	183,662,396	200,602,101
Level difference	7,155,515	7,799,511	8,501,467	9,266,598	10,100,593	11,009,646	12,000,515	13,080,560	14,257,811	15,541,015	16,939,705
Percentage of total	2.33220%	2.55374%	2.79523%	3.05845%	3.34536%	3.65809%	3.99897%	4.37052%	4.77552%	5.21696%	5.69814%
Level	67	68	69	70	71	72	73	74	75	76	77
Required Experience	219,066,380	239,192,444	261,129,853	285,041,630	311,105,466	339,515,048	370,481,492	404,234,916	441,026,148	481,128,591	524,840,254
Level difference	18,464,279	20,126,064	21,937,409	23,911,777	26,063,836	28,409,582	30,966,444	33,753,424	36,791,232	40,102,443	43,711,663
Percentage of total	6.22262%	6.79430%	7.41744%	8.09666%	8.83701%	9.64398%	10.52359%	11.48236%	12.52742%	13.66654%	14.90818%
Level	78	79	80	81	82	83	84	85	86	87	88
Required Experience	572,485,967	624,419,793	681,027,665	742,730,244	809,986,056	883,294,891	963,201,521	1,050,299,747	1,145,236,814	1,248,718,217	1,361,512,946
Level difference	47,645,713	51,933,826	56,607,872	61,702,579	67,255,812	73,308,835	79,906,630	87,098,226	94,937,067	103,481,403	112,794,729
Percentage of total	16.26156%	17.73675%	19.34471%	21.09738%	23.00780%	25.09015%	27.35991%	29.83395%	32.53065%	35.47006%	38.67401%
Level	89	90	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99
Required Experience	1,484,459,201	1,618,470,619	1,764,543,065	1,923,762,030	2,097,310,703	2,286,478,756	2,492,671,933	2,717,422,497	2,962,400,612	3,229,426,756	3,520,485,254
Level difference	122,946,255	134,011,418	146,072,446	159,218,965	173,548,673	189,168,053	206,193,177	224,750,564	244,978,115	267,026,144	291,058,498
Percentage of total	42.16632%	45.97294%	50.12215%	54.64480%	59.57448%	64.94783%	70.80478%	77.18886%	84.14751%	91.73243%	100%

Diablo Immortal

Character Levels return in Diablo Immortal. Skills are automatically unlocked as the player rises in level. Of note, areas in the game have their recommended Character Level. Players must be of the minimum level to continue along the game's main questline.

Diablo III

For the other leveling system present in Diablo III, see Paragon.

The general concept of experience and leveling remains same as previously; that is, higher level monsters award more experience, and each new level requires more experience to gain. Unlike its predecessor, upon leveling up in Diablo III, players receive one or more of the following:

• New skills
• New runes for existing skills
• More skill slots, up to 6 at level 19
• New passive skills
• More passive skill slots, up to 4 at level 70

At level 70, one always gains access to all skills and runes, and the skill set may be changed at any time, so characters are never at risk of leveling improperly.

In addition, with each level gained, a player's hero's primary stat grows by +3, their Vitality by +2, and all other stats gain +1. Also, item requirements are tied to character level very closely.

When leveling up near monsters, at first one sees a yellow light enveloping their character, healing them to full, and then when it dissipates, all nearby monsters explode into pieces. The maximum level in Diablo III is 60 for classic players, while its expansion increases that cap to 70.

Level requirement of an item may be reduced by up to 40 by an appropriate secondary affix. Gem of Ease can also be used to reduce required level on a weapon to 1. Kanai's Cube can be used to reduce level requirements of an item to 1.

Character level makes all content in game, including Legendary Items and Set Items that drop, scale with the player's own level, so they are always on par with the game. However, if joining the game created by another player, one may actually face foes of different level, as scaling will be performed on the original game creator's character.

If desired, a character may use it to perform nearly instant leveling to 70 by joining a game of level 70 characters on high difficulty. After that, all they need to do is to stay in the same location where fighting is underway, leveling at the speed of light without even moving. To make the process even more hilariously easy, one may equip a weapon with the previously mentioned Gem of Ease.

Diablo IV

The Character Level in Diablo IV goes up to level 100. The Paragon Board unlocks at level 50.