Activities
Difficulty and Torment
Sixteen difficulties, and what each Torment tier unlocks.
The ladder
There are sixteen difficulties: Normal, Hard, Expert and Penitent, then Torment I to XII. Normal and Hard are open from the start. Since patch 3.2.1, Expert and Penitent both open once you finish the prologue.
Torment is for level 70 characters. Each Torment tier opens by clearing a tier of The Pit.
Torment tiers
Experience and gold climb with every tier. Most tiers up to X also add something new to the loot table. XI and XII add nothing new, only more experience and gold.