It's richly detailed, craggy and riddled with mossy grottoes, and it feels significantly more alive than many Diablo 3 environments. It's a supernatural, storm-battered forest island where the main theme is man against Blizzard's version of nature: huge bear-things lunge at you before shedding their skin to reveal gigantic skeletons, beasts erupt from lightning-struck trees, and there's even a nasty kind of antlered monster waiting to do you in. Greyhollow Island is an Adventure Mode edition which will be a new home for bounties, but also manages to thread a little storytelling into the mix.

Most interesting, however, is Greyhollow Island, an entirely new area located off the coast of Westmarch. Set dungeons provide even more of an encouragement to gather the best loot and truly understand the way that it all works together, and a handful of quality-of-life changes make the endless grind more enjoyable throughout. 2.4.0 offers expansions to new areas - such as the Yeti-infested Eternal Woods and the ornately detailed Royal Quarters, while fresh bounties have been added to the end game to provide a much-needed injection of variety. It's also, if you look for it, a sign of Blizzard thinking about what comes next, about what a Diablo storyline should look like now that Adventure Mode is the new heart of the game. So, why the latest patch? 2.4.0 feels like Blizzard showboating - a high profile demonstration of the team's creative resources, a firm handshake to the game's community and, I suspect, part of a shadowy PhD project studying behavioural psychology. The Paragon system alone will soak up thousands of hours of play, and the endless lottery of loot drops, the daily-style Bounties and options to burn your hard-earned materials crafting elusive, perfectly rolled gear in Kanai's Cube for all intents and purposes makes Diablo 3 a game you never need to stop playing. Since the game's launch in 2012 a steady stream of updates have added layers of complex, compelling and mutually-amplifying processes and tools to refine and power up your character. If the Auction House had persisted it would be a different story, but Blizzard's hectic smash-and-grab has maintained its flip-reversed trajectory to become one of the most lovingly-maintained games in recent memory.

Diablo 3 makes an art of relentlessly gouging your time, but rarely your wallet.

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