First post here and I didn’t see a confirmation on this through the search button and can only go from the info we got through the beta weekends.
As someone who enjoy making a character for each class in both normal and hardcore, I would need a minimum of 10 character slots for the current classes. In the beta I could make 10 characters which is great.
My question is then will we have only 10 character slots at launch like it was in the beta weekends and if so what will happen when you eventually add a new class in the future? Will I have to delete one of the 10 characters to make room or will you add at least 2 new character slots one for normal and one for hardcore?
I can even suggest a solution or rather an idea of how to solve the problem of maxing out the 10 character slots if the reason for having a limit is to reduce stress on the system/servers.
Most people will probably not make 10 characters and for those people this doesn’t matter, but for the few of us that do it would be nice to get another character slot if you max out your current characters or reach a milestone of some sort like reaching world tier 4 with all 10 characters to add another slot and let’s say you reach world tier 4 with the 11th character you unlock a 12th slot and so on.
Diablo 3 had only 10 character slots at launch.
The only way to add new slots was to buy expansions and the Necromancer pack.
That added to max 17 slots, but only if you paid extra for the “Deluxe” editions of Reaper of Souls and the Necromancer. I think just the base versions would give you extra 4 or 5 slots only.
This time around we will have a cash shop, so I would expect that if there will be any extra character slots, we will have to pay for it.
As long as they add 2 more slots per class when they add more classes I would be happy and as you said I would also expect any extra character slots needed to be bought through the cash shop, but I can hope they let us unlock slots in some way beside paying extra.
As an altaholic I find only 10 slots, 2 per class, a bit stifling. Each class has 3-5 main directions to go, fire, ice, lightning for example with the sorcerer, and many sub paths. Yes I know gold is easily accrued and re-specs are not so painful.
This game, like all aarpg’s is item intensive - the skill tree is just 1/halve of it. Once you need to store and swap equipment it just becomes easier to level up yet another alt D2 style with hand-me-downs till end game.
Sadly I dont see the ability to purchase additional character slots on the Store. Hopefully an oversight, soon to be addressed, by @blizzard!